Concept? Write your own..

Not enough time for all that detail, but I've always had the idea for a concept album that dealt with all the religions of the world. A guy going on some journey through them all.

OR

The world is destroyed in the future by a nuclear war, and a lone scientist (possibly the one who designed the weapon that destroyed us?) takes off into space in his own rocket. He passes by all the planets.
The music would be based off "The Planets" by Gustav Holst.

Yea, dumb ideas....but always been in my head. I'd love to make them one day

I will think about this. However, here's a title (totally unrelated to my concept; I just thought of this)

Scenes from the Dark Side of a Thick Brick Wall in the Centre of the Earth

Bumping this thread because it is an awesome idea that is not rehashed discussion.

Also,

This is what would have happened if Genesis hadn't done The Lamb, but instead a concept album based on a best selling young-adult book:

GENESIS presents S.E.Hinton's The Outsiders

After all, it is a very "prog" novel as it even has a bookending paragraph (if that's the right word)

Now, many of you propably haven't read the book, so little explanation of the storyline is given in the track listning. After the introduction (Steve, Tony and Mike play 12-string guitars and Peter Gabriel sings whatever he feels right, in a very cool costume of course) we are told about the battery of Johnny, one of the main characters. Instead of telling this in a sad way, the band deals with the subject using their trademark quirkiness:
Robbery, assault and battery
This has happened long before the actual beginning of the story, so in this point, a passage of time is depicted. It is time for the middle section on Get 'em out by friday.

The next significant scene takes place in a drive in cinema. The perfect musical piece for the situation is of course  The cinema show.

Once the show is over, Ponyboy (the protagonist of the story) returns home, and his brother, Darryll (the first time Mr.Struemer is given lead vocals) gets really mad as it is really late. The resultant song was given new lyrics in 1991 and used in the "We can't dance" -album:
No brother of mine.

Our hero runs away (time for a Gentle Giant cover?) and meets Johnny. The two go to the park, where they encounter with Johnnys batterers by a fountain; The fountain of Bob (as you can notice, the name of the song has become quite stupid, but it had to be changed as there are no ancient greek nymphs around).

A fight takes place and due to the rather brutal results, the dynamic duo must escape to a little town called Vindrixville. They hide in an abandoned church. Johnny brings food from the local grocery store, so - I know what you're thinking - Supper's ready (the Apocalypse in 9/8 section may have to be omitted for obvious reasons)

I don't want to give you too much of the story (if you don't know it already). Things happen, and some of the characters find themselves from The waiting room of a hospital.

Near the end there is a gang fight. That's why we're here in The battle of Epping forest, the battle of Epping forest right outside your door...

A tragic event is relocated to a window ledge in Dally the barrell.

The stage show of the album features the members of the group portraying the various characters.
The "star" of the show, Ponyboy, is youngest of three brothers. He could be described as a little guy, so his part is of course played by Phil Collins. Johnny is John Hackett and his brother Steve's character is called... Steve. Then there is Two-bit Matthews, who keeps making fun of everything all the time. Let's imagine that these "bits" are guitar parts. Necks to be more specific. Thinking about it that way, he can only be Mike Rutherford. Today, there must be at least one black guy in everything (wich is great). This time, it's going to be Chester Thompson as Sodapop, the third brother who is aged between Ponyboy and Darryl.
This leaves us with Peter Gabriel and Tony Banks. PG has the honour of being Dally (not to be confused with Darry [Struemer]) and Tony is left with the part of... well there's no one left. Maybe we'll have to increase the number of his keyboard solos.

A rather silly idea, but why not?

The Longest Day (24:56:32)

Ambitious...

Cat (2008):
1. Dawn (1:03)
2. Wild thing (7:48)
3. Jellied Nasties called Cat Food (13:01)
4. Sleep/Thrown out/Sleep (reprise) (9:19)
5. When everyone in the house are asleep: (30:44)
          a) The breakout
          b) The lookaround
          c) The hunt/The Prey
          d) The re-entrance
          e) The gory playtime
           f) The show-off

1. Morning after/Thrown out prey/Brekfast (16:08)
2. Sleep (second Reprise) (2:52)
3. The gentle art of Laziness: (15:17)
          a) Yawn
          b) Drool
          c) ...
          d) Lazy Epiologue
4. Playtime madness (9:01)
5. Cats are better than Dogs (18:25)

Meh...

Okay, hmm, lemme think...I only fronted the world's worst prog rock band for a while, so oughta be king at this sorta thing...here's a concept EP for ya!

^ Luckily, in several years time this page will become entrapped in a blackhole created at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (mk2) and waft back through the annals of time, (pausing briefly to look at today to see it's own crreation), before continuing further back to an era when spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures of several different species really did gather together in a cave to listen to a Pict. And just maybe, a person from that era, not unrelated to that very Pict, would read these words and say - "Hmmm... there's an idea".

Edited by Dean - September 22 2008 at 17:56

This album has no name, but anyway,

The story takes place on a distant planet called Volkswagen. The protagonist, a young lady named Sofia Kleinbus, is the daughter of an engineer who's building a space ship so that he can one day go fishing into outer space like his grandfather did during the great depression when fish was really expensive. But Sofia is a vegetarian who doesn't eat fish, so she doesn't want his father to finish the ship. She hides his tools in the garden where he can't find them, because it's a secret garden where only Sofia can go in her dreams. But suddenly a mad scientist captures Sofia and takes her into his secret laboratory where he downloads the contents of her mind and uploads it into the mind of a stripper named Shirley who also plays chess. Now Shirley can also go the secret garden, which she does. She steals the tools and gives them to the mad professor who uses them to build a device which he plans to use to take over the world. (These are the only tools he can use to build it, because they're magical tools.) But suddenly there's a storm and the device gets all wet and the power is on, which means there's a huge explosion which opens the gates of the jail where the mad professor had earlier put Sofia. So now Sofia can go to her father and ask him to build a massive weapon to defeat the mad professor. Her father knows a blacksmith who makes tools to build weapons, so he buys some and builds the weapon, a huge cannon. But the mad professor has already moved to another planet with the stripper, and Sofia's father can't shoot him with the cannon because he doesn't know where he is. When a mad professor is hiding somewhere, it's nearly impossible to find him, so they don't even try. But soon it's summer again and they forget about the whole thing. This is where the album ends.

Then there's this epilogue where a giant muffin falls from the skies.


Edited by Vompatti - September 18 2008 at 16:42