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    • Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
    • Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell
    • Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
    • The Refreshments - Fizzy Fuzzy Big and Buzzy

    That last one is maybe not intended as a concept album, but it has such a consistent sound, feel, and narrative that it’s hard not to consider it one.

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    Tallahassee and Beat The Champ by the Mountain Goats. The Suburbs and Neon Bible by Arcade Fire. Deltron 3030 by Del the Funkee Homosapien and Dan the Automator. Edit: how could I forget In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel

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    Ooo good question. Here’s a few that came to mind.

    Pink Floyd - The Wall

    The Decemberists - Hazards of Love

    Andy Shauf - Neon Skyline

    The Dear Hunter - Act I through Act V (5 albums)

    Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy

    Deltron 3030

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      Amazing how many people have never listened to The Wall. It’s the only album from my childhood that’s still 100% listenable and fresh sounding

      Absolute ground-breaker at the time

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        I don’t know if “show and tell” was a thing at your school but somehow I had a copy of Another Brick in the Wall vinyl single and played it for the class. I must have been in grade 5 or 6. What a fuckin legend I am haha.

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    Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino by Arctic Monkeys

    Bass lines go hard and the lyrics are honestly genius from Alex Turner - the concept is about a washed up musician in a retrofuturistic setting

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    Not sure if it counts, but In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel I think is sometimes considered a bit of a concept album. Not so much with storytelling, but I think it was all connected to dreams Mangum had.

    Also, a band I randomly saw at a Calgary music festival, Hard Drugs, their self-titled album was an epic story driven concept album that I highly recommend https://songwhip.com/harddrugs

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      Aeroplane Over the Sea was inspired by reading The Diary of Anne Frank.

      I think it’s a great album.

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    Divers by Joanna Newsom. I love the cyclical arrangement of her songs with the last line of her last song looping back to the first line of her first song. I think it really illustrates what she’s trying to say about the nature of love and time.

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    DAMN. by Kendrick Lamar.

    One of the best lyrical journeys put to wax. I still revisit it pretty frequently and find new layers every time.

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    Not sure if Antic Clay’s Hilarious Death Blues is a concept album but man it’s the darkest double album I’ve ever listened to, to the point that I would not recommend listening to it while depressed or going through some serious shit. It’s a journey through an apocalyptic Americana and its very convincing in its beautiful hopelessness. It’s Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian made into sonic flesh.

    Bandcamp: https://stickfigurerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/hilarious-death-blues-double-album

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        You know I thought my music tastes was really broad as I like progressive rock, new wave, alternative, etc. Then I sorta realized they were all sort the same off center sometimes touching mainstream stuff over time.

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          yeah, same. I love pretty much most genres, but it’s always just outside the mainstream. From rock, pop, prog, country, R&B, and soul, just on the peripheral.

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            Oh I definately have genres im not wild about in general. Like rap, country, and pop. Still there are some stuff that comes out of it that I like or songs that incorporate elements of it in a way I like.

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    @ren dira minus the Bear’s album count? The one where half the track names are from starship troopers?

    I should listen to damn bugs whacked him Johnny.