List of concept albums

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

Contents:		A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z    References

[edit] A

• ABC - The Lexicon of Love
• The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
• After Forever - Invisible Circles
• Ahab - The Call of the Wretched Sea
• The Alan Parsons Project – Ammonia Avenue
• The Alan Parsons Project – Eve
• The Alan Parsons Project – Eye In The Sky
• The Alan Parsons Project – I Robot
• The Alan Parsons Project – Pyramid
• The Alan Parsons Project – Tales of Mystery and Imagination
• The Alan Parsons Project – The Turn Of A Friendly Card
• Tori Amos – American Doll Posse
• Tori Amos – Scarlet's Walk
• Tori Amos – Strange Little Girls
• Angels & Airwaves – We Don't Need To Whisper
• Angels & Airwaves - I-Empire (continued from We Don't Need to Whisper)
• Angra – Temple of Shadows
• Aphrodite's Child - 666
• Armor for Sleep – Dream to Make Believe^{[citation needed]}
• Armor for Sleep – What to Do When You Are Dead^{[citation needed]}
• Avantasia - The Metal Opera
• Avantasia - The Metal Opera Part II
• Ayreon - 01011001
• Ayreon - Into the Electric Castle
• Ayreon - The Final Experiment
• Ayreon - The Human Equation
• Ayreon - Universal Migrator I & II

[edit] B

• The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
• The Beach Boys – SMiLE (never released)
• The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band^[1]
• Between the Buried and Me - Colors
• Beyonce - I Am...Sasha Fierce
• Bow Wow - New Jack City II
• Biffy Clyro - Puzzle
• Blind Guardian – Nightfall in Middle-Earth
• Buried Inside - Chronoclast
• David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars^[2]
• David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
• David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
• David Bowie - Outside
• Boys Night Out – Trainwreck^{[citation needed]}
• Brave Saint Saturn - So Far from Home
• Brave Saint Saturn - The Light of Things Hoped For
• Brave Saint Saturn - Anti-Meridian
• Brethren - Beyond Underground
• Kate Bush – Hounds of Love^[3]

[edit] C

• Camel – The Snow Goose
• Camel - Nude
• Camel - Stationary Traveller
• Camel - Dust and Dreams
• Camel - Harbour of Tears
• Camper Van Beethoven – New Roman Times
• Johnny Cash – Ride This Train^[4]
• Ray Charles – The Genius Hits the Road^[5]
• Ray Charles – Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
• Cherry Poppin' Daddies - Kids on the Street^{[citation needed]}
• Cherry Poppin' Daddies - Rapid City Muscle Car
• Cherry Poppin' Daddies - Soul Caddy
• Cherry Poppin' Daddies - Susquehanna
• Christina Aguilera - Back to Basics
• Coheed & Cambria – Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
• Coheed & Cambria – Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow
• Coheed & Cambria – In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
• Coheed & Cambria – The Second Stage Turbine Blade
• Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
• Coma - Hipertrofia
• Alice Cooper – Along Came a Spider
• Alice Cooper – Brutal Planet
• Alice Cooper – Dragontown
• Alice Cooper – From the Inside
• Alice Cooper – Killer
• Alice Cooper – The Last Temptation
• Cradle of Filth - Dusk... and Her Embrace
• Cradle of Filth - Cruelty and the Beast
• Cradle of Filth - Midian
• Cradle of Filth - Damnation and a Day
• Cradle of Filth - Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder
• Cult of Luna – Eternal Kingdom
• Cursive - Domestica

[edit] D

• The Dear Hunter - Act I: The Lake South, The River North
• The Dear Hunter - Act II: The Meaning of, and All Things Regarding Ms. Leading
• The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
• Defeater - Travels
• Celine Dion - Miracle
• Deltron - Deltron 3030
• Depeche Mode - Violator
• Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
• Dio - Magica
• Domain – Last Days of Utopia
• Domain – The Chronicles of Love, Hate and Sorrow
• Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
• Donald Fagen - Kamakiriad
• Dr. Dre - The Chronic
• Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst
• Dream Evil - Dragonslayer
• Dream Theater – Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
• Dream Theater – Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
• Dredg - Leitmotif
• Drop Dead, Gorgeous – Worse Than a Fairy Tale

[edit] E

• The Early November – The Mother, The Mechanic, and The Path
• Eels - Hombre Lobo
• Electric Light Orchestra – Eldorado
• Enigma - MCMXC a.D.
• Brian Eno – Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
• Epica - The Divine Conspiracy
• Gloria Estefan - Into The Light
• Everclear – Songs from an American Movie, Vol. 1: Learning How to Smile
• Everclear – Songs from an American Movie, Vol. 2: Good Time for a Bad Attitude
• Evermore - Truth of the World: Welcome to the Show
• Explosions in the Sky – The Rescue
• Melissa Etheridge - The Awakening

