Yes. I have always seen The Lamb as a Film Soundtrack

 

 

Also it would be great to see each of the stories from early Genesis made into a collection of shorts.

 

White Mountain would also make an excellent little short I think. And Battle of Epping forest would probably be fun as well.

Thank heavens someone pointed this out.

The Whirlwind by Transatlantic

Mercy Falls by Seventh Wonder

Tyranny by Shadow Gallery

The Incident by Porcupine Tree

Subterranea by IQ

Scenes From A Memory by Dream Theater

I'm looking very forward to Nightwish's Imaginaerum movie!

Riverside's reality dream trilogy could be really disturbing.

Opeth's concept albums would be awesome.

What about some Ayreon turned into George Lucas sci-fi movies?

 

With posts like that, you can keep on coming here!

Beardfish's albums would be AWESOME if they made films of them (specially Sleeping In Traffic 1 & 2 and Destined Solitaire)

Orphaned Land's Neverending Way Of ORwarriOR would be epic as well (Dark Knight-esque epicness)

Negura Bunget's OM would be an excellent terror movie.

And of course, a cheesy depressing Twilight-esque movie titled "Scenes From A Memory" would be cool as well, it would fill some pockets 

 

...Peter Gabriel actually had a film version in development, soon after his departure from Genesis. It was supposed to be made by whacked-out cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky, best known for the surrealist western El Topo.

 

No surprise that the project never happened. But it would have been an intense experience...

 

 A couple of Other things. I love the idea of Genesis songs as shorts. There is infact an old russian animation of the story of Salmacis that someone put to the Genesis song. The animation style melds perfectly with the sonic qualitites of the song. Due to the nature of the story the animation is slightly pornographic ( to conservative minds) so its hard to find regular websites.

 I think White Mountain deserves an entire movie even if it's just a song and not an album. It would be hard to pull off though without being cheesy. Making talking animals just has cheese written all over it. its a pity.

 

 One other thing, I don't know how many of you are aware but Roger Dean at least at one time had a project going to make his 'floating islands' theme into a full length animation. It was gonna be about a destroyed planet as I recall. Last I heard some of the animation was already completed but Ihavent heard anything about this in years. It's not exactly a concept album made into a movie but its pretty damn close.

 

 Last thing... wtf wouldn't anyone want to see a movie of 2112? It's a hell of a story about some basic conundrums of the human condition. If any concept album deserves a movie it's 2112.

 

 

 

 

Now that HAS got Cheese written all over it.

2112 is a great song, but I don't think it has a strong enough plot to be made into a movie.  It does work quite well as a semi-allegorical musical commentary on politics/society/the music business, but it's the emotional flow, more than the plot itself, that makes it great, so I don't think it lends itself to a film adaption.

It would be interesting, however, to see a movie made out of the book that inspired 2112: Ayn Rand's Anthem.

 I don't find the plot to be all that shallow so I guess that's just difference of opinon. I would say barely allegorical as opposed to semi allegorical and I still wouldnt be exactly sure what it's allegorical about.  To me its much deeper and more involved with the concept of humanity to be centered around art and individual expression than science and the quest for knowledge. I do recognize that as a personal bias however (even though I have a great love of science). Let's also face the fact that no matter how small you think the plot is.... it's a greater thing than 90% of hollywood movies.

 I havent seen it so I have no comment but I assume you saw Altlas Shrugged. Did they do a decent job? I like Ayn Rand btw but I think her inclusion of capitolism in her philosophy is kinda wierd and def on the extreme side.

"LET THE MAPS OF WAR BE DRAWN!"  Great line, Greg!

Close to the Edge is based off of the book Siddhartha by Herman Hesse which has been adapted to several movies.

 

I wouldn't say that the plot is shallow, it's more of an issue with the way it flows and is structured.  I mean, the storyline basically goes like this: A guy in a totalitarian society finds an ancient object, a guitar, which he learns to play and shows to the rulers.  They smash the guitar and he walks home dejected, has a dream of the better world there was before, and kills himself because he doesn't think he can go on in his terrible life.  That's very powerful in the context of the song, but in a movie, it's too short, simplistic, and unbalanced (in that it doesn't have a sufficient build to the climax, and ends sort of abruptly) to really work.  I suppose that a 2112 movie could be successful, but the creators would have to take a lot of artistic liscense and stretch out the story, add background information, depict the wars that are musically implied in the song, and incorporate several subplots into the storyline to make it work.

 

I haven't seen Atlas Shrugged, and if I do ever see it, I'll probably read the book first.  Capitalism is about the only thing I like about Ayn Rand's philosophy.

THIS.

