ill always be a sucker for concept albums. i think it all started w queensryche’s operation mindcrime, or actually it was probably styx’s kilroy was here, but i was way too young to understand. so, i’ll just stick with operation mindcrime, which i have been wanting to listen again for a while now, but just cant bring myself to do it. i remember it being so awesome, and i am afraid time has not been kind to it. either way, yeah i dig concept records. they arent done enough, if you ask me. the last one i really remember being released is dbt’s southern rock opera. there are probably a shit-ton released every year, i am just not aware. anyone got any good ones? anyway, i bring up concept records because brooklynite sean schuyler aka jumpiter has just released such a record which is entitled, four stories down – its a murder mystery for the record. i have not heard the entire thing, cause i just got his email recently, but i dig his sound, fuzzy power pop, and you can download the record for free, i believe, via his facebook acct. definitely worth checking out…
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Operation Mindcrime was my favourite album of the 80s for a loooooong time. Listened to it again recently and thought it stood up remarkably well. Shame they had to go and ruin it with Operation Mindcrime 2 – that was awful.
Really liked Hadestown from Anais Mitchell earlier this year.
didnt even know bout mindcrime 2. yeah that was prob unnecessary. duh, totally forgot about hadestown, i really like that record…
Operation mindcrime was a good one…and don’t even get me started on Styx! — a favorite concept album that comes to mind immediately is The Decemberists “The Hazards of Love”, and not as recent but The Hold Steady’s “Seperation Sunday” (really all their releases could fit to some degree as well as Lifter Puller), The Dear Hunter “Act I” and “Act II”, Mastodon’s “Leviathan” and “Crack the Skye”, the entire Coheed and Cambria discography, The Mars Vota, and just so they are noted cuase i love ‘em The Flaming Lips “yoshimi battles the pink robots”, Pink Floyd’s “DSOTM” and “The Wall”, The Who’s “tommy” and personal faves “Quadrophenia” and the best of all Roger Water’s “The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking”…those are just a few (yeah, i dig concept albums as well!) thanks for the heads up on this (and all the other amazing stuff you post!)