[DC2]

What about the Electric Light Orchestra's Eldorado?
I've always liked Can't Get It Out of My Head but is the rest of the album worth picking up?

 

[DavidMahler]

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway would be my favorite of that genre, regardless of how cracked up the plot is.

 

[jinp6301]

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Originally Posted by DC2 /img/forum/go_quote.gif What about the Electric Light Orchestra's Eldorado? I've always liked Can't Get It Out of My Head but is the rest of the album worth picking up?

Yes, just yes. My favorite ELO album

 

[Ham Sandwich]

Queen's Made In Heaven has a unifying theme.

Blue Öyster Cult's Imaginos is a concept album that tells a story. Each song is a chapter in the story and the chapters are presented out of order. You have to resequence the album if you want the story told in correct chapter order.

 

[tintin47]

My favorite is The Microphones' series of three albums, It was hot, we stayed in the water, The Glow, pt. 2, and Mt. Eerie. They have some unifying themes lyrically, but sonically, they are one giant journey from beginning to end, feeding off of eachother and growing as they progress.

I have really gotten into Ziggy Stardust recently. Fantastic album.

A more recent favorite would be Drums Not Dead by Liars. Sort of out there, but a fantastic album. It is a conversation of sorts between two characters, Drum and Mt. Heart Attack.

Also, a fun album, but sort of nuts, and not all great by any means, 69 Love Songs by the Magnetic Fields is awesome, hilarious, and weird. It is, as the title suggests, a triple album of 23 songs per disc all discussing love. Haven't listened to it straight thru yet, though.

Also, pretty much every mountain goats album goes on a theme, though not always a story. Tallahassee, for example, is all songs about John Darnielle's relationship with his father in law. Doesn't sound compelling, but it is.

 

[DC2]

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Originally Posted by jinp6301 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Yes, just yes. My favorite ELO album

Thanx for the reply. Will be getting that soon.

 

[tom_3_21]

I would second War of the Worlds, a must have.

 

[SiriuslyCold]

Marillion - Misplaced Childhood

 

[Artcore87]

Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism

Truly a great album that will be recognized for decades.

 

[Stevtt]

Neil Young - Greendale

 

[Dusty Chalk]

Google "concept album".

 

[nvkid909]

future sound of london - dead cities. you could actually place yourself into the decaying urban sprawl of london when hearing this.

biosphere - substrata. on the edge of the arctic circle, like.

 

[Adab]

 

[LingLing1337]

^Adab, I can't see the picture you posted (Computer I'm on has parental control that's apparently blocking the host).

Dusty Chalk, I'm familiar with concept albums. I've created this thread to get some recommendations

 

[limpidglitch]

Tom Wait's The Black Rider.
Actually a studio version of the soundtrack to a play based on an old German folk tale, with several of the lyrics written by William S. Burroughs, and has since been made into an Opera. It just can't get better than that.