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Well, it 'aint their version of "Operation Mindcrime"...
Bad Moon is probably their most linked together album and it certainly can be (ought to be!) listened to as one big song/suite, but if you actually look at most of their albums that's the case. Certainly they were starting to go that way with Confusion is Sex and then they fully realized it with Bad Moon. But then Evol has the concept of breaking what had become known as Sonic Youth into chunks of pop songs. Sister clearly has a lot of PKD related themes running through it, and Daydream Nation is about, you know...
And so on.
The classic definition of an art rock "concept album" was a record that was essentially the soundtrack to a narrative story. So Bad Moon Rising is not that. It does, however, heavily imply that type of thing without really being it. It's like Eno's record Music for Films is to an actual movie soundtrack.
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