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In 1966, several rock releases were arguably concept albums in the sense that they presented a set of thematically-linked songs-and they also instigated other rock artists to consider using the album format in a similar fashion: The Beach Boys ' Pet Sounds was a musical portrayal of Brian Wilson's state of mind at the time ( and a major inspiration to Paul McCartney ).
Although it has a unified theme in its emotional content, the writers ( Brian Wilson and Tony Asher ) have said repeatedly that it was not necessarily intended to be a narrative.
However, Brian Wilson has stated that the idea of the record being a " concept album " is mainly within the way the album was produced and structured.
However, later in 1966, Brian Wilson began work on the Smile album, which was intended as a narrative.
The album was scrapped before completion, only to be revived in November 2011.
Freak Out !, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention's sardonic farce about rock music and America as a whole, and Face to Face by The Kinks, the first collection of Ray Davies's idiosyncratic character studies of ordinary people, are conceptually oriented albums.
However, out of the albums above, only Pet Sounds attracted a huge commercial audience.

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