[Music] Your favourite Concept Albums

Pevenseagull

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Jul 20, 2003

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a few more

The Streets, "A Grand Don't Come For Free'. Not my normal cup of tea but really impressive.
Outkast, 'Speakerboxxx/The Love Below'
"Sufjan Stevens invites you to: Come on Feel the Illinoise" (can't believe that's nearly 20 years old)
'The Sophtware Slump' Grandaddy
"The Soft Bulletin" Flaming Lips.
and
Kristin Hersh 'Wyatt at the Coyote Palace' a 2 hour song suite about her autistic son's obsession with an abandoned building occupied by wild animals .... that was released as a book.


I bloody love concept abums.

 

Pavilionaire

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Jul 7, 2003

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The Lemming Stomper

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Peacehaven Wild Kids

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The Avenue then Maloncho

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Pevenseagull

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Sorrel said:

Love the liberty of Norton Folegate and as a bonus sometimes walk there at lunchtime.

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I was never particularly a fan of Madness. I bought a few singles when I was a kid and could get why they were popular but that album really landed with me.

It was on an iPod behind the bar in 'The Cooper's Cask' in Hove when I worked there and listened to it dozens of times. Initially as 'suitable pub music' but as time went on it really grew on me and is now one of my favourite albums of 2009.

 

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cheshunt seagull

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Jul 5, 2003

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Randy Newman: Good Old Boys
Alan Parsons Project: Tales of Mystery and Imagination.

 

Gazwag

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Mar 4, 2004

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Herr Tubthumper said:

A guilty pleasure of mine is Misplaced Childhood by Marillion.

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Is my selection - saw them do it live at the Brighton Centre

 

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CHAPPERS

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Jul 5, 2003

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Stainless Style - Gruff Rhys/Boom Bip
Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030

 

Pevenseagull

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CHAPPERS said:

Stainless Style - Gruff Rhys/Boom Bip
Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030

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Stainless Style .... YES,! That is an excellent shout.

A Saturday afternoon stalwart soundtrack album to my shifts in 'The Coopers Cask'. Back when I could stand up for 6 hours and didn't hate the general public.

 

Bob!

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Jul 5, 2003

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A contender for worst concept album.
That's Life - Sham 69

 

GT49er

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Jaxie said:

Quadrophenia

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Yes - this!


....and this -

 

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abc

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What exactly is a concept album? Often wondered!

 

Austrian Gull

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Think this counts as a concept album about New York.

Cruelly underlooked in the UK this one. Massive in Canada and Australasia.

 

AIT76

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Jul 29, 2004

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abc said:

What exactly is a concept album? Often wondered!

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Where the tracks form a collective story or theme, rather than just being a selection of individual songs.

 

AIT76

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Jul 29, 2004

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carlzeiss

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Amazonia

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This

 

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Pevenseagull

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Jul 20, 2003

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oooh


Boards Of Canada, 'Music Has The Right To Children'

surely that's a concept album, right?




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Yes, Music Has the Right to Children by Boards of Canada is considered a concept album. The album is a complex composition that evokes a child's sense of wonder and enjoyment of music, while also conveying adult intelligence

 

mejonaNO12 aka riskit

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Dec 4, 2003

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I'm just going to be the one to get the QI buzzer and be UNCOOL by saying the obvious..


But it's DSOTM


If my shuffle decides to throw me one track from it I skip it. I simply have to listen to the album from start to finish and be immersed in it.

Am I being original? Nope. But I can't pretend to not think it's the greatest piece of music I've ever heard (to me).

 

Herr Tubthumper

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Gazwag said:

Is my selection - saw them do it live at the Brighton Centre

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Same. I also saw them at Hammersmith Odeon. From memory I bought the Hammersmith ticket and then the Centre date was added after when the album blew up. One was then postponed when Fish’s voice went.