10 Strangest Concept Albums

One of two entries on this list to feature fictional bands (see The Turtles elsewhere), Hybrid Kids, originally released in 1979, was a fake compilation album, supposedly featuring bands from the city of Peabody, Kansas. The music was, in fact, created by one man, England's Morgan Fisher, who is probably best known for his role as keyboardist in the rock band Mott the Hoople, which scored big with All The Young Dudes, a song donated to the band by David Bowie.

For this solo album, Fisher presented the work as that of various made-up bands, which many fans and critics took at face value. The songs presented are mostly cover versions of well-known tracks. Fisher's idea was to approach each in a manner diametrically opposed to the originals, and he did so with fascinating and, in some cases, intentionally hilarious results.

Where else could you hear Rod Stewart's Do You Think I'm Sexy reimagined as new-wave/techno, Perry Como as speed punk, You've Lost That Loving Feeling as noise-rock, and Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights as experimental dub reggae?