What's your favorite Concept Album?

[Ostinato Rubato]

Every Tool and Pink Floyd Album.

[DoubleBarrel]

Even the album cover is epic

[clipless bumper]

wow - I forgot all about that album

[JerEvil]

King Diamond - Abigail

YES!!!

Kiss: Music From the Elder.

Shamefully, I almost put this as well. "The Oath" is a jam! Wish Arch Enemy didn't cock it up so bad. "Just a Boy, Dark Light, Only You …" I am one of the only people I know that actually liked this album. No one really wanted to hear KISS actually try to play.

[VTM]

Kiss: Music From the Elder.

Shamefully, I almost put this as well. "The Oath" is a jam! Wish Arch Enemy didn't cock it up so bad. "Just a Boy, Dark Light, Only You …" I am one of the only people I know that actually liked this album. No one really wanted to hear KISS actually try to play.

Serious! I love the 3 songs you mentioned. There's a vocal isolated version of Just a Boy that you would probably like. There are all sorts of bootlegs/outtakes of that album floating around which are really cool. A youtube rabbit hole I dive into once in a while, plus I've got a few cdrs from the pre-internets days. There's one on youtube with Bob Ezrin and Paul talking back and forth during the recording of the album which is a trip. Check out the live version of "The Oath" from the old tv show Fridays. It has the guitar solos that gene/paul/ezrin deleted from the original track!

[Ruiner]

One of the most interesting and original concept album ideas i've seen just came out this year from prog-metal band Lazer / Wulf on their album The Beast Of Left And Right. It's a giant Palindrome!!!

Here's the details:
"Some bands are ambitious. And then there’s Lazer/Wulf. The concept behind the prog-metal trio’s new album, The Beast Of Left And Right, is more than ambitious; it’s kind of insane. Guitarist Bryan Aiken, bassist Sean Peiffer, and drummer Brad Rice have constructed an entire, full-length work of technical yet melodic metal that forms a palindrome. Yes, it’s the same backward and forward, in a thematic sense; rather than just flipping around half an album, running it backward, and calling it a perfect palindrome, the band has intricately, imaginatively reversed and synched riffs, lyrics, and other elements of each song before synching them up to their mirror-image counterparts. The Beast Of Left And Right isn’t overwhelmed by its structure; it’s enhanced by it, to the point where Lazer/Wulf has pushed itself into brain-twisting new territory as songwriters and instrumentalists. All the big ideas aside, it’s also an ass-kicking and deeply listenable record, no matter which way you slice it."

[Yarbicus]

One of the most interesting and original concept album ideas i've seen just came out this year from prog-metal band Lazer / Wulf on their album The Beast Of Left And Right. It's a giant Palindrome!!!

Here's the details:
"Some bands are ambitious. And then there’s Lazer/Wulf. The concept behind the prog-metal trio’s new album, The Beast Of Left And Right, is more than ambitious; it’s kind of insane. Guitarist Bryan Aiken, bassist Sean Peiffer, and drummer Brad Rice have constructed an entire, full-length work of technical yet melodic metal that forms a palindrome. Yes, it’s the same backward and forward, in a thematic sense; rather than just flipping around half an album, running it backward, and calling it a perfect palindrome, the band has intricately, imaginatively reversed and synched riffs, lyrics, and other elements of each song before synching them up to their mirror-image counterparts. The Beast Of Left And Right isn’t overwhelmed by its structure; it’s enhanced by it, to the point where Lazer/Wulf has pushed itself into brain-twisting new territory as songwriters and instrumentalists. All the big ideas aside, it’s also an ass-kicking and deeply listenable record, no matter which way you slice it."

Um...WOW. I really need to check this out!!!

[rock flag and eagle]

One of my favorites isn't one album, but the entire studio discography for Coheed and Cambria, if you don't know the concept behind it, the albums are all chapters based on a sci-fi comic series The Amory Wars by the singer/guitarist Claudio Sanchez.

