Favourite play-as-one-giant-song albums

Post by **Zaia** » 2005-02-06 12:35am

Forgot these:
'The Black Album' - Metallica
'IV' - Led Zeppelin
'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' - The Beatles
'A Night at the Opera' - Queen
'Blink-182' - Blink-182
'Before These Crowded Streets' - The Dave Matthews Band
'Pretty Hate Machine' - NIN
'Back on the Case' - Acoustic Alchemy
'Christmas Eve and Other Stories' - Trans-Siberian Orchestra
'The Christmas Attic' - Trans-Siberian Orchestra
'The Marshall Mathers LP' - Eminem
'Left of Cool' - Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2005-02-06 01:00pm

Well, other than Phantom of the Opera:

Green Day - American Idiot
NIN - The Downward Spiral
Fear Factory - Obsolete
Tool - Aenima
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge

This thread makes me wish I owned more entire CDs, as opposed to individual songs.

Post by **Zaia** » 2005-02-06 04:11pm

Using musicals to answer to the question is not what I was going for anyway. Yes, of course Phantom's awesome (and so is Les Mis, RENT, Rocky Horror, Miss Saigon, etc.), but I think it's sort of obvious that the songs of a musical would be linked together because they're telling a definitive story, so that wasn't really what I was going for. Ditto for symphonies, Rouge.

PS: Crap, Joe, I just read your list and you put up some of the ones I forgot! Rock on!

PPS: Chmee, I don't know why by 'Try Anything Once' just flows better to me. Maybe it's just that I like it more and feel how the songs connect--having 'Jigue' and the reprise of that with 'Re-jigue' helps with that, plus 'Siren Song' slides beautifully into 'Dreamscape' making it sound seamless to me.

Post by **Edi** » 2005-02-06 04:39pm

Some stuff where I like all the songs, are:

Bon Jovi - albums from Slippery When Wet through to the Young Guns II soundtrack
The first four albums by Dio
Survivor - Eye of the Tiger.
Lots of stuff from Phil Collins
The Queen album that has I Want It All and [/i]Invisible Man[/i] on it
One album (can't remember the name) by Poison, had some great songs like Fallen Angel and Look But You Can't Touch (damn, but I love that one!)

Sadly, I don't own a lot of these, just have copies on cassette, and most of those 15 years old or more, I really need to go out and buy some of them. Damn, but digging them up brought back a lot of memories...

Edi

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2005-02-06 05:00pm

All 7 of The Misfits albums (this is in addition to all the other one's mentioned).

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2005-02-06 08:17pm

Plastic Surgery Disasters-The Dead Kennedys

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn-Pink Floyd

Ummagumma(live disk only)-Pink Floyd

White Trash, Two Heebs, and a Bean-NOFX

America Must Be Destroyed-GWAR

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars-David Bowie

Soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange-Carlos (Wendy) Williams and Various

More Beer-Fear

Medic · Post by **Medic** » 2005-02-07 12:45am

"A Voyage in to Trance" by Paul Oakenfold (actually a collection of remixes). I'm a sucker for techno and well, this actually is meant to all go as one big song. It all was mixed to flow seamlessly together (for example, all the songs got the same tempo, little on the repetitive side but that's what you expect no?)

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2005-02-07 02:02am

Pink Floyd's Animals. If you thought Dark Side was completely contiguous, this will blow you away.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2005-02-07 07:28am

Firestarter just came on, and reminded me about how cool an album The Fat of the Land is by Prodigy. So yes, I'd like to add that and Music for the Jilted Generation.

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2005-02-07 08:15am

Oh, and Reign In Blood by Slayer. Don't know if it's been mentioned, but oh yeah.

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2005-02-07 10:14am

Z already got my Floyd submissions so I'll go with

Gamehenge by Phish, because it literally IS a story part music part song that goes for about 50 minutes. Its the biggest mp3 I have.

The story of Col. Forbin as he makes his way through the land of Gamehenge, eventually encountering the evil Wilson, who has taken the Helping Friendly Book from the Lizards, and virtually enslaved them, creating a city called Prussia.

EDIT:

I'll also add in "Borders and Boundaries" as well as "Anthem" by Less than JAke, AND Unleashed Memories by Lacuna Coil.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2005-02-07 10:55am

Billy Joel - River of Dreams (though I can do it for any album really)
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and ever, Amen
Metallica - S&M
Nightwish- Oceanborn
Moby - Play
Vangelis - Blade Runner Soundtrack
Green Day - Warning
AC/DC - Live

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2005-02-07 11:14am

Hmmm, would Queen's A Kind of Magic count? Except for the one song that was on the "Iron Eagle" soundtrack the album is essentially the soundtrack album for "Highlander".

Damaramu · Post by **Damaramu** » 2005-02-07 12:25pm

Electric Light Orchestra- Time On this 1981 concept album about a man who time travels into the future, the '"classic" ELO sound takes a 180 and ditches the late 70's disco inspired sound in favor of synthesizers and vocoders. This was the first ELO album I ever bought and my favorite album of theirs to boot!