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	Concept album Summary
		Concept albums can be seen to embody two similar but separate camps: the epic, grandiose albums conceived by progressive rock groups, and the more subtle conceptually-based albums created by singer-songwriters who tended to veer away from what was considered to be the mainstream.
		While the concept album in all these genres may have served to raise the level of the respective art forms, the concept album in the cultural consciousness of the late twentieth century exists mainly as a symbol of excess and pseudo-intellectualism in popular music, forever branded by its association with progressive rock.
		Concept albums are especially common in the progressive rock genre of the 1970s, although rarely did that equal a lasting commercial or critical legacy for the band or artist involved.
	www.bookrags.com /Concept_album (4190 words)

	Concept album - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The unifying nature of the album (such as it was) came primarily from the musical atmosphere, the subject matter of the lyrics, and the psychedelic cover art; the Stones themselves never identified the album as a concept album.
		Concept albums are especially common in the progressive rock genre of the 1970s, although rarely did that equal a lasting commercial or critical legacy for the band or artist involved.
		This concept album was a sequel to their original song from their 1992 album Images and Words, about a present day man's nightmares of his death in his previous life in 1928.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Concept_album (3062 words)

	The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: And an "Idiot" shall lead them: Concept album is back
		Then the notion fell from popularity for many years, overtaken by image-brokering videos that, in many cases, were simply variations of the same play-acting concept that albums put into motion.
		After a long dry spell, there are as many concept albums hovering in the pop culture ether as beach balls at an outdoor festival.
		But "Idiot," with its lengthy suites of songs and hard-to-follow (perhaps nonexistent) narrative, was certainly the first in years to follow the blueprint established in the late '60s via seminal works from the Who and the Kinks.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/artsentertainment/2003468268_albums10.html (790 words)

	List of concept albums - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		themed - when all songs on the album have a similar concept;
		narrative - when a coherent story is told throughout the album.
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_concept_albums (101 words)

	Best Concept Album? - ateaseweb.com \| radiohead message board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		I'm never really sure what classifies as a "concept album" When I first heard the term I assumed it meant an album with a coherent theme, or message in which the order or the songs and everything is just as important as the individual songs.
		A concept album is different from a "rock opera." The new Streets album counts as a rock (or, uh, "UK garage") opera.
		By this measure Kid A and Amnesiac and HTTT are not concept albums, because their messages are too varied, and The Bends isn't, because since most albums deal w/ relationships and personal feelings, it has been arbitrarily decided that such topics extended over a cycle of songs still do not a concept album make.
	www.ateaseweb.com /mb/index.php?showtopic=22102 (1008 words)

	Concept Albums - Topic Powered by eve community
		The idea of a Concept Album is pretty similar to the idea of Program Music in classical music, which can both center around a common theme, or tell a specific story.
		One album I came back to time again throughout the year was Sleep Station's World War II concept album After the War.
		A lot of good albums that weren't designed to be concept albums have similar sounds just because that's where the band was at the time (like Pearl Jam's Ten or most Rage Against the Machine stuff).
	forums.metacritic.com /groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/646109/m/1470023892/r/7830057213 (1997 words)

	The Album Era
		The album closes with Skyline Pigeon, which may have seemed pretentious at the time, but in hindsight is just one more reason why Elton John has been one of the most highly regarded artists of the past forty years, no matter how troubled or quirky he may be.
		Both albums listed are from late 1970s stalwarts, and both will raise the eyebrows of their ardent fans, who will argue that earlier releases were far better.
		The demise of the album was brought about by a few things, the first being a number of mediocre efforts from established acts.
	butifnot.tripod.com /albumera.html (3523 words)

	Dr. Dre Bins 'Detox' Concept Album
		Set to be the "The most musically advanced hip-hop album ever", super-producer Dr Dre has ditched work on what was to be one of the most highly anticipated hip-hop album of the year.
		Set to be Dre's final album, rumours are circulating that he may now retire as an artist to concentrate on full-time production.
		Set to feature guest spots from hip-hop's crème-de-la-crème, the album was described by the man himself as a "hip-hop musical", and revealed that it would have a conceptual bent with a story flowing through the tracks.
	www.xfm.co.uk /Article.asp?b=news&id=21997 (309 words)

	woxy.com > Boards - The Return of the Concept Album
		Dirnt says: “I was using ‘rock opera’ and ‘concept album’ interchangeably, until these friends of mine, old guys who were like 50 who know their rock history, said, ‘No, they’re not the same thing.
		Concept albums go back at least to the Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” a then-revolutionary record that they made, in part, because they had heard rumors about the amazing range and unity Wilson was trying to capture on “Smile,” which he had called his “teenage symphony to God.”
		Concept albums got a little burned out in the ’70s when prog-rockers such as Jethro Tull and Rick Wakeman overdid them, and were not much of a force in the ’80s and ’90s.
	www.woxy.com /boards/showthread.php?p=346688 (1838 words)

