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Topic: Prog based on books?
Posted By: progvortex
Subject: Prog based on books?
Date Posted: July 04 2009 at 12:52
I just found out that Close to the Edge by Yes was based on Hesse's Siddhartha. What are some other prog albums/songs based on books? What are some books that may or may not have a direct effect on prog but are "proggy" in nature? I need some new reading material 
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Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: July 04 2009 at 13:23
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The Snow Goose seems most obvious (I haven't read it). Michael Moorcock (I haven't read anything by him) was quite big in Hawkwind's concepts, as I understand. King Crimson's Beat works a helluvalot better if you've read On The Road (Jack Kerouac) or somesuch. Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum is the most 'proggy in nature' book I could think of off the top of my head. Fantastic read, that one. |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: July 04 2009 at 13:28
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Well there's the obvious songs influenced by Tolkien's stuff: Zeppelin, Rush, Marillion, Camel.... Rush 2112's is based on the dystopian novel Anthem. |
Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: July 04 2009 at 18:28
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Yeah, but CTTE doesn't make any sense even after reading Siddhartha, so I don't see the point of them telling anyone that it's based on it. ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: July 04 2009 at 19:14
| Chick Corea has a few solo and Elektric Band albums inspired by L. Ron Hubbard books. |
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: July 04 2009 at 19:16
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Marillion - GRENDEL is based on the Norse poem, Beowulf... And the entire FUGAZI album was inspired by a book FISH read...
It says in the booklet, I'll read it up now... *Several minutes later* Direct quote: Our second album was to be aptly named 'FUGAZI'(all f***ed up, all screwed up), which was a wod I'd found in a book called 'Nam' - A collection or reminiscences from veterans of the Vietnam war, put together by Mark Baker. I'd always been intrigued by that particular war and had been obsessively reading about it during the 'script' tour which ended at Hammersmith Odeon, London. Derek "FISH" Dick "Marillion" was also originally named "Silmarillion", until they changed it in order to avoid any copyright conflicts that may/may have not eventually arisen. Marillion was formed in 1979 as Silmarillion, after J.R.R. Tolkien's book The Silmarillion, by Mick Pointer, Steve Rothery, and others. They played their first gig at Berkhamsted Civic Centre on 1 March 1980. The band name was shortened to Marillion in 1981 to avoid any sort of copyright conflicts. (Note: Information on name sourced from %20 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marillion ) Enjoy... -Joel ------------- 
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: July 04 2009 at 19:23
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Bowie's Diamond Dogs was supposed to be a concept album based on 1984, but Orwell/Blair's estate refused to give the rights. Though the concept is obviously still there in the later half of the album. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: July 04 2009 at 19:29
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Childlike Faith in Childhood's End is based on the book Childhood's End (by whoever, I can't remember)
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Posted By: Matthew T
Date Posted: July 04 2009 at 19:37
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Alan Parsons .................Edgar Alan Poe..........Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Rick Wakeman..........Journey to the Centre of The Earth
Jeff Wayne...........War of the Worlds..
I am not really into this type of prog. Out of the 3 Alan Parsons is the fav and the other 2 I do not own but I have I heard  . They played the sh*t out of certain tracks from the Wakeman and Wayne albums on the radio when the were released. I am not a fan but lots are and "each to their own "as the saying goes------------- Matt |
Posted By: Soul Dreamer
Date Posted: July 04 2009 at 20:54
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A very recent album: Gazpacho's Tick Tock is based on the book "Wind, Sand and Stars" of Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
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Posted By: Rubidium
Date Posted: July 04 2009 at 22:36
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The Gates of Delirium is supposedly loosely based on Tolstoy's War and Peace, although I have never read it so I can't comment on how accurate it is (if at all). And while not necessarily based on a book, (The) Soft Machine borrowed their name from the title of a William S. Burroughs novel. Similarly, Steely Dan took their name from an object referred to in Burroughs' Naked Lunch. |
Posted By: Blackbeard
Date Posted: July 05 2009 at 02:22
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Alturas De Macchu Picchu - Los Jaivas is based on a poem of Pablo Neruda. Themes From William Blakes's The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell - Ulver is based on a poem of William Blake. |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: July 05 2009 at 03:25
And then there's Edgar Winter's Battlefield Earth album.
I think Saga's Generation 13 was also inspired by/based on a book.
