What top BEA picks do u just not like but everyone else does - Music

RoundTheBend
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craola wrote:

i disagree. there are great concept albums out there today. granted, it's going to depend on your definition of "concept album" to some degree. the artists who do this well today tend to do it much more abstractly than something like PINK FLOYD or RUSH, and a lot of them take rather instrumental routes...

i'd take any of these over RUSH, PINK FLOYD, etc. in a heartbeat or two:

balam acab: child death
bjork: biophilia
candy claws: ceres calypso & the deep time
cloud cult: light chasers
daisuke tanabe: floating underwater
the haxan cloak: excavation
janelle monae: archandroid
latlaus sky: the end of sorrow
nurses: dracula
panabrite: sub-aquatic meditation
sufjan stevens: carrie & lowell
tyondai braxton: hive1

heck, even our own Hayden and Harkan/Borejko have delved into concept albums.

there's also vaporwave. granted, those weirdos aren't making rock operas, but as a whole, most of the artists are telling the same story about loneliness in our techy-consumer culture.

Cool! Thanks mate!

Out of curiosity, what themes do these take or artistic message or whatever?

Also I don't care much about concept albums (I don't feel like U2 has any concept albums, but they portray/discuss interesting and intriguing concepts - philosophically and aesthetically). Sometimes concept albums bore the hell out of me because the theme/concept is terribly boring (I think Tommy is a good example of this).

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sethmadsen wrote:

craola wrote:

i disagree. there are great concept albums out there today. granted, it's going to depend on your definition of "concept album" to some degree. the artists who do this well today tend to do it much more abstractly than something like PINK FLOYD or RUSH, and a lot of them take rather instrumental routes...

i'd take any of these over RUSH, PINK FLOYD, etc. in a heartbeat or two:

balam acab: child death
bjork: biophilia
candy claws: ceres calypso & the deep time
cloud cult: light chasers
daisuke tanabe: floating underwater
the haxan cloak: excavation
janelle monae: archandroid
latlaus sky: the end of sorrow
nurses: dracula
panabrite: sub-aquatic meditation
sufjan stevens: carrie & lowell
tyondai braxton: hive1

heck, even our own Hayden and Harkan/Borejko have delved into concept albums.

there's also vaporwave. granted, those weirdos aren't making rock operas, but as a whole, most of the artists are telling the same story about loneliness in our techy-consumer culture.

Cool! Thanks mate!

Out of curiosity, what themes do these take or artistic message or whatever?

Also I don't care much about concept albums (I don't feel like U2 has any concept albums, but they portray/discuss interesting and intriguing concepts - philosophically and aesthetically). Sometimes concept albums bore the hell out of me because the theme/concept is terribly boring (I think Tommy is a good example of this).

RoundTheBend
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I will also say that I feel like Lemonade by Beyonce had a nice theme to it.

But she isn't an artist who debuted after 2010.

Daydreamer

Well. Tame Impala's Lonerism does have a bit of a unifying theme throughout the album, you can count them.
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Daydreamer wrote:

Well. Tame Impala's Lonerism does have a bit of a unifying theme throughout the album, you can count them.

Must've been subtle? Didn't pick up on it. Tell me more.

Daydreamer

It's a pretty simple theme, but the whole albums deals with the singer's feeling of a great loneliness and his innability to connent to other people and find meaningful relatioships.
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Daydreamer wrote:

It's a pretty simple theme, but the whole albums deals with the singer's feeling of a great loneliness and his innability to connent to other people and find meaningful relatioships.

I'll have to listen to it more intently then - perhaps this is my problem. I've been more interested in art which passionately portrays something, but I do feel newer artists are more subtle.

I suppose lonerism would be an album as you suggest. duh! Laughing

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If we're talking about unifying themes I would also count on Arcade Fire. The Suburbs is an album that deals with nostalgia. I haven't paid too much attention to EVERY song's lyrics but a lot of them try to have this unifying theme of remembering the old days and growing up. Neon Bible I think is very close to being a concept album, talking about techology in our days and trying to run away from it. Everything Now, from the material released and the promotional things they've been doing, seems to also carry a unifying theme.

As it was said above, Tame Impala's Lonerism talks about ... well.. loneliness. To compliment that, I would say that Currents, the third LP by Tame continues where Lonerism left off, beginning with Let it Happen, a song about letting yourself go with the flow (a contrast to the lonely guy in Lonerism) and the rest of the album explores how this person is trying to change and live new experiences now that he is out of his shell, concluding with "New Person, Same Old Mistakes" where he has kind of accepted his transformation because he wants something different.

Regarding the topic itself (sorry for getting off-topic) I would say Beach Boys.

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sethmadsen wrote:

Speaking of the above...

Do new artists have artistic concepts anymore? I mean beyond just a song - like a theme and the whole shabang?

Or is that too Dadrock?

I'm trying to think of an artist which debuted post 2010... very interested.

Nobody's gonna mention Kendrick? Because all four of his albums are quite obviously concept albums.

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Onater wrote:

sethmadsen wrote:

Speaking of the above...

Do new artists have artistic concepts anymore? I mean beyond just a song - like a theme and the whole shabang?

Or is that too Dadrock?

I'm trying to think of an artist which debuted post 2010... very interested.

Nobody's gonna mention Kendrick? Because all four of his albums are quite obviously concept albums.

Yeah, I was about to mention Kendrick but forgot to write about it. Good Kid, Maad City has that "a short film by Kendrick Lamar" thing on the cover and then To Pimp A Butterfly has the evolving poem throughout the album. I haven't really paid attention to the lyrics to his albums but the narrative is definitely there.

Then we have DAMN. and the "So I was taking a walk the other day" but I don't want to revive the whole NATION. conspiracy theory again.