'concept albums'

[The Teknoist.]

....there's something about that term that really gets to me (i was going to say hate but i use that word about ****ing everything haha).

So an album has a concept? You mean and idea behind it, an inspiration, a main theme? The term concept i think is far too over used in a pretentious manner to make something that should be obvious sound like the artist is a true professional and well, an 'artist'.

For example, this periods Core mag had Robert Hood interviewed about his 'concept' album. The concept of the end of the world, or the coming of it atleast... or was the concept actually derived from watching (the hilariously over-acted Charlton Heston movie?! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evdQL5RFLec hahahahahaha) too many times?

He seemed to over talk the album and make it sound like something rather epic. When listening i found, well, a Robert Hood album... same style pretty much as always (which btw i do really like) some tracks are great but nothing that seemed to link to the concept to me. (Now this is just my personal view and by no way discrediting the album in general, although it had some dull and lazy sounding moments imo but again that can be his or his close peers' style... minimal in content lets say... again though, some tracks i really dug).

Shouldnt all albums have a concept so to speak?

Im sorry if this sounds like an over worded critique on artists trying to sound more serious than they actually are (so much that some are like parody's and if you look at them and listen to what they say in the right way, theyre actually comedy ****ing genious'... Kanye West springs to mind, now he's a ****ing fruit cake!)...

but yeah i woke up at 5am being sick and iv been bored before i can kick the monitors on so i thought id write some bollocks... if i actually spoke to you face to face id sum up my point in 3 sentences probably ;)

I hope my (vague-ish) point has got across :)

have a nice day