[wordup] Concept album follow up ...

[Adam Shand]

After having dealt with a deluge of mail regarding the concept album I've
come to personal rough conclusions which were shared (to varying degrees)
by most of the people I spoke with.

The big music movement in the 80's was techno, probably the biggest mover
and shaker was Kraftwerk, but they just weren't big enough to make a dent
on the national consiousness.  So for the 80's I give the concept album
award to Michael Jackson "Thriller".

For the ninties I think the biggest music movement (as much as I don't
really care for it) was hiphop.  The Sugarhill gang, Grandmaster Flash and
Run DMC were some of the founding fathers of hiphop but I think that the
Beastie Boys were the ones that really brought it to the masses.  I'm not
a huge fan so someone that knows them better then me could suggest an
album.

You can see other notables and thoughts at the spack.org wiki site (feel
free to add you're own thoughts there as well):

	http://www.spack.org/wiki/index.cgi/ConceptAlbums

adam.