Favorite Concept Albums
 

im sure you guys know what a concept album so ya it can be in rock, prog, metal, etc.

mine

Dreaming Neon Black by Nevermore
Blood Mountain by Mastodon
Rust In Peace by Megadeth
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son by Iron Maiden
Crimson by Edge of Sanity


so ya what about you guys

Kamelot- The Black Halo

Everyone is going to absolutely hate my choice, but it is Cradle of Filth-Babalon AD. The rise and fall of early religion. Beautiful.

The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
Ayreon - The Human Equation
Pain Of Salvation - BE

all Isis albums... CTTS - As the Roots undo... erm, both Red Sparowes albums.

Coheed And Cambria - Good Apollo

yesss

Agreed.

The Mars Volta- Amputechture
The Who- Tommy
The Who- Quadrophenia

Amputechture isnt a Concept album. Its the first LP from The Mars Volta that wasnt.

I believe it is. All of the songs are based around a central theme.

Not all of the songs. There are a few songs where the titles refer to some religion. The album is not a concept.

Prince - Sign 'O' The Times

Alice Cooper - Welcome to my Nightmare
Pink Floyd - The Wall
King Diamond - Abigail
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Styx - Paradise Theatre

^Oh, I didnt even THINK about Alice Cooper.

I believe "Welcome to my Nightmare" is on of the best concept albums ever. I saw him live and he did his whole show, including the guilotine and everything and it was AMAZING.

The Pretty Things - SF Sorrow

Generally considered to be the first ever rock concept album , even pre dating Tommy.

I like it quite a lot but i`ve not got a f*cking clue what it`s supposed to be about.

Hmmm.....

Dark Side Of The Moon
The Wall
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (well, a semi-concept album) - The Beatles.
Tommy
Who Sell Out
Quadrophena - The Who.
Axis: Bold As Love - Jimi Hendrix
Contemplating The Engine Room - Mike Watt
Close To The Edge
Tales Of Topographic Oceans
Relayer - Yes
Mothership Connection
One Nation Under A Groove - P Funk
OK Computer
Kid A
Amnesiac - Radiohead.
De-Loused in the Comatorium
Frances The Mute - Mars Volta
Ready To Die (well, sort of) - Nortorious B.I.G.
The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) - The Kinks
Days Of Future Past - Moody Blues
Tarkus
Brain Salad Surgery - ELP
The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars - David Bowie
Thick As A Brick
Aqualung
A Passion Play - Jethro Tull
Berlin - Lou Reed
Selling England By The Pound
Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - Genesis
Olias Of Sunhillow - Jon Anderson
2112 - Rush
Three Friends - Gentle Giant
The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
Homogenic (again, sort of) - Bjork
Lateralus - Tool
In Absentia - Porcupine Tree
The Miseducation Of Lauren Hill - Lauren Hill

And of course, virtually everything by King Crimson is a loose concept album.

Prowler in the Yard
De-loused in the Comatorium
The Wall
The Human Equation

Bout all I can think of.

CTTS-As Roots Undo.

Dark Side of the Moon

But the album is about the degeneration of religion and things of that nature.....

I like bands that have concepts running through a series of albums rather than every song being about the same thing,

Someone mentioned Alice Coopers Welcome To My Nightmare , the same concept also runs through his Dada & Last Temptation album.

I think the Cure did it best with Pornography / Disintegration & Bloodflowers

Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Crass - Penis Envy
Pere Ubu - Dub Housing

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
how could I friggin' have forgotten 2112?!?!???!!?!??!?!?!!?!

WASP - The Crimson Idol
WASP - The Neon God (pt1 and 2)
Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses

Pink Floyd - Darkside of the Moon, The Wall.

Mastadon - Leviathan, Blood Mountain.

Protest the Hero - Kezia (Even though they don't like it to be called a concept album but it tells a story so they can't avoid it.)

The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute

The Who - Tommy

That's all I really care about so...

Everyone posted some really good ones...I have to agree with the majority!

Mars Volta - De-Loused at the Comatorium

Hmm. There are quite a few great concept albums but I have to say that my personal favorite is probably The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails.
Frances the Mute is good too though as is El Cielo by Dredg.

Frances the Mute
Ziggy Stardust
Tommy
The Wall
De-loused in the Comatorium
:hphones:

Stash.... its about umm Marijuana

1) Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth.
2) Rhapsody of Fire - The Emerald Sword Saga (5 Album Epic).
3) Ayreon - Into the Electric Castle, Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer, The Human Equation.

That's all I can think of now.

The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails Self-loathiing + rape + heroin + violence + suicide = great album

Aenima by Tool

and of course

The Wall by Pink Floyd

I can't believe I'm the first one to say Scenes From A Memory- Dream theater- awesome album
Ayreon- The Human Equation
Rush- 2112
Pink Floyd- The wall, Dark Side Of The Moon
Queensryche- Operation Mindcrime
Iced earth- Something Wicked This way Comes
Symphony X- The odessey

^ omg lyke i thought you died

^ me?

My Chemical Romance "Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge"

Best concept album ever.

I thought you disapeered too.



lol, Ethan.

sgt peppers was the first concept album. came out 67, SF Sorrow came out 68

dark side of the moon

A Fistful Of Alice - Alice Cooper