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Poll Question: What is the best Pink Floyd concept album
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Focus only on the concept, not on the music. For me, it's certanly The Wall
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Animals is the only album with a half-decent concept.
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I'd say probably The Wall. The whole story and themes of the album hit me real hard the first time I heard it, even more than Dark Side. It's one of the most intense, emotional albums I've ever heard. 
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Dark Side of the Moon. Songs relating to all things that drive men mad.
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The Wall. The storyline is a creative version of a simple plot-a man having a mental breakdown. Animals and DSOTM have brilliant concepts as well
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The Wall is the best concept but my least favorite of these.
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Animals.
 
Most of the other concepts are just rehashing Syd Barrett's madness.
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Pink Floyd are pretty good with coming up with interesting concepts, but Animals takes the cake for me.
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I've never thought of Animals as a concept album.  The three core songs are only linked by Roger Waters' contempt for a lot of people.  If this is a concept album then Final Cut is too, with the same concept

The Wall is clearly a concept album with a central theme of madness.  Wish You Were Here is dominated by a couple of songs about madness.  If there is a central concept to Dark Side of the Moon then it is also about madness.  The music is great but the concepts become rather tedious. 
 
DSOTM can be excepted from this complaint because, at the time, Waters' negativity hadn't been repeated ad nauseum. There was still room for subtlety and humour.  On the later albums Waters simply closes his eyes and swings a baseball bat around.
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The Wall
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Got to be Animals for me - I like the George Orwell feel to the album.
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Clearly The Wall, it's the only one with some sort of vague storyline, which allowed them to make a film out of it.
The others are just collections of songs revolving around a common theme.
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i thouhgt A Momentary Laps of Reson also was a concept album and i don't know if Division Bell is one also
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Dark Side Of The Moon.
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They are all great, but I'll go with DSOTM and WYWH. These were more abstract, more impersonal in a way. The voices hover in DSOTM. Starts brilliant with "Breathe." That 9th note (F#) over the Em chord, and then Gilmour coming in and singing the 7th note (D)... There's an absense of an "I" on this album that really blew me away as a kid. I mean, everyone else was singing about wanting to have sex and being in love. The sense of alienation in the Floyd's music, and this album in particular, really connected with me.


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The Wall. It is my least favourite of these five, but the best concept.
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The Wall is about a middle-aged, successful rock star blaming all his short comings on everybody else around him.Certainly a concept there.
Same with Animals, about all those nasty people who oppresses and abuses us sheepish commoners (good one Rog, you certainly knew how to do that).

I've never understood the concept of Dark Side though. Songs about greed, madness, lack of empathy, politics, bla bla. Most music I listend to in those days were about things like that. Nothing really coherent, lyrically, but the music holds it all together in a fine way.
The Division Bell certainly has a concepual theme, it's about communication, or rather, lack thereof.
AMLOR doesn't have a lyrical theme but the album feels very melancholy and conveys a sense of loss, and a search for meaning, in a way I can't put my finger on.  

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Originally posted by Gerinski

Clearly The Wall, it's the only one with some sort of vague storyline, which allowed them to make a film out of it.
The others are just collections of songs revolving around a common theme.
Coldness doth get away with the badness.
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Does Ummagumma have a concept, or any real connection between the tracks?
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Animals, but I think the Final Cut works best(though it's probably considered to be a continuation of the Wall).
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