The "Concept Album"

[BikerDude]

the all time champion of concept albums

It's a real trip to listen and check out the lyrics at the same time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9JEPeeohYs
Lyrics
http://remus.rutgers.edu/JethroTull/Albums/ThickAsABrick-lyrics.html

To me it deals with a lot of the same things as Dudeism.
Or at least the Big Lebowski Movie.
First line

Really don't mind if you sit this one out

But then it goes on to great extent to contrast the "doer and the thinker". No allowance for the other. Both?
Eventually seems to come to the conclusion that both need each other.

There are 2 kinds, a man fit for the fight and a man fit for peace. He shows both to be incomplete.

The poet and the wise man stand behind the gun

And the wise are not so wise.

Let me help you pick up your dead as the sins of the father are fed
with
the blood of the fools and
the thoughts of the wise and
from the pan under your bed.

That if you sit it out you still need the doer and as a dreamer you just have make believe heros to save the day.

So!
Come on ye childhood heroes! Won't you rise up from the pages of your comic-books
your super crooks and show us all the way.
Well!  Make your will and testament. Won't you? Join your local government.
We'll have Superman for president let Robin save the day

Eventually asks dreamers to be doers. The other. Both, the doer and the thinker.  To become their heros. Passive aggression.

So!  Come all ye young men who are building castles!
Kindly state the time of the year and join your voices in a hellish chorus.
Mark the precise nature of your fear.
See!  The summer lightning casts its bolts upon you
and the hour of judgement draweth near.
Would you be
the fool stood in his suit of armour or
the wiser man who rushes clear.
So!  Come on ye childhood heroes!
Won't your rise up from the pages of your comic-books
your super-crooks and
show us all the way.
Well!  Make your will and testament.
Won't you?  Join your local government.
We'll have Superman for president
let Robin save the day.

[RighteousDude]

Thick definitely takes the concept album to the highest level ever achieved, and it seems likely to stay there for quite a long time. Who else would even consider writing a single song that spans three quarters of an hour?

I've often found myself, when confronted with a fool who won't be dissuaded from a chosen course that's sure to end badly, thinking to myself the second and third lines of that song: My words are but a whisper, your deafness a shout. I make make you feel but I can't make you think. It just happened on Wednesday of this week, in fact, when a fool's chosen course ended badly for him. I tried to counsel him more than a year ago... He's one who is thick as a brick, himself. Oh well.

It's good to see that I'm not the only one who remembers Thick As A Brick. 

[Dudehartha]

Ahhhh, concept albums. Floyd, Tull, The Who, even The Beatles. Only for those whose attention span exceeds that of a gnat. BTW, lovin' the Abbey sig Dude .

[RighteousDude]

BTW, lovin' the Abbey sig Dude .

I'm a big fan of Ed's. It seems that most of the really memorable quotes he left behind just become truer with each passing year. I miss that guy.