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chopper 
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 Posted: March 24 2014 at 04:39 |
 siLLy puPPy wrote:
Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life
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Hounds of Love is like 2112 - only half a concept album.
Stevie Wonder - really?
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moshkito
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 09:40 |
ExittheLemming wrote:
... No, I'm actually saying the exact opposite and without any ambivalence either: I don't believe anyone from either the classical or popular music spheres has fused the disparate elements of dance/music/theatre and literature into a satisfying whole that does justice to all four elements. |
Wasn't even considering that part of it. You might check the other thread on Jon Anderson and Transatlantic for what I wrote.
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We're talking about concept albums by Progressive Rock groups remember, which divorced from the live performance realm, are a fusion of textual and musical ingredients.
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Which is what I have been discussing all along. But a set of songs, does not necessarily create a concept. Same thing for 32 pieces of music by that canadian composer, if you have never seen the film! There is a "common denominator" but taking it beyond that is pushing it! So that guy is a composer! You can accept that, but calling it a "concept" only fits as far as the PERSON goes, not anything else, that you and I can discern properly.
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If Vivaldi, Bach or Albinoni were still alive today they would all still conspire to look younger and better dressed than Keith Richards, but I digress: ...
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They would still be considered pompous and pretentious by the PA folks! Because it ain't this or that! Ohhh, and all that filler in between the riffs!!!!! Ohhhh my gawwwwwdddddd!!!
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think I'll pass on Jensen's History of Art because I suspect it's full of the sort of self serving academia that the counter culture you profess to have lived through, was designed to eradicate. Sometimes a person's pride can be greater than their love.
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I recommend it, and one day you are gonna say ... wow ... all that stuff is like the best history book there is! You just don't see how "music" and any other art, is the same thing!
I treat it all like an art. I respect concepts more than most people. But when a half baked band calls some stuff "concept", it's like going from grade 4 to grade 5 in music appreciation, and has nothing to do with "concept".
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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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tamijo
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 09:51 |
kingesis2 wrote:
I love The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway: answering your question I love everything on it, the story the artwork and obviously the music  |
Yes something like that, im not saying it compleetly perfect, i just dont look for flaws that much, when i enjoy my music.  Is it 4,8 or 4,9 stars - i could not care less.
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Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Stardust
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 10:04 |
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The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway. The story might be hard to piece together but once you have done that you have a fantastic album, both musically and lyrically.
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Can you tell me where my country lies?
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moshkito
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 10:14 |
Stardust wrote:
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway. The story might be hard to piece together but once you have done that you have a fantastic album, both musically and lyrically. |
Check out the Jon Anderson with Transatlantic thread for more on this!
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verslibre
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 13:04 |
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Jethro Tull, Thick as a Brick, Songs From The Wood (the latter is more a 'theme' album, but you know...)
The Mars Volta, De-loused In The Comatorium
Planet P Project, Pink World
Triumvirat, Spartacus
Yes, Close to the Edge
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chopper
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 13:17 |
verslibre wrote:
Yes, Close to the Edge
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Hmm, I've never considered CTTE to be a concept album.
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 14:30 |
chopper wrote:
verslibre wrote:
Yes, Close to the Edge
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Hmm, I've never considered CTTE to be a concept album. |
That is quite possibly because it isn't one 
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chopper
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 15:23 |
lazland wrote:
chopper wrote:
verslibre wrote:
Yes, Close to the Edge
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Hmm, I've never considered CTTE to be a concept album. |
That is quite possibly because it isn't one |
That's what I though basically, but just in case I'd been missing something all these years...
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lazland
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 15:38 |
chopper wrote:
lazland wrote:
chopper wrote:
verslibre wrote:
Yes, Close to the Edge
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Hmm, I've never considered CTTE to be a concept album. |
That is quite possibly because it isn't one |
That's what I though basically, but just in case I'd been missing something all these years... |
Nope, although it could, I suppose, be argued that Anderson's entire career has been one long concept, revolving around peace, love, the Sun as our guiding light, and there is a better way, man.
