List of concept albums

Concept albums have been produced by bands and solo artists across all musical genres. In popular music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." The following is a list with specific verification by reliable sources of being notable concept albums.

0–9

• 2nd Chapter of Acts – The Roar of Love (1980)
• The 1975 – A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships (2018)

A

• Ab-Soul – Control System (2012)
• A Tribe Called Red – We Are the Halluci Nation (2016)
• Acid Mothers Temple – St. Captain Freak Out & the Magic Bamboo Request (2002)
• Aesop Rock – Labor Days (2001)
• After Forever – Invisible Circles (2004)
• Against Me! – Searching for a Former Clarity(2005)
• Against Me! – Transgender Dysphoria Blues (2014)
• Ahab – The Call of the Wretched Sea (2006)
• Ahab – The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" (2015)
• Al Stewart – Past, Present, and Future (1973)
• Alan Parsons – The Time Machine (1999)
• The Alan Parsons Project – Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1976)
• The Alan Parsons Project – I Robot (1977)
• The Alan Parsons Project – Pyramid (1978)
• The Alan Parsons Project – Eve (1979)
• The Alan Parsons Project – The Turn of a Friendly Card (1980)
• The Alan Parsons Project – Eye in the Sky (1982)
• The Alan Parsons Project – Ammonia Avenue (1984)
• The Alan Parsons Project – Vulture Culture (1985)
• The Alan Parsons Project – Stereotomy (1985)
• The Alan Parsons Project – Gaudi (1987)
• Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill (1995)
• Alesana – The Emptiness (2010)
• Alesana – Confessions (2015)
• Alesana – A Place Where the Sun Is Silent (2011)
• Alex Cameron – Forced Witness (2017)
• Alex Cameron – Miami Memory (2019)
• Alice Cooper – School's Out (1972)
• Alice Cooper – Welcome to My Nightmare (1975)
• Alice Cooper – Alice Cooper Goes to Hell (1976)
• Alice Cooper – From the Inside (1978)
• Alice Cooper – The Last Temptation (1994)
• Alice Cooper – Along Came a Spider (2008)
• Alice Cooper – Welcome 2 My Nightmare (2011)
• Alice Cooper – Paranormal (2017)
• Alice Cooper – Detroit Stories (2021)
• Alice Cooper – Road (2023)
• Alice in Chains – Dirt (1992)
• Allen Toussaint – Southern Nights (1975)
• Alter Bridge – AB III (2010)
• Amon Amarth – Jomsviking (2016)
• Anaïs Mitchell – Hadestown (2010)
• Ancient – The Cainian Chronicle (1996)
• Andrew Lloyd Webber – Evita (1976)
• Andy Black – The Ghost of Ohio (2019)
• Angels and Airwaves – We Don't Need To Whisper (2006)
• Angels and Airwaves – I-Empire (2007)
• Angels and Airwaves – Love (2010)
• Angels and Airwaves – Love: Part Two (2011)
• Angels and Airwaves – The Dream Walker (2014)
• Angra – Temple of Shadows (2004)
• The Antlers – Hospice (2009)
• Aphrodites Child – 666 (1972)
• The Apples In Stereo – Travellers In Space and Time (2010)
• The Appleseed Cast – Mare Vitalis (2000)
• Arcade Fire – Funeral (2004)
• Arcade Fire – Neon Bible (2007)
• Arcade Fire – The Suburbs (2010)
• Arcade Fire – Reflektor (2013)
• Arcade Fire – Everything Now (2017)
• Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006)
• Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (2018)
• Ariana Grande – Eternal Sunshine (2024)
• Armor for Sleep – What to Do When You Are Dead (2005)
• Attack Attack! – This Means War (2012)
• Aurora – A Different Kind of Human (Step 2) (2019)
• Aurora – The Gods We Can Touch (2022)
• The Avalanches – Since I Left You (2000)
• Ava Max – Heaven & Hell (2020)
• Avantasia – The Metal Opera (2001)
• Avantasia – The Metal Opera Part II (2002)
• Avantasia – The Scarecrow (2008)
• Avantasia – The Mystery of Time (2013)
• Avantasia – Ghostlights (2016)
• Avatar – Feathers and Flesh (2016)
• Avatar – Avatar Country (2018)
• Avenged Sevenfold – The Stage (2016)
• Ayreon – The Final Experiment (1995)
• Ayreon – Into the Electric Castle (1998)
• Ayreon – Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer (2000)
• Ayreon – Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator (2000)
• Ayreon – The Human Equation (2004)
• Ayreon – 01011001 (2008)
• Ayreon – The Theory of Everything (2013)
• Ayreon – The Source (2017)
• Ayreon – Transitus (2020)

