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I don't think we've had this one before (or, if we have, It was quite some time ago). What is your favorite Rock Opera or Concept Album?

Mine is The Black Halo by Kamelot (closely followed by Operation: Mindcrime by Queensryche). What could be cooler than a Rock Opera based on Faust?

Umm...probably Animals by Pink Floyd.

Pink Floyd has quite a few concept albums. Animals is by far the best.

i had a rock opera sung about me at Boom Chicago in Amsterdam. me and my car. it was awesome :D:D

My favourite concept album is Tales of Mystery and Imagination by The Alan Parsons Project.

My favourite Rock Opera is Jesus Christ Superstar. A bit strange for an atheist, I know, but really beautiful music, particularly the title track.

"Tommy" anyone?

Also, I'll go with "OK Computer" - Radiohead as best concept album if you count it as such.

My favorite concept album is Cradle of Filth's Cruelty and the Beast.

I don't know enough about rock operas to consider which is my favorite.

My favourite concept album is Tales of Mystery and Imagination by The Alan Parsons Project.

My favourite Rock Opera is Jesus Christ Superstar. A bit strange for an atheist, I know, but really beautiful music, particularly the title track.

Recently saw a touring production with Corey Glover (from the band, Living Colour) in the role of Judas. He rocked!
But I'm gonna go with the Who. Tommy or Quadrophenia. Either one's the best ever.

Concept= Darkside of the Moon

Opera- The Wall or American Idiot

"Tommy" anyone?

Ugh. No thanks. :p

Concept= Darkside of the Moon

Opera- The Wall or American Idiot

It's funny how that album perfectly describes so many of its fans, eh?




"Best" concept album? There is no best, there are only favorites. As far as favorites go, mine are Hemispheres (both parts), 2112, and Tommy. All of them are Rock Operas.

Tommy is pretty decent. I haven't heared all the tracks of Quadrophenia, so I can't give my opinion on that work :p

When I say 'favorite' I want it to be clear that I am not talking about quality or being 'the best.'


My favourite Rock Opera is Jesus Christ Superstar. A bit strange for an atheist, I know, but really beautiful music, particularly the title track.
I think you have to be an atheist to appreciate it properly. I mean, after all, it's told from the perspective of the biggest skeptic in the group.

That, by the way, is my favorite. Tim Rice writes a good lyric book and the music is funky and the whole thing is campy as all hell. I don't really like the composer, but Jesus Christ Superstar is good times.

Chess is fun, to. Mostly because I was in Jr. High when One Night in Bangkok came out and years later I actually ran across the musical. It's also...well, silly.

I've seen both of them. I don't know who the hell was in Chess...someone I'm supposed to have heard of I guess.

Jesus Christ Superstar had Ted Neely playing Jesus again, which was cool, especially when he thrashes the temple.

Concept Album: Dark Side of the Moon

Rock Opera: Jesus Christ, Superstar (I've been in a stage production of it. It's a fabulous show)

When I say 'favorite' I want it to be clear that I am not talking about quality or being 'the best.'

I think you have to be an atheist to appreciate it properly. I mean, after all, it's told from the perspective of the biggest skeptic in the group.

That, by the way, is my favorite. Tim Rice writes a good lyric book and the music is funky and the whole thing is campy as all hell. I don't really like the composer, but Jesus Christ Superstar is good times.

Chess is fun, to. Mostly because I was in Jr. High when One Night in Bangkok came out and years later I actually ran across the musical. It's also...well, silly.

I've seen both of them. I don't know who the hell was in Chess...someone I'm supposed to have heard of I guess.

Jesus Christ Superstar had Ted Neely playing Jesus again, which was cool, especially when he thrashes the temple.

You might be right. The lyrics of Superstar certainly resonate with my sarch for truth and meaning.

Everytime I look at you I don't understand,

How you let the things you did get so out of hand?

You'd have managed better if you'd had it planned,

Why'd you choose such a backward time and such a strange land?

If you'd come today you would have picked up a nation,

Israel in 4BC had no mass communication!

Don't you get me wrong
Dont you get me wrong

Don't you get me wrong
Dont you get me wrong

Only want to know
Only want to know

Only want to know
Only want to know...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemplating_the_Engine_Room

crossing the equator

you were a pollywog
now you're a shellback

you were a pollywog
now you're a shellback

you were a pollywog
now you're a shellback

well, ok but what's that?
it's where you're at
oh

Jesus Christ Superstar is deffinently one of my favorites. It's message is a more modern take on the religion, or at least it is compared to today's "Bible=Word of God" beliefs.

