...but is best listened to as an 'album' and not just as singles?
I'm going with Bruce Springsteen's "Nebraska". When I listen to this album it's like looking at an old photo album full of black and white pictures. Each one tells an individual story, yet in a way, seems interrelated to the others. August and Everything After..great album... so is Scarecrow... Chris Connelly - Phenobarb Bambalam
Heavy (as in mood) listening for sure but the entire album tells quite a story. His fiancee committed suicide during its recording. All the tracks are good, yet none are really singles worthy.
Given2Fly - He's more famous for his work with Ministry and Rev Co, but this album showed an entire different side to this industrial master. His vocal style is very Bowie-esque. August and Everything After - Counting Crows
Music - Carole King
American Pie - Don McClean
Passion Play and Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull (ok ok . . . a stretch)
Scarecrow - Mellencamp
Dark Side of the Moon - P.F.
Signals - Rush
2112 - Rush
Grand Illusion - Styx
Hmm all that's coming to me ATM . . . I love that album too. "Nebraska" is a very good one. I'm going with Al Stewart's "Year of the Cat". It seems to be a concept album, but I think is not. Regards... primal scream screamadelica one album ive listened to entirely many times and live in new york by nirvana also Hello,
I think Dark Side Of The Moon, by Pink Floyd,because even though each of the songs do sound different from the others, and stand as brilliant songs separately, when you listen to the album in it's entirety it just flows, like a giant orchestral song..Like it's 'taking you on a journey', even though that may sound kind of stupid!
But yeah, sheer brilliance!! ofcourse the obvious pink floyd albums..
ROGER WATERS, radio k.a.o.s., is a great example of what
you are talking about..also his pro's and con's of hitchiking album..both tell great stories ...give them a listen to if you havent heard.. The Visitors by ABBA. It's such a goodbye album, they're all growing up and moving on, makes me cry every time!
Also: It's a Shame About Ray by the Lemonheads. This album *has* to be heard in one sitting for sheer cheer factor. Plus it's only 33 minutes long so it's not much time to take out!
Do the Fame and Grease soundtracks count??? LOL
Oh! And Out of the Blue by ELO. And Operation:Mindcrime by Queensryche. The latter *is* technically a concept album but stick on a pair of headphones and prepare to be blown away! Nirvana, "Nevermind" Use your illusion 1 and 2. Mornin Given.
Not to be all like OK Computer and stuff, but OK Computer.
Also, I think some other good ones would be Built To Spill's Perfect From Now On. That record has a really nice arc/dynamic to it.
Elliott Smith's XO is very well put together. There is a good flowing vibe to it and once again a nice arc to it. As much as the record is a bummed fest from top to bottom the song vibes energize it at the perfect points. I like a record to be a record, have a common thread (vibe, production type, kind of goal and mission statement in a way) that makes it all coherent and this one is very good about it.
Along those same lines I really enjoy the Black Sheep Boy Appendix by Okkervil River. There is an element of concept record to it, it is the appendix to a concept album, but I'm not convinced that it's not just an extended e.p. that has a state of mind to it. It's really great.
For albums as complete albums I really appreciate the ones that are built like a mix tape. It should rise and fall and create a mood intentionally. I think all of these do a good job of that. U2 - Achtung Baby. I can never just listen to the singles off of it.
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Queen - A Day at the Races
Ramones - Ramones I think A Perfect Circle's "Mer de Noms" sounds best when listened to as a whole. It wasn't a concept album, although it did seem to have a running theme with people and their name. (i.e. Judith, Magdalena, Rose, Brena, Thomas). Journey "Evolution" A Night at the Opera by Queen
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