B

• B'z – Friends (1992)
• B'z – Friends II (1996)
• B'z – Friends III (2021)
• Babymetal – The Other One (2023)
• The Band – The Band (1969)
• Barbra Streisand – Wet (1979)
• Bastille – Doom Days (2019)
• Bat for Lashes – The Bride (2016)
• Bathory – Blood on Ice (1996)
• The Beach Boys – Surfin' Safari (1962)
• The Beach Boys – Surfin' U.S.A. (1963)
• The Beach Boys – Surfer Girl (1963)
• The Beach Boys – Little Deuce Coupe (1963)
• The Beach Boys – Shut Down Volume 2 (1964)
• The Beach Boys – All Summer Long (1964)
• The Beach Boys – The Beach Boys Today! (1965)
• The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds (1966)
• The Beach Boys – Smile (1966-1967)
• The Beatles – Rubber Soul (1965)
• The Beatles – Revolver (1966)
• The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
• Bee Gees – Odessa (1969)
• Between the Buried and Me – Colors (2007)
• Between the Buried and Me – The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues (2011)
• Between the Buried and Me – The Parallax II: Future Sequence (2012)
• Between the Buried and Me – Coma Ecliptic (2015)
• Between the Buried and Me – Automata II (2018)
• Beyoncé – I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008)
• Beyoncé – Lemonade (2016)
• Big K.R.I.T. – Cadillactica (2014)
• Big K.R.I.T. – 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time (2017)
• Big Sean – I Decided (2017)
• Billy Idol – Cyberpunk (1993)
• Billy Joel – The Nylon Curtain (1982)
• Billy Joel – An Innocent Man (1983)
• Björk – Biophilia (2011)
• Björk – Vulnicura (2015)
• Black Country, New Road – Ants from Up There (2022)
• Black Veil Brides – Wretched and Divine: The Story of the Wild Ones (2013)
• Black Veil Brides – Vale (2018)
• Black Veil Brides – The Phantom Tomorrow (2021)
• Blackfield – Blackfield V (2017)
• Blind Guardian – Nightfall in Middle-Earth (1998)
• Blind Guardian – Legacy of the Dark Lands (2019)
• Blink-182 – Take Off Your Pants And Jacket (2001)
• Blink-182 – Blink-182 (2003)
• Blue Man Group – The Complex (2003)
• Blue October – Any Man in America (2010)
• Blue Öyster Cult – Imaginos (1988)
• Blues Traveler – Decisions of the Sky (2000)
• Blur – Modern Life is Rubbish (1993)
• Blur – Parklife (1994)
• Bobby Conn – Rise Up! (1998)
• Bomb the Music Industry! – Vacation (2011)
• Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago (2007)
• Boublil & Schönberg – Les Misérables (1980)
• Boys Night Out – Trainwreck (2005)
• Brakence – Hypochondriac (2022)
• Brendon Small – Brendon Small's Galaktikon (2012)
• Brian Wilson – Smile (2004)
• Bring Me the Horizon – That's the Spirit (2015)
• Bring Me the Horizon – Amo (2019)
• Britney Spears – Britney Jean (2013)
• Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears – Flight of the Knife (2008)
• BTS – Map of the Soul: 7 (2020)
• The Buggles – The Age of Plastic (1980)
• Burzum – Dauði Baldrs (1997)
• Burzum – Hliðskjálf (1999)

C

• Camel – The Snow Goose (1975)
• Camel – Moonmadness (1976)
• Camel – Nude (1981)
• Camel – Stationary Traveller (1984)
• Camel – Harbour of Tears (1996)
• Camper Van Beethoven – New Roman Times (2004)
• Candy Claws – Ceres & Calypso in the Deep Time (2013)
• Caparezza – Le dimensioni del mio caos (2008)
• Caparezza – Il sogno eretico (2011)
• Caparezza – Museica (2014)
• Car Seat Headrest – Twin Fantasy (2011)
• Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial (2016)
• Carach Angren – Lammendam (2008)
• Carach Angren – Death Came Through a Phantom Ship (2010)
• Carach Angren – Where the Corpses Sink Forever (2012)
• Carach Angren – This Is No Fairytale (2015)
• The Caretaker – An Empty Bliss Beyond This World (2011)
• The Caretaker – Everywhere at the End of Time (2016-2019)
• Cat System Corp. – News at 11 (2016)
• Catch 22 – Permanent Revolution (2006)
• Cherry Poppin' Daddies – Susquehanna (2008)
• Childish Gambino – Camp (2011)
• Childish Gambino – Because the Internet (2013)
• Childish Gambino – 3.15.20 (2020)
• Christine and the Queens – Redcar les adorables étoiles (prologue) (2022)
• Christine and the Queens – Paranoia, Angels, True Love (2023)
• Christopher Lee – Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross (2010)
• Christopher Lee – Charlemagne: The Omens of Death (2013)
• Chumbawamba – Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records (1986)
• Chvrches – Screen Violence (2021)
• Clairo – Sling (2021)
• Clipping. – Splendor & Misery (2016)
• CMX – Talvikuningas (2007)
• Coheed and Cambria – The Second Stage Turbine Blade (2002)
• Coheed and Cambria – In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (2003)
• Coheed and Cambria – Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (2005)
• Coheed and Cambria – Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow (2007)
• Coheed and Cambria – Year of the Black Rainbow (2010)
• Coheed and Cambria – The Afterman: Ascension (2012)
• Coheed and Cambria – The Afterman: Descension (2013)
• Coheed and Cambria – Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures (2018)
• Coheed and Cambria – Vaxis – Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind (2022)
• Cold 187um – The Only Solution (2012)
• Coldplay – Mylo Xyloto (2011)
• Coldplay – Music Of The Spheres (2021)
• Conan Gray – Found Heaven (2024)
• Cradle of Filth – Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder (2008)
• Cradle of Filth – Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa (2010)
• Creeper – Eternity, in Your Arms (2017)
• Cursive – Domestica (2000)
• Cursive – The Ugly Organ (2003)
• Cursive – Happy Hollow (2006)
• Cynic – Carbon-Based Anatomy (2011)

