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concept album - an album whose recordings are unified by some theme (instrumental or lyrical or narrative or compositional)

album, record album - one or more recordings issued together; originally released on 12-inch phonograph records (usually with attractive record covers) and later on cassette audiotape and compact disc

rock opera - albums of rock music that aspired to the status of art; first appeared in the 1960s

benefit album, tribute album - concept album compiling a performer's work or work supporting some worthy cause

Translations

concept album

n (Mus) → Konzeptalbum nt

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After the concept album (Greendale), the country album (Prairie Wind) and the rock and roll protest album (Living With War) where would Neil Young's 40-year career take him next?

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He was also a member of celebrated progressive rock band East of Eden for five years and first released his own classic concept album Gaodhal's Vision in 1977.

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Tales From Turnpike House is a concept album about people living in an east London block of flats.

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Songs Of Love So Cruel is envisaged as a concept album, tell us about that.

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Waynes concept album, based on HG Wells novel and featuring the voices of Burton, David Essex, Phil Lynott and Justin Hayward, was an unexpected hit back in 1978.

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MENTION The Scorpions, hitmaker Desmond Child and concept album in one sentence and you'll hear the sound of people scattering for cover.

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A Life in the Day of B19: Tales of the Towerblock is on the Dune label and in the 1970s would have been called a concept album.

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Ry Cooder Chavez Ravine AFTER spending10 years working in Cuba, which included his spell with the Buena Vista Social Club, Ry Cooder returns with a concept album about a community bulldozed to make way for a sports stadium.

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"I think it's funny, because I read a piece on it the other day that said it was a concept album and that's not something I ever would have sat down and thought, 'Right we're writing a concept album'.

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COVENTRY duo Steve Edgson and Sam McNulty, with a pop pedigree that includes Reluctant Stereotypes and Pink Umbrellas, have an ear for a tune and this concept album - telling the tale of a doomed love affair and failed suicide pact - is instantly accessible, whether it's the 60s R&B styling of Colours I Know, the ska-pop of Bad Poetry or the dub beats and easy listening chorale of instrumental One Month Later.

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But don't let the fact that this is a concept album put you off.

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Released as (for want of a less hackneyed term) a concept album last year and since performed as a stage musical, it's a collection of songs set in small-town America, a sort of Peyton Place for the Woodstock generation.

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