# Concept Albums

A curated list by [Chris Hayes](https://waxlog.com/user/purp1ehayes) on Waxlog, submitted to the **Concept Albums** challenge.

> From loosely tied ideas to hardcore story and lore, here are my personal top concept albums in my record collection, (mostly) in no particular order.

65 releases · last updated 2025-09-08

## Releases

1. **Dream Theater** — Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
2. **Kendrick Lamar** — Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
3. **Cursive** — Happy Hollow
4. **Aphrodite's Child** — 666
5. **Ween** — The Mollusk
6. **Clipping.** — Splendor & Misery
7. **The Mars Volta** — De\-Loused In The Comatorium
8. **Pink Floyd** — The Dark Side Of The Moon
9. **The Monkees** — Head
10. **Kendrick Lamar** — Damn.
11. **Transatlantic** — The Absolute Universe: The Ultimate Edition
12. **David Bowie** — The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
13. **Pink Floyd** — Animals
14. **The Mountain Goats** — Beat The Champ
15. **Dolly Parton** — My Tennessee Mountain Home
16. **Pink Floyd** — The Wall
17. **The Who** — Quadrophenia
18. **Cursive** — The Ugly Organ
19. **Willie Nelson** — Phases And Stages
20. **The Pretty Things** — S. F. Sorrow
21. **Rush** — 2112
22. **The Magnetic Fields** — 69 Love Songs
23. **Dream Theater** — Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
24. **The Flaming Lips** — Zaireeka
25. **King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard** — Quarters\!
26. **The Residents** — Eskimo
27. **Sufjan Stevens** — Illinois
28. **Genesis** — The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
29. **The Who** — Tommy
30. **Drive\-By Truckers** — Southern Rock Opera
31. **David Bowie** — ★ \(Blackstar\)
32. **Cursive** — Domestica
33. **King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard** — Petrodragonic Apocalypse; Or, Dawn Of Eternal Night: An Annihilation Of Planet Earth And The Beginning Of Merciless Damnation
34. **The Mothers** — Freak Out\!
35. **The Moody Blues** — Days Of Future Passed
36. **Nirvana** — The Story Of Simon Simopath
37. **Kraftwerk** — Autobahn
38. **King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard** — Flying Microtonal Banana \(Explorations Into Microtonal Tuning Volume 1\)
39. **King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard** — K.G. \(Explorations Into Microtonal Tuning Volume 2\)
40. **King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard** — L​.​W. \(Explorations Into Microtonal Tuning Vol. 3\)
41. **Sleep** — Dopesmoker
42. **Porcupine Tree** — The Incident
43. **Green Day** — American Idiot
44. **Spock's Beard** — Snow
45. **Lou Reed** — New York
46. **The Beatles** — Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
47. **Björk** — Medúlla
48. **Frank Zappa & The Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Orchestra** — Lumpy Gravy
49. **The Mountain Goats** — Tallahassee
50. **Liz Phair** — Exile In Guyville
51. **Serge Gainsbourg** — Histoire De Melody Nelson
52. **Marillion** — Misplaced Childhood
53. **Green Day** — 21st Century Breakdown
54. **The Who** — The Who Sell Out
55. **Kenny Rogers** — Gideon
56. **Lou Reed** — Metal Machine Music \(The Amine β Ring\)
57. **Queens Of The Stone Age** — Songs For The Deaf
58. **Porcupine Tree** — Fear Of A Blank Planet
59. **Scott Walker** — The Childhood Of A Leader
60. **Jethro Tull** — Thick As A Brick
61. **Dream Theater** — The Astonishing
62. **The Mountain Goats** — The Sunset Tree
63. **Simon & Garfunkel** — Bookends
64. **Sly & The Family Stone** — There's a Riot Goin' On
65. **The Mountain Goats** — Bleed Out

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