Which (out of these) is the best Concept Album? [Archive]

kaoskid

07/21/09, 02:37 AM

GREEN DAY - AMERICAN IDIOT
Notable Songs:
Jesus of Suburbia
Homecoming
St. Jimmy
Holiday

GREEN DAY - 21ST CENTURY BREAKDOWN
Notable Songs:
21st Century Breakdown
Christian's Inferno
American Eulogy
¡Viva La Gloria!

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE - THE BLACK PARADE
Notable Songs:
Welcome To The Black Parade
Disenchanted
The End/Dead
Cancer

FORGIVE DURDEN - RAZIA'S SHADOW: A MUSICAL
Notable Songs:
The End And The Beginning
The Spider and The Lamps
Doctor, Doctor
The Exit

NINE INCH NAILS - YEAR ZERO
Notable Songs:
The Beginning Of The End
The Great Destroyer
God Given
Vessel

("Notable" here means: songs important or necessary to the narrative of the album)

Piss

07/21/09, 03:05 AM

gatsbys american dream - volcano

thehereaway

07/21/09, 05:13 AM

The Dear Hunter

MADSTA

07/21/09, 05:49 AM

If the question contains the words "out of these" there should be no other option.

thehereaway

07/21/09, 06:20 AM

If the question contains the words "out of these" there should be no other option.

I thought this also

Theseventhson

07/21/09, 07:22 AM

As the Roots Undo.

Loge182

07/21/09, 08:56 AM

Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness.

jtresk26

07/21/09, 09:18 AM

The Who's Quadrophenia and Tommy.

jordalsh

07/21/09, 09:27 AM

The Mother, The Mechanic, and The Path

briewer

07/21/09, 10:07 AM

Fiery Furnaces- Blueberry Boat
Any of Explosions in the Sky's albums.

Brokenhill

07/21/09, 10:47 AM

Pertaining to more modern releases: The Receiving End of Sirens - 'Between the Heart and the Synapse' / 'The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi'

Neo Cassady

07/21/09, 10:57 AM

The Wall

briewer

07/21/09, 11:27 AM

More than a third of us have chosen 'none/other'. Poll FAIL.

Feenucks

07/21/09, 12:28 PM

Anything in Coheed and Cambria's discography.

jay_klinkhammer

07/21/09, 01:02 PM

More than a third of us have chosen 'none/other'. Poll FAIL.

That would make that third a failure...because they apparently cannot read.

Zippedychick

07/21/09, 01:17 PM

Razia's Shadow was my AOTY for 2008.

Brokenhill

07/21/09, 01:50 PM

The Wall

> Everything

tonyC4L

07/21/09, 02:47 PM

Anything by Coheed is better than all of these albums.

gabrielM

07/21/09, 02:48 PM

wow. im shocked that Trainwreck by Boys Night Out isnt here. or What To Do When You're Dead by Armor For Sleep. those are probly my 2 favorite concept albums ever. on this list tho, i would definitely go with 1 of my favorite albums ever, Razia's Shadow by Forgive Durden. that shit is just amazing. but so are these.

VIVALAMATT

07/21/09, 03:16 PM

The Killers "Sams Town" is one of my favs.

Of these, I'd rank it Black Parade, Year Zero, then R.S.

VIVALAMATT

07/21/09, 03:16 PM

Anything by Coheed is better than all of these albums.

Good point. They're a straight up concept band! lol

TheZeroKid

07/21/09, 03:48 PM

The Dear Hunter

This, and Coheed And Cambria.

kaoskid

07/21/09, 03:52 PM

Am I the only one on this site that fucking detests C&C?

I would've added The Dear Hunter, but all three albums are part of one gigantic story. So choosing one would be hard.

red8ge

07/21/09, 04:04 PM

Raiza's Shadow.

showyourteeth

07/21/09, 05:16 PM

Trophy Scars - Bad Luck (kind of a concept album)

or

The Never - Antarctica
not only is the music nice, but it comes with a storybook that you read along with it

unwritten_law9

07/21/09, 05:21 PM

Mae - The Everglow

SeanEBoy2686

07/21/09, 09:26 PM

Razia's Shadow is the best on that list... I also like American Idiot.

phil19

07/21/09, 09:57 PM

other. all of coheeds albums

AussieBoy

07/21/09, 10:25 PM

Black Parade, as uncool as it is too like this cd, i still really siked on Famous Last words, disenchanted, dont love u,Cancer and dead!, amonst the rest of it even after, what? 2-3yrs

MattRM

07/22/09, 11:59 AM

The Black Parade - no contest out of those, IMO. I like Forgive Durden a lot, but Razia was pretty iffy.

xxmannequin

07/22/09, 01:04 PM

I voted Razia's Shadow because I don't like choosing "other", but Everything in Transit will always be my favorite concept album.

