The wall 1st to come to my mind, tommy 2nd, but I knew the wall would be #1 , how can you listen to this album without imaging the scenes from the movie, especially the animation .
This list sucks. I feel sorry for you guys. Here are a few 'little' concept albums that you've missed: Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (only an honorable mention? seriously?) ELP - Tarkus Camel - The Snow Goose
I always saw The Dark Side of the Moon as the ultimate concept album. And I was surprised not to see The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails on this list, or OK Computer or Kid A
GoodmorningCaptain no the wall has the most story to it and wish you were here animals and division bell all have more of a concept to DSOTM. DSOTM has amazing flow but i think money ruins it
GoodmorningCaptain Dark Side is not really a concept album since there's no real story linked to every song, it just (amazingly) talks about various topics. However the Wall is much more of a whole story.
How is King Crimson ' s "Court of the Crimson King" not on this list? I know you have alot of prog rock on here already, but not even an honorable mention?
Supposedly one is coming this year. Drummer Danny Carey was filling in for one of the late night T.V. bands and mentioned it. Hopefully we actually get it this year.
Also, Farewell to Kings and Hemispheres are wayyy better actual concept albums. Even Grace Under Pressure was a concept album. Either way, Rush should def be higher than #7.
True 2112 kings and hemispheres were not concept albums but albums featuring side long epics with the other songs being loosely or not connected at all to the theme of the side long epic. In the case of kings just a 9 minute song with an 18 minute sequel on the next album. Passage to Bangkok is not related to the 2112 theme at all. However the final album clockwork angels is a true concept album and deserved mention but most people in the mainstream don't realize rush did anything after tom Sawyer, maybe subdivisions or possibly distant early warning. Certainly nothing from the late 80s onward, despite some of the best material coming after peart's comeback. But rush fans know. Rip rush though they are all still alive. Edit: for kings, the epic Cygnus x1 is less related to the theme of the rest of the album, then again neither is xanadu, so really only kings and Bastille day seem to have a similar theme. I think clockwork angels is the best example of rush doing an actual concept album, rather than just the side long epics. Tldr brought to you courtesy of Aspergers syndrome
+the walking dead is lyfe Mindcrime is among the greatest metal albums of ALL TIME. American Idiot is nowhere near what Dookie is. It was Green Day's attempt to be more commercial, and it was pretty bland. Not bad, but not great. Mindcrime is a masterpiece and doesn't conform to what's popular.
It totally should've been Dark Side! It's pretty much the perfect album! Dark Side spent well over 900 weeks on the Billboard charts, while The Wall was only on the charts for over 700!
@@ianswanberg2327 Dark Side is often considered the best album of all time, but on the other hand, The Wall has more of a direct rock-opera storyline and cohesive concept kept through the eighty minutes of this album, which makes it more fitting for this list.
@@GSP63852 Watchmojo made it seem like the wall is better but it's not however darkside is more a semi concept album whereas the wall is a proper one so the wall should be #1
Pink Floyd could have 3 on this list; Animals, Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall. Personally I think Animals is the best... The Wall is a great album, but it is so depressing.
What about the more personal and heartfelt of their concept albums (yes... even more personal than the wall and the final cut)? My all time favourite: Wish You Were Here.
Pink Floyd would easily land three of these top ten spots if you allowed more than one entry per band. “The Wall” “Wish You Were Here” “Animals” Also, Linkin Park’s “A Thousand Suns” should be an honorable mention.
@@tepidtooth8539 Well, in a way it is, in the same way that Sargeant Peppers isn't... But you're right, it's not like ''We're only in it for the Money'' by Frank Zappa for instance,,, THAT is a TRUE concept album !
yes I agree lateralus, aemina, or 10000 days would do..... even though obviously not mainsteam enough for mojo but APC thirteenth Step is a great concept album too... the order has a clear purpose, the connections are pretty apparent and cohesive... maybe just cuz I relate so much, but that album is the soundtrack of what my life has entailed so far...
ive recently been listening to thirteenth step at least daily and as a recovering addict they really nailed it. the package is my favorite song bc its just what its like to go out and cop ur shit.
Yep. It's really got more to it than the Wall, but it's quite a bit less accessible. I love the album and I was turned off by it on my first listen through. Took five go -arounds for me to be sure I even liked the album, and five more to be sure I loved it.
