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    Posted: April 11 2008 at 09:10

I thought I'd throw out a thread to list all the albums we can name that have what I call recurring music themes, even though there is another name for it. What I refer to is a few bars or more of a music interlude that is repeated later in the CD, or even a few times, either in the same way or with a slight modification.

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Pink Floyd - The Wall (think Another Brick in the Wall)
Pink Floyd - Animals (Pigs on the Wing)
Genesis - Trick of the Tail (Los Endos goes back to Dance on a Volcano and Squonk)
Dream Theater - SFAM (multiple instances of a recurring theme)
Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite
 
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Points: 7606 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2008 at 09:12
there's a lot of reprisals between Magma's "MDK" and "Theusz Hamtaahk". they might be leitmotifs seeing as their classic albums are all conceptual anyway.
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Genesis - Selling England by the Pound (Dancing with the Moonlith Knight and Aisle of Plenty)
RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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Points: 2506 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2008 at 09:38
On Pain of Salvation albums therre are more from them, the most on The Perfect Element.
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Ah, I do love a well placed recurring theme or motif. Let's see if I can think of any off the top of my head...

Dream Theater's Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (on the second disc, but maybe it doesn't count since it's technically all one song Confused)
The Who's Tommy (everywhere)
Spock's Beard's Snow (lots of these in rock operas anyways)
Supertramp's debut (Surely surely!)

That's all I can think of for now.
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Depending on how much you want:

Thick Brick. As a. - Some very nice variation on things from the first side on the second side.

Passion Play. A. - A few recurring things, even if it's not as neat as those on TAAB.

Animals - Some fiddling around with sound effects that come around again, and a two-part opener and closer.

Selling England By The Pound, as already mentioned.

Days Of Future Passed - some obvious repeats of earlier themes in the context of the present song.

The Power To Believe - the theme.

Hamburger Concerto - Birth/Early Birth

Darktown (Steve Hackett) - Darktown Riot is basically a reworking of the title track, pretty obviously.

The Wall's real recurring theme is that amazing Hey You - Waiting For The Worms - The Trial riff. The best thing about the album, in my opinion.
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Originally posted by TGM: Orb TGM: Orb wrote:


The Wall's real recurring theme is that amazing Hey You - Waiting For The Worms - The Trial riff. The best thing about the album, in my opinion.


It also appears in Another Brick pt. 2 Smile

Lamb Lies Down on Broadway -> Carpet Crawlers

"I'm a dinosaur" - Adrian Belew

"I am a camera" - Trevor Horn

"I am yourself" - Keith Emerson
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Dream Theaters Octavarium is an album based around those recurring themes, first one i thought of.

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Since I've been listening to it a lot lately I'd have to add "Quadrophenia" to this mix, as well.
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I think that Triumvirat's "Spartacus" repeats the melody from the opening song at least once during the album.
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A few more,

Zappa's Uncle Meat (those variations)
Henry Cow - Leg End (Teenbeat and Nirvana For Mice reprises 2-3 times each)
Gentle Giant - Power and the Glory (Proclamation and Valedictory)
Supertramp - Crime of the Century (the harmonica at the end of the song is the same as the intro to School)
 
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Points: 10665 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2008 at 21:25
Originally posted by Chicapah Chicapah wrote:

Since I've been listening to it a lot lately I'd have to add "Quadrophenia" to this mix, as well.


Absolutely. First one that comes to mind for me as well. Almost repeated a little too much, according to me. No doubt about its continual recurring though.
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Points: 8052 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2008 at 22:18
Just throwing out

In The Wake Of Poseidon has those Peace sections.

Wind & Wuthering (I swear!) has bits of the later instrumentals included very effectively in One For The Vine. I could be wrong, since I'm very tired at the moment, but that's how I remember it.

The Lamb also has a bit of repetition in Silent Sorrow In Empty Boats and Ravine.
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Points: 87 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2008 at 23:33
Well, the heartbeats in The Dark Side of the Moon.
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Points: 2614 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2008 at 23:45
I don't know whether it was accidental or on purpose, but throughout 10,000 Days Adam Jones plays the same lick.  I feel like its sort of an idée fixe though because its the same in at least 4 or 5 songs.  But maybe I'm just over thinking it and its just a sweet lick. Just seemed a bit too distinctive to be a lick though.
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on "Meetings with Men-Machines - Unremarkable Heroes of the Past" byy the British Amon Düül there is an unnamed short instrumental piece that appears as opener and as a kind of bridge between all tracks


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Well, here are a few others not yet mentioned, off the top of my head:

The Dear Hunter: Act II... and that one also has some themes from Act I
Spock's Beard: Snow
The Mars Volta: Frances the Mute
Coheed and Cambria: all of them
The Lawrence Arms: The Greatest Story Ever Told (not a prog album)
Neal Morse: Sola Scriptura
The Flower Kings: Unfold the Future & Stardust We Are
Transatlantic: Bridge Across Forever
 
 
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Points: 180 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 14 2008 at 20:51
Originally posted by Bj-1 Bj-1 wrote:

Zappa's Uncle Meat (those variations)


Not to mention, ahem, his entire oeuvre. Conceptual continuity!
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Duke: "Duke's End" is pretty much a reprise of "Behind the Lines."
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