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Lindsay Lohan 
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Posted: May 25 2005 at 16:56 |
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I have to say Frances the mute-The mars volta-excellent lyrics and cool and complex story that fits excellent with the music.
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Posted: May 25 2005 at 16:58 |
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The story for Frances the Mute is crap.
Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters - Now there's a great concept album story! And it's true as well!
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Posted: May 25 2005 at 17:00 |
I love lamb lies down on broadway, I only wish they had made a movie similar to the Wall or Tommy, since the music blows those two away. 
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Posted: May 25 2005 at 17:01 |
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Kevin Gilbert's The Shaming of the True.It's not exactly prog,maybe "prog pop",but the man was a musical genius and I love his work(what little he gave us before he passed on).
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Posted: May 25 2005 at 17:02 |
 Trouserpress wrote:
The story for Frances the Mute is crap.
Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters - Now there's a great concept album story! And it's true as well!
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Crap??? Besides the frances the mute story is semi-true because one of the guys in the band found a diary in a cab about a guy that searches for his mother...I really thinks its a great story with a lot of strange meanings that can be interpeted almost anyway you like to but still unrevailing enough meaning to get the big picture...True art..but well well its perhaps not very complex but the lyrics is really well written like something from Van der graaf forexample a plauge of lightouse keepers
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Posted: May 25 2005 at 17:05 |
Trouserpress wrote:
The story for Frances the Mute is crap.
Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters - Now there's a great concept album story! And it's true as well!
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If you're going to launch volatile statements like that without a solid reason to back up your claim than your opinion(if that is what you want to call it) is crap.
Arena...Contagion...easy to follow lp about a man's search for redemption.
Ayreon...The Human Equation...about a man who put himself into a self comatose state because of his betrayals to his friend and neglect to his wife....unbelievable story with awesome music to back it up.
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Dazo
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Posted: May 25 2005 at 17:05 |
Niel Morse - Testimony.
The story of how he was brainwashed by somebody I can't mention for legal reasons,then quit spock's beard because he found God and did not want to say "F**K YOU" live in concert anymore.
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Posted: May 25 2005 at 17:10 |
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Ayreon - The Human Equation, Will you accept Quadrophenia?
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Andhi
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Posted: May 25 2005 at 17:14 |
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I'd have to say The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. The lyrics are
fantastic and the storyline really weird, and I think it fits together
much better than any other concept album I've heard. My only criticism
is that I still don't understand what's happening in a few places...
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It's only knock and knowall, but I like it...
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Posted: May 25 2005 at 17:15 |
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The lamb lies down on Broadway !!!
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Posted: May 25 2005 at 17:16 |
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Will you accept Quadrophenia? |
No!...you must give back your commemorative prog t-shirt and hand over your forum membership card to the moderators right this instance young man.
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Posted: May 25 2005 at 17:18 |
gdub411 wrote:
Trouserpress wrote:
The story for Frances the Mute is crap.
Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters - Now there's a great concept album story! And it's true as well!
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If you're going to launch volatile statements like that without a
solid reason to back up your claim than your opinion(if that is
what you want to call it) is crap.
Arena...Contagion...easy to follow lp about a man's search for redemption.
Ayreon...The Human Equation...about a man who put himself into a
self comatose state because of his betrayals to his friend and neglect
to his wife....unbelievable story with awesome music to back it up. |
Fair enough, lad. I'll do some justifying:
It's not really a story, per se. It's a loose concept that's dealt with
so abstractly, lyrically speaking, that's it's almost completely
obfuscated. To claim it's the best "story" for a concept album just
strikes me as absurd, as there's simply so little "story" to it.
As I say, Lockheed's far more entertaining, but no one's ever heard that album it seems... 
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CaincelaOreinim
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Posted: May 25 2005 at 17:29 |
I personally think The Lamb has never been matched in terms of story and like Nets said, it's truly a shame that there's no movie of it let alone live footage/DVD stuff. Aha, Genesis reunion JUST for that? I'd do...unlikely, no, improbible but I'd go. It's a surreal masterpiece and Gabriel's allusions to the Quabbalah (see chamber of 32 doors I believe?) and other interesting religious(?) overtones are more than great.
In terms of the Volta's approach to storytelling in its over the top recherche rococo ridiculousness (which I love by the way) I'd have to say De-loused is a bit harder to grasp than Frances and I'll take it's story over Frances' anyday. Musically I'll take Frances, but De-loused' sci-fi tinged craziness is paretty interesting I think...biochemical microcosmic viri inside the body of the comatosed patient...creating characters within the central "out of the picture" character (i.e. Cerpin Taxt or is it Julio Venegas? you see!?)...having to journey to avoid all sorts of alien entities mainly the Tremulants, the Televators, Moatilliata, and becoming the Tres Ojos...his impending suicide...pretty cool if you ask me...
If you have NO CLUE as to what I'm talking about...there's a De-Loused short story that the band wanted to include in the booklet of the album but for whatever reason didn't make it. You can dl it at goldstandardlabs.com and if it's not there anymore, get in touch with me and I'll send it to whomever wants.
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Posted: May 25 2005 at 17:34 |
That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure playes a mean pinball... !!!
No realy mine is Quadrophenia 
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Posted: May 25 2005 at 17:37 |
limeyrob wrote:
Ayreon - The Human Equation, Will you accept Quadrophenia? |
NO....,but my son will accept The Human Equation. (He Loves that CD).
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Posted: May 25 2005 at 17:41 |
Salem Hill's "Robbery of Murder" is a clearly laid out concept album. I won't say it's the best, but it is good, tells an emotional story and has many great melodies and lyrics. A man and his son get hit by a drunk driver, the father is killed. The son grows up without his dad and swears revenge on the drunk driver who get a light sentence. They finally meet in a bar, of course, and the son is armed with a pistol..... I don't want ot give it all away, buy the album.
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Posted: May 25 2005 at 17:41 |
flowerchild wrote:
The lamb lies down on Broadway !!! |
Why did the lamb lie down on Broadway?Is it a joke? 
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Posted: May 25 2005 at 17:42 |
NetsNJFan wrote:
I love lamb lies down on broadway, I only wish they had made a movie similar to the Wall or Tommy, since the music blows those two away. |
You were right the music Blows.
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Posted: May 25 2005 at 17:45 |
flowerchild wrote:
The lamb lies down on Broadway !!! |
Also: "Subterranea" by IQ (the search for redemption that ends with a true discovery - the seeker is destined to being a slave).
"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Peter Hammill (he added some extra Poe's characters: Montressor pays for a previous crime - depicted in "The Cask of Amontillado" -, being trapped in The House of Usher as it finally crumbles down and dying with his hosting friend Usher).
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Posted: May 25 2005 at 17:45 |
danbo wrote:
Salem Hill's "Robbery of Murder" is a clearly laid out concept album. I won't say it's the best, but it is good, tells an emotional story and has many great melodies and lyrics. A man and his son get hit by a drunk driver, the father is killed. The son grows up without his dad and swears revenge on the drunk driver who get a light sentence. They finally meet in a bar, of course, and the son is armed with a pistol..... I don't want ot give it all away, buy the album.
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I Know the end.And I agree It's not the BEST but it is O.K.
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