Wednesday, February 15, 2012

What are some concept albums and rock operas that I could add to my list?

I've become fascinated with concept albums and rock operas over the past couple of years and started finding more and more of them. I started making a list of them, organized by the date they came out. The list is meant to have concept albums, rock operas, and even some musicals that I consider to be important to the history of this music-based storytelling. Here's the list as of now:



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

Queen II 鈥?Queen

Diamond Dogs 鈥?David Bowie

Welcome to My Nightmare 鈥?Alice Cooper

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

2112 鈥?Rush

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

Kilroy Was Here 鈥?Styx

DaDa 鈥?Alice Cooper

Zen Arcade 鈥?H眉sker D眉

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.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Downward Spiral 鈥?Nine Inch Nails

The Last Temptation 鈥?Alice Cooper

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 - 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

Songs for the Deaf 鈥?Queens of the Stone Age

Epica 鈥?Kamelot

Damnation and a Day 鈥?Cradle of Filth

The Golden Age of Grotesque 鈥?Marilyn Manson

Avenue Q

Funeral 鈥?Arcade Fire

The Rocky Horror Punk Rock Show

Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue 鈥?Trocadero

American Idiot 鈥?Green Day

Of Natural History 鈥?Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

The Phantom of the Opera

The Black Halo 鈥?Kamelot

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

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

Adultery 鈥?Dog Fashion Disco

Video Commander 鈥?Harry Perry Band

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

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

Evelyn Evelyn 鈥?Evelyn Evelyn

Heliocentric 鈥?The Ocean

American Idiot: The Original Broadway Cast Recording

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

Born This Way 鈥?Lady GaGa



So what are some other great concept albums, rock operas, or musicals that would work in this list?What are some concept albums and rock operas that I could add to my list?
The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot

The Alan Parsons Project - Tales Of Mystery and Imagination

Allen/Lande - The Battle (followed by)

Allen/Lande - The Revenge (followed by)

Allen/Lande - The Showdown

Aphrodite's Child - 666 [The Apocalypse Of John 13;18]

Avantasia - The Scarecrow (followed by)

Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony (followed by)

Avantasia - Angel Of Babylon

Cyanotic - The Medication Generation

Lou Reed - Berlin

Pete Townshend - Lifehouse Chronicals

Pete Townshend - The Iron Man: The Musical by Pete Townshend

Pete Townshend - White City: A Novel

Rick Wakeman 鈥?The Six Wives Of Henry VIII

Rick Wakeman 鈥?Journey To The Centre Of The Earth

Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage: Acts I, II %26amp; III

Frank Zappa - Thing Fish
Frank Zappa-Joe's Garage,and Ship arriving too late to save a dying witch.

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What are some concept albums and rock operas that I could add to my list?
all four of my chemical romance's albums are concept albums.

my favourite is the newer album (dander days) but the best concept and definitely the most complex is their second album (three cheers). look that shxt up, it's fantastic.
My Chemical Romance has a couple.

The Black Parade

Danger Days: True Lives of the Fabulous KilljoysWhat are some concept albums and rock operas that I could add to my list?
jeff wayne war of the worlds and the kinks
The Kinks have a few.
Please don't miss albums listed below.
Great prog rock albums!

Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis
Brave - Marillion
Misplaced Childhood - Marillion
Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a Memory - Dream Theater
Fear of a Blank Planet - Porcupine Tree
'The Zombie Apocalypse 2012'



A concept split E.P that forewarns of the impending 'Zombie Apocalypse', the human race's reliance on technology as their saviour in the form of robotic devices, and in turn maybe their own destruction through ignorance. The first in the trilogy, the sequel 'The Carrion War' in in production as we speak.



It is also conceptual because not only does it deliver a graphic novel style of modern story telling through music, the musical genres of both bands concerned are very different. 'The Rock %26amp; Roll Vampires' are predominately 'Thrash-Horror-Punk' and 'Coxercise' are 'Melodic-Death-Disco'...two very different genres that fuse effortlessly together.



But Hey...I'm biased : )
The Neon God Part 1: The Rise by W.A.S.P.
The Neon God Part 2: The Demise by W.A.S.P.

Its a two part concept album. Not as good as Crimson but still worth a listen.

Nostradamus by Judas Priest


I almost forgot Streets by Savatage. Really epic rock opera

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