[LukeBurke1]

Thrice - The Alchemy Index

This one is also one of my favorites. Consider your hand shaken, sir

[MacaroniSalad]

Savatage - Streets: A Rock Opera

[clipless bumper]

Joe's Garage!!
Another classic.

But which one is your favorite??

[DoubleBarrel]

Another classic....................


[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CxLqQiaH7I[/video]

[greatmutah]

Joe's Garage!!
Another classic.

But which one is your favorite??

I love Joe's Garage. I also dig We're Only In It For The Money but I'm a bigger fan of Joe's Garage. Plus Frank does some exquisite playing all over that album. And I love the direct shot taken at Scientology.

[Loop Bizkit]

Childish Gambino: Camp
Dream Theater: SFAM
DTP: Deconstruction.

[ShaneV]

Childish Gambino: Camp

Awesome choice, been listening to that album a ton lately.

[Loop Bizkit]

Childish Gambino: Camp

Awesome choice, been listening to that album a ton lately.

I can't wrap my head around all the negative press for Donald Glover. Dude is amazing. I have everything he's ever done.

[Beef]

Most of mine have been mentioned so far except The Drive-By Truckers trilogy of Southern Rock Opera, Decoration Day, and The Dirty South.

[spawnofthesith]

Would you consider Bitches Brew to be a concept album? Or a Tribute to Jack Johnson?

[nightflameauto]

One of the most interesting and original concept album ideas i've seen just came out this year from prog-metal band Lazer / Wulf on their album The Beast Of Left And Right. It's a giant Palindrome!!!

Here's the details:
"Some bands are ambitious. And then there’s Lazer/Wulf. The concept behind the prog-metal trio’s new album, The Beast Of Left And Right, is more than ambitious; it’s kind of insane. Guitarist Bryan Aiken, bassist Sean Peiffer, and drummer Brad Rice have constructed an entire, full-length work of technical yet melodic metal that forms a palindrome. Yes, it’s the same backward and forward, in a thematic sense; rather than just flipping around half an album, running it backward, and calling it a perfect palindrome, the band has intricately, imaginatively reversed and synched riffs, lyrics, and other elements of each song before synching them up to their mirror-image counterparts. The Beast Of Left And Right isn’t overwhelmed by its structure; it’s enhanced by it, to the point where Lazer/Wulf has pushed itself into brain-twisting new territory as songwriters and instrumentalists. All the big ideas aside, it’s also an ass-kicking and deeply listenable record, no matter which way you slice it."

I bought this based on description alone. Very different take on prog, and there's some seriously awesome playing in there. The vibe of the tones is extremely old school harder rock, but the playing is much more technical than you'd expect when you first hear them.

And the album as a whole is a mind blower. Really sparse on the vocals, but the music is intricate enough you don't really notice too much. So much going on.

[Derek Buddemeyer]

Fates Warning "No Exit"

[DNW]

If I was gonna pick three, probably...

Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray

[ShaneV]

Childish Gambino: Camp

Awesome choice, been listening to that album a ton lately.

I can't wrap my head around all the negative press for Donald Glover. Dude is amazing. I have everything he's ever done.

I think it's just because he was an actor and comedian first. Judging just on his work it's hard to find fault. I was just listening to Because the Internet earlier tonight. Such a different vibe from Camp but also amazing. I have heard some of his earlier mix tape stuff but I need to track the rest of it down.

[Repner]

A lot of great mentions in here. Since I'm listening to Blotted Science right now, I'll have to mention them. With the Animation Of Entomology EP, Ron wrote each song so it plays perfectly in sync with a bug-related movie scene.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clo7luWlI9E[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKkn-YjYmCA[/video]

[Devin]

God I love Blotted Science

[spawnofthesith]

Blotted science =


Like I said previously, I can't name a single favorite, but holy shit I just got turned onto this one and its been blowing my fucking mind. DAT BASS GROOVE
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKNOlDtZluU[/video]