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Stooge wrote:Posted By: rosenbach
Date Posted: July 05 2009 at 03:35
Also Rick Wakeman and Anthony Phillips have albums based on Orwell's 1984. Some others: Metamorfosi: Inferno is based on Dante's poem. Museo Rosenbach: Zarathustra is based on Nietzsche's work. Wapassou: Salammbó is based on Gustave Flaubert novel Solaris: Marsbeli kronikak is based on Ray Bradbury's book (The Martian Chronicles) Armando Tirelli: El Profeta is based on poems by Khalil Gibran Bo Hanson: Lord of the rings, obviously based on Tolkien’s book |
Posted By: cobb2
Date Posted: July 05 2009 at 04:46
(Sir) Arthur C Clarke Wakeman comes to mind- Journey to the centre of the Earth and Le Morte De Arthur and Alan Parson's The Raven (poem)
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Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: July 05 2009 at 08:21
Yet you've reviewed the album! How can you possibly give an informed appraisal if you haven't read the book on which it's based??? ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: July 05 2009 at 08:30
Interestingly, that was the book that Pete Bardens wanted Camel to base their 3rd album on. In the end, Doug Ferguson suggested The Snow Goose instead and thank God the rest of the band went with it. Having read Hesse's book (in translated form) and having listened to Close to the Edge hundreds of times, I can't say I make many links. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: July 05 2009 at 08:41
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There are amny, many references to literature in prog rock T.S. Eliot is a strong influence in some Genesis Lyrics -------------  |
Posted By: St.Cleve Chronicle
Date Posted: July 05 2009 at 09:10
Watcher of the skies was also inspired by Childhood's end. |
Posted By: St.Cleve Chronicle
Date Posted: July 05 2009 at 09:13
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Also, Mike Rutherford wanted Genesis to make an album based on a book called "The little prince". That never came to fruition, and they recorded "The lamb lies on Broadway" instead. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: July 05 2009 at 09:14
Quite easily. he listened to the album. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Passionist
Date Posted: July 05 2009 at 09:17
This guy also has an album based on the book "Watership Down" which I've trying to find for long with little success. |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: July 05 2009 at 10:17
Brilliant! So you would review the film of Lord of the Rings without reading the trilogy first, would you, thus having no idea whatsoever how well the film interpreted the book?? You could do it, but noone in their right mind would regard your review very seriously. "I enjoyed/didn't enjoy (delete as appropriate) this film even though I had absolutely no idea what it was about and whether the characters were accurately portrayed!" Or Bridehead Revisited. Or Skellig. Or any other great book that has been filmed. You just can't do it credibly. Without reading Gallico's novella, you can't have a clue about the structure, moods and images Camel portray in their music, which is why many of the reviews of The Snow Goose are frankly so laughable. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: July 05 2009 at 10:25
Yes I would and.yes the review would be credible. You don't need to read a book to review a film. You watch a film to review a film. Thats why its a film review. Do proffesional reviewrs read the book of the film they are reviewing? No Do people who read magazines like "Empire" regard the reviews seriously? Yes they do. Case closed!
