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Ode to the Concept Album - Mooniverse Show #53
Greeting Mooniverseians.
This week starts off our 2nd year of broadcast with a look at the core of the playlists I ask you to build. We are going to delve into the history of the Progressive Rock Concept Album. (Please note that's "Progressive Rock"). This show is going to feature the very 1st Progressive Rock album and parts of the other albums of the time up for condieration. Then I'll toss in a salute to the Epic Tracks - a mainstay of progressive music. NOW - here's what I'd like you to do. Here in this thread I want to compile a list of what are considered Prog Concept Albums. I'm going to give you a few of the ones that we've already played and I'd like you to fill in the blanks. To do so you will need to use the "edit button" in this thread. You should have 4 buttons on the bottom right side of each thread posting, one of which is 'edit'. Click the one for the window you want to edit in the thread and add you titles, then save your results. Now, I may be incorrect and not all members have this nifty tool. If not, merely add a new reply including the albums you suggest and I will transfer them into the list. So, list away and have fun. Please list ARTIST, ALBUM, YEAR OF RELEASE. Thanks - see you on the corner. Dale
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ALBUM LIST
ARTIST - ALBUM TITLE - RELEASE YEAR Nektar - Remember the Future - 1974 Grobschnitt - Solar Music - 1978 Neal Morse- "?" - 2005 Triumvirat - Spartucus - 1975 David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - 1972 Genesis - Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - 1974 Rick Wakeman - Journey To The Centre Of The Earth - 1974 Roger Waters - Radio K.A.O.S - 1992 Aufklärung - De la tempesta ... l'oscuro piacere - 1994 Rick Wakeman - The Six Wives of Henry VIII - 1973 Singularity - Between Sunlight and Shadow - 2002 Magma Mëkanďk Kömmandöh - 1973 Frank Zappa - Joes Garage - 1987 Marillion - Brave - 1994 Jethro Tull- Passion Play - 1973 Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon - 1973 Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow - 1976 Michael Rutherford - Smallcreep's Day - 1980 The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - 1967 Richard Wahnfried - Time Actor - 1979 Gentle Giant - Three Friends - 1972 Pye Fyte - The Gathering of the Krums - 1998 PFM - Chocolate Kings - 1975 Spock's Beard - Snow - 2002 Nektar - Recycled -1976 (TobyT) Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence - 2002 Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed - 1967 Bo Hansen - Lord of the Rings -1972 Camel - Snow Goose - 1975 Harmonium - Si on Avait Besoin d'une Cinquieme Saison - 1975 The Who - Tommy (proggy in my universe) - 1969 (Actually classified as an Opera but can be stretched to fit definition of concept) The Who - Quadrophenia- 1973 (must be included if Tommy is) The Who - The Who Sell Out (1967) Pink Floyd's - Animals - 1977 (Gooze) GONG - Flying Teapot-1973 (Gooze) GONG - Angels Egg - 1973 (Gooze) GONG - You - 1974 (Gooze) CAMEL- Nude - 1981 (Gooze) SAGA - The Chapters Live - 2005. (Gooze) Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura - 2007 (Ted) Rick Wakeman - Myths & Legends of King Arthur - 1975 (Ted)
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I guess since I'm so special (or odd, depending on your point of view) as an admin I can edit. So......
Just use your reply to add new entries and I'll move them over. NO NEED TO COPY AND PASTE - wasted bytes and bits, and takes too ong to scroll thru. Thanks folks - have fun.
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Does a whole side of an album count as a concept? If not, at least they're epics.
In that category we have: MacDonald and Giles - Birdland - 1971 Nektar - Recycled -1976 Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells - 1973 Renaissance - Scheherezade & Other Stories (sorry Gooze) - 1975 ELP - Tarkus - 1971 Iron Butterfly - In a Gadda da Vida (proto prog) - 1968 and of course Yes - Close to the Edge - 1972 Full length concept album: Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence - 2002 Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed - 1967 Bo Hansen - Lord of the Rings -1972 Camel - Snow Goose - 1975 Harmonium - Si on Avait Besoin d'une Cinquieme Saison - 1975 The Who - Tommy (proggy in my universe) - 1969 Happy Turkey Day (Thanksgiving in Canada only), and remember to thank Bob for prog Good additions , but sorry, a side's worth of music is an epic and not a concept album. Tubular Bells is more a 12" single, no real story there (which is the heart of a concept album). Thanks for adding. Last edited by OverHillandDale : 10-10-2010 at 04:20 AM. |
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Well Toby I can understand you being a Dentist and all, that you would pick that Renaissance Cd. It is a great one to pull teeth to. (While heavily Sedated) lol.
