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."[1] The following is a list with specific verification by reliable sources of being notable concept albums.
0–9
editA
edit- Ab-Soul – Control System (2012)[4]
- A Tribe Called Red – We Are the Halluci Nation (2016)[5]
- Acid Mothers Temple – St. Captain Freak Out & the Magic Bamboo Request (2002)[6]
- Aesop Rock – Labor Days (2001)[7]
- After Forever – Invisible Circles (2004)[8]
- Against Me! – Searching for a Former Clarity (2005)[9]
- Against Me! – Transgender Dysphoria Blues (2014)[10]
- Ahab – The Call of the Wretched Sea (2006)[11]
- Ahab – The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" (2015)[12]
- Al Stewart – Past, Present, and Future (1973)[13]
- Alan Parsons – The Time Machine (1999)[14]
- The Alan Parsons Project – Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1976)[15]
- The Alan Parsons Project – I Robot (1977)[15]
- The Alan Parsons Project – Pyramid (1978)[15]
- The Alan Parsons Project – Eve (1979)[15]
- The Alan Parsons Project – The Turn of a Friendly Card (1980)[15]
- The Alan Parsons Project – Eye in the Sky (1982)[15]
- The Alan Parsons Project – Ammonia Avenue (1984)[15]
- The Alan Parsons Project – Vulture Culture (1985)[15]
- The Alan Parsons Project – Stereotomy (1985)[15]
- The Alan Parsons Project – Gaudi (1987)[15]
- Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill (1995)[16]
- Alesana – The Emptiness (2010)[17]
- Alesana – Confessions (2015)[18]
- Alesana – A Place Where the Sun Is Silent (2011)[19]
- Alex Cameron – Forced Witness (2017)[20]
- Alex Cameron – Miami Memory (2019)[21]
- Alice Cooper – School's Out (1972)[22]
- Alice Cooper – Welcome to My Nightmare (1975)[23]
- Alice Cooper – Alice Cooper Goes to Hell (1976)[24]
- Alice Cooper – From the Inside (1978)[23]
- Alice Cooper – The Last Temptation (1994)[23]
- Alice Cooper – Along Came a Spider (2008)[23]
- Alice Cooper – Welcome 2 My Nightmare (2011)[25]
- Alice Cooper – Paranormal (2017)[26]
- Alice Cooper – Detroit Stories (2021)[27]
- Alice Cooper – Road (2023)[28]
- Alice in Chains – Dirt (1992)[29]
- Allen Toussaint – Southern Nights (1975)[30][31]
- Alter Bridge – AB III (2010)[32]
- Amon Amarth – Jomsviking (2016)[33]
- Anaïs Mitchell – Hadestown (2010)[34]
- Ancient – The Cainian Chronicle (1996)[35]
- Andrew Lloyd Webber – Evita (1976)[36]
- Andy Black – The Ghost of Ohio (2019)[37]
- Angels and Airwaves – We Don't Need To Whisper (2006)[38]
- Angels and Airwaves – I-Empire (2007)[39]
- Angels and Airwaves – Love (2010)[40][41]
- Angels and Airwaves – Love: Part Two (2011)[41]
- Angels and Airwaves – The Dream Walker (2014)[42]
- Angra – Temple of Shadows (2004)[43]
- The Antlers – Hospice (2009)[44]
- Aphrodites Child – 666 (1972)[45]
- The Apples In Stereo – Travellers In Space and Time (2010)[46]
- The Appleseed Cast – Mare Vitalis (2000)[47]
- Arcade Fire – Funeral (2004)[48]
- Arcade Fire – Neon Bible (2007)[49]
- Arcade Fire – The Suburbs (2010)[50]
- Arcade Fire – Reflektor (2013)[51]
- Arcade Fire – Everything Now (2017)[52][53]
- Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006)[54]
- Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (2018)[55]
- Ariana Grande – Eternal Sunshine (2024)
- Armor for Sleep – What to Do When You Are Dead (2005)[56]
- Attack Attack! – This Means War (2012)[57]
- Aurora – A Different Kind of Human (Step 2) (2019)[58]
- Aurora – The Gods We Can Touch (2022)[59]
- The Avalanches – Since I Left You (2000)[60]
- Ava Max – Heaven & Hell (2020)[61]
- Avantasia – The Metal Opera (2001)[62]
- Avantasia – The Metal Opera Part II (2002)[62]
- Avantasia – The Scarecrow (2008)[63]
- Avantasia – The Mystery of Time (2013)[64]
- Avantasia – Ghostlights (2016)[65]
- Avatar – Feathers and Flesh (2016)[66]
- Avatar – Avatar Country (2018)[67]
- Avenged Sevenfold – The Stage (2016)[68]
- Ayreon – The Final Experiment (1995)[62]
- Ayreon – Into the Electric Castle (1998)[62]
- Ayreon – Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer (2000)[62]
- Ayreon – Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator (2000)[62]
- Ayreon – The Human Equation (2004)[62]
- Ayreon – 01011001 (2008)[62]
- Ayreon – The Theory of Everything (2013)[62]
- Ayreon – The Source (2017)[69]
- Ayreon – Transitus (2020)[70]
B
edit- B'z – Friends (1992)[71]
- B'z – Friends II (1996)[71]
- B'z – Friends III (2021)[72]
- Babymetal – The Other One (2023)[73]
- The Band – The Band (1969)[74]
- Barbra Streisand – Wet (1979)[75]
- Bastille – Doom Days (2019)[76]
- Bat for Lashes – The Bride (2016)[77]
- Bathory – Blood on Ice (1996)[78]
- The Beach Boys – Surfin' Safari (1962)[79]
- The Beach Boys – Surfin' U.S.A. (1963)[79]
- The Beach Boys – Surfer Girl (1963)[79]
- The Beach Boys – Little Deuce Coupe (1963)[80][79]
- The Beach Boys – Shut Down Volume 2 (1964)[79]
- The Beach Boys – All Summer Long (1964)[79]
- The Beach Boys – The Beach Boys Today! (1965)[81]
- The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds (1966)[82]
- The Beach Boys – Smile (1966-1967)[82]
- The Beatles – Rubber Soul (1965)[83]
- The Beatles – Revolver (1966)[84]
- The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)[50]
- Bee Gees – Odessa (1969)[85]
- Between the Buried and Me – Colors (2007)[86]
- Between the Buried and Me – The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues (2011)[87]
- Between the Buried and Me – The Parallax II: Future Sequence (2012)[87]
- Between the Buried and Me – Coma Ecliptic (2015)[88]
- Between the Buried and Me – Automata II (2018)[89]
- Beyoncé – I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008)[90]
