Wednesday, February 15, 2012

R&P: Which of these concept albums, rock operas, and musicals do you like?

Ride This Train 鈥?Johnny Cash

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 鈥?The Beatles

Tommy 鈥?The Who

Jesus Christ Superstar

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars 鈥?David Bowie

Dark Side of the Moon 鈥?Pink Floyd

Aladdin Sane 鈥?David Bowie

Desperado 鈥?Eagles

Quadrophenia 鈥?The Who

Queen II 鈥?Queen

Diamond Dogs 鈥?David Bowie

Welcome to My Nightmare 鈥?Alice Cooper

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

2112 鈥?Rush

Alice Cooper Goes to Hell 鈥?Alice Cooper

Hotel California 鈥?Eagles

Animals 鈥?Pink Floyd

Not Available 鈥?The Residents

From the Inside 鈥?Alice Cooper

The Wall 鈥?Pink Floyd

The Lexicon of Love 鈥?ABC

Kilroy Was Here 鈥?Styx

DaDa 鈥?Alice Cooper

Zen Arcade 鈥?H眉sker D眉

The Phantom of the Opera

Raise Your Fist and Yell 鈥?Alice Cooper

God in Three Persons 鈥?The Residents

Seventh Son of a Seventh Son 鈥?Iron Maiden

Operation: Mindcrime 鈥?Queensr每che

The Crimson Idol 鈥?W.A.S.P.

Nightmare Before Christmas

The Downward Spiral 鈥?Nine Inch Nails

The Last Temptation 鈥?Alice Cooper

The Great Escape 鈥?Blur

Outside 鈥?David Bowie

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 鈥?The Smashing Pumpkins

Turn the Radio Off 鈥?Reel Big Fish

Pinkerton 鈥?Weezer

Antichrist Superstar 鈥?Marilyn Manson

OK Computer 鈥?Radiohead

Cruelty and the Beast 鈥?Cradle of Filth

Mechanical Animals 鈥?Marilyn Manson

Wormwood: Curious Stories from the Bible 鈥?The Residents

Why Do They Rock So Hard? 鈥?Reel Big Fish

The Fragile 鈥?Nine Inch Nails

Machina: The Machines of God 鈥?The Smashing Pumpkins

The Marshall Mathers LP 鈥?Eminem

Brutal Planet 鈥?Alice Cooper

Machina II: The Friends %26amp; Enemies of Modern Music 鈥?The Smashing Pumpkins

Dahmer 鈥?Macabre

Midian 鈥?Cradle of Filth

Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) 鈥?Marilyn Manson

Dragontown 鈥?Alice Cooper

The Second Stage Turbine Blade 鈥?Coheed and Cambria

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 鈥?The Flaming Lips

Songs for the Deaf 鈥?Queens of the Stone Age

Epica 鈥?Kamelot

Damnation and a Day 鈥?Cradle of Filth

Elephant 鈥?The White Stripes

The Golden Age of Grotesque 鈥?Marilyn Manson

De-Loused in the Comatorium 鈥?The Mars Volta

Avenue Q

Funeral 鈥?Arcade Fire

The Rocky Horror Punk Rock Show

In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 鈥?Coheed and Cambria

Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue 鈥?Trocadero

American Idiot 鈥?Green Day

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum of Natural History 鈥?Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

Frances the Mute 鈥?The Mars Volta

The Black Halo 鈥?Kamelot

We're Not Happy 'til You're Not Happy 鈥?Reel Big Fish

Demon Days 鈥?Gorillaz

Good Apollo, I鈥檓 Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness 鈥?Coheed and Cambria

Whatever People Say I Am, That鈥檚 What I鈥檓 Not 鈥?Arctic Monkeys

Adultery 鈥?Dog Fashion Disco

10,000 Days 鈥?Tool

Video Commander 鈥?Harry Perry Band

Sam鈥檚 Town 鈥?The Killers

Thornography 鈥?Cradle of Filth

Tweedles 鈥?The Residents

The Pick of Destiny 鈥?Tenacious D

Neon Bible 鈥?Arcade Fire

Year Zero 鈥?Nine Inch Nails

In Sorte Diaboli 鈥?Dimmu Borgir

The Divine Conspiracy 鈥?Epica

Good Apollo, I鈥檓 Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow 鈥?Coheed and Cambria