KPhillips: It hardly even sounds like a Genesis album. The band was so fractured by then that it could easily have been Peter Gabriel's first solo album. With all his over-the-top stage theatrics, Mike, Steve, Phil, and Tony were truly starting to feel like sidemen.
Seriously... Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon didn't even get an honorable mention, when it stayed on the chart for 736 weeks, and is widely considered the quintessential concept album?? Pink Floyd should be listed twice, because they truly deserve it. Does WatchMojo do irritating stuff like this just to get a rise out of others??
In terms of concept albums it is not PFs best. Animals - which tackles social and politic themes & The Wall - which is mention above both are better concept albums. TDSOTM only links together with the theme of death and war
Atom Heart Mother Suite I'm a huge Pink Floyd fan, and I own all they've released... just my own personal opinion, really, because I love Dark Side of the Moon so much.
The most of Alan Parsons Project albums were conceptual albums. Freudiana, Tales of mistery and imagination, I robot, The Turn of a friendly card, mostly in 70' s 80'
Yeah! I loved Abigail and Them. Also they should have at least added or gave a mention to "Crimson Idol" by W.A.S.P, i consider W.A.S.P the best Glam band of all time...
fluluxpwnz It's the most notable one however, being able to considerably appeal to a mainstream audience while delivering a message and being a concept album. A Prince Among Thieves is probably the one that got me the most invested though.
* *Ronnie Farnsworth* * - Your forgetting the #1 BEST theme albums of ALL TIME. Nightmarish, to say the least and to use pun. Alice Cooper's, 'Welcome to my Nightmare' even had Vincent Price talking in one song.
Yes, and one if the very first concept albums, beating S F Sorrow AND Tommy. Don’t know why, but the Moodies never seem to get the credit they truly deserve, it’s been that way for decades.
@@yesman2755 One of my favorite Moody Blues albums...I also have On the Threshold of a Dream, and Every Good Boy Deserves Favour. But, the most iconic song is "Nights In White Satin." Still blows me away after all these years..."Breathe deep, the gathering gloom; watch lights fade from every room. Bedsitter people look back and lament 'another day's useless energy spent.' Impassioned lovers wrestle as one, lonely man cries for love, and has none, new mother picks up and suckles her son; senior citizens wish they were young. Cold hearted orb that rules the night: removes the colors from our sight; red is grey and yellow white. But we decide which is right, and which is an illusion." Astounding.
Alice In Chains Unplugged is number 1 in my opinion, it was Laynes last Live performance and he san with so much energy and power despite of his bad health.
My cousin saw the Animals tour in Philly in '77. She said it was the single ugliest scene & crowd she ever encountered, unfortunately. She described people around her as deranged, out of their collective minds on heavy substances (even though she was a partier herself....) and of many folks puking around her. Legend has it, it was Roger Waters' overriding hate for this particular crowd that was the inspiration for The Wall. She described that concert at Philly's Spectrum as, "ugly, ugly, ugly". She also saw Yes in Waterbury, CT on their first US tour- with Bill Bruford & Tony Kaye still in the band !! She heard Ed Schiaky's praises of Yes on early FM Philly radio and was determined to see the band based on those praises... She travelled from Levittown, PA to Waterbury to see them. She was a lifelong fan afterward, but never forgave Bruford for leaving ! 😎
Hollows Mom Animals is a failed left wing concept album . The subject matter is boring and in the end ,no one really cares.. The Wall is 100x more intetesting and more accessible , conceptually and musically. If Mojo does a ten worst concept album list, I agree that Animals should have a place in the top ten :-)
I am a libertarian by all means, but i also agree with the themes in dogs especially about human greed. I enjoy the music more than the lyrics however and enjoy the length of the songs on the album.
Total bullshit! Wish You Were Here is their best album. Animals is a great but it isn't even number 2, regardless of all the try-hards like you who want to appear knowledgeable by choosing Animals because a lot of people don't know about it...
The Wall much more superior musically . But there is something about Black parade that make it diffrent than any other album I have heard . Maybe it is the emotional quality of the album that makes it so good . It is my favorite album .
Also the music is better in everyway than the wall, the catchy guitar melody in the end is so much better then the one in in the flesh and gerard way is a better vocalist in everyway lmao
It's literally the downward spiral of a man... Every song progresses towards the epic ending. Hurt is the epilogue of the whole album as it's the final track on the record.
