Full album Epics

**boberta13k** · Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:41 pm Post subject: Full album Epics

i know i used the word epic, but im actually using it effectively

so i was thinking of albums like the beatles' Abbey Road, pink floyd's The Wall, and mastodon's Crack the Skye and how they masterfully made the entire album a gigantic epic series of songs, and i was wondering if there were any others out there I or other people should look into.
i know i only have a popularity/limited view on mine, but thats what you and i come here for, to find new stuff!

so anyone who knows some different album epics please feel free to share them. mastodon/beatles/pink floyed cant be the only ones out there.......
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**guitarroker** · Joined: 06 Jan 2008 Posts: 1993 Location: Iceland

I always thought the Alan Parsons Project album Tales of Mystery and Imagination flows really well, you could try giving that a listen.
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**BNghfreak12** · Joined: 17 May 2008 Posts: 583

The Fragile by Nine Inch Nails.

That is all you need.

**Parama** · Joined: 19 Mar 2008 Posts: 5870

How about albums that are a grand total of one song long? I know of Transatlantic's The Whirlwind (which I need to get soon) and Green Carnation's Light of Day, Day of Darkness.

Dream Theater has Scenes From a Memory and Pain of Salvation's BE is a conceptual masterpiece... most Ayreon albums also flow pretty well too.

By the way, the correct term your looking for is "concept album" - album where the songs flow into each other and usually tell a story.
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**FBMrider86** · Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:55 pm Post subject:

Tommy - The Who

It's a freakin' rock opera. What else can you say?

Also almost all of Pink Floyd's albums have that feel, at least up until A Momentary Lapse of Reason.
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**thecaptainof** · Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 7571 Location: ¯\(°_o)/¯

There's a five-page topic on concept albums here, you're bound to find a few ideas in there:
http://www.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=92963
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**GuardianDemon** · Joined: 11 Apr 2008 Posts: 1792 Location: Ireland

Definetly look at Dream Theater's ''Octovarium''Album

**googleimage** · Joined: 23 Aug 2007 Posts: 1229

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
This album speaks for itself.

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This one isn't an epic in the traditional sense. It's your prototypical 11-song 45-minute album, but the quality of the songs themselves fit the definition of "epic" to a tee. Listen to 'Monsoon', 'Relative Ways' or 'How Near How Far' and then try to deny its epic quality. The album is just one giant sustained climax, literally speaking of course.
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Anything and everything by Dream Theater.
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I just want to incite a riot by saying that secretly The Wall is the WORST waters era Floyd album. Animals, Dark Side of the Mood, Meddle, Wish You Were Here, Obscured by Clouds and even Atom Heart Mother are all better albums that are way more enjoyable to listen to. The Wall is pointless pretentious tripe.

Oh yah, opinion by the way.

On topic:

CAN - Tago Mayo
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Radiohead - Kid A
Pavement - Wowie Zowie
Ramones - Ramones
The Clash - London Calling
Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West
The Mekons - Fear and Whiskey
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico
Cynic - Focus
The Misfits - Walk Among Us
Gangstarr - Daily Operation
Deltron - Deltron 3030
Dj Shadow - Endtroducing
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