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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 12 2010 at 21:43
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Points: 11420 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 12 2010 at 21:38
Originally posted by progpositivity progpositivity wrote:

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. 
 
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LOL Neat idea that just needs a working title - The Ring Spin Cycle, The Beggars Belief Opera etc

BTW They were named after Lieutenant Wilbur Clingan, who served with Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry in the LA Police Department (Did Wilbur have a corrugated forehead?)
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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!  Tongue
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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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Originally posted by harmonium.ro 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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Points: 28057 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 12 2010 at 18:57
Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

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


Was going to find that one, but yes.

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Check this thread too: Concept? Write your own..
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Originally posted by ExittheLemming 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
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If you thought Killer Towers sounded bad, I daren't even tell you about its sister piece Rape Showers.
 
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Points: 771 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 10 2010 at 18:39
Originally posted by ExittheLemming 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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Points: 19557 		Direct Link To This Post 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.

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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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Points: 3281 		Direct Link To This Post 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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The Meal

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8. A Visit To The Gents Part 1
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12. A Visit To The Gents Part 2
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Points: 36 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 10 2010 at 18:01
Originally posted by SolarLuna96 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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Points: 12794 		Direct Link To This Post 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
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Points: 316 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 10 2010 at 17:03
Originally posted by Textbook Textbook wrote:

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

Buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz
Buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz
Buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz
Buzz buzz buzz buzz urk

Haha, exactly.
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A Day In The Life Of A Mayfly (complete lyrics)

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Points: 316 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 10 2010 at 15:36
Originally posted by TODDLER 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".
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