Total Rankers
Lifelong friends and music enthusiasts Toby and Donal dive deep into the canon of popular music, ranking artists, albums or songs in our fortnightly podcast. Exposure to controversial opinions masquerading as facts is guaranteed! Original theme tune by Donal Leddy
Total Rankers
Concept Albums Ranked (Part 1)
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Toby Hales and Donal Leddy
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Season 1
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Episode 7
We finally arrive at the most maligned (and celebrated) manifestation of popular music - The Concept Album. In times of yore (pre-1980), every band had to have one, it had to be at least a double album with a gatefold sleeve, and it had to have an unintelligibly stupid story or central theme.
Toby and Donal slide down a deep dark hole to explore the concept of the Concept. Expect inexplicable cosmic themes of redemption, naval gazing of a particularly repugnant variety, and mechanical cows with working udders...
Be as one with the knowledge and magic of the source
...eh?
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