Along Came a Spider 鈥?Alice Cooper

The Fame 鈥?Lady GaGa

Nightmare Revisited

Godspeed On the Devil's Thunder 鈥?Cradle of Filth

Hate Culture 鈥?William Control

21st Century Breakdown 鈥?Green Day

Rock of Ages: The Musical

The Resistance 鈥?Muse

The Fame Monster 鈥?Lady GaGa

The Plastic Beach 鈥?Gorillaz

Evelyn Evelyn 鈥?Evelyn Evelyn

Heliocentric 鈥?The Ocean

American Idiot: The Original Broadway Cast Recording

Year of the Black Rainbow 鈥?Coheed and Cambria

Noir 鈥?William Control

The Suburbs 鈥?Arcade Fire

Design Your Universe 鈥?Epica

Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa 鈥?Cradle of Filth

Anthropocentric 鈥?The Ocean

The Unforgiving 鈥?Within Temptation

Born This Way 鈥?Lady GaGa



BQ: These are ordered by the date they were released, making it a history of great concept albums. What other albums should be added to the list? (NO MCR!)

BQ2: Which of these would you like to see turned into a movie?R%26amp;P: Which of these concept albums, rock operas, and musicals do you like?
Ride This Train 鈥?Johnny Cash
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 鈥?The Beatles
Tommy 鈥?The Who
Jesus Christ Superstar
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars 鈥?David Bowie
Dark Side of the Moon 鈥?Pink Floyd
Aladdin Sane 鈥?David Bowie
Quadrophenia 鈥?The Who
Diamond Dogs 鈥?David Bowie
Welcome to My Nightmare 鈥?Alice Cooper
2112 鈥?Rush
Alice Cooper Goes to Hell 鈥?Alice Cooper
Animals 鈥?Pink Floyd
Not Available 鈥?The Residents
From the Inside 鈥?Alice Cooper
The Wall 鈥?Pink Floyd
The Lexicon of Love 鈥?ABC
DaDa 鈥?Alice Cooper
Zen Arcade 鈥?H眉sker D眉
Operation: Mindcrime 鈥?Queensr每che
The Crimson Idol 鈥?W.A.S.P.
The Downward Spiral 鈥?Nine Inch Nails
The Last Temptation 鈥?Alice Cooper
The Great Escape 鈥?Blur
Outside 鈥?David Bowie
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 鈥?The Smashing Pumpkins
OK Computer 鈥?Radiohead
The Fragile 鈥?Nine Inch Nails
Brutal Planet 鈥?Alice Cooper
Dragontown 鈥?Alice Cooper
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 鈥?The Flaming Lips
Songs for the Deaf 鈥?Queens of the Stone Age
Elephant 鈥?The White Stripes
De-Loused in the Comatorium 鈥?The Mars Volta
Funeral 鈥?Arcade Fire
American Idiot 鈥?Green Day
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum of Natural History 鈥?Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
The Black Halo 鈥?Kamelot
Demon Days 鈥?Gorillaz
Whatever People Say I Am, That鈥檚 What I鈥檓 Not 鈥?Arctic Monkeys
10,000 Days 鈥?Tool
Year Zero 鈥?Nine Inch Nails
The Fame 鈥?Lady GaGa
The Fame Monster 鈥?Lady GaGa
Born This Way 鈥?Lady GaGa

Impressive list, although I doubt the conceptual nature of some of these.

