I never really liked that album or at least the songs all that much, until listening to it start to finish. Yeah it's a concept album and it's a cohesive album where one song leads into the next.
Favorite Whole Album
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Here's another, a great John Prine album, "For Better, Or Worse".
Yeah, I forgot Love, Forever Changes. Steely Dan, Royal Scam. Dylan, Blonde on Blonde.
I was always an album guy and never understood 45's. My wife, only bought 45's and collection albums. Married her anyway (her original Beatles, Beach Boys and Elvis 45's are worth a lot more than my albums!).
Bob Seger Unplugged
U2 Rattle and Hum
AC/DC Highway to Hell
Guns and Roses Apetite for Destruction
Could go on for ever with great ones!
U2 Rattle and Hum
AC/DC Highway to Hell
Guns and Roses Apetite for Destruction
Could go on for ever with great ones!
I absolutely forgot to list Doolittle! That is such a rad album.
Joe's Garage and Thing Fish by Frank Zappa. Many of his albums are meant to be taken as a whole. Conceptual continuity and all that.
"Concept" albums aren't all that rare. Here's a partial list from Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org
List of concept albums - Wikipedia
Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On?
Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman - John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
Frog - Count Bateman
Paul McCartney - McCartney
Frank Ocean - Blonde
Elliott Smith - Either/Or
Ween - The Mollusk
Sam Cooke - Sam Cooke at the Copa (Live)
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
Moby - Play
Tame Impala - Currents
Lots and lots more but these come to mind.
Also Red Headed Stranger is a great one that I would include as well. Good choices here fellas.
Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman - John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
Frog - Count Bateman
Paul McCartney - McCartney
Frank Ocean - Blonde
Elliott Smith - Either/Or
Ween - The Mollusk
Sam Cooke - Sam Cooke at the Copa (Live)
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
Moby - Play
Tame Impala - Currents
Lots and lots more but these come to mind.
Also Red Headed Stranger is a great one that I would include as well. Good choices here fellas.
One of the best new rock bands I've found and been given the nod by the great Robert Plant
No particular order, off the top. I always listen to the whole album.
Dire Straits Love Over Gold
Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick
Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet
Return to Forever Romantic Warrior
Yes Yes Album
King Crimson Larks Tongues in Aspic
Mahavishnu Orchestra Inner Mounting Flame
Genesis Selling England by the Pound and Duke
Karnivool Sound Awake
Rush 2112
Opeth Sorcoress
Led Zeppelin Houses and Physical Graffiti
Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing
So many more
Dire Straits Love Over Gold
Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick
Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet
Return to Forever Romantic Warrior
Yes Yes Album
King Crimson Larks Tongues in Aspic
Mahavishnu Orchestra Inner Mounting Flame
Genesis Selling England by the Pound and Duke
Karnivool Sound Awake
Rush 2112
Opeth Sorcoress
Led Zeppelin Houses and Physical Graffiti
Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing
So many more
I can count on one hand how many people I know that listen to Clutch. Awesome band, great live.
Pretty much the same for me, outside of a few friends, don't know many that have heard of them. They are missing out, so many good songs/albums.
I had a talk about this with my teenage kids recently. There are many more, but here are a few:
Black Sabbath Paranoid
Black Sabbath Sabatoge
Rancid And Out Come the Wolves
Metallica Ride the Lightning
Led Zepplin IV
The Doors LA Woman
Black Sabbath Paranoid
Black Sabbath Sabatoge
Rancid And Out Come the Wolves
Metallica Ride the Lightning
Led Zepplin IV
The Doors LA Woman
Just a few of plenty:
Lynyrd Skynyrd-pronounced
Flogging Molly-Live at the Greek Theater
The Rumjacks-Gangs of New Holland
Pink Floyd-Animals
AA-The Joe and Charlie Tapes
Lynyrd Skynyrd-pronounced
Flogging Molly-Live at the Greek Theater
The Rumjacks-Gangs of New Holland
Pink Floyd-Animals
AA-The Joe and Charlie Tapes
Lots of great mentions so far. Will chuck something different out
Sigur Ros “Takk…”
Sigur Ros “Takk…”
Solti's benchmark recording of The Ring Cycle which numbered 19 LPs when released in 1968 as an entire set, after nearly 10 years from the inception of the project. Wagner's Ring Cycle is 4 operas, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung, that tell the story of the struggles of the Gods (and others) to gain control over a magic ring that grants dominion over the world. Wagner intended for it to be watched in series. You need to bring food and water if you want to sit through the whole thing. And if you're wondering, Wagner lived in the 19th century, Tolkien in the 20th.
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