- Beyoncé – Lemonade (2016)[91]
- Big K.R.I.T. – Cadillactica (2014)[92]
- Big K.R.I.T. – 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time (2017)[93]
- Big Sean – I Decided (2017)[94]
- Billy Idol – Cyberpunk (1993)[95]
- Billy Joel – The Nylon Curtain (1982) [96]
- Billy Joel – An Innocent Man (1983)[97]
- Billy Woods and Kenny Segal – Maps (2023)[98]
- Björk – Biophilia (2011)[99]
- Björk – Vulnicura (2015)[100]
- Black Country, New Road – Ants from Up There (2022)[101]
- Black Veil Brides – Wretched and Divine: The Story of the Wild Ones (2013)[102]
- Black Veil Brides – Vale (2018)[103]
- Black Veil Brides – The Phantom Tomorrow (2021)[103]
- Blackfield – Blackfield V (2017)[104]
- Blind Guardian – Nightfall in Middle-Earth (1998)[105]
- Blind Guardian – Legacy of the Dark Lands (2019)[106]
- Blink-182 – Take Off Your Pants And Jacket (2001)[107]
- Blink-182 – Blink-182 (2003)[108]
- Blue Man Group – The Complex (2003)[109]
- Blue October – Any Man in America (2010)[110]
- Blue Öyster Cult – Imaginos (1988)[111]
- Blues Traveler – Decisions of the Sky (2000)[112]
- Blur – Modern Life is Rubbish (1993)[113][114]
- Blur – Parklife (1994)[115]
- Bobby Conn – Rise Up! (1998)[116]
- Bomb the Music Industry! – Vacation (2011)[117]
- Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago (2007)[50]
- Boublil & Schönberg – Les Misérables (1980)[118]
- Boys Night Out – Trainwreck (2005)[119]
- Brakence – Hypochondriac (2022)[120]
- Brendon Small – Brendon Small's Galaktikon (2012)[121]
- Brian Wilson – Smile (2004)[60]
- Bring Me the Horizon – That's the Spirit (2015)[122]
- Bring Me the Horizon – Amo (2019)[123]
- Britney Spears – Britney Jean (2013)[124]
- Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears – Flight of the Knife (2008)[125]
- BTS – Map of the Soul: 7 (2020)[60]
- The Buggles – The Age of Plastic (1980)[126]
- Burzum – Dauði Baldrs (1997)[127]
- Burzum – Hliðskjálf (1999)[127]
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edit- Camel – The Snow Goose (1975)[128]
- Camel – Moonmadness (1976)[129]
- Camel – Nude (1981)[130]
- Camel – Stationary Traveller (1984)[130]
- Camel – Harbour of Tears (1996)[131]
- Camper Van Beethoven – New Roman Times (2004)[132]
- Candy Claws – Ceres & Calypso in the Deep Time (2013)[133]
- Caparezza – Le dimensioni del mio caos (2008)[134]
- Caparezza – Il sogno eretico (2011)[135]
- Caparezza – Museica (2014)[136]
- Car Seat Headrest – Twin Fantasy (2011)[137]
- Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial (2016)[138]
- Carach Angren – Lammendam (2008)[139]
- Carach Angren – Death Came Through a Phantom Ship (2010)[140]
- Carach Angren – Where the Corpses Sink Forever (2012)[141]
- Carach Angren – This Is No Fairytale (2015)[141]
- The Caretaker – An Empty Bliss Beyond This World (2011)[142]
- The Caretaker – Everywhere at the End of Time (2016-2019)[143]
- Cat System Corp. – News at 11 (2016)[144]
- Catch 22 – Permanent Revolution (2006)[145]
- Cherry Poppin' Daddies – Susquehanna (2008)[146]
- Childish Gambino – Camp (2011)[147]
- Childish Gambino – Because the Internet (2013)[148]
- Childish Gambino – 3.15.20 (2020)[149]
- Christine and the Queens – Redcar les adorables étoiles (prologue) (2022)[150]
- Christine and the Queens – Paranoia, Angels, True Love (2023)[151]
- Christopher Lee – Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross (2010)[152]
- Christopher Lee – Charlemagne: The Omens of Death (2013)[153]
- Chumbawamba – Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records (1986)[154]
- Chvrches – Screen Violence (2021)[155]
- Clairo – Sling (2021)[156]
- Clipping. – Splendor & Misery (2016)[157]
- CMX – Talvikuningas (2007)[158]
- Coheed and Cambria – The Second Stage Turbine Blade (2002)[159]
- Coheed and Cambria – In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (2003)[159]
- Coheed and Cambria – Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (2005)[159]
- Coheed and Cambria – Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow (2007)[159]
- Coheed and Cambria – Year of the Black Rainbow (2010)[159]
- Coheed and Cambria – The Afterman: Ascension (2012)[159]
- Coheed and Cambria – The Afterman: Descension (2013)[159]
- Coheed and Cambria – Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures (2018)[159]
- Coheed and Cambria – Vaxis – Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind (2022)[159]
- Cold 187um – The Only Solution (2012)[160]
- Coldplay – Mylo Xyloto (2011)[161]
- Coldplay – Music Of The Spheres (2021)[162]
- Conan Gray – Found Heaven (2024)[163]
- Cradle of Filth – Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder (2008)[164]
- Cradle of Filth – Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa (2010)[164]
- Creeper – Eternity, in Your Arms (2017)[165]
- Cursive – Domestica (2000)[166]
- Cursive – The Ugly Organ (2003)[167]
- Cursive – Happy Hollow (2006)[168]
- Cynic – Carbon-Based Anatomy (2011)[169]
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edit- Daft Punk – Discovery (2001)[170]
- Danger Doom – The Mouse and the Mask (2005)[171]
- Daniel Liam Glyn – Changing Stations (2016)[172]
- Daniel Liam Glyn – Nocturnes (2020)[173]
- Dave – Psychodrama (2019)
- Dave Greenslade – Cactus Choir (1976)[174]
- David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)[175]
- David Bowie – Diamond Dogs (1974)[176]
- David Bowie – Outside (1995)[177]
- David Bowie – Blackstar (2016)[178]
- Deadlock – Manifesto (2008)[179][180]
- The Dear Hunter – Act I: The Lake South, The River North (2006)[181]
