Year
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Concept
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Album
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1966
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A collection of the lead songwriter's "favorite noises"...not "animal noises"
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Pet Sounds
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1967
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The band portrays a fictional band and the album represents a live performance.
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Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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1969
|
About a pinball wizard
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Tommy
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1972
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Jethro Tull album with lyrics written by the fictional 8-year-old genius Gerald Bostock
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Thick as a Brick
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1972
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An androgynous bisexual rock star acts as a messenger for aliens.
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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
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1973
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Lyrical themes include conflict, greed, the passage of time, death, and insanity.
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The Dark Side of the Moon
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1976
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The Golden State is a microcosm of modern society. You may never be able to escape.
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Hotel California
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1977
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Each of the three main songs represents a different sector of society.
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Animals
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1979
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Because of an absent father, abusive teachers, an overprotective mother, and a failed marriage, a jaded rock star shuts himself off from society.
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The Wall
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1995
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Dealing with the human condition of mortal sorrow, one disc represents day, and the other, night.
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Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
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2003
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Mars Volta LP in which comatose Cerpin Taxt overdoses on morphine and rat poison
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De-Loused in the Comatorium
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2004
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A "punk rock opera" following the story of Jesus of Suburbia
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American Idiot
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2010
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Grammy-winning portrait of modern life in residential America
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The Suburbs
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2016
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The emotional journey of a woman after her husband's infidelity
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Lemonade
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