concept albums

I love that disc, and most of their early stuff. From me reading your posts, I think you would like it.

T-Roy wrote:

No sir. I've never actually owned any Q. Just heard stuff here and there and liked what I heard.

You need to hear the following Queensryche immediately if not sooner. They're not all concept albums but they all rule:
Self titled EP
The Warning
Rage For Order
Operation: Mindcrime
Empire

Everything post-EMPIRE is pretty much "buy at your own risk" IMHO but that's just me. Oh, except for the aforementioned "Mindcrime II," that's pretty good stuff.

LOL! SIR, YES SIR!

Definitely get O:M, T-Roy!!! Classic album.

Some of my other faves:

Pink Floyd - The Wall
Resurrection Band - Lament

Never knew that Wicked Generation was a concept album, or is it a
"themed album"? I personally would not consider a themed album to be
the same thing as a concept album. Rush had a number of both themed
albums and side one concept songs that I like quite a bit as well.

Fat Freddy wrote:

Top three:
Savatage's STREETS: A ROCK OPERA
Queensryche: OPERATION MINDCRIME
W.A.S.P. - THE CRIMSON IDOL

And what moe do you really need? I'd live the rest of my life with just these 3 CD's, and survive.....



,maybe....

Somebody once said that 7th Son of A 7th Son is a concept album.

SoldierUnderCommand wrote:

Somebody once said that 7th Son of A 7th Son is a concept album.

I've read that. I haven't heard it from someone because I have no friends.

SoldierUnderCommand wrote:

Somebody once said that 7th Son of A 7th Son is a concept album.

Supposedly it is, but I've never been able to follow it. Damn my short attention span. I blame MTV.

Fat Freddy wrote:

Top three:
Savatage's STREETS: A ROCK OPERA
Queensryche: OPERATION MINDCRIME
W.A.S.P. - THE CRIMSON IDOL

Thase three are classics!!!
I would also add all AYREON and AVANTASIA albums.
GREAT consept albums imo.

I've heard that about 7th Son as well, but I never liked that album all that much.

Tall Tyrion wrote:

I've heard that about 7th Son as well, but I never liked that album all that much.

Wanker alert.

Great record.

opeth - still life and my arms your hearse
iron maiden - seventh son of a senth son

SoldierUnderCommand wrote:

Tall Tyrion wrote:

I've heard that about
7th Son as well, but I never liked that album all that much.

Wanker alert.

Great record.

You're a wanker.

That was the beginning of the Maiden slump (well, maybe Somewhere in
Time was the beginning of the slump, but I still liked SIT). When I
heard that album, it just put me to sleep.

i must disagagre. IMO i think SSOASS is a classic album and saw iron maiden move in a more progressive direction that continued to this day

SoldierUnderCommand wrote:

Somebody once said that 7th Son of A 7th Son is a concept album.

It is, and it is a great concept album! Granted, the story is hard to follow, but a great album!

Some of my other favorites:

Queensryche - Operation:Mindcrime (if not my favorite concept album)
Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
Pink Floyd - The Wall
KISS - Music From The Elder

some favourites:
Angra - Temple Of Shadows
Iced Earth - Horror Show
Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
King Diamond - Abigail
Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare
Rhapsody Of Fire - Legendary Tales (although this is the first of like 4 - 5 albums of the Emerald Sword Saga)

I wrote the blurb below for the 2006 yearly awards at MetalReviews.com. This was in my top 15 of the year. So instead of typing something like this again, I'm cutting and pasting. Plus, it's 4am and I don't need to be up much longer than this. Haha.

Adultery is one of the coolest concept albums I've ever heard.



You’re a normal, respected, and honest man. You’ve lived an honest, upstanding life. But you've been diagnosed with terminal cancer. You have a very short time to live. What do you do with your remaining days? Why, of course, you indulge in every dark desire you could possibly imagine: drinking and drug binges, sharing bed space with some prostitutes, making romance explosions inside them, and then killing them, and all other manner of dark, twisted fantasy. This is Adultery, a concept album following a man through his final days as he wreaks havoc on what remains of his life and all those around him, indulging in the dark side of life before he inevitably dies.

Dog Fashion Disco is virtually impossible to slap a genre label on, mainly due to their melding of styles ranging from jazz to death metal to nu-metal to R&B, often in a single song. Vocalist Todd Smith is a dead ringer for Mike Patton, and thus have always been called a Mr. Bungle copycat; but Mike Patton and Mr. Bungle could never stay focused long enough to come close to the brilliance that is Adultery. Mr. Bungle has brilliant moments. Dog Fashion Disco is brilliant. All day, every day. Sadly, though the band’s best work to date, Adultery is their swan song. They announced their disbandment in on December 5, 2006. Adultery is the real deal, however; one of the coolest concept albums ever written.

o Pink Floyd--Dark Side Of The Moon
o Pink Floyd--Wish You Were Here
o Pink Floyd--Animals
o Pink Floyd--The Wall
o Yes--Close To The Edge
o Genesis--Selling England By The Pound
o Jethro Tull--Aqualung
o Jethro Tull--Thick As A Brick
o Dio--Magica
o The Who--Quadrophenia
o The Beatles--Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (semi-CA)
o King Crimson--In The Court of The Crimson King

I happen to like a LOT of concept albums

Rock Operas
King Diamond-Abigail through The Graveyard
Savatage-Streets, Dead Winter Dead, Wake Of Magellan, and Poets & Madmen
Circle II Circle-Burden Of Truth
Spock's Beard-Snow
Pink Floyd-The Wall
Neal Morse-all four
Shadow Gallery-Tyranny and Room V
Vision Divine-The 25th Hour and The Perfect Machine
Iced Earth-Framming Armegeddon
Blind Guardian-Nightfall In Middle Earth
Kamelot-Karma
Jag Panzer-Thane To The Throne
Queensryche-Operation Mindcrime
Dream Theater-Metropolis
Ayreon-Universal Migrator Pt. 1&2, The Electric Castle, and Human Equation
Avantasia-Pt. 1&2
Rhapsody-Power Of Dragonflame, Symphony Of Enchanted Lands Pt. 2, Triumph or Agony, and Dawn Of Victory
Luca Turilli-Prophet Of The Last Eclipse
Evergrey-Recreation Day and The Inner Circle
Dio-Magica (there you go Ult, here's one person that agrees)
Saviour Machine-Legend series (based on my favortie book in the Bible)
Angra-Temple Of Shadows
Symphony X-V: The New Mythology Suite
After Forever-Invisible Circles
Haggard-Awakening The Centuries
TSO-all of them
Dominici-O3

Non-story concept albums (all songs have same underlying theme):
Alice Cooper-The Last Temptation, Brutal Planet and Dragontown
Amorphis-Tales From The Thousand Lakes and Elegy
Therion-all that I've heard
Leaves' Eyes-Lovelorn, Legend Land, and Vinland Saga
Kamelot-Black Halo (I could be wrong on this)
Royal Hunt-Paradox
Balance Of Power-Book Of Secrets

I may be forgetting some

I forgot
Opeth-Still Life and Ghost Reveries
Iron Maiden-7th Son

No one can forget Tommy by The Who. Classic.

manilla road-mystification
scanner- mental reservation
deliverance-sword of the necromancer
nikolo kotzev's nostradamus

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Rush - 2112
King Diamond - Abigail
Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
Alice CoOper - From The Inside
WASP - The Crimson Idol

(Music From) The Elder - KISS

BY FAR!

THE WALL-Pink Floyd