your favorite "concept" album

[paulxcook]

Text if you don't know what I'm talking about.

My favorite is Zao's Liberate Te Ex Inferis, which translates to "Save Yourself From Hell". It's based on a line from the movie Event Horizon (which I still have not seen, I really need to).

Anyway, the album is apparently based around this movie in some way. I really enjoy the album a lot, and I just found the CD the other day and it's strange to listen to it again after so long. I think I'll add Event Horizon to my blockbuster queue now.

edit: if you're inclined, state what the concept is behind the album.

 

[Ns1]

out of those I'd say "The Wall"

 

[Feldenak]

The Wall and Operation: Mindcrime

 

[Anubis]

Tommy - The Who
Iron Maiden's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son is also good

 

[rainman748]

NIN - The Downward Spiral

NIN - Year Zero

 

[BrianH1]

Elton John- Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy

 

[KeithTalent]

I really liked all of Coheed and Cambria's albums. It's like a four-part concept album.

KT

 

[Gibsons]

Tommy.

 

[clamum]

1. Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030

2. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium

3. Green Day - American Idiot

 

[KMFJD]

Britney Spears - Toxxxic

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: clamum
1. Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030

2. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium

3. Green Day - American Idiot

Didn't realize the first two were concept albums. Definitely love them both. Not a Green Day fan though.

KT

 

[paulxcook]

Originally posted by: clamum
1. Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030

2. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium

3. Green Day - American Idiot

Is that for sure a concept album? I knew their 2nd one (Francis the Mute?) was, but I definitely didn't realize DitC was.

 

[effowe]

Originally posted by: clamum
1. Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030

This is what I came in here to say.

 

[Kirby]

The Beatles - Love

I guess that counts.

 

[ajskydiver]

Rush - 2112

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: ajskydiver
Rush - 2112

:thumbsup:

 

[Paladin]

Originally posted by: Feldenak

Originally posted by: ajskydiver
Rush - 2112

:thumbsup:

:thumbsup:

 

[nakedfrog]

The Wall > *
Deltron is pretty good, as are many of the others mentioned, but nothing can beat The Wall.

 

[rivan]

Pink Floyd - The Wall
followed very closely by
Rush - 2112.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Dream Theater's "Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory" tops my list.

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

Dark Side of the Moon

 

[E equals MC2]

Opeth - Ghost Reveries

It's about a son killing his own mother and is mentally being tortured for it (Damn).

 

[anxi80]

stevie wonder's 'innervisions'. at first i had my doubts trying to pinpoint it to a specific theme, but the album notes on cduniverse pretty much summed it up for me:

Wonder tackles the socio-cultural landscape of 1970s America, including drugs, urban life, and crooked politicians, in addition to questions of identity, faith, and idealism.

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: paulxcook

Originally posted by: clamum
1. Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030

2. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium

3. Green Day - American Idiot

Is that for sure a concept album? I knew their 2nd one (Francis the Mute?) was, but I definitely didn't realize DitC was.

Yeah. It's the story of a guy going into a coma (from drugs I think) and the dreams, journeys, and battles he has in his mind while in the coma. He finally wakes up and decides to die. IIRC.

Linkified

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: rivan
Pink Floyd - The Wall
followed very closely by
Rush - 2112.

blah cant beleive i forgot 2112