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A Love Supreme. Metal Machine Music.
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+1 @ mysterioso1 John Coltrane’s " A Love Supreme" - Nice Anything Joni Mitchell |
David Bowie - "Ziggy Stardust"
Nektar - "Remember The Future"
Alan Parsons Project - "Tales of Mystery & Imagination"
Spirit - "The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus"
Traffic - "John Barleycorn Must Die"
Who - "Quadrophenia" |
Almost forgot the one regarded as the first concept album until I spinned it earlier.
Pretty Things
S.F. Sorrows (1968)
Still sounds great today!
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Sgt. Pepper - can you imagine if Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane had been included as originally intended?
2112 - Works even better than Sgt. Pepper as a concept album.
I can't possibly include The Wall when it comes in 4th behind Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, and Animals as my favorite Pink Floyd album. |
I’ll echo the votes for Queensryche, including the Empire album. The Wall is also a favorite. |
Beatles- Sgt. Pepper
Bowie- Ziggy Stardust
The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society
Frank Zappa- Lumpy Gravy |
Jethro Tull - A Passion Play (Thick as a Brick - part II)
Genesis - Duke
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"Lonesome George Gobel - In Person - At The Sands" (Decca 1961)
DeKay |
ELP Pictures at an exhibition |
John Coltrane - " A Love Supreme".
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Another vote for Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime Album. If you're a fan of rock music of any kind, this album is a masterpiece.
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Gotta go with Sgt. Pepper and Pet Sounds.
Geniuses at work!
Cheers! |
Coltrane's " A Love Supreme"
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David Bedford “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
Mike Oldfield “Ommadawn”
Camel “Snow Goose”
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Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull. It used to be Sergeant Pepper but I find the Tull album more interesting. |
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Triumvirat - Sparticus, Rick Wakeman - Journey to the Center of the Earth, Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
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As audite mentions tons of good stuff.
My own is Aftermath. Can anyone figure out the concept?
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Quadrophenia & The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
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A lot of good ones have been mentioned. I want to add Kilroy Was Here by Styx.
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2112 - RUSH
Tommy - The Who
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips
Days of Future Passed - The
Moody Blues
Radio Kaos - Roger Waters
The Wall - Pink Floyd
War Of The Worlds - The Moody Blues
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There's a Riot Goin' On - Sly and The Family Stone 1971
America Eats Its Young - Funkadelic 1972
How did I forget these?
Please forgive me y'all for having flashbacks of riots. |
Operation: mindcrime from Queensryche an album everyone should have. |
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Amused to death is a recording technology marvel. Nobody makes sound come way outside of the speakers location better than Roger.
However overall Zappa has better sound imaging throughout the entire spectrum. Dire Straits and Supertramp are not bad either :)
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Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Amused to Death
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Ocean by Eloy.
The Alchemist by Home.
History of Melody Nelson by Serge Gainsbourg.
Also Joe's garage and Babbacombe Lee listed above are pretty awesome audiophile quality recordings.
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I don't think that King Crimson album is a concept album. |
Bat out of Hell - Meatloaf
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Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
Moody BLues Days of Future Passed
King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King
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Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys 1965
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles 1967
Tommy - The Who 1969
What’s Going On - Marvin Gaye 1971 *a work of art - a masterpiece with cultural, political and full of life consequential that reverberates to this very day*
Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything? 1972
Thick as a brick - Jethro Tull 1972
The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein - Parliament-Funkadelic 1976
Anything:
Stevie Wonder
Frank Zappa
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" Days of Future Passed" by the Moody Blues
That is a very good one... |
" Days of Future Passed" by the Moody Blues
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Stones' Their Satanic Majesties Request = nostalgia for acid trips. |
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Red Headed Stranger, Pet Sounds, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Joe's Garage, Rust Never Sleeps, Welcome to My Nightmare, The Band, Hank Wilson's Back, The Delivery Man, Tarkus, Preservation Act 1 and Act 2, Stop Making Sense to list only a few I can think of immediately.
Then you have albums like Copeland: The Music of America that contains pieces that are all related and become a concept when they are put together and listened to in the album sequence.
I guess it depends on your definition of concept album. |
Rick Wakeman - Six Wives of Henry VIII |
Alan Parson Project--you pick. |
Rick Wakeman’s Journey to the Center of th Earth. In fact, I think I’ll put it on right now... Or rather, after Morph the Cat by Donald Fagan. Which, despite the name, isn’t a concept album. Just a good album. |
Thick as a Brick is a good one. |
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Queensryche- "Operation: Mindcrime" |
Smile by Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks. |
Mannheim Steamroller
Fresh Aire 7. Chip Davis does an excellent job of putting together pieces that all relate to or are based upon the number VII. Excellent demo disc as well for testing a system. |
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