I haven't heard that many concept albums, though I would say I'm in favour of them, particularly when this involves the careful sequencing of tracks, or when songs segue into each other. I do however also appreciate albums which have a coherent storyline running through.
As concept albums go, I love Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon, which I think is the perfect example of careful track sequencing, not just in driving the concept forward but also in sonic satisfaction - it's an album I play in full a lot anyway but once I've heard ''Money'' I almost always hear the rest of the album, as side two in particular flows so well from track to track.
I have to admit I do like the story of The Wall , I can understand where people are coming from when they complain that the album is a Roger Waters ego trip but I think it works well and is sufficiently universal to stand up. Of course, having songs like ''Comfortably Numb'', ''Run Like Hell'', ''Mother'' and so on probably helps! I've never heard Animals but I think the concept is sound there as well, unlike some of Roger Waters' solo albums - from what I've read the concept of Amused To Death is reasonably universal, i.e. more like a PF concept album, whereas The Pros And Cons Of Hitch-Hiking and especially Radio KAOS have somewhat bizarre concepts primarily relevant to Roger Waters.
I also really like the Eagles concept album Desperado, where I really like the outlaws concept, and again the track sequencing is excellent - I especially like how the hard rocker ''Out Of Control'' leads into the far more mellow ''Tequila Sunrise'', which works on both a musical and narrative level. I also love the combined reprise of ''Doolin-Dalton'' and ''Desperado'' at the end of the album, which brings two threads of the story together. It's not necessarily obvious on first listen exactly where all the songs fit into the album's storyline, but I think they do combine to make a coherent concept album - for example, ''Bitter Creek'' (named after one of the gang members) has lyrics about planning a bank robbery, while the ''Doolin-Dalton reprise'' starts with the gang attempting a robbery.