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Posted By: Passionist
Date Posted: July 05 2009 at 10:50
| Man... You review the film/ the album, not estimate how well it goes together with the book. I wonder how many of us has really read Siddharta and then after that reviewed CttE? They're two different pieces of art with a related theme, that's all. Get over it. |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: July 05 2009 at 11:39
Do you SERIOUSLY believe this?? Of course they read the book!!!!!!!! Any who didn't would be utterly discredited professionally. For a professional to review a film based on a book without relating the film to the book is absolutely unthinkable. You obviously don't know any professional film/theatrereviewers (and I know several very well, including my own sister-in-law). Perhaps I'm naive to expect common-sense from everyone on this site. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: Passionist
Date Posted: July 05 2009 at 12:36
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Naive you are, yes. Obviously. Anyway. By bo Hansson, to fill up my claim there, there was El-Ahrairah http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=15424 and Music Inspired By Watership Down http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=6642 but I'm not sure of the rest of his compositions. Someone might want to fill that up. |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: July 05 2009 at 14:38
Marillion's great new LP, Happiness is the Road, is based upon The Power of the Now by Eckhart Tolle, thus carrying on a fine tradition of prog music being based upon literary works. ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: July 05 2009 at 15:41
I'm backing up Snow Dog 100% on this one. When you are reviewing the film, you are reviewing the film and not the book. When you are reviewing music, you are reviewing the MUSIC, not the book it's based on. Leave that to the book reviewers. Of course, comparing it to elements of the book would make the review more interesting to read, but it's not compulsory. Are you saying if the reviewer didn't know that the music is based on a book then he should be disallowed from reviewing it? ------------- "Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value." Arnold Schoenberg |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: July 05 2009 at 15:49
Thank you pessimist. Hercules is not only rude but seems to be living in some strange fantasy world of his own. Oh..and he is wrong!  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: July 05 2009 at 15:59
That album is AMAZING!   It's quite easy to find in sweden if you know where to look |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: July 05 2009 at 16:02
Not based on it, more inspired by War and peace. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: July 05 2009 at 16:52
No - what I'm saying is that if someone actually KNOWS the album is based on a book, not to read the book before doing a review so you at least know what the story being told is about or so that you can reflect the way the album interprets the book makes the review much less valid. You yourself concede that including a comparison to the book "would make the review more interesting to read"; on this we agree. I would never dream of reviewing (say) Alan Parson's album Tales of Mystery and Imagination without reading Poe's work first; otherwise how could I judge whether the imagery in The Fall of the House of Usher and other tracks had been interpreted well? ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: July 05 2009 at 17:11
So I'm rude for pointing out that you are factually incorrect in your assertion that professional film reviewers would not read a book on which a film is based before reviewing the film? Listen to Mark Kermode on Five Live when he reviews any film based on a book (I expect you will have heard of him) and he always refers to the way the film interprets the book. All professional reviewers do. Perhaps my naivety is expecting professional standards on an amateur site. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: July 05 2009 at 17:16
Please call me Alex Fantasy world, maybe. Inner diktat, definitely. And Hercules, please. People can do whatever the hell they like. We are not getting paid for it, and it's a freeform reviewing system. The only guidelines are that we show respect for other people. And also, this is a music reviewing site, not a book reviewing site. I've said all I'm going to say, so you can reply if you'd like. But I really couldn't care less about it. ------------- "Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value." Arnold Schoenberg |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: July 05 2009 at 17:35
Oh, and while we're on about rude, it wasn't me who told my Godson to "f**k off and die" about 3 years ago after his first (and not surprisingly, last) post on this site. I'm sure you will remember having to apologise to him. He was so upset, I made a note of the offender's identity, so there is no doubt that you are the person. So please don't lecture me on rude. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: July 06 2009 at 06:33
I always listen to Kermode and he hasn't always tread the book...comic...or watched the TV series or whatever. You see..Mark Kermode undrstands something that you totally fail too. Which is a film or album has to stand on its own legs, by its own merits. The fact that you say that all prefessional reviwers read the book first is utterly ludicrous to be quite frank. If this site is too amateur for you, well you are free not to be involved. Think about it...can you imagine a reviwer...with a deadline.. having to read Lord Of The Rings beforereviwing it? I mean....seriously? EDIT. Ok..I just checked up, because I wanted to be sure. Mark Kermode has neither read Lord Of The Rings or Harry Potter yet he insists on reviwing the films. OK? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: July 06 2009 at 06:36
Was I lecturing? See my post...absent oi lecturing. But it is true. It was a misjudged joke on my part...which I explained to his teacher by PM. I regret the joke because it was taken seriously. Anyway, because you say I was rude (which I wasn't really, I was outright offensive, albeit unintentionally) does that mean you should be too? Edit. Can we just end this now? We disagree obviously. That isn't going to change. our views, but I read and listen to professional reviews as much as you, maybe more..who knows?
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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: July 06 2009 at 06:55
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Erm...time to sneak in a post between the arguments, I understand that Hugh Hopper's album 1984 is loosely based on and/or inspired by the novel 1984.
