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Poll Question: What is the greatest Double Concept Album in Prog
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    Posted: January 17 2013 at 18:16

I'm sure that I'm missing a billion great and powerful double concept albums, but this poll contains the big and heavy weight names of the prog genre. I know that Ayeron has multiple double concept albums, but I think that having each one listed would be an unfair advantage, so I settled on Into The Electric Castle, which I feel is the most powerful double concept album in Ayeron's catalog. 

For the record, the majesty of the Lamb cannot be ignored, so that's my pick. Topographic Oceans is a close second though.

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LAMB LAMB LAMB

I've gained a whole new appreciation for it in recent years, once I tried to unravel the story line, and then saw it performed live (by The Musical Box).. It's heavy sheet, mang.


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Aphrodite's Child - 666 would be my ideal pick.
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On this list TLLDOB. BTW, Brave is a single album.
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Genesis then Yes. The others i either haven't heard or don't like. 
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Originally posted by Wanorak Wanorak wrote:

On this list TLLDOB. BTW, Brave is a single album.

Brave is definitly a double Album. The 4th side has a interpretive ending.

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Originally posted by Wanorak Wanorak wrote:

On this list TLLDOB. BTW, Brave is a single album.

It has a double CD version.
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The Wall for me, I have just not been able to grasp the Greatness of The Lamb.
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As a matter of fact, not even The Wall is among my favourite albums from Pink Floyd, it just seems to me that such long albums always have "filler", or loose momentum or continuity, not sure, but they just usually can't put there all to make it all as great as a shorter (perhaps under 60 min) album.
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Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

The Wall for me, I have just not been able to grasp the Greatness of The Lamb.

It's an acquired taste. Like most Concept Albums/Rock Operas the stories cannot be presented clearly through music. It takes multiple listens and alot of concentration to grasp it, and even then you might have to cheat by going here: http://www.bloovis.com/music/lamb.html



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Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

The Wall for me, I have just not been able to grasp the Greatness of The Lamb.
My sentiments exactly :-)
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Originally posted by Astral Traveller Astral Traveller wrote:

Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

The Wall for me, I have just not been able to grasp the Greatness of The Lamb.

It's an acquired taste. Like most Concept Albums/Rock Operas the stories cannot be presented clearly through music. It takes multiple listens and alot of concentration to grasp it, and even then you might have to cheat by going here: http://www.bloovis.com/music/lamb.html

 
There are several songs I love on LAMB. But there's also much I don't listen to. As far as the plot goes, I blot it out, I don't want to know. I mean, a Puerto Rican kid in NYC? WTF? C'mon, Gabriel, write about drawing rooms and medieval knights and music boxes, that's why I listen to Genesis, that's what the music conjures.
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the lamb is my choice, an incredible double concept album

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The Lamb was musically strong but not lyrically. I cry everytime to think what would have happened if they went with Mike's idea, to do a musical adaptation of the Little Prince. 

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Originally posted by jude111 jude111 wrote:

Originally posted by Astral Traveller Astral Traveller wrote:


Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

The Wall for me, I have just not been able to grasp the Greatness of The Lamb.


It's an acquired taste. Like most Concept Albums/Rock Operas the stories cannot be presented clearly through music. It takes multiple listens and alot of concentration to grasp it, and even then you might have to cheat by going here: http://www.bloovis.com/music/lamb.html


 

There are several songs I love on LAMB. But there's also much I don't listen to. As far as the plot goes, I blot it out, I don't want to know. I mean, a Puerto Rican kid in NYC? WTF? C'mon, Gabriel, write about drawing rooms and medieval knights and music boxes, that's why I listen to Genesis, that's what the music conjures.


I haven't really tried to get the concept from The Lamb, actually. From the little that I have grasped, I'm not particularly interested either. But whether the concept is good or not (I'm inclined towards not), the music, which is even more important for me, is not a fraction of what my favourite songs from the previous 3 albums is, so the album ends up being a disapointment... except for a few songs, and even the best songs here aren't up to the best songs on their previous albums. The Wall faces just about the same problems compared to the previous Floyd albums, actually, but at least I do like it's songs and it's concept better than the Lamb's ones.
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The Lamb is idiosyncratic and only Gabriel could tell you what its about. I've read through the Annotated Lamb, kept a journal for my thoughts on each song, listened to it for countless hours, and still have not grasped the entire concept. So far I realized that Rael has an internal struggle taking place inside himself and he is searching for who he is really is. This is a metaphor for Gabriel's view of existentialism, which is that we are all looking for ourselves, but we only find ourselves through our passions. That is it.it. It is whatever makes us us. the period at the end of it signifies the end of a sentence or thought, saying that not only is this the end of the story, and the album, but Gabriel's tenure in Genesis. The Lamb was about Gabriel trying to find himself, and in the end, deciding to pursue a solo career. 

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None. Never liked double-LP concepts. They usually are too obsessed with concept, with a lot of useless fillers and very little of actual interesting music.

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1.  The Lamb.  It took me along time to finally get that it is about a journey through the subconscious.  There are a lot of archetypes and symbols and metaphors throughout.  Still, it is obscure.  At the same time, it is the most successful of the bunch.
 
2.  Tales.  Musically the most engaging of the bunch, but I cannot find a consistent theme throughout.
 
3.  The Wall.  Very powerful and psychological without getting mired in too much obscurity.
 
4.  Subterranea.  Very similar to The Lamb but still a lot of great music.
 
Aphrodite's Child - good call Sumdeus.  Any love for Tommy or Quadrophenia out there?
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