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Stool Man
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Topic: Best concept? Posted: July 13 2017 at 02:22 |
Aside from such things as the musicianship or the 'classic songs' or so-and-so are your favourite band, etc etc, what in your opinion is the best concept for a concept album?
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: July 13 2017 at 03:31 |
Elves with bulbous heads filled with 'lore' returning from Endor to
commandeer vast armies of rodents to wreak their revenge on mankind for
reality TV. (You don't have to tune in guys....)
OR maybe One that is grounded in a rather mundane and ordinary reality that all of us inhabit (even Jon Anderson) |
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progaardvark
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Posted: July 13 2017 at 06:25 |
The journeys of a garbage truck to the planet Uranus.
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i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
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Magnum Vaeltaja
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Posted: July 13 2017 at 07:44 |
Arco Iris - Agitor Lucens V
A concept album about mythical encounters between the Pre-Columbian peoples of South America and extraterrestrials. How cool is that?
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when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: July 13 2017 at 07:53 |
A concept album about genital warts would be cooler than that |
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Manuel
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Posted: July 13 2017 at 11:50 |
An album depicting all the threads, pools, and opinions in Prog Archives.
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uduwudu
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Posted: July 14 2017 at 00:32 |
That was the last and most awful Indiana Jones movie. Or side 2 of Union (a kind of conceptual suite). Or King Crimson playing Mexico City (even better). You've never heard anything so alien as Adrian Belew singing 21st Century Schizoid Man. Punk meets the Godfather indeed... (oh, the playing is superb...) |
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Sean Trane
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Posted: July 14 2017 at 02:28 |
Are you Thick As A Brick or simply not getting it all? |
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: July 14 2017 at 04:21 |
I think The Wall as a concept is even greater than the actual merit of the album....and I really dig the music.
Generally I do find concept albums to be hit or miss...though mostly miss. If I want a storyline I'll pick up a book or watch a flick. Musicians tend to outstay their welcome very quickly when dabbling in literature. As for instrumental albums? They're pretty much all conceptual. |
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Thatfabulousalien
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Posted: July 14 2017 at 04:23 |
tbh, the only actual story itself of a prog concept album that I've been completely astounded by for the story itself is BTTBAM's Parallax (which also spans back to some songs in their back catalogue)
Very complex story that would make an amazing novel (if expanded realistically)
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Classical music isn't dead, it's more alive than it's ever been. It's just not on MTV.
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SteveG
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Posted: July 14 2017 at 07:44 |
My favorite concept albums are not even prog.
Edited by SteveG - July 14 2017 at 09:49 |
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rushfan4
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Posted: July 14 2017 at 08:59 |
Ayreon's The Human Equation is my favorite concept album and with the multiple singers is one of the best executed concept albums. That being said, the PA Intelligentsia mostly seem to consider it cheesy at best.
The Wall is also a good concept album and is powerful in that it has dual meanings and thus has multiple concepts. Rick Wakeman's Journey to the Center of the Earth is another favorite as the narration brings meaning to the musical concepts. I tend to like concept songs that are based on actual historical figures or historical stories. Most of these tend to be just a song on an album though rather than an entire concept album. |
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Thatfabulousalien
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Posted: July 14 2017 at 09:05 |
Regarding Ayreon (once upon a time I was really into Arjen's work), it's more the way it's portrayed via rock opera than the story itself, which is quite a tragic ordeal!
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Classical music isn't dead, it's more alive than it's ever been. It's just not on MTV.
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Thatfabulousalien
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Posted: July 14 2017 at 09:58 |
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Classical music isn't dead, it's more alive than it's ever been. It's just not on MTV.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: July 14 2017 at 10:09 |
The battle between Phil Collins and all the fans who think he ruined Genesis.
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HemispheresOfXanadu
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Posted: July 14 2017 at 10:22 |
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dr wu23
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Posted: July 14 2017 at 11:11 |
I have no idea but I always liked Tull's TAAB....based on a poem by a fictional child prodigy.
Edited by dr wu23 - July 14 2017 at 11:11 |
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hellogoodbye
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Posted: July 14 2017 at 12:07 |
The Flying Duckman
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M27Barney
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Posted: July 14 2017 at 12:12 |
"Thick as a Brick" - I have the vinyl version (with the fake paper) wrapped up and in a cool-dry place. - Good call, but an unusual call from me - "Tenants of the Lattice Work" by mainframe, the music isn't brilliant - but the concept of a computer generated man - actually being extracted from inside the virtual-reality and getting to literally - meet his makers....is a good one.
and this was released way before the matrix as well!!!
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Blaqua
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Posted: July 14 2017 at 16:14 |
IMO best concept for a progressive
album would be the progressive or changing nature of human beings. A song such
as La mente vola by Alphataurus could be part of such an album.
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