Originally Posted by rharv
Concept albums are a personal endeavor, it may just be that the intended audience is not commercial.
I mean, if it happens, cool.
I did it for personal gratification and would not have spent $10k. Your example is not the intended recipient of my post.

Some of us do this for fun too!
Not just $$
Sometimes what we want, perhaps need, is the challenge.

It's something that I hadn't really fully recognised in myself until I took redundancy from a role 20 years ago and was both looking at business options and also, as an alternative for a job that I might want to do.
I was actually quite shocked at for how many of the latter my reaction was "where's the challenge in that?"

I presently have three ideas for narrative constructions of series of songs, cf 'concept albums', though at present I still struggle to get going due to the effects of my depression. What I would do, though, even with such a narrative, it try also to make each song capable of standing alone. I don't have any illusions that anyone is likely to buy such a narrative collection, but I think the challenge may be good for me.

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