

Cover Version: Apart from the Dark Side of the Moon album, these are quite rare on their albums.They also did The Stone Roses' debut as a Black Friday exclusive, The Time Has Come To Shoot You Down.Followed up by With A Little Help From My Fwends a cover album of Sgt.Cover Album: The band decided to do a whole-album cover of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, which turned out exactly as bizarre as you'd expect.Played straight with King's Mouth, a Rock Opera which tells the story of a giant space king who performs a Heroic Sacrifice in order to save the people he rules over.Transmissions from the Satellite Heart could certainly be read as a concept album, where the songs are literally transmissions from a satellite heart, the device described in the opening track "Turn It On" which serves as a device that you can tune into if you can't relate to other stations, which ties the songs together in their themes of misfits, most notably in songs like "Pilot Can at the Queer of God" and "She Don't Use Jelly".Their twelth album, Embryonic, fits the description much more accurately, what with the recurring unnamed female protagonist, the subplot about the earth-visiting alien, the preoccupation with astrology and the cosmos (including several zodiac-named tracks), the perpetual themes of existentialism, the insignificance of humanity, and the search for meaning and morality, etc. Yoshimi isn't really the best example of a concept album, because only the first four tracks have anything to do with one another."Clouds Taste Metallic" has songs about animals, Christmas, and, er, animals during Christmastime. Concept Album: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots has a (brief) narrative arc.



Ascended Extra: Kliph Scurlock was originally hired as a roadie during The Soft Bulletin tour, and later became the band's touring drummer to promote Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, due to Steve Drozd branching out to keyboards and other assorted instruments, but was eventually brought in as the band's full-time drummer.Arc Words: Several of their songs are about/make reference to the Sun, most notably "The Sun" (duh) as well as the titles of the first three tracks on Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell: "Assassination of the Sun", "I'm a Fly in a Sunbeam" and "Sunship Balloons".
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