concept album
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- noun
- /ˈkɒnˌsɛpt ˈæl.bəm/
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álbum conceptual
- Fittingly, most of the songs are about touring; the album doubles as a concept album about being on the road.
- released a concept album
- recorded a concept album
- called the concept album
And there was this huge booming concept albums, which was sort of spoken word music drama.
- And there was this huge booming concept albums, which was sort of spoken word music drama.
Examples
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In 1976, Rice and Lloyd Webber released the Evita concept album sung by an all-British studio cast.
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And then they went and made an entire concept album in which they attempted to channel all the most popular songs on the radio during the apocalypse.
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"Dark Side of the Moon" is a great concept album.
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I thought long, but not hard, which I think would be a great title for an adult contemporary concept album.
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"Chocabeck" is a concept album.
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Fragile is a great album, and Tales from Topographic Oceans is an amazing concept album.
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The show's house band performed two renditions of "Tip The Scale" and "The Other Side" off of their first concept album, undun.
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'Running on Empty' is a live concept album about being on the road (see No. 9 on our list of the Top 10 Jackson Browne Songs).
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The album was the first of Pink Floyd's string of commercially successful concept albums in the 1970s, spending 741 consecutive weeks on the Billboard charts.
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Little Broken Hearts is a concept album about relationships, inspired by a break-up.
How Thematic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an album unified by a theme or idea' is directly derivable from combining 'concept' (an idea) with 'album' (a group of tracks). This noun–noun compounding follows regular English composition patterns and has clear cross‑linguistic parallels, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will very likely infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The noun concept album comes from treating an album as a single concept or idea, with each song like a chapter in a book. That's why a concept album means an album where all tracks follow one 'theme' or tell one 'story'.