Enlightening Stories

The Origin of the Concept Album

Roger Waters was skipping around town with his friend Syd. They both saw cardboard unicorns in the distance and wanted to take the unicorns home and cook them up. It would be a great treat for their friends. Sadly, the unicorns were getting farther away from them. Syd skipped as fast as he could, but he couldn't catch the creatures. Suddenly, the unicorns disappeared. Syd and Roger were disappointed. They were tired from all of the skipping, so they took a break and played a quick game of walk in circles. Then many sporks began to fall from the sky. Sporks fell on Syd's head. Luckily, Roger found shelter under a depressed rainbow. The rainbow's tears shielded Roger from the sporks of doom. Syd started crying because of the damage the sporks had inflicted upon his demented head. Soon, he found a demon tunnel where he could hide and cry. When the downpour of sporks stopped, Roger ran away from the rainbow and started skipping back home. This skipping back home would change his life. He was approaching the Evil Tree of Hatred. The evil tree picked up Roger and threw him into a box. Roger wasn't as idiotic as most people, so he figured out that if you step out of a box, you escape its wrath. He continued skipping home. Skipping, as you can probably tell, was Roger's favorite method of transportation. He ended up tripping over one of the evil tree's evil branches. Roger fell on his face. As his face hit the ground, Roger realized something. He could write an album about the events that had just occured. Or maybe change the events. Or get rid of the events and have a theme. He could write an album about something. A concept album. Many concept albums. Concept albums that would take over the world. Concept albums to cause people to become as crazy as Syd. Roger remembered Syd. He had forgotten about him. He was probably still crying in the demon tunnel. Oh well, Roger thought. He had more important things to do with his life than to take Syd to the lunatic asylum. He had to write a concept album.