Concept? Write your own..

This nameless 4-song EP is more like art-pop than prog, but I think it might pass as Crossover Prog. Instead of explaining what the songs are about I here provide short excerpts of their lyrics:

1. Daylight Losing Time (4:30)
Turn off the light / and turn the pointers on your clock so you can dream / of the moments that were lost in time...

2. My Girl Is a Dressmaker (2:56)
With a needle in her hand and fabric on the other she is made for me / yes, she is made for me / but her dresses are made for her...

3. Every Time I Talk Like a Swede (I Lose Control) (4:45)
Scandinavia, you've got my by the tongue / with your swell pronounciations / and those charming punctuations / oh, every time I lose control...

4. Last Words of a Depressed Literary Critic (3:37)
La la la, la la la / la la laa laa la laa / la la laa, la la laa laa la laa / if I had a dog I'd name him Franz...

If you're wondering what the concept is, it's "Songs about some things that are not closely related to each other."

Vompatti wrote: An Incomplete List of Things to Hold on to when You're Drowning, Op. 21½ The name says it all. The music consists of instrumental pieces varying from orchestral music (Ladder) to ambient (Log) to noise (Witch). 1. Boat (3:45) 2. Oar (2:33) 3. Log (3:57) 4. Rope (6:13) 5. Ladder (5:58) 6. Duck (1:46) 7. Witch (12:47)

^ These are brilliant!  

Touch Me, I'm Russian

This story takes place in the year 2054, when 99% of the people living in Finland are foreigners. One day, September 25th to be exact, a man working at the statistics bureau notices that in Finland there are in fact people from every nation in the world. Of course he gets the idea that Finland must try to make it to the Guinness Book of Records by making a world record in the new game called "Touch a member of every nation in the world within the borders of one country in alphabetical order." The game goes like this: First an Albanian touches an Australian, then the Australian touches an Austrian and so on, until a member of every nation has been touched (Except the Albanian, who has to touch himself.)

However, this is only the backstory (and thus it's printed on the back of the record sleeve). The album focuses on one moment in the touching game, a moment when a Romanian beauty queen is supposed to touch a Russian person. It turns out that every Russian person happens to be on a holiday outside Finland, except one, a hideous old man who smells like cabbage and has no teeth at all except one that is green and brown. So, this is the man that the Romanian beauty queen has to touch. (I'd like to make it clear that not all Russian people smell like cabbage, this man is a very rare exception. In fact, some Russian people smell very nice indeed, but they have nothing to do with this story.) Anyway, the Romanian beauty queen, who smells very nice, is very much disgusted by the man she's supposed to touch. This is why it takes a very long time (42 minutes and 53 seconds to be exact) to make up her mind and touch the man. The lyrics of the one song on the album consist of the thoughts in the woman's head from the moment she's touched to the moment she touches the Russian man.

Tracklisting:
A1: Touch Me, I'm Russian, Part I (20:56)
B1: Touch Me, I'm Russian, Part II (21:57)

Last Sight

magnus wrote: Currently working on the tracklisting for the first track of my epic concept album: A day at school. Track 1: The Awakening (time unknown as of now) The Awakening Pt. 1: Premature Awakening  - A Dream  - Snapping Brutally Out of a Dream  - Disoriented Haze  - Time Pt. 1: Panic!:          - What's the Time?      - Where's My Watch?     - Did I Oversleep?  - Time Pt. 2: Relieved:     - Apparently Not     - Two Hours Until Alarm Clock Rings   The Awakening Pt. 2: Falling Back Into Sleep  - Too Awake to Fall Asleep  - I Need Sleep!  - Desperate Cries for the Sandman  - The Wait  - Success!  - The Sleeper Sleeps The Awakening Pt. 3: The Second Awakening:  - The Alarm Clock / Snapping Brutally Out of a Dream With Outside Help      - Where Is that Sound Coming From?     - Where Is the Snooze Button? / Where Is The Hammer?     - Thousand Pieces(It Was Either Me Or It)  - Snooze  - Time Pt. 3: Time Again:     - What's The Time? Revisited     - The Alarm Clock Is Broken     - The Time Is Unknown, But One Thing Is Certain: I'm Late  - Getting Up Physically:     - Pants     - Wrong Way / Pants Pt. 2     - What Shirt To Wear?     - Who Needs Shirts Anyway?     - On Second Thought: I Do     - Fully Dressed(Almost) Planning on making a bonus track connected to Awakening Pt. 3, called "The Quest To Find A Pair Of Matching Socks" As I mentioned, this is in the works! The music has not yet been created, only the idea for the concept! The next parts will propably be called "Breakfast" and "The Journey From Home To School", and even more parts after that, and I've yet to decide whether the different parts of this epic masterpiece will be tracks or albums... Depends how much work I'll put into it(If any at all), I guess.  :edit: and yes, in case you wondered, I was heavily inspired by Trouserpress' brilliant concept(and Bj-1's to some extent).

You forgot "A Rude Awakening", in which the protagonist finally wakes up and notices he has dreamt all this and is 2 hours late for work!

Vompatti wrote:   5. The Story of a Fisherman Who Slayed a Dragon with a Spoon (25:44)

Vompatti wrote: how long do you think you could hold on to a duck?

never use this sentence out of context. Please.

Vompatti wrote: An Incomplete List of Things to Hold on to when You're Drowning, Op. 21½ The name says it all. The music consists of instrumental pieces varying from orchestral music (Ladder) to ambient (Log) to noise (Witch). 1. Boat (3:45) 2. Oar (2:33) 3. Log (3:57) 4. Rope (6:13) 5. Ladder (5:58) 6. Duck (1:46) 7. Witch (12:47)

It's a shame that something named "Duck" on a concept album last only 1:46. Not even Jethro Tull would dare to do that!

The Age of Human Ovens

This album tells an exciting story that takes place in the distant future, in the year 2008. It's the story of love, it's the story of freedom, but most of all it's the story of a dinosaur. Mankind has used all the oil on the planet and is desperately seeking a new source of energy. Luckily scientists discover that heat can be turned into electricity. The best way to produce heat is to put a cold metallic object into one's mouth and wait for it to warm up. This is why all men are locked into power plants where they are kept in cells and forced to warm metal in their mouths. The power plants are run by women in leather clothing, who keep an eye on men so that they do their job and don't swallow any of the metal. When the metal is warm, the men spit it into pipes which lead into a giant container where the heat is turned into energy. Once all the heat is used and the pieces of metal are cold again, they are returned to the cells to be reused.

The plot revolves around Miss Muriel Trout III, a young woman who works as a guard at a power plant, and Maximillian Fudge Jr, who's one of the metal warmers at the very same power plant. One day when Muriel is serving Maximillian his daily meal, their eyes meet and they instantly fall in love. Maximillian tries to think of a way to escape, so they could hide on a remote island and live happily ever after eating coconuts and bananas. Muriel baked him a cake and hides a pneumatic drill inside it. Maximillian makes a hole on the floor of his cell and escapes through it. They live happily ever after on a remote island eating coconuts and bananas. Then, suddenly, a professor named Crumbs discovers a living dinosaur in a hidden pyramid. THE END.

Tracklisting:

Act I

1. Looking for Energy
2. A Discovery
3. New Power Plants
4. Men as Ovens
5. The Guards in Leather Outfits
6. Don't Swallow the Metal!

Act II

7. Love at First Sight
8. An Escape Plan
9. Baking a Cake
10. Delivering the Drill
11. Making a Hole
12. The Escape
13. Coconuts and Bananas

Epilogue

14. A Journey to the Hidden Pyramid
15. Professor Crumbs Finds a Dinosaur