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Sgt Peppers. Beatles.
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Sgt Peppers. Beatles.
what’s the concept of sgt pepper, the outfits? doesn’t seem to hang as a running away with the circus story and especially when you consider ‘good morning’ ‘doing better’ ‘fixing a hole’... it’s all over the place.
A concept album is an album tied together with a single concept. It can be anything from a linear coherent story such as Tommy, to something more abstract like Dark Side of the Moon. I have to admit, I didn't see a coherent concept tying DSOTM together until recently (and by recently, I mean less than 22 years ago). It's 'various aspects of life':
Speak to Me -- communication (everything run together at once being their sardonic statement on the subject)
Time -- time
On the Run -- travel
Great Gig in the Sky -- religion
Any Colour You Like -- vision
Us & Them -- conflict/war
Money -- money
etc.
Seems pretty clear to me now, in hindsight.
Mine:
Planet P Project, Pink World
Jeff Wayne, War of the Worlds
Rick Wakeman, The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
Alan Parsons Project, I, Robot
even that article addresses the lack of cohesion and that all of lennon’s songs are about cornflake boxes and posters and kids drawings and newspaper obituaries have no place between mccartney’s intro/reprise. and ‘within you without you’ is just what? old-timey military band music?
‘denim on ice’ is more of a concept record.
"All of this is to say: Sgt. Pepper's was not the first concept album, but it did popularize the form." There are a lot of firsts that the Beatles are credited for, but it's really that they were the first ones to do it popularly.
"All of this is to say: Sgt. Pepper's was not the first concept album, but it did popularize the form." There are a lot of firsts that the Beatles are credited for, but it's really that they were the first ones to do it popularly.
How could everyone forget poor R?
Ya know, R.Kelly... Trapped in the Closet...that was the first R&B Opera...now that's a concept to wrap your heads around.
I have the DVD of that... It's incredible! It's like watching a a thirty car pileup filled with clown cars and shark trucks.