Discussion: Favorite Concept Albums

dussymob

What are some of your favorite concept albums and why? Do you think they will have a lasting affect or have they already(10+)?

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A concept album is a studio album where all musical or lyrical ideas contribute to a single overall theme or unified story. In contrast, typical studio albums consist of a number of unconnected songs (lyrically and otherwise) performed by the artist. It has been argued that concept albums should refer only to albums that bring in themes or story lines from outside of music, given that a collection of love songs or songs from within a certain genre are not usually considered to be a "concept album."

I like:

Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
Dark Side of The Moon - Pink Floyd
American Idiot - Green Day
Souled Out - Jhene Aiko
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips
To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
Random Access Memories - Daft Punk
Ultraviolence - Lana Del Rey
Honeymoon - Lana Del Rey
(What's The Story) Morning Glory - Oasis

I'll edit in my reasons later, I'm on mobile. I'm hoping this can be an educated discussion without no silly Stan wars involved. I want to see the intelligent side of ATRL emerge because from what I've seen, there's many great people here that just get caught up in the silliness so let's discover great albums together.

Outlaws

Thread posted like every week.

odin_envy_me

Taylor Swift's 1989, where all musical or lyrical ideas contribute to the single overall theme of winning Album of The Year.

Clueless

how is Ultraviolence a concept album i always see it being described as one..

Dessy Fenix

I only know of TPAB and Beyonce Visual Album.

geddymonster

Britney Jean.

Azealia Banks

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Originally posted by Charting Neptune

how is Ultraviolence a concept album i always see it being described as one..

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A concept album is a studio album where all musical or lyrical ideas contribute to a single overall theme or unified story.[1] In contrast, typical studio albums consist of a number of unconnected songs (lyrically and otherwise) performed by the artist

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Nutitle

The Fame Monster

Clueless

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Originally posted by Azealia Banks

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yes.. but what's the theme it follows?

willmcclure9

How are Souled Out & Honeymoon concept albums?

Theus

Kiss by Carly

She meets a boy, kisses him and gives him her phone number even though she already has a boyfriend, however, she is poorly treated by him. She remembers the good times she had with him and wonders if the moments she had with him will be more than a memory. Her boyfriend brokes up with her and then she finds the guy she meet at the start of the history and finally a get's over her ex-boyfriend. He asks if she wants to marry him and she gives to her a weeding ring that it's made of a piece of guitar string. Carly travels back to her city, however something terrible happened to fiance, she asks for him to try a little longer for her and wishes she could go back to him and light up his eyes to life.

WeFoundTrouble

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Originally posted by odin_envy_me

Taylor Swift's 1989, where all musical or lyrical ideas contribute to the single overall theme of winning Album of The Year.

Revolution

From the OP, I love Pet Sounds, Dark Side of the Moon, To Pimp a Butterfly, Random Access Memories.

I also love Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Magical Mystery Tour, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, Animals, The Wall.

Travis Bickle

Erotica, I'm Breathless

StonedSoulPicnic

Hounds of Love, Rhythm Nation 1814, My Tennessee Mountain Home, Pet Sounds, The Wall, Erotica, etc.

dussymob

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Originally posted by Charting Neptune

yes.. but what's the theme it follows?

Ultraviolence is a concept album of sorts — a collection of faded, yellowed postcards (mostly) from the City of Angels that introduce us to a cast of desperate women. There are femme fatales and game dames, victims and predators, and even an aging socialite reflecting on her life. What brings them together, and makes the album cohesive and compulsively listenable, is the fact that they’re all on the road to oblivion. Some know it, some don’t. But the impending sense of doom pervades each and every song.

http://www.idolator.com/7523017/lana...e-album-review

Jack!

Literally every K-pop album released in the past like... 5 or so years. And I'm not even kidding. Even the ones I dislike musically. If there's one thing I've discovered getting into K-pop in the past couple of years, everything they do is conceptual, and it makes me realise how nothing Western pop is doing, is that.

WeFoundTrouble

I still don't get the difference between a concept album and a normal album with a central theme, though. You guys mix them up a lot and it confuses me. Like, UV isn't really a concept album it just has central themes, which all albums should have anyway..

FantasyRide

All of Janet's
The Evolution

KingKunta

Rhythm Nation 1814
What's Going On
To Pimp A Butterfly

Don't know if Songs In The Key of Life counts as one but that too.