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: July 06 2009 at 07:03
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I think people who see a film before reading a book can give a fresh opinion on it. For instance, I sat through Twilight on Saturday, and while my sister, wife, and mother were all thoughtfully discussing the finer points of the adaptation, I was able to sit there and go, "What the f**k is this sh*t? No way in hell I'm reading it now!" ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: July 06 2009 at 07:06
Good point, well made.  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: The Sleepwalker
Date Posted: July 06 2009 at 07:12
If you review an album like The Snow Goose without having read the book you have a much more objective view on the music. If you have read the book and you disliked it very much, that will probably have a negative effect on the review of the album, while that review should be about the music. The Snow Goose is reviewed 340 times, and I'm sure the biggest part of those reviewers haven't read the book, but those reviews have the same value as the reviews of people who have read the book. You can't make a difference between those groups, as everybody has their own way of writing a review, with or without background information to the album. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: July 06 2009 at 07:15
If you have read the book, I'm sure it enhances ones pleasure of the album. But I insist...an album must stand by its own merits! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: dver
Date Posted: July 06 2009 at 15:58
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Supper's Ready is based on biblistic passages and that Blind Guardians middle-earth album, based on silmarillion. and Dream Theaters- The Ministry of Lost souls is based on a japanese manga ( not kidding , JP confirmed) |
Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: July 06 2009 at 20:16
BTW Gallico try to sue Camel for that work, what a  ------------- |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: July 06 2009 at 22:22
| Animals, by Pink Floyd, is based on Animal Farm, by George Orwell. I have almost no Idea what the book is about, but I love that album. |
Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: July 06 2009 at 22:40
Go ahead and read it, here is the link: http://www.george-orwell.org/Animal_Farm/index.html - http://www.george-orwell.org/Animal_Farm/index.html |
Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: July 07 2009 at 01:19
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Yeah, I think if you're going to review a movie, you have to just see the movie. Now, if you're going to MAKE the movie, I'd say the least you could do is read the damn book... As for the topic at hand, I might be totally wrong here, but BASED SOLEY ON THE COVER, I believe that Leviathan by Mastadon has something to do with Moby Dick. ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: July 07 2009 at 03:29
It isn't based on Animal Farm But if anyone wants to come back at me and insist that it is. Well I'm not arguing, believe what you want. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: July 07 2009 at 06:46
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Toto - Dune made for the David Lynch movie based verson of the Dune novels written by Frank Herbert music made for a movie based on a novel. |
Posted By: Soul Dreamer
Date Posted: July 07 2009 at 20:10
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I don't know if it has been mentioned, but the album Christ0 of Vanden Plas is based on The Count of Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas
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Posted By: martinprog77
Date Posted: July 08 2009 at 03:48
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FRAMESHIFT "Unweaving the Rainbow" is base in Richard Dawkins' books on evolution ------------- Nothing can last there are no second chances. Never give a day away. Always live for today. |
Posted By: cobb2
Date Posted: July 08 2009 at 04:05
No, I believe it was done just because they had purchased a fairlight CMI synth, which could sample anything and play it back on the notes of the keys. Hence the animal noises (sampled) and the animal names of the songs. Wikipedia does quote this as being losely based on Animal Farm, but I can find no references to Orwell's work in the lyrics- just another urban myth
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: July 08 2009 at 04:16
Also Dogs, Sheep and Pigs weren't even the original song titles. Dogs was called Shaking and Grooving (or something, I haven't looked it up. ...hang on "Shaking and Droolin'" maybe?)Anyway...by changing the songs names to Animals makes a nice theme. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: el dingo
Date Posted: July 08 2009 at 05:00
The original Leviathan was a mythical beast of a massive size and became a generic term for anything huge in the sea, from ships to whales so the album could have been about Moby Dick or a mythical sea beast or just a term for a massive output of sound as the word has come to mean anything huge. In book terms, John Wyndham's The Kraken Wakes was certainly on this theme. ------------- It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough. |
Posted By: el dingo
Date Posted: July 08 2009 at 05:09
Not always... I have read The Snow Goose and own the Camel album (okay, who doesn't) but I would not re-read the book for the gold of Croesus while I listen to the album every now and again with sheer pleasure. I could review the album easily without having read the book. Yet my views reverse when it comes to TLotR and the Bo Hansson album - IMO book beats music. Yes I know you can't really say a piece of literature is better than a piece of music and vice versa, but it's an opinion at least.
No need to insist. It's true. If you like an album and are inspired enough to read a book afterwards, great. If not, why should you have to? In order to gain an insight into a piece of music you dig already? i don't think so.
