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Poll Question: So, What is it?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
50 [16.08%]
28 [9.00%]
2 [0.64%]
2 [0.64%]
33 [10.61%]
13 [4.18%]
5 [1.61%]
5 [1.61%]
28 [9.00%]
8 [2.57%]
8 [2.57%]
3 [0.96%]
0 [0.00%]
5 [1.61%]
12 [3.86%]
16 [5.14%]
1 [0.32%]
44 [14.15%]
2 [0.64%]
6 [1.93%]
1 [0.32%]
6 [1.93%]
3 [0.96%]
7 [2.25%]
23 [7.40%]
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 17 2005 at 13:02

No "2112"?!  I'd have to go with that or possibly "Tarkus" (although "Pictures" is definately a terrific album!). 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 17 2005 at 13:28

^2112 is only one side of the album. Its not a concept album, its an epic song. Same with Tarkus

Yau can vote for epics here



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 17 2005 at 13:30
Oh, sorry, thanks for the link!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 17 2005 at 13:51
of what i've heard...i'd probably pick SFAM or TAAB.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 17 2005 at 17:39
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 17 2005 at 17:48
SFAM fallowed by The Human Equation and BE. Only one concept album from Pain Of Salvation?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2005 at 02:49
ARGHHHHHH! wheres animals?
nothin hes got he realy needs
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2005 at 02:54
Scenes From A Memory. But you already knew that.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2005 at 03:23
^I sure did
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2005 at 03:34

I chose "Pictures at an Exhibiotion", as it did great impression on me at my teens, and I still like to listen through it from time to time. "666" and "Lamb lies down..." are also good, but I find more boring parts from them, than I do from the ELP album.

There's many albums included in this poll, thath I haven't heard though.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2005 at 04:09

Hmm, just goes to show ... here I am a prog fan ... and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar takes it for me ... it really is an awesome album (I'm talking about the original soundtrack with Ian Gillan as Jesus) with a lot of creative musicians participating ... one of my favourites ever ... even beating out 5 star classics like Thick As A Brick and Six Wives ...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2005 at 04:33

Thick As A Brick!!!!

Claimed by the Tramp himself as the Mother of All Concept albums.

Funny (even hilarious at times) , thought-provoking , awesome, faultlessly executed, severely attacking the establishment ...... it's got everything, a man can wish for . The superb St Cleves chronicle is also a gas , all the way down to the wanted adds! But you might need the vinyl for that!

Too bad he did not see the light of it as he did A Passion Play!

 

As for rock operas, I love the broaway musical Haïr. Which came out as a superb film adaptation and the music transformed with a funky bass.

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prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
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as well as a thinker,
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2005 at 05:56

Seems I am the first one to vote for 666...

I think Tommy or Quadrophenia should have been here, too (like Jesus Christ Superstar, not that I would vote for them!!)

and War of the Worlds is forgotten!!! Considering the storm around the new movie, it's great negligence!

Listen to Turkish psych/prog; you won't regret:
Baris Manco,Erkin Koray,Cem Karaca,Mogollar,3 Hürel,Selda,Edip Akbayram,Fikret Kizilok,Ersen (and Dadaslar) (but stick with the '70's, and 'early 80's!)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2005 at 20:12
Of all forms and genres of music I've come across since first  buying an album at age 5, "Be" by PAIN OF SALVATION is the great one.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2005 at 23:03

I'd like to see a "none" option.

I know it sounds weird, but I dislike concept albums. I love epics, but I think all concept albums are contrived.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2005 at 16:10

Originally posted by thebourgeoisie8 thebourgeoisie8 wrote:

ARGHHHHHH! wheres animals?

Only one album par band, sorry. Vote for the Wall or 'other'. 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2005 at 18:24
Tough list, but I went with Lambs. It has so many different pieces and a great story line. It did have a lot of influence on my early years. Other opions, Dead Winter Dead should have been on the over Streets for a Savatage choice. I thinks it a much more powerfull story and better music. I also would choose A Passion Play over Brick. I like the melody and the imagery(?) better. This whole list is great though. You can't lose with any of them.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2005 at 19:35

Too tough, because some of them on the list are part of my life. I don't want to say what I voted, it's top secret. My favourite prog rock concept album "The Lamb Lies Down..." will surely win this poll, so I voted something else.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2005 at 21:01
Originally posted by The_Lamia The_Lamia wrote:

Too tough, because some of them on the list are part of my life. I don't want to say what I voted, it's top secret. My favourite prog rock concept album "The Lamb Lies Down..." will surely win this poll, so I voted something else.

And what did you vote for?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2005 at 23:30
^he said its top sectret
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