Thanks..like it when something new to me is posted.
Gives me a chance to expand.
Listening to it now.

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Including (off the top of my head) another Irish-legend based one (The Tain), and some about the Irish immigrant experience in American (The Men Who Built America and Aliens). They also have some featuring traditional music (Drive the Cold Winter Away). Regardless of the source material, their music has always sent me into another realm of consciousness, somehow.

I listened to it along side Exile on Main Street as an experiment once & it's really impressive how well they go together.

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Also, I think the same thing about "Eye in the Sky" by the Alan Parsons Project.

I have done Saturday housework with albums of Emerson, Lake and Palmer..just turn up the volume and the awesome sound follows you.


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Narrated by Richard Burton, soaring vocals by Justin Hayward (Moody Blues). One of my all-time favorites. My sister gave me a copy when we were both stationed in Germany (at different bases), and I have since purchased several other versions/formats.

Sample from middle of story:

Sir Burton with his perfect Welsh voice and love the soundtrack.

Thanks...I will be hunting out this album. Share with the grandson.

I have a few Henrique Alvim Correa prints hanging in my place from his illustrated
interpretation of the novel “War of the Worlds.”



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Concept album.

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I got this album in 1977 when it came out probably attracted by the fact that a couple of singers I liked (Annie Haslam and David Cousins) were on it but I've always really enjoyed the whole thing. I can't find the whole album on YouTube but this is my favorite song from it - Starship Jingle - I think this has to be one of the catchiest songs ever written!

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I will search out more from Inter Galactic Touring Band.

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music from the 60's! (Probably my favorite era for music!)

Wish you Were Here, Animals, and Dark Side of the Moon. and The Wall has been mentioned.

Also a number of other prog rock bands. Yes had a few great albums like Relayer, Close to the Edge. but perhaps those were only one side of a record being a concept as opposed to the whole album.

One Yes double album concept was Tales from Topographic Oceans. This set has been much maligned as over indulgent, too pretentious, too long, etc...but I disagree, it can still take you on a musical journey that only Yes can do. When I was younger, and seemingly had more time on my hands, having a little puff, putting on headphones, or cranking up the volume if no one else was there, laying back and immersing oneself in TFTO all four sides, was a trip and a half.

and it seems to be a tradition that has carried on over time.

I have heard listeners say that The BeeGee's, "Odessa", The
Beach Boys',"Pet Sounds" and Bob Dylan's ,"Gotta Serve Somebody"
are concept, and who am I to disagree.

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Not so for John Lennon;
"Pepper is called the first concept album, but it doesn't go anywhere. All my contributions to the album have nothing to do with this idea of Sgt. Pepper and his band; but it works 'cause we said it worked," Lennon said in 1980. ... Every other song could have been on any other album."

So, I'll go with my second choice "Tommy" by The Who....(saw "Tommy" performed live in London the fall of '72)

Followed closely by "Thick as a Brick" by Jethro Tull

search out meaning in the flow of songs presented on albums by
artists I respected and enjoyed.

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Jon Anderson from Yes, and Vangelis who did the Chariots of Fire soundtrack. One side reflects more 'heaven' and the other 'hell'.

Almost completely instrumental, progressive, and powerful

beginning and towards the ending.
And I like the humming part, something we all do along with music but
rarely hear recorded.

I like this very much. Thanks for posting.

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I'm glad you got to listen to it.

If anyone is going to do that theme it's gotta be Vangelis and Jon


If you liked that, I wonder how much other J & V you or others have heard. They did a number of albums together.

This is a favorite of mine. "Short Stories" More gentle in a lot of ways than Heaven and Hell. Love stories and the like.

Here's the back cover.




One nice song from the album, (someone put to visuals)

You could find others from the album on YouTube.

cheers!

I can find as I putter around the house.


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I was "in the middle of it" when this album came out, and it's engraved on my brain.

I was desperately trying to hold on to whatever remains or the past in the LA Punk scene.

So I remember hearing Alice in Chains and deciding they were grunge
and then hearing songs by the band over the years I realized they were much more and metal.

I listened to this album and I'll listen again. Thanks for sharing this.


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Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins is the first of three experimental albums released by John Lennon and Yoko Ono on Apple Records. It was the result of an all-night session of musical experimentation with Yoko in John's home studio at Kenwood, while his wife, Cynthia Lennon, was on holiday in Greece.[2] Their debut recording is known not only for its avant-garde content, but also for its cover which features the couple naked: This made the album controversial to both the public and the parent record company EMI, which refused to distribute it. In an attempt to avoid controversy, the LP record was sold in a brown paper bag, and distributed by Track and Tetragrammaton in the United Kingdom and the United States respectively. Two Virgins, while failing to chart in the UK, reached number 124 in the US. The album was followed six months later by Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions.

They seemed to be the natural progression in life that John
wanted to expand his art.

John said he believed this experimental music concept could change the people who listened to it.

I have listened to "Two Virgins." But not the two other Unfinished Music releases.

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But grew up to understand life.

He needed Yoko. That’s it.

Ya love who you love

What do you expect? I'm a Boomer.

and I would recommend any body to listen to both of these albums accordingly.

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So far it is grand and very representative of it's Title.

The 1970's was a highlight for me in all genre of music.

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sings with had them learning and performing Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" last year and featured the song in their Spring Concert.
Now that shows you the power of a composer and his songs, that it can translate through time and age.
And Jennifer Warne's voice..is a thing of beauty.

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Not a bad way to start Friday A.M. listening to King Diamond.

The bio says one of the band’s influence was Arthur Brown and that works for me.

At this time I am following new releases from bands from Germany, France and Croatia, among others.

Music rules the World.

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Even into his sixties King crushes those notes live. Hell, he sounds better now than he did in the 80’s. His shows are performance art at its finest. The music, the acting, the stage set, everything. His stories truly come to life on stage.

Check out this live clip to get an idea of what the concerts are like.

From 1964, one of the first “Americana” albums.

unapologetic voice for the plight of the American Indians.

Thank you for sharing these songs here.

Johnny felt rejection from some in both the Popular music and Country music
establishments for his rendition of Pete La Farge's "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" which tells the story of society's rejection of an American Indian War hero.
Many in the business felt the lyrics were too sensitive for a mass audience.
We here know what that means...

I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't love to hear Johnny tell his stories and sing his songs.

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1) Radiohead - Ok Computer

Because it just f***ing is ... one of the unquestionably top 10 all-time records of all time, and it's a concept album, so ... there.

2) Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin

The 'dad' on the bench in the vid is Steven Drodz, multi-instrumentalist and main music writer of the record ... who was strung out on the hard dope for the making of the record (nevertheless, it's a brilliant concept record) ... I imagine he's supposed to be dope-sick on the bench there ... but the record is about way more than drugs ...



3) U2- The Joshua Tree

I shouldn't have to explain this choice ... the smash hits were great, but this one, and Red Hill Mining Town ... were the records beating hearts IMHO ... concept album, unbelievably good, and probably the end of an era ... no rock band ever again captured the universal hype of Joshua Tree, it was Beatlesque, I was there ... many times



4) The Cure - Disintegration

It's about all your shit falling apart ... so, a concept album

Don’t know a lot about Radiohead. I watched the video you posted and will search out more
especially from the “Ok Computer” album.

I love the fun and crazy Flaming Lips music documentary “The Fearless Freaks”. I own it
and watch it often.

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Okay ... well, you should just buy it

Familiar with RateYourMusic? Millions of reviews from all over the world ... it's like 15 years old ...

https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/all-time