Oh and I know it's not a book but Queen's The Fairy Feller's masterstroke was more than based on a painting - the entire, extensive lyrics are a description of the work. ------------- It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: July 08 2009 at 06:54
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I have to mention Kate Bush and numerous songs based on books from the obvious "Wuthering Heights" through "Cloudbusting" and "The Ninth Wave" (sort of).
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Posted By: St.Cleve Chronicle
Date Posted: July 08 2009 at 11:00
| ^That reminds me of Genesis' Wind & Wuthering that was inspired by The house of four winds and Wuthering Heights (apparently the book ends with the words ...unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth) |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: July 08 2009 at 11:29
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'The Rotters Club' by Hatfield & the North, based on Jonathon Coes' book of the same name..
'I Robot' by Alan Parson Project, based on the Asimov novel. |
Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: July 08 2009 at 13:59
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Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: July 08 2009 at 15:09
Now, I appreciate that my review is not absolutely valuable. I appreciate that the album will be doing things I don't understand. However, I think the majority of people reading the reviews will be interested in the perceived musical quality of the album rather than its relationship to the book it's based on. In the same way that there are a score of folks around here who've given reviews to Italian albums they know and love musically without understanding the lyrical content and certainly without the sort of familiarity with the language required to appreciate poetry in it. Now, their reviews are almost certainly missing out on one aspect of the album (which presumably wouldn't be hugely important to them anyway), but they're still able to appreciate the quality of the music and that makes their reviews somewhat valuable. The Snow Goose is something of a unique case in that the album is making a precise effort to match itself to the book, so I can understand the principle here and admittedly I perhaps would, now, have waited to read the book first. On the other hand, the general principle is pretty awkward - can you review Obscured By Clouds as an album without having seen La Vallée? You might say no on principle, but in the context of this being a music site and the overwhelming majority of readers wanting to hear it as an album by Pink Floyd, it'd seem reasonable. Would it be alright to review Selling England By The Pound without an awareness of The Cinema Show's roots in The Waste Land, World Record without a familiarity with the work of Burne-Jones, Blake and Edgar Allen Poe? Reviewing Ulver's Perdition City without knowing that there's a quote in the title track from Kerouac's On The Road? Gentle Giant's Free Hand without visiting Talybont (which I've done, and it added to my appreciation of the song, but still, I wouldn't expect any reviewer to have done it). In this particular case, I acknowledge it's worth reading the book, and it's on my reading list, but I still don't think that everything in my original review would change because of it. I think the Lord Of The Rings analogy isn't quite accurate, because the film is condensed at times, altered in terms of its plot (sometimes understandably, at others not so understandably) and therefore isn't aiming to convey the book's character's precisely. It's not exactly the same story, and thus it doesn't need to achieve the same things or reflect characters in the exact same way as the book does. Still, your point concerning The Snow Goose is valid. |
Posted By: Passionist
Date Posted: July 08 2009 at 15:19
| Should I have heard all the referred Pink Floyd albums/music before seeing The Wall the movie? |
Posted By: yesman1972
Date Posted: July 10 2009 at 20:37
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Several Gentle Giant songs mention characters from Francois Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel. Tales from Topographic Oceans wins the award for most music based on the least words, as it was based on a footnote in the Autobiograhpy of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yoganada. Roncevaux by Van der Graaf Generator is based on the epic Franch poem La Chanson de Roland (Song of Roland). A Whiter Shade of Pale is loosely based on The Miller's Tale from The Canterbury Tales. Salad Days (Are Here Again) comes from Antony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare. Rick Wakeman has albums based on The Lord of the Rings and Journey to the Center of the Earth. I am the Walrus makes reference to the work of Lewis Carrol. |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: July 11 2009 at 04:28
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Czeslaw Niemen sang several poems by the great polish poet Cyprian Kamil Norwid. The most obvious song is the epic "Bema pamieci zalobny rapsod". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPHfbZcNl6U - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPHfbZcNl6U
His fellow, Marek Grechuta, released many songs with lyrics taken from poems of famous polish poets : Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Slowacki, Julian Tuwim, Stanislaw Wyspianski, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz.
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: July 11 2009 at 23:24
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Now, could someone please explain the relationship between Alan Parson's "I robot" and Asimov's book, apart from the title. I have read the book and I own the album, and paid attention to the lirics, but I just can't find the connection. I think I read there is another earlier book with the same title "I robot", from another author, perhaps the album is based on that other book.