D

• Daft Punk – Discovery (2001)
• Danger Doom – The Mouse and the Mask (2005)
• Daniel Liam Glyn – Changing Stations (2016)
• Daniel Liam Glyn – Nocturnes (2020)
• Dave – Psychodrama (2019)
• Dave Greenslade – Cactus Choir (1976)
• David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
• David Bowie – Diamond Dogs (1974)
• David Bowie – Outside (1995)
• David Bowie – Blackstar (2016)
• Deadlock – Manifesto (2008)
• The Dear Hunter – Act I: The Lake South, The River North (2006)
• The Dear Hunter – Act II: The Meaning of, and All Things Regarding Ms. Leading (2007)
• The Dear Hunter – Act III: Life and Death (2009)
• The Dear Hunter – The Color Spectrum (2011)
• The Dear Hunter – Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise (2015)
• The Dear Hunter – Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional (2016)
• Death Cab for Cutie – Transatlanticism (2003)
• The Decemberists – The Crane Wife (2006)
• The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love (2009)
• Defeater – Lost Ground (2004)
• Defeater – Travels (2008)
• Defeater – Empty Days & Sleepless Nights (2011)
• Defeater – Letters Home (2013)
• Defeater – Abandoned (2015)
• Deftones – White Pony (2000)
• Deltron 3030 – Deltron 3030 (2000)
• Denzel Curry – TA13OO (2018)
• Denzel Curry – Melt My Eyez See Your Future (2022)
• Devin Townsend – Ziltoid the Omniscient (2007)
• Dexys – One Day I'm Going to Soar (2012)
• Die Ärzte – Le Frisur (1996)
• Dimmu Borgir – In Sorte Diaboli (2007)
• Dio – Magica (2000)
• Dionysos – La Mécanique du Cœur (2007)
• Dominici – O3: A Trilogy (2005)
• Donald Fagen – The Nightfly (1982)
• Donald Fagen – Kamakiriad (1993)
• Donna Summer – Four Seasons of Love (1976)
• Donna Summer – I Remember Yesterday (1977)
• Donna Summer – Once Upon a Time... (1977)
• Dorian Electra – My Agenda (2020)
• Dr. Octagon – Dr. Octagonecologyst (1996)
• Dragonland – Under the Grey Banner (2011)
• Dream Theater – Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory (1999)
• Dream Theater – Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (2002)
• Dream Theater – The Astonishing (2016)
• Dredg – Leitmotif (1999)
• Dredg – El Cielo (2002)
• Drive-By Truckers – Southern Rock Opera (2001)
• Dropkick Murphys – Going Out in Style (2011)
• Duran Duran – Seven and the Ragged Tiger (1983)

E

• Eagles – Desperado (1973)
• Eagles – Hotel California (1976)
• The Early November – The Mother, the Mechanic, and the Path (2006)
• Earth Crisis – Salvation of Innocents (2014)
• Ed Kuepper – Jean Lee and the Yellow Dog (2007)
• Edgar Winter – Mission Earth (1986)
• Edge of Sanity – Crimson (1996)
• Edge of Sanity – Crimson II (2003)
• Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid (2008)
• Electric Light Orchestra – Eldorado (1974)
• Electric Light Orchestra – Time (1981)
• Elton John – Tumbleweed Connection (1970)
• Elton John – Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975)
• Eluveitie – Helvetios (2012)
• Elvis Costello – The Delivery Man (2004)
• Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Tarkus (1971)
• Eminem – Relapse (2009)
• Enigma – MCMXC a.D. (1990)
• Enigma – The Cross of Changes (1993)
• Enigma – The Fall of a Rebel Angel (2016)
• Epica – The Divine Conspiracy (2007)
• Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part One (2008)
• Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part Two (2010)
• Ethel Cain – Preacher's Daughter (2022)
• Evelyn Evelyn – Evelyn Evelyn (2010)
• Everclear – Songs from an American Movie Vol. One: Learning How to Smile (2000)
• Everclear – Songs from an American Movie Vol. Two: Good Time for a Bad Attitude (2000)
• Evergrey – In Search of Truth (2001)
• Evermore – Truth of the World: Welcome to the Show (2009)
• Extreme – Extreme II: Pornograffitti (1990)
• Extreme – III Sides to Every Story (1992)

F

• Fabrizio De André – Tutti morimmo a stento (1968)
• Fabrizio De André – La buona novella (1970)
• Fabrizio De André – Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo (1971)
• Fabrizio De André – Storia di un impiegato (1973)
• Fairport Convention – Babbacombe Lee (1971)
• Falling Up – Fangs! (2009)
• Fantômas – Suspended Animation (2005)
• Fates Warning – A Pleasant Shade of Gray (1997)
• Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear (2015)
• Father John Misty – Pure Comedy (2017)
• Father John Misty – God's Favorite Customer (2018)
• Fear Factory – Demanufacture (1995)
• Fear Factory – Obsolete (1998)
• Fear Factory – The Industrialist (2012)
• Fear Factory – Genexus (2015)
• Fields of the Nephilim – Elizium (1990)
• Fields of the Nephilim – Mourning Sun (2005)
• The Fiery Furnaces – Blueberry Boat (2004)
• The Fiery Furnaces – Rehearsing My Choir (2005)
• The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (2002)
• The Flaming Lips – King's Mouth (2019)
• Flaming Youth – Ark 2 (1969)
• Flower Travellin' Band – Satori (1971)
• FM Static – Dear Diary (2009)
• Foster the People – Supermodel (2014)
• Foxygen – ...And Star Power (2014)
• Frank Ocean – Channel Orange (2012)
• Frank Ocean – Blonde (2016)
• Frank Sinatra – The Voice of Frank Sinatra (1946)
• Frank Sinatra – Songs for Young Lovers (1954)
• Frank Sinatra – Swing Easy! (1954)
• Frank Sinatra – In the Wee Small Hours (1955)
• Frank Sinatra – Songs for Swingin' Lovers! (1956)
• Frank Sinatra – Where Are You? (1957)
• Frank Sinatra – Come Fly with Me (1958)
• Frank Sinatra – Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely (1958)
• Frank Sinatra – Come Dance with Me! (1959)
• Frank Zappa – Joe's Garage (1979)
• Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention – Freak Out! (1966)
• Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention – We're Only in It for the Money (1968)
• Franz Ferdinand – Tonight (2009)
• Fucked Up – David Comes to Life (2011)
• Fugees – The Score (1996)
• Funeral for a Friend – Tales Don't Tell Themselves (2007)

