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Originally posted by Cygnus X-2 Cygnus X-2 wrote:

Buy the album to the left of this message... it will surpass Tommy and then some.

I do agree with you. IMO, "Quadrophenia" is far superior to "Tommy".
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I would like to recommend "Days of Future Passed" by Moody Blues and "Arthur" by The Kinks. Both bands released lots of concept albums, but these are the ones I do like most. "Ogden's Nut Gone Flake", by The Small Faces, is considered as the first concept album - but I never listened to it. At least, in a historical point of view, this one is relevant.
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just a few off the top of my head:

Amon Düül 2 - "Made In Germany" (a rather satiric look at the history of Germany in the 20th century, including a fake interview with Adolf Hitler - using excerpts from speeches by him -, who is being introduced as the drummer of a rockband)
Grobschnitt - "Rockpommels Land" (I don't like this album very much, but it is a concept album, and maybe you will like it. I'm just not too much into symphonic prog)
Gong - the trilogy of albums "Flying Teapot", "Angel's Egg" and "You" follow a concept, telling the tale of Zero the Hero and his visit to planet Gong
Mother Gong - "Robot Woman", parts 1-3 (another concept trilogy)
Mother Gong - "Fairy Tales" is also a concept album in a way, since three fairy tales are being told on it, accompanied by music
The Residents - "Eskimo" (allegedly a concept album based on the lives and music of the Eskimos, but you will find out after a while that it is all a hoax (definitely when they sing "Coca Cola is life" in the last track )
The Residents - "The Mole Trilogy" (another trilogy of albums)
Aphrodite's Child - "666" (based on the apocalypse in the bible)
Triumvirat - "Spartacus" (in the opinion of many, including me, an ELP clone)
Klaus Schulze - "X" (this could be called a concept album, because Schulze tries musical biographies of several persons here)
Klaus Schulze - "Mirage" (Schulze himself calls this "an electronic winter landscape", and I think the music on this album captures this perfectly. but only for friends of meditative electronic music)
Jack Lancaster - "Marsscape" (sax-player Jack Lancaster backed up by the original Brand X, creating an instrumental portrait of the planet Mars)


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"Streets" by Savatage

"Dead Winter Dead" by Savatage is also meant to be a good album, though I've only heard a few songs from it
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Ayreon - The human equation

The best concept album ever ..... only my opinnion


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"The Snow Goose" and "Nude" - Camel.

"The Tain" and "The Book of Invasions" - Horslips

Grave New World - Strawbs

Five concept albums to die for; all masterpieces.
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since you like the who I think you allready have quadrophenia. if you dont have get it and love it.
We want... a shrubbery!
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Kevin Gilbert-The Shaming of the True

 


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Actually, I'm listening to The Shaming right now, thanks to the Progtologist (sort of, he knows what I mean.)

 

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  • Genesis - The Lamb Lies down on Broadway (1974)
  • Gentle Giant - Power & The Glory (1974)
  • Gentle Giant - Three Friends (1972)
  • Yes - Tales from Topograohic Oceans (73-74)
  • Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite (2000)
  • Dream Theater - Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From a Memory (1999)

 
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Apart from many mentioned above some others worth checking out

  • Spock's Beard - Snow
  • Glass Hammer - The Inconsolable Secret
  • Glass Hammer - Lex Rex
  • Jethro Tull - A Passion Play (already mentioned)

Like most concept albums they require some patience and several listenings and in the case of double cd sets I find it best to listen to one cd at a time as there is usually a lot to take in


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Originally posted by Tiresias Tiresias wrote:

Actually, I'm listening to The Shaming right now, thanks to the Progtologist (sort of, he knows what I mean.)

 

Progtologist, what happened to your awesome ass signature??

Changed it to this for awhile.My daughter found this for me on the net and asked me if I would use it.


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Here are some of my favorite concept albums:

-- The Inconsolable Secret, Glass Hammer

-- Lex Rex, Glass Hammer

-- The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, Genesis

-- Animals, Pink Floyd

-- Tales From Topographic Oceans, Yes

-- One, Neal Morse

-- The Sins Of Our Saviours, A Triggering Myth

-- Mei, Echolyn

-- Suffocating The Bloom, Echolyn

I could go on and on.
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Genesis - The Lamb lies down on Broadway

Gentle Giant - Three friends

Jethro Tull - Thick as a brick

Arena - Contagion

IQ - Subterranea
Still alive...
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how come I forgot to mention my absolute favorite concept album? very strange indeed. well, here it is:

Peter Hammill - The Fall of the House of Usher

a full fledged opera. the characters:

Roderick Usher                - Peter Hammill
Montresor, his friend        - Andy Bell
Madeleine Usher              - Lene Lovich
the Herbalist                   - Herbert Grönemeyer
the Chorus                     - Sarah Jane Morris
the Voices of the House   - Peter Hammill

to be listened to in the middle of the night by candlelight. prepare yourself for some shivers; this is a gothic tale, after all! giving the house a chorus of voices was a stroke of genius by Hammill; it is really creepy when they sing "We shall not let them go". highlights are the arias "I Shun the Light" and "The Lady Sleeps", the duet Usher/Montresor "Leave this House", to which the Chorus and the House add some comments, the "lost love" duet of Montresor and Madeleine and the whole 6th act, which slowly brings the music to a shuttering climax (the arrangement of the vocals is utterly fantastic in the grand final of the 6th act). but why mention a highlight? the whole opera is great!



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Spocks Beard - SNOW (brilliant)

Camel - NUDE (underrated!)

Dream Theater - SCENES FROM A MEMORY (great musicianship)

 

Award for most tenuous link to conceptualism - ELP, Tarkus.
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Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

Amon Düül 2 - "Made In Germany" (a rather satiric look at the history of Germany in the 20th century, including a fake interview with Adolf Hitler - using excerpts from speeches by him -, who is being introduced as the drummer of a rockband)

One of my all-time favourites! Most people tend to forget Amon Düül 2's middle period albums 1973-1975. Made in Germany came in two different versions: one double LP and one single LP. On the latter the Hitler interview was edited out along with the overture and the great tracks  "Wir Wollen"/"Wilhelm Wilhelm"/"SM II Peng".

Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

how come I forgot to mention my absolute favorite concept album? very strange indeed. well, here it is:

Peter Hammill - The Fall of the House of Usher

Another winner! I've never heard the re-worked version though, only the original from 1991. To me the original is a five-star-classic (How can it be improved?)

A footnote: Fish was a candidate for the role of Montressor, but it would not work because his voice is too close to Hammill's.

 
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Originally posted by Mategra Mategra wrote:

Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

how come I forgot to mention my absolute favorite concept album? very strange indeed. well, here it is:

Peter Hammill - The Fall of the House of Usher

Another winner! I've never heard the re-worked version though, only the original from 1991. To me the original is a five-star-classic (How can it be improved?)

A footnote: Fish was a candidate for the role of Montressor, but it would not work because his voice is too close to Hammill's.

 

it is even more brooding and dense now. also the drums have been removed (they didn't really fit into an opera, as Chris Judge-Smith pointed out to PH), and some violin (played by Stuart Gordon) has been added, as well as a few more layers of guitar. read what PH says about the new version here: http://www.sofasound.com/nlnov99.htm

if you already gave the first version 5 stars (which I would have done too had I not heard the 2nd one) you will be blown away by this


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