- The Dear Hunter – Act II: The Meaning of, and All Things Regarding Ms. Leading (2007)[181]
- The Dear Hunter – Act III: Life and Death (2009)[181]
- The Dear Hunter – The Color Spectrum (2011)[181]
- The Dear Hunter – Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise (2015)[181]
- The Dear Hunter – Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional (2016)[181]
- Death Cab for Cutie – Transatlanticism (2003)[182]
- The Decemberists – The Crane Wife (2006)[183]
- The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love (2009)[184]
- Defeater – Lost Ground (2004)[185]
- Defeater – Travels (2008)[185]
- Defeater – Empty Days & Sleepless Nights (2011)[185]
- Defeater – Letters Home (2013)[185]
- Defeater – Abandoned (2015)[185]
- Deftones – White Pony (2000)[186]
- Deltron 3030 – Deltron 3030 (2000)[187]
- Denzel Curry – TA13OO (2018)[188]
- Denzel Curry – Melt My Eyez See Your Future (2022)[189]
- Devin Townsend – Ziltoid the Omniscient (2007)[190]
- Dexys – One Day I'm Going to Soar (2012)[191]
- Die Ärzte – Le Frisur (1996)[192]
- Dimmu Borgir – In Sorte Diaboli (2007)[193]
- Dio – Magica (2000)[194]
- Dionysos – La Mécanique du Cœur (2007)[195]
- Dominici – O3: A Trilogy (2005)[196]
- Donald Fagen – The Nightfly (1982)[197]
- Donald Fagen – Kamakiriad (1993)[198]
- Donna Summer – Four Seasons of Love (1976)[199]
- Donna Summer – I Remember Yesterday (1977)[200]
- Donna Summer – Once Upon a Time... (1977)[199]
- Dorian Electra – My Agenda (2020)[201]
- Dr. Octagon – Dr. Octagonecologyst (1996)[202]
- Dragonland – Under the Grey Banner (2011)[203]
- Dream Theater – Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory (1999)[204]
- Dream Theater – Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (2002)[205]
- Dream Theater – The Astonishing (2016)[206]
- Dredg – Leitmotif (1999)[207]
- Dredg – El Cielo (2002)[208]
- Drive-By Truckers – Southern Rock Opera (2001)[60]
- Dropkick Murphys – Going Out in Style (2011)[209]
- Duran Duran – Seven and the Ragged Tiger (1983)[210]
E
edit- Eagles – Desperado (1973)[50]
- Eagles – Hotel California (1976)[211]
- The Early November – The Mother, the Mechanic, and the Path (2006)[212]
- Earth Crisis – Salvation of Innocents (2014)[213]
- Ed Kuepper – Jean Lee and the Yellow Dog (2007)[214]
- Edgar Winter – Mission Earth (1986)[215][216]
- Edge of Sanity – Crimson (1996)[217]
- Edge of Sanity – Crimson II (2003)[218]
- Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid (2008)[219]
- Electric Light Orchestra – Eldorado (1974)[220]
- Electric Light Orchestra – Time (1981)[221]
- Elton John – Tumbleweed Connection (1970)[222]
- Elton John – Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975)[223]
- Eluveitie – Helvetios (2012)[224]
- Elvis Costello – The Delivery Man (2004)[225]
- Eminem – Relapse (2009)[226]
- Eminem – The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) (2024)[227]
- Enigma – MCMXC a.D. (1990)[228]
- Enigma – The Cross of Changes (1993)[229]
- Enigma – The Fall of a Rebel Angel (2016)[230]
- Epica – The Divine Conspiracy (2007)[231]
- Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part One (2008)[232]
- Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part Two (2010)[232]
- Ethel Cain – Preacher's Daughter (2022)[233]
- Evelyn Evelyn – Evelyn Evelyn (2010)[234]
- Everclear – Songs from an American Movie Vol. One: Learning How to Smile (2000)[235]
- Everclear – Songs from an American Movie Vol. Two: Good Time for a Bad Attitude (2000)[235][236]
- Evergrey – In Search of Truth (2001)[237]
- Evermore – Truth of the World: Welcome to the Show (2009)[238]
- Extreme – Extreme II: Pornograffitti (1990)[239]
- Extreme – III Sides to Every Story (1992)[239]
F
edit- Fabrizio De André – Tutti morimmo a stento (1968)[240]
- Fabrizio De André – La buona novella (1970)[241]
- Fabrizio De André – Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo (1971)[242]
- Fabrizio De André – Storia di un impiegato (1973)[243]
- Fairport Convention – Babbacombe Lee (1971)[244]
- Falling Up – Fangs! (2009)[245]
- Fantômas – Suspended Animation (2005)[246]
- Fates Warning – A Pleasant Shade of Gray (1997)[247]
- Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear (2015)[248]
- Father John Misty – Pure Comedy (2017)[249]
- Father John Misty – God's Favorite Customer (2018)[250]
- Fear Factory – Demanufacture (1995)[251]
- Fear Factory – Obsolete (1998)[251]
- Fear Factory – The Industrialist (2012)[251]
- Fear Factory – Genexus (2015)[251]
- Fields of the Nephilim – Elizium (1990)[252]
- Fields of the Nephilim – Mourning Sun (2005)[253]
- The Fiery Furnaces – Blueberry Boat (2004)
- The Fiery Furnaces – Rehearsing My Choir (2005)
- The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (2002)[254]
- The Flaming Lips – King's Mouth (2019)[255]
- Flaming Youth – Ark 2 (1969)[256]
- Flower Travellin' Band – Satori (1971)[257]
- FM Static – Dear Diary (2009)[258]
- Foster the People – Supermodel (2014)[259]
- Foxygen – ...And Star Power (2014)[50]
- Frank Ocean – Channel Orange (2012)[260]
- Frank Ocean – Blonde (2016)[261]
- Frank Sinatra – The Voice of Frank Sinatra (1946)[262]
- Frank Sinatra – Songs for Young Lovers (1954)[263]
- Frank Sinatra – Swing Easy! (1954)[264]
- Frank Sinatra – In the Wee Small Hours (1955)[264]
- Frank Sinatra – Songs for Swingin' Lovers! (1956)[262]
- Frank Sinatra – Where Are You? (1957)[262]
- Frank Sinatra – Come Fly with Me (1958)[262]
- Frank Sinatra – Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely (1958)
- Frank Sinatra – Come Dance with Me! (1959)
- Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention – Freak Out! (1966)[265][266]
- Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention – We're Only in It for the Money (1968)[267]
- Frank Zappa - Lumpy Gravy (1968)
- Frank Zappa - 200 Motels (1971)
- Frank Zappa – Joe's Garage (1979)[268]
- Frank Zappa – Thing-Fish (1984)
- Frank Zappa - Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention (1985)
- Frank Zappa - Civilization Phaze III (1994)
- Frank Zappa - Läther (1996)
- Franz Ferdinand – Tonight (2009)[269]
- Fucked Up – David Comes to Life (2011)[270]
- Fugees – The Score (1996)[271]
- Funeral for a Friend – Tales Don't Tell Themselves (2007)[272]
G
edit- Gallows – Grey Britain (2009)[273]
- The Game – Jesus Piece (2012)[274]
- Gatsbys American Dream – Ribbons and Sugar (2003)[275]
- Genesis – From Genesis to Revelation (1969)[276]
- Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974)[277]
- Gentle Giant – Three Friends (1972)[278]
- Gentle Giant – Interview (1976)[279]
- The Gentle Storm – The Diary (2015)[280]
- Ghostface Killah – Twelve Reasons to Die (2013)[281]
- Ghostface Killah – 36 Seasons (2014)[282]
- Girls Aloud – Chemistry (2005)[283]
- Glass Animals – Zaba (2014)[284]
- Glass Animals – How to Be a Human Being (2016)[285]
- Glass Animals – Dreamland (2020)[286]
- God Forbid – IV: Constitution of Treason (2005)[287]
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2000)[288]
- Gojira – From Mars to Sirius (2005)[289]
- Goldfrapp – Tales of Us (2013)[290]
- The Good Life – Album of the Year (2004)[291]
- The Good, the Bad & the Queen – The Good, the Bad & the Queen (2007)[292]
- The Good, the Bad & the Queen – Merrie Land (2018)[293]
- Gorillaz – Demon Days (2005)[294]
- Gorillaz – Plastic Beach (2010)[295]
- Gorillaz – Humanz (2017)[296]
- Gorillaz – Cracker Island (2023)[297]
- Graham Coxon – The Spinning Top (2009)[298]
- Grandaddy – The Sophtware Slump (2000)[299]
- Green Carnation – Light of Day, Day of Darkness (2001)[300]
- Green Day – American Idiot (2004)[50]
- Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown (2009)[301]
- Grimes – Geidi Primes (2010)[302]
- Grimes – Miss Anthropocene (2020)[303][304]
H
edit- Haken – Aquarius (2010)[305]
- Haken – Visions (2011)[306]
- Halsey – Badlands (2015)[307]
- Halsey – Hopeless Fountain Kingdom (2017)[308]
- Halsey – If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power (2021)[60]
- Happy End – Kazemachi Roman (1971)[309]
- Harmonium – Les cinq saisons (1975)[310]
- Harmonium – L'heptade (1976)[311]
- Hawkwind – The Machine Stops (2016)[312]
- Hawthorne Heights – Zero (2013)[313]
- The Head and the Heart – The Head and the Heart (2011)[314]
- Helloween – Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part I (1987)[315]
- Helloween – Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part II (1988)[315]
- Herbie Hancock – Maiden Voyage (1965)[316]
- The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday (2005)[317]
- Hooverphonic – Hooverphonic Presents Jackie Cane (2002)[318]
- Horslips – The Táin (1976)[319]
- House of Heroes – The End is Not the End (2008)[320]
- House of Heroes – Colors (2016)[321]
- Hüsker Dü – Zen Arcade (1984)[322]
I
edit- Ice Cube – Death Certificate (1991)[323]
- Iced Earth – Night of the Stormrider (1991)[324]
- Iced Earth – The Dark Saga (1996)[325]
- Iced Earth – Horror Show (2001)[326]
- Iced Earth – The Glorious Burden (2004)[324]
- Iced Earth – Framing Armageddon: Something Wicked Part 1 (2007)[327]
- Iced Earth – The Crucible of Man: Something Wicked Part 2 (2008)[328]
- Insomnium – Winter's Gate (2016)[329]
- IQ – Subterranea (1997)[330]
- Iron Maiden – Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (1988)[331]
J
edit- J Balvin – Colores (2020)[60]
- J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive (2014)[332]
- J. Cole – 4 Your Eyez Only (2016)[333]
- Jack's Mannequin – Everything in Transit (2005)[334]
- Jackson Browne – Running On Empty (1977)[60]
- Janet Jackson – Control (1986)[60]
- Janet Jackson – Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989)[335]
- Janet Jackson – The Velvet Rope (1997)[336]
- Janelle Monáe – Metropolis: Suite I (The Chase) (2007)[337]
- Janelle Monáe – The ArchAndroid (2010)[337]
- Janelle Monáe – The Electric Lady (2013)[337]
- Janelle Monáe – Dirty Computer (2018)[337]
- Jazmine Sullivan – Heaux Tales (2021)[338]
- Jay-Z – American Gangster (2007)[50]
- Jeff Wayne – Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds (1978)[339]
- Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick (1972)[340]
- Jethro Tull – A Passion Play (1973)[341]
- Jethro Tull – Too Old to Rock and Roll, Too Young to Die (1975)[342]
- Jethro Tull – Songs from the Wood (1977)[343]
- Jhene Aiko – Trip (2017)[344]
- Joe Jackson – Blaze of Glory (1989)[345]
- John Coltrane – A Love Supreme (1965)[346]
- John Linnell – State Songs (1999)[347]
- Johnny Cash – Songs of Our Soil (1959)[348]
- Johnny Cash – Ride This Train (1960)[349]
- Johnny Cash – All Aboard the Blue Train (1962)[350]
- Johnny Cash – Bitter Tears (1964)[351]
- Johnny Cash – From Sea to Shining Sea (1968)[352]
- Johnny Cash – America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song (1972)[353]
- Johnny Cash – The Rambler (1977)[354]
- Jon Anderson – Olias of Sunhillow (1976)[355]
- Jonathan Coulton – Solid State (2017)[356]
- Joyner Lucas – ADHD (2020)[357]
- Judas Priest – Nostradamus (2008)[358]
- Judy Garland – The Letter (1959)[359]
K
edit- Kamelot – Epica (2003)[360]
- Kamelot – The Black Halo (2005)[361]
- Kamelot – Silverthorn (2012)[362]
