15 Greatest Rock Concept Albums From The Last 15 Years

14. OK Go - Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky

Known more for their inventive music videos than for their musical concepts, OK Go released 2010's Of the Blue Colour of the Sky to the sound of crickets. The album itself was never taken very seriously, with critics jumping off the bandwagon left and right, largely because OK Go had abandoned their straightforward pop-rock melodies this time around in favor of more complex, synth-laden funk. The album is based around the pseudo-scientific book, The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight and of the Blue Colour of the Sky, and its principles of color therapy. Frontman Damien Kulash draws parallels between the effects of certain colors and his own belief that the music he creates comes without rational thought. The band collected an insane amount of data from the aforementioned text and used it to create a unifying story in the album booklet. But none of that is as important as the music that results from all this theorizing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12zJw9varYE