10 Concept Albums That Make Absolutely No Sense

Ever since their debut, KISS was never a band that you really needed to take all that seriously. Since most of their circus act of touring did the job for you, all you needed were some good riffs and loud guitars on the record to get the job done half of the time. Once they started to take themselves seriously though, that was reason to get worried.

After the disco years of the group left them without a band member in Peter Criss, Paul Stanley's choice of a concept album with Music From the Elder was a disaster from the start. As soon as production started, no one was on the same page, with Ace Frehley hating the concept and only contributing a handful of songs to the fold. That didn't stop the rest of the guys from loving it though, bringing in heavy hitters like Bob Ezrin and Lou Reed to fulfill their vision.

Once you sit down with the album, you're treated to a long journey about a Chosen One going on a quest for....something? While we do get at least one more character in Mr. Blackwell, the rest of the album has no real cohesion, down to the fact that the label rearranged the songs after the original sequencing was finished. As such, all these disjointed allusions to something great end up beginning and ending at the doorknob on the cover.