Concept album of the day

johngti

I’ll start off with Thingfish by the late great Frank Zappa. Full of galoot cologne and mammy nuns. Great stuff!!

joe2019

Setting Sons by The Jam, includes my favourite Jam track Wasteland, always worth a run through of those lyrics...

Meet me on the wastelands - later this day
We'll sit and talk and hold hands maybe
For there's not much else to do in this drab and colorless place
We'll sit amongst the rubber tires
Amongst the discarded bric-a-brac
People have no use for - amongst the smoldering embers of yesterday
And when or if the sun shines
Lighting our once beautiful features
We'll smile but only for seconds
For to be caught smiling is to acknowledge life
A brave but useless show of compassion
And that is forbidden in this drab and colorless world
Meet me on the wastelands - the ones behind
The old houses - the ones - left standing pre-war
The ones overshadowed by the monolith monstrosities
Councils call homes
And there amongst the censored - the dirty linen
The holy Coca-Cola tins -…

I saw The Jam in Shepton Mallet on a school trip, when school trips were school trips.

MattFalle

ahem?

veronese68

Much as I like The Jam, did they do concept albums? I thought that was more of a prog thing on the whole.
Too Old to Rock & Roll by Jethro Tull was a good one

joe2019

veronese68 said:

Much as I like The Jam, did they do concept albums? I thought that was more of a prog thing on the whole.
Too Old to Rock & Roll by Jethro Tull was a good one

Weller's original vision for Setting Sons was of a concept album that followed the lives of three boyhood friends who grow up and apart after a war deflects their life trajectories.