G

• Gallows – Grey Britain (2009)
• The Game – Jesus Piece (2012)
• Gatsbys American Dream – Ribbons and Sugar (2003)
• Genesis – From Genesis to Revelation (1969)
• Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974)
• Gentle Giant – Three Friends (1972)
• Gentle Giant – Interview (1976)
• The Gentle Storm – The Diary (2015)
• Ghostface Killah – Twelve Reasons to Die (2013)
• Ghostface Killah – 36 Seasons (2014)
• Girls Aloud – Chemistry (2005)
• Glass Animals – Zaba (2014)
• Glass Animals – How to Be a Human Being (2016)
• Glass Animals – Dreamland (2020)
• God Forbid – IV: Constitution of Treason (2005)
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2000)
• Gojira – From Mars to Sirius (2005)
• Goldfrapp – Tales of Us (2013)
• The Good Life – Album of the Year (2004)
• The Good, the Bad & the Queen – The Good, the Bad & the Queen (2007)
• The Good, the Bad & the Queen – Merrie Land (2018)
• Gorillaz – Demon Days (2005)
• Gorillaz – Plastic Beach (2010)
• Gorillaz – Humanz (2017)
• Gorillaz – Cracker Island (2023)
• Graham Coxon – The Spinning Top (2009)
• Grandaddy – The Sophtware Slump (2000)
• Green Carnation – Light of Day, Day of Darkness (2001)
• Green Day – American Idiot (2004)
• Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown (2009)
• Grimes – Geidi Primes (2010)
• Grimes – Miss Anthropocene (2020)

H

• Haken – Aquarius (2010)
• Haken – Visions (2011)
• Halsey – Badlands (2015)
• Halsey – Hopeless Fountain Kingdom (2017)
• Halsey – If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power (2021)
• Happy End – Kazemachi Roman (1971)
• Harmonium – Les cinq saisons (1975)
• Harmonium – L'heptade (1976)
• Hawkwind – The Machine Stops (2016)
• Hawthorne Heights – Zero (2013)
• The Head and the Heart – The Head and the Heart (2011)
• Helloween – Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part I (1987)
• Helloween – Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part II (1988)
• Herbie Hancock – Maiden Voyage (1965)
• The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday (2005)
• Hooverphonic – Hooverphonic Presents Jackie Cane (2002)
• Horslips – The Táin (1976)
• House of Heroes – The End is Not the End (2008)
• House of Heroes – Colors (2016)
• Hüsker Dü – Zen Arcade (1984)

I

• Ice Cube – Death Certificate (1991)
• Iced Earth – Night of the Stormrider (1991)
• Iced Earth – The Dark Saga (1996)
• Iced Earth – Horror Show (2001)
• Iced Earth – The Glorious Burden (2004)
• Iced Earth – Framing Armageddon: Something Wicked Part 1 (2007)
• Iced Earth – The Crucible of Man: Something Wicked Part 2 (2008)
• Insomnium – Winter's Gate (2016)
• IQ – Subterranea (1997)
• Iron Maiden – Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (1988)

J

• J Balvin – Colores (2020)
• J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive (2014)
• J. Cole – 4 Your Eyez Only (2016)
• Jack's Mannequin – Everything in Transit (2005)
• Jackson Browne – Running On Empty (1977)
• Janet Jackson – Control (1986)
• Janet Jackson – Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989)
• Janet Jackson – The Velvet Rope (1997)
• Janelle Monáe – Metropolis: Suite I (The Chase) (2007)
• Janelle Monáe – The ArchAndroid (2010)
• Janelle Monáe – The Electric Lady (2013)
• Janelle Monáe – Dirty Computer (2018)
• Jazmine Sullivan – Heaux Tales (2021)
• Jay-Z – American Gangster (2007)
• Jeff Wayne – Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds (1978)
• Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick (1972)
• Jethro Tull – A Passion Play (1973)
• Jethro Tull – Too Old to Rock and Roll, Too Young to Die (1975)
• Jethro Tull – Songs from the Wood (1977)
• Jhene Aiko – Trip (2017)
• Joe Jackson – Blaze of Glory (1989)
• John Coltrane – A Love Supreme (1965)
• John Linnell – State Songs (1999)
• Johnny Cash – Songs of Our Soil (1959)
• Johnny Cash – Ride This Train (1960)
• Johnny Cash – All Aboard the Blue Train (1962)
• Johnny Cash – Bitter Tears (1964)
• Johnny Cash – From Sea to Shining Sea (1968)
• Johnny Cash – America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song (1972)
• Johnny Cash – The Rambler (1977)
• Jon Anderson – Olias of Sunhillow (1976)
• Jonathan Coulton – Solid State (2017)
• Joyner Lucas – ADHD (2020)
• Judas Priest – Nostradamus (2008)
• Judy Garland – The Letter (1959)

