20 best CONCEPT lps

Let's keep it to 70's.

RIGONI/SCHOENHERTZ - VICTOR

RDM - CONTAMINATED

PROCOL HAREM - A SALTY DOG

I can think of 20 from the 70s....but they are not all going to be prog or even prog-related.  

Aphrodite's Child - 666

Hi,

The idea of "concept" has been abused a bit too much, and some of the stuff mentioned probably fits better as just a bunch of songs kinda matched up with a bridge, so they would manage to fit, and help an idea of a concept ... but in all honesty, I'm not sure that "concept" is well thought of or shown, since so many of the things listed are strictly about the LYRICS, and not the music itself! That kinda breaks up the idea of "concept".


Alan Stivell - Symphonie Celtique ... though it didn't show up until early 1980 on LP

Alan Stivell - Before Landing

Camel - The Snow Goose ... finally something without lyrics to tell us when to go to the bathroom!

Hawkwind - Space Ritual ... though it was a bunch of songs, but they all stayed on the main idea.

Nektar - A Tab In The Ocean

Nektar - Remember the Future

There are more, but I have to dig them up ... !!!

In some ways TLLDOB is a bunch of songs, and if the story had been better defined and cleaned up, I think the "concept" in the album would be way better, instead the only concept we get is the amount of liner notes in the LP, for example, which is cheating! I do think that PG gave up on "concept" though in his interview on the MM that I remember (middle page full!!!), he had mentioned the concept idea and how he wanted to develop that ... and guess what? There was no concept in any of his solo albums! Someone must have helped him realize that individual songs was his strength ... not an idealistic concept!

Edited by moshkito - Yesterday at 13:05

Alan Stivell - Before Landing

I have this. Did not know its a concept.

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Since we are on folk now:
Fairport - Babbacombe Lee
Liam O'Flynn - the Brendan Voyage
Stackridge - Mr Mick