Gong shoots you into space.

Any good Yes sends you into another world; of  cource inspired  by Roger Dean's brilliant artwork.

On a cool, quiet summer night last year,  I experienced Animals after a heafty serving of substance, and it was honestly the greatest listening experience i've ever had. I figured out the story moment for moment; perfectly....or at least i think i did. It was like a long animated masterpeice in my head....it keeps making me beg the question; why didnt they turn this into a movie!!?!?!

Other great immagery envoking  albums:

Supertramp: Crime of the Century

Yes: Tales From Topograpic Oceans

The Marsvolta: De-loused in The Commatorium

Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

Tool: Lateralus

King Crimson: Red

Radiohead: Kid A

......so many more......

Echoes- The whole song makes you see the ocean, but the best imagery part is the mid section, the one i call "abstract music" which features seagulls, screeching guitars and a bass thats a deep background.

This part makes me see somone falling forever in a fierry hell. the screeching guitar is the people in hell yelling from all the torture, the seagulls dont fit in this context, but i suppose if you can see the ocean the seagulls will give you some imagery of that. Rick Wright's part in this section leaves me speachless, he has a very experimental part by him on the organs, and he also does the wind noises. The wind helps me see this person, (lets say Roger Waters, just for laughs) falling through this hell, and the wind is just blowing past him as he falls. Once this section ends and Rick's organs come and the song builds up, it kind of makes me see the person hit the ground and he stops falling, and he's now going up, mabey in spirit.

Also, a more reasonable way to see the second section of echoes would be a lost, submarine exploring the deep sea and "coral caves" in pitch black water, this is during the scary section with sea gulls. The guitar noises could be like somekind of scary ghosts from pirates or whatever, whatever you think is really scary underwater.

Then the section of the song where its the grand build up could be the emerging of the submarine, the submarine is trying to kill like a giant squid on its way up, the squid is tearing the sub apart. The main gunner of the ship is dying,the squid tore his gun and him apart, and he's bloody with no streangth left, he's the only one left to kill the attacking squid because the other gunners have been killed, then when Dave's best guitar solo ever comes I can clearly see the gunner get his last streangth that he has left and hops back up on the gun and shoots the squid. The part where the gunner is killing the squid could be the whole solo if you like, then when its time for the 3rd verse, the ship emerges and there is now hope cus they are on top of the water and can see land. Sorry if it's really long, but I have an overactive immagination clearly.

the musical box wrote: Any good Yes sends you into another world; of  cource inspired  by Roger Dean's brilliant artwork. On a cool, quiet summer night last year,  I experienced Animals after a heafty serving of substance, and it was honestly the greatest listening experience i've ever had. I figured out the story moment for moment; perfectly....or at least i think i did. It was like a long animated masterpeice in my head....it keeps making me beg the question; why didnt they turn this into a movie!!?!?! Other great immagery envoking  albums: Supertramp: Crime of the Century Yes: Tales From Topograpic Oceans The Marsvolta: De-loused in The Commatorium Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Tool: Lateralus King Crimson: Red Radiohead: Kid A ......so many more......

OH YES!!! I forgot Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun by Pink Floyd. The visuals are all so intensely described and you can just imagine a sort of spacecraft making its way through nothingness and traversing through the sun. Such a great song.

Tool-Lateralus

All Opeth albums

  Pink Floyd's Careful with that axe Eugene listend to with the lights out had me completely spooked. I suppose that is the opposite of mental imagery though.

Genesis'  The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway invokes a lot of imagery probably because it was meant as a stage show.The Chamber of 32 Doors conjures up a strong image of a lost Rael  in an underground labrynth pleading  for someone to help.This is a great follow up to the imagery of The Carpet Crawlers previously mentioned by another poster

From the same album the Lamia gives a powerful scene of what is happening at that point.

 For the traumas of those two a completely different image is invoked by The Colony of Slipper Men which is quite comical. Slubberdegullions on squeaky fleet and Rael's useless brother John who refuses to help Rael persue the raven who has taken Rael's dismembered part. Then Rael (overweight Peter Gabriel ) running with everything that I've got ) in persuit of the raven  I'd have loved to see that on stage.