Best rock concept album?

and this....(I think Pink Floyd had the Concept Album down pat.)



<edit> I'm listening to Operation Mindcrime...forgot how well that was done.

Last Edited by Maguyver on 11/21/2012 08:50 AM

Oh Yeah!!!

the dear hunter acts 1-3

act 3 is simply a masterpiece. here's the first song with intro song. amazing amazing amazing band. (not the best quality youtube vid here but it's ok)



Last Edited by 1-2-Follow on 11/21/2012 09:37 AM

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Depending on my mood, either Pink Floyd's DSOTM or Radiohead's OK Computer.

I don't listen to very much these days... but when I do it's usually this (start to finish). It should have been adapted into a feature length motion picture, in which case Chris DeGarmo and Geoff Tate would have won Oscars for best original screenplay.... DeGarmo for providing the story and Tate for giving it a voice.

It's perfect in it's brutal honesty... it works and flows on so many levels just as well as the day it was recorded! It's a rock narrative/commentary that works just fine for me. Sadly though in many cases it WAS the story of my life and the lives of so many of my close friends. I guess that makes it even more poignant for me and an old girlfriend who fit the "Suite Sister Mary" role nearly perfectly.

Excerpt from "Eyes of a Stranger"

"Is this all that's left of my life before me
Straight Jacket memories... [sedative highs]
No happy ending like they've always promised
There's got to be something left for me
And I raise my head and stare into the eyes of a stranger
I've always known that the mirror never lies
People always turn away from the eyes of a stranger
Afraid to know what lies behind the stare"
[Lies behind my stare]
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​

Spreading the Disease

She always brings me what I need
Without I beg and sweat and bleed
When were alone at night
Waiting for the call
She feeds my skin :)

Sixteen and on the run from home
Found a job in times square
Working live s&m shows
Twenty-five bucks a fuck
And Johns a happy man
She wipes the filth away
And it's back on the streets again

Spreading the disease
Everybody needs
But no one wants to see

Father William saved her from the streets
She drank the lifeblood from the saviours feet
Shes sister Mary now, eyes as cold as ice
He takes her once a week
On the alter like a sacrifice

Spreading the disease
Everybody needs
But no one wants to see

Religion and sex are powerplays
Manipulate the people for the money they pay
Selling skin, selling god
The numbers look the same on their credit cards
Politicians say no to drugs
While we pay for wars in south america

[saudi arabia, on tour]

Fighting fire with empty words
While the banks get fat
And the poor stay poor
And the rich get rich
And the cops get paid
To look away
As the one percent rules america

Spreading the disease
Everybody needs
But no one wants to see
The way society
Keeps spreading the disease

I think the beatles win with a white album

KISS Destroyer.

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The lamb lies down on broadway....

Best rock photos here

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ummmm. Rush

2112
Caress of Steel
A Farewell to Kings
Hemispheres

just to name a few!

Dark Side of the Moon, for sure. No question about it.
But, one of my all time favorites should get a mention, John Barleycorn Must Die by Traffic.
Also the first, and maybe only, country concept album should also be mentioned, Redheaded Stranger by Willie.

Play the song to the video (play around and synch them just right at the beginning...then let it play)

Then ask yourself..."Is anyone going to show up...or NOBODY"

Here's an interesting article about OK Computer:

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Dream Theater
Metropolis 2 - Scenes from a Memory

Great...great album.

Laibach - Jesus Christ Superstars

euuugh fuuuuck Queefrych... so ... so "obvious" .. so unoriginal... so overused repetetive idiology that's been repeated for the past 10-20 yrs into a nice clean produced package.. (with nofucking BASS!)....


MASTODON!!! CRACK THE SKYE!!!!!

fuuuuck queef ryche
that band sucks complete assholes

My two favorites:

ELP - Trilogy



And King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King.

Track 1

rush hemispheres.

Sure you want your cult leader to take you off flying?
Might better just let him take you for a boat ride.

Hahahahaha

The Who - Quadrophenia

Two great concept albums about underground dwellers attempting to control those who live on the surface:

Sepultura's "Dante XXI" album... without a doubt is a masterpiece. It is based on Dante's Inferno. Not quite my favorite band, but my favorite album of any genre.

Any answer not linking to a Pink Floyd album will be wholly disregarded.

The Doors "Soft Parade"