[edit] F

• Fabolous - Loso's Way
• Falling Up - Fangs!^[6]
• The Fall of Troy - Phantom on the Horizon
• Family Force 5 - Dance or Die
• Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray^{[citation needed]}
• Fightstar – Grand Unification^{[citation needed]}
• Fear Factory - Demanufacture
• Fear Factory - Obsolete
• The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
• FM Static - Dear Diary
• Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
• Forgive Durden - "Wonderland"
• Forgive Durden - Razia's Shadow: A Musical
• Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
• John Frusciante - The Empyrean
• Funeral for a Friend - Tales Don't Tell Themselves

[edit] G

• Gackt - Crescent
• Gackt - Diabolos
• Gackt - Moon'
• Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson
• Serge Gainsbourg - Rock Around the Bunker
• Serge Gainsbourg - L'homme à la Tête de Chou
• Serge Gainsbourg - You're Under Arrest
• Gallows - Grey Britain
• Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
• Genghis Tron - Board Up The House
• Gentle Giant - Three Friends
• Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory
• God Forbid – IV: Constitution of Treason
• Gorillaz - Demon Days
• Amy Grant - Heart in Motion
• Grace Jones - Slave to the Rhythm
• Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
• Green Day – American Idiot^[7]

[edit] H

• Lee Hazlewood – The N.S.V.I.P.'s
• Heavenly – Dust to Dust
• Helloween – Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part 1
• Helloween – Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part 2
• Helloween – The Time Of The Oath
• The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday
• Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade

[edit] I

• Iced Earth - The Dark Saga
• Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon, continuing with
• Iced Earth - The Crucible Of Man
• In Flames - Whoracle
• Into Eternity – The Incurable Tragedy^{[citation needed]}
• Iron Maiden – Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
• IQ - Subterranea

[edit] J

• The Jam - Setting Sons
• Jack's Mannequin - Everything in Transit
• Janet Jackson - Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814
• Jay-Z – American Gangster
• Jellyfish – Spilt Milk^{[citation needed]}
• Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick
• Jethro Tull – A Passion Play
• Jethro Tull – Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!
• Job For A Cowboy- Genesis
• Billy Joel - The Stranger
• Judas Priest – Nostradamus

[edit] K

• Kamelot – The Black Halo
• Kamelot – Epica
• Paul Kantner/Jefferson Starship - Blows Against The Empire
• King Diamond - Abigail
• King Diamond - Abigail II: The Revenge
• King Diamond - Conspiracy
• King Diamond - The Eye
• King Diamond - Give Me Your Soul... Please
• King Diamond - The Graveyard
• King Diamond - House of God
• King Diamond - The Puppet Master
• King Diamond - "Them"
• King Diamond - Voodoo
• The Kinks – Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
• The Kinks – Face to Face
• The Kinks – Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One
• The Kinks – Muswell Hillbillies
• The Kinks – Preservation: Act 1
• The Kinks – Preservation: Act 2
• The Kinks – Schoolboys in Disgrace
• The Kinks – Soap Opera^[8]
• KISS - Music from "The Elder"
• Kraftwerk - Radio-Activity
• Kraftwerk - Computer World
• Kronos Quartet - Early Music (Lachrymæ Antiquæ)^[9]

[edit] L

• Laibach - Jesus Christ Superstars
• Laibach - Kapital
• Laibach - Nato
• Laibach - WAT
• Laibach - Volk
• Leaves' Eyes - Vinland Saga
• Little Brother – The Listening
• Little Brother – The Minstrel Show
• Julie London – About the Blues
• Luca Turilli - King Of The Nordic Twilight
• Luca Turilli - Prophet Of The Last Eclipse
• Luca Turilli - The Infinite Wonders Of Creation
• Luca Turilli's Dreamquest - Lost Horizons
• Ludo - Broken Bride
• Lupe Fiasco - The Cool

[edit] M

• Macabre - Dahmer
• Madina Lake – From Them, Through Us, to You
• Madina Lake - Attics to Eden (continued from From Them, Through Us, To You)
• Madonna - Erotica
• Madonna - I'm Breathless
• The Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs
• Mägo de Oz – Gaia
• Mägo de Oz – Gaia II - La Voz Dormida
• Månegarm - Vargstenen
• Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
• Manowar - Gods of War
• Mariah Carey - Glitter
• Marillion - Brave
• Marillion - Clutching at Straws
• Marillion - Happiness Is the Road (Volume 1: Essence)
• Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
• Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
• Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
• Marilyn Manson - Holy Wood (In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death)
• Marilyn Manson - The Golden Age of Grotesque
• Marilyn Manson - Eat Me, Drink Me
• Marmaduke Duke - The Magnificent Duke
• Marmaduke Duke - Duke Pandemonium
• The Mars Volta – Amputechture
• The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath
• The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium
• The Mars Volta – Frances The Mute
• Mastodon – Crack the Skye
• Mastodon – Blood Mountain
• Mastodon – Leviathan
• Matthew Good - Vancouver
• Mayhem - Grand Declaration of War
• Mayhem - Wolf's Lair Abyss
• Men Without Hats – Pop Goes the World
• Metallica - St.Anger
• Metallica - Master of Puppets
• Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
• Modest Mouse- We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
• The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
• Morrissey - Southpaw Grammar
• Mothers of Invention – Freak Out!
• Mothers of Invention - Absolutely Free
• Mothers of Invention - We're Only In It For the Money
• The Mountain Goats – Tallahassee (album)
• Mudvayne - The End of All Things to Come
• Muse - Absolution
• My Chemical Romance - I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love
• My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (continued from I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love)
• My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade

