Post your albums, anons explain the theme/story that links all the songs on that album together
ITT: Every album is a concept album
William Williams
Charles Flores
You first OP
Evan Cox
This album, On the Eve of a Goodbye is the true story about a young man whose friends kills herself with a gun right in front of the man. This really happened and the person who wrote and performed every instrument on this album was the same guy who witnessed her death. Her name was Eve.
Matthew Young
idk what the fuck this album is about, I like that article about Hot Fuss being a gay murder story though
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Jonathan Lewis
TMR takes place in a abandoned wasteland were shit isn't right. Or something.
Aiden Reed
"The diary of Nathan Adler or the art-ritual murder of Baby Grace Blue: A non-linear Gothic Drama Hyper-cycle."
Benjamin Campbell
Trout Mask Replica is a series of songs about the thoughts and misadventures of a schizophrenic man living in the southwest united states.
Jaxson Mitchell
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Michael Green
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Joshua Lee
TMR is an album based all around the question "what would happen if we made an absolutely shitty album that completely blows and sounds like trash?"
Levi Parker
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Jayden Collins
"Jesus, you are dense for someone into literature. You’re thinking on the surface level. You’re thinking, “If Kanye says something that comes across as clever or insightful, it’s deep.” But that’s such a pre-modern way to look at art. The way he interacts with the listener, building and subverting metamusical expectations, commenting on multiple metamusical, sociopolitical and personal subjects with single lines is brilliant. What work has played jump rope with the line between irony and sincerity as effectively as Yeezus? From the opening seconds of On Sight, to the chorus of I Am A God, to the final spoken sample of Bound 2, no other work of any medium has worked with such an ambiguity of awareness of its context. I’m not saying Yeezus is brilliant because it showcases great technical compositional proficiency or especially novel aesthetic innovations (though autotuned Chief Keef, Justin Vernon, ’80s guitars and trap beats have never been fused so artfully), I’m saying its ability to project outwardly from itself and work in a space so self-aware (yet somehow sometimes simultaneously ham-handedly solipsistic) that it shatters any post-post-modern dichotomy between affectation and sincerity sets it apart from other works of art. The whole album skips back and forth over the “is this dude serious?” line, only for Bound 2 to answer with a resounding “we have no ****ing clue.” Where the recent metamodernists have decided that continual sinusoidal oscillation between critical points of intense sincerity and irony is a valid solution to the nihilism inherent in extreme postmodernity, Kanye instead manipulates for the oscillation of the listener’s perception rather than affecting a self-defeatingly earnest oscillation of himself. In this way, Yeezus can be seen as a work of meta-metamodernism. To call the album “ahead of its time” would be a vast understatement"
You're trying too hard.
Hunter Collins
Except it isn't. It's just a crazy guy yelling over blues riffs. It's a pretty fun album, to be honest. Songs like Ella Guru and Sugar and Spikes are god tier. And Veterans' Day Poppy and Dachau Blues are probably some of the more profound songs about war out there. The lyrics are often cryptic and surreal, but it's always rewarding to try to pull things out and find meaning in what seems at first to be a mess.
James Martin
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David Williams
t. Scaruffi
Camden Hill
t. pleb
Josiah Diaz
Stick to literal stuff like Maroon 5 if TMR is too complicated for you
Brody Sanchez
Go listen to some Crazy Frog washed up fuck.
Levi Walker
Nice hypocrisy my man. Truly righteous.
Landon Ward
>Go listen to some Crazy Frog washed up fuck.
Why? What relation does crazy frog have with tmr. One is an intricate blues rock album made through constant work over 8 months. The other is just some dumbass making shitty song mashups and remixes in fl studio. I fail to see the connection you are trying to make between the two artists.
Liam Turner
Bump
Jace White
A guy goes to a party, where he meets a girl. Under the influence of his surroundings, he believes he experiences love at first sign but fucks up royally to a point where a fight breaks out. The guy is one of the last men standing, and the girl is still around: They talk for a bit, and the guy realizes that the object of his infatuation was the one who instigated the fight. He thinks about it for a bit but decides to press his luck even farther. They walk away together.
Elijah Martin
The album switches between several characters, sometimes within the same song. The album's a dark comedy loosely based on various lives in Chicago, with themes of artistic integrity, drugs, relationships, sports, the state of hip-hop, and politics.
The first song is mostly from the point of view of Scotty, the son of Maureen and Curtis who's an amateur rapper and sort-of Serengeti alter-ego. He's frustrated about a failed relationship and having to stay home to watch their dog, Mittens. The next few songs are also likely from Scotty's pov ("Feeding" is about the state of rap, "In's and Out's" is about getting back into dating, and in "I Don't Know" he mourns a breakup and getting owned in a rap battle against Able).
"Dennehy" the 5th song and title track introduces the character Kenny Dennis, who is working class but loves his life in Chicago, which includes his wife Jueles, playing softball with his friends, listening to Huey Lewis and the News, and drinking O'Doules. Surprisingly, he also loves rapping, but does it more as a hobby than Scotty who's trying to make it his career, though KD had a flash of rapping fame in his 30s when he was in the hip-hop group Tha Grimm Teachaz (this lore is on a different album). "Ipod" and "Lineage" characters don't recur, but the "n-emo" and "lineage" concepts are more Geti lore and lambast American culture.
John Davis
"Meth" is the first song to re-introduce the character Derek, a rich, tan, handsome drug lord who basically represents the opposite of Kenny Dennis. He's an arrogant asshole. "Love You But" is a minimalist abstract cold-sore poem from the character Lee who works at a laundromat ("soft scrub bubbles clean rings around collars").
The tenth song "Don't Talk to Jueles" goes back to Kenny Dennis, who's fucking pissed at Eddie for hitting on his wife. This rap is a warning not to look at, talk to, or smell his wife. The next song "Derek" is rapped by Derek and his clique who brag about how Derek is better than you. You are nothing to him.
"Go Paint" is Scotty's internal monologue, lamenting the fact that his rap career isn't taking off and he feels like he's getting stuck in his day job painting parking lots and garage's of old cops. His rap dream is fading fast. "New Dodge", conversely, is a studio song by KD who has fun rapping about a day in his life, and acts as a loving tribute to Jueles. "Derek in Paris" is a hazy after-sex song about how lucky sexy Paris is to let Derek drill her ("Those hands, that lineage, that tan, those cans, that pooch, aw shoot")
The penultimate track "The Neeg" stands out musically, and might be the only song from Serengeti's point of view, though it may well be the final song from Scotty. It's a strangely depressing reflection on rap's commercialization, missed opportunities, and poseurs. "Ozzie Guillen" lightens the mood considerably as Kenny recalls a memory from a couple summers ago at Maureen and Curtis' house, accidentally drinking non-non-alcoholic beer and jumping in the pool with Maureen's dog, Mittens. Jueles drives his drunk ass home. The bonus "New Dodge [Remix]" is another day in the life of KD, on his way into town to get some groceries for Jueles, the only time we hear Jueles' voice. You can only fully appreciate this complex concept album by paying attention to the lyrics and pressing replay.
Cameron Rodriguez
hownew.ru
Parker Richardson
gay boy gets to the beach to get laid, ends up drowning
Noah Butler
An autist decides to leave an iPod on a subway
oh wait
Bentley Brown
What if I actually post a concept album?
Matthew Sullivan
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