From julien.valiquette@4dfusion.com Thu Jan 08 12:58:02 2004
Subject:RE: So you wanna check out Vanilla Fudge...

>Back before long-form videos and CD-ROMs existed, musicians used the
>concept album to overextend their half-baked ideas. Not content with
>letting one song do its job, groups charged an entire collection with
>the mission of delivering a single dunderheaded message. What follows
>are the worst of a very bad lot. As we count down these aberrations on
>this Thanksgiving Day, let us be grateful that the concept-album trend
>seems to be a thing of the past--at least for now.

I guess different people see things differently!
I always used to like the idea of concept albums, back in the days when
musicians actually worked at writing their albums, in the fashion of
movements of a symphony...Today an album is just a bunch of short songs
that has nothing to do with each other put together on a cd (in my
humble opinion of course) ;-)

Tarkus has always been my favorite ELP album and I still love Tales
from Topographic Oceans, and 2112.

Ah well!