10 Amazing Concept Albums

There are albums full of singles and filler, and then there are albums that tell a story. This video looks at 10 Amazing Concept Albums.

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The Wall is the eleventh studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released on 30 November 1979 by Harvest and Columbia Records.

2112 is the fourth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released on 1 April 1976 (or March 1976, according to some sources) by Anthem Records.

Seventh Son of a Seventh Son is the seventh studio album by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden. It was released on 11 April 1988 in the United Kingdom by EMI Records and in the United States by Capitol Records.

Imaginaerum is the seventh studio album by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish. It was released on 30 November 2011 by Scene Nation Oy and Sony Music in Finland, then on 2 December in Nuclear Blast in the rest of Europe and Roadrunner Records worldwide.

American Idiot is the seventh studio album by American rock band Green Day, released on September 21, 2004, by Reprise Records.

Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory is the fifth studio album and first concept album by American progressive metal band Dream Theater, released on October 26, 1999 through Elektra Records.

Still Life is the fourth studio album by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth. It was produced and engineered by Opeth alongside Fredrik Nordström, and released on 18 October 1999 through Peaceville Records.
Thirteenth Step is the second studio album by American rock band A Perfect Circle, released on September 16, 2003.

The Black Parade is the third studio album by American rock band My Chemical Romance, released in Europe on October 20, 2006, through Reprise Records.

OK Computer is the third studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 21 May 1997 on EMI subsidiaries Parlophone and Capitol Records.

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0:00 – Intro & List Rules
0:46 – Nightwish – Imaginareum
1:41 – Green Day – American Idiot
2:44 – Dream Theater – Metropolis Pt. 2
3:42 – Rush – 2112
4:44 – My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade
5:38 – Iron Maiden – Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
6:36 – A Perfect Circle – Thirteenth Step
7:39 – Opeth – Still Life
8:38 – Radiohead – OK Computer
9:37 – Pink Floyd – The Wall
10:48 – Thank you, Patrons!
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10 Amazing Concept Albums, 10 Concept Albums

[SavoxYT]

• WASP - _The Crimson Idol_ (My favourite album of all time)
• Genesis - _The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway_
• Queensryche - _Operation: Mindcrime_
• Ayreon - _The Human Equation_
• Savatage - _Streets: A Rock Opera_
• King Diamond - _Abigail_

[ryangioia]

Operation Mindcrime by Queensrÿche is not only my favorite concept album, but one of my favorite albums of all time.

[chevand]

If you make a part two, consider any of the following:
"Operation: Mindcrime" - Queensrÿche
"De-Loused in the Comatorium" or "Frances the Mute" - The Mars Volta
"Fear of a Blank Planet" - Porcupine Tree
"Hand. Cannot. Erase." - Steven Wilson
"Anno Domini High Definition" - Riverside
"The Downward Spiral" or "Year Zero" - Nine Inch Nails
"Leviathan" - Mastodon
"Polaris" - Tesseract
"Songs for the Deaf" - Queens of the Stone Age
"The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II" - Thrice

[RockedNet]

UPDATE: I MESSED UP WITH THE RADIOHEAD ALBUM TITLE. IT'S OK COMPUTER, NOT KARMA POLICE. IT CAN NOT BE FIXED NOW. JUST EXPLAINING HERE.
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[ArtemyMusha]

The Wall is an album that asks many important psychological questions, such as, "Mother do you think they'll try to break..."

(Pause for effect)

"...MY BALLS?"

[kingdiamond]

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray
WASP - The Crimson Idol
Alice Cooper - From the Inside
Edge of Sanity - Crimson
King Diamond - Abigail
Lizzy Borden - Master of Disguise
Judas Priest - Nostradamus (underrated as hell)

This one gets an honorable mention because the fact that they were teenagers when they made it is Damn impressive. The Warning - Queen of the Murder Scene

[TheHungoverMoth]

Songs For The Deaf by Queens Of The Stone Age is one of my all time favorites. Also, not sure if We Were Dead Dead Before The Ship Even Sank by Modest Mouse is considered a concept album, but I feel like it should be.