K

• Kamelot – Epica (2003)
• Kamelot – The Black Halo (2005)
• Kamelot – Silverthorn (2012)
• Kamelot – The Shadow Theory (2018)
• Kansas – Leftoverture (1976)
• Kanye West – The College Dropout (2004)
• Kanye West – Graduation (2007)
• Kanye West – 808s & Heartbreak (2008)
• Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)
• Kanye West – Yeezus (2013)
• Kanye West – The Life of Pablo (2016)
• Kanye West – Ye (2018)
• Kanye West – Donda (2021)
• Kate Bush – Hounds of Love (1985)
• Kate Bush – Aerial (2005)
• Kate Bush – 50 Words For Snow (2011)
• Kayo Dot – Coyote (2010)
• Kekal – The Habit of Fire (2007)
• Kelly Clarkson – Piece By Piece (2015)
• Kendrick Lamar – Section.80 (2011)
• Kendrick Lamar – Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (2012)
• Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly (2015)
• Kendrick Lamar – Damn. (2017)
• Kendrick Lamar – Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers (2022)
• Kenny Rogers – Gideon (1980)
• Kenny Rogers & The First Edition – The Ballad of Calico (1972)[1]
• Kid Cudi – Man on the Moon: The End of Day (2009)
• Kid Cudi – Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager (2010)
• Kid Cudi – Man on the Moon III: The Chosen (2020)
• Kid Creole and the Coconuts – Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places (1981)
• The Killers — Sam's Town (2007)
• King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)
• King Diamond – Abigail (1987)
• King Diamond – "Them" (1988)
• King Geedorah – Take Me To Your Leader (2003)
• King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Eyes Like the Sky (2013)
• King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – I'm in Your Mind Fuzz (2014)
• King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Quarters! (2015)
• King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Paper Mâché Dream Balloon (2015)
• King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity (2016)
• King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Flying Microtonal Banana (2017)
• King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Murder of the Universe (2017)
• King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Fishing For Fishies (2019)
• King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Infest the Rat's Nest (2019)
• King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – K.G. (2020)
• King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – L.W. (2021)
• King's X – Gretchen Goes to Nebraska (1989)
• The Kinks – Face to Face (1966)
• The Kinks – The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968)
• The Kinks – Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) (1969)
• The Kinks – Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One (1970)
• The Kinks – Preservation Act 1 (1973)
• The Kinks – Preservation Act 2 (1974)
• Kiss – Music from "The Elder" (1981)
• Kraftwerk – Autobahn (1974)
• Kraftwerk – Radio-Activity (1975)
• Kraftwerk – Trans-Europe Express (1977)
• Kraftwerk – The Man-Machine (1978)
• Klaatu – Hope (1977)

L

• Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence (2014)
• Laura Marling – Once I Was an Eagle (2013)
• Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998)
• Leaves' Eyes – Vinland Saga (2005)
• Lift to Experience – The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads (2001)
• Lil Yachty – Lil Boat (2016)
• Linkin Park – A Thousand Suns (2010)
• Little Brother – The Minstrel Show (2003)
• Liz Phair – Exile in Guyville (1993)
• Local H – As Good as Dead (1996)
• Local H – Pack Up the Cats (1998)
• Lights – Skin & Earth (2017)
• Logic – The Incredible True Story (2015)
• Logic – Everybody (2017)
• Loïc Nottet – Selfocracy (2017)
• Lord Huron – Strange Trails (2015)
• Lord Huron – Vide Noir (2018)
• Lorde – Melodrama (2017)
• Lorna Shore – Pain Remains (2022)
• A Lot Like Birds – No Place (2013)
• Lou Reed – Berlin (1973)
• Lou Reed – New York (1989)
• Lou Reed – Magic and Loss (1992)
• Lou Reed – The Raven (2003)
• Lou Reed & Metallica – Lulu (2011)
• Ludo – Broken Bride (2005)
• Lupe Fiasco – Lupe Fiasco's The Cool (2007)
• Lupe Fiasco – Drogas Wave (2018)

