Your Favorite Concept Albums

[Pols Voice]

Spock's Beard - Snow
Neal Morse - One
Camel - The Snow Goose
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Ayreon - Into the Electric Castle
Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory

[ColdFireYYZ]

Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Neal Morse - ?, Sola Scriptura, Testimony 2
Spock's Beard - Snow
Transatlantic - The Whirlwind
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Opeth - Still Life
The Who - Quadrophenia
Blue Oyster Cult - Imaginos
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage
Camel - The Snow Goose
Styx - Paradise Theater

[Progmetty]

Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

It's not a rock opera, but it's certainly a concept album.

I agree, just the second CD though. Six Degrees is not one song to me, bolded so we wouldn't get into the fuckin argument of "It's one song cause the band said it is".

Concept Album Fanboi here. I'll be back when I'm at a real keyboard. 

There are two types as far as I'm concerned
1- Rock Opera.  Contains a storyline, characters, start, end etc ...  The Wall, Tommy, O:M, SFAM etc...
2- Thematic. All songs carry a common theme or link or connection.  WYWH, Octavarium, Space Metal

King ... Never really thought about 6DOIT that way, but in that regard, I'll concede that it's a concept (thematic) album.

Yeah second CD of 6DOIT falls into the second type perfectly. So does all Pink Floyd concept albums with the exception of The Wall.
In an interview about Death Magnetic in 2008 with Metallica's fan club magazine James Hetfield compared the lyrical writing experience for DM to that of AJFA in having "a string connecting the songs together with an idea". I always felt that way about Justice and was glad to see my thoughts were close to truth, different natures of justice represented in dealing with earth, people, karma, government, parents, media, war and self inflected punishments.
DM not as clear to me.

[DebraKadabra]

Styx - Paradise Theater

YES, someone else besides me posted Paradise Theater!

[lonestar]

Styx - Paradise Theater

YES, someone else besides me posted Paradise Theater!

I thought about it, but being my third favorite Styx album behind Grand Illusion and Pieces of Eight, I left it off.

[DebraKadabra]

I never thought of Pieces of Eight or The Grand Illusion as concept albums, to be completely honest.
 
Turns out I was mistaken, I guess.  Story of my life tonight.

[lonestar]

I've seen both of them talked about as concept albums, though I'm still not sure I'd label Pieces of Eight as one.

[jingle.boy]

True Concept Albums (Rock Opera's)
Ayreon - The Human Equation
Queensryche - O:M
Pink Floyd - The Wall
DT - SFAM
<those are my top 4, now in no particular order>
Ayreon - Into the Electric Castle
Ayreon - 01011001
Amaran's Plight - Voices of Light
TSO - Christmas Eve and Other Stories
Beyond the Bridge - Old Man and the Spirit
Consortium Project I - Criminals and Kings
Consortium Project II - Continuum in Extremis
Consortium Project III - Terra Incognita
Consortium Project IV - Children of Tomorrow
Consortium Project V - Species
Epysode - Obsessions
Flaming Row - Elinoire
Mind's Eye - A Gentleman's Hurricaine
Prymary - The Enemy Within
Roswell Six - Terra Incognita: Beyond the Horizon
Roswell Six - Terra Incognita: A Line in the Sand
Royal Hunt - Paradox
Shadow Gallery - Room V
Spock's Beard - Snow
Stargate - Beyond Space and Time
Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite
Vanden Plas - Christ 0

Thematic
Rhapsody - Dawn of Victory (it could be argued it's a Rock Opera)
Star One - Space Metal
Star One - Victims of the Modern Age
DT - Octavarium
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Frameshift - An Absence of Empathy
Frameshift - Unweaving the Rainbow
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Redemption - This Mortal Coil

That ought to suffice.

[skydivingninja]

SFAM

Rush-2112

Incorrect.

Just about to post that 


Rush-Power Windows
Pink Floyd-Wish You Were Here
The Devin Townsend Project-Addicted

Those 3 are as much of a concept album as 2112

tbh I wasn't sure if Addicted should really qualify, but since it is part of the DTP quartet (all of which are concept albums of some part of Devin's life) I decided to include it (because I fucking love Addicted as I'm sure everyone knows by now).  Actually, just thinking about it, Deconstruction's probably the only one that really follows a story per se. 

Wish You Were Here is all about Syd Barret.

Power Windows is another "just barely" album, but I think the themes of power and its use/abuse are obvious enough in the songs that it could/should qualify.

2112 on the other hand is one long song followed by five songs that are completely unrelated.  So not a concept album as far as any definition goes where the words "concept" and "album" are stretched even as far as they can go.  Basically, Marc said it best:

Without getting TOO controversial, what makes these particular ones concept ALBUMS? I know they all have concept SONGS on their albums, particularly the side-long epics on these four, but the rest of the album, as far as *I* know, have nothing to do with the longer track(s) on their respective albums. I'm pretty sure "A Passage To Bangkok" isn't about the "2112" protagonist having a good smoke, or that any of the tracks on Milliontown really relate to each other, or that "And You And I" has anything to do with the tracks that surround it.

