10 Insane Plots From Concept Albums

Noam Chomsky once composed the sentence “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously” as an example of grammatically-correct nonsense, demonstrating the mind’s ability to generate completely unique sentences.

“The Osmonds composed a Mormon concept album” is another insane collection of words - but that is exactly what the band resolutely set out to produce here. You can’t fault them for effort - it’s hard to imagine that their label begged them to write a more conceptually ambitious LP. The lyrics set out to convince you, the listener, that life is meaningless without God, that the end of days is nearing, and that you must convert. So: classic bubblegum pop material.

There’s actually an impressive level of musicality and a keen sense of melody on show here - but this is an album trying way too hard on pretty much every level, managing to be considerably less than the sum of its parts.