M

• Macabre – Dahmer (2000)
• Madonna – Erotica (1992)
• Madonna – American Life (2003)
• The Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs (1990)
• The Magnetic Fields – 50 Song Memoir (2017)
• Mägo de Oz – Finisterra (2000)
• Mägo de Oz – Gaia (2003)
• Mägo de Oz – Gaia II: La Voz Dormida (2005)
• Mägo de Oz – Gaia III: Atlantia (2010)
• Mai Kuraki – Kimi Omou: Shunkashūtō (2018)
• Manowar – Gods of War (2007)
• Mariah Carey – Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse (2014)
• Marianas Trench – Masterpiece Theatre (2009)
• Marianas Trench – Ever After (2011)
• Marianas Trench – Astoria (2015)
• Marianas Trench – Phantoms (2019)
• Marillion – Misplaced Childhood (1985)
• Marillion – Clutching at Straws (1987)
• Marillion – Brave (1994)
• Marilyn Manson – Antichrist Superstar (1996)
• Marilyn Manson – Mechanical Animals (1998)
• Marilyn Manson – Holy Wood (2000)
• Marilyn Manson – Born Villain (2012)
• Marilyn Manson – We Are Chaos (2020)
• Marina and the Diamonds – Electra Heart (2012)
• The Mars Volta – De-Loused in the Comatorium (2003)
• The Mars Volta – Frances the Mute (2005)
• The Mars Volta – The Bedlam in Goliath (2008)
• Marty Robbins – Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (1959)
• Marty Robbins – More Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (1960)
• Marvin Gaye – What's Going On (1971)
• Marvin Gaye – Here, My Dear (1978)
• Masta Ace – Disposable Arts (2001)
• Masta Ace – A Long Hot Summer (2004)
• Mastodon – Leviathan (2004)
• Mastodon – Blood Mountain (2006)
• Mastodon – Crack the Skye (2009)
• Mastodon – Emperor of Sand (2017)
• Matthew Good – Vancouver (2009)
• Maxwell – Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite (1996)
• Mayhem – A Grand Declaration of War (2000)
• Meat Loaf – Welcome To The Neighborhood (1995)
• Melanie Martinez – Cry Baby (2015)
• Melanie Martinez – K–12 (2019)
• Melanie Martinez – Portals (2023)
• Men Without Hats – Pop Goes the World (1987)
• Merle Travis – Folk Songs of the Hills (1946)
• Meshuggah – Catch Thirtythree (2005)
• Metallica – Master of Puppets (1986)
• MF Doom – Mm..Food (2004)
• MF Grimm – The Hunt for the Gingerbread Man (2007)
• Michael Franti and Spearhead – Stay Human (2001)
• Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells (1973)
• Mike Oldfield – The Songs of Distant Earth (1994)
• Mike Shinoda – Post Traumatic (2018)
• Millie Jackson – Caught Up (1974)
• The Miracles – City of Angels (1975)
• Miranda Lambert – The Weight of These Wings (2016)
• Miranda Lambert – Palomino (2022)
• The Moody Blues – Days of Future Passed (1967)
• The Moody Blues – In Search of the Lost Chord (1968)
• Mother Mother – The Sticks (2012)
• Mount Eerie – A Crow Looked at Me (2017)
• The Mountain Goats – Tallahassee (2002)
• The Mountain Goats – The Sunset Tree (2005)
• The Mountain Goats – Beat the Champ (2015)
• The Mountain Goats – Goths (2017)
• Mr. Lif – Emergency Rations (2002)
• Mr. Lif – I Phantom (2002)
• Murder by Death – Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left of Them? (2003)
• Muse – Black Holes and Revelations (2006)
• Muse – The Resistance (2009)
• Muse – Drones (2015)
• My Chemical Romance – Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (2004)
• My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade (2006)
• My Chemical Romance – Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (2010)

N

• Nat King Cole – Wild Is Love (1960)
• Natalia Kills – Perfectionist (2011)
• Neal Morse – Testimony (2003)
• Neal Morse – Sola Scriptura (2007)
• Neal Morse – Testimony 2 (2011)
• Nektar – Journey to the Centre of the Eye (1971)
• Neil Young – Greendale (2003)
• Neil Young – Fork in the Road (2009)
• Nelson – Imaginator (1996)
• Neon Neon – Stainless Style (2008)
• Nero – Welcome Reality (2011)
• Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)
• Nevermore – Dreaming Neon Black (1999)
• NF – Mansion (2015)
• The Nice – Five Bridges (1970)
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Murder Ballads (1996)
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Ghosteen (2019)
• Nightwish – Imaginaerum (2011)
• Nightwish – Endless Forms Most Beautiful (2015)
• Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral (1994)
• Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile (1999)
• Nine Inch Nails – Year Zero (2007)
• Nirvana (UK) – The Story of Simon Simopath (1967)
• Nocturnus – The Key (1990)
• Nothing but Thieves – Dead Club City (2023)

O

• Oasis – Definitely Maybe (1994)
• Oasis – (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995)
• The Ocean – Heliocentric (2010)
• The Ocean – Anthropocentric (2010)
• The Ocean – Pelagial (2013)
• The Ocean – Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic (2018)
• The Ocean – Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic / Cenozoic (2020)
• Of Montreal – The Bird Who Continues to Eat the Rabbit's Flower (1999)
• Opeth – My Arms, Your Hearse (1998)
• Opeth – Still Life (1999)
• Orphaned Land – El Norra Alila (1996)
• Orphaned Land – Mabool (2004)
• Orphaned Land – The Never Ending Way of ORWarriOR (2010)
• Orphaned Land – Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs (2018)
• Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Dazzle Ships (1983)
• Osmonds – The Plan (1973)
• Our Lady Peace – Spiritual Machines (2000)
• Outkast – Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (2003)
• Owen Pallett – Heartland (2010)

