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Some albums are just a random assortment of songs that are only linked by being recorded/written at around the same time. Other albums are arranged so that the songs flow together without sudden Mood Whiplash between tracks. Then we have the Concept Album, which goes even further than that. Similar to Rock Operas, concept albums are albums unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative or lyrical. Most often, they are meticulously planned, with all songs contributing to a single overall theme or unified story; this plan or story is the concept. Given that the suggestion of something as vague as an overall mood often tags a work as being a concept album, the precise definition of the term is up for debate. Put it blunt, it's a musical work of art with a Central Theme. In the world of musical theatre, there is a separate and distinct form of concept album known as the album musical, in which the performers are playing characters in a story, a type of recording which encompasses such rock operas as Tommy and Quadrophenia by The Who and The Wall by Pink Floyd. These often feature an Album Intro Track and/or Album Closure. Compare and Contrast Kay Fabe Music where the music is more about theatrics or performance, and may or may not have overlap with stories told through their music. Note: The following albums are referenced by decade, with multiple artists (such as Fear Factory, Alice Cooper, and Jethro Tull) straddling multiple decades. This was done intentionally, to display the progression of concept albums through the past seventy years in scope, detail, intensity, subject, and variety. If you just want to find concept albums by artist, please expand all folders and use your browser to search the name of the artist. While adding examples, please separate multiple albums by the decades during which they were released. (In this way, the page can become a Concept Page!) Examples |
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Marina Diamandis created Electra Heart (2012) as "basically a vehicle to portray part of the American dream, with elements of Greek tragedy." She makes it clear that the titular character "Electra Heart" is not an alter ego, but rather an exemplification of the dark sides of the American Dream. | |
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Tall Tales Of Memoria by Project Trinity. | |
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Aladdin Sane (1973) — The mental and emotional decline of a Ziggy Expy as he travels across America. | |
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Dream Theater's Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory follows the story of Nicholas and the discovery of his past life, which involves love, murder, and infidelity as Victoria Page. Interesting note: The "part one" in Metropolis Pt. 1: The Miracle and the Sleeper was tacked on as a joke. Part two was originally a twenty-minute song which would later be developed further into "Metropolis Pt. 2". Octavarium also sort of counts, as it revolves around musical concepts: The first track is called "The Root Of all Evil, each track is in a progressively higher key, with the 8th track, called Octav[e]arium, is the same key as the first but an octave higher, there are interludes where the flats and sharps would be, etc. In addition, the artwork of the album also revolves around these types of numerical themes. Read more about it here. |
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Transgender Dysphoria Blues by Against Me!, about Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Also a case of Write What You Know, since singer Laura Jane Grace is transgender, though some aspects of the album are fictionalised. | |
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Blind Guardian has one based on The Silmarillion, titled Nightfall in Middle-Earth. It starts with the War of Wrath and then goes back to the Darkening of Valinor through the NÃrnaeth Arnoediad. | |
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Metallica: Master of Puppets: Every song on the album is focused on the theme of "control" whether it's controlling someone else or being controlled by someone or something. Ride the Lightning is similarly focused around the theme of "death", although that just might be because Metallica likes death. And Justice For All is similarly themed around miscarriages of justice. |
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King Diamond tells an All American Ghost Story divided between two albums, "Them", and Conspiracy. They are about a family living in a haunted mansion who gets a visit from their Grandmother, coming home from an insane asylum. She is constantly haunted by a group of spirits known only as "Them". Then there's Abigail. |
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The Four Freshmen often recorded albums centered around a musical concept, like Four Freshmen and Five Trombones, or a lyrical theme, like Voices in Latin and Voices in Love. | |
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Akiko Shikata's Harmonia is built around the theme of the Classical Elements: the wind part (track 1 to 4) focuses on the feelings of traveling and flying in the sky; the fire part (5 to 8) has tense songs with heavy electric instrumentations and dark lyrics; the water part (9 to 12) contrasts it with soothing songs and light instrumentations; the earth part (13 to 15) has a "tribal dance" feel to it. Each part is introduced by a short interlude titled "Chouwa ~ something", all four of which form the first verse of Chouwa ~ Harmonia, the penultimate track. Harmonia ~ Mihatenu Chi he brings all this together in a joyful conclusion. | |
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Wish You Were Here (1975) (1975) was a musical ode to the group's ex-frontman Syd Barrett, who suffered Creator Breakdown in a big way after the band released its first album (though a few songs are about corruption in the music business instead). | |
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Rabbit Junk's 2008 album This Life Is Where You Get Fucked. It's a three-part anthology of short concepts - The Struggle tells of three struggles for freedom from the 1940s to the present day, Ghetto Blasphemer tells of inner-city occult summonings and the havoc thus caused, and This Death is Where You Get Life tells of a city cyclist seeing revenge on the person who stole his bike. 2010's Project Nonagon continues each story. | |
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Gryphon: Their 1974 album Red Queen to Gryphon Three is about a chess game. It helps that the tracks are named "Opening Move", "Second Spasm", "Lament" and "Checkmate". | |
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Nearly all of Tessa Violet's songs are about romance, but Bad Ideas takes this further by being a recounting of a romantic relationship that quickly slides downhill into emotional abuse, as well as the aftershocks this relationship left in the protagonist's mental state. | |
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As well as the similarly-themed follow-up 21st Century Breakdown. | |
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Lovejoy's second EP, Pebble Brain, revolves around the story of lead singer Wilbur breaking up with his home country of England. Sure enough, the album is a blend between relationship drama, political commentary, and relationship drama used as an allegory in political commentary. | |
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NateWantsToBattle's Songs of Time is based on the soundtrack and story of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. | |
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A Grand Don't Come For Free by The Streets follows an individual who manages to misplace the titular sum of money in the first song. Over the album he meets a girl, has encounters with gambling and taking drugs, argues with the girl, goes on holiday, finds out the girl is cheating on him and loses the girl before the album offers two possible endings where 1. the protagonist angrily shuns his friends and gets into a fight with a TV repairman, winding up angry and miserable or 2. reconciles with a friend, finds the money he lost and meets another girl with the suggestions of a future relationship, but acknowledging that you cant wholly rely on others in tough times when they have their own problems to deal with. | |
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Anyone who needs the subject of The Suburbs explained deserves to be shot for literally incredible thickness (although in a somewhat unique twist, the album is not some kind of meditation on the subject from the outside but rather a "letter from suburbia," reflecting Win Butler's youth in that ultimate suburb—The Woodlands, Texas). | |
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The Mechanisms almost exclusively wrote concept albums that told a full story based off of a classic folk tale or myth... in space! Once Upon a Time (in Space) took classic fairy tales like Literature/Cinderella and Snow White and set them in an intergalactic civil war. Ulysses Dies at Dawn retold the myth of Odysseus, aka Ulysses in a cyberpunk city, featuring other famous characters from Greek mythology. High Noon Over Camelot featured characters from Arthurian Legend in a Space Western. The Bifrost Incident set characters from Norse Mythology on an inter-dimensional train in space. The individual songs on the Mechanisms' non-concept-albums were also miniature stories set in the universes of their other albums or in the lives of the characters they played. | |
