Your Favorite Concept Album :]

[SMiLE Brian]

I'm so with hypehat and rockandroll here, you people who suggest Surfer Girl or Little Deuce Coupe to be concept albums, I think are stretching the idea of what a concept album is too far.
There are so many albums that for instance just contain love songs - it doesn't necessarily make them concept album because of that.

thank you i agree with everything you said. "Little Deuce Coupe" IS NOT A CONCEPT ALBUM. LOL

Little Deuce Coupe is a concept album  LOL, LOL,  LOL, LOL, LOL

[SBonilla]

I like Four Seasons' Imitation Life Gazette.

I'm not sure it qualifies, but it's a great album anyway.

[cablegeddon]

The only way pet sounds could be a concept album in my personal opinion would be if there was actual pet sounds on each and every song.....like the galloping horse on god only knows and the dog on.....(forgot which song it is).

[Newguy562]

I'm so with hypehat and rockandroll here, you people who suggest Surfer Girl or Little Deuce Coupe to be concept albums, I think are stretching the idea of what a concept album is too far.
There are so many albums that for instance just contain love songs - it doesn't necessarily make them concept album because of that.

thank you i agree with everything you said. "Little Deuce Coupe" IS NOT A CONCEPT ALBUM. LOL

Little Deuce Coupe is a concept album  LOL, LOL,  LOL, LOL, LOL

I Like "Little Deuce Coupe" just as much as you or maybe more but It Isnt! Lol

[Aum Bop Diddit]

Nobody reads what anyone actually says here do they?  They just post.   

[rab2591]

LMAO.

The definition of concept album: an album with a unified theme (whether it be compositionally, narratively, lyrically, etc). Young kids driving cool cars is the unified theme of Little Douce Coupe. Thus it is a concept album.

[tansen]

LMAO.

The definition of concept album: an album with a unified theme (whether it be compositionally, narratively, lyrically, etc). Young kids driving cool cars is the unified theme of Little Douce Coupe. Thus it is a concept album.

Uh, no that's Wikipedia's definition of a concept album. Not good enough. So an album which is lyrically just about love is a concept album? Nah, not necessarily so.

[Heysaboda]

These are the only ones i've heard so far that i love.

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society
Pink Floyd - Animals
The Who - Quadrophenia
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Beach Boys - Smile
The Kinks - Arthur

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[Heysaboda]

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway.
And on a completely different note, I think I am the youngest on the board, not newguy.

2 cheers 4 U LOL

[SMiLE Brian]

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway.
And on a completely different note, I think I am the youngest on the board, not newguy.

Are you of the age of 12 or 13 like i think newguy is?

[Newguy562]

heyyyyyy!! i'm not 12 k! i'm older! :]

[rab2591]

LMAO.

The definition of concept album: an album with a unified theme (whether it be compositionally, narratively, lyrically, etc). Young kids driving cool cars is the unified theme of Little Douce Coupe. Thus it is a concept album.

Uh, no that's Wikipedia's definition of a concept album. Not good enough. So an album which is lyrically just about love is a concept album? Nah, not necessarily so.

Erm, actually that's from dictionary.com

Concept means a general idea derived from specific instances; a thought or notion; a plan.

The specific instances in Little Douce Coupe being kids driving cars having fun....the general idea being cars.

I mean, I get what you're saying, but we'll never agree on semantics here. The album is unified with a concept....that's what I see.

[Chocolate Shake Man]

Erm, actually that's from dictionary.com

Dictionary.com happens to be cribbing their definition from Wikipedia who sourced that same definition to one's guy's book. This is hardly official and for my money, it's a bad definition for reasons I already explained.

[rab2591]

Erm, actually that's from dictionary.com

Dictionary.com happens to be cribbing their definition from Wikipedia who sourced that same definition to one's guy's book. This is hardly official and for my money, it's a bad definition for reasons I already explained.

The definition of 'Concept' (which I got from The American Heritage Dictionary) still proves my point. Believe what you want - I mean I get where you're coming from and all, but based off the word concept the album Little Douce Coupe, from my perspective, is in fact an album with a concept behind it.

