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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: Alt Rock Concept Albums: Part 1
Description: There are many ways to tell a story...a book, a movie, at TV, a comic book. You also use music of course; a ballad is a story set to music, a lot of music videos tell a story. Operas and ballet are more grand.
The other musical option is the concept album. These are records where all the songs, all the imagery, is somehow tied togethor by some sort of unifying theme or thesis. The music, the lyrics and sometimes even the artwork come togehtor to tell a story.
These were big in the '60...