# I admit it - I LOVE concept albums! What are your favorites? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 25, 2009, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-i-love-concept-albums-what-are-your-favorites/522525 "2009-12-25T05:38:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-i-love-concept-albums-what-are-your-favorites/522525/21 "2009-12-25T18:03:01Z")
“Blows Against the Empire” - Paul Kantner & Jefferson Starship (original edition of the spinoff band) ---
**Author:** ![Clawdio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d07c76/32.png) [@Clawdio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clawdio)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-i-love-concept-albums-what-are-your-favorites/522525/22 "2009-12-25T18:08:34Z")
I love concept albums. Favorite would the Amory Wars Saga by Coheed and Cambria which currently spans 4 albums (soon to be 5 with the forthcoming prequel). ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-i-love-concept-albums-what-are-your-favorites/522525/23 "2009-12-25T18:20:42Z")
Thirding _War of the Worlds._ Although it is very strange to hear the songs on satellite radio _without_ the narration. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-i-love-concept-albums-what-are-your-favorites/522525/24 "2009-12-25T18:26:48Z")
Lots of my favourites have been listed, but no harm in repetition: Moody Blues, _Days of Future Passed_ Pink Floyd, _The Wall_ Klaatu, _Hope_ Genesis, _The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway_ Jeff Wayne, _Musical Version of the War of the Worlds_ The Who, _Tommy_ David Bowie, _The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars_ ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-i-love-concept-albums-what-are-your-favorites/522525/25 "2009-12-25T19:00:44Z")
Hounds of Love - Kate Bush Thick as a Brick & A Passion Play - **Jethro Tull** …Are the Village Green Preservation Society - **The Kinks** Trans-European Express - **Kraftwerk** Strange Little Girls - **Tori Amos** WAT, Volk, Jesus Christ Superstar - **Laibach** The Downward Spiral - **NIN** The Gospel According to the Meninblack - **The Stranglers** ---
**Author:** ![luvtinayothers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@luvtinayothers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luvtinayothers)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-i-love-concept-albums-what-are-your-favorites/522525/26 "2009-12-25T19:11:00Z")
How about the Flaming Lips’ : > **[Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshimi_Battles_the_Pink_Robots)** > > Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is the tenth studio album by American rock band the Flaming Lips, released on July 16, 2002, by Warner Bros. Records. The album saw the band pursue a more electronic direction than previous efforts, incorporating acoustic guitars and rhythms influenced by hip hop and top 40 music. The album was well-received critically and commercially, helping the band break into popularity, and was adapted into a musical in 2012. In 2022, the band announced a 20th anniversary ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-i-love-concept-albums-what-are-your-favorites/522525/27 "2009-12-25T19:23:26Z")
_Journey to the Center of the Earth_ by Rick Wakeman. A lot of people hated _Kilroy Was Here_ by Styx, but I kind of liked it. > [@The\_Tooth](#): > > Roger Waters - The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking. It’s Eric Clapton’s best work, in my opinion. I don’t know about Clapton, but that’s Roger Waters’ _worst_ work in mine. I also didn’t like _Amused to Death_ very much, but I do kind of like _Radio KAOS_. I reeeeealy like [Olias of Sunhillow](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olias_of_Sunhillow) by Jon Anderson. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-i-love-concept-albums-what-are-your-favorites/522525/28 "2009-12-25T19:39:07Z")
Let’s not forget **Sgt. Pepper** , which still gives me chills when I listen to it. I love **Olias of Sunhillow** too, **squeels**. **Thick as a Brick** is still a favorite. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-i-love-concept-albums-what-are-your-favorites/522525/29 "2009-12-25T19:41:22Z")
**Dark Side** by Pink Floyd **Downward Spiral** and **Year Zero** by NIN ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-i-love-concept-albums-what-are-your-favorites/522525/30 "2009-12-25T21:22:54Z")
Joni Mitchell’s first album, **Song to a Seagull** – city songs on one side, sea songs on the other. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-i-love-concept-albums-what-are-your-favorites/522525/31 "2009-12-25T21:48:37Z")
\*Operation:Mindcrime \*by Queensryche. LOVE it. ---
**Author:** ![Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ian_D.Bergkamp)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2009, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-i-love-concept-albums-what-are-your-favorites/522525/32 "2009-12-26T00:17:11Z")
[Misplaced Childhood](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misplaced_Childhood) by Marillion still holds up very well after all these years. For a more recent one, I second the Decemberists’ [Hazards of Love](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazards_of_love). I’ve been a big fan of the Decemberists for a while and think it’s their best album. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2009, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-i-love-concept-albums-what-are-your-favorites/522525/33 "2009-12-26T00:18:44Z")
Bruce Springsteen’s\* Nebraska\*. Sheer brilliance. Completely unlike anything he’d done to that point. Stark, bare and poignant. Listen to “State Trooper” and then “Open All Night” and see how they are basically the same song, but under different circumstances, reflecting the shifting mood of the album. Additionally, of all the father-issue themed songs of his career, and there’s been many, _My Father’s House_ is by far the most hauntingly powerful. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2009, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-i-love-concept-albums-what-are-your-favorites/522525/34 "2009-12-26T01:09:07Z")
Alan Parsons Project, **I Robot** Michelle Shocked, **Arkansas Traveler** (Not a “pure” concept album–not sure what “I’ve Come A Long Way” did to support the theme of minstrelsy and southern music–but it’s one of my favorite albums ever) Al Stewart, **Past Present Future** (theme of “European History”; you can pretty much skip Side One, though) ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon2.0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sealemon2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon2.0)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2009, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-i-love-concept-albums-what-are-your-favorites/522525/35 "2009-12-26T07:36:21Z")
2112 and Hemispheres by Rush. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles. Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd. American Idiot by Green Day ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2009, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-i-love-concept-albums-what-are-your-favorites/522525/36 "2009-12-26T18:21:27Z")
Jesus Christ Superstar and Tommy. Played the LPs until the grooves wore off, I did. (obligatory story about buying the album Tommy - I was working at a movie theater and on my break, put on my coat and walked across a busy dark road, in the snow, risking my life, to the K-Mart, and bought it. I had only read a brief description in a magazine, didn’t know a thing about it, I only knew I MUST have it as soon as humanly possible.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-i-love-concept-albums-what-are-your-favorites/522525.md?page=1)