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R&P: Which of these concept albums, rock operas, and musicals do you like?

Ride This Train – Johnny Cash Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band – The Beatles Tommy – The Who Jesus Christ Superstar The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars – David Bowie Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd Aladdin Sane – David Bowie Desperado – Eagles Quadrophenia – The Who Queen II – Queen Diamond Dogs – David Bowie Welcome to My Nightmare – Alice Cooper The Rocky Horror Picture Show 2112 – Rush Alice Cooper Goes to Hell – Alice Cooper Hotel California – Eagles Animals – Pink Floyd Not Available – The Residents From the Inside – Alice Cooper The Wall – Pink Floyd The Lexicon of Love – ABC Kilroy Was Here – Styx DaDa – Alice Cooper Zen Arcade – Hüsker Dü The Phantom of the Opera Raise Your Fist and Yell – Alice Cooper God in Three Persons – The Residents Seventh Son of a Seventh Son – Iron Maiden Operation: Mindcrime – Queensrÿche The Crimson Idol – W.A.S.P. Nightmare Before Christmas The Downward Spiral – Nine Inch Nails The Last Temptation – Alice Cooper The Great Escape – Blur Outside – David Bowie Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness – The Smashing Pumpkins Turn the Radio Off – Reel Big Fish Pinkerton – Weezer Antichrist Superstar – Marilyn Manson OK Computer – Radiohead Cruelty and the Beast – Cradle of Filth Mechanical Animals – Marilyn Manson Wormwood: Curious Stories from the Bible – The Residents Why Do They Rock So Hard? – Reel Big Fish The Fragile – Nine Inch Nails Machina: The Machines of God – The Smashing Pumpkins The Marshall Mathers LP – Eminem Brutal Planet – Alice Cooper Machina II: The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music – The Smashing Pumpkins Dahmer – Macabre Midian – Cradle of Filth Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) – Marilyn Manson Dragontown – Alice Cooper The Second Stage Turbine Blade – Coheed and Cambria Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots – The Flaming Lips Songs for the Deaf – Queens of the Stone Age Epica – Kamelot Damnation and a Day – Cradle of Filth Elephant – The White Stripes The Golden Age of Grotesque – Marilyn Manson De-Loused in the Comatorium – The Mars Volta Avenue Q Funeral – Arcade Fire The Rocky Horror Punk Rock Show In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 – Coheed and Cambria Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue – Trocadero American Idiot – Green Day Sleepytime Gorilla Museum of Natural History – Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Frances the Mute – The Mars Volta The Black Halo – Kamelot We're Not Happy 'til You're Not Happy – Reel Big Fish Demon Days – Gorillaz Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness – Coheed and Cambria Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not – Arctic Monkeys Adultery – Dog Fashion Disco 10,000 Days – Tool Video Commander – Harry Perry Band Sam’s Town – The Killers Thornography – Cradle of Filth Tweedles – The Residents The Pick of Destiny – Tenacious D Neon Bible – Arcade Fire Year Zero – Nine Inch Nails In Sorte Diaboli – Dimmu Borgir The Divine Conspiracy – Epica Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow – Coheed and Cambria Along Came a Spider – Alice Cooper The Fame – Lady GaGa Nightmare Revisited Godspeed On the Devil's Thunder – Cradle of Filth Hate Culture – William Control 21st Century Breakdown – Green Day Rock of Ages: The Musical The Resistance – Muse The Fame Monster – Lady GaGa The Plastic Beach – Gorillaz Evelyn Evelyn – Evelyn Evelyn Heliocentric – The Ocean American Idiot: The Original Broadway Cast Recording Year of the Black Rainbow – Coheed and Cambria Noir – William Control The Suburbs – Arcade Fire Design Your Universe – Epica Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa – Cradle of Filth Anthropocentric – The Ocean The Unforgiving – Within Temptation Born This Way – Lady GaGa BQ: These are ordered by the date they were released, making it a history of great concept albums. What other albums should be added to the list? (NO MCR!) BQ2: Which of these would you like to see turned into a movie?

