Was listening to Cloud Cult’s Light Chasers - https://songwhip.com/cloudcult/light-chasers - and thinking about my own album Hello World - https://songwhip.com/fairy-eyelashes/hello-world - and got to thinking…
What are your favorite concept albums?
[Question of the Week] What is your favorite concept album?
27 Comments
AcornCarnage@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
That last one is maybe not intended as a concept album, but it has such a consistent sound, feel, and narrative that it's hard not to consider it one.
kvn@midwest.social · 3 pts · 3y
Ooo good question. Here's a few that came to mind.
Pink Floyd - The Wall
The Decemberists - Hazards of Love
Andy Shauf - Neon Skyline
The Dear Hunter - Act I through Act V (5 albums)
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
Deltron 3030
Mr_Blott@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Amazing how many people have never listened to The Wall. It's the only album from my childhood that's still 100% listenable and fresh sounding
Absolute ground-breaker at the time
ren@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
The Wall has held up so very well. Alarmingly relevant too.
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 3y
I don’t know if “show and tell” was a thing at your school but somehow I had a copy of Another Brick in the Wall vinyl single and played it for the class. I must have been in grade 5 or 6. What a fuckin legend I am haha.
ren@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Love Hazards Of Love (and The Wall of course)!!
Kill_joy@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
The Protomen - Act I-II
Vendetta Red - Sisters of the Red Death
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 3y
Tallahassee and Beat The Champ by the Mountain Goats. The Suburbs and Neon Bible by Arcade Fire. Deltron 3030 by Del the Funkee Homosapien and Dan the Automator. Edit: how could I forget In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel
ren@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Not sure if it counts, but In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel I think is sometimes considered a bit of a concept album. Not so much with storytelling, but I think it was all connected to dreams Mangum had.
Also, a band I randomly saw at a Calgary music festival, Hard Drugs, their self-titled album was an epic story driven concept album that I highly recommend https://songwhip.com/harddrugs
Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 3y
Aeroplane Over the Sea was inspired by reading The Diary of Anne Frank.
I think it's a great album.
ren@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
yeah, and I think his fevered dreams while reading it. Really great album, almost an indie rite of passage at this point lol
mounderfod@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 3y
Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino by Arctic Monkeys
Bass lines go hard and the lyrics are honestly genius from Alex Turner - the concept is about a washed up musician in a retrofuturistic setting
Floey@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Thunder Perfect Mind or Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head.
vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3y
DAMN. by Kendrick Lamar.
One of the best lyrical journeys put to wax. I still revisit it pretty frequently and find new layers every time.
cordillera@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Not sure if Antic Clay's Hilarious Death Blues is a concept album but man it's the darkest double album I've ever listened to, to the point that I would not recommend listening to it while depressed or going through some serious shit. It's a journey through an apocalyptic Americana and its very convincing in its beautiful hopelessness. It's Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian made into sonic flesh.
Bandcamp: https://stickfigurerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/hilarious-death-blues-double-album
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 3y
Leviathan by Mastodon.
Also, the full cover album art by Paul Romano is exquisite
HubertManne@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
thick as a brick
ren@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
love seeing some prog folks up in here.
HubertManne@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
You know I thought my music tastes was really broad as I like progressive rock, new wave, alternative, etc. Then I sorta realized they were all sort the same off center sometimes touching mainstream stuff over time.
ren@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
yeah, same. I love pretty much most genres, but it's always just outside the mainstream. From rock, pop, prog, country, R&B, and soul, just on the peripheral.
HubertManne@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
Oh I definately have genres im not wild about in general. Like rap, country, and pop. Still there are some stuff that comes out of it that I like or songs that incorporate elements of it in a way I like.
johnthebeboptist@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo The Residents - Commercial Album or Animal Lover or Mark of the Mole or God in Three Persons
LeafyPasserine@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
Divers by Joanna Newsom. I love the cyclical arrangement of her songs with the last line of her last song looping back to the first line of her first song. I think it really illustrates what she's trying to say about the nature of love and time.
james@kcmo.social · 1 pts · 3y
@ren dira minus the Bear’s album count? The one where half the track names are from starship troopers?
I should listen to damn bugs whacked him Johnny.
ren@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
I don't know! But sounds amazing!