Top 50 Greatest Concept Albumes Of All Time

[TheFame Monster 8,881]

Anything is a concept album if you want it to be 

[Night Vision 3,068]

9 minutes ago, NATAH said:

so are The Fame + Monster concept albums since they're all about fame and then the monsters of fame? or is that just a theme?

i think ARTPOP is a concept album though, right?

"Concept album" doesn't just mean "album that has a concept" though, I think that's why it's confusing to some people.

All of Gaga's albums have an individual concept and theme that ties that specific project together, but usually the actual subject matter of her albums is quite varied. For example, ARTPOP is conceptually about art and pop existing together, but the album also has songs about drug use, assault, female empowerment etc, and it isn't structured in a way that tells a linear story. The concepts of her albums tend to be more umbrella concepts that house lots of her different ideas.

Born This Way's concept is social justice and self-love, but it also has songs about her grandfather's death, her relationship with Luc etc, but I will say that a lot of Gaga's albums are very close to being considered a "concept album", at least in the traditional sense of what the term meant.

[Reginald 13,840]

An excellent top 10  I used to listen to some of these albums over and over 

[theidlerwheel 435]

Exile in Guyville is sooooo incredibly good, Liz Phair is so underrated

[palma 7,779]

istg call me an ignorant f slur but I'm so tired of seeing Pink Floyd in these lists it does nothing but pandering on 50+ guys and try hard teens 

I think the concept of making top 10 lists is very tired. 1000 albums you should listen before you die? Sure, tell me and maybe I will but this kind of listing is very subjective and does not spark any interest in me to check any of these albums 

[salty like sodium 1,178]

lemonade.

[RodeckDanny 2,432]

Janelle is #12 YAS. Yet she deserves top 10 all across her albums, Dirty Computer is so GOOD

[Wet Fire 7,001]

So happy to see Rosalia 

[Mister Gaga 22,742]

ARTPOP should be #1. It's so complex and deep that is impossible to describe

[Concertaholic 5,613]

American Idiot was #2 but Hot Fuss wasn’t even included 

[Butters Stotch 5,364]

3 hours ago, SS77 said:

The ArchAndroid by Janelle Monae should be top 10

EDIT: just saw its at 12. I'll allow.

Came here looking for this. The Archandroid is probably the best concept album I've ever heard, so clever and well produced. It's insane.

[Concertaholic 5,613]

3 hours ago, palma said:

istg call me an ignorant f slur but I'm so tired of seeing Pink Floyd in these lists it does nothing but pandering on 50+ guys and try hard teens 

I think the concept of making top 10 lists is very tired. 1000 albums you should listen before you die? Sure, tell me and maybe I will but this kind of listing is very subjective and does not spark any interest in me to check any of these albums 

Have you ever actually listened to The Wall? I had never listened to Pink Floyd until a few years ago but The Wall is incredible..

[palma 7,779]

Just now, Concertaholic said:

Have you ever actually listened to The Wall? I had never listened to Pink Floyd until a few years ago but The Wall is incredible..

I did back in high school. It’s not atrocious obviously - i just never felt the need to listen to it again. radiohead is my go-to universally acclaimed band. 

[LaLuna 12,732]

I would've put The Wall at #1 but okay 

[androiduser 7,438]

"concept albums" were always innovative and special so fans/artists/critics now want to pin the term to any album they like... A great example of a concept album is Bowie's "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars".

Fans can cry all they want, Gaga's albums are not concept albums. Having an idea behind the music does not immediately mean the end product is a concept album. But most fans know that the term "concept album" is something fancy and admirable, so suddenly everything and anything is a concept album.