Album-concept

A album-concept , or album concept (of English concept album ) is a term discologic which translates the will on behalf of an artist or of a group to create a work slipped by throughout a disc.

One allots to the genesis of the “concept album” to Bob Dylan with his album Fair Blonde one in 1966 like with the Beatles with their Sgt. Pepper' S Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967. One will find this concept at others like Aqualung of the British Jethro Tull in 1971 (Ian Anderson, the leader of the group always denied it), If one needed a fifth season (1975) and especially Heptade of the Québécois group Harmonium or the Misplaced Childhood of the group Marillion in 1985.

At its beginnings - end of the year 1960, beginning of the year 1970 -, the concept album is somewhat atypical in the universe of the new musics , in particular in the pop universe/rock'n'roll, strongly at the time related like still today to the principle of Chanson, a album being considered only like one compilation of various songs, often made up and/or recorded at different times.

The concept albums which slice more with this model are those of which all the songs or pieces follow and tell the same history, as in the The Lamb dregs down one Broadway of the group Genesis in 1974. The concept album thus approaches what one could describe as Opéra-rock, with the notable difference that the history is not told, is evoked or interpreted in the majority of the cases that by only one singer. Certain concepts (rare) very push this approach far, by doing of an album one and single piece, always not divided into tracks. On the contrary, certain albums are compromises more balanced between division of the disc of pieces/songs and comprehensive view of the album; they will insist less on the coherence and the linearity of the told history, they will be allowed to include titles external with this history - one speaks then sometimes about semi-concept, as for the Duke of Genesis -, or will be built around a central theme, unifier, without for all this the pieces are followed. This last form of concept reduced , which is characterized by a relative abandonment from the idea from narrative screen to the profit from a unicity set of themes, is undoubtedly most long-lived today.

It will be noted finally that many artists or groups compose of the albums completely or partially based on a unifying concept - narrative or set of themes - without to use the term of concept album , in particular as soon as one leaves the zone of influence of the progressive Rock, principal historical promoter of this artistic form.

Some examples of concept album

The Fifties

  • 1951 Of bags and cords of Léo Shoed

The Sixties

The Seventies

The Eighties

The Nineties

Years 2000

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