Concept Albums


Rick Wakeman - Journey to the Centre of the Earth ;)
Alice Cooper - From the Inside - about his drink addiction
And Alice Cooper's Welcome to my Nightmare

Concept about Nightmares , spiders , Vincent Price, necrophilia & stuff. Right up my street.!

A few Van der Graff Generator albums ( Still Life , The least we can do ... , Aerosol Gray etc ) have a kind of concepty thing about them. Never really figured out what is was - but it didn't matter as Hammill is such a Genius .

Diamond Dogs by Bowie was reputedly a concept about Orwells 1984. Apart of Rebel Rebel which was chucked on there - there is a kind of futuristic , dystopian picture of urban seediness about it . And it includes what are some of his best ever songs such as We are the Dead, Sweet Thing , Candidate
 
And Alice Cooper's Welcome to my Nightmare



Concept about Nightmares , spiders , Vincent Price, necrophilia & stuff. Right up my street.!



A few Van der Graff Generator albums ( Still Life , The least we can do ... , Aerosol Gray etc ) have a kind of concepty thing about them. Never really figured out what is was - but it didn't matter as Hammill is such a Genius .



Diamond Dogs by Bowie was reputedly a concept about Orwells 1984. Apart of Rebel Rebel which was chucked on there - there is a kind of futuristic , dystopian picture of urban seediness about it . And it includes what are some of his best ever songs such as We are the Dead, Sweet Thing , Candidate

The classic 3 linked tracks from side 1 of Diamond Dogs
( although it farciaclly gets some of the lyrics wrong )


 
Marbles is better in my opinion. Others I like have already been mentioned:
The Wall
3 Sides to Every Story.

Clockwork Angels by Rush is a belter as well
Marbles has some great songs on it but also a few fillers, Brave just flows superbly and is stunning when its played live in its entirity, actually just had it on last week on the Made again live album 😁, agree with Clockwork Angels as well.
 
It’s on the streaming platforms these days but it’s been renamed ‘Come Down Dawn’ and I think a few of the samples they had clearance problems with have been removed.
Aye its on amazon music now, as you say renamed.
I had the original but was a long time ago so didn't notice or realise about any missing samples, interesting.
 

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