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Re: Favorite concept albums
« Reply #70 on: June 23, 2011, 10:08:18 AM »
Kamelot - Epica
Kamelot - The Black Halo
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Re: Favorite concept albums
« Reply #71 on: June 23, 2011, 10:11:19 AM »
Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
Opeth - Still Life
Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Ayreon - The Human Equation
Pain of Salvation  - The Perfect Element Part.1
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
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Re: Favorite concept albums
« Reply #72 on: June 23, 2011, 10:14:08 AM »
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
Opeth - Still Life
Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part 1
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Re: Favorite concept albums
« Reply #73 on: June 23, 2011, 10:15:11 AM »
The Dear Hunter - all of them
Coheed and Cambria - all of them
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Re: Favorite concept albums
« Reply #74 on: June 23, 2011, 10:16:16 AM »
Coheed and Cambria - all of them
Opeth - Still Life
Savatage - Streets
Dream Theater - Scenes From a Memory
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
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Re: Favorite concept albums
« Reply #75 on: June 23, 2011, 10:18:40 AM »
Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory
Pain of Salvation - BE
Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
And now for the one song albums:
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Edge of Sanity - Crimson
Echolyn - Mei
Jethro Tull - A Passion Play
Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness
Transatlantic - The Whirlwind
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Re: Favorite concept albums
« Reply #76 on: June 23, 2011, 01:06:47 PM »
DT-Scenes
QR-Mindcrime
Marillion- Misplaced Childhood and CAS
Savatage-Streets
Seventh Wonder- Mercy Falls
Mind's Eye- A Gentleman's Hurricane

WASP- Crimson Idol- great album and overlooked because...well... it's WASP.
Green Day- American Idiot
My Chemical Romance-The Black Parade
Nicolo Kotzev- nostradamus- very Deep Purlpe/Rainbow
Avantasia- any really but The Scarecrow is the best for me
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Re: Favorite concept albums
« Reply #77 on: June 24, 2011, 07:46:02 AM »
Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth
Pink Floyd - Animals
Ayreon - Into the Electric Castle
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Transatlantic - The Whirlwind
Genius - A Human Into Dream's World
Vision Divine - The Perfect Machine
Spock's Beard - Snow
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« Reply #78 on: June 24, 2011, 10:24:13 AM »
Quote from: Ravenheart on June 23, 2011, 10:14:08 AM
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero

I was gonna come in and say those, but there you go, being all awesome and shit before me. Anyway, a few other favorites of mine:

Poe - Haunted: Possibly my favorite album in the history of ever, it's sorta two concepts (Maybe more) all wrapped up together. One is the story of a woman coming to forgive and accept her father after his death, the other is sort of the soundtrack to her brother's book House of Leaves (Also a good book in its own right). There, I've done my monthly pimping of this album.
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf: This album is pretty much just a drive around SoCal late at night flipping between different radio stations. Probably the simplest concept album I've ever heard, and goddammit does it work.
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar, Mechanical Animals, Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death: A 3-CD cycle, told in reverse, of a disaffected young boy who grows up to attain the rock superstardom he always dreamed about, only to find that nothing has changed, he's just as lonely and unwanted as before, so he destroys the world. Probably not everybody's cup of tea, but there'll always be a soft spot in my heart for these three albums.
Barenaked Ladies - Maroon: About a guy who becomes a huge rock star but alienates everyone he cared about on the way up. Comes back to try and make amends, and gets hit by a car. Typical BNL humour, in other words.
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Re: Favorite concept albums
« Reply #79 on: June 24, 2011, 10:45:08 AM »
The Ramones
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Re: Favorite concept albums
« Reply #80 on: June 24, 2011, 11:51:00 AM »
Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Grey

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Re: Favorite concept albums
« Reply #81 on: June 24, 2011, 12:17:19 PM »
Dream Theater-SFaM
Pink Floyd-Animals/The Wall/Dark Side of the Moon
Porcpine Tree-Deadwing
ACT-The Last Epic
Haken-Aquarius
Jeff Wayne-War of the Worlds
Thick as a Brick-Jethro Tull
Sgt. Peppers LonelyHearts Club Band-The Beatles.

All classic concept albums me thinks. ;)
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Re: Favorite concept albums
« Reply #82 on: June 24, 2011, 05:11:29 PM »
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Wasp - The Crimson Idol
Pain of Salvation - BE/Remedy Lane/Perfect Eleemnt
Avantasia - Metal Opera Pt 1. and 2.
Circle II Circle - Burden of Truth
Kamelot - Epica
Kamelot - Black Halo
DT - SFAM
King Diamond - House of God/Abigail/Them/Conspiracy/Graveyard/Voodoo/Abigail II/Puppet Master/The Eye
Savatage - Streets
Mastodon - Leviathan

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Re: Favorite concept albums
« Reply #83 on: June 24, 2011, 07:23:02 PM »
My favorites:

Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime (of course)
Opeth - Still Life
Green Day - American Idiot
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Dream Theater - Scenes
Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
The Dear Hunter - Act I, Act II, and Act III
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Mastodon - Leviathan
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
The Sword - Warp Riders
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Re: Favorite concept albums
« Reply #84 on: June 24, 2011, 08:15:28 PM »
Quote from: LeeHarveyKennedy on June 24, 2011, 10:24:13 AM
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf: This album is pretty much just a drive around SoCal late at night flipping between different radio stations. Probably the simplest concept album I've ever heard, and goddammit does it work.

