Ongoing History Daily: Who invented the concept album?
A concept album is a record that has a narrative, theme, or story that links all the songs together in a unified way. Green Day’s American Idiot qualifies as such a record. Dig
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A concept album is a record that has a narrative, theme, or story that links all the songs together in a unified way. Green Day’s American Idiot qualifies as such a record. Dig
Concept albums often ask the listener to follow an elaborate idea, but Fate Envoy’s The Tower works differently. Its concept feels like something the band uncovered within the song...
How a concept album about an alien race arriving upon Earth in the Middle Ages and baffled the band that made it
Rush, Genesis, Jethro Tull, ELP and more… after much debate we present a starter pack of records that illustrate how the genre matured – but never conformed
The term curries both favor and foreboding. Continue reading…
Indreba's Alice follows the release of two songs about being the woman on the cover of Black Sabbath's debut album
Behind the playfulness of Les Claypool and Sean Ono Lennon’s The Great Parrot-Ox And The Golden Egg Of Empathy lie serious questions about abuse of power, social collapse and the v...
GRAVITAS is a contemporary concept album created by Grammy‑nominated international songwriter and record producer David Courtney, with spoken‑word composed by renowned poet and lyr...
What was once a failed single from The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway has somehow become one of the most beloved Genesis songs, reappearing again and again throughout the years
An exploration of the best albums by King Crimson, Robert Fripp's ever-rotating gang of idiosyncratic, brilliant musicians
One of the great things about vinyl is that you have a 12×12 palette on which to create artwork that says something about the release. For example, everyone knows the cover for Nir...
The prog veterans’ third album in five years marks the end of one story. But as Steve Howe and Jon Davison explain, they’re not planning to close the book – and they don’t mind if...
Plus Phil Collins, Supertramp, Popol Vuh, The Anchoress, Dave Greenslade, Dee Palmer, Phideaux, Sleeping Pulse, Plini, Jarboe, Ian Neal, Prince Of Failure and more...
Alt-punk act Loki X shapes a confident musical identity as Last Anarchists Standing delivering conceptual album The Anarchists Ice Cream Club, which weaves a hypnotic narrative tha...
Created in a rush amid challenging circumstances, their sixth record disappointed most critics, confused many fans and led to talk of splitting up
Watched the first one? Space linked themes.
DAN FROM DOWNINGTOWN has built a reputation around concept-driven releases, and his new album EN-TRO-PY continues that thread with his most ambitious idea yet. The faceless Pennsyl...
How the writings of a courageous German-born Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim inspired one of the great cult albums of the '90s
On June 11, 1994, a user posting anonymously through a remailer to the Pink Floyd newsgroup on Usenet told fans that the band's new album had "a central purpose and a designed solu...
When Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyatt and Mike Ratledge created the Canterbury scene via Soft Machine’s first record, they’d already split up
Albert Bouchard is best known as a founding member of BLUE ÖYSTER CULT, whose original lineup sold millions of albums for Columbia Records and produced such classics as "(Don't Fea...
In 1996, Sweden’s Edge Of Sanity filled an entire album with one winding track, inspired by black metal, melodeath, prog and plenty more. It remains a towering achievement long aft...
Scott Fagan is finally releasing the album that was meant to follow his acclaimed 1968 debut, ‘South Atlantic Blues.’ More than five decades after it was first conceived, ‘Soon’ wi...
Some of these albums started as studio recordings and turned into something completely different the moment a live crowd showed up. Continue reading…
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