[edit] N

• Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
• Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
• Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
• Nightwish - Century Child
• Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral
• Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile
• Nine Inch Nails – Year Zero^[10]
• Nirvana - The Story of Simon Simopath

[edit] O

• Of Montreal - The Bedside Drama: A Petite Tragedy
• Of Montreal - The Gay Parade
• Of Montreal - Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse
• Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
• Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
• Opeth – Ghost Reveries
• Opeth – My Arms, Your Hearse
• Opeth – Still Life
• Orgy - Vapor Transmission
• The Osmonds - The Plan

[edit] P

• Pain Of Salvation - "BE"
• A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
• Phish – The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday
• Phish - "Rift"
• Pink Floyd – Animals
• Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon^[11]
• Pink Floyd – The Final Cut
• Pink Floyd – The Wall^[12]
• Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
• Poe - Haunted
• Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
• Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
• Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
• Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
• Pretty Things – S.F. Sorrow^[13]
• Prince Paul - A Prince Among Thieves
• Protest the Hero – Kezia
• Protest the Hero – Fortress

[edit] Q

• Queensrÿche – Operation: Mindcrime^[14]
• Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime II
• Queensrÿche - American Soldier
• Queens of the Stone Age- Songs for the Deaf
• Queens of the Stone Age- Lullabies to Paralyze
• Queens of the Stone Age- Era Vulgaris

[edit] R

• The Red Shore - Unconsecrated
• Rhapsody – Legendary Tales
• Rhapsody – Symphony Of Enchanted Lands
• Rhapsody – Dawn Of Victory
• Rhapsody – Rain Of A Thousand Flames
• Rhapsody – Power Of The Dragonflame
• Rhapsody – Symphony Of Enchanted Lands II: The Dark Secret
• Rhapsody Of Fire – Triumph Or Agony
• Rich Mullins - A Liturgy, a Legacy, & a Ragamuffin Band
• Roger Waters - The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking"
• Roger Waters - Radio K.A.O.S.
• Roger Waters - Amused to Death
• Marty Robbins – Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs^[15]
• Rush - 2112
• RZA - Bobby Digital in Stereo
• RZA - Digital Bullet
• RZA - Digi Snacks

[edit] S

• Savatage – Dead Winter Dead
• Savatage – Poets and Madmen
• Savatage – Streets: A Rock Opera
• Savatage – The Wake of Magellan
• Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears – Flight of the Knife
• Sepultura – A-Lex
• Sepultura – Dante XXI
• Senses Fail - Still Searching
• Set Your Goals – Mutiny!
• Shadow Gallery - Tyranny
• Shadow Gallery - Room V
• Showbread – Anorexia Nervosa
• Silverstein - A Shipwreck in the Sand
• Frank Sinatra – In the Wee Small Hours
• Sixx:A.M. – The Heroin Diaries
• The Smashing Pumpkins – Machina/The Machines of God
• The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
• Snow Patrol - Eyes Open
• Sonic Boom Six - City of Thieves
• Spock's Beard – Snow
• Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
• Stars – In Our Bedroom After the War
• The Streets – A Grand Don't Come for Free
• Sticky Fingaz - Blacktrash: The Autobiography of Kirk Jones
• Styx – Cornerstone
• Styx – The Grand Illusion
• Styx – Kilroy Was Here^[16]
• Styx – Paradise Theatre
• Styx – Pieces of Eight
• Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite
• Symphony X - Paradise Lost

[edit] T

• Therion – Secret of the Runes
• T.I. - T.I. vs. T.I.P.
• Transsylvania Phoenix – Cantafabule
• Thrice - The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II & The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV
• 30 Seconds to Mars - 30 Seconds to Mars
• Tool - Lateralus
• Tool - 10,000 Days

[edit] U

• U2 – Achtung Baby^{[citation needed]}
• U2 – How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
• Carrie Underwood - Carnival Ride
• Unearth - The March
• Until Rain - The Reign of Dreams

[edit] V

• The Ventures – Colorful Ventures^[17]
• Violent J – Wizard of the Hood

[edit] W

• W.A.S.P. – The Crimson Idol.^[18]
• Rick Wakeman – The Six Wives of Henry VIII
• Rick Wakeman – Journey to the Centre of the Earth
• Rick Wakeman - The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
• Rick Wakeman - Return to the Centre of the Earth
• Brian Wilson - Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE
• The Who - Endless Wire
• The Who – Lifehouse^[19]
• The Who – Quadrophenia
• The Who – The Who Sell Out^[20]
• The Who – Tommy^[21]
• William Control - Hate Culture

[edit] Y

• Yes – Tales from Topographic Oceans^[22][23]

[edit] References