OT: Favorite Concept Albums - Any Genre

[UHF]

Band = Queensrÿche.
Concept Album = Operation Mindcrime.
Genre = Progressive Metal.
Released = May 3, 1988.

 

[UHF]

Band = Yes.
Concept Album = Tales From Topographic Oceans.
Genre = Progressive Rock.
Released = December 7, 1973.

 

[Sonny44]

 

[bantamlaker]

The album Days of Future Passed by the Moody Blues from 1967

 

[Aluminny69]

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Greatest concept album ever! ( I know, low hanging fruit) This album was mesmerizing when it came out.

 

[Hoops66]

This is my favorite "Family" Bluegrass album....

 

[nwhoopfan]

This is my favorite "Family" Bluegrass album....

Good stuff. I was gonna see them at a bluegrass festival one year, but the dad got sick and they had to pull out. Never got to see them live.

 

[OviedoFLHusky]

 

[Kaizen]

 

[Kaizen]

 

[8893]

I mean, it’s gotta be this, no?

 

[SVCBeercats]

 

[SVCBeercats]

Nat King Cole's "Wild Is Love" album

 

[SVCBeercats]

Hotel California - Eagles album

 

[SVCBeercats]

 

[SVCBeercats]

 

[cullaville]

 

[cullaville]

 

[cullaville]

 

[darrell]

 

[64Zcode]

The Warning - 3 sisters, teenagers when they composed this.
All lyrics, music composition, and instruments played by The Warning
Genre: Rock/Hard Rock/Punk/Cheerleader Punk
Recorded & released independently in 2018
Story: a woman's journey from love-infatuation-obsession-madness-murder.

 

[Aluminny69]

The Who Tmmy Rock Opera 1969

from Wiki:
On 9 December 1972, entrepreneur Lou Reizner presented a concert version of Tommy at the Rainbow Theatre, London. There were two performances that took place on the same evening. The concerts featured the Who, plus a guest cast, backed by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Measham.[107] The concerts were held to promote the release of Reizner's new studio recording of this symphonic version of Tommy.[108]

The album and concerts featured an all-star cast, including Graham Bell (as The Lover), Maggie Bell (as The Mother), Sandy Denny (as The Nurse), Steve Winwood (as The Father), Rod Stewart (as The Local Lad), Richie Havens (as The Hawker), Merry Clayton (as The Acid Queen) and Ringo Starr (as Uncle Ernie). Townshend played some guitar, but otherwise the music was predominantly orchestral.[109] Richard Harris played the role of the specialist on the record, but he was replaced by Peter Sellers for the stage production.

 

[Aluminny69]

September of My Years is a 1965 studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released on Reprise Records in August 1965. September of My Years is a concept album exploring the "who am I" questions and perspectives that someone, particularly a man, faces upon entering middle age. For instance, in "It Was a Very Good Year", the narrator looks back upon his life at ages 17, 21, 35, and now, in his personal "September."

Another album from my UConn years. The older I get, the more melancholic and reflective this album becomes. So many great songs on this album, you can skip around to your favorites.

1. "The September of My Years" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn) – 3:12
2. "How Old Am I?" (Gordon Jenkins) – 3:30
3. "Don't Wait Too Long" (Sunny Skylar) – 3:04
4. "It Gets Lonely Early" (Van Heusen, Cahn) – 2:57
5. "This Is All I Ask" (Jenkins) – 3:03
6. "Last Night When We Were Young" (Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg) – 3:33
7. "The Man in the Looking Glass" (Bart Howard) – 3:25
8. "It Was a Very Good Year" (Ervin Drake) – 4:25
9. "When the Wind Was Green" (Don Hunt, Henry Stinson)[1] – 3:22
10. "Hello, Young Lovers" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 3:41
11. "I See It Now" (Alec Wilder, William Engvick) – 2:50
12. "Once Upon a Time" (Charles Strouse, Lee Adams) – 3:30
13. "September Song" (Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson) – 3:30

 

[Conndog]

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Greatest concept album ever! ( I know, low hanging fruit) This album was mesmerizing when it came out.

Not really a concept album in my opinion, songs aren’t connected really- most could occur on any album

 

[Conndog]

Kinks have some good concept albums-
1) The Village Green Preservation Society, and
2) Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)