Alt Rock Concept Albums: Part 2
b'Every song comes from some sort of story. Sometimes it\\u2019s just the story of a feeling\\u2026good or bad\\u2026or maybe it\\u2019s just a way of getting a point of view across.\\n\\nOther songs are actual stories. They have a narrative, characters, drama, beginning, middle and end.\\n\\nBut what if you\\u2019re a composer and you have a story that is too long\\u2026.too complex to fit in the standard four minute song. Well then maybe you need to think about breaking it out to its constituent parts and telling the story across multiple songs. You do this over enough songs and you create a concept album. A record where a story or a variety of themes tie everything together front to back and back to front. Your four-minute short story has turned into an hour-long novel.\\n\\nThis is part 2 of the history of the concept album in alt-rock.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'