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Motel Shot by Delaney & Bonnie is an attempt to recreate the feeling of a late-night jam session on record. | |
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Japan's first concept album was by The Tigers, Human Renascence, and was entirely based on the concept of the Tigers dressing regally, so composers Koichi Sugiyama and Kunihiko Murai decided to make an entire album based on their image as royalty, complete with rather large orchestral arrangements, which made most of the songs notoriously difficult for the band to perform live. | |
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Darren Hayes' third album, This Delicate Thing We've Made is a double album exploring the concept of time travel. | |
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Ride the Lightning is similarly focused around the theme of "death", although that just might be because Metallica likes death. | |
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Melanie Martinez's "Cry-Baby" is about a woman who comes from a dysfunctional family. After her mother murders her father, she falls for a boy but it's an unhealthy relationship and they break up. She falls for someone else but is uncomfortable with intimacy. When she finally invites him and friends to her birthday no one comes. This snaps something in her and she begins to become more confident while at the same time becoming less mentally stable. | |
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Rhapsody of Fire has their ten-part (as in, ten sequential albums) epic "Symphony of the Enchanted Lands" (itself split into two five-album sagas), telling a Tolkien-esque High Fantasy tale which is sometimes narrated by Christopher Lee. And it is awesome. | |
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Master of Puppets: Every song on the album is focused on the theme of "control" whether it's controlling someone else or being controlled by someone or something. | |
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Warfare's last full-length album Hammer Horror from 1990 has songs based on its namesake's films. | |
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The LOVE YOURSELF Series tells the story of what loving oneself truly means, going from relying on another person, to truly finding love in learning to accept all sides of yourself. Depending on interpretation, it might also be a commentary on BTS' (and idols in general's) relationship with their fans. The installments of the series have their own sub-concepts: LOVE YOURSELF: Her features themes of newfound, fated love, but with the implication that the person is not being true to themself and the other and is hiding their darker side. LOVE YOURSELF: Tear is about discovering how the "love" experienced in Her is fake, since the person, too afraid to show their true self, hid under a mask and therefore wasn't loved for who they were, losing their identity trying to please the other. LOVE YOURSELF: Answer, being a compilation album, registers the entire journey from Wonder to Tear, plus the development of the person now slowly finding happiness in slowly learning to accept and love themself. |
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Blows Against the Empire, the first solo album by Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane was the first album released under the name "Jefferson Starship" (though the band itself wouldn't be formed for another four years), is about hippies going into space in search of freedom. | |
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Queen II by Queen, loosely. It has a "white" side consisting of emotional songs, and a "black" side consisting of dark fantasy. Additionally, each side contains a song with a queen of the corresponding colour in the title; and on a more meta level, the first side is primarily written by Brian May (except one song by Roger Taylor) and the second side is entirely written by Freddie Mercury. | |
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Ice Nine Kills: all the songs in Every Trick in the Book (2015) are based on works of literature, whereas The Silver Scream (2018) is themed around horror films. | |
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Bersuit Vergarabat has Don Leopardo (1996), an album talking about the life and times of fictional character Don Leopardo Vir Thomsio. Only the first 15 out of the album's 18 songs qualify, though. | |
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Most of the albums clipping. have released are concept albums: CLPPNG focus on telling stories from a third person perspective (there' no "i" in the album, get it?). Splendor and Misery is a slave song/gospel/hip hop space opera about an escaped slave being the Sole Survivor on the slave ship he's commandeered, fighting off loneliness and detection by the slavers. There Existed an Addiction to Blood is a horrorcore album with a 70s/80s horror movie aesthetic, each track preying on typical horror tropes (ranging from vampires being a metaphor for violent black revolution and snuff films). The Wriggle EP is all about sex in some way, ranging from the hard-and-fast life of lower-class strippers off the title track, to meaningless, degrading sex to fill a void. |
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Rush's first concept album was Hemispheres. | |
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Hotel California is not only a concept album, it's an indictment of an industry and a lifestyle. | |
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Similarly, their album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is a loose concept album about the cycle of life and death. | |
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Streets: A Rock Opera tells of the rise and fall of rock-star "DT Jesus". | |
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David Comes to Life, by hardcore/punk band Fucked Up, is a quite elaborate narrative of the relationship arc of two characters, David and Veronica. The story is told from multiple perspectives, sometimes by an Unreliable Narrator, and requires an in-depth read of the lyric sheet to achieve its full effect. | |
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The Ocean has written Precambrian, a concept album about the entire geological history of the Earth. | |
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The Stage is build around the themes of space, technology, artificial intelligence and nuclear warfare, with a very sci-fi-based storytelling, most notably in "Simulation" which is pretty much The Matrix : A7X Edition. The final track "Exist" spans a whopping 15 minutes and describes the Big Bang, the creation of Earth, the birth of humanity, and is concluded by a 3 minute speech from astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson. | |
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Many of the Sesame Street cast's early albums revolved around an overarching theme. For example, Happy Birthday from Sesame Street (the cast celebrates the listener's birthday), Big Bird Leads The Band (the titular bird learns about how an orchestra works), The Sesame Street Fairy Tale Album (the cast gets together and tells fairy tales), What Time Is It On Sesame Street (a bundle of tracks about various times of the day) and Numbers (ten tracks about the numbers 1-10) — keep in mind that these were all in the same year. Leads The Band got a Spiritual Successor in the form of Elmo and the Orchestra (2001), where Elmo learns about how an orchestra works from Big Bird and a bird orchestra. | |
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The ultimate concept double album just might be The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway by Genesis. It comprises 23 tracks about a Puerto Rican juvenile's metaphysical journey in which he loses his brother (more probably his soul), is reborn, is castrated and gets his manhood stolen by a huge raven. This is after he meets, makes love to, kills (unwillingly) and eats a bunch of siren-like creatures. And those are only some of the highlights. Also the albums From Genesis to Revelation (1969) and Selling England by the Pound (1973) by the same band could be considered concept albums (the former being about The Bible, and the latter being about English society and how much it's changed in the modern age). |
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John Frusciante's third album, To Record Only Water for Ten Days, refers to the ten separate times during which he conceived the album and wrote all the songs for it. During the writing process, he claims that he envisioned his body as a tape recorder, with the water of music and life rejuvenating and cleansing him, and that imagery propelled the entire album. His tenth album, The Empyrean, is about the collision of ancient and modern ideas of spirituality and how it is relevant to our daily lives. |