Public Comments

1. 2112 - one of the best albums period, regardless of 'type' Sgt. Pepper The Wall Others: most anything by Dream Theater except their last two albums
2. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band – The Beatles The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars – David Bowie Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd Quadrophenia – The Who Diamond Dogs – David Bowie 2112 – Rush Animals – Pink Floyd Not Available – The Residents The Wall – Pink Floyd Zen Arcade – Hüsker Dü God in Three Persons – The Residents Seventh Son of a Seventh Son – Iron Maiden Operation: Mindcrime – Queensrÿche Nightmare Before Christmas The Downward Spiral – Nine Inch Nails The Great Escape – Blur Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness – The Smashing Pumpkins OK Computer – Radiohead The Fragile – Nine Inch Nails Machina: The Machines of God – The Smashing Pumpkins Machina II: The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music – The Smashing Pumpkins Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots – The Flaming Lips De-Loused in the Comatorium – The Mars Volta The Black Halo – Kamelot Demon Days – Gorillaz 10,000 Days – Tool Year Zero – Nine Inch Nails The Plastic Beach – Gorillaz BQ: A lot is missing from that list, here's a couple I can think of Giant Squid - The Ichthyologist Porcupine Tree - In Absentia, Deadwing, Fear of a Blank Planet, and The Incident Dream Theater - Octavarium, Metropolis Pt. 2... basically most of their later albums, really. And a lot more I can't think of at the moment
3. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band – The Beatles Tommy – The Who The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars – David Bowie Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd Quadrophenia – The Who Queen II – Queen Diamond Dogs – David Bowie 2112 – Rush Animals – Pink Floyd The Wall – Pink Floyd Pinkerton – Weezer OK Computer – Radiohead Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots – The Flaming Lips Elephant – The White Stripes De-Loused in the Comatorium – The Mars Volta Funeral – Arcade Fire American Idiot – Green Day Frances the Mute – The Mars Volta Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not – Arctic Monkeys Neon Bible – Arcade Fire 21st Century Breakdown – Green Day The Resistance – Muse The Suburbs – Arcade Fire BQ: The Antlers - Hospice Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King The Kinks - Arthur: Or the Decline & Fall of the British Empire The Kinks - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea of Montreal - The Gay Parade Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan, The Great Lake State Radiohead - Kid A Sufjan Stevens - Illinois Titus Andronicus - The Monitor BQ2: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots – The Flaming Lips
4. Blur - The Great Escape Nine Inch Nails - All of them (Year Zero, The Downward Spiral, The Fragile) The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown Muse - The Resistance Gorillaz - Demon Days, Plastic Beach Radiohead - OK Computer Smashing Pumpkins - Machina: The Machines of God, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Tool - 10,000 Days Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf Coheed and Cambria - All of them (Second Stage Turbine Blade, In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume 1, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume 2, Year of the Black Rainbow Bonus Question Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath Daft Punk - Discovery (Interstella 5555) Nine Inch Nails - Broken Celldweller - Wish Upon a Blackstar Bonus Question 2 Demon Days and Plastic Beach The Resistance Year Zero OK Computer
5. Ride This Train – Johnny Cash Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band – The Beatles Tommy – The Who Jesus Christ Superstar The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars – David Bowie Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd Aladdin Sane – David Bowie Quadrophenia – The Who Diamond Dogs – David Bowie Welcome to My Nightmare – Alice Cooper 2112 – Rush Alice Cooper Goes to Hell – Alice Cooper Animals – Pink Floyd Not Available – The Residents From the Inside – Alice Cooper The Wall – Pink Floyd The Lexicon of Love – ABC DaDa – Alice Cooper Zen Arcade – Hüsker Dü Operation: Mindcrime – Queensrÿche The Crimson Idol – W.A.S.P. The Downward Spiral – Nine Inch Nails The Last Temptation – Alice Cooper The Great Escape – Blur Outside – David Bowie Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness – The Smashing Pumpkins OK Computer – Radiohead The Fragile – Nine Inch Nails Brutal Planet – Alice Cooper Dragontown – Alice Cooper Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots – The Flaming Lips Songs for the Deaf – Queens of the Stone Age Elephant – The White Stripes De-Loused in the Comatorium – The Mars Volta Funeral – Arcade Fire American Idiot – Green Day Sleepytime Gorilla Museum of Natural History – Sleepytime Gorilla Museum The Black Halo – Kamelot Demon Days – Gorillaz Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not – Arctic Monkeys 10,000 Days – Tool Year Zero – Nine Inch Nails The Fame – Lady GaGa The Fame Monster – Lady GaGa Born This Way – Lady GaGa Impressive list, although I doubt the conceptual nature of some of these. BQ: Selling England By the Pound and The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - Genesis Fear of a Blank Planet - Porcupine Tree Snow - Spock's Beard Testimony, One, ?, Sola Scriptura, and Testimony 2 - all by Neal Morse BQ2: All of the ones I like.
6. not sure because you said no MCR American idiot (as long as Billie Joe won't be in it)