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Posted: June 22 2014 at 12:02
richardh wrote:
progbethyname wrote:
AreYouHuman wrote:
A couple of albums with time-travel storylines: Eloy—The Power and the Passion and Ekseption—Beggar Julia’s Time Trip.
Ay! Eloy! So fantastic at delving into the fantastic. This is a band that has greatly one me over lately.
I enjoy Planets very much as well.
The Power and The Passion through to Metromania was a great run of albums and all with a sci-fi theme.
Also Tides Turn Forever and Ocean II are well worth checking out.
I heard somewhere that Frank Borneman never read any Sci Fi novels but I'm not sure I'm buying it. The bands name is derived from the future civilization in The Time Machine for crying out loud.
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Posted: June 22 2014 at 12:33
Prog_Traveller wrote:
richardh wrote:
progbethyname wrote:
AreYouHuman wrote:
A couple of albums with time-travel storylines: Eloy—The Power and the Passion and Ekseption—Beggar Julia’s Time Trip.
Ay! Eloy! So fantastic at delving into the fantastic. This is a band that has greatly one me over lately. I enjoy Planets very much as well.
The Power and The Passion through to Metromania was a great run of albums and all with a sci-fi theme.
Also Tides Turn Forever and Ocean II are well worth checking out.
I heard somewhere that Frank Borneman never read any Sci Fi novels but I'm not sure I'm buying it. The bands name is derived from the future civilization in The Time Machine for crying out loud.
Considering that they got the spelling wrong (it's Eloi in the book) then it's a fair bet they got the band name from the 1960 film staring Rod Taylor and not the novel.
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Posted: June 22 2014 at 12:42
Has anyone written music about the advancement of society to the next level? I believe "Watcher of the Skies" is in that vein. It would seem to be an obvious musical theme for prog to explore.
This is an excellent article about how intelligent races may evolve in the universe, and why we should be concerned about it!
A couple of albums with time-travel storylines: Eloy—The Power and the Passion and Ekseption—Beggar Julia’s Time Trip.
Ay! Eloy! So fantastic at delving into the fantastic. This is a band that has greatly one me over lately. I enjoy Planets very much as well.
The Power and The Passion through to Metromania was a great run of albums and all with a sci-fi theme.
Also Tides Turn Forever and Ocean II are well worth checking out.
I heard somewhere that Frank Borneman never read any Sci Fi novels but I'm not sure I'm buying it. The bands name is derived from the future civilization in The Time Machine for crying out loud.
Considering that they got the spelling wrong (it's Eloi in the book) then it's a fair bet they got the band name from the 1960 film staring Rod Taylor and not the novel.
Personally my friends, I think all do to psychedelics. Frank Bornemann' is a dabbler indeed.
God love it though. What a fantastic mind. Great lyricist. I really like 'The Sun-Song.'
The guy is captain majestic to me.
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Posted: June 22 2014 at 15:06
Dean wrote:
Prog_Traveller wrote:
richardh wrote:
progbethyname wrote:
AreYouHuman wrote:
A couple of albums with time-travel storylines: Eloy—The Power and the Passion and Ekseption—Beggar Julia’s Time Trip.
Ay! Eloy! So fantastic at delving into the fantastic. This is a band that has greatly one me over lately. I enjoy Planets very much as well.
The Power and The Passion through to Metromania was a great run of albums and all with a sci-fi theme.
Also Tides Turn Forever and Ocean II are well worth checking out.
I heard somewhere that Frank Borneman never read any Sci Fi novels but I'm not sure I'm buying it. The bands name is derived from the future civilization in The Time Machine for crying out loud.
Considering that they got the spelling wrong (it's Eloi in the book) then it's a fair bet they got the band name from the 1960 film staring Rod Taylor and not the novel.
True but I think maybe the misspelling was intentional. A lot of bands seemed to have done that(ie Led Zeppelin, Def Leppard etc).
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Posted: June 22 2014 at 15:16
Prog_Traveller wrote:
Dean wrote:
Considering that they got the spelling wrong (it's Eloi in the book) then it's a fair bet they got the band name from the 1960 film staring Rod Taylor and not the novel.
True but I think maybe the misspelling was intentional. A lot of bands seemed to have done that(ie Led Zeppelin, Def Leppard etc).
Yes, I believe the y in Eloy is deliberate but I forget the reason for the change apart from "just because"...
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Posted: June 23 2014 at 10:00
There's a 1989 German movie titled "Hard to Be a God" with a soundtrack written by Triumvirat's keyboardist Jurgen Fritz. Haven't watched that, but I heard it's a great movie.
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Posted: August 28 2014 at 03:11
Has anyone mentioned Impressions on Reading Aldous Huxley from 1972 by German band Brave New World?
I have a collection called Dr Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 1 , The Early Years 1963-1969 (from 2000).
There is also The Empire and Rebellion, based on Star Wars, by The Colossus Project ( 2008) a collective from italy.
Before ELP's Karn Eval 9, there was a Moody Blues track, I think In the Beginning from On the Threshold of a Dream (1969), where the character speaks to a computer.
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Posted: February 17 2015 at 22:18
It came up briefly in this
thread, but Moody Blues’ “To Our Children's Children’s Children” has a
space-travel theme throughout, and is one of their proggier albums to boot.
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Posted: February 22 2015 at 06:29
Wallace The Lad wrote:
Perhaps a progmasterman even?
Whatever became of him?
He found the progsubman he was looking for all these years and they are happily ensconced in a dungeon somewhere, whipping and being whipped. Far too busy to post on these forums!
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Posted: February 22 2015 at 06:48
On topic, how about Guapo's History of the Visitation? Based on the track titles, clearly inspired by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky's classic SF novel Roadside Picnic. This is the same novel that provided the basis for Tarkovsky's very long (and in my view tedious) movie Stalker.
It's a purely instrumental album, so what the music evokes depends on the listener. But having read and enjoyed the book I found Guapo's music actually evoked the otherness of the visitation's aftermath rather well. I'd recommend this pretty highly to anyone who likes adventurous prog whether or not they are into RIO/Avant or Zeuhl. Unlike much of their previous work it doesn't really fit comfortably inside those genres.
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