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WASP's The Crimson Idol - the story of rock star Jonathan Aaron Steel's tragic life journey from his abusive childhood to eventual onstage suicide "eight thousand lonely days of rage" later with eerie parallels with the life and death of Kurt Cobain. (The album was released in 1991, three years before Cobain's suicide.) Every song on Kill Fuck Die is a different take on the theme of Interplay of Sex and Violence. |
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The Downward Spiral is an album about a man's violent disillusionment with everything he holds dear (religion, love, etc.) and ultimately himself, culminating in a suicide attempt that may or may not have worked. | |
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Cormorant usually connects each song with a common theme for their albums, with Metazoa (animals), Dwellings (immortality) and Earth Diver (conspiracy and deceit). | |
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Most of the Homestuck albums which aren't Volumes are concept albums, concentrated on exploring a specific topic, theme or group of characters from the series. Perhaps the straightest example is M.G. Bowman's Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido, themed around the origin and purpose of Sburb and presented as a series of cryptic clues to its true nature, yet not a specific tie-in to any group of characters in particular. | |
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Hospice by The Antlers tells the utterly soul crushing tale of the doomed relationship between the narrator, a hospital worker, and the deeply troubled patient for whom he works as a home visitor. Suffice to say, things don't go well. An extraordinarily harrowing album about despair, pain and hopelessness, but through it all, love. | |
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Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips (despite Wayne Coyne stating that it isn't a concept album), concerns a diverse array of subject matter, mostly melancholy ponderings about love, mortality, artificial emotion, pacifism, and deception, while telling the story of Yoshimi's battle. | |
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News at 11 by 猫 シ Corp. is another vaporwave concept album, sourcing music from American TV broadcasts from September 11th, 2001, just hours — if not minutes — before the you-know-what changed the course of American history forever. The soundscapes formed are made as an audio collage of the calm, almost innocent banality of American media at the time, sidestepping mentions of the attacks but ironically highlighting their importance in the end of the nostalgic age that vaporwave is built on. | |
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The Marshall Mathers LP is about Eminem struggling with the obsessive parasocial relationships and moral panic caused by his rise to fame. | |
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A Rush of Blood to the Head is a loose concept album about urgency and the quietude that often obfuscates it. | |
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Spinal Tap's 1975 album The Sun Never Sweats was based around re-telling stories from British legend and mythology, and glorifying the British Empire. (The title track comes from Smalls' mis-hearing of the old saying 'The sun never sets on the British Empire'). Rather than being motivated by any artistic or political convictions, the band were just trying to cash in on the wave of nationalistic pride/chauvinism sweeping Britain at the time. The religion inspired Spinal Tap concept album 'The Gospel According to Spinal Tap' which prompted the review 'On what day did God create Spinal Tap and couldn't he have rested on that day also?" |
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I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME is an indie synth-pop/rock band played as "a band out of time", one that was active during The '80s but never got their big break and were promptly forgotten. Their retreaux music videos and other supplementary materials are framed as coming from old cassette tapes that were recently rediscovered and shared online, additionally with a trail of sinister mysteries surrounding the Tellex Foundation, an ominous corporation whose presence looms over the band's history. | |
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The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) explores the external forces that drive a person, and in which could lead them to madness or obsession if they are not careful. A few of Floyd's other albums also fit the category: | |
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Harumaki Gohan's Futari No is an album exploring a futuristic Childless Dystopia, where the inhabitants are robots known as "Adults" and most humans have moved onto other planets. The only known human children are two girls named Lili and Nana, who become tightknit Childhood Friends and promise to always be with each other, but are forced apart by Lili moving away. The album further explores what their relationship as they get older, how they lose their childhood innocence, and what growing up looks like for them. | |
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Deafheaven's Sunbather is another example of a Mind Screw concept album in Black Metal. The album is described as a concept album that "deals with the profound sadness found in the quest for one's personal perfection... serving as an artistic lucid dream of warmth despite the stinging pain of life's cruel idealism". Reading the lyrics, though, will still leave you stumped as to what they really mean. | |
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The Buddha of Suburbia (1993) — Based heavily on the Hanif Kureishi novel of the same name, being put together from Bowie's soundtrack for the book's miniseries adaptation (to the point where it was misleadingly marketed as a soundtrack album despite only having one song that was actually in the show). | |
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His 2015 album, To Pimp a Butterfly is also a fictionalized version of his own life. He starts off a metaphorical caterpillar, rough around the edges in his new found life, and finally blossoms into the butterfly as he grows used to his fame. | |
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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972) — The tragic saga of a messianic rock star. | |
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Glory Hammer: Their debut album is titled Tales from the Kingdom of Fife. The contents of the album is a High Fantasy story about the fall of Dundee (to an army of undead unicorns), Angus Mcfife's quest for revenge and ultimately reconquering Dundee. All songs come in chronological order, and listening to the album in any other order than that pretty much ruins it all. Their second album is called Space 1992: Rise of The Chaos Wizards. This album is set ten centuries later in 1992, where the fantasy setting has developed into a space setting similar to Warhammer 40,000. This is about Zargothrax being released from his prison by the Chaos Wizards, and the events that ensue. As with the first album, listening to it in any order other than chronological ruins it. The third album is titled Tales from Beyond the Galactic Terrorvortex. It's set in the alternate universe that Angus and Zargothrax end up in after going through a wormhole created by the Earth-Shattering Kaboom at the end of the previous album. |
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Kilroy Was Here chronicles a future dystopia in which the Moral Music Majority bans all rock music. Kilroy, an outlaw musician, breaks out of jail disguised as a servant robot (featured in the single "Mr. Roboto"). The title is taken from World War II graffiti. | |
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Amused to Death by Roger Waters, formerly of Pink Floyd, is about aliens visiting earth after the end of humanity and trying to work out what killed our species. | |
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Ein kleines bisschen Horrorshow (A little bit horrorshow) by german band Die Toten Hosen follows the plot of A Clockwork Orange. | |
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The Third Reich 'n Roll is a concept album about a conspiracy theory that the Nazis wrote 1950s and 1960s rock and roll songs to corrupt the youth. In reality its an excuse to make a Cover Album. | |
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Avenged Sevenfold's album City of Evil, both by lyrical progression & thematic unity (tracks 1 through 5 are continuous, track six is a COMPLETE change in tone leaning Lighter and Softer, then from track 7 on we go Darker and Edgier until the penultimate track, and the album's final cut is a Moment of Awesome). Nightmare should have been one about a young American disconnected from modern society and living various nightmares, with all the stories coming together at the end. Alas, the band's drummer Jimmy Sullivan died just before the recording, and the lyrics were changed to make it a tribute album to him instead. The Stage is build around the themes of space, technology, artificial intelligence and nuclear warfare, with a very sci-fi-based storytelling, most notably in "Simulation" which is pretty much The Matrix : A7X Edition. The final track "Exist" spans a whopping 15 minutes and describes the Big Bang, the creation of Earth, the birth of humanity, and is concluded by a 3 minute speech from astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson. |
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Most Big Big Train releases are concept albums, or have a unifying theme: The Underfall Yard is about the history's great builders and engineers; Folklore is about Exactly What It Says on the Tin. | |
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Similar to The Final Cut above, Punk Rock band Crass were inspired by The Falklands War to release a holistic critique of everything they saw as wrong with British society at the time, reflecting the band members' belief that all political struggles were interrelated (a concept referred to in academia as intersectionality). Reflecting this, Yes Sir, I Will was composed and performed as a single song with only a division between vinyl sides (and even this was cross-stitched on CD releases of the album); to this day it remains the longest punk song ever recorded. Reflecting the band's anarchist sentiments, the album's lyrics critique aspects of society such as religion, war, capitalism, sexism, government, police brutality, censorship, and punk itself. The album closes with an appeal to the listener to take direct action. Penny Rimbaud explained: | |
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Gentle Giant had four, of varying themes: The first was Three Friends, about three people who grow up in school together but are unable to understand each other when they diverge in their own careers. In A Glass House is about types of people that should not throw stones. The Power And The Glory tells the story of a Full-Circle Revolution. Interview is an album full of songs about rock stardom, with periodic Studio Chatter between the members of the band and an "interviewer". |
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Poets and Madmen by Music/Savatage has no narrative but is about an Abandoned Hospital and a famous photographer tormented by Post-Historical Trauma. | |
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Then there's Abigail. | |
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Varg Vikernes (of Burzum and Mayhem) was essentially forced to make these while in prison: he was only allowed an acoustic guitar and a synthesizer to record with. The result was Dauði Baldrs. It not only directly told the story of the death of the Norse god Baldr, but also allegorically mourns the death of Norse pagan traditions at the hands of Christianity. | |
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Every Sound Horizon album. Each and every one of them. | |
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Eagles' Desperado, with an Old West theme. Hotel California is not only a concept album, it's an indictment of an industry and a lifestyle. |
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Yellow Magic Orchestra (1978) is a parody of western Orientalism, exotica music, and disco, commenting on the intersection of all three in the United States at the time. | |
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Band on the Run by Paul McCartney and Wings. | |
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maudlin of the Well's Bath and Leaving Your Body Map may be one of the few cases to combine this with The Walrus Was Paul. For information, face of the band Toby Driver has stated that there is a puzzle buried in the music, lyrics, and packaging to the two albums. "The Secret Song", a subsequent release by the band, was intended to help unlock the puzzle. This was in 2001. As of 2019, no one has successfully figured it out. | |
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Wings follows a coming of age concept, with heavier and more mature themes and a Whole-Plot Reference to Hermann Hesse's Demian. | |
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Hexode made a duo of EPs, Sleep Sequence Aâ„¢ and Sleep Sequence Bâ„¢ which are loosely based around the idea of falling asleep with the TV on. | |
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The effect of robots and technology on human culture (I, Robot); pyramid power & Egyptian mysticism (interest in which was widespread in the US and UK in the 1970s) (Pyramid). | |
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Savatage has several: Dead Winter Dead tells the story of two young fighters in the Bosnian War, a Muslim girl and a Serb boy, who join their sides armies to fight for their homes, but eventually meet and run off together, realizing that the neither of them really want to fight. Dead Winter Dead is doubly remarkable as it takes place during Christmastime, and climaxes with a medley of traditional Christmas music performed in an energetic power-metal style. The song was ''Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24", which gave the band a mainstream hit and inspired the members to form the Trans-Siberian Orchestra (see below) which has produced a few concept albums of its own. The Wake of Magellan, a tale about an old sailor who attempts to kill himself by sailing out to sea and not returning. Before he dies, he gets caught in a storm and finds a young sailor who was drowning. After rescuing him, he can no longer bring himself to commit suicide and returns to shore with the young sailor. Streets: A Rock Opera tells of the rise and fall of rock-star "DT Jesus". |
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Tuomas Holopainen's The Life and Times of Scrooge, based on Don Rosa's The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. | |
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OK Computer by Radiohead has been referred to as a concept album by their fans, despite Radiohead themselves saying this wasn't what they were trying to do. Of course, In Rainbows was explicitly stated by Thom Yorke to be an extension of OK Computer, drawing attention to shared themes and sonic patterns between the two albums... Kid A is a slightly more clear-cut example, but not by much. Theories abound as to whether there's a story arc in the album; Thom Yorke even suggested that it was about the first human clone, but this has never been definitively confirmed. |
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Anaïs Mitchell's 2010 album Hadestown is a retelling of the Orpheus myth. | |
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Station to Station (1976) — The world of The Thin White Duke, a cocaine-addled European aristocrat who has a taste for fascism. | |
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Semi-fictional example: Dethklok's Dethwater. The entire album was written for sealife, and was recorded in the Marianas Trench. Features such songs as "Go Into the Water" and "Murmaider" ("It's about mermaid murder.") | |
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Meddle (1971) could be considered this, and is officially described as a loose concept album, and fans say it is the direct precursornote although Obscured by Clouds came in between the two to The Dark Side of the Moon. | |
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Animals (1977) is a critique of capitalism, taking some (very loose) inspiration from Animal Farm and the Punk Rock movement. | |
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Mike Watt's Ball Hog Or Tugboat? had no over-riding lyrical theme, but musically it was all about collaboration: A different group of musicians played on each song, and usually someone other than Watt himself would sing lead vocals (Henry Rollins and Frank Black, for instance). Contemplating The Engine Room uses an extended metaphor about The Navy to relate his family history and his years with The Minutemen. |
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The Who's The Who Sell Out, released the same year as Sgt. Pepper, is made to sound like a British pop pirate radio station of the time - complete with faux-ads for Heinz baked beans, the Charles Atlas course, and a London car dealership. The band would later take Concept Album one step further by starting the Rock Opera with Tommy and Quadrophenia. | |
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All of Fall of Efrafa's music is based on their take on Watership Down and its sequel. They disbanded after they had finished telling the story they wanted to tell. | |
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At least three of Bastille's albums so far have been concept albums. Bad Blood focuses on the past: memories, regrets, old relationships, and the necessity to continue living despite these and make amends for them. Most of the songs seem to be addressed to a romantic partner or friend. Wild World concerns how an ordinary person deals with political and societal turmoil - which turns out to be mostly through escapism and relying on his significant other. Doom Days, the most obviously conceptual, is an "apocalyptic party album" telling the story of a couple who spend a night in debauchery to distract themselves from the increasing bleakness of world events. Not only are two of the songs, "Quarter Past Midnight" and "4 AM," titled with the times when they take place, but the images on the YouTube official audio versions of the songs give each song a canonical time. Give Me the Future concerns, well, the future, not only the problems created and exacerbated by modern technology but also whether any hope remains for the protagonist/singer and his significant other to create a future together. |
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Ghost Quartet by Dave Malloy. | |
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Most of The Oh Hellos' discography comes in this form: Through the Deep, Dark Valley is told from the perspective of a single character, chronicling their early life, fall from grace, and later redemption. Dear Wormwood continues the story of that same character, now a Love Martyr writing messages to their beloved depicting how their relationship fell apart and their efforts to pick up the pieces and move on. Their follow-up is a four-part series named after Greek mythology's "four winds" and themed after their respective seasons— Notos (summer), Eurus (autumn), Boreas (winter), Zephyrus (spring) —centered around a common theme of change, renewal, and personal growth. |
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Also the albums From Genesis to Revelation (1969) and Selling England by the Pound (1973) by the same band could be considered concept albums (the former being about The Bible, and the latter being about English society and how much it's changed in the modern age). | |
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Once Upon a Time has a loose storyline based on Cinderella. | |
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Antichrist Superstar is about a revolutionary figure named The Worm, who fights the establishment of his society, rising up from nothingness into a hero, before becoming sickened by the very people he is fighting for and their adoring and sycophantic nature, and turning on them, becoming the titular Antichrist Superstar and destroying all of reality. | |
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The Wake of Magellan, a tale about an old sailor who attempts to kill himself by sailing out to sea and not returning. Before he dies, he gets caught in a storm and finds a young sailor who was drowning. After rescuing him, he can no longer bring himself to commit suicide and returns to shore with the young sailor. | |
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The protagonist of Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) is Adam Kadmon, who lives in the city of Holy Wood. Holy Wood is a parable of America, with their creed of "Guns, God and Government", their worship of dead celebrities (called Celebritarianism) and their elevation of John F. Kennedy as a modern day Jesus Christ. Adam attempts to lead a revolution though music, but is taken into the fold and becomes another part of the machine. He falls in love with a woman called Coma Black, who may or may not be Coma White as well (more on that in a bit), and possibly impregnates her (that too) before killing himself. Finally, there is the interconnection. One of the common theories goes like this. First, Coma White and Coma Black are the same woman. After the death of Adam Kadmon, she became addicted to drugs, and also had a son. This son is The Worm. Omega and Alpha both end up falling in love with Coma, but she ends up dying of a drug overdose (in the song Coma White). Omega falls into depression, becoming part of the society of Holy Wood, just like Adam Kadmon before him. The Worm grows up idolizing Omega, but ends up discovering what he has become. Killing Omega and becoming the third revolutionary to try to use music to bring about a change, The Worm becomes a hero to the masses, but their blind idolization sickens him. Turing on them, he becomes the Antichrist Superstar, bringing about the Apocalypse, taking everyone and everything with him. |
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The Fear Factory album Obsolete is a concept album with a story that is like a cyberpunk version of 1984. The liner notes even fill in the gaps between the songs, tying them even closer together. Slightly lesser-known is the prior album Demanufacture, about a man who hates the government machine and wishes to destroy it. |
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As well as making the aforesaid albums with Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder also produced a couple for Roberta Kelly: the astrology-themed Zodiac Lady, and an album of God-Is-Love Songs, Gettin' the Spirit. | |
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On The Heart of Saturday Night, Tom Waits sings the otherwise unrelated stories of several people all passing through the same small California town in the middle of the aforementioned night. The cover art is something of a Shout-Out to Sinatra's In the Wee Small Hours. | |
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Nightwish's 2015 album Endless Forms Most Beautiful was inspired by the writings of Charles Darwin and contains mainly songs about evolution and the beauty and wonder of the natural world. | |
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Eldorado, by Electric Light Orchestra, involves a man who travels to the titular city in a dream. | |
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The Caretaker's An Empty Bliss Beyond This World is an album inspired by a study in which it was revealed that people with Alzheimer's disease are able to remember scenarios better when they heard music in those scenarios. The album is an ambient album made of pre-World War II vinyl recordings looped and spliced in order to give the listener the feeling of trying to recall memories while suffering from Alzheimer's disease. His later and final project, Everywhere At The End Of Time, is a six-album trek exceeding six hours in length for the entire thing. It goes more into depth into the feeling of Alzheimer's progressing, starting from the pre-World War II records, then slowly progressing into a terrifying mess of electronic sounds and record noises, culminating in the final album, which reportedly "is without description" where every other stage has at least a paragraph describing it. It goes from music and terror to only echoes, a reverbating white noise, and uncertainty, a representation of the final degenerative states of dementia. |
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Razia's Shadow by Forgive Durden (and tons of guest vocalists from other bands) is a full-cast album musical following the allegorical story of a world split between light and darkness through the actions of a rebellious angel, and the forbidden love between a man from the "dark" and a woman from the "light" that is prophesied to reunite the two halves. | |
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John Zorn has recorded many concept albums that pay tribute to a particular artist, including his famous Spillane, a homage to Mickey Spillane, most famous for the Mike Hammer novels. | |
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Jhariah: In The Great Tale of How I Ruined It All, the protagonist is that last one standing on a world After the End. Everyone else has been brainwashed by a cult, so he finds a safe place to hide. This instills a sense of Survivor Guilt in him, wondering if his resistance and desire to save everyone are really the right things to do. In A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO FAKING YOUR DEATH, a man fakes his death on a whim and escapes to a better life. However, he fears that the people he left behind will catch on to what he did and get their revenge. |
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Dead Winter Dead tells the story of two young fighters in the Bosnian War, a Muslim girl and a Serb boy, who join their sides armies to fight for their homes, but eventually meet and run off together, realizing that the neither of them really want to fight. Dead Winter Dead is doubly remarkable as it takes place during Christmastime, and climaxes with a medley of traditional Christmas music performed in an energetic power-metal style. The song was ''Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24", which gave the band a mainstream hit and inspired the members to form the Trans-Siberian Orchestra (see below) which has produced a few concept albums of its own. | |
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Stone Sour's House of Gold and Bones, is a heavy metal/alternative metal double concept album based on a four-part graphic novel of the same name, written by Corey Taylor (Lead singer of both Slipknot and Stone Sour), and illustrated by Richard Clark. The story follows a character called the Human, who wakes up in a surreal landscape which is later revealed to be a manifestation of his consciousness and life experiences and is directed by his doppelganger Allen to find the House of Gold and Bones before an event called The Conflagration happens, all the while on the run from Black John and his gang of Numbers. | |
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All of Panopticon's full-length albums except the first one are concept albums; many are explained by their titles. Collapse is about the collapse of society. ...On the Subject of Mortality is about death and religion. Social Disservices is about the abuses in the foster care system. Kentucky is essentially a history of the labour activism associated with coal mining in the eponymous state. Roads to the North and Autumn Eternal are tough, because sole band member Austin Lunn hasn't released the lyrics, and they're largely indecipherable due to the vocal style, but they evidently form a trilogy with Kentucky. (The liner notes do explain some of the concept, but Lunn feels the lyrics are too personal to release.) The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness relates to man's impact on the environment and the difficulty of finding genuine silence in the modern era.note The lyrics for this album actually weren't released either, but all eighteen songs have explanatory text explaining their concepts, and since the lyrics to the second half are entirely sung or spoken rather than screamed, most of them are easier to decipher. More information can be found on the band's page. | |
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FEMM is a duo chronicling two sentient mannequins sent into society to liberate other mannequins from human oppression. Mannequins begin to suddenly disappear all around Japan... | |
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Time Out a 1959 Jazz release by the Dave Brubeck Quartet (the originators of the "cool" West Coast jazz so beloved of midcentury intellectuals), featured songs all in unusual time signatures. The first song, "Blue Rondo ala Turk" is in 9/8, played as "1-2-1-2-1-2 1-2-3". The third song, saxophonist Paul Desmond's famous "Take Five", is in 5/4. "Kathy's Waltz" is in 3/4, but the drums and piano solo are in 4/4. And so on. Brubeck and Desmond continued writing stuff in this vein for a while, enough to make up two sequel albums, Time Further Out and Time in Outer Space, one of which features a composition by Desmond called "Eleven Four." |
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Kid A is a slightly more clear-cut example, but not by much. Theories abound as to whether there's a story arc in the album; Thom Yorke even suggested that it was about the first human clone, but this has never been definitively confirmed. | |
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Nero's Welcome Reality takes place in December the first, 2808 and has a Source Sound feel. Well, except for three songs. | |
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A very out-there example with Saga's The Chapters. This was an experiment that began in 1978 and ended in 1981. The Chapters are eight songs, all released across four different albums and out of order. But if played together, it chronicles the life of Albert Einstein. | |
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Us, Peter Gabriel's 1992 offering, is about interpersonal relationships, especially ones gone wrong (inspired by Gabriel's divorce from his first wife, his failed romance with Rosanna Arquette, and his oldest daughter becoming more distant from him). | |
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The oft forgotten S.F. Sorrow by the '60s British group, The Pretty Things. S.F. Sorrow tells the story of Sebastian F. Sorrow, who endures World War I, and then returns to his love, who is killed in a dirigible accident. Sorrow falls into a severe state of depression, and is then taken on a journey by the mythical Baron Saturday. The Baron throws Sorrow into a room of mirrors, where he sees the horrible truths and revelations of his life, ending with Sorrow secluding himself from society and building a mental and emotional wall. And this was ten years before Roger Waters had even thought of The Wall yet. Notable for being considered one of the first Rock Operas. Produced at Abbey Road, during the same time The Beatles were recording Sgt. Pepper's and Pink Floyd were recording The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. | |
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His later and final project, Everywhere At The End Of Time, is a six-album trek exceeding six hours in length for the entire thing. It goes more into depth into the feeling of Alzheimer's progressing, starting from the pre-World War II records, then slowly progressing into a terrifying mess of electronic sounds and record noises, culminating in the final album, which reportedly "is without description" where every other stage has at least a paragraph describing it. It goes from music and terror to only echoes, a reverbating white noise, and uncertainty, a representation of the final degenerative states of dementia. | |
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Mechanical Animals is about an androgynous space alien turned rock star named Omega (pronounced O-ME-ga, who was forced to become a rock star with a special-made band, The Mechanical Animals, whose entire purpose is to preach hollow anthems. Omega becomes drug addicted and dead to the world, before being mentally enlightened by his own foil Alpha, who is only beginning to feel emotions. Alpha and Omega observe humanity, and view them as mechanical animals, feeling little emotions. Both of them are in love with Coma White, a woman who they are not 100% certain is even real. Omega comes to term with his emotions. | |
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"Hand" - the Dead Man's Hand | |
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Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota's 2000 album Momo Sampler is a picture of Argentina's society around the time it was done, with different characters from all the different walks of society being represented in every song, from the lower and indigent classes ("Una piba con la remera de Greenpeace", "Rato molhado", "La murga de la virgencita") to those in the middle class whose interests vary from the weird but innocuous ("Morta punto com") to the outright dangerous ("Sheriff", about a woman obsessed with what was called "gatillo fácil" and "mano dura"). The opener "El templo de Momo" even calls this version of Argentina's society a "murga". | |
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One by One by Foo Fighters was described by Dave Grohl as "11 tortured love songs", with a major theme of "surrendering to yourself", and a sequencing that described the difficult beginnings of falling in love, and then the relief of feeling comfortable in love. For years people have talked about The Colour and the Shape being a "very loose" concept album about the lifcycle of a loving relationship. |
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YUP's Toppatakkeja ja Toledon Terästä (1994) is a concept album about singing detective Henri Blavatsky and his investigations on an evil family and a suspicious factory that stuffs mattocks and guilted jackets using dead people's hair. | |
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Their second album is called Space 1992: Rise of The Chaos Wizards. This album is set ten centuries later in 1992, where the fantasy setting has developed into a space setting similar to Warhammer 40,000. This is about Zargothrax being released from his prison by the Chaos Wizards, and the events that ensue. As with the first album, listening to it in any order other than chronological ruins it. | |
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Will Wood's SELF-iSH is a concept album about reality vs the self. | |
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Dorian Electra's My Agenda is built around observing toxic masculinity through the POV of a man practicing it, but observed through a tongue-in-cheek queer lens. The album follows a loose narrative of the protagonist's regressive views on gender, sexuality, and reality in general while gradually deconstructing his own deeply-conflicting and inconvenient desire for affection. | |
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Steppenwolf came up with a few. Monster was a political statement about the times (1970). For Ladies Only was intended as a statement about feminism, but it didn't really come off that way. The cover art didn't help. | |
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The Wall (1979) follows the main character's Sanity Slippage and descent into drug abuse. | |
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'hours...' (1999) — Themes of reflection on a life long-lived in anticipation of the incoming end of the millennium. | |
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Klaus Schulze's X is an album of six "musical biographies" evoking both contemporary and historical intellectuals whose works influenced the artist. | |
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While not described as this, Madhouse by the Disco group The Silver Convention is suggested to be such by the liner notes written by co-producer Michael Kunze, who used the song titles to describe an All Just a Dream story by the protagonist. Apart from that, the four songs on side one are linked thematically, starting with the Title Track. | |
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"The Commercial Album" might be the most rigorously-excuted concept album ever. Not only did they record 40 "pop" songs, each exactly a minute in length, but also bought up 40 one minute add spaces on San Francisco radio, effectively creating their own payola Top 40! | |
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Amplitude 2016's campaign mode tracks are an in-house concept album based around brain surgery, synesthesia, and nanotechnology. | |
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Epica base most of their albums upon themes and concepts. Usually abstract and existential or based in myth and religious ideals. | |
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Doom Days, the most obviously conceptual, is an "apocalyptic party album" telling the story of a couple who spend a night in debauchery to distract themselves from the increasing bleakness of world events. Not only are two of the songs, "Quarter Past Midnight" and "4 AM," titled with the times when they take place, but the images on the YouTube official audio versions of the songs give each song a canonical time. | |
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Haken has done this to an extent on every album. Aquarius is a Rock Opera about a fisherman who finds a mermaid and sells her to the circus, Visions is about a man who sees his own death and his haunted by it, and The Mountain isn't a Rock Opera, but has some interwoven themes about pride, hubris, and giving insignificant things significance (as well as some repeated musical concepts). | |
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Basically all of Vylet Pony's albums are concept albums. Carousel (An Examination of the Shadow, Creekflow, and its Life as an Afterthought) is about a lot of things according to Word of Godnote Though here is a tweet from her clarifying what it's not, but sea has left it up to viewer interpretation. The basic plot, however, is this: Vylet finds a magic carousel at the fair that lets her talk to her "shadow", who is evidently not happy with her. Can Openers Notebook Fish Whisperer follows a neurodivergent unicorn named Canni who dreams of being a musician while their parents disapprove. Cutiemarks And The Things That Bind Us follows the lives of various My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic characters, and focuses a lot on interpersonal relationships and identity. The "Starship Ponyville" series note Mystic Acoustics, Homeward is a sci-fi series that follows the character Vylet Featherdance. It has a corresponding fanfiction. Love Letters and Love Letters Colourless follow the different sides of a relationship between Rarity and Rainbow Dash respectively. Queen Of Misfits is a moody synthpop album that follows the character Trixie Lulamoon. |
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Saint Etienne's Tales From Turnpike House is a series of vignettes about a day in the life of the residents of a north London block of flats (which doesn't really narrow things down much, since nearly all of their music is about London in one way or another), including The Alcoholic Gary Stead (who turns out to be Drowning His Sorrows) and a couple played by Sarah Cracknell and David Essex arguing about leaving the city to go and live The Good Life. Their stories all eventually link up in the penultimate track, the epic "Teenage Winter". | |
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Low (1977) — Bowie's depression and recovery from the "Thin White Duke" period during his return to Europe (his previous two albums were recorded in the US: Young Americans in Philadelphia and New York, Station to Station in Los Angeles). It particularly reflects his withdrawal from cocaine and his attempt to become David Bowie again after five years of being somebody else. | |
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Qbomb: Hyperpunk has a loose story. The protagonist, who's very abrasive and questionably stable, wants to start a band and make loud music that proves that he's worth something. Someone spreads controversy about his band to defame him, and his aggressiveness leads him to "fuck it up" and lose all hope that his music will work. He goes insane and is convinced that he needs to be a "damaged legend" to make an impact, so he builds a giant robot to destroy life on Earth, but has another breakdown. He realizes that the problem is inside him, how he lies to make himself feel better, and as long as that's still happening, he'll never be satisfied. So he sets his aspirations for his band low... and still feels like it'll never be good enough. | |
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After Forever's 2004 album Invisible Circles, about a teenage girl growing up with Abusive Parents. | |
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Sun Ra, who started performing as early as 1934 but only gained notability from the late 1950s on, made many albums which mixed space travel imagery with Egyptian Mythology, like The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra. All of them are in that regard concept albums because they are built around the same theme. | |
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Falling Up's album Fangs! tells the story of a man who journeys to another planet to investigate an attack on his home world. The prologue of the story is given in the liner material, but the actual story is...rather unclear. | |
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The 18-minute, five-part EP "The Tain", their take on the Irish epic The Cattle Raid of Cooley, also qualifies. | |
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Iron Maiden's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. | |
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Cytus: Cytus Alive is a collection of eleven songs from sta and Cranky that tell a story of humanity being wiped out by a virus and people going through Brain Uploading so they can continue to exist as robots, and reliving their human emotions by experiencing them in the form of the songs you play. Knight by Eyemedia, Hoskey, Nicode, and M2U is based on the splash screen for "Holy Knight", featuring two childhood friends, Iris and Rosabel. They are eventually separated, with Iris becoming a knight and Rosabel being forced to take the throne of a kingdom after her parents are killed and soon afterwards discovering a mysterious codex. Things...spiral into tragedy after that. Timeline, composed by the Video Game Orchestra, tells the history of Taiwan, where Rayark is headquartered, starting from the Penglai Movement and then covering key points of Taiwanese history such as the Dutch Formosa period and the Japanese occupation of Taiwan. It continues into the future to tell predictions and a Green Aesop about the horrors of nuclear power. L, composed by ICE and made into orchestral arrangements by gaQdan, is about an entity that threatens to destroy Heaven, only to find himself under the control of a boy in Heaven, soon taking over said boy and traveling down to the human realm. He then takes over the boy of a human boy, and the resulting efforts by the forces of Heaven end up triggering a catastrophic meteor shower that destroys the boy's hometown and everyone who inhabits it, including the human boy's parents. The full story can be found translated here. |
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Lifter Puller's final LP, Fiestas + Fiascos, covers a nightclub arson and the events that lead up to it. | |
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Mike Batt (creator of The Wombles band act, you surely heard?) "Zero Zero". Another Nineteen Eighty-Four adaption (1982). | |
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Diamond Dogs (1974) — Bowie wanted to mount a musical adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four, but he couldn't get the rights from Orwell's widow. Several of the songs he wrote for that project were incorporated with other songs to tell a tale of The Apunkalypse; the subsequent tour initially featured a huge "Hunger City" set to further carry out the theme. | |
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Kamelot's ''Epica'' and ''The Black Halo'' are concept albums based on Goethe's Faust (the story that developed the modern interpretation of the Deal with the Devil). | |
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Kayo Dot has two definite examples in Coyote, a semi-autobiographical story penned by a friend of the band with terminal breast cancer; and Hubardo, an allegorical story about the sacrifices demanded to create True Art. Coffins on Io may be a third example. | |
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His debut album Calling All Dawns — based on Civilization IV's main theme, "Baba Yetu" — centers on a cycle of Day (life), Night (death), and Dawn (rebirth). | |
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The earliest example of a concept album so far is Dust Bowl Ballads (1940) by Woody Guthrie. All the songs are built around one narrative and one theme: the hardships of the local population during The Great Depression, specifically in Oklahoma, where both economic recession and dust storms hit everybody hard. | |
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The Warning with their second album "Queen of The Murder Scene", which tells a story. | |
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Each of the three studio albums by Kendrick Lamar tells a story: Good Kid MAA Dcity (2012) is a fictionalized version of his own teen years. K-dot is dating a girl named Sharane his parents don't like. He goes over to her house one day to hookup and her cousins jump him. He and his friends come back to retaliate and one of them dies in the shootout. He decides he wants to give up his old life, find God, and work on his music. His 2015 album, To Pimp a Butterfly is also a fictionalized version of his own life. He starts off a metaphorical caterpillar, rough around the edges in his new found life, and finally blossoms into the butterfly as he grows used to his fame. 2017's DAMN is about what it means to be a black man in America and Kendrick's own path to understand what that means. |