- Kamelot – The Shadow Theory (2018)[363]
- Kanye West – The College Dropout (2004)[364]
- Kanye West – Graduation (2007)[365]
- Kanye West – 808s & Heartbreak (2008)[366]
- Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)[367]
- Kanye West – Yeezus (2013)[368]
- Kanye West – The Life of Pablo (2016)[369]
- Kanye West – Ye (2018)[370]
- Kanye West – Donda (2021)
- Kate Bush – Hounds of Love (1985)[371]
- Kate Bush – Aerial (2005)[372]
- Kate Bush – 50 Words For Snow (2011)[373]
- Kayo Dot – Coyote (2010)[374]
- Kekal – The Habit of Fire (2007)[375]
- Kelly Clarkson – Piece By Piece (2015)[376]
- Kendrick Lamar – Section.80 (2011)[377]
- Kendrick Lamar – Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (2012)[50]
- Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly (2015)[378]
- Kendrick Lamar – Damn. (2017)[379]
- Kendrick Lamar – Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers (2022)[380]
- Kenny Rogers – Gideon (1980)[381]
- Kenny Rogers & The First Edition – The Ballad of Calico (1972)[1]
- Kid Cudi – Man on the Moon: The End of Day (2009)[382]
- Kid Cudi – Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager (2010)[383]
- Kid Cudi – Man on the Moon III: The Chosen (2020)[384]
- Kid Creole and the Coconuts – Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places (1981)[385]
- The Killers — Sam's Town (2007)
- King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)[386][387]
- King Diamond – Abigail (1987)[388]
- King Diamond – "Them" (1988)[388]
- King Geedorah – Take Me To Your Leader (2003)[389]
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Eyes Like the Sky (2013)[390]
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – I'm in Your Mind Fuzz (2014)[391]
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Quarters! (2015)[391]
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Paper Mâché Dream Balloon (2015)[391][392]
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity (2016)[393]
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Flying Microtonal Banana (2017)[393][394]
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Murder of the Universe (2017)[395]
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Fishing For Fishies (2019)[396]
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Infest the Rat's Nest (2019)[397]
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – K.G. (2020)[398]
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – L.W. (2021)[399]
- King's X – Gretchen Goes to Nebraska (1989)[400]
- The Kinks – Face to Face (1966)[401]
- The Kinks – The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968)[50]
- The Kinks – Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) (1969)[402]
- The Kinks – Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One (1970)[403]
- The Kinks – Preservation Act 1 (1973)[404]
- The Kinks – Preservation Act 2 (1974)[405]
- Kiss – Music from "The Elder" (1981)[406]
- Kraftwerk – Autobahn (1974)[407]
- Kraftwerk – Radio-Activity (1975)[408]
- Kraftwerk – Trans-Europe Express (1977)[409]
- Kraftwerk – The Man-Machine (1978)[410]
- Klaatu – Hope (1977)[411]
L
edit- Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence (2014)[412][413]
- Laura Marling – Once I Was an Eagle (2013)[414]
- Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998)[271]
- Leaves' Eyes – Vinland Saga (2005)[415]
- Lift to Experience – The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads (2001)[416]
- Lil Yachty – Lil Boat (2016)[417]
- Linkin Park – A Thousand Suns (2010)[418]
- Little Brother – The Minstrel Show (2003)[419]
- Liz Phair – Exile in Guyville (1993)[60]
- Local H – As Good as Dead (1996)[420]
- Local H – Pack Up the Cats (1998)[420]
- Lights – Skin & Earth (2017)[421]
- Logic – The Incredible True Story (2015)[422]
- Logic – Everybody (2017)[423]
- Loïc Nottet – Selfocracy (2017)[424][425][better source needed]
- Lord Huron – Strange Trails (2015)[426]
- Lord Huron – Vide Noir (2018)[427]
- Lorde – Melodrama (2017)[428]
- Lorna Shore – Pain Remains (2022)[429]
- A Lot Like Birds – No Place (2013)[430]
- Lou Reed – Berlin (1973)[431]
- Lou Reed – New York (1989)[432]
- Lou Reed – Magic and Loss (1992)[433]
- Lou Reed – The Raven (2003)[434]
- Lou Reed & Metallica – Lulu (2011)[435]
- Ludo – Broken Bride (2005)[436]
- Lupe Fiasco – Lupe Fiasco's The Cool (2007)[437]
- Lupe Fiasco – Drogas Wave (2018)[438]
M
edit- Macabre – Dahmer (2000)[439]
- Madonna – Erotica (1992)[440]
- Madonna – American Life (2003)[441]
- The Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs (1990)[442]
- The Magnetic Fields – 50 Song Memoir (2017)[442]
- Mägo de Oz – Finisterra (2000)[443]
- Mägo de Oz – Gaia (2003)[443]
- Mägo de Oz – Gaia II: La Voz Dormida (2005)[443]
- Mägo de Oz – Gaia III: Atlantia (2010)[443]
- Mai Kuraki – Kimi Omou: Shunkashūtō (2018)[444]
- Makaveli — The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory (1996)[445]
- Manowar – Gods of War (2007)[446]
- Mariah Carey – Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse (2014)[447]
- Marianas Trench – Masterpiece Theatre (2009)[448]
- Marianas Trench – Ever After (2011)[449]
- Marianas Trench – Astoria (2015)[450]
- Marianas Trench – Phantoms (2019)[451]
- Marillion – Misplaced Childhood (1985)[452]
- Marillion – Clutching at Straws (1987)[453]
- Marillion – Brave (1994)[452]
- Marilyn Manson – Antichrist Superstar (1996)[454]
- Marilyn Manson – Mechanical Animals (1998)[454]
- Marilyn Manson – Holy Wood (2000)[454]
- Marilyn Manson – Born Villain (2012)[455]
- Marilyn Manson – We Are Chaos (2020)[456]
