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    Posted: October 14 2015 at 05:22
hi.do you know any Good sci-fi themed album or song? like rush's 2112 and cygnus x1.
i guess we have a lots of sci-fi songs in prog.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2015 at 05:28

The Beatles - "Tomorrow Never Knows" Wink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tisjsgsgtZU

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2015 at 05:34
Cosmograf - The man left in space

"The Man Left in Space’ is a concept album exploring the themes of aspiration, achievement, and the failures that our quest for success, sometimes brings.  The story is played out against the analogous theme of a doomed space mission, launched in a bid to save mankind"

"It features a number of special guests from the progressive rock community including Nick D’Virgilio  (Spock’s Beard/Big Big Train ),  Dave Meros (Spock’s Beard), Matt Stevens, Greg Spawton (Big Big Train), Simon Rogers, Steve Dunn ( Also Eden ),  Lee Abraham ( The Lee Abraham Band ), Luke Machin ( Ex-The Tangent/Maschine ) and Dave Ware."


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2015 at 06:00

I would like to blow my own trumpet at this point and suggest Tinyfish's "The Big Red Spark": 

You know when you have a song that you can't get out of your head? What if, instead of a song, it was an IDEA? An IDEA that tells you how to build an incredible machine... You don't know what the machine is actually for, but it's so exciting you have to get to work on it as soon as possible...

What if people in parallel universes all got the same IDEA, and all started building this machine?

What if... the purpose of the machine was to destroy everything in every universe...?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2015 at 06:22
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2015 at 06:23
Originally posted by Ali.A Ali.A wrote:

hi.do you know any Good sci-fi themed album or song? like rush's 2112 and cygnus x1.
i guess we have a lots of sci-fi songs in prog.


It's not prog (well, it should be, if we expanded our definition of progressive electronic), but this album takes me to alien worlds: DeepChord Presents Echospace's "The Coldest Season" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvSlCJ5LB2A




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2015 at 06:51
Absolute Elsewhere - In Search Of Ancient Gods
The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot
Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear (simply by the power of suggestion the cover, title and overall sound of
the compositions can put you in a futuristic frame of mind)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2015 at 07:01
You should check out Ayreon. "Into the Electric Castle" and "The Universal Migrator" are two very good sci-fi themed space operas.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2015 at 07:12
One could write a book about this if they had the time.
 
Off the top of my head,
Ayreon as mentioned before (Actual Fantasy, 01011001)
Arjen Lucassen's Lost in the New Real
Star One's Space Metal
ELO's Time (plus some scattered earlier songs like Mission from A New World Record)
Muse's Black Holes and Revelations
Parts of King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King (21st Century Schizoid Man)
Manfred Mann's Solar Fire
Mike Oldfield's The Songs of Distant Earth
Hawkwind's Space Ritual (any probably many others)
Rick Wakeman's Journey to the Center of the Earth
Devin Townsend's Ziltoid album
David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust album
A lot of Vangelis' stuff (Albedo 0.39 for example)
Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds
Some of Nektar's stuff
Some of Eloy's stuff
Jupiter Society (kind of like Ayreon in a sense)
Gong's Radio Gnome trilogy
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2015 at 07:32
Magma - anything by them!  Start with Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2015 at 09:16
1974 and Twin Beaks are two bands whose whole discography is a single sci-fi concept
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2015 at 09:49
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omnicient
Hawkwind - Love in Space (a relatively modern brilliant live album with an continues string of songs in sci-fi themes)
Voivod - The Outer Limits (though other albums are sci-fi themed as well, this one is just a good entrypoint, also try Nothingface)
Arena - Immortal? (neo prog sci fi)
Solaris - Martian Chronicles
Grobschnitt - Solar Music Live
IQ - Subterranea
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2015 at 09:55
The Ian Anderson concert "Jethro Tull: the Rock Opera" could be seen as a sci-fi, actually. It will probably be released as a DVD soon...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2015 at 10:29
Originally posted by TeleStrat TeleStrat wrote:

Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear (simply by the power of suggestion the cover, title and overall sound of
the compositions can put you in a futuristic frame of mind)
 
That one, and Exit (1981) with its purely electronic sound:
 
1. Kiew Mission
2. Pilots of Purple Twilight
3. Choronzon
4. Exit
5. Network 23
6. Remote Viewing
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2015 at 10:40
Some of the ones I'd recommend have already been mentioned, so I'll just second I Robot by The Alan Parsons Project and Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds (SO GOOD!).

However, I would like to add Dimensionaut by Sound of Contact. I think it's a neat little album.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2015 at 10:45
A third for Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of War of the Worlds. 
But try and get the version from the 70's with Richard Burton!!

Aww, Jeff, he just couldn't leave it alone could he? Cry
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2015 at 10:49
3RDegree - Ones & Zeros Vol. 1
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2015 at 11:02
Genesis' Lamb qualifies methinks.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2015 at 12:22
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2015 at 13:36
https://soundcloud.com/pseudo-sentai/sets/bansheeface

Here- I mean, I know it's annoying to post my own stuff but I know there can't be too many science-fiction horror prog rock albums out there. This is a brief description, but of course if you want the entire story in detail, feel free to message me.

'Bansheeface' is our five year venture into making a sci-fi horror epic- a mental film created through music and lyrics. It covers everything from political intrigue to the murder of a deity. The Bansheeface reveals herself to a planet she has been hiding in and gives them technology far too advanced for them to comprehend. Because of the major conveniences they bring, the majority of the human race becomes part of a mass sacrifice. Their blood will water the seed that will be planted upon her burial. The main character of the story will try to stop her, but doing so will have consequences he cannot fathom.

This is the story of the vessel for the seed that will eventually destroy a planet that holds 3 sentient species. It is also rare in the sense that it is set during around the Middle Ages in technology for humans but all this new stuff is being brought forth. It's absolutely ridiculous in plot
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