Jericho Jacob even this year's to pimp a butterfly should be in here and higher on the list, not just some honorable mention. no love for hip hop, so many great concept albums..
Yeah, Hand Cannot Erase should have been up there for sure. They should have said "The Top 10 Concept Albums that we've heard of". Also Pete Bardens Seen One Earth should have been up there as well.
Mastodon's "Leviathan" should have been here somewhere. I know WM and Metal go together like oil and water, but seriously, that album is INCREDIBLE, and it's a fucking Moby Dick concept album... that's awesome.
Leviathan is the most acceptable Masturdon album, and yet it isn't even the best concept metal album about Moby Dick. Ahab did it a THOUSAND times better with The Call Of The Wretched Sea.
I would say gkmc tells a better story than tpab even though I think the latter is the better album gkmc has one central theme whereas tpab has numerous themes going for it. But in terms of best concept album yeah good kid maad city
TheIrishPinata98 I'm the total opposite lol. I think GKMC has better individual songs, but the storyline is kind of annoying/boring. I think the poem that extends throughout TPAB is tied together incredibly by the end, with the 2pac interview and spoken word poem being the cherry on top. I dont like the individual songs as much, but the album as a cohesive unit is the best I've heard since Channel Orange by Frank Ocean (probably one of the best organized albums I've ever heard tbh)
So, you guys do not know Marillion? Misplaced Childhood and Clutching at Straws are both MASTERPIECES! Worth at least a mention, if not a place among the top 5...
80085word69 I just rebought it on vinyl (brand new pressing, old one was an origina from '79 and very worn sound). At least once a week I'll find myself listening to it with headphones in its entireity.
Moody Blues: Days of Future Passed. The album goes through an entire day as a concept. I can't believe it wasn't mentioned. Couple hits on it too (see Tuesday Afternoon, Nights in White Satin).
Disappointed that "Days of Future Passed" by The Moody Blues didn't make the list, or even get an honorable mention. One of the first albums recorded in stereo, one of the first to include a classical orchestra with a rock band, and songs based on the different times of day. "Tuesday Afternoon" and "Nights in White Satin" are classick rock radio staples to this day.
Yes, as I posted elsewhere, this meets the requirements of a concept album better than any that were mentioned. Remember the 4 Cs - Concept: Complete, Connected & Coherent. Thank you for your comment.
Pet Sounds for creating the concept of a concept album. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme one of the best anti-war albums ever, at the peak of the Vietnam war Rumours a compilation of various formations of love Highway 61 Revisited. From Like a Rolling Stone through Desolation Row, Dylan speaks to the desolation and isolation and angst
A lovely album Pet Sounds is. But it's not the first concept album. That honor goes to the 1955 release, "In The Wee Small Hours" by Francis Albert Sinatra
Yeah but i would still miss Mike Portnoy - And it still is a Masterpiece - nothing released after that can even scrape ore measure up to it - for me the very gold standard maby for the rest of the next decade as well !
emptysaint Nothing from Alice Cooper either. From the Inside Welcome To My Nightmare (pt's 1/2) and Along Came A Spider are all fantastic concept albums
The Fragile is a sequel to The Downward Spiral though. But I suppose your right, The Fragile might not make this list unfortunately. However The Fragile is by far the better of the two albums.
I agree with you 100%, The Lamb along with Animals by Pink Floyd and Tommy are the best concept albums of all time. "American Idiot" shouldn't be on this list at all.
William Woodgate but The Lamb is a solid story (I know it's confusing as shit) while Nursery Cryme is just the same themes of Fantasy and Stories. Basically the same reason dark side of the moon isn't on here but the wall is
It is in NO way a concept album. Just because every song fits together and feel like they belong, and have common themes, doesnt mean it's a concept album. It just means that the band actually put some effort into making an effort rather than making a collection of unrelated songs. A concept album tells a consistent story. Theres no ongoing consistent story in OK Computer. Still one of the greatest albums of all time.