However, my favorite is The Wall. It has one of the greatest rock songs ever, Comfortably Numb, and all the songs meld together to create a work of art other operas or concept albums. Plus, the movie has a giant ass as a judge. That's just funny.

It's funny how that album perfectly describes so many of its fans, eh?

Just because you don't like the music doesn't really give you a right to make gross generalizations about the fans. Looking at your favorites, I could say, for example, "Every Rush fan is awful scum" (I'm a Rush fan, so for obvious reasons I wouldn't say that, but it's a principal thing.)

I don't know that I could tell you what I consider to be the best concept album or Rock opera.

I'd certainly say, however, that the Mars Volta's Frances The Mute is certainly up there as far as concept albums go. I also really like Tommy.


...I know there are more that I like, but I cannot think of any at the moment, perhaps I will edit this later on...

When I say 'favorite' I want it to be clear that I am not talking about quality or being 'the best.'

I think you have to be an atheist to appreciate it properly. I mean, after all, it's told from the perspective of the biggest skeptic in the group.

That, by the way, is my favorite. Tim Rice writes a good lyric book and the music is funky and the whole thing is campy as all hell. I don't really like the composer, but Jesus Christ Superstar is good times.

Chess is fun, to. Mostly because I was in Jr. High when One Night in Bangkok came out and years later I actually ran across the musical. It's also...well, silly.

I've seen both of them. I don't know who the hell was in Chess...someone I'm supposed to have heard of I guess.

Jesus Christ Superstar had Ted Neely playing Jesus again, which was cool, especially when he thrashes the temple.
He's been Jesus for well over 33 years now, hasn't he? 'Course, he prolly gets nailed a lil more often, too ;)

Just because you don't like the music doesn't really give you a right to make gross generalizations about the fans. Looking at your favorites, I could say, for example, "Every Rush fan is awful scum" (I'm a Rush fan, so for obvious reasons I wouldn't say that, but it's a principal thing.)

The difference between your comment and mine is that mine actually has some backing to it. :p

Not exactly Opera, but concept, definitely.

Haunted, by Poe (since it hasn't been mentioned. A few other good ones have already been mentioned.

Tommy!

Not a big fan of "rock opera", but my favorite concept album would be Blind Guardian's Nightfall in Middle Earth.

He's been Jesus for well over 33 years now, hasn't he? 'Course, he prolly gets nailed a lil more often, too ;)
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Not exactly Opera, but concept, definitely.

Haunted, by Poe (since it hasn't been mentioned. A few other good ones have already been mentioned.
I stopped reading that book (House of Leaves) when I had to decode like 5 pages. I appreciate the effort, but didn't have the text to make me want to put up with all that nonsense.

I stopped reading that book (House of Leaves) when I had to decode like 5 pages. I appreciate the effort, but didn't have the text to make me want to put up with all that nonsense.

Her bro got up and read some passages on stage, probably the same ones that were used in the remix ... during Hey Pretty.
She f*cking ROCKS live. She opened for Depeche Mode up in Portland a few years back. Great concert.
I did consider getting the book to flip through, and i still do. Course, i can handle a lot of extreme prose, depending on my mood and other distractions.

The first one I ever saw - Hair. After that Operation Mindcrime.
O, Calcutta was a waste of skin - literally.

The difference between your comment and mine is that mine actually has some backing to it. :p

You'll notice that your opinions on music are not actually permissible as scientific fact, I'm sorry (Well, not really.) to inform you.

Just because you don't like the music doesn't really give you a right to make gross generalizations about the fans. Looking at your favorites, I could say, for example, "Every Rush fan is awful scum" (I'm a Rush fan, so for obvious reasons I wouldn't say that, but it's a principal thing.)


That's a topic for debate in and of itself. Does musical taste tend to indicate personality traits? I tend to beleive that broader musical tastes can indicate self-perception, and therefore self-presentation. However, I find that generalizations do not hold truth in all cases. I know many fans of Greed Day, and many of my friends are quite enamored with Zen Arcade Rip-Off Idiot. That doesn't make them bad people, necessarily. It just means they have shitty taste in music. ;)

Zen Arcade Rip-Off Idiot.

Referencing Husker Du and Green Day in the same sentence amounts to blasphemy. Husker Du are gods among men. Hell, they're gods among other gods. They're so godly that they're gods among themselves!