Both parts produced big hits, and both sound rather organic compared to some of her later productions. Pepper and Ziggy Stardust to Garth Brooks’ controversial Chris Gaines but Beyoncé does them all one better by adopting two characters here – her true self and her stage persona – with the former doing more traditional pop and R&B and the latter doing EDM. They even took American Idiot to Broadway, adapting their concept album into a stage show.Ĭlick to load video 36: Beyoncé: I Am…Sasha FierceĪdopting a persona is a time-honored way to make a concept album, from Sgt. Inspired by many of the below (especially The Jam and Who), Green Day reached for a political relevance and musical depth they’d barely approached in the past. It sounds too bizarre on paper to be as catchy as it is. This turned out to be the only other one, but it’s a grandly thematic work that touches on the state’s poetic history (Carl Sandburg and Saul Bellow both turn up), the state’s creepier episodes, and the writer’s own twisted sense of humor (Slade’s “Cum On Feel the Noize”) gets referenced more than once). 38: Sufjan Stevens: IllinoisĪfter saluting his home state on 2003’s Michigan, Sufjan Stevens promised 49 more concept albums. It also caught this perpetually underrated band at a peak, trading in their early R&B sound for something more sweeping and melodic, with enough Mellotron to make the Moody Blues take cover. Five months earlier, The Pretty Things made an album whose songs were all sung by characters and told a coherent, if less ambitious story. SorrowĬontrary to popular belief, The Who’s Tommy wasn’t the first rock opera.
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