They should do a top 10 metal concept albums: King Diamond - Abigail Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli Atrocity - Hallucinations Nocturnus - The Key Opeth - Still Life Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son Bathory - Blood on Ice Whitechapel - The Somatic Defilement Edge of Sanity - Crimson Macabre - Dahmer Amon Amarth - Jomsviking Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth Turisas - The Varangian Way I could go on...there are so many
@@AbsoluteNut1 Because you are ignorant to these bands, doesn't mean that people haven't heard of them. You're musical palette is CLEARLY lacking a broad spectrum lol
The Moody Blues collection of 7 concept albums from 1967-1972. Days of Future Passed, In Search of the Lost Chord, On the Threshold of a Dream, To Our Children's Children's Children, A Question of Balance, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, and Seventh Sojourn.
+Dylan Connely From Wiki: Despite this, Corgan has rejected the term concept album to describe it, and it was at the time described as more "loose" and "vague" than the band's previous records
ABSOLUTELY...and it was the BEST 'concept" album ever made, but it seems WatchMojo AVOIDS anything and everything about the Moodies, so I really have nothing more than them.
While I agree it should definitely be ahead of Green Day. Sorry but the top 4 is 100% correct. It shouldn't be any higher than #5. Just because an album is technically perfect. And musically probably the most advanced album ever. Doesn't make it THE BEST. I like Dream Theater. But Dream Theater nerd fans are all the same. Just because you like it doesn't make it the best. Those top 4 albums are absolutely iconic. And all of them hold far more cultural significance than Metropolis. Sorry
@@johnfede7057 They only hold more cultural significance because of the release date. Also, why should the cultural significance up the ranking? Metropolis Pt. 2 is the best album of all time, telling a compelling story with technical perfection and complex arrangements, all while being very accessible and somewhat catchy.
@@simonshugar1651 couldn't disagree more. Technical perfection DOES NOT mean better. Sorry did you say catchy? But if you really believe that Metropolis is more catchy than those four other albums. There is really no point in having a discussion about it. Time they were released means nothing. King Crimson is technically better than most of the prog rock of that era. Did that make them more popular. Of course not. Listen as I said I'm not a Dream Theater hater. I can appreciate them for what they are. Amazing technical musicians. But sorry if the album were the "best of all time" and they wrote "catchy" songs. As you put it. They would be ALOT bigger than they are.
maybe they didn't intend Sgt. Pepper to be a concept album but they didn't intend a lot of amazing things that they did. I don't get why people don't see that the songs are all related and have similar themes. The idea of an album as a concert by a fictional band is a great concept in itself even if the songs were unrelated, but I feel like the whole album actually tells the story of the Beatles themselves and how they were feeling- and it does take us on a journey. The songs all share common themes of breaking away from the norm and being courageous enough to make a change even when people want you to stay where you are, about questioning your worth and wanting to make a difference in the world- it might be hard to see because all the songs are metaphorical, and maybe it wasn't consciously intended but I feel like deep down this was what they wanted to communicate. Songs like "With a Little Help From My Friends" (What would you do if I sang out of tune..."), "Within You Without You" (try to realise it's all within yourself, nothing else can make you change"), "When I'm 64" (will you still need me... will I be remembered, will I stand the test of time or am I [is my music] just another throwaway product?), "Fixing a Hole" (it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong or right, where I belong I'm right where I belong... in the studio!) and "Getting Better" on a more personal level (I'm changing my scene, and I'm doing the best that I can), all illustrate these ideas. Then there's "Good Morning Good Morning" which plays into this by painting a dull, mundane picture of the mainstream, making it seem like something we need to break free of. Even songs like "She's Leaving Home" and "The Benefit of Mr Kite" have these messages. In "She's Leaving Home" the home and family could be seen as a metaphor for tradition and the mainstream, while "she" represents people who depart from this way of living/doing things. The ironic line "their production will be second to none" is a real teller as to what (in my view) the song is about... it portrays the Beatles' feelings about their live performances presenting them as a "circus" commodity- being put up on display to perform "tricks" for the audience. The reprise near the end is brilliant because it signifies them saying goodbye to their live days, but it's not the end... "A Day in the Life" kicks in with "He didn't notice that the lights had CHANGED???" (get it?) and listeners knew there was more to come from this wonderful band. I could analyse more but this is long enough for a RU-vid comment. You don't have to agree with me either. Just thought I'd tell you why I personally consider it a concept album- and a great one at that!
@@nurpeachmusic I only consider an album to be a concept album when grouping all of the songs together causes them to have more meaning than they otherwise would on their own. If all the songs on an album simply share ideas and themes, it's not a concept album, it's simply a good album. Honestly, all songs on an album sharing similar themes and concepts, either lyrically or musically, should be the standard for an album. Otherwise, you don't have an album, you just have a collection of songs.
