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kobayashi_maru_fail t1_je8oifn wrote

Reply to Tell me about the concept of an album that you think is brilliant. by akacoline

I used to listen to Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips pretty often when I was a young hipster kid with a record player. The vinyl was bubble-gum pink, the theme really feels like it should be a Studio Ghibli movie: too much weight placed on the shoulders of a strong yet vulnerable protagonist, slightly otherworldly, cute tropes turned on their head (like, “she’s strong, she’s got this!”).

Nirvana’s In Utero feels like a series of meditations on reluctant parenthood by a depressed/suicidal person. I can’t imagine how Frances feels when she turns on the radio and hears Pennyroyal Tea or Rape Me. The poor thing is even named after a mental health tragedy.

Bowie gave us a perfect death album in Blackstar.

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noopenusernames t1_je8oc0g wrote

Reply to comment by Cuff87 in Tell me about the concept of an album that you think is brilliant. by akacoline

The Faceless is another good band, that album is really good.

Yeah dude, IAA has really good instrumentals, but it’s the combo of the voice with the music that makes them. Other bands do it well too, like Protest The Hero and Mandroid Echostar, but neither of those bands sound like their singer should be screaming, whereas IAA does, and it just works so well that he doesn’t. The album I mentioned though, his voice definitely sounds grittier than his previous work, and this album is such a more mature sound. Their guitarist does all the production work too and has worked with a lot of metal bands, like Polyphia and Oceans Ate Alaska. OAA’s drummer actually did all the recorded drums for this album, and both Polyphia’s guitarist guest star on one of the songs on the album.

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SparkelleFultz t1_je8noyj wrote

Reply to comment by lonelythrowaway463i9 in Tell me about the concept of an album that you think is brilliant. by akacoline

Dan the automator really is the goat of hip hop concept albums Dr octagon, handsome boy modeling school, deltron 3030 and gorillaz are probably all in the top ten hip-hop concept albums. I've always said I wish him and MF DOOM(one of the other goats of hip hop concept albums(madvillany, mm..food, mouse and the mask I could go on forever his whole identity is a concept like the Gorillaz honestly) made a concept album together, their styles fit perfectly together imo and they fucked with a lot of the same people like prince Paul(another goat(handsome boy, gravediggaz, prince among thieves)) and Kool Keith(again...goat Dr octagon, Dr dooom). I also always wanted a deltron Dr octagon Collab since Dr octagon could time travel lol but fucking Dr dooom had to go and kill him. Another hip hop concept album goat is masta ace whose got a bunch of dope ones but my favorite hip hop concept album might be the roots undun but I'm pretty biased because I'm from Philly and Stan black thought and questlove

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