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Posted By: enemyofthesundevils
Date Posted: July 27 2009 at 10:40
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Posted By: enemyofthesundevils
Date Posted: July 27 2009 at 10:42
| So I meant to put a picture of Ulver's Themes From William Blake's The Marriage Of Heaven and Hell. |
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Date Posted: August 20 2009 at 01:26
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Here is what i know: Yes: Close To The Edge Siddhartha Gate Of Delirium War & Peace Tales From Topographic Oceans was inspired by footnotes in The Autobiography of a Yogi Rush: The name of Anthem and the basis for 2112 come from Anthem Rivendell and The Necromancer are influenced by The Lord of The Rings Xanadu is influenced (and used almost direct quotes) from the poem Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment A Farewell to Kings gets its name from A Farewell to Arms The Trees comes from a comic strip Neil Peart once read Tom Sawyer obviously gets its name from Tom Sawyer Pink Floyd: Childhood's End by Pink Floyd got it's name from Childhood's End Animals by Pink Floyd is based on Animal Farm The Piper At The Gates of Dawn lends its name from the 7th chapter in The Wind In The Willows Others: 666 by Aphrodite's Child The Book of Revelation The Snow Goose by Camel is an interpretation of the book of the same name Wind & Wuthering by Genesis alludes to Wuthering Heights Apocalypse in 9/8 from Supper's Ready by Genesis makes reference to The Book of Revelation and other biblical things (ex. Magog) The Power And The Glory by Gentle Giant is based on the book of the same name Several songs by Led Zeppelin (some of their more complex stuff) makes reference to The Lord of The Rings ------------- "All that media stuff is all very irrelevant. If people come to a concert and they don't like it, they don't come again." - Roger Waters |
Posted By: kineto_zetetics
Date Posted: August 20 2009 at 03:42
| No mention so far of that 'Brain Salad Surgery' was largely based on the book 'Colossus' by Dennis Feltham Jones. A book that heavily influenced Lake and Sinfield. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: August 20 2009 at 04:20
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Hawkwind whave worked many books into their music. "Damnation Alley" is based on the novel of the same title by Roger Zelazny. The album "The Chronicle of the Black Sword" is based on Michael Moorcock's "Elric of Melnibone" cycle. "Steppenwolf" is based on the novel of the same title by Hermann Hesse. "Fahrenheit 451" is obviously based on the book of the same name by Ray Bradbury. "Robot" is based on the robot stories by Isaac Asimov, especially his three laws of robotics. And I am pretty sure there are a lot more which just don't come to my mind right now. Robert Calvert's solo album "Hype" is made up of fictitious songs by Tom Mahler, the main character of his novel "Hype". -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: ProgressiveAttic
Date Posted: January 10 2010 at 16:57
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A summary + some additions
Tolkien: Marillion Camel (Nimrodel, The Procession, The White Rider) Bo Hansson Rick Wakeman Rush (Rivendell) Jon Anderson (In Elven Lands: The Fellowship) Ainur Glass Hammer Nazgul Archangel (The Akallabeth) Ainur Asimov: Alan Parsons (I Robot) Hawkwind (Robot) Frameshift (An Absence of Empathy) Ayn Rand: Rush (2112, Anthem, The Trees) Paul Gallico: Camel (The Snow Goose) Frank Herbert: Dun (Arrakis, Acoustic Fremen) Toto (Dune) Leon Tolstoi: Yes (Gates of Delirium) Herman Hesse: Yes (Close to The Edge) Kansas (Journey from Mariabronn) Marillion (Misplaced Childhood) Mark Twain: Rush (Tom Sawyer) The Bible: Genesis Aphrodite's Child (666) Jesus Christ Superstar Various Artists (La Biblia) George Orwell: Pink Floyd (Animals) Rick Wakeman (1984) Metamorfosi (Then All Was Silent) Hugh Hopper (1984) Anthony Phillips (1984) David Bowie (Diamond Dogs) Mao Zedong: Matching Mole (Little Red Record) Paramahansa Yogananda: Yes (Tales from Topographic