Ideas for Concept Albums That Ought to Exist

A triple LP (the quintessential essential format) about fire in which fire is alive (it can begin with a tiny spark which grows and grows, it requires oxygen to exist, it's warm 'blooded', it moves about, it consumes things, it reproduces, and so on) and is sentient - it used to rule the world many millions of years ago, and it invented sun worship.
Many biblical stories and ideas originated in the fire religion - the burning bush, the pillar of flame, the great flood, Ezekiel's wheel, baptism of fire, the burnt offering, the fires of Hell, and so on.  
Now it's mostly gone underground, occasionally exploding out of volcanoes or eating forests.  Fire likes chemical intoxication, best expressed in a firework display, and it works hard in furnaces, crematoriums, and driving steam trains.  Fire has been reduced to slavery, a performing animal, tamed and controlled.  It dreams of ripping the whole world to pieces.

I think I might have a go at actually writing this one

The trials and tribulations of Charlie Sheen set to music by the joint venture of The Residents and The Flower Kings.

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twalsh wrote: Six Degrees of Oppression - Poverty, racism, sexism, homophobia, religion and conformity - revolving around the life of and ending with the suicide of a poor, first nations transgender atheist with eccentric fashion sense. My description sounds a little flippant but I think it could be a huge social commentary.  The challenge would be creating a compelling narrative that is not 'textbook.'

Didn't Kevin Gilbert already do that with The Shaming of the True?

The first one has been done;-)

^Not a problem, I got a lot of plenty dubious and stupid concepts :
 - the war between beer drinkers and wine drinkers (they all end drunk, singing obscene songs about each others' mothers);
 - how a hamster goes through the cycle of reincarnations and becomes an angel;
 - Hell seen as a lounge populated by pretentious pseudo art amateurs whose speeches are nothing but name-dropping, misattributed witty quotations, and discuting Australian wine vs. Croatian wine.

Stool Man wrote: A triple LP (the quintessential essential format) about fire in which fire is alive (it can begin with a tiny spark which grows and grows, it requires oxygen to exist, it's warm 'blooded', it moves about, it consumes things, it reproduces, and so on) and is sentient - it used to rule the world many millions of years ago, and it invented sun worship. Many biblical stories and ideas originated in the fire religion - the burning bush, the pillar of flame, the great flood, Ezekiel's wheel, baptism of fire, the burnt offering, the fires of Hell, and so on.   Now it's mostly gone underground, occasionally exploding out of volcanoes or eating forests.  Fire likes chemical intoxication, best expressed in a firework display, and it works hard in furnaces, crematoriums, and driving steam trains.  Fire has been reduced to slavery, a performing animal, tamed and controlled.  It dreams of ripping the whole world to pieces. I think I might have a go at actually writing this one

A single album 20 short songs all from the perspective of people during a nuclear blast.
Including wrecked submarine banging on pipes as well as kitchen sick musicality.

Tyler2112 wrote: Holy f**k that's such a good idea

I had it around for ages, if only I wasn't a massive prick to play with and was better than I am at the Bass! We could of had it!
If anyone wants to take that one. By all means! But I would like to write for it as well thank you.

Tales from Pancreatic Motions.

Yes are playing Delhi on the TFTO tour. The first three sides of the double vinyl recount the hectic adventures of our hero Vikram, a young curry delivery driver, as he navigates the worst urban traffic in the world on his trusty moped. His desperate mission: to deliver a dish of highly spiced chicken to his idol Rick Wakeman at the stadium in time for him to eat it on stage during that guitar and percussion bit. The final side is narrated from the perspective of Rick's intestines as they do battle with the curry and includes a ten minute baritone sax solo by Peter Brotzmann.

Edited by Mascodagama - February 20 2017 at 14:04