Concept albums not on PA (including Prog related)

Sean Trane wrote: I believe 63's Charles Mingus Black Saint & Lady Sinner is a concept album

Yes, I adressed that here. I guess I went for the Coltrane because I'm a much bigger fan of A Love Supreme.

I believe 63's Charles Mingus Black Saint & Lady Sinner is a concept album

Edited by Sean Trane - April 04 2024 at 03:42

^ Divers has great music. Love the opening track. While she would be eligible methinks since I did not find her being considered since about 2011, I would say her music continues her brand of progressive folk which was not accepted for our Prog Folk category. Due to that and that team is much the same, I would not bother bringing it forward again. The music is just as good in and out of PA, and since we can discuss music not included in PA here, for me it's not that important... With the exception of any team work (PR and PP in my case) and also I like to see acts in to be eligible for the AOTY's. To me she is a kind of Progressive Folk Crossover artist. Like Sufjan Stevens, one could consider Crossover. Good stuff.

By the way, I never got the concept of Ys either, but have read that it is a concept albums. Tons of albums are kind of conceptual (have some vague overlying theme or tone or...) We are pattern seeking animals (thus the conspiracy theorist who adapt and cherry-pick data to fit their facts). If it was a time bending epic where Newsom and Il Balletto di Bronzo's Ys fates become intertwined, that would be ridiculous.

Back to the list: I should play Tom Waits' Rain Dogs again. It's been a long time. I would have quite liked to hear him duet with Don Glen Vliet of Captain Beefheart.

^^ Boy's a concept album too? I'm quite fond of it actually, but I never thought of it as anything more than a bunch of songs - that compliment each other, by all means.


Edited by Saperlipopette! - April 03 2024 at 13:29

Other: U2 - Boy (1980).

Cristi wrote: Saperlipopette! wrote: ^ Ys is yet another album I love (but haven't listened to in years) that I never really figured out what the unifying concept was supposed to be. And btw: If Joanna Newsom doesn't qualify as Progressive Folk, I don't know what does. Has she been suggested for prog-folk or crossover?

^ Ys is yet another album I love (but haven't listened to in years) that I never really figured out what the unifying concept was supposed to be. And btw: If Joanna Newsom doesn't qualify as Progressive Folk, I don't know what does.

Logan wrote: Saperlipopette! wrote: Logan wrote: Over the last few years I have listened so much to Histoire de Melody Nelson. More recently I really got heavily into Sufjan Stevens' Illinois and PJ Harvey's Let England Shake, A Love Supreme is an older favourite. It;s tough for me to choose between them. A minute ago I was going to vote Illinois, right now I'll vote for the Gainsbourg. Those are all really great album per my tastes. And I like Hayter's Saved! a lot too. Although I listened to it for the first time over twenty years ago, only recently have I really gotten into Histoire de Melody Nelson. Sometimes, or should I say quite often when I come back to albums that didn't register as something out of the ordinary - but I know are supposed to be: they click. I have to be in the right mood or maybe I'm at the right age. Or maybe I needed some more listening experience first. It;s the Jean-Claude Vannier connection, and my love of choral type vocals. that first got me really interested. I adore Vannier's L'enfant assassin des mouches (also could count as a concept album) which was based on a Gainsbourg idea. Vannier was the arranger for Histoire de Melody Nelson. I now find I like various Gainsbourg music from various albums, like Initials B.B (with the iconic Bonnie and Clyde track) and Cannabis.... I loved Cargo Culte especially at first off Histoire but then founmd I really like the whole album. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars by David Bowie is an other that could fit. I am a very big fan of Bowie.

Absolutely. Both LL'enfant assassin des mouches and Ziggy Stardust.. would have been included in the poll if Vannier and Bowie weren't represented in Eclectic and Prog-Related on PA

The only one I can think of is The Tubes - Remote Control (produced by Todd Rundgren). It's about Television as apparently they were obsessed with it at the time. Fun album.