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Hi Dale! The most obvious one I don't see listed is: 1) Pink Floyd's-Animals-1977 based on Roger Water's interpretation of George Orwell's Animal Farm. 2) Is actually a 3 Cd concept, The Radio Gnome Invisible Trilogy of Planet Gong's Pothead Pixies flying around in there Flying teapots and with the help of the Octave doctors bringing there listeners to a new consciousness. (Or in my case Unconsciousness from too many bong hits .) Later in the following discs you get the characters from planet gong introduced and finally in the 3rd disc you have it all come together in a cosmic revealing of your own self awareness. The discs are: GONG-Flying Teapot-1973, GONG-Angels Egg-1973, and GONG-You-1974. In that order 3) CAMEL-Nude-1981. This story of a WWII Japanese soldier who was forgotten on a Pacific Island for 20 years, unaware the war was over. 4) SAGA-The Chapters Live-2005. Saga finally puts the chapters in order and performs them live. This deserves it's own show, don't you think? 5) How to make a Burger is covered by: FOCUS-Hamburger Concierto-1974 Taken from a Brahms piece. I'll take mine Medium Well. With a cold one of course.
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Dale,
Adding to your list: Neal Morse, Sola Scriptura, 2007 Rick Wakeman, Myths & Legends of King Arthur, 1975 my 2 cents on an early Sunday AM. Regards fromTexas, Ted |
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Both are great stories in and of themselves. Those here from the US should pay careful attention to and heed Orwell's warnings of Animal Farm in correlation with the current US federal administration. ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL; SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.
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Alright gang - how could we get this far into the thread and not have picked up the Pink Floyds "The Wall" (1979) was not lisited. Also Floyds "The Final Cut" (1983) even though it was pretty much a bad Roger Waters self indulgence and not much of a Floyd cd, IMHO.
Also: Alan Parsons Project "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" (1976) Dream Theater "Metropolis Pt.2: Scenes from a Memory" (1999) Genesis "Duke" (1980) (Not sure if this one really qualifies but I'm throwing it in the mix.) Jethro Tull "Thick as a Brick" (1972) Yes "Tales from Topographic Oceans" (1973) Marillion "Missplaced Childhood" (1985) Triumvirat "Pompeii" (1977) Styx "Kilroy was Here" (1983) (Is this really prog?) That's all I can think of at the moment. Prog On! Diff_Drummer
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Frank Zappa's 1966 Freak Out album is considered by some to be one of, if not "the", 1st prog concept albums. Of course all FZ's records could be considered concept albums since they were all part of his Project/Object concept, to wit:
http://wiki.killuglyradio.com/wiki/P...Object_concept For concept albums in general, here's some food for thought: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept_album |
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just adding a few as they pop into my head:
i think pretty much all of robert calverts: capt lockhead and the starfighters lucky leif and the longships hype: the songs of tom mahler freq test tube conceived mike oldfield: incantations ommadawn hergest ridge eloy: power and the passion dawn ocean manuel gottsching: E2 - E4 phillip glass: (prog??? probably not, but we have some on the moon, so...) Einstein on the Beach Koyaniskaatsi (sp?) laurie anderson: United States, Parts 1 thru 4 Pater Hammill: The fall of the House of Usher Klaus Schulze: Dune and, probably a ton others |
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Hi Peeps,
I'm going to go out on a bit of a limb here. Hawkwind - Space Ritual Alive - 1973 "The Space Ritual show attempted to create a full audio-visual-cerebral experience, representing themes developed by Barney Bubbles and Robert Calvert entwining the fantasy of Starfarers in suspended animation traveling through time and space with the concept of the music of the spheres." Now THAT'S a concept!! When we lucky few, sorry Mortis, who went to one of the shows entered the theatre we were handed a fold up sheet with photos and text, written by Barney Bubbles, that outlined the story. I have to say it was a sonic experience I will never forget........neither will those who came to my 50th Birthday party and witnessed a rather drunken Keithie and Steve moshing to Brainstorm, totally embarrassing TLS Pam who was hiding under a table. Anyway...that's my 2 pees worth. |
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Hey that reminds me! Hawkwind's "Warriors on the Edge of Time" 1975, with Sci Fi Writer Michael Moorcocks (no jokes please) poetic narrative is probably their finest studio recording. Space Rock at it's best! Joe Bob sez "Check it Out"
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Correction to the above. My copy is a 1993. It's actually a 1975 DOH!
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There's also a link to a list of concept albums - but it's all different genres. Hence my starting a new list here just for us.
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I've still not had a show, but I've claimed "Three Friends" by Gentle Giant.
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Adding to the thread:
- Aphrodite's child - 666 (1972) - The Box - Black Dog There (2005) - The Box - Le Horla de Maupassant (2009) - Jack Lancaster and Robin Lumley - Marscape (1976) - PFM - Dracula (2006) - Various - Peter and the Wolf (1975) - Various - Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) (not sure this fits, but I think it could be considered progressive) I'll probably think of more later, but that's it for now. |
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I vote the California 99 I sent you, or the Mandalaband; Eye of Wendor.
I can think of more, but i will start with these! |
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Almost forgot, how about Zappa Joes Garage, classic concept LP!!
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