Oceans) Sir Arthur C. Clarke: Pink Floyd (Childhood's End) Tempano (Childhood's End) Edgar Alan Poe: Alan Parsons (Tales of Mistery and Imagination) Jonathon Coes: Hatfield & the North (The Rotters Club) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Nolan & Wakeman (The Hound of the Baskervilles) Dante Alighieri: Metamorfosi (Inferno) Tangerine Dream (Purgatorio (Dante Alighieri - La Divina Commedia)) Lacrimosa (Inferno) Brassè (Dante's Inferno) Dante Fondeira (Dante, at last) Il Castello Di Atlante (Malebolge) Various Artists Concept Albums (Inferno the Divine Comedy, Purgatorio The Divine Comedy) Echolyn (Mei) Richard Dawkins: Frameshift (Unweaving the Rainbow) Jules Verne: Rick Wakeman (Jurney To The Center of The Earth) Nemo Bram Stoker: PFM (Dracula) Alexandre Dumas: Vanden Plas (Christ 0) Lewis Carrol: Neuschwantein (Alice in Wonderland) The Amorphous Androgynous (Alice in Ultraland) Chick Corea (The Mad Hatter) Shadowland (Mad as a Hatter) The Incredible String Band (The Mad Hatter's Song) Touchstone (Mad Hatters) Bill Bruford (Fainting in Coils) Annie Haslam (Annie in Wonderland) Yes (We Have Heaven) Peter Hammill (This side of the looking glass) Nolan & Wakeman (Jabberwocky) Thomas Eliot: King Crimson (The Deception of the Thrush) Goethe: Faust Aton's (Dr. Faust) Art Zoyd (Faust) H. G. Wells: Jeff Wayne (The War of the Worlds) Eloy Robert Fripp (H. G. Wells) Ammon Duul II (HG Well's take off) Rick Wakeman (Time Machine) Pablo Neruda: Los Jaivas (Alturas De Macchu Picchu) Nietzsche: Museo Rosenbach (Zarathustra) Ray Bradbury: Solaris (Marsbeli Kronikak) Hawkwind (Fahrenheit 451) William Shakespeare: Steve Hackett (Midsummer Night's Dream) Genesis (Cinema Show) Il Volo (Essere o non essere? Essere, essere, essere!) Lana Lane (Lady Macbeth) Henry Cow (some music for a performance of The Tempest recycled in some of their early albums) Richard Bach: Transatlantic (Bridge across forever) Jorge Luis Borges: Montefeltro (Nel Laberinto) Genesis (Squonk) Homer: Genesis (The Cinema Show) King Crimson (Islands) Eloy (End of an Odyssey) Vangelis (Odissey) XII Alfonso (Odyssees) Symphony X (The Odyssey) Plato: Eloy (Ocean) Pallas (Rise and fall, Atlantis) Claude Vorilohn (AKA Rael): Genesis (The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway) John Steinbeck: Gentle Giant (The moon is down) Camel (Dust and Dreams) Oscar Wilde: Dorian Gray Il Ritratto Di Dorian Gray Cherry Five (The Picture of Dorian Grey) Andy Tillison :
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Posted By: TheCaptain
Date Posted: March 15 2010 at 16:46
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"Methuselah's Children" by Moon Safari is based on the novel of the same name by Robert A. Heinlein.
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Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: March 15 2010 at 17:15
Italian band Minstrel has 2 albums, first Faust based on the famous book by Goethe and Ahab based on the Moby Dick classic by Melville. The Box has recently released Le Horla , a famous de Maupassant masterpiece . Eidolon's dreamland based on Edgar Allan Poe (many other bands chose EAP). Oldfield's Songs from Distant Earth (Arthur C Clarke) , Gazpacho's Tick Tock on Antoine de St-Exupery . Inquire's Melancholia (JP Sartre) and Latte e Miele with Passio Secundum Mattheum from that ole Bible . 
the Tolkien jobs are way too obvious  ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: jplanet
Date Posted: March 15 2010 at 18:36
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Shadow Circus' "Project Blue" is based on Stephen King's The Stand, and "Journey of Everyman" is based on "The Talisman" by Stephen King/Peter Straub. And the song "Shadow Circus", is based on Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes. ------------- https://www.facebook.com/ShadowCircus/" rel="nofollow - ..::welcome to the shadow circus::.. |
Posted By: Soul Dreamer
Date Posted: March 16 2010 at 21:37
Since it's not mentioned in the list above, I'm going to post it again because it's a great album... ------------- To be the one who seeks so I may find .. (Metallica) |