	Blues Traveler Message Board - Concept Album
		I'm sure it's probably been discussed in these parts before, but as a newcomer I was curious what BT fans think of the tunes that were to comprise the concept album.
		I don't know what their motivation was behind not releasing it, but my guess would be that doing a concept album with two new players in the lineup would have been a bit too much for the public to be able to take at once.
		Still, I'd kill to hear the entire album as it was intended from the beginning - and that includes the tunes that weren't played live at the 11-25-98 show...I think it's some great, bold, daring material that really blew a LOT of people away at Red Rocks '98.
	www.bluestraveler.com /vb/printthread.php?t=297 (435 words)

	Concept albums are hip again \| csmonitor.com
		Beyond those works, Aimee Mann is at work on a themed album of her own, while Neil Young, British hip-hop import The Streets, the Drive-By Truckers, and Lou Reed have all released concept albums since 2001.
		In a time when many believe that listening to an entire album is passé, these artists are rediscovering the novelty of telling a long story over the course of a record.
		The decision to make a concept album was both an evolution and a calculation, says Rob Cavallo, senior vice president of AandR at Warner Bros. Records.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/1001/p16s01-almp.html (1181 words)

	On An Overgrown Path: Chanticleer rocks with Sound in Spirit
		Concept albums have been at the cutting edge of rock music for decades.
		Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, released by the Beatles in 1967, was the definitive concept album which set the ground rules of a common musical theme with linked liner art, and tracks that sequed into each other.
		This is the first Chanticleer album created to be totally recorded and remixed in a studio environment.
	theovergrownpath.blogspot.com /2005/10/chanticleer-rocks-with-sound-in-spirit.html (1488 words)

	InternetEd Reviews: Pink Floyd- The Wall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		All of the material is, lyrically and thematically, the brainchild of bassist/vocalist Roger Waters, who also wrote most of the music The lyrics tell the story of an alienated man (based on Waters) whose insecurities lead him to build up a mental wall that separates him from the people he used to be close to.
		On this double album, Pink Floyd darkens their sound noticeably with gloomy keyboards and samples, while keeping all of the best qualities of their music intact, including the combined vocals of Roger Waters and David Gilmour.
		The Wall is an exemplary concept album that is brilliant musically and lyrically: it remains a standard-setting hallmark in the history rock, proving that the connection of plot and music can result in genuinely compelling sonic art.
	www.interneted.com /Reviewpages/pinkfloydthewall.htm (378 words)

	Greatest Concept Album - Music Forum
		While Sgt. Pepper is considered a concept album, I don't really classify it as such because it is so very loosly tied together...
		The album is called "Songs Inspired by the Group of Seven" Beautiful album.
		I'm not entirely sure on the definition of a concept album but I think Blur-13 is kind of conceptual.
	www.radiomute.com /8342-greatest-concept-album.html (410 words)

	John O'Regan's concept album omni
		The beast known as the 'Concept Album' may be considered a remnant of the distant "progressive rock" era of the 1970s.
		Here are four examples of widely divergent concept albums that demonstrate the potential of the form.
		The album, composed by Barbour and played entirely on piano, is a set of brief pieces with a seasonal twist.
	www.greenmanreview.com /cd/cd_va_concepts_jor_1408.html (694 words)

	MadInkBeard - Constraint: Concept Album (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		For instance, the duration of the songs could be changed from a time period of minutes and seconds into a length of words, sentences, or paragraphs.
		If one selects an album that is already concretely narrative and thematically homogeneous, the creation will probably be easy but also vary less from the album's content.
		An album with more abstract songs and less narrative coherence as a whole will be a greater challenge and probably create more interesting stories.
	www.madinkbeard.com /archives/constraintco.html (453 words)

	Amazon.com: Tommy (1969 Original Concept Album): Music: The Who (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		That's why I'm especially happy to have seen The Who perform virtually the whole album live, four days after it was initially released.
		Listening to this album and every other early Who album reminds one just how much their performances were a collaborative effort between the original four, and how much we miss Keith Moon and John Entwistle today.
		The Who had previously released a concept album with 1967's Who Sell Out and Pete Townshend had written the mini-opera "A Quick One (While He's Away)", but neither of those could have predicted the masterpiece that Tommy would be.
	www.amazon.com /Tommy-1969-Original-Concept-Album/dp/B000002OZY (1360 words)

