Favorite concept album? (1 Viewer)

[SteveGon]

Sure, I like The Wall and Sgt. Pepper, but Largo is probably my favorite concept album. What's yours?
If you're not familiar with Largo, go here for a few reviews.

 

[Brook K]

Tales From Topographic Oceans

 

[MartinTeller]

Heh, I ran this tournament on a music forum a few months ago. I forget what album won, though.

My favorite is The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.

 

[Jim_C]

2112

 

[Jeff_A]

Pink Floyd: Animals

 

[Jack Briggs]

Outside of The Beatles:

* Odgen's Nutgone Flake by The Small Faces (1968)

* Freak Out! by The Mothers of Invention (1966)

 

[Jack Briggs]

Heh, I ran this tournament on a music forum a few months ago. I forget what album won, though.

A commentary on the lasting value of a typical tournament?

 

[Darren H]

I'm not sure which is my favorite, but my guiltiest pleasure is Marillion's Clutching at Straws. Only Fish can get away with singing this (and so earnestly):

They boarded up the synagogues, Uzis on a street corner

You can't take a photograph of Uzis on a street corner

The DJ resigned today they wouldn't let him have his say

Surface scratched where the needles play, Uzis on a street corner

 

[Patrick McCart]

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[MichaelAW]

"Brave" by Marillion

 

[Ricky Hustle]

#1 - Sgt. Pepper

#2 - Pink Floyd - Animals

#3 - Rush - 2112

#4 - Radiohead - OK Computer

#5 - Grateful Dead - Anthem of the Sun

 

[Kristian]

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

 

[MartinTeller]

Sgt. Pepper really is only a "concept album" by the broadest of definitions....

 

[DonaldB]

• Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks
• Fork Songs - Tall Dwarfs (All the songs are about forks! Okay, just kidding, they aren't about forks.)
• A Love Supreme - John Coltrane (Supreme love...now there's a concept.)
• Nearly any album by John Zorn.

 

[george kaplan]

Leaving aside Beatles and ex-Beatles, some of my faves:

We're Only In It For the Money - Frank Zappa

Tommy - Who

The Wall - Pink Floyd

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John

Red-Headed Stranger - Willie Nelson

 

[Jack Briggs]

George: We're Only In It For the Money is still, technically, a Mothers album--which, of course, is Frank Zappa. But, then, we're geeks!

For the record, at the top of this category is the June, 1967, release by that British quartet from Liverpool (and it is a concept album--the very definition of such).

 

[SteveGon]

Um, this isn't a tournament.
Just a regular old poll!

 

[Steve Enemark]

Sgt. Pepper
Days of Future Past by the Moody Blues

 

[george kaplan]

Jack,
I started to right Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention, but just got too lazy.

 

[DanaA]

The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers

The Kinks - Arthur

Frank Zappa and the Mothers - We're Only In It For the Money

(never grows stale)

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

The Who - Quadrophenia