I've always heard it wasn't as good, but I'm sure it's another coherent story record.I should check it out.No Lemmy :(
― Trip Maker, Friday, 4 June 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Lemmy's absence could surely be a problem. I once owned & enjoyed Capt. Lockheed, but somehow never heard Lucky Leif. Now I'm wrestling with (CL - Lemmy) + Eno = LL It should be worth a listen at least.
― ImprovSpirit, Friday, 4 June 2010 16:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Eno did Lockheed under an alias or something.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 4 June 2010 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Zappa's Joe's Garage and Thing-Fish have very linear storylines, with irritating narrators (the Central Scrutinizer, Thing-Fish) explaining the plots along. PS, Joe's Garage is mostly crap and Thing-Fish is 100% utter shit.
― Grisly Addams (WmC), Friday, 4 June 2010 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Surprised no one's mentioned A Grand Don't Come for Free. Definitely has a coherant narrative, definitely not a rock opera.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Friday, 4 June 2010 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
*Smacks forehead* Of course, A Grand Don't Come for Free.
I'm intrigued by the stage version of American Idiot because extracting a proper narrative from that record must have been a tall order. Billie Joe Armstrong as good as admits that he sets up his characters and a few themes and then improvises around them without really caring if they add up to anything close to a story.
― Haunted Clocks For Sale (Dorianlynskey), Friday, 4 June 2010 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment+arts-10485929
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 15 July 2010 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
>>>pedant alert<<<<
Sgt. Pepper isn't even close to being the first concept record
― Major Lolzer (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 15 July 2010 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
That's the worst thing about reviving a thread, no bugger talks about the thing that causes the revival, they just talk about the OG question. :)
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 15 July 2010 20:48 (thirteen years ago) link
haha sorry
I dunno about that BBC article, concept albums haven't ever gone out of style afaict
― Major Lolzer (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 15 July 2010 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
My favorite concept albums.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 6 December 2018 01:56 (five years ago) link
I'd argue Signals -- indeed, every peak Rush record -- is a concept album.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 6 December 2018 13:42 (five years ago) link
I think there's a useful distinction one could make between thematic coherence and the concept album proper but I wouldn't argue about what records belong in which box
― biliares now living will never buey (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 6 December 2018 15:05 (five years ago) link
good list, some 21st c stuff i'd include:
diddy dirty money - last train to paristhe thermals - the body, the blood, the machinethe microphones - mount eerieowen pallett - heartlandrichard dawson - peasant
― devvvine, Thursday, 6 December 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link
occasionally glancing up through the rain, wondering which of the buggers to blame
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 7 December 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link