	Listening Room : Album Design Concept
		Furthermore, the complexity of the electronic and acoustic sounds characteristic of mole releases are expressed by creating visual objects that only reveal their true nature and composition when one pays closer attention.
		The process of designing the artwork for an artist album begins with the diligent search for the basic theme with all senses.
		In the future, uc graphic plans to pursue their original goal of design with a good dose of love, or to quote Stefan Sagmeister, "Style is fart, concept is heart".
	www.totemdesign.com /media/listeningroom/album.html (520 words)

	westword.com \| News \| Heavy, Man.
		Concept: People still blame the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper for spawning the concept album, despite the fact that there's no unifying theme beyond the title track and its reprise.
		Concept: The predictable contents of this greatest-hits compilation is offset by a terrifying concept never before and never again attempted in the annals of rock: Roe allows himself to be interviewed in between every song by a Gary Owens impersonator.
		Grand Finale: In an unrelated story, the album concludes with "Are You Ready, Eddie," an attempt by these lofty classical-music bandits to rip off something more current: Little Richard's "Ready Teddy." For two minutes and eight seconds, Greg Lake quizzes engineer Eddie Offord on whether he is indeed ready to shut down his sixteen-track recorder.
	www.westword.com /issues/1996-11-28/music4.html (847 words)

	simpleton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In fact, if the album ultimately doesn't succeed, it's because a successful concept album needs to be part of a constellation of ancillary products and deadly earnest drama.
		Like all true concept albums, Watertown is summed up by its cover art, which is credited to Don Snyder for the album design and Ove Olsen for the pen and ink cover.
		The mood of the album has an even more contemporary model—the sensitive guy style that began in the late sixties and reached its peak in 1975 with Morris Albert's legendary "Feelings." Sensitive guy songs made extensive use of the absent—and if possible, dead—wife as a dramatic theme.
	www.simpleton.com /20021230.html (2669 words)

	The Concept Album
		Both albums told a story and all the tunes helped convey that story along.
		Better yet, all were pretty decent tunes on their own outside the context of the play.
		Seeing how it effectively destroyed a member of their group, Pink Floyd couldn’t help but write an album about the effects of madness, and "Dark Side of the Moon" became one of the biggest hits of all time for their trouble.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/music_writing_tips/91863 (491 words)

	BLABBERMOUTH.NET - CIRCLE II CIRCLE Explain New Album Concept
		I am so sick and tired of concept albums I'm ready to puke, and I could give a shit whether or not Jesus and Mary made babies...but if the music follows suit with "The Middle of Nowhere", I'll look into it.
		Now, if we could just get another Doctor Butcher album in the mix, forget the last 12 years of Savatage ever happened and do a REAL tour that consists of more than playing with 54 other bands for some festival in a country whose name I can't pronounce, there may yet be hope for them...
		The concept is a fucking retarded idea...well, all of Savatage's concept albums since Streets have been fucking retarded, and even Streets as a concept album wasn't that great because the story is as erratic as it is...
	www.roadrunnerrecords.com /blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=52487 (744 words)

	Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - The Ballad of Calico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Of all the albums in my desert island 10, this is the one that the least number of people are likely to recognize.
		In addition to liking the story of the song a lot, I was very impressed by the trick they did on the album of leaving the song hanging at the end of one side and finishing it at the start of the next side.
		The Ballad of Calico is a concept album which tells the story of the town of Calico.
	www.perrific.com /cds/calico.html (1852 words)

	BLABBERMOUTH.NET - IMPIOUS Working On 'Concept Album'
		Actually, most of the riffs and ideas for the new album are already there, just a lot of arranging left to do.
		It's not your ordinary concept album with a twist.
		The accuracy of the information contained herein is neither confirmed nor guaranteed by Roadrunner Records, and the views and opinions of authors expressed on these pages do not necessarily state or reflect those of Roadrunner Records or its employees.
	www.roadrunnerrecords.com /blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=47588 (373 words)

	Crap Art: Album-A-Day
		And overall the album has a rather dark atmosphere and is really varied so I think despite all it's deficits it has some right to exist." There is a whole ".com" devoted to this album, apparently.
		On the cerebral level, this is an album speaks to those who want to live independently from all rules and regulations, from those written in the law books, to those that are 'innately' attached to us from birth.
		This album presents the listener with a strict guideline of regurgitations and rools to reach disattachment and disenfranchise their business from the corporate monopoly that threatens to touch each and every one of us in our 'no-no zone.' This was all done solo because all of my friends are married to corruption."
	crapart.spacebar.org /aad (20313 words)

	johnaugust.com » Getting rights to a concept album
		I’ve been writing a screenplay that is based on a certain concept album.
		In the case of a concept album, copyright almost certainly rests with the songwriters, so start there.
		Your final option would be to enlist the help of an experienced entertainment attorney, both to track down the copyright holders and to help you draft any agreements you need.
	johnaugust.com /archives/2003/getting-rights-to-a-concept-album (535 words)

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