Bands that had a "masterpiece", w/ common theme

Ghosthouse,
From the Playboy December 1984 interview (McCartney):

"Sgt Pepper was an idea I had, I think, when I was flying from LA to somewhereville. I thought it would be nice to lose our identities, to submerge ourselves in the persona of a fake group, us. We would make up all the culture around it and collect all our heroes in one place. So I thought, a typical stupid sounding name for a Dr. Hook's Medicine Show and Traveling Circus kind of thing would be Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Just a word game really."

There is plenty written on the album. The best, IMO, are "The Beatles: 10 Years That Shook The World" and "The Beatles Anthology". They are my personal favs and I have a fairly extensive collection of Beatles resource material.

07-25-10: Timrhu
How could I forget Sufjan Stevens - Come On Feel The Illinoise

And...Greetings From Michigan The Great Lakes State

07-25-10: Timrhu
How could I forget Sufjan Stevens - Come On Feel The Illinoise

And...Greetings From Michigan The Great Lakes State
Richard_stacy

Illinoise = Masterpiece
Michigan = exellent album
Just my opinion of course as I have read others feel Michigan is Sufjan's best effort.

Timrhu...

I'd have a hard time picking one over the other but gun to my head I'd take Michigan. I'm just happy to see other's digging his work.

XTC Skylkarking, and The Decemberists The Hazards of Love and to a slightly leesser extent, The Crane Wife. Crane Wife is a superb album with good sonics on most tracks but let down by compression and other nasties at times. Still, a great album!