[Newguy562]

Erm, actually that's from dictionary.com

Dictionary.com happens to be cribbing their definition from Wikipedia who sourced that same definition to one's guy's book. This is hardly official and for my money, it's a bad definition for reasons I already explained.

The definition of 'Concept' (which I got from The American Heritage Dictionary) still proves my point. Believe what you want - I mean I get where you're coming from and all, but based off the word concept the album Little Douce Coupe, from my perspective, is in fact an album with a concept behind it.

the whole album isnt even about cars maybe a couple but not the whole thing. lol

[rab2591]

Erm, actually that's from dictionary.com

Dictionary.com happens to be cribbing their definition from Wikipedia who sourced that same definition to one's guy's book. This is hardly official and for my money, it's a bad definition for reasons I already explained.

The definition of 'Concept' (which I got from The American Heritage Dictionary) still proves my point. Believe what you want - I mean I get where you're coming from and all, but based off the word concept the album Little Douce Coupe, from my perspective, is in fact an album with a concept behind it.

the whole album isnt even about cars maybe a couple but not the whole thing. lol

Little Deuce Coupe
Be True To Your School (mentions driving)
Car Crazy Cutie
Cherry Cherry Coupe
409
Shut Down
Spirit Of America
Our Car Club
No Go Showboat
A Young Man Is Gone
Custom Machine

Yeah, maybe a couple

That leaves all but one that doesn't mention a car or driving.

[Newguy562]

Erm, actually that's from dictionary.com

Dictionary.com happens to be cribbing their definition from Wikipedia who sourced that same definition to one's guy's book. This is hardly official and for my money, it's a bad definition for reasons I already explained.

The definition of 'Concept' (which I got from The American Heritage Dictionary) still proves my point. Believe what you want - I mean I get where you're coming from and all, but based off the word concept the album Little Douce Coupe, from my perspective, is in fact an album with a concept behind it.

the whole album isnt even about cars maybe a couple but not the whole thing. lol

Little Deuce Coupe
Be True To Your School (mentions driving)
Car Crazy Cutie
Cherry Cherry Coupe
409
Shut Down
Spirit Of America
Our Car Club
No Go Showboat
A Young Man Is Gone
Custom Machine

Yeah, maybe a couple

That leaves all but one that doesn't mention a car or driving.

if you could see my face right now you'd know that you got me lol...------->

[drbeachboy]

Look at Sinatra, all 16 Capitol studio albums are considered concept albums. Concept in the sense that the themes and arrangements were well thought out before going into the studio to record. If albums like In The Wee Small Hours, Songs For Swingin' Lovers and Sings For Only The Lonely are concept albums, then an album like Little Deuce Coupe would fall into the concept album category for the same reasons.

[Aum Bop Diddit]

Look at Sinatra, all 16 Capitol studio albums are considered concept albums. Concept in the sense that the themes and arrangements were well thought out before going into the studio to record. If albums like In The Wee Small Hours, Songs For Swingin' Lovers and Sings For Only The Lonely are concept albums, then an album like Little Deuce Coupe would fall into the concept album category for the same reasons.

Very good example -- I forgot about Sinatra.

[Jay]

How about Save For A Rainy Day?

[Ron]

LMAO.

The definition of concept album: an album with a unified theme (whether it be compositionally, narratively, lyrically, etc). Young kids driving cool cars is the unified theme of Little Douce Coupe. Thus it is a concept album.

Uh, no that's Wikipedia's definition of a concept album. Not good enough. So an album which is lyrically just about love is a concept album? Nah, not necessarily so.

I've got to agree with you.  If that's the definition of a concept album, then the Beach Boys weren't the first like lots of people stretch to say they were... I mean Jackie Gleason even had concept albums before that.  Anybody in the 40's or 50's who put out a "Songs For Lovers!" album made a concept album.  Any Jazz album could be a concept album, etc. 

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

The Moody Blues — Days of Future Passed

Ah! In Search Of The Lost Chord!!!!!!

[MaxL]

Jordan: The Comeback by Prefab Sprout. In the strictest sense it may not be a concept album but the four movements revolve around four intertwining themes (commonly sited as "Love, Death, God and Elvis" although there's always room for interpretation).

I'll leave the arguing about the definitions of a concept album to you guys, you're doing a pretty good job.