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So, I was given Mastodon's new album Crack the Skye as a birthday present today. I was already turned onto them because of their album Leviathan (a Moby Dick based concept album). I was blown away by the new album, and I encourage all of you to go pick it up, or at least check the link below and see the video for the first track of the album.
But it sparked a question; what concept albums really get you going? I find that I get lost in concept albums while working, and I'm wondering if this is a common thread, as opposed to just a standard album.
<a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=58673491">Oblivion</a> by Mastodon -
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CommentAuthorFauxhammer
- CommentTimeAug 29th 2009
Downward Spiral, easy. -
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CommentAuthorCameron C.
- CommentTimeAug 29th 2009 edited
Jeff Wayne's musical adaptation of WAR OF THE WORLDS
Queensryche's OPERATION: MINDCRIME
Iced Earth's THE DARK SAGA
Manilla Road's ATLANTIS RISING
Billy Idol's CYBERPUNK (I really think I'm the only one who likes this album :< )
Alice Cooper's WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE
Alice Cooper's ALONG CAME A SPIDER
Ayreon's HUMAN EQUATION
Ayreon's INTO THE ELECTRIC CASTLE
Ayreon's 01011001
Gary Numan's THE PLEASURE PRINCIPAL
Gary Numan's REPLICAS
Gary Numan's TELEKON
David Bowie's 01. OUTSIDE
Nine Inch Nail's YEAR ZERO
and others D: -
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CommentAuthorMike Black
- CommentTimeAug 29th 2009 edited
Going down the list:
All of King Diamond's albums are concept albums -
* Fatal Portrait (1986)
* Abigail (1987)
* "Them" (1988)
* Conspiracy (1989)
* The Eye (1990)
* The Spider's Lullabye (1995)
* The Graveyard (1996)
* Voodoo (1998)
* House of God (2000)
* Abigail II: The Revenge (2002)
* The Puppet Master (2003)
* Give Me Your Soul... Please (2007)
All of the Fear Factory albums up until Archetype were concept albums-
* Soul of a New Machine (1992)
* Demanufacture (1995) this album should be owned by all metal heads and most music fans, as it's pretty close to flawless all the way through
* Obsolete (1998)
* Digimortal (2001)
Those are just some off the top of my head that haven't already been mentioned. There's some killer music here, and I would highly recommend King Diamond's Abigail & House of God, as well as Demanufacture. -
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- CommentAuthorfatesaccomplice
- CommentTimeAug 29th 2009 edited
The Wall. Kind of obvious, I guess. Also has that whole "you need to take acid to understand it" nonsense going on. Great stuff. Can't think of much else that has the lyrical themes fit so well into the musical. Well, except for Animals, I guess. I'm not even that huge of a Pink Floyd fan, more of a Pink Floyd era Roger Waters fan. -
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CommentAuthorAudley Strange
- CommentTimeAug 30th 2009
"Frances the Mute" The Mars Volta.
"Lateralus." Tool.
"Selling England By the Pound." Genesis.
"Histoire De Melody Nelson." Serge Gainsbourg. -
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The Small Faces, "Ogden's Nut Gone Flake".
Just fucking listen to it. It's 17 kinds of awesome, and also one of the first concept albums. Either #1 or #2 depending on which pedantic IPC sub-editor wishes to correct me. -
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CommentAuthorwarrenellis
- CommentTimeAug 30th 2009
Billy Idol's CYBERPUNK (I really think I'm the only one who likes this album :< )
I remember a PR person letting slip, at the time, that, yes, Billy really likes NEUROMANCER, and has read almost half of it... -
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The Hold Steady "Separation Sunday"
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CommentAuthorAurora Borealis
- CommentTimeAug 30th 2009
Hmm...
NIN's The Downward Spiral
Manson's Antichrist Superstar
discovered both when I was 19-20 and both were pretty big in my playlist at that difficult time.
there's some more, but I can't remember the titles/artists at the moment.
I find it amazing though how some people can write an entire album on a specific topic, or forming a specific story.
The closest I ever got to that with my music was an album/demo I recorded 2001 to sort of deal with my mother's death 1.5 year before that. And the only thing binding it was that all the songs were inspired by the three things I did at that time: playing Doom and Doom II, reaeding Lovecraft and listening to downward spiral.
...ohh, and I almost forgot.
I am pretty sure
Neurosis - Enemy of the Sun is a concept album too. -
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Oldies but utter gems!
Pretty Things:SF Sorrow
Genesis:Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Jethro Tull:Passion Play -
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omnicient
all of the Coheed and Cambria albums
Dream Theater - Scenes From a Memory
Meshuggah - Catch 33 -
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CommentAuthorrickiep00h
- CommentTimeAug 30th 2009 edited
Fantomas - Delirium Cordia
Type O Negative - World Coming Down
I'm a little surprised nobody has said Dark Side of the Moon or Wish You Were Here, though I suppose most could probably cite anything from DSOTM through The Wall pretty interchangeably... Personally, I'd go for Animals.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
Pretty much everything Opeth has done, especially Damnation and Deliverance.
NIN's The Fragile
Past those are a bunch of albums that are loose themes or sonic experiments like Radiohead's Kid A or OK Computer, or Metallica's Master of Puppets or ...And Justice for All.
And Smashing Pumpkins's Mellon Collie, which was supposed to be a concept album, but ultimately turned out to be a few really good singles, a couple decent album cuts, and a bunch of filler. -
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> But it sparked a question; what concept albums really get you going? I find that I get lost in concept albums while working, and I'm wondering if this is a common thread, as opposed to just a standard album.
I'm enjoying Thick as a Brick (as well as the whole album, there's a 9:54 minute long version of it on YouTube, live at Madison Square Garden from 1978).
I also like Handel's Messiah, and Vivaldi's Four Seasons. -
Nine Inch Nails' Year Zero. SF and my favourite band all rolled into you.
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CommentAuthorCaratheWalton
- CommentTimeAug 30th 2009 edited
My favorite concept album is Rush's 2112 . . . such a great one to listen to on a road trip, especially the Overture.
I also like Kiss' The Elder . . . my brother used to play it a lot when I was a kid when we were living in Germany, but I still remember it.
edited because my fingers work faster than my brain . . . -
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CommentAuthorBisonkills
- CommentTimeAug 30th 2009
Philip Jeck / Gavin Bryars - The sinking of the titanic (as plugged by Ellis some months ago, beautiful evocative music, riddled with surface noise and fading memories)
Current 93 - Aleph at halucinatory mountain (is there a C93 album that doesn't have a concept running through it?)
Sleep - Jerusalem (perhaps one of the best stoner/doom albums ever recorded... no surprises as to the album's subject matter)
Mostly concept albums remind me of prog, usually the bad type... Even good prog bands tend to go off the rails when they head for 'concept album' territory. -
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Billy Idol's CYBERPUNK (I really think I'm the only one who likes this album :< )
It got me interested in Gibson's stuff, so no you weren't. -
The best concept albums for me are the ones Marvin Gaye cut in the 70's, like HERE MY DEAR, WHAT'S GOING ON, I WANT YOU and LET'S GET IT ON.
And, though some would probably disagree with me, Bob Dylan's SLOW TRAIN COMING comes pretty close to being a concept album. Either way, it's a good record. -
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CommentAuthorhouseofmystery
- CommentTimeAug 30th 2009
Yeah, I'm going to have to go with Nine Inch Nails's The Downward Spiral, one of my all-time favourite albums: Full stop. -