Concept Albums

My current personal fave is Genesis' "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway." It is such a great album with more and more to delve into everytime you listen to it

Other current faves include; Frances the Mute by The Mars Volta, Nude by Camel & Tales From The Topographic Ocean by Yes.

You gotta buy them all and they will all be a big step up from Tommy!!

 

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tangerine62 wrote: Isn't Pictures at an Exhibition a concept album, whether by ELP or other artists, after all it is about a walk through an art gallery (correct me once agin if i'm wrong).

Yes Mussorgsky wrote the piece based on an art exhibition of one of his friends works - you can see some of the pictures here

I suppose that can be regarded as a concept album - perhaps we need a new category Progressive Classical!

opeth - still life
ayreon - the human equation

have the best concepts imo

dreamtheater91 wrote: Also whats best Yes, ELP, and Genesis to start with

If you are completely new to these three groups -- and trying to take into account your enjoyment of DT -- I would recommend the following:

YES - "Close To The Edge" (or "Fragile" if you want something a little more accessible.)

ELP - s/t first album (As you're a DT fan, you may enjoy the heavier parts of this album - the first track starts with a real punch.)

GENESIS - "Foxtrot" (I think you'll enjoy Watcher Of The Skies, for starters, plus this album should be known and understood by all Prog Rock fans.)

Good luck! Let us know what you think of them.

 

 

nope, but I like the stories of Dunsany, in which the little folk (as a truly superstitious Irishwoman who puts a bowl of red wine in front of the door for the little folk each evening I dare not call them anything else. by the way, the bowl is empty each morning, which is proof they do exist ) get a sinister touch and are not the rather amusing little creatures with wngs

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dreamtheater91 wrote: What concept albums are very good but metal? Also whats best Yes, ELP, and Genesis to start with And best Pain of Salvation to start with (which are concepts?)

If you are lookign for metal concept albums try:

Savatage - Streets
Savatage - Dead Winter Dead
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Iron Maiden  - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (sort of a concept album....)

and of course Dream Theater, but looking at your name i guess you already know about them!
 

BaldJean wrote: in my opinion the combination of "metal" and "concept album" does not work, unless you would either alllow the band to include a few non-metal songs or the concept of the album would have to be about violence and destruction all the time. or another idea, the concept could be "contest of metal bands", and then a few metal bands with different styles that take part in that contest would have to be invented (of course all would have to be portrayed and incorporated by the same band). but playing full power all the time (whch is my understanding of "prog metal"; anything else I would not give that name) just reduces the range of emotions and situations to be described (which is why I am not a great fan of prog metal). I am quite sure there will be a lot or responses now that will prove to me there are prog metal concept albums, but how many of them are metal through and through? I am pretty sure that on such a concept album at least one ballad would appear

How about Iron Maiden's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son?  It has quiet moments, but there's nothing there that could really be classified as a ballad.

I see no one has posted it and i can't believe it...

AYREON - The human equation

wow, that's concept, that's progression surely one of my favs.

in my opinion the combination of "metal" and "concept album" does not work, unless you would either alllow the band to include a few non-metal songs or the concept of the album would have to be about violence and destruction all the time. or another idea, the concept could be "contest of metal bands", and then a few metal bands with different styles that take part in that contest would have to be invented (of course all would have to be portrayed and incorporated by the same band). but playing full power all the time (whch is my understanding of "prog metal"; anything else I would not give that name) just reduces the range of emotions and situations to be described (which is why I am not a great fan of prog metal).
I am quite sure there will be a lot or responses now that will prove to me there are prog metal concept albums, but how many of them are metal through and through? I am pretty sure that on such a concept album at least one ballad would appear

What concept albums are very good but metal?

Also whats best Yes, ELP, and Genesis to start with

And best Pain of Salvation to start with (which are concepts?)

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