[shawnkarg]

The Downward Spiral is Trent Reznor's The Wall. It follows much the same structure as a concept album, albeit in a stripped down, bare bones approach chronicling emotional trauma and escalating megalomania.

[evilervcowart]

A few of my personal favorite concept albums of all time (in no particular order):
1. King Diamond ~ Abigail
2. King Diamond ~ "Them"
3. King Diamond ~ Conspiracy
4. Queensryche ~ Operation: Mindcrime
5. Trans-Siberian Orchestra ~ Beethoven's Last Night
6. Iron Maiden ~ Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
7. I Am Abomination ~ Passion Of The Heist I & II
8. First Fragment ~ Dasein
9. First Fragment ~ Gloirè Eternelle
10. The Faceless ~ Planetary Duality
🤘😏

[tmamone]

My favorites: "The Wall, " "Tommy, " "Quadrophenia, " "The Downward Spiral, " "The Hazards of Love" (which doesn't get talked enough about, IMO), "The Point, " and "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway."

*EDIT: Oh, and how could I forget about "Ziggy Stardust" and "Zen Arcade?"

[megaman]

Crack the Skye by Mastodon is my second favorite album of all time (only behind Ride the Lightning). Trippy, psychedelic lead guitarwork, chunky riffing, a surreal storyline that needs to be heard to be believed, the first time drummer Brann Dailor performed lead vocals on a Mastodon album, and the reason for its existence as closure for tragedy in his personal life (a common backstory behind Mastodon albums now that I think about it), Crack the Skye is a masterpiece, plain and simple.

[cowmark]

My favorite concept album has gotta be The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance, though American Idiot by Green Day is close. Here are some other concept albums that are awesome.
1. Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
2. My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge
3. My Chemical Romance - Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
4. Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns
5. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf

[quentinbringthenumetalchil]

Opeth, Radiohead, and A Perfect Circle albums are excellent. Perfect for conceptual ideas.

[wstine]

Nine Inch Nails album "The Fragile" was an excellent concept album.

[thedogfromraditude]

Great video! Concept albums are really something special. Here are some other good ones:
-The Stage by Avenged Sevenfold (story about robots taking over the world)
-Black Holes And Revelations by Muse (dystopian sci-fi)
-Songs For The Deaf by Queens of the Stone Age (story about a road trip through the desert)
-Leviathan by Mastodon (adaptation of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick)
-Twin Fantasy by Car Seat Headrest (autobiographical story about a long-distance relationship)
-The Great War by Sabaton (true stories from WW1)
-The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails (story of a man going insane)
-Scaled and Icy by Twenty One Pilots (dystopian propoganda mind control music, happy pop songs with sinister messages)
-Frances The Mute by The Mars Volta (I honestly have no idea)
-…And Justice For All by Metallica (the criminal justice system)
-A Thousand Suns by Linkin Park (nuclear war)
-The Nothing by Korn (exploration of grief, written shortly after the death of Jonathan Davis’ wife)
-Meliora by Ghost (satanism, the absence of God)
-Just about anything from Voivod or Coheed & Cambria (both sci-fi metal)

I’m also surprised you didn’t mention Queensrÿche at all given how much they were talked about on the community post.

[juliancantero]

This was a really great video and so many concepts albums are left to talk about. I want a Part 2 with many other bands

[TheRareVideosXL]

Iron Maiden's 'Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son' album(1988) is also my personal favorite album of theirs and I also love Rush's music.

[Posirep]

No Coheed and Cambria? Their entire existence is based on a concept.

Guess its hard to single out cuz their entire discography is telling 1 story a few chapters at a time.

Although Year of The Black Rainbow has an accompanying novel released too. And the Graphic Novels for thejr first few albums.

[joshuabrown]

Scenes From A Memory has a certain... Beauty to it. The structure, the lyrical themes, EVERYTHING WORKS.

[fourseasons]

1. Dream Theater- Scenes from a memory
2. Genesis- The lamb lies down on Broadway
3. Devin Townsend project- Deconstruction
4. Ayreon- The human equation
5. Pink Floyd- The wall
6. Queensryche- Operation: Mindcrime
7. BTBAM- Coma ecliptic
8. Symphony X- V: The new mythology suite
9. Spock's beard- Snow
10. Rush- Clockwork angels