P

• Pain of Salvation – Remedy Lane (2002)
• Pain of Salvation – In the Passing Light of Day (2017)
• Pallas – The Sentinel (1984)
• Pandora's Box – Original Sin (1989)
• Panic! at the Disco – Death of a Bachelor (2016)
• Paradox – Heresy (1989)
• Parliament – Chocolate City (1975)
• Parliament – Mothership Connection (1975)
• Parliament – The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein (1976)
• Parliament – Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome (1977)
• Parliament – Motor Booty Affair (1978)
• Parliament – Gloryhallastoopid (1979)
• Parliament – Trombipulation (1980)
• Paul Kantner/Jefferson Starship – Blows Against The Empire (1970)
• Paul McCartney – Egypt Station (2018)
• Pedro the Lion – Winners Never Quit (2000)
• Pedro the Lion – Control (2002)
• Pepe Deluxé – Queen of the Wave (2012)
• A Perfect Circle – Thirteenth Step (2003)
• A Perfect Circle – Emotive (2004)
• Periphery – Juggernaut: Alpha (2015)
• Periphery – Juggernaut: Omega (2015)
• Pescado Rabioso – Artaud (1973)
• Pharoahe Monch – PTSD (2014)
• Phish – Rift (1993)
• Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
• Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here (1975)
• Pink Floyd – Animals (1977)
• Pink Floyd – The Wall (1979)
• Pink Floyd – The Final Cut (1983)
• Pink Floyd – The Division Bell (1994)
• Plan B – The Defamation of Strickland Banks (2010)
• Planet P Project – Pink World (1993)
• P.O.D. – The Awakening (2015)
• Poe – Haunted (2000)
• Pond – The Weather (2017)
• Porcupine Tree – Voyage 34 (2000)
• Porcupine Tree – Fear of a Blank Planet (2007)
• Porcupine Tree – The Incident (2009)
• The Pretty Things – S.F. Sorrow (1968)
• Primus – Primus & the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble (2014)
• Primus – The Desaturating Seven (2017)
• Prince – Love Symbol Album (1992)
• Prince – Art Official Age (2014)
• Prince & The Revolution – Purple Rain (1984)
• Prince Paul – A Prince Among Thieves (1999)
• The Prize Fighter Inferno – My Brother's Blood Machine (2006)
• Protest the Hero – Kezia (2005)
• The Protomen – Act I: The Protomen (2009)
• The Protomen – Act II: The Father of Death (2009)
• Prototype – Catalyst (2012)
• Public Enemy – Fear of a Black Planet (1990)
• Public Service Broadcasting – The Race for Space (2015)
• Public Service Broadcasting – Every Valley (2017)
• Punch Brothers – The Phosphorescent Blues (2015)
• Pyramaze – Legend of the Bone Carver (2006)

Q

• Queen – Queen II (1974)
• Queensrÿche – Operation: Mindcrime (1988)
• Queensrÿche – Operation: Mindcrime II (2006)
• Queensrÿche – American Soldier (2009)
• Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf (2002)

R

• R. Kelly – Trapped in the Closet (2005)
• Radiohead – Kid A (2000)
• Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... (1995)
• Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II (2009)
• Raffi – Raffi Radio (1995)
• Randy Newman – Good Old Boys (1974)
• Randy Newman – Randy Newman's Faust (1995)
• Raphael Saadiq – Jimmy Lee (2019)
• Rasputina – Oh Perilous World! (2007)
• Ray Charles – The Genius Hits the Road (1960)
• The Receiving End of Sirens – The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi (2007)
• The Receiving End Of Sirens – Between the Heart and the Synapse(2005)
• Renaissance – Scheherazade and Other Stories (1975)
• Return To Forever – Romantic Warrior (1976)
• Rhapsody – Legendary Tales (1997)
• Rhapsody – Symphony of Enchanted Lands (1998)
• Rhapsody – Dawn of Victory (2000)
• Rhapsody – Rain of a Thousand Flames (2001)
• Rhapsody – Power of the Dragonflame (2002)
• Rhapsody – Symphony of Enchanted Lands II: The Dark Secret (2004)
• Rhapsody of Fire – Triumph or Agony (2006)
• Rhapsody of Fire – The Frozen Tears of Angels (2010)
• Rhapsody of Fire – From Chaos to Eternity (2011)
• Rich Mullins – A Liturgy, a Legacy, & a Ragamuffin Band (1993)
• Rick Wakeman – The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1973)
• Right Away, Great Captain – The Bitter End (2006)
• Right Away, Great Captain – The Eventually Home (2008)
• Right Away, Great Captain – The Church of the Good Thief (2012)
• Rising Appalachia – The Lost Mystique of Being in the Know (2021)
• Riverside – Love, Fear and the Time Machine (2015)
• Robin Thicke – Paula (2014)
• Roger Waters – The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (1984)
• Roger Waters – Radio K.A.O.S. (1987)
• Roger Waters – Amused to Death (1992)
• Roger Waters – Is This the Life We Really Want? (2017)
• The Roots – Undun (2011)
• The Roots – ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin (2014)
• Rosalía – Los ángeles (2017)
• Rosalía – El mal querer (2018)
• Rosalía – Motomami (2022)
• Rosanne Cash – The River & the Thread (2014)
• Royal Hunt – The Mission (2001)
• Rush – Clockwork Angels (2012)
• RZA – Bobby Digital in Stereo (1998)