They had those songs "No One Knows" and "Go with the Flow"? It's been a looooong time since I've heard those songs!
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Re: Favorite concept albums
« Reply #85 on: June 24, 2011, 08:33:47 PM »
i've spun deadwing and ghost reveries a thousand time combined...never realized either be conceptual - the more i know
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Re: Favorite concept albums
« Reply #86 on: June 24, 2011, 09:04:16 PM »
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Symphony X - Paradise Lost: Pretty great heavy stuff.
I'm pretty sure Paradise Lost isn't a concept album, V: The Mytholgy Suit is though. Edit: I just checked wiki, Paradise Lost isn't a concept album, it feautures songs about HP Love Craft, John Milton's Poem, and other historical events.

Iron Maiden - Son of a Seventh Son
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Porcupine Tree - The Incident
Symphony X - V: The Mythlogy Suit
Iced Earth - Framming Armegedon / The Crucible of Man
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Re: Seriously James, how awesome are you?
« Reply #87 on: June 24, 2011, 09:14:12 PM »
Quote from: Jamesman on June 24, 2011, 08:15:28 PM
Quote from: LeeHarveyKennedy on June 24, 2011, 10:24:13 AM
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf: This album is pretty much just a drive around SoCal late at night flipping between different radio stations. Probably the simplest concept album I've ever heard, and goddammit does it work.

They had those songs "No One Knows" and "Go with the Flow"? It's been a looooong time since I've heard those songs!

Yep! Two of my favorites off that album.
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Re: Favorite concept albums
« Reply #88 on: June 24, 2011, 09:33:57 PM »
Most of the things mentioned on this page and page 2 with the addition of:

Devin Townsend - Ki
Devin Townsend - Addicted
Devin Townsend - Ghost
Devin Townsend - Deconstruction
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid
Jordan Rudess - Feeding The Wheel
Tool - Lateralus (?)
Coheed and Cambria - Second Stage Turbine Blade
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Riverside - Second Life Syndrome
Haken - Aquarius

And a lot more I've probably forgotten.
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« Reply #89 on: June 26, 2011, 12:07:35 PM »
What's the actual story in Deadwing? Something to do with a kid and his dead mother?
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Re: Favorite concept albums
« Reply #90 on: November 17, 2011, 11:14:33 PM »
After watching Part 1 of "Trapped in the Closet" on Pop-Up Video, I got to wondering...


Is there a rap/hip-hop concept album? Specifically, is there a good one?
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Re: Favorite concept albums
« Reply #91 on: November 18, 2011, 12:16:08 AM »
Off the top of my head, I've heard good things about:

Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
Dr Octagon - Dr Octagonecologist

Haven't listened to either album though.
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Re: Favorite concept albums
« Reply #92 on: November 18, 2011, 07:38:02 AM »
Quote from: Fluffy Lothario on November 18, 2011, 12:16:08 AM
Off the top of my head, I've heard good things about:

Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
Dr Octagon - Dr Octagonecologist

Haven't listened to either album though.



Deltron 3030 is the 2000 debut album by hip hop supergroup Deltron 3030. It is a rap opera concept album set in a dystopian year 3030. The album's story casts Del in the role of Deltron Zero, a disillusioned mech soldier and interplanetary computer prodigy rebelling against a 31st century New World Order. In a world where evil oligarchs suppress both human rights and hip-hop, Del fights rap battles against a series of foes, becoming Galactic Rhyme Federation Champion.


Dr. Octagonecologyst is the debut solo album of American rapper Keith Thornton and the first album he released under the alias Dr. Octagon. Dr. Octagonecologyst introduces the character of Dr. Octagon, a homicidal, extraterrestrial, time-traveling gynecologist and surgeon. Thornton has been praised for his lyrics, which are often abstract, surreal, and filled with non-sequiturs and juvenile humor. Music critic Chairman Mao wrote that Dr. Octagonecologyst occupies "...the heretofore-undefined area where hip-hop meets hallucinatory sci-fi and porn." In the album's narrative, Dr. Octagon is an extraterrestrial, time-traveling gynecologist and surgeon originally from Jupiter. Dr. Octagon's history is detailed throughout the album's songs, skits, and samples. "Real Raw" describes him as having yellow eyes, green skin, and a pink-and-white Afro haircut. "General Hospital," "A Visit to the Gynecologist," and "Elective Surgery" detail a list of services offered by Octagon, who claims to treat chimpanzee acne and moosebumps, and relocating saliva glands. Octagon is described as being incompetent, as many of his surgery patients die as he conducts his rounds. Octagon also pretends to be a female gynecologist and often engages in sexual intercourse with female patients and nurses.


Apparently the Dr. Octagon story continues (sort of) in "First Come, First Served", "The Return of Dr. Octagon" and "Dr. Dooom 2".


I'll check these out, thanks.
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Re: Favorite concept albums
« Reply #93 on: November 18, 2011, 08:46:38 AM »
God damn it Colors is not a concept album.
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