Concept Albums

Factual Questions
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[On a side note, since this thred seems to have garnered the attention of RUSH fans,
can we please get them in the Hall of Fame
soon?]

I’ve got question for you guys… do you consider Jethro Tull’s “A Passion Play” a concept album or even an album at all being that it’s only one 45 minute long song (or,
as some would argue, two twenty minute long
songs broken up by five minutes of spoken
word silliness)?

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I’m not familiar with “Passion Play”, but “Thick as a Brick” is done the same way. I don’t know if you can call it a concept album since it is just one song. Would it be okay to define a concept album as having several songs all relating to one theme or tell a story?

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