- Marina and the Diamonds – Electra Heart (2012)[457][458]
- The Mars Volta – De-Loused in the Comatorium (2003)[459]
- The Mars Volta – Frances the Mute (2005)[460]
- The Mars Volta – The Bedlam in Goliath (2008)[461]
- Marty Robbins – Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (1959)[462]
- Marty Robbins – More Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (1960)[463]
- Marvin Gaye – What's Going On (1971)[464]
- Marvin Gaye – Here, My Dear (1978)[465]
- Masta Ace – Disposable Arts (2001)[466]
- Masta Ace – A Long Hot Summer (2004)[467]
- Mastodon – Leviathan (2004)[468]
- Mastodon – Blood Mountain (2006)[469]
- Mastodon – Crack the Skye (2009)[470]
- Mastodon – Emperor of Sand (2017)[471]
- Matthew Good – Vancouver (2009)[472]
- Maxwell – Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite (1996)[473]
- Mayhem – A Grand Declaration of War (2000)[474]
- Meat Loaf – Welcome To The Neighborhood (1995)[475]
- Melanie Martinez – Cry Baby (2015)[476]
- Melanie Martinez – K–12 (2019)[477]
- Melanie Martinez – Portals (2023)[478]
- Men Without Hats – Pop Goes the World (1987)
- Merle Travis – Folk Songs of the Hills (1946)[479]
- Meshuggah – Catch Thirtythree (2005)[480]
- Metallica – Master of Puppets (1986)[481]
- MF Doom – Mm..Food (2004)[482]
- MF Grimm – The Hunt for the Gingerbread Man (2007)[483]
- Michael Franti and Spearhead – Stay Human (2001)[484]
- Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells (1973)[485]
- Mike Oldfield – The Songs of Distant Earth (1994)[486]
- Mike Shinoda – Post Traumatic (2018)[487]
- Millie Jackson – Caught Up (1974)[60]
- The Miracles – City of Angels (1975)[488]
- Miranda Lambert – The Weight of These Wings (2016)[489]
- Miranda Lambert – Palomino (2022)[490]
- The Moody Blues – Days of Future Passed (1967)[491]
- The Moody Blues – In Search of the Lost Chord (1968)[492]
- Mother Mother – The Sticks (2012)[493]
- Mount Eerie – A Crow Looked at Me (2017)[494]
- The Mountain Goats – Tallahassee (2002)[495]
- The Mountain Goats – The Sunset Tree (2005)[496][497]
- The Mountain Goats – Beat the Champ (2015)[498]
- The Mountain Goats – Goths (2017)[498]
- Mr. Lif – Emergency Rations (2002)[499]
- Mr. Lif – I Phantom (2002)[500]
- Murder by Death – Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left of Them? (2003)[501]
- Muse – Black Holes and Revelations (2006)[502]
- Muse – The Resistance (2009)[503]
- Muse – Drones (2015)[504]
- My Chemical Romance – Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (2004)[505]
- My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade (2006)[50]
- My Chemical Romance – Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (2010)[506]
N
edit- Nat King Cole – Wild Is Love (1960)[507]
- Natalia Kills – Perfectionist (2011)[508]
- Neal Morse – Testimony (2003)[509]
- Neal Morse – Sola Scriptura (2007)[510]
- Neal Morse – Testimony 2 (2011)[511]
- Nektar – Journey to the Centre of the Eye (1971)[512]
- Neil Young – Greendale (2003)[513]
- Neil Young – Fork in the Road (2009)[514]
- Nelson – Imaginator (1996)[515]
- Neon Neon – Stainless Style (2008)[516]
- Nero – Welcome Reality (2011)[517]
- Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)[502]
- Nevermore – Dreaming Neon Black (1999)[518]
- NF – Mansion (2015)[519]
- The Nice – Five Bridges (1970)[520]
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Murder Ballads (1996)[521]
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Ghosteen (2019)[522]
- Nightwish – Imaginaerum (2011)[523]
- Nightwish – Endless Forms Most Beautiful (2015)[524]
- Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral (1994)[525]
- Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile (1999)[526]
- Nine Inch Nails – Year Zero (2007)[527]
- Nirvana (UK) – The Story of Simon Simopath (1967)[528]
- Nocturnus – The Key (1990)[529]
- Nothing but Thieves – Dead Club City (2023)[530]
O
edit- Oasis – Definitely Maybe (1994)[531]
- Oasis – (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995)[532]
- The Ocean – Heliocentric (2010)[533]
- The Ocean – Anthropocentric (2010)[533]
- The Ocean – Pelagial (2013)[534]
- The Ocean – Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic (2018)[535]
- The Ocean – Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic / Cenozoic (2020)[535]
- Of Montreal – The Bird Who Continues to Eat the Rabbit's Flower (1999)[536]
- Opeth – My Arms, Your Hearse (1998)[529]
- Opeth – Still Life (1999)[217]
- Orphaned Land – El Norra Alila (1996)[537]
- Orphaned Land – Mabool (2004)[538]
- Orphaned Land – The Never Ending Way of ORWarriOR (2010)[539]
- Orphaned Land – Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs (2018)[540]
- Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Dazzle Ships (1983)[541]
- Osmonds – The Plan (1973)[542]
- Our Lady Peace – Spiritual Machines (2000)[543]
- Outkast – Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (2003)[544]
- Owen Pallett – Heartland (2010)[545]
P
edit- Pain of Salvation – Remedy Lane (2002)[546]
- Pain of Salvation – In the Passing Light of Day (2017)[547]
- Pallas – The Sentinel (1984)[548]
- Pandora's Box – Original Sin (1989)[549]
- Panic! at the Disco – Death of a Bachelor (2016)[550]
- Paradox – Heresy (1989)[551]
- Parliament – Chocolate City (1975)[552]
- Parliament – Mothership Connection (1975)[553]
- Parliament – The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein (1976)[554]
- Parliament – Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome (1977)[555]
- Parliament – Motor Booty Affair (1978)[555]
- Parliament – Gloryhallastoopid (1979)[555]