@@gabrielbennett9053 fair enough, I completely get why people wouldn't consider it a concept album. Your argument makes complete sense and you might have partially convinced me- not fully, though. I feel like the songs do a bit more than just share similar things and concepts though- they all work together to tell the band's story from multiple angles. In its essence the album is a story about a fictional band pouring their heart out to the audience at their live gig and inspiring people to make a change while all the while being a metaphor for the real band who made the album- that's why I think this is an amazing concept album. There are a few that don't fit as well with the same themes of change eg. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and Lovely Rita, which is a valid argument. Those are both still amazing songs by the way! If a song can't stand on its own and communicate its message outside the context of an album, then it's not a good song. Surprisingly people have actually said stuff like that about Sgt. Pepper, "strong concept but not strong songs, don't work outside the context of the album etc." To each their own, but I personally don't understand why someone would call these "weak" songs.
Really appreciate you all giving your opinions on this debate. I guess maybe I don’t see as much depth in a lot of the songs on sgt peppers as other people might. To me the album it’s their most consistently silly and light-hearted. There is a cohesion of sound and ideas but if that was the case than something like Paul’s RAM could also be a loose concept album, which I don’t think it is. I could maybe be convinced over time but to me it isn’t a concept album in the same way that The Wall or even Good Kid Maad City.
I'm not sure I agree with their definition of a concept album nor do I agree with their choices. If OK Computer was fair game by their definition, then surely it at least deserved to be above Jethro Tull. I do agree Tommy deserves its place over Quadrophenia due solely to popularity and the fact that it was pretty much the first concept album. I also dislike the over emphasis on progressive rock and metal, and how unrepresented hip-hop is on here (good mention of Kendrick though). Oh, and The Wall is shit in my opinion. Let me take a crack at it using their definition of a concept album: 1. The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips 2. To Pimp a Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar 3. Illinois - Sufjan Stevens 4. SMiLE - Brian Wilson 5. Trans Europe Express - Kraftwerk 6. Soundtracks for the Blind - Swans 7. We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank - Modest Mouse 8. Tommy - The Who 9. Kid A - Radiohead (if OK Computer counts then Kid A has to as well) 10. Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
There's a lot of disagreement for what constitutes a concept album. For example, most people discredit Yoshimi as a concept album because the story only exists in the first half of the album. Sgt. Pepper is like this as well, where the concept exists for two songs, then is dropped until one song at the tail end. It's sort of akin to this- if an album has entirely one song on one side of it (like Yes's Close to the Edge), does that make ti a concept album? Only half the album has a unifying concept, and it's only because it's exactly one song.I personally don't see OK Computer and Kid A as concept albums as they don't have any kind of unifying theme. Thom has gone on record saying that OK Computer started out as an idea of what an album would sound like if a computer could play guitar, while Kid A was inspired by the idea of being the last person alive after an apocalypse.
StyxTBuferd Thank you for including a Modest Mouse album. Though I would have gone with either Lonesome Crowded West or The Moon & Antarctica. Because as much as I love We Were Dead, it struggles to even hold a candle compared to those masterpieces.
The Professional Novice I don't think LCW or M&A count as concept albums. Maybe M&A if I think about it, but really it just sort of has a recurring theme about coldness and isolation, and lots of existential lyrics. I feel like Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division does almost the same thing, but no one would ever call it a concept album. I digress. I really love We Were Dead, probably more than most MM fans do.
StyxTBuferd I would say that LCW is a concept album. It's about how North America is being destroyed and gnawed away by the man with Teeth Like God's Shoeshine, and how it destroys the lives of people like Cowboy Dan and families of Trailer Trash. How he has the whole population like puppets on strings, Doin' The Cockroach for his amusement. And how he claims that It's All Nice On Ice, Alright, and that we all have Convenient Parking, but the truth is Polar Opposites, in the end we're all just Bankrupt On Selling. With nothing left to do but go down to the Lounge at Closing Time and talk about how Jesus Christ Was An Only Child while our Heart Cooks Brain. But hey, maybe I'm just Long Distance Drunk and it's actually all just Shit Luck, I mean hell, the other day I locked myself out of my own Baby Blue Sedan and now I can't even find my Truckers Atlas, or my Styrofoam Boots. This comments too long anyway, I'm Out Of Gas.