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ProgMetaller2112
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 15:39 |
siLLy puPPy wrote:
Jethro Tull - Thick As A BrickQueensryche - Operation MindcrimeDevin Townsend presents Ziltoid The OmniscientThe Who - QuadropheniaYes - Tales From Topographic OceansBlur - 13David Bowie - Ziggy StardustKate Bush - Hounds Of LoveCamel - The Snow GooseCarach Angren - Where The Corpses Sink ForeverAlice Cooper - Welcome To My NightmareCradle Of Filth - Cruelty And The BeastDream Theater - Metropolis Part 2Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade Of GrayGentle Giant - Three Friends, Power And Glory, Interview, In A Glass HouseHaken - VisionsIron Maiden - 7th Son Of A 7th SonJudas Priest - NostradamusThe Kinks - Preservation Act 1 and 2Magma - most of themMars Volta - Deloused In The ComatoriumMastodon - Crack The SkyeMen WIthout Hats - Pop Goes The WorldModest Mouse - The Moon And AntacticaNocturnus - The KeyPink Floyd - Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The WallPorcupine Tree - Deadwing, Fear Of A...Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The DeafRadiohead - OK Computer, Kid A, AmnesiacThe Tubes - Remote ControlStevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of LifeZappa - Thing-Fish, Absolutely Free and more!Just a few i like but hardly everything. Some of these are only mildly conceptional but count
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In A Glass House I never knew that Glass House was a concept album? 
Edited by ProgMetaller2112 - March 24 2014 at 15:41
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“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
"Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart
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verslibre
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 16:16 |
lazland wrote:
chopper wrote:
verslibre wrote:
Yes, Close to the Edge
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Hmm, I've never considered CTTE to be a concept album. |
That is quite possibly because it isn't one |
 Sorry, I meant to write TfTO. Still working on my caffeine fix. 
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The Bearded Bard
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 18:20 |
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Jethro Tull - A Passion Play
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Rick Robson
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 18:22 |
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Eloy - Ocean
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 "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB
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Progosopher
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 18:38 |
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Many of these have been listed by others, so that means we are in agreement here on what is good.
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The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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Progosopher
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 18:49 |
Oops, meant to do more. Let me start where I left off:  The Lamb Thick as a Brick A Passion Play The Wall Tales From Topographic Oceans Quadrophenia Tommy Dark Side of the Moon and Animals Spartacus Ocean and Ocean II All of these so far have been mentioned before but the following have not: A Midsummer's Night Dream - Steve Hackett Waves, Way of the Sun, and At Peace by Jade Warrior Olias of Sunhillow and Toltec by Jon Anderson The Tain and The Book of Invasions by Horslips Subterrainia by IQ
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The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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Rick Robson
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 19:09 |
^ A Midsummer's Night Dream - Steve HackettThanks for reminding me of that masterpiece. And i think Steve Hackett's Metamorpheus could also be included as another stunning conceptual album
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"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 19:09 |
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Deloused in the Comatorium is by far my favorite.
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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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dr wu23
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 22:32 |
Progosopher wrote:
Oops, meant to do more. Let me start where I left off:
The Lamb
Thick as a Brick
A Passion Play
The Wall
Tales From Topographic Oceans
Quadrophenia
Tommy
Dark Side of the Moon and Animals
Spartacus
Ocean and Ocean II
All of these so far have been mentioned before but the following have not:
A Midsummer's Night Dream - Steve Hackett
Waves, Way of the Sun, and At Peace by Jade Warrior
Olias of Sunhillow and Toltec by Jon Anderson
The Tain and The Book of Invasions by Horslips
Subterrainia by IQ |
I'm glad someone finally mentioned Tommy by The Who.
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One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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dr wu23
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Posted: March 24 2014 at 22:41 |
Spirit- 12 Dreams of Dr Sardonicus.....as Sheavy put it in his review of June 2011
"This is the only album that I have ever heard where ever single some (song) just goes together absolutely perfectly and they just work and fit together perfectly, but with nothing at all to really tie them all together, they just go together, it is like magic......The concept album without a concept."
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One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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