Because I woke up to Starman...
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My top four rock concept albums of all time:
5. Fifth place, the albums that almost made the top four, and are too closely placed to pick one of them as five: The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band; Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son; Marillion - Misplaced Childhood; David Bowie - Outside; Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out!; Radiohead - OK Computer; John Coltrane - A Love Supreme; and the one album that I'd rate as five if you held a gun to my head: King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King - sublime.
4. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon: Yes, yes, the most overrated piece of plastic in the history of the music business, and we all get tired of Roger Waters at some point, but one can't deny its impact. The first time you hear The Great Gig In The Sky is a special moment indeed. Especially after watching it with The Wizard Of Oz
3. The Who - Tommy: The stupifyingly brilliant saga of a blind, deaf and dumb boy, this magical Townshend album triggered off, between my humble little tonedeaf ears, a musical epiphany of monumental proportions. My MP3 for this album is one single track on my iTunes, and that's just the way it should be!
2. Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention - Joe's Garage: I tried to restrict myself to one gem from Frank's mammoth discography, and it was hard to overlook Freak Out!, Zappa's debut that, as McCartney said, inspired Sgt. Pepper's. But the sheer coherence of this one, rockdom's first epic double album, is staggering. The music is astonishing, the setpieces feel played live, and it's too darned funny. If rock had a genius, it was Zappa.
1. David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars: Ziggy played guitar. This, the epochal of David's glammy alter egos, was a defiant rocker from out of this world. The album spans genres and styles galore, while the effortless songwriting strings the theme together with typical Bowie verve. As trippy as can be, yet lucid as crystal.
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What are yours, pray tell?
My top four rock concept albums of all time:
5. Fifth place, the albums that almost made the top four, and are too closely placed to pick one of them as five: The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band; Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son; Marillion - Misplaced Childhood; David Bowie - Outside; Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out!; Radiohead - OK Computer; John Coltrane - A Love Supreme; and the one album that I'd rate as five if you held a gun to my head: King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King - sublime.
4. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon: Yes, yes, the most overrated piece of plastic in the history of the music business, and we all get tired of Roger Waters at some point, but one can't deny its impact. The first time you hear The Great Gig In The Sky is a special moment indeed. Especially after watching it with The Wizard Of Oz
3. The Who - Tommy: The stupifyingly brilliant saga of a blind, deaf and dumb boy, this magical Townshend album triggered off, between my humble little tonedeaf ears, a musical epiphany of monumental proportions. My MP3 for this album is one single track on my iTunes, and that's just the way it should be!
2. Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention - Joe's Garage: I tried to restrict myself to one gem from Frank's mammoth discography, and it was hard to overlook Freak Out!, Zappa's debut that, as McCartney said, inspired Sgt. Pepper's. But the sheer coherence of this one, rockdom's first epic double album, is staggering. The music is astonishing, the setpieces feel played live, and it's too darned funny. If rock had a genius, it was Zappa.
1. David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars: Ziggy played guitar. This, the epochal of David's glammy alter egos, was a defiant rocker from out of this world. The album spans genres and styles galore, while the effortless songwriting strings the theme together with typical Bowie verve. As trippy as can be, yet lucid as crystal.
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What are yours, pray tell?