-Marc.

[Zydar]

Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
The Who - Tommy
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Haken - Aquarius
The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
Kiss - Music From The Elder

[Zantera]

I'm gonna toss a few out there, some are more conceptual than others, but still: (Alphabetically)

*65daysofstatic - Silent Running
*Amplifier - The Octopus
*Between the Buried and Me - Colors
*Dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
*Fantômas - The Directors Cut
*Gazpacho - Night
*Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites
*Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
*Opeth - Still Life
*Pain of Salvation - BE
*Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
*Pure Reason Revolution - The Dark Third
*Riverside - Second Life Syndrome
*Sigur Rós - ( )
*Sleeping at Last - Yearbook
*The Dear Hunter - Act II
*The River Empires - Epilogue
*The Smashing Pumpkins - Machina
*Thrice - The Alchemy Index
*Tool - Lateralus
*Tori Amos - Scarlet's Walk

[Lowdz]

I'll add

Ten- Babylon

KISS- The Elder

Royal Hunt- Paradox

TSO- Beethoven's Last Night

Iced Earth- Horror Show

Luca Turilli- Prophets Of The Last Eclipse

Alice Cooper- From The Inside

Pandora's Box (Jim Steinman) - Original Sin

Nicolo Kotzev's Nostradamus

Rush- Clockwork Angels

My Chemical Romance- The Black Parade

Camel- Nude

[Heretic]

Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Thrice - The Alchemy Index
Opeth - Still Life
Right Away, Great Captain! - The Bitter End, The Church of the Good Thief
Haken - Visions
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
The Cinematic Orchestra - Les Ailes Pourpres
DT - SDOIT
All Coheed albums

[Lolzeez]

Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Haken - Visions

Forgot those 2 

[jjrock88]

Queensryche- O:M
Dream Theater- SFAM
Kiss - The Elder
Symphony X- V
Rush- Clockwork Angels

[SomeoneLikeHim]

1. SFAM
2. Misplaced Childhood
3. The Lamb

All are probably in my top five albums of all time.

[kirksnosehair]

I love concept albums and rock operas.....there are too many that I love to remember them all for one post, but some of the ones that stand out:


Dream Theater - "Metropolis Part II: Scenes From a Memory"
Ayreon - "Into The Electric Castle"
Ayreon - "The Universal Migrator Part I: The Dream Sequencer"
Ayreon - "The Universal Migrator Part II: Flight of the Migrator"
Ayreon - "000100011000101010001100101100011001100000111001011010110000111100101101010110100101100101010010110011011"
A.C.T - "Last Epic"
Amaran's Plight - "Voice in The Light"
Avantasia - "The Metal Opera" (parts I and II)
Beyond The Bridge - "The Old Man & The Spirit"
Beyond Twilight - "For The Love of Art and The Making"
Cryptic Vision - "Moments of Clarity/In a World/Of Infinite Possibilities"
Fates Warning "A Pleasant Shade of Grey"
Flaming Row - "Elinoire"
The Flower Kings - "Flower Power"
Hourglass - "Oblivious To The Obvious"
Iron Maiden - "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son"
Kamelot - "Epica/The Black Halo"
Lee Abraham - "Black and White"
Magenta - "Seven"
Neal Morse - "?"
Pain of Salvation - "Remedy Lane"
Prymary - "The Tragedy of Innocence"
Queensryche - "Operation: Mindcrime"
Savatage - "The Wake of Magellan"
Section A - "Parallel Lives"
Serenity - "Death & Legacy"
Serenity - "Fallen Sanctuary"
Seventh Wonder - "Mercy Falls"
Shadow Gallery "Room V"
SIXX:A.M. - "The Heroin Diaries"
Southern Cross - "From Tragedy"
Spock's Beard - "Snow"
Symphony X: "V: The New Mythology Suite"
Transatlantic - "The Whirlwind"
Threshold - "Hypothetical"
Tomorrow's Eve - "Tales From Serpentia"
Triumph - "Surveillance"
Unitopia - "The Garden"
Vanden Plas - "Christ0"

[jingle.boy]

Beyond Twilight - "For The Love of Art and The Making"

That's the one that just 44 tiny tracks all stitched together, right?

[kirksnosehair]

Correct

[The Dark Master]

I was listen to Dio's Magica today, and couldn't remember if I had posted it here on my list or not.  I see I didn't, and I can't believe no one else did either.  That album is fucking amazing!  It's really surprising to think that Ronnie could write something so amazing so late in his career (all told, he had a whopping 16 albums under his belt at the time he made Magica).  Seriously, this album deserve mention in this thread, because it is just a masterpiece of metal from one of the founding gods of the genre.