Thoughts on Concept Albums

Demasco · 09-16-2010, 01:22 AM

What are your opinions on concept albums vs. standard/conventional albums. Do you feel that a unifying idea tends to hurt/help the quality of the actual songs across an album, or not at all?

Flyingpig437 · 09-16-2010, 06:21 AM

What I can't understand is why they're always double albums. Surely it'd be easier under those constraints to make them a single album. Then there's the one's that their creators think need some weird and wonderful ending which ends up ruining it. Yes. You Roger Waters. I hate The trial on The Wall.
I think my fav. is the who sell out. Apart from the songs being great it's got those adverts and the whole concept has been done fairly succinctly and with humour.

sidewinder · 09-16-2010, 12:26 PM

I don't care if it's a concept or not. If it's good it's good and I don't think whether it's a concept or not has any effect on that.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 09-16-2010, 12:36 PM

If it's a really good concept album you won't notice that it is a concept album.

OctaneHugo · 09-16-2010, 02:29 PM

Concept albums are cool but they're not inherently better than albums with non-connected songs. I mean sure Animals and Quadrophenia and In The Court of the Crimson King (an Observation by King Crimson) are some of my favorite albums of all time but for each Hospice there's a Countdown to Ecstasy marching along with it. Albums all have their merits, and sure, being a concept album can work for or against it but I'm not going to ramble on about how all good albums are concept albums.

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Originally Posted by Flyingpig437

I hate The trial on The Wall.

EAT BALLS

squonk · 09-16-2010, 02:36 PM

Among my favourites would be

CAMEL - Stationary Traveller
TANGERINE DREAM - Phaedra
YES - Tales From Topographic Oceans

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Flyingpig437 Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 534	What I can't understand is why they're always double albums. Surely it'd be easier under those constraints to make them a single album. Then there's the one's that their creators think need some weird and wonderful ending which ends up ruining it. Yes. You Roger Waters. I hate The trial on The Wall. I think my fav. is the who sell out. Apart from the songs being great it's got those adverts and the whole concept has been done fairly succinctly and with humour. __________________ Proper music for proper people!!!

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sidewinder Engorged Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,536	I don't care if it's a concept or not. If it's good it's good and I don't think whether it's a concept or not has any effect on that. __________________ last.fm \| my collection on RYM \| vinyl instagram @allthatyouseeandhear I'd love to see your signature/links too, but the huge and obnoxious ones have caused me to block all signatures.

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Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	If it's a really good concept album you won't notice that it is a concept album. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

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