Change the title to Top 10 ROCK concept albums. No matter how much you hate hip-hop, you can't deny the incredible stories rap tells. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Which topped the Rolling Stones 500 greatest albums, NOT the beatles) WOLF, which started a revolution of alternate Rap, and To Pimp a Butterfly, THE HIGHEST RATED ALBUM OF THE DECADE. Plus Wu-Tang, Nas, Tupac, and many more. Don't let stupid mainstream rap blind you from the fact that Rap essentially means Rhythm and Poetry. It doesn't all have to be ghetto.
At least they mentioned it. I put it above the Wall, but this is trying to factor in sales and the impact on society. The Wall was a good album, but definitely overrated.
Kevin Phillips - well said and I agree with you. Perhaps it gives proof to what you say that I might not ever had heard of The Lamb if someone hadn’t turned me on to it in 1981 when I was 15. No one had to introduce me to The Wall, Tommy or Sgt. Pepper, and those 3 can still be heard on the radio today. It’s probably been 20 years since I’ve heard any Lamb on the radio.
Devin Townsend: Ziltoid, the Omniscient (2 albums about a coffee drinkin alien invading earth in order to fetch earth's ultimate cup of coffee) Dear Hunter: Acts 1-6(5 albums about a boy, his father, and a prostitute among other things, with a sixth album coming soon)
Here are some of my favorites Metropolis: Pt 2, Scenes From a Memory - Dream Theater Octavarium - Dream Theater The Wall - Pink Floyd The Human Equation - Ayreon The Source - Ayreon Visions - Haken The Mountain - Haken The Resistance - Muse The 2nd Law - Muse Paradise Lost - Symphony X 2112 - Rush Clockwork Angels - Rush Lateralus - Tool
Daniel Deitz amstrong better guitar player than john petrucci?? Jhon petrucci is one of the best guitar player. Tre cool better than mike portnoy?? One of the best drummers. I can continue comparing green bullshitt to all of the components of dream theater. Green day use the fucking 3 chords in all there fucking song, dream theater components are one of the most talented musicians. Beeing popular doasnt mean beeing a good or just competent musician. Green day sucks
I would argue that Quadrophedia was better than Tommy for a grand scale. The composition is also better! Shame that Alice Cooper's "Welcome tommy Nightmare" wasn't included as well.
One of my English teachers in high school had us study Tommy right after it came out. We had to write a paper about it, and that was pretty great. But the movie hasn't aged well. It's hippyish, and today it looks a little silly. Quadrophenia is still an extremely strong depiction of man's youth, and the themes in the record are universal while the whole thing is set in a specific historical place and time. Before I saw the film, I couldn't believe they could make a movie that captured the magic was in the record, but they did. In the original LP jacket of the original double album, there was a heavy paper book of black and white photographs of Jimmy's life with no text. Leafing through it while listening to the album gave it a whole other dimension.
They're both outstanding albums. Tommy and Quadrophenia are probably my 2 favourite albums of all time. But Tommy was a rock opera, while Quadrophenia was a concept album. Both are classics.
It is a much better release than Green Day, but that is just my opinion. But Operation:Mindcrime HAD to be on this list as it is one of the BEST concepts albums ever made.
*Thank you so much* for not summarily making the Beatles No.1. THE WALL deserves Number 1. Lose Green Day, put Jethro Tull higher, put Zappa ON the list (for God's sake!) and you've got a good list.
1. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band>The Wall 2. Pink Floyd have 2-3 better concept albums than The Wall 3. American Idiot definitely isn’t my favorite but definitely should’ve made it same with OK Computer and Machina / The Machines of God
Rush is my favorite band, but 2112 isn't a true concept album. Also, what about "Soul Cages" by Sting? That was a great concept album. Should have at least gotten an honorable mention.
@@TheSateef like 2112, side 2 of hemispheres is not really related to the epic on side 1. Even rush didn't consider any of their albums concept albums (despite public perception) until clockwork angels. An album so good it brought fears to me when it came out that it was their magnum opus finale, which unfortunately came true. But certainly not on the mainstream radar enough to make a watch mojo list. Take public perception of rush+concept album and you get 2112 for a list like this, even showing passage to Bangkok which is in no way related to the 2112 concept. But at least they made the list
