What's Your Favourite Post 1960 'Concept' Al***?

The subject title begs the question ... what, if any, are concept albums from before 1960? Not that there aren't any, but I can't think of one. Just curious.

Fred

.....by the Small Faces

Berlin

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Originally posted by fred simon:


The subject title begs the question ... what, if any, are concept albums from before 1960? Not that there aren't any, but I can't think of one. Just curious.

Fred

Fred,


I read it as post 1960's but I maybe wrong.



Dean..

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Originally posted by tonym:

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Originally posted by Whizzkid:

Was that in the famous bowl, bon? I went to school a mile down the road and spent my teenage years annoying people playing Hip Hop loud on a big ghetto blaster in Crystal Palace park.


Dean..

Great venue, the Crystal Palace Bowl. Went to a great concert there with The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Lindisfarne, Yes, and a few others who I can't now remember.

A lovely warm day, one copper on duty (who good-naturedly accepted a barrage of tomatoes at one stage) and a strong herbal smell...

Loved Six Wives of Henry the Eighth, bought Journey to the centre of the Earth & hated it. I'll have to give it another spin sometime.

Oh, and The Wall of course...

Just a bit before my time Tony, shame you might have seen the young, really skinny, handsome Whizzkid body popping to some solid choons.



Dean...

Another favourite.

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Another favourite.

Including Demis Roussos (Bass guitar) and Vangelis (keys).

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Originally posted by BigH47:

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Another favourite.

Including Demis Roussos (Bass guitar) and Vangelis (keys).

Roussos on vocals too amongst others.

666 is a great album - it is more Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou than Artemios Ventouris Roussos though.

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Originally posted by Clive Blackman:
No doubt about this one - Quadrophenia!

Agreed.

Also this forgotten classic



Jono

I thought about this one for a while, as although I like Pink Floyd and Genesis, I do not like 'The Wall' and 'The Lamb ...', both albums where the vocalist took over the band and used the other members as backing musicians. Great if you like the focus of the vocals and narrative, but not so great if your love of those bands lies with the other musicians, not for me anyway.


David Bowie '1. Outside' (1995) For my money, his best album after 'Scary Monsters and Super Creeps'. A narrative concept album about a really nasty story about the investigation into an artist who kills a child and arranges their body as art. Great music though.

Not sure if it would quite meet your criteria but:

Jean Michel Jarre 'Equinoxe' (1978) Instrumental, but represents a day, starting at bedtime, and progressing through the next 24hours with gentle tracks for sleep, and livlier tracks for the day.

I would point out that Jethro Tull 'Aqualung' is an album the band say is not a concept album, it open with three tracks on the same subject, but the rest does not follow that narrative. Great album though. Since everyone thought the album was a concept, they decided to send up concept albums with the next one 'Thick as a Brick'.

On the subject of sending up concept albums, Gong's trilogy of concept albums 'Radio Gnome, Flying Teapot Invisible', 'Angel's Egg' and 'You' (I think) must rate pretty high, if only for fun, but also some fine playing by Steve Hillage.

I also have a soft spot for Yes 'Tales from Topographic Oceans', not a masterpiece, but an album that has lasted well, and although not a patch on the albums before and after, still a very pleasant listen.

This is quite good.

The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars.

To be played at maximum volume!!

my fav

If not the best then one of the best soul albums ever.