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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2013 at 12:23
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA7VIPEJTK4

"Behind the Barrier" from Planet P Project's Pink World.  Kind of a creepy video.  The rest of the album was excellent also.  Lots of sci-fi in it.

Hear all of Pink World here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNqSNmSx9uI
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2013 at 12:29
Sorry. That should have been TRITONUS (not Tritonious)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2013 at 16:59
Originally posted by Knobby Knobby wrote:

Sorry. That should have been TRITONUS (not Tritonious)

Thanks for your contributions!  

I love the music of Return To Forever, but since they were largely inspired by the bad sci fi of founder L. Ron Hubbard, I find some of their songs to be a stretch.  "Vulcan Princess" by Stanley Clarke, although a nice enough little song, has some cloyingly bad lyrics!

Vulcan Princess

Bold and strong girl

Yesterday you and me

Vulcan Princess

How I loved you

Through eternity


Vulcan Princess

Bold and strong girl

Always without fear

Vulcan Princess

How I loved you

Now I am here



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2013 at 17:08
Yup. Those lyrics do not do it for me either.

Pretty lame
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2013 at 17:47
Sci-fi Corp. - Sci Fi Dance Party (not exactly prog, more exploito. But I cant resist)
Larry Fast - Jupiter Menace
Artificial Intelligence - first contact ('84 US 500 copies)
Zeta Reticuli -same
Pinhas/Livengood - cyborg sally (Name "heldon" comes from Spinrad)
Prox - at last
Marge Litch - Fantasien
Ars Nova - Biogenesis project
 
 
Here is a truely scifi concept lp from my hometown. rare record:
Machines Have Landed - Part One   reality-like radio snippets between tracks concerning alien landing (I dont want to pull out the lp to check but band had either two keyboardists or two drummers. I have a trade copy if anyone interested)
 
 
Quizzer for the heads:
Italian instrumental prog lp where each track is a planet given a woman's name
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2013 at 18:04
Okay. I just noticed you stipulated single tracks as well as concept lps.
That is much easier:
 
Hawkwind - Uncle Sam going Mars
Strawbs - grave new world
Moody Blues -gypsy
Room-andromeda
Tandy & Morgan -under the blue
yes- ufo arriving
fm -phasers on stun
Slapran-attractive alternatives
Infinity-space shuttle suite
Andromeda-galaxy of beauty
Barrett- milky way
Guru Guru -space baby
Ethos-space brothers
Jerico-just in
Visitors -flatland
National health - straight on seaweed
Agathorn -85
McArthur-generations
Haack - program me
Wakeman - space oddity
Stewart Hamm - radiofree Abelmuth
Mythos-robot agents
Hillage - agents
Macdonald 8 Giles - tomorrows people
Genesis - get em out by friday
Sensations Fix -space...err summart
Black Sabbath - into the void
Lightdreams -farewell goodbye
Happy the Man - time considered as a helix
Principal edwards - halibut,milk & honey
Water- up the ladder
Vail - space creators
Aesgard -star
Chestnut Loke - starlight over skies
Birthcontrol - rescue
 
Oh yeah, that Dutch Arkus lp is a concept.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2013 at 21:09
Okay.
So how come none of you caught me out:  Arkus has nothing to do with sci-fi theme.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2013 at 22:26
Originally posted by Knobby Knobby wrote:

Okay.
So how come none of you caught me out:  Arkus has nothing to do with sci-fi theme.

Hey, thanks for reminding me of one of my all-time favorite album covers!! 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2013 at 22:44
Not really "scifi" but as bad assed as it gets from one of the greatest bands ever!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2013 at 22:48
... and of course the Jimi Hendrix song, 1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2013 at 23:00
Rick Wakeman - Journey (and Return) to the Center of the Earth as well as 1984
Magma - Most of their recorded output
Glass Hammer - Chronometree
Genesis - Domino
The Tangent - Not As Good As The Book
Le Orme - Felona e Sorona

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2013 at 01:52
Has anyone heard of Jon Anderson's "Zamran Experience"?  I just stumbled onto this....remarkable new material!  Very much in the vein of "Olias"! 





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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2013 at 03:22
Van der Graaf Generator - "Still Life": Many wouldn't think of this classic VdGG song as sci-fi because it's not about space travelling, etc, but Hammill has described it as a sci fi song in that the lyrics deal with a world where immortality is achieved, and the consequences of what seemed like a good idea (taking away the threat of death). I love the lines
 
Living through the millions of years
A laugh as close as any tear
Living, if you claim that all that entails is
Breathing, eating, defecating, screwing, drinking, spewing, sleeping,
Sinking ever down and down and ultimately passing away time
(Which no longer has any meaning)
 
That's some dark, twisted, scary, and funny stuff all at the same time (very Hammill)


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2013 at 05:30
Recently been diggin' Jupiter Society's stuff.  
Bigger on the inside.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2013 at 08:10
Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

Originally posted by Knobby Knobby wrote:

Okay.
So how come none of you caught me out:  Arkus has nothing to do with sci-fi theme.

Hey, thanks for reminding me of one of my all-time favorite album covers!! 


 
Intrestingly there was a ufo on the back cover and i thought there was one on the front upper corner too but I have a remastered cd with booklet and it;s not there. But online pics do show one on the back cover.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2013 at 10:08
Originally posted by Eetu Pellonpää Eetu Pellonpää wrote:

Here's one charming oldie with a sci-fi related theme Smile (progarchives page)


 



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2013 at 12:03
Originally posted by Aussie-Byrd-Brother Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote:

When I think of sci-fi prog, the first artist I personally think of is electronic guru Adelbert von Deyen, who's early work means so much to me, check out his first five album covers:





Beautiful, hypnotic and icy electronic sci-fi soundscapes, please look into them (but stay away from the `Eclipse' album, bit of a dud that one, as much as it pains me to say!)



woah, really cool! I have to check this guy out! The first two covers remind me of Klaus Schulze's early album covers!
Thanks for the recommendation!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2013 at 13:53
Those two coverarts are by von Deyen.
Its obvious he was dojng an Urs Amman.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2013 at 03:33
Originally posted by theopneustos theopneustos wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA7VIPEJTK4

"Behind the Barrier" from Planet P Project's Pink World.  Kind of a creepy video.  The rest of the album was excellent also.  Lots of sci-fi in it.

Hear all of Pink World here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNqSNmSx9uI
 
Yes, this is a stellar album! Tony Carey is a hell of a talent. He's released a slew of albums under the banners of prog rock, songcraft and instrumental electronic. Great singer, too. He's disgustingly multi-talented.
 
The song that reeled me in to Pink World is "To Live Forever"...a catchy song, like Genesis-meets-Rush minus Peart's drumming (and Tony sounds nothing like Phil or Geddy, of course).
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2013 at 12:14
Hi,
 
I'm really concerned with the way this thread is going ... people thinking that something is Sci-Fi, just because it has a title, or a lyric that mentions some person, character or event somewhere, in a book, or tv show.
 
I might as well tell you that I'm from Grugok and Pajkarenia and do not speak your language, and you would not believe me, so why would you believe anyone else ... ohhh yes ... consumerist society ... you see a CD, or album, or book, and that person is automatically annointed with the holy oils!
 
THAT is NOT "sci-fi" and what it was meant to show and express, in the form that something like a handful of films had, or a few writers, