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Concept album

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A concept album is an album in which its tracks hold a larger purpose or meaning collectively than they do individually. [1]

95 relations: Album, Album era, AllMusic, American Idiot, BBC, Bing Crosby, Boogie-woogie, Brian Boyd, Brian Wilson, Cable television, Cast recording, Christmas music, Compilation album, Concept, Country music, Dust Bowl Ballads, Eagles (band), Face to Face (The Kinks album), Folk music, Frank Sinatra, Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely, Frank Zappa, Freak Out!, Gatefold, Genesis (band), GQ, Greatest hits album, Green Day, Guitar World, Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs, Hotel California (Eagles album), In the Wee Small Hours, Joe's Garage, John Lennon, Liner notes, List of concept albums, Little Deuce Coupe, LP record, Marcel Danesi, Marty Robbins, MTV, Music criticism, Music video, Musical theatre, Narrative, NME, Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake, Opera, Pet Sounds, Pete Johnson, ..., Pink Floyd, PopMatters, Pretty Things, Progressive rock, Proto-prog, Q (magazine), Ray Davies, Revolver (Beatles album), Rick Wakeman, Rock and roll, Rock music, Rock opera, Roger Waters, Rolling Stone, Rubber Soul, S.F. Sorrow, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Single (music), Small Faces, Smile (The Beach Boys album), Song cycle, Soundtrack album, Space age pop, Streaming media, Stride (music), Syd Barrett, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Dark Side of the Moon, The Independent, The Irish Times, The Kinks, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, The Mothers of Invention, The Ventures, The Voice of Frank Sinatra, The Wall, The Who, The Who Sell Out, Tim Riley (music critic), Tommy (album), Traditional pop music, Ultimate Guitar Archive, Woody Guthrie, Yes (band). Expand index (45 more) »

Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape or another medium.

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Album era

The album era was a period in English-language popular music from the mid 1960s to the mid 2000s in which the album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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American Idiot

American Idiot is the seventh studio album by American rock band Green Day.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Bing Crosby

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977)Giddins 2001, pp.

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Boogie-woogie

Boogie-woogie is a musical genre that became popular during the late 1920s, but developed in African-American communities in the 1870s.

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Brian Boyd

Brian Boyd (born 30 July 1952) is a professor of literature known primarily as an expert on the life and works of author Vladimir Nabokov and on literature and evolution.

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Brian Wilson

Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who co-founded <!-- DO NOT CAPITALIZE -->the Beach Boys.

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Cable television

Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to paying subscribers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fiber-optic cables.

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Cast recording

A cast recording is a recording of a stage musical that is intended to document the songs as they were performed in the show and experienced by the audience.

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Christmas music

Christmas music comprises a variety of genres of music normally performed or heard around the Christmas season.

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Compilation album

A compilation album comprises tracks, either previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several performers.

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Concept

Concepts are mental representations, abstract objects or abilities that make up the fundamental building blocks of thoughts and beliefs.

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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Dust Bowl Ballads

Dust Bowl Ballads is an album by Woody Guthrie, recorded for Victor Records in Camden, New Jersey in 1940.

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Eagles (band)

The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971.

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Face to Face (The Kinks album)

Face to Face is the fourth studio album by the English rock band the Kinks, released in October 1966.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century.

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Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely

Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely (1958, also known as Sings for Only the Lonely or simply Only the Lonely) is an album by Frank Sinatra.

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Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, activist and filmmaker.

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Freak Out!

Freak Out! is the debut studio album by the American rock band the Mothers of Invention, released June 27, 1966, on Verve Records.

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Gatefold

A gatefold is a type of fold used for advertising around a magazine or section, and for packaging of media such as in the phonographic industry.

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Genesis (band)

Genesis were an English rock band formed at Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey in 1967.

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GQ

GQ (formerly Gentlemen's Quarterly) is an international monthly men's magazine based in New York City and founded in 1931.

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Greatest hits album

A greatest hits album, sometimes called a "best of" album or a catalog album, is a compilation of songs by a particular artist or band.

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Green Day

Green Day is an American punk rock band formed in 1986 by lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong and bassist Mike Dirnt.

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Guitar World

Guitar World is a monthly music magazine devoted to guitarists, published since July 1980.

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Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs

Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs is an album released by Marty Robbins on the Columbia Records label in September 1959, peaking at #6 on the U.S. pop albums chart.

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Hotel California (Eagles album)

Hotel California is the fifth studio album by American rock band the Eagles, and is one of the best-selling albums of all time.

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In the Wee Small Hours

In the Wee Small Hours is the ninth studio album by American vocalist Frank Sinatra.

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Joe's Garage

Joe's Garage is a three-part rock opera recorded by American musician Frank Zappa in 1979.

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John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon (9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, and peace activist who co-founded the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music.

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Liner notes

Liner notes (also sleeve notes or album notes) are the writings found on the sleeves of LP record albums and in booklets which come inserted into the compact disc jewel case or the equivalent packaging for vinyl records and cassettes.

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List of concept albums

This is a list of concept albums produced by bands and solo artists across all musical genres.

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Little Deuce Coupe

Little Deuce Coupe is the fourth album by American rock band the Beach Boys, and their third album release in 1963.

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LP record

The LP (from "long playing" or "long play") is an analog sound storage medium, a vinyl record format characterized by a speed of rpm, a 12- or 10-inch (30 or 25 cm) diameter, and use of the "microgroove" groove specification.

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Marcel Danesi

Marcel Danesi (born 1946) is a current Professor of Semiotics and Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Toronto.