S

• Sabaton – The Art of War (2008)
• Sabaton – Carolus Rex (2012)
• Sabaton – Heroes (2014)
• Sabaton – The Last Stand (2016)
• Sabaton – The Great War (2019)
• Sabaton – The War to End All Wars (2022)
• Sabbat – Dreamweaver (Reflections of Our Yesterdays) (1989)
• Saga – The Chapters Live (2005)
• Sarah Brightman – Dive (1993)
• Savatage – Streets: A Rock Opera (1991)
• Say Anything – In Defense of the Genre (2007)
• Scorpions – Humanity: Hour I (2007)
• Sepultura – Roots (1996)
• Sepultura – Dante XXI (2006)
• Sepultura – A-Lex (2009)
• Sepultura – Kairos (2011)
• Serge Gainsbourg – Histoire de Melody Nelson (1971)
• Serge Gainsbourg – Rock Around the Bunker (1975)
• Serge Gainsbourg – L'Homme à tête de chou (1976)
• Senses Fail – Still Searching (2006)
• Seventh Wonder – Mercy Falls (2008)
• Shadow Gallery – Room V (2005)
• Shinedown – Attention Attention (2018)
• Shinedown – Planet Zero (2022)
• Showbread – Anorexia (2008)
• Showbread – Nervosa (2008)
• Silverstein – A Shipwreck in the Sand (2009)
• Silverstein – This Is How the Wind Shifts (2013)
• Silverstein – I Am Alive in Everything I Touch (2015)
• Simon & Garfunkel – Bookends (1968)
• Sixx:A.M. – The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack (2007)
• Skillet – Rise (2013)
• Sly and the Family Stone – There's a Riot Goin' On (1971)
• The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995)
• The Smashing Pumpkins – Machina/The Machines of God (2000)
• The Smashing Pumpkins – Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music (2000)
• The Smashing Pumpkins – Teargarden by Kaleidyscope (2009-2014)
• The Smashing Pumpkins – Oceania (2012)
• Solefald – Pills against the Ageless Ills (2001)
• Solefald – An Icelandic Odyssey (2005-2006)
• Spock's Beard – Snow (2002)
• Starset – Transmissions (2014)
• Steven Wilson – The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) (2013)
• Steven Wilson – Hand. Cannot. Erase. (2015)
• Sticky Fingaz – Black Trash: The Autobiography of Kirk Jones (2001)
• Stone Sour – House of Gold & Bones – Part 1 (2013)
• Stone Sour – House of Gold & Bones – Part 2 (2013)
• Stratovarius – Visions (1997)
• The Streets – A Grand Don't Come for Free (2004)
• Styx – The Grand Illusion (1977)
• Styx – Paradise Theatre (1981)
• Styx – Kilroy Was Here (1983)
• Suede – Night Thoughts (2016)
• Sufjan Stevens – Michigan (2003)
• Sufjan Stevens – Seven Swans (2004)
• Sufjan Stevens – Illinois (2005)
• Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell (2015)
• Sufjan Stevens – A Beginner's Mind (2021)
• Super Furry Animals – Hey Venus! (2007)
• Swans – Soundtracks for the Blind (1996)
• Symphony X – V: The New Mythology Suite (2000)
• Symphony X – Paradise Lost (2007)
• Symphony X – Iconoclast (2011)
• System of a Down – Mezmerize (2005)
• System of a Down – Hypnotize (2005)
• SZA – Ctrl (2017)

T

• Talking Heads – Fear of Music (1979)
• Talking Heads – Naked (1988)
• Tally Hall – Good & Evil (2011)
• Tandy & Morgan – Earthrise (1985)
• Taproot – The Episodes (2012)
• Taylor Swift – Reputation (2017)
• Taylor Swift – Folklore (2020)
• Taylor Swift – Evermore (2020)
• Taylor Swift – Midnights (2022)
• Thrice – The Alchemy Index (2007–2008)
• Thirty Seconds to Mars – 30 Seconds to Mars (2002)
• Thirty Seconds to Mars – This Is War (2009)
• Thirty Seconds to Mars – Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams (2013)
• T.I. – T.I. vs. T.I.P. (2007)
• Toni Braxton & Babyface – Love, Marriage & Divorce (2014)
• Tool – Lateralus (2001)
• Tori Amos – Strange Little Girls (2001)
• Tori Amos – Scarlet's Walk (2002)
• Tori Amos – American Doll Posse (2007)
• Tori Amos – Night of Hunters (2011)
• Trazendo a Arca – Salmos e Cânticos Espirituais (2009)
• Trivium – In the Court of the Dragon (2021)
• The Tubes – The Completion Backward Principle (1981)
• Twenty One Pilots – Blurryface (2015)
• Twenty One Pilots – Trench (2018)
• Twenty One Pilots – Scaled and Icy (2021)
• Twenty One Pilots – Clancy (2024)
• Tyler, the Creator – Bastard (2009)
• Tyler, the Creator – Goblin (2011)
• Tyler, the Creator – Wolf (2013)
• Tyler, the Creator – Igor (2019)

U

• Ulver – Nattens madrigal (1997)
• Underscores – Wallsocket (2023)
• Unleash the Archers – Apex (2017)
• Unleash the Archers – Abyss (2020)
• Urge Overkill – Exit the Dragon (1995)
• Usher – Confessions (2004)
• Utopia – Deface the Music (1980)

V

• The Vaccines – Back in Love City (2021)
• Vektor – Terminal Redux (2016)
• Venom – At War with Satan (1984)
• Vendetta Red – Sisters of the Red Death (2005)
• Viktor Vaughn – Vaudeville Villain (2003)
• Vision Eternel – For Farewell of Nostalgia (2020)
• Voivod – The Wake (2018)
• Volbeat – Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies (2013)

W

• W.A.S.P. – The Crimson Idol (1992)
• The Weeknd – After Hours (2020)
• The Weeknd – Dawn FM (2022)
• Ween – The Mollusk (1997)
• Weezer – Pinkerton (1996)
• Weezer – Weezer (White Album) (2016)
• Willie Nelson – Yesterday's Wine (1971)
• Willie Nelson – Shotgun Willie (1973)
• Willie Nelson – Phases and Stages (1974)
• Willie Nelson – Red Headed Stranger (1975)
• Will Wood – The Normal Album (2020)
• Within Temptation – The Unforgiving (2011)
• Whitechapel – The Somatic Defilement (2007)
• Whitechapel – The Valley (2019)
• Whitechapel – Kin (2021)
• The Who – The Who Sell Out (1967)
• The Who – Tommy (1969)
• The Who – Quadrophenia (1973)
• The Wonder Years – No Closer to Heaven (2015)
• Woody Guthrie – Dust Bowl Ballads (1940)
• Wyclef Jean – Wyclef Jean Presents The Carnival (1997)

X

• XTC – Skylarking (1986)
• Xzibit – Man vs. Machine (2002)

Y

• Yes – Tales from Topographic Oceans (1973)
• Yoko Ono – Starpeace (1985)

Z

See also

• Lists of albums

References