concept album en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
First applied to the albums Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Their Satanic Majesties Request, both released in 1967.
Meanings
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An album of music where the content follows an overall theme or narrative.
Rather than merely a collection of unrelated songs, their new LP (which was nine months in the making) is a concept album, “an integrated and ethereal experience with a cosmic quality.”
1967 December 9, “New Stones LP ‘Landmark’”, in Record World, →ISSN, page 22:Moore relates the concept album to the ideals of progressive rock in the 1970s, building on Sgt. Pepper 's appeal to unity at the album level (through packaging, characters, and a simulated stage performance) and articulating a "desire to establish a degree of aesthetic [that is, musical] unity greater than that of the individual song,"[…]
2010, Marianne Tatom Letts, Radiohead and the Resistant Concept Album, page 19:[…] while the consistent use of lengthy forms such as the programmatic song cycle of the concept album and the multimovement suite underscores the hippies' new, drug-induced conception of time.
1996, Edward Macan, Rocking the Classics: English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture, page 13:They gave the Beatles' ‘Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band’ as an example of a concept album.
2023, Eric Wolfson, Fifty Years of the Concept Album in Popular Music: From The Beatles to Beyoncé, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 2:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| concept albums | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Relateds
Translations (32)
nan-hbl 概念專輯 /概念专辑 (album) · ca àlbum conceptual (album) · de Konzeptalbum (album) · cmn 概念專輯 /概念专辑 (album) · oc album conceptual (album) · hu koncepcióalbum (album) · fi konseptialbumi (album) · ko 콘셉트 음반 (album) · be канцэ́пт-альбо́м (album) · pl album koncepcyjny (album) · he אלבום קונספט (album) · nb konseptalbum (album) · ja コンセプト・アルバム (album) · nn konseptalbum (album) · fa آلبوم مفهومی (album) · ms album konsep (album) · da konceptalbum (album) · yue 概念專輯 /概念专辑 (album) · fr album-concept (album) · cs konceptuální album (album) · ru концептуальный альбом (album) · sk koncepčný album (album) · es álbum conceptual (album) · bg концептуален албум (album) · ka კონცეპტუალური ალბომი (album) · sl konceptualni album (album) · nl conceptalbum (album) · bn ধারণা অ্যালবাম (album) · uk концептуальний альбом (album) · id album konsep (album) · vi album chủ đề (album) · sv konceptalbum (album)
wikipedia: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band · wikipedia: Their Satanic Majesties Request