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Sepultura's album Roots is a bittersweet homage to their own country, Brazil. | |
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Music from "The Elder" is a concept album from KISS. It was also supposed to be the soundtrack for a movie that was never made. Even the band wishes the album had met the same fate. | |
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Iced Earth has two released in the 90's: Night of The Stormrider which tells the story of a man who is betrayed by his religion and becomes, essentially, the anti-christ, and The Dark Saga about the Spawn comics (with cover art from Todd McFarlane) | |
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The Eminem Show casts him as a megalomaniacal Smug Super, addressing his recent gun violence charge, divorce, lawsuits, and tabloid-gothic personal problems. | |
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Coming Out of Their Shells (1990) — a Pizza Hut-sponsored Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles album that would later be adapted into a musical. | |
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Keldian's The Bloodwater Rebellion in stark contrast to previous albums follows a common thread with it being based on an unpublished novel co-authored by Christer Andresen set in a not-so-distant future where fresh water has become the rarest resource. | |
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Eternal Kingdom by Cult of Luna has a fantasy narrative with a Direct Line to the Author claiming it was the diary of a mental patient institutionalised for murdering his family. This was later revealed by the band to be a hoax at the expense of music journalists. Somewhere Along the Highway is a concept album, too, challenging traditional gender roles and deconstructing many of the tropes inherent in society's assumption that Men Are Tough. The band's first three full-length albums may not be explicit concept albums but have some common themes about Sinister Surveillance and globalisation. | |
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Most Korean BTS albums are concept albums: The School Trilogy (2 Cool 4 Skool, O!R U L8?2, Skool Luv Affair) had the concept of youth and school. Dark&Wild (an epilogue of sorts to The School Trilogy) follows the concept of the first half of the album being "Dark", and the second half being "Wild". The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, pts. 1 & 2 and The Most Beautiful Moment in Life Epilogue: Young Forever, were focused on the beauty and struggles of being young. Wings follows a coming of age concept, with heavier and more mature themes and a Whole-Plot Reference to Hermann Hesse's Demian. The LOVE YOURSELF Series tells the story of what loving oneself truly means, going from relying on another person, to truly finding love in learning to accept all sides of yourself. Depending on interpretation, it might also be a commentary on BTS' (and idols in general's) relationship with their fans. The installments of the series have their own sub-concepts: LOVE YOURSELF: Her features themes of newfound, fated love, but with the implication that the person is not being true to themself and the other and is hiding their darker side. LOVE YOURSELF: Tear is about discovering how the "love" experienced in Her is fake, since the person, too afraid to show their true self, hid under a mask and therefore wasn't loved for who they were, losing their identity trying to please the other. LOVE YOURSELF: Answer, being a compilation album, registers the entire journey from Wonder to Tear, plus the development of the person now slowly finding happiness in slowly learning to accept and love themself. MAP OF THE SOUL: PERSONA and MAP OF THE SOUL: 7 include a Whole-Plot Reference to Carl Jung's psychological treatise of the same name, referencing the concepts of Persona, Shadow, and Ego. |
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Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling were themed around The Prisoner (1967), as all their original songs were written about and named after a specific episode of the series: The songs were released in Anachronic Order over the course of multiple singles and EPs, and once they had a song for every episode of the show, they compiled them into a full album re-organized in the same order of the episodes, then dissolved the project. They've also recorded some non-Prisoner-related cover versions, although even those seem to engage in The Cover Changes the Meaning to loosely fit the themes of the show. An offshoot called Darling Pet Munkee was dedicated to mail order ads found in comic books. Part of the concept is for the lyrics to stick to the hyperbole of the ad copy, as the actual product was usually disappointing in comparison - e.g. "Monster S-I-Z-E Monsters" is about having a Frankenstein's Monster for a pet, when the purposely vague ad was really just selling a large glow in the dark poster of the monster. The "darling pet monkey" ad they named themselves after really was a live squirrel monkey sent through the mail though. |
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Carousel (An Examination of the Shadow, Creekflow, and its Life as an Afterthought) is about a lot of things according to Word of Godnote Though here is a tweet from her clarifying what it's not, but sea has left it up to viewer interpretation. The basic plot, however, is this: Vylet finds a magic carousel at the fair that lets her talk to her "shadow", who is evidently not happy with her. | |
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Showbread's Anorexia and Nervosa are about a pair of identical twin sisters who take very different paths in life. Anorexia works with the sick and eventually founds a hospital. Nervosa goes to work at a slaughter house and becomes a stripper. Both come to the same end. | |
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Sketches of Spain by Miles Davis has a Spanish atmosphere and all the tracks' titles refer to the country in one way or another. | |
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Good Kid MAA Dcity (2012) is a fictionalized version of his own teen years. K-dot is dating a girl named Sharane his parents don't like. He goes over to her house one day to hookup and her cousins jump him. He and his friends come back to retaliate and one of them dies in the shootout. He decides he wants to give up his old life, find God, and work on his music. | |
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Wolves in the Throne Room recorded a trilogy of concept albums from Two Hunters to Celestial Lineage, but especially given that the band haven't released lyrics from Black Cascade, fans still aren't entirely clear on what the concept is. | |
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Our Lady Peace has one with Spiritual Machines. It is an interpretation of The Age of Spiritual Machines by Raymond Kurzweil. | |
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Kreator's Pleasure to Kill has each song featuring a way to die, according to Word of God. | |
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Little Deuce Coupe is considered an early example of a concept album, as all the songs (save one) are about cars. | |
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Tyler, the Creator's first three albums formed a trilogy: Bastard features rapping done in response to questions from his school psychiatrist, dealing with his personal issues like being a literal bastard. Goblin is a direct sequel about another session with his psychiatrist and dealing with new issues and the lifestyle that fame brings, eventually ending with him breaking down, killing the other members of Odd Future and realizing his psychiatrist and all his alter egos are a figment of his imagination. Wolf acts as a prequel to both of these, involving a Summer Camp for Youths with mental issues named Camp Flog Gnaw run by the same psychiatrist, and revolving around a psychopathic drug dealer named Sam, a new addition to the camp named Wolf, and a girl named Salem who acts as a love interest to both characters. |
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Cradle of Filth's Cruelty and the Beast revolves around the life of Elizabeth Báthory (subject of legends of vampirism and trying to obtain eternal youth by bathing in blood), | |
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Miracle Musical's 2012 album Hawaii Part II has a rather unclear (due to confusing lyrics prone to multiple interpretations) storyline. The most common guess is that it’s about a person arriving to Hawaii, falling in love, then being wrongly accused of murder, pleading insanity to avoid punishment and actually going insane during electroshock therapy. | |
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Solid State Survivor (1979) is a proto-cyberpunk album (often called the Ur-Example for cyberpunk) based around portraits of technological advancement and abuse. | |
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The Muppets had two during this period: Muppet Beach Party from 1993 and Kermit Unpigged from 1995. The former is Exactly What It Says on the Tin, while the latter revolves around the Muppets getting lost in a recording studio and meeting celebrities. | |
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