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Paravion

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Posted: November 10 2010 at 13:49

A progressive album on a subject about trains.

About train travel.

Textbook

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Posted: November 10 2010 at 15:19

Textbook presents The Constipation Suite

The Constipation Suite ( Eternity On The Throne)

i) A Surfeit Of Cheese

ii) The Agony Begins

iii) The Empty Waiting

iv) Eternity On The Throne

v) The Futile Strain

vi) The Ingestion Of The Prunes

vii) Distant Rumblings

viii) Pushing To The Finish

ix) Finale: The Brown Deluge

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Posted: November 10 2010 at 15:28

^ Actually one very Special Collaborator here on PA argues that Close To The Edge is about constipation Tongue

splyu

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Posted: November 10 2010 at 15:36

TODDLER wrote:

Short stories from Herrmann Hesse.

This one: http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81 is based on a Hesse story.

A great concept that does exist - as a classical avantgarde piece (by Anthony Payne) - but would work great in a prog context: "A Day in the Life of a Mayfly".

Textbook

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Posted: November 10 2010 at 15:41

A Day In The Life Of A Mayfly (complete lyrics)

Buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz

Buzz buzz buzz buzz urk

splyu

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Posted: November 10 2010 at 17:03

Textbook wrote:

A Day In The Life Of A Mayfly (complete lyrics)

Buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz

Buzz buzz buzz buzz urk

Haha, exactly.

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Posted: November 10 2010 at 17:49

What an interactive concept album when you choose a story? "If you want to _______ skip to track 5" and so forth

Nerd42

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Posted: November 10 2010 at 18:01

SolarLuna96 wrote:

What an interactive concept album when you choose a story? "If you want to _______ skip to track 5" and so forth

I dunno if that would work very well. I mean, wouldn't that basically be more of a difficult-to-use audiobook than an album? It seems to me that an album does have to be a basically linear progression of sounds. I don't mean to disparage other perfectly legitimate art forms, but at some point it's not really an album anymore and I think what you're suggesting would be getting close to that point.

Bud I dunno. A drama could be interesting. It would need to be on a DVD or Blu-Ray or something though, with interactive menus, not requiring people to primitively skip tracks.

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Posted: November 10 2010 at 18:07

The Meal

1. Soup Of The Day

2. Wine Interlude 1

3. Fish Course

4. Wine Interlude 2

5. Main! Part 1

6. Wine Interlude 3 - 7

7. Main! Part 2

8. A Visit To The Gents Part 1

9. Lost In A Corridor

10. Where's My Table?

11. Brandy Please!

12. A Visit To The Gents Part 2

13. Where Am I Again?

14. Sticky Toffee Pudding (including Sorry mate I Di'n see you's there)

15. Homeward Bound!

16. Epilogue: Can You Breathe In here, Sir?

Textbook

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Posted: November 10 2010 at 18:19

An interactive concept album has already been done by the rapper Canibus. Poet Laureate Infinity was 55 minutes of five 11 minute rhymes with five eleven minute beats that could be faded between at any time with it syncing up, creating a virtually infinite number of possible variations.

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Posted: November 10 2010 at 18:21

Joking aside I was going to do a rap mixtape/ep about masturbation with songs ranging from the humorous to more sincere reflections on guilt and loneliness. It looks like a goofy concept but actually, if you can be mature about it, I think there's some real material there.

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Posted: November 10 2010 at 18:31

The War of the End of the World (by Vargas Llosa) would make an amazing conceptual album.

The story of the war in Canudos Brazil that confronted the poorest people lead by a Messianic preacher against the Republic.

Iván

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Posted: November 10 2010 at 18:39

ExittheLemming wrote:

How about a REALITY album, where people do normal boring things like get up in the morning, eat, defecate, diet, read the newspapers, go to their drudge filled work, watch TV, bemoan their terrible relationships and seek solace in the escapism afforded by erm... Progressive Rock concept albums?

Nah, commercial suicide ain't it? Wink

Great idea! Let's call it A Concept About Nothing by Jethro Seinfeld.

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Posted: November 10 2010 at 18:59

If you thought Killer Towers sounded bad, I daren't even tell you about its sister piece Rape Showers.

I wish I was joking but I wrote it.

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Posted: November 10 2010 at 23:25

Wasn't this Mike Rutherford's Smallcreep's Day ? LOL

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Posted: November 12 2010 at 18:51

Check this thread too: Concept? Write your own..

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Posted: November 12 2010 at 18:57

harmonium.ro wrote:

Check this thread too: Concept? Write your own..

Was going to find that one, but yes.

Back when times were simpler.

Nerd42

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Posted: November 12 2010 at 19:37

harmonium.ro wrote:

Check this thread too: Concept? Write your own..

Oh great thanks :) Didn't know about that one. Heck, let's move this discussion there and forget this thread

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Posted: November 12 2010 at 20:57

I know we joke about Magma but I really would like to hear a progger do a Klingon rock opera - in Klingon!

Let it actually tell about any episode from the vast archives of Star Trek from the Klingon point of view.

Who should put this together? Arjen L! Of course!!!

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Posted: November 12 2010 at 20:59

How come Tolkien gets all the Prog-love?

Don't get me wrong... Middle Earth is a nice place to visit. But why do we have to *live* there?

How about an album of songs dedicated to Ray Bradbury short stories? If this exists, please let me know. I want to run out and immediately purchase it!

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