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Favorite Concept Album(s)
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: Zingoleb on 11 Sep 2009, 17:14 ---Did anyone say Blood on the Tracks?
Once you take out that godawful Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts (or whatever it is).
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That's only really a quasi-concept album, though.
It's fucking AWESOME though.
Mr. Doctor:
I know few concept albums that I find brilliant... some of those are:
Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea
Doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom metal about Moby Dick. The sound of this baby is as huge as a fucking tsunami. An amazing album with well written lyrics [some of them are even taken from the book]
Ahab - The Divinity Of Oceans
This is about The Loss Of The Ship Essex... A really disturbing tale about how the crew got stuck in the sea and even started eating each others. Amazing concept once again.
Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
Really intelligent Grindcore imo. One of the best in the genre by far. The story is sick but goes well with the music. To sum it up... The dude losses his girl in a fire and then he goes to the cementery at takes one of her limbs and get all crazy about it and so on.
Sepultura - Dante XXI
Just like the title says... This is about The Divine Comedy. And that alone is plain awesome
Hat:
Probably Ayreon - The Human Equation or Deltron 3030
skydivingninja:
The Who-Tommy
Dream Theater-Scenes from a Memory
Pink Floyd-Wish You Were Here
Muse-Absolution
Queensryche-Operation: Mindcrime
Coheed & Cambria-Entire discography (all four albums are about the same concept, I'd feel bad excluding 3 of them).
The Mars Volta-De-Loused
spoon_of_grimbo:
"Travels" by Defeater is pretty epic (and depressing, but kinda in a good way) in the concept album stakes. Especially for a hardcore record, a genre which can be pretty hit or miss when it comes to lyrics, I find.
Alice in Chains' "Dirt" is pretty much wholly about smack and the effects/lifestyle that surround its use.
both Isis' "Oceanic" and Circle Takes the Square's "As the Roots Undo" have had supposed concepts exlained for them by their creators, but I'm fucked if i can follow them myself, especially the latter:
--- Quote from: Wikipedia, regarding "Oceanic" ---A man at the brink of emotional numbness finds a female counterpart who completes him ("The Beginning and the End"). However, he soon finds that she has had a long-term incest relationship ("False Light", "Weight") with her brother ("Hym," "The Other"). This drives him to lose all hope, and he commits suicide through drowning ("from sinking sands, he stepped into light's embrace").
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--- Quote from: Liner Notes of "As the Roots Undo" ---In a nutshell the concept behind the songs was to document the different points on a path to self-realization. In our interpretation of this journey, the wanderer ends up essentially in the same place that he or she began, if not humbled and even more overwhelmed. In a sense the ending is somewhat tragic, but without experiencing all of the lows how can anyone ever appreciate the amazing subtleties that this world has to offer? And so, if the search for beauty and understanding is cyclical and unending, then at least we'll never stop experiencing the thrill of the hunt...
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Also, I'm sure I read something about Calexico's "Carried to Dust" having a loose concept of sorts, but I can't remember quite what it was, or where I read about it...
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