Earlier this year, the Securities and Exchange Commission appeared to challenge the big-boy concept, suing Goldman Sachs for failing to disclose material information about some subprime-mortgage securities that it sold, but the case was resolved without Goldman's admitting any wrongdoing.
In the same respect, The Beach Boys' concept album Pet Sounds (1966), which itself influenced Sgt. Pepper's, and Jefferson Airplane's second album, Surrealistic Pillow (1967), was also influential.
Together they pioneered the "boy band" concept, brought pop music into the entertainment mainstream and the band members, particularly Jones, were affable communicators in an age of often incoherent "rock stars".
Opening with the rough-edged power pop of It Was my Season, the gig contines with the brainy pub rock of Black Lyrics from Black Sheep Boy, their concept album about the doomed singer-songwriter Tim Buckley.
The concept: boy, this is delicious and, by the way, it's gluten-free.
Clearly, the boy had no concept of one's being emphatic by varying the expected numbers: one rose instead of a dozen; six chances instead of just one.
And "Kansas City Choir Boy," a "theatricalized concept album" about love, fate, and small-town America, written by Todd Almond and performed by Almond and Courtney Love, seems aimed at a rock-friendly crowd.
It was designed and directed by Fumito Ueda, who wanted to create a minimalist game around a "boy meets girl" concept.
Say what you want about Lady Gaga, but when she commits to a concept, boy, does she follow through. .
