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08-20-2004, 09:37 AM
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I'm really bad at figuring out concept albums. I looOoOooOoooove Fates Warning "A Pleasant Shade of Grey" but I can't quite figure out what it's all about.
I've taken quite a shine to Mars Voltas Deloused. I don't know the details (because I think they want you to BUY the explaination to their album  ), but I know it's about a friend of the band who tried to kill himself by Morphine, but instead went into a ten day coma. And the album is a fictional depiction of what he went through. Anyone know the details?
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08-20-2004, 09:38 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Dallas, TX. | | | Animals is probably my favorite concept/theme type album. Im sure most folks can figure out the themes presented without me explaining though hehe. |
08-20-2004, 11:02 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Mesa/Boogie - Shop Manager/Tech, SF Guitarworks | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA | | | My favorite has got to be Roger Water's Amused To Death.
It's based on a book called Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Showbusiness by Neil Postman. It's essentially a treatise on how TV has become our culture's principal mode knowing about itself - therefore how TV stages the world becomes a model for how the world is to be staged. Make sense? We see war on TV (which, sadly to say, is entertainment), and then we create wars because that's how we "know" life is supposed to be that way.
"Miraculous you call it babe
You ain't seen nothin' yet
They got Pepsi in the Andes
They got McDonalds in Tibet."
Jeff Beck plays guitar on it too. Sweet. |
08-20-2004, 11:21 AM
| | | | I think it's gotta be Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.
Two CDs (or four album sides if you prefer) of 100% Grade-A Bizarro. |
08-20-2004, 11:30 AM
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Originally Posted by keb I think it's gotta be Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. | brad cook
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08-20-2004, 11:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Edmonton AB | | | The only concept album I've ever heard fully was Dream Theater's "Metropolis Pt. 2 - Scenes From a Memory" but I didn't even like all of it. |
08-20-2004, 01:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Benjamin Strange My favorite has got to be Roger Water's Amused To Death. |
Good call.
Hey, wasn't Lamb Lays Down on Brodway about a guy who tries to save his brother from drowning, but has to just watch it, but then switches places with him...
My dad explained it to me once.
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08-20-2004, 02:22 PM
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08-20-2004, 05:46 PM
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Even though the whole Cyberpunk thing evades me a bit, and the interludes got on my nerves after listening to the album for the second time. |
08-20-2004, 06:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Chicago, IL | | | I bought the Deloused book, (two, actually, and later eBayed both for a HUGE profit) and lemme tell ya: it doesn't help explain ANYTHING. Very cool to read, but impossible to comprehend. A lot of the made up words on the record are actually names (Cerpin Taxt, Moatilliata, etc.) but I couldn't tell ya which character is which, or what happens or even how it ends.
Utter nonsense.
My favorite record EVER, too. |
08-20-2004, 06:19 PM
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08-20-2004, 06:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Juneau Animals is probably my favorite concept/theme type album. Im sure most folks can figure out the themes presented without me explaining though hehe. | Animals is easy:
You are a pig
You are a dog
You are a sheep
I am insane |
08-20-2004, 08:03 PM
|  | Mayday! Moderator | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Jackson, MS | | | Driver By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera (or maybe Decoration Day) - a two disc album that every song has a correlation to Lynyrd Skynrd. Very good, back-to-basics rock in roll.
Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall - Pink Floyd
Deloused - Mars Volta |
08-20-2004, 10:56 PM
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pink floyd - the wall
both are really good concept albums. |
08-20-2004, 11:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Folmeister Animals is easy:
You are a pig
You are a dog
You are a sheep
I am insane |
It's a tad bit deeper than that.
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08-21-2004, 02:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Holland... | | | The Who had this one 'concept song' before they recorded Tommy, it was called 'A Quick One While He Is Away'.
I have it on the Live at Leeds cd, pretty hilarious stuff with this 'Here comes Ivar the Engine Driver to make you feel much better...' |
08-21-2004, 03:32 AM
|  | Chronic Pain Endorsed By Fentanyl/Oxycodone/Valium | | Join Date: May 2001 Location: Evansville, IN | | Queensryche's "Operation: Mindcrime". The only issues I have are with the production, which I've heard the recent remaster fixed, and that it's biggest positive might be also the largest negative - being so very specific in setting and timeframe dates it.
Kevin Gilbert's "The Shaming of The True" comes in a <i>very</i> close second, if only for "Water Under The Bridge", quite possible the most touching "ballad" I've ever heard, and "Certifiable #1 Smash" which is the best explanation of the music business I know of.  |
08-21-2004, 03:56 AM
| | | | The "De-Loused" thing from my understanding is about a friend of the band who was basically insane and used to shoot up with rat poison, which eventually made his arm useless and put him in a coma, and he eventually died.
Supposedly the album "De-Loused" is some sort of tripped out fantasy he has while in the coma. You can kinda tell when he wakes up and dies at the end of "Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt" with the "who brought me here?" stuff.
At any rate that album is my favorite album since "OK Computer." |
08-21-2004, 08:37 AM
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08-21-2004, 10:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Matt Till I wanted people to explain the concepts behind their favorite concepts... | Especially since I wasn't aware that APC's 13th Step was a concept album.  | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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