- Parliament – Trombipulation (1980)[555]
- Paul Kantner/Jefferson Starship – Blows Against The Empire (1970)[556]
- Paul McCartney – Egypt Station (2018)[557]
- Pedro the Lion – Winners Never Quit (2000)[558]
- Pedro the Lion – Control (2002)[559]
- Pepe Deluxé – Queen of the Wave (2012)[560]
- A Perfect Circle – Thirteenth Step (2003)[561]
- A Perfect Circle – Emotive (2004)[562]
- Periphery – Juggernaut: Alpha (2015)[563]
- Periphery – Juggernaut: Omega (2015)[563]
- Pescado Rabioso – Artaud (1973)[564]
- Pharoahe Monch – PTSD (2014)[565]
- Phish – Rift (1993)[566]
- Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)[567]
- Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here (1975)[568]
- Pink Floyd – Animals (1977)[568]
- Pink Floyd – The Wall (1979)[175]
- Pink Floyd – The Final Cut (1983)[568]
- Pink Floyd – The Division Bell (1994)[569][570][571]
- Plan B – The Defamation of Strickland Banks (2010)[572]
- Planet P Project – Pink World (1993)[573]
- P.O.D. – The Awakening (2015)[574]
- Poe – Haunted (2000)[575]
- Pond – The Weather (2017)[576]
- Porcupine Tree – Voyage 34 (2000)[577]
- Porcupine Tree – Fear of a Blank Planet (2007)[578]
- Porcupine Tree – The Incident (2009)[579]
- The Pretty Things – S.F. Sorrow (1968)[580]
- Primus – Primus & the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble (2014)[581]
- Primus – The Desaturating Seven (2017)[582]
- Prince – Love Symbol Album (1992)[583]
- Prince – Art Official Age (2014)[584]
- Prince & The Revolution – Purple Rain (1984)[585]
- Prince Paul – A Prince Among Thieves (1999)[586]
- The Prize Fighter Inferno – My Brother's Blood Machine (2006)[587]
- Protest the Hero – Kezia (2005)[588]
- The Protomen – Act I: The Protomen (2009)[589]
- The Protomen – Act II: The Father of Death (2009)[589]
- Prototype – Catalyst (2012)[590]
- Public Enemy – Fear of a Black Planet (1990)[591]
- Public Service Broadcasting – The Race for Space (2015)[592]
- Public Service Broadcasting – Every Valley (2017)[592]
- Punch Brothers – The Phosphorescent Blues (2015)[593]
- Pyramaze – Legend of the Bone Carver (2006)[594]
Q
edit- Queensrÿche – Operation: Mindcrime (1988)[595]
- Queensrÿche – Operation: Mindcrime II (2006)[596]
- Queensrÿche – American Soldier (2009)[597]
- Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf (2002)[50]
R
edit- R. Kelly – Trapped in the Closet (2005)[435]
- Radiohead – Kid A (2000)[60]
- Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... (1995)[598]
- Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II (2009)[599]
- Raffi – Raffi Radio (1995)[600][601]
- Randy Newman – Good Old Boys (1974)[602]
- Randy Newman – Randy Newman's Faust (1995)[603]
- Raphael Saadiq – Jimmy Lee (2019)[60]
- Rasputina – Oh Perilous World! (2007)[604]
- Ray Charles – The Genius Hits the Road (1960)[605]
- The Receiving End of Sirens – The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi (2007)[606]
- Renaissance – Scheherazade and Other Stories (1975)[607]
- Return To Forever – Romantic Warrior (1976)[608]
- Rhapsody – Legendary Tales (1997)[609]
- Rhapsody – Symphony of Enchanted Lands (1998)[609]
- Rhapsody – Dawn of Victory (2000)[609]
- Rhapsody – Rain of a Thousand Flames (2001)[609]
- Rhapsody – Power of the Dragonflame (2002)[609]
- Rhapsody – Symphony of Enchanted Lands II: The Dark Secret (2004)[609]
- Rhapsody of Fire – Triumph or Agony (2006)[609]
- Rhapsody of Fire – The Frozen Tears of Angels (2010)[609]
- Rhapsody of Fire – From Chaos to Eternity (2011)[610]
- Rich Mullins – A Liturgy, a Legacy, & a Ragamuffin Band (1993)[611]
- Rick Wakeman – The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1973)[612]
- Right Away, Great Captain – The Bitter End (2006)[613]
- Right Away, Great Captain – The Eventually Home (2008)[613]
- Right Away, Great Captain – The Church of the Good Thief (2012)[613]
- Rising Appalachia – The Lost Mystique of Being in the Know (2021)[614]
- Riverside – Love, Fear and the Time Machine (2015)[615]
- Robin Thicke – Paula (2014)[616][435]
- Roger Waters – The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (1984)[617]
- Roger Waters – Radio K.A.O.S. (1987)[618]
- Roger Waters – Amused to Death (1992)[619]
- Roger Waters – Is This the Life We Really Want? (2017)[620]
- The Roots – Undun (2011)[621]
- The Roots – ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin (2014)[622]
- Rosalía – Los ángeles (2017)[623]
- Rosalía – El mal querer (2018)[624]
- Rosalía – Motomami (2022)[625]
- Rosanne Cash – The River & the Thread (2014)[626]
- Royal Hunt – The Mission (2001)[627]
- Rush – Clockwork Angels (2012)[628]
- RZA – Bobby Digital in Stereo (1998)[629]
S
edit- Sabaton – The Art of War (2008)[630]
- Sabaton – Carolus Rex (2012)[631][632]
- Sabaton – Heroes (2014)[633]
- Sabaton – The Last Stand (2016)[634]
- Sabaton – The Great War (2019)[635]
- Sabaton – The War to End All Wars (2022)[636]
- Sabbat – Dreamweaver (Reflections of Our Yesterdays) (1989)[637]
- Saga – The Chapters Live (2005)[638]
- Sarah Brightman – Dive (1993)[639]
- Savatage – Streets: A Rock Opera (1991)[640]
- Say Anything – In Defense of the Genre (2007)[641]
- Scorpions – Humanity: Hour I (2007)[642]
- Sepultura – Roots (1996)[643]
- Sepultura – Dante XXI (2006)[644]
- Sepultura – A-Lex (2009)[645]
- Sepultura – Kairos (2011)[646]
- Serge Gainsbourg – Histoire de Melody Nelson (1971)[647]
- Serge Gainsbourg – Rock Around the Bunker (1975)[648]
- Serge Gainsbourg – L'Homme à tête de chou (1976)[649]
- Senses Fail – Still Searching (2006)[650]
- Seventh Wonder – Mercy Falls (2008)[651]
- Shadow Gallery – Room V (2005)[652]
