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Yeah, the Archandroid is awesome! I mean, it's a sci-fi-concept album, so I'm obviously biased, but man, her music is tight.

Yeah it's so damn good... I wish she'd get back to doing more of that stuff, was a little disappointed with The Electric Lady. Wasn't bad, but I think she definitely tried to aim a bit more mainstream.

Inconuucl wrote:I can understand Maine, it's essentially Canada at this point.

THANK YOU. I've been saying this for years! Maine could be the 14th province of Canada. Alberta could be the 51st state. What a neat trade!

popvulture wrote:Jersey over New York.

LOL.

It's the food! All those '50s diners. They're everywhere! Milkshakes! Pancakes! Fuckin' awesome! And everything is so green. The pizza is good, too. Not too many people. Goya juice everywhere, my favourite kind. State fairs are bae. My kindof place, just rural and pretty and uncomplicated with cheap fatty foods aplenty.

I also love NYC, though!

New Jersey pizza...
They're in the pizza circle, i will give them that, but they're no fucking New York Pizza, and let's be real here, New York pizza is no New haven Pizza. New England so handily crushes the garbage state that is New Jersey, it hurts.

Invisible Man wrote:That's fair. Sounds snooty of me to say it, but 'real' bands always seem to release concept albums, and pop stars release...albums. Filler tracks sandwiched between singles. Art/commerce.

This is how i think concept albums are meant to be regarded, though both are still commercial, usually, and i also think there are more poles tothis spectrum of album forms.

Has anyone mentioned Of Montreal yet?

Skeletal Lamping is very much a concept album. It's the "story" of his transexual, drug-addicted, funk musician alter-ego Georgie Fruit told through a number of 30 second to 2:30 minute song sketches strung together at sometimes jarring transitions. It actually starts halfway through the previous album, Hissing Fauna: Are You the Destroyer?, when he transforms into Georgie, so in that way it is massive. I'm not sure if the following album is intended to be part of the saga as well, but the name, False Priest, comes from another song on Hissing Fauna.

It's brilliant and I love it.

Hissing Fauna is so epic. I always forget it exists but honestly it's one of the best albums of the 2000s.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-9FX7bhESs[/youtube]

No concept albums. Only Zeuhl.

I know that I'm flouting the current trend where everyone pretends that they didn't have a phase where they were into them, but Marilyn Manson's first 4 or 5 albums are all definitely "concept albums"

bigchiefbc wrote:everyone pretends that they didn't have a phase where they were into them

Liars!

bigchiefbc wrote:I know that I'm flouting the current trend where everyone pretends that they didn't have a phase where they were into them, but Marilyn Manson's first 4 or 5 albums are all definitely "concept albums"

I'll lake your word for it, I have yet to make it all the way through any MM album.

I can honestly say that as an impressionable youth I skipped MM and headed straight for NIN.

casecandy wrote:I can honestly say that as an impressionable youth I skipped MM and headed straight for NIN.

Good choice. As an impressionable adult i stick with NIN (when i want those impressionable youth feelings).

but Coil.