bruce wrote:

AArdvark wrote:.The Beatles White album. Very good stuff BUT it seems like a hodge-podge of singles just thrown helter-skelter on four sides of vinyl.

Well played.

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AArdvark wrote:.The Beatles White album. Very good stuff BUT it seems like a hodge-podge of singles just thrown helter-skelter on four sides of vinyl.

Well played.

THE GATES OF DE-LIIEEEERRRRIUM by Yes

Alice in Chains - Dirt.

It basically tells the story of a downward spiral into drugs. It ends with "Would?", which is about Andrew Wood's death from heroin. Sadly, Layne Stayley would eventually follow in his footsteps. Hearing any individual song from this album just makes me want to listen to the album in its entirety.

Fear Factory - Obsolete.

I know it's not what most of you listen to, but Fear Factory's Obsolete is a concept album that tells the story of a future where robots battle humans. Yeah, it sounds a lot like The Terminator to me, too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsolete_(album)

Let me just throw out a few others: Queensryche's Operation: Mindcrime, NIN's Year Zero, and Iron Maiden's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son.

I hate to add to this at such a late date but 'Watermark by Enya should also be here. I have the Box of Dreams CD set and, although it has most of the songs from Watermark, is not as intense. I guess it all boils down to the cumulative effect. Look at an album like...The Beatles White album. Very good stuff BUT it seems like a hodge-podge of singles just thrown helter-skelter on four sides of vinyl. Then listen to Sgt. Pepper and you can hear the difference.

Anyway, i just thought, you know, I should expand on this a little while I look for the bass guitar thread.


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Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade

I am probably going to regret posting this, because they have the worst name of any band I have ever encountered in my entire life, but this also applies to The Everglow by the band "Mae." It, too, is sort of a concept album. Jesus Christ, I have actually been wrestling with whether I should hit the "submit" button or not for the last ten minutes. ... What the fuck, we're all young and name changes are just a $25 filing fee.

Hmmm, Less than I thought. Of course my music taste is in a very narrow band, due to my rejection of most music after 1988 or so. But that's me, so if there are any albums I don't cover, feel free to throw them in here.

1] The Wall

The thing about pink Floyd is that they always seem to produce concept albums. Maybe it's the way most of the songs just kind of flow into one another. The Wall is basically Roger Waters spiraling down into his pit of depression and he wants to take us all with him, one album side at a time.

2] Bat Out Of Hell

Shuffle mode on this album will make your brain do the equivalent of shifting into reverse while going forward at eighty miles an hour. Not that there's a logical progression to the songs it's just that they all seem to fit better. Maybe it's just long years of listening to them this way.

3] Stop Making Sense

This one is easy, mainly because it's a live recording.
The show opens with Dave Byrne and a boom box. Then each song adds one more member of the band. A neat concept. Talking heads. It didn't get any better than that.

4] Tommy

Like 'The Wall' it tells a story and skipping tracks will not produce the proper effect.


5] Waiting For the Sun

Most of the Doors' stuff seemed to the non-Sequitur style of track listing. this album, however, whether intentional or not,* was tracked in a way to give more than the sum of the whole. It makes you see things just a little differently after you listen to it, and that's without any drugs.

(*Paul Rothchild, the producer, was as big a stoner as the band.)


There are no doubt more I could add, but I will open the floor to comments at this point.


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