BQ:

Selling England By the Pound and The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - Genesis
Fear of a Blank Planet - Porcupine Tree
Snow - Spock's Beard
Testimony, One, ?, Sola Scriptura, and Testimony 2 - all by Neal Morse

BQ2: All of the ones I like.
2112 - one of the best albums period, regardless of 'type'

Sgt. Pepper

The Wall



Others:

most anything by Dream Theater except their last two albumsR%26amp;P: Which of these concept albums, rock operas, and musicals do you like?
not sure because you said no MCR





American idiot

(as long as Billie Joe won't be in it)
Blur - The Great Escape

Nine Inch Nails - All of them (Year Zero, The Downward Spiral, The Fragile)

The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute

Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown

Muse - The Resistance

Gorillaz - Demon Days, Plastic Beach

Radiohead - OK Computer

Smashing Pumpkins - Machina: The Machines of God, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Tool - 10,000 Days

Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf

Coheed and Cambria - All of them (Second Stage Turbine Blade, In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume 1, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume 2, Year of the Black Rainbow



Bonus Question

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Daft Punk - Discovery (Interstella 5555)

Nine Inch Nails - Broken

Celldweller - Wish Upon a Blackstar



Bonus Question 2

Demon Days and Plastic Beach

The Resistance

Year Zero

OK ComputerR%26amp;P: Which of these concept albums, rock operas, and musicals do you like?
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 鈥?The Beatles

Tommy 鈥?The Who

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars 鈥?David Bowie

Dark Side of the Moon 鈥?Pink Floyd

Quadrophenia 鈥?The Who

Queen II 鈥?Queen

Diamond Dogs 鈥?David Bowie

2112 鈥?Rush

Animals 鈥?Pink Floyd

The Wall 鈥?Pink Floyd

Pinkerton 鈥?Weezer

OK Computer 鈥?Radiohead

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 鈥?The Flaming Lips

Elephant 鈥?The White Stripes

De-Loused in the Comatorium 鈥?The Mars Volta

Funeral 鈥?Arcade Fire

American Idiot 鈥?Green Day

Frances the Mute 鈥?The Mars Volta

Whatever People Say I Am, That鈥檚 What I鈥檓 Not 鈥?Arctic Monkeys

Neon Bible 鈥?Arcade Fire

21st Century Breakdown 鈥?Green Day

The Resistance 鈥?Muse

The Suburbs 鈥?Arcade Fire



BQ:

The Antlers - Hospice

Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours

Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick

King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

The Kinks - Arthur: Or the Decline %26amp; Fall of the British Empire

The Kinks - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society

The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

of Montreal - The Gay Parade

Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan, The Great Lake State

Radiohead - Kid A

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

Titus Andronicus - The Monitor



BQ2: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 鈥?The Flaming Lips
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 鈥?The Beatles

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars 鈥?David Bowie

Dark Side of the Moon 鈥?Pink Floyd

Quadrophenia 鈥?The Who

Diamond Dogs 鈥?David Bowie

2112 鈥?Rush

Animals 鈥?Pink Floyd

Not Available 鈥?The Residents

The Wall 鈥?Pink Floyd

Zen Arcade 鈥?H眉sker D眉

God in Three Persons 鈥?The Residents

Seventh Son of a Seventh Son 鈥?Iron Maiden

Operation: Mindcrime 鈥?Queensr每che

Nightmare Before Christmas

The Downward Spiral 鈥?Nine Inch Nails

The Great Escape 鈥?Blur

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 鈥?The Smashing Pumpkins

OK Computer 鈥?Radiohead

The Fragile 鈥?Nine Inch Nails

Machina: The Machines of God 鈥?The Smashing Pumpkins

Machina II: The Friends %26amp; Enemies of Modern Music 鈥?The Smashing Pumpkins

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 鈥?The Flaming Lips

De-Loused in the Comatorium 鈥?The Mars Volta

The Black Halo 鈥?Kamelot

Demon Days 鈥?Gorillaz

10,000 Days 鈥?Tool

Year Zero 鈥?Nine Inch Nails

The Plastic Beach 鈥?Gorillaz



BQ: A lot is missing from that list, here's a couple I can think of



Giant Squid - The Ichthyologist

Porcupine Tree - In Absentia, Deadwing, Fear of a Blank Planet, and The Incident

Dream Theater - Octavarium, Metropolis Pt. 2... basically most of their later albums, really.



And a lot more I can't think of at the moment

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