Concept albums have been produced by bands and solo artists across all musical genres. In popular music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." [1] The following is a list with specific verification by reliable sources of being notable concept albums.
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John Gahlert: The album Manifesto was released to complete the message on the vegan nature of things, [...]
It's arranged as one side of straight songs, and a second "dark" side, entitled "The Ninth Wave", consisting of a continuous suite of tracks based on the story of a drowning woman. Half a concept album in fact, but singularly imaginative and without any pretension or bloat – it's the real thing.
Phylicia Allen's (Victor Willis's wife and the future Mrs. Huxtable on The Cosby Show) Josephine Baker concept album, Josephine Superstar
Raffi's first concept album, "Raffi Radio" mimics an old-time radio show. Raffi plays the disc jockey of a station in the fictional town of Troubadouria
This "concept" album harks back to radio's heyday when every home tuned in for songs, news, serialized entertainment, live concerts or musical variety shows.
And when Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo sat down to write the second album from his suddenly-huge alt-rock quartet, he saw so much of himself in Pinkerton that he more or less wrote a concept album about how they were the same guy.