BTW, there's a 100 page comic that came with a special edition of the book, I don't have it, but it seems to be awesome, considering that a part of the plot involves a guy that accidentally destroys the Earth with Yes' Relayer 

 

Great shouts

 

I would also add Pirates to make it a ''Trilogy''

 

Arthur C. Clarke's Songs of the Distant Earth is a good sci-fi novel which Mike Oldfield took as inspiration for an album but it has never been made into a movie. I think it could make for a nice sci-fi movie.

 

 This line of thought reminded me of Bo Hansons works. Theres of course Music Inspired by The Lord of the Rings and now LotR has been made into a movie.  There is also Music Inspired by Watership Down which was also made into an animation.

 Ay, that's all very true. Especially for a suspensful story or a mystery. I think its a little less true for stories that are explorations of the human existence or character developmental stories. Getting preconcieved notions about things can surely change or ruin your enjoyment of anything. So if it's a choice between 2 hours of enjoyment from sitting through a movie or a lot longer from reading a book you gotta go with book (assuming you read well).  I guess my main point is for a vast majority of stories the movie is such a pale imitation theres no reason to see it if you've already read the book. if you've no desire to enjoy the movie version wathing it forst would indeed be a bad idea. So do you often find you can enjoy a movie after reading a book its based on?  I do agree that the literary art is almost always a better bet then the film adaptation though.

"Dark Side of the Moon" would be amazing too.

 

I see what you did there...

 

excellent idea...he could do "The Story of The  Hare Who Lost His Spectacles" in his animated cardboard cut out style !

 

would be

omg

 

 

 

I always found it sad that Tommy was destroyed by Ken Russell and made to look like a bunch of losers and idiots just stoned and ripped senseless, and a good story was wasted.

 

- Nektar's Remember the Future

- Nektar's Recycled (pushing it a bit, though!)

- Le Orme Felona e Serona

- Gong's Trilogy is actually a story, btw ... but not sure anyone can film this at all! Just think, sex, drugs, rock'n'roll ... what more could you want in a movie?

- Anthony Phillips - The Geese and the Ghost

- Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime

 

Several of Peter Hammill's albums fit in this area. I always thought "Silent Stage, Empty Corner" is no different than "Lamb" or "The Wall". Some of his solo material might fit also ... "Skin" is not an appreciated album, much, but it is excellent from the first piece to the last ... and makes for a wonderful film where the lover leaves, and the story can be told in retrospect, all the way to ... that person's death! (4 pales of water ... salt ... etc! Because of Peter's way to express words and sing them, his work is very visual and intense.  I'm not even sure that "H to He" is not a story of a man waking up and finding out what he is made of. And that house with no door, is now here and he knows that he is the door!

 

Ange - Par Les Fils de Mandrin ... or even Caricatures, which is one of their most theatrical pieces.

 

(more as I come up with it -- have to think on these)

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RoyFairbank wrote: ... Lamb Lies Down would have been cool ...

 

Yes, and it would be magnificent and already have a ready made audience. Sadly, all of Genesis, and specially Pete, will be totally dead adn gone before this gets done. Pete, obviously, has gotten too lazy in his lifetime with his fame, chasing dolls and what not, in order to do something serious and valuable. I think the only thing he has done since Lamb that has been worth more than just a rock song for the radio, was the soundtrack for the film he did with Scorcese ... and even then, that is music and work that he did not appreciate or take advantage of. Pete, for all intents and purposes could/should/would have been another Roger  (perhaps not as angry!) and I think his work would have been much more important ... but as he said in his interview that showed up at the Melody Maker center page ... he was disappointed that the rock gods did not like Lamb (the reviews at the time were not kind at all -- and specially after Yes, Jethro Tull and others got trashed for doing long things! ... and he wanted to go do something else. He went solo ... and that was it ... just another rock band out there ... nice songs ... so what is my usual reflection on this ... I can appreciate his work, one or two pieces per album and that's about it! The rest? ... pop music filler for my ears!

Or ... if he is not too old by now ... Nicholas Roeg ... he did a piece that is very similar to what "A Passion Play"  in the film "Aria". And we know that Nicholas Roeg was a master of using rock music in his films ... going as far back as "Performance".

 

This would make a really good film ... but it would be such a massive put down to the "classic music folks" and their stuck up attitude that I am not sure that Terry Gilliam would be a good one to do this film. Nicholas Roeg has already done an anti establishment film (and then some!) with "The Man Who Fell To Earth" that is not a pleasing film when it comes to that ... spot!  The story/film would probably have to go back 100 years or so ... or the vitriol that would come out of it would be really nasty! Sort of another Amadeus with the focus on story telling and a ballet to end it, and the final image is the cover of the album

 

Terry Gilliam, however, might be a good director for "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" ... which could take on elements that are similar to 12 Monkees and such!