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Message: [QUOTE="bags27, post: 2340706, member: 6761"] Not that I know as much as either of you. But seems to me, at least, that Jordy is right here. Probably 2/3 of all Dylan's albums have thematic integrity but I wouldn't say any is a concept album. Maybe one way to understand [I]Pepper [/I]is that [I]Help and Hard Day's Night [/I]were earlier and movie albums but become concept albums because, after we all saw the movie, we could follow the narrative. I think [I]Pepper[/I] was produced as a non-visual movie album. But [I]Tapestry [/I]is far better (aesthetically, certainly not nearly as influential), and King/Lou Adler would have got there without the Beatles, IMO, because most of the songs had already been written and were just re-recorded and arranged. But how about Miles's S[I]ketches of Spain [/I](1960)? That is definitely a concept album... Finally, I'm not a huge [I]Pet Sounds [/I]fan, but isn't that a year before [I]Pepper?[/I] [/QUOTE]