- Shinedown – Attention Attention (2018)[653]
- Shinedown – Planet Zero (2022)[654]
- Showbread – Anorexia (2008)[655]
- Showbread – Nervosa (2008)[655]
- Silverstein – A Shipwreck in the Sand (2009)[656]
- Silverstein – This Is How the Wind Shifts (2013)[657]
- Silverstein – I Am Alive in Everything I Touch (2015)[658]
- Simon & Garfunkel – Bookends (1968)[659]
- Sixx:A.M. – The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack (2007)[660]
- Skillet – Rise (2013)[661]
- Sly and the Family Stone – There's a Riot Goin' On (1971)[60]
- The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995)[662]
- The Smashing Pumpkins – Machina/The Machines of God (2000)[663]
- The Smashing Pumpkins – Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music (2000)[664]
- The Smashing Pumpkins – Teargarden by Kaleidyscope (2009-2014)[665]
- The Smashing Pumpkins – Oceania (2012)[665]
- Solefald – Pills against the Ageless Ills (2001)[666]
- Solefald – An Icelandic Odyssey (2005-2006)[667]
- Spock's Beard – Snow (2002)[668]
- Starset – Transmissions (2014)[669]
- Stephen Sanchez — Angel Face (2023)[670]
- Steven Wilson – The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) (2013)[671][672]
- Steven Wilson – Hand. Cannot. Erase. (2015)[673]
- Sticky Fingaz – Black Trash: The Autobiography of Kirk Jones (2001)[674]
- Stone Sour – House of Gold & Bones – Part 1 (2013)[675]
- Stone Sour – House of Gold & Bones – Part 2 (2013)[675]
- Stratovarius – Visions (1997)[676]
- The Streets – A Grand Don't Come for Free (2004)[677]
- Styx – The Grand Illusion (1977)[678]
- Styx – Paradise Theatre (1981)[679]
- Styx – Kilroy Was Here (1983)[680]
- Suede – Night Thoughts (2016)[681]
- Sufjan Stevens – Michigan (2003)[682]
- Sufjan Stevens – Seven Swans (2004)[683]
- Sufjan Stevens – Illinois (2005)[682]
- Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell (2015)[684]
- Sufjan Stevens – A Beginner's Mind (2021)[685]
- Super Furry Animals – Hey Venus! (2007)[686]
- Swans – Soundtracks for the Blind (1996)[687]
- Symphony X – V: The New Mythology Suite (2000)[529]
- Symphony X – Paradise Lost (2007)[688]
- Symphony X – Iconoclast (2011)[689]
- System of a Down – Mezmerize (2005)[690]
- System of a Down – Hypnotize (2005)[691]
- SZA – Ctrl (2017)[692]
T
edit- Talking Heads – Fear of Music (1979)[693]
- Talking Heads – Naked (1988)[694]
- Tally Hall – Good & Evil (2011)[695]
- Tandy & Morgan – Earthrise (1985)[696]
- Taproot – The Episodes (2012)[697]
- Taylor Swift – Speak Now (2010)[698]
- Taylor Swift – Reputation (2017)[699]
- Taylor Swift – Folklore (2020)[700][701]
- Taylor Swift – Evermore (2020)[702]
- Taylor Swift – Midnights (2022)[703]
- Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Department (2024)[704]
- Thrice – The Alchemy Index (2007–2008)[705]
- Thirty Seconds to Mars – 30 Seconds to Mars (2002)[706]
- Thirty Seconds to Mars – This Is War (2009)[707]
- Thirty Seconds to Mars – Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams (2013)[708]
- T.I. – T.I. vs. T.I.P. (2007)[709]
- Toni Braxton & Babyface – Love, Marriage & Divorce (2014)[60]
- Tool – Lateralus (2001)[710]
- Tori Amos – Strange Little Girls (2001)[711]
- Tori Amos – Scarlet's Walk (2002)[712]
- Tori Amos – American Doll Posse (2007)[713]
- Tori Amos – Night of Hunters (2011)[714]
- Trazendo a Arca – Salmos e Cânticos Espirituais (2009)[715]
- Trivium – In the Court of the Dragon (2021)[716]
- The Tubes – The Completion Backward Principle (1981)[717]
- Twenty One Pilots – Blurryface (2015)[718]
- Twenty One Pilots – Trench (2018)[719]
- Twenty One Pilots – Scaled and Icy (2021)[720][721]
- Twenty One Pilots – Clancy (2024)[722][723]
- Tyler, the Creator – Bastard (2009)[724]
- Tyler, the Creator – Goblin (2011)[724]
- Tyler, the Creator – Wolf (2013)[724]
- Tyler, the Creator – Igor (2019)[725]
U
edit- Ulver – Nattens madrigal (1997)[726]
- Underscores – Wallsocket (2023)[727]
- Unleash the Archers – Apex (2017)[728]
- Unleash the Archers – Abyss (2020)[728]
- Urge Overkill – Exit the Dragon (1995)[729]
- Usher – Confessions (2004)[730]
- Utopia – Deface the Music (1980)[731]
V
edit- The Vaccines – Back in Love City (2021)[732]
- Vektor – Terminal Redux (2016)[733]
- Venom – At War with Satan (1984)[734]
- Vendetta Red – Sisters of the Red Death (2005)[735]
- Viktor Vaughn – Vaudeville Villain (2003)[736]
- Vision Eternel – For Farewell of Nostalgia (2020)[737][738]
- Voivod – The Wake (2018)[739]
- Volbeat – Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies (2013)[740]
W
edit- W.A.S.P. – The Crimson Idol (1992)[577]
- The Weeknd – After Hours (2020)[741][742]
- The Weeknd – Dawn FM (2022)[743]
- Ween – The Mollusk (1997)[744]
- Weezer – Pinkerton (1996)[745]
- Weezer – Weezer (White Album) (2016)[746]
- Willie Nelson – Yesterday's Wine (1971)[747]
- Willie Nelson – Shotgun Willie (1973)[748]
- Willie Nelson – Phases and Stages (1974)[748]
- Willie Nelson – Red Headed Stranger (1975)[749]
- Will Wood – The Normal Album (2020)[750]
- Within Temptation – The Unforgiving (2011)[751]
- Whitechapel – The Somatic Defilement (2007)[752]
- Whitechapel – The Valley (2019)[753]
- Whitechapel – Kin (2021)[754]
- The Who – The Who Sell Out (1967)[755]
- The Who – Tommy (1969)[175]
- The Who – Quadrophenia (1973)[50]
- The Wonder Years – No Closer to Heaven (2015)[756]
- Woody Guthrie – Dust Bowl Ballads (1940)[82]
- Wyclef Jean – Wyclef Jean Presents The Carnival (1997)[757]
X
edit- XTC – Skylarking (1986)[60]
- Xzibit – Man vs. Machine (2002)[758][759][760]
Y
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