10 Timeless Thought-Provoking Concept Albums

5. Rush €“ 2112 (1976)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZqSVTyYIkI To millions of people worldwide, Rush are the outright Kings of the prog-rock concept piece. In at fifth is this fourth studio album '2112'. I'll no doubt receive all kinds of oddly timed, part-falsetto death threats for this middle-of-the-road placing of an album that really is anything but, though all I can state in my defence is that this list was never meant to rank the works it celebrates. 2112 opens with the titular 20-minute epic, quite rightly lending its name to the LP as a whole. Set in a dystopian future it features a whole load of galaxy-wide warfare and the like, although you'd do well to refuse to let this draw you from the supreme musicianship on show, as per the norm when it comes to this power trio of power trios.