Since there are like 2 or 3 with polls, and everyone complaining that there wasnt (insert album here) on the poll, we all needed an open discussion and here it is!
First off:
2112 and DSOTM are NOT concept albums.
and dont bash ppl for their tastes either, please
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08-18-2008 10:52 AM #1Prog-nosticator
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NO POLL! Best/Favorite Concept Albums!
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08-18-2008 10:59 AM #2Washed Up
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the first thing that comes to mind is "ziggy stardust" for me.
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08-18-2008 11:23 AM #3Opening Act
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Still Life
Metropolis, Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
The Human Equation
The Dark Saga
The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack
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And Ghost Reveries, had it been a concept album like it was intended to be.
Riverside's Second Life Syndrome is a concept album, right? I'm not that big of a fan of it, I'm just curious.
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08-18-2008 11:30 AM #4Washed Up
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I'll go with Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. Often overlooked album but it has a lot of depth.
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08-18-2008 11:35 AM #5Headliner
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I'm with you. It's not Maiden's best, but it is still an awesome album. The title track is a massive song.
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08-18-2008 11:43 AM #6Road Warrior
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For me its Tommy, its just so epic and has a great (if unbelieveable) story behind it. I never really got what Quadrophenia was about but Tommy is pretty clear.
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08-18-2008 01:02 PM #7Opening Act
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I personally like Quadrophenia better than Tommy, even if Tommy had more hits. I really like the idea of four personalities in one person, and the title track, Love Reign O'er Me, and 5:15 are all epic.
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08-18-2008 01:25 PM #8Headliner
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Yes-Tales from Topographic Oceans
It's growing on me. I got the double vinyl to see if I'll really enjoy it listening to it like that.I wish to be a magician of words!
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08-18-2008 03:35 PM #9Rising Star
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08-18-2008 03:47 PM #10Road Warrior
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One of my all time faves is one that doesn't get a lot of talk. Alice Cooper's From The Inside. That album came out in 1978 and is a concept album of Alice in a mental institution. The real crazy part is Alice wrote the album with Bernie Taupin about Alice's very real stay in a mental institution.
Back in that time frame there really wasn't the facilities available for people to detox and/or dry out. While Alice was trying to kick his alcoholism his Dr. had him checked into a sanitarium in upstate New York to dry out.
Upon his release he set to work on the album and based all of the songs and characters in the songs on the actual inmates he met on the inside.
There are lots of Cooper classics including the sexy 'Nurse Rozetta', the romantic 'How You Gonna See Me Now' (based on a letter Alice wrote to his wife from the hospital), 'Serious' (which Alice has mentioned as one of his favourite songs ever) and the stunning epic closer 'Inmates (We're All Crazy').
Marvel Comics released a comic based on the album, Marvel Premier 50. In it, some of the albums characters were given names. The blonde in the blue dress from the song Wish I Were Born in Beverly Hills becomes Ms.Tiffany Sleek, The inmate admiring Nurse Rozetta is Jerome (He has a fetish for Nurse Rozetta's feet), the Doctor becomes the Deadly Doctor Fingeroth and Veronica is a Snake!
Track listing
From the Inside
Wish I Were Born in Beverly Hills
The Quiet Room
Nurse Rozetta
Millie and Billie
Serious
How You Gonna See Me Now
For Veronica's Sake
Jackknife Johnny
Inmates (We're All Crazy)
It's a fantastic album and an often overlooked one. Most people are drawn to Welcome To My Nightmare , Alice Cooper Goes To Hell or Killer as their Alice concept albums of choice.
How You Gonna See Me Now?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71-tS...eature=related
Millie and Billie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adTFo...eature=related
The following clips are from the tour he did in support of the album. Alice was incredibly sick and completely emaciated from his stay in the asylum. He was often throwing up blood first thing in the morning so he's no where near his best. To this day Alice refuses to re-release this home video as he finds it painful to see how bad off he was and feels his performance is horrible and not worth watching.
From The Inside
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9BSyzevTgY
Nurse Rozetta/The Quiet Room
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gAD4...eature=related
Serious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF3Vz...eature=related"There's a place where Krokus plays Stadiums?
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