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Marty Robbins

Martin David Robinson (September 26, 1925 – December 8, 1982), known professionally as Marty Robbins, was an American singer, songwriter, actor, multi-instrumentalist, and racing driver.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City.

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Music criticism

The Oxford Companion to Music defines music criticism as 'the intellectual activity of formulating judgements on the value and degree of excellence of individual works of music, or whole groups or genres'.

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Music video

A music video is a short film that integrates a song with imagery, and is produced for promotional or artistic purposes.

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Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.

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Narrative

A narrative or story is a report of connected events, real or imaginary, presented in a sequence of written or spoken words, or still or moving images, or both.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake

Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake is the fourth studio album and first concept album by the English rock band Small Faces.

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Opera

Opera (English plural: operas; Italian plural: opere) is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers.

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Pet Sounds

Pet Sounds is the eleventh studio album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released on May 16, 1966.

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Pete Johnson

Pete Johnson (born Kermit H. Johnson, March 25, 1904 – March 23, 1967) was an American boogie-woogie and jazz pianist.

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Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd were an English rock band formed in London in 1965.

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PopMatters

PopMatters is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture.

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Pretty Things

The Pretty Things are an English rock band, formed in 1963 in London.

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Progressive rock

Progressive rock (shortened as prog; sometimes called art rock, classical rock or symphonic rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s.

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Proto-prog

Proto-prog (short for "proto-progressive") is the first wave of British progressive rock musicians who branched from psychedelia or the advanced music that slightly predates the full-fledged prog era.

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Q (magazine)

Q is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom.

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Ray Davies

Sir Raymond Douglas Davies, (born 21 June 1944) is an English singer, songwriter and musician.

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Revolver (Beatles album)

Revolver is the seventh album by the English rock band the Beatles.

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Rick Wakeman

Richard Christopher "Rick" Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboardist, songwriter, television and radio presenter, and author.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Rock opera

A rock opera is a collection of rock music songs with lyrics that relate to a common story.

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Roger Waters

George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English songwriter, singer, bassist, and composer.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Rubber Soul

Rubber Soul is the sixth album by the English rock band the Beatles.

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S.F. Sorrow

S.F. Sorrow is the fourth album by the English rock group The Pretty Things. Released in 1968, it is one of the first rock concept albums. Based on a short story by singer Phil May, the album is structured as a song cycle, telling the story of the main character, Sebastian F. Sorrow, from birth through love, war, tragedy, madness, and the disillusionment of old age. Although the album is a rock opera, it has been stated by members of The Who that the record had no major influence on Pete Townshend and his writing of Tommy (1969). The Pretty Things, however, have suggested otherwise, as have some critics.

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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

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Single (music)

In music, a single, record single or music single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record.

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Small Faces

Small Faces were an English rock band from East London.

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Smile (The Beach Boys album)

Smile (stylized as SMiLE) is an unfinished album by American rock band the Beach Boys that was projected to follow their 11th studio album, Pet Sounds (1966).

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Song cycle

A song cycle (Liederkreis or Liederzyklus) is a group, or cycle, of individually complete songs designed to be performed in a sequence as a unit.

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Soundtrack album

A soundtrack album is any album that incorporates music directly recorded from the soundtrack of a particular feature film or television show.

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Space age pop

Space age pop is a music genre associated with Mexican and American composers and songwriters in the space age of the 1950s and 1960s.

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Streaming media

Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a provider.

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Stride (music)

Harlem Stride Piano, stride piano, commonly abbreviated to stride, is a jazz piano style that was developed in the large cities of the East Coast of the United States, mainly New York City, during the 1920s and 1930s.

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Syd Barrett

Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) was an English singer, songwriter, and musician.

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The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Dark Side of the Moon

The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 1 March 1973 by Harvest Records.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Irish Times

The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper launched on 29 March 1859.

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The Kinks

The Kinks are an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, North London, in 1964 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies.

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The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is the sixth studio album by the English rock band Genesis, released as a double album on 18 November 1974 by Charisma Records in the United Kingdom and by Atlantic Records in the United States.

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The Mothers of Invention

The Mothers of Invention were an American rock band from California.

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The Ventures

The Ventures are an American instrumental rock band formed in 1958 in Tacoma, Washington.

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The Voice of Frank Sinatra

The Voice of Frank Sinatra is the first studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released on Columbia Records, catalogue C-112, March 4, 1946.

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The Wall

The Wall is the eleventh studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd.

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The Who

The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964.

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The Who Sell Out

The Who Sell Out is the third studio album by the British rock band the Who, released on 15 December 1967 by Track Records in the UK and Decca Records in the US.

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Tim Riley (music critic)

Tim Riley (born 1960) reviews pop and classical music for NPR, and has written for The New York Times, truthdig, the Huffington Post, the Washington Post, Slate.com and Salon.com.

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Tommy (album)

Tommy is the fourth studio album by the English rock band The Who, a double album first released in May 1969.

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Traditional pop music

Traditional pop (also classic pop or pop standards) is music that was recorded or performed after the Big Band era and before the advent of rock music.

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Ultimate Guitar Archive

Ultimate Guitar Archive, also known as Ultimate-Guitar.com or simply UG, is the largest guitarist community website including guitar and bass guitar tablature, chord sheets, reviews of music and equipment, interviews with notable musicians, online written and video lessons, and forums.

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Woody Guthrie

Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer-songwriter, one of the most significant figures in American folk music; his songs, including social justice songs, such as "This Land Is Your Land", have inspired several generations both politically and musically.

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Yes (band)

Yes are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968 by singer Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Peter Banks, keyboardist Tony Kaye, and drummer Bill Bruford.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept_album

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