Iwudstilldie4u

07/22/09, 02:24 PM

Armor for Sleep - What To Do When You Are Dead is perhaps my favorite album ever.

fadedmemories

07/22/09, 06:11 PM

Say Anything - Is A Real Boy
Boys Night Out - Trainwreck

Say Nothing

07/22/09, 06:20 PM

Okay you shouldn't have put the "other" option...Obviously everyone would pick that option because it enables thousands of other great albums. But mine has to go to Dark Side of the Moon

Indoor Living

07/22/09, 06:20 PM

I voted Razia's Shadow because I don't like choosing "other", but Everything in Transit will always be my favorite concept album.
Agreed. EIT is one of my top 3 albums of all time.

Radiology

07/23/09, 09:45 AM

there are SO MANY better options not listed that are so obvious that I can't even list them all. way to go poll.

Undue Noise

07/23/09, 10:01 AM

"Out of these," Year Zero. See avatar.

BulleTheory

07/23/09, 10:28 AM

Trainwreck - Boys Night Out

tossit

07/23/09, 12:58 PM

razia's shadow!

VIVALAMATT

07/23/09, 03:54 PM

All Heroes - Chronos.

www.allheroesmusic.com

Ari Christos

07/25/09, 10:10 AM

Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness.
Mellon Collie*

Fiery Furnaces- Blueberry Boat
Any of Explosions in the Sky's albums.

I almost bought an EITS album the other day, but don't really know where to start with them. Recommend an album I should get first?

PunkRocks

07/25/09, 10:31 AM

Yellowcard - Lights & Sounds

(jk)

briewer

07/25/09, 11:35 AM

I almost bought an EITS album the other day, but don't really know where to start with them. Recommend an album I should get first?
Eh, they're all kind of equally inaccessible. I'd say start at their most recent, All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone, and work your way backwards from there. If you end up liking them, I'd also suggest you check out Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

Ari Christos

07/25/09, 11:38 AM

Eh, they're all kind of equally inaccessible. I'd say start at their most recent, All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone, and work your way backwards from there. If you end up liking them, I'd also suggest you check out Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

Thanks man, I'll check it out.

Loge182

07/25/09, 11:56 AM

Mellon Collie*

My bad, I must have rushed my post or else I would have caught that.

Ari Christos

07/25/09, 11:57 AM

My bad, I must have rushed my post or else I would have caught that.

No worries, mate.

Machu505

07/25/09, 11:58 AM

Cursive - Domestica, The Ugly Organ, and Happy Hollow.

threepunchjim

07/26/09, 08:12 PM

Call me crazy, but I see House of Heroes' The End Is Not The End as a concept album, and my favorite one at that.

redfalcon431

07/26/09, 10:03 PM

Alchemy Index ftw

redfalcon431

07/26/09, 10:04 PM

Call me crazy, but I see House of Heroes' The End Is Not The End as a concept album, and my favorite one at that.
I love that album so much I can see how that could be considered a concept album

Bloodsucker II

07/26/09, 10:18 PM

Son Of The Morning

muchoawesomeo

07/27/09, 12:19 AM

The Mother, The Mechanic, and The Path
:nod:
and coheed.

threepunchjim

07/27/09, 05:47 PM

[quote=redfalcon431;49518702]I love that album so much I can see how that could be considered a concept album[/

word. haha thanks for not leaving me stranded out there.

smorgy

07/27/09, 05:57 PM

cursive's the ugly organ

Charles777

07/27/09, 06:22 PM

Razia's is awesome.

mike'smannequin

07/27/09, 07:52 PM

The Mother, The Mechanic, and The Path
this

futilespider

07/27/09, 07:56 PM

Forgive Durden's Razia's Shadow is the only concept album I've ever heard that sticks to one single story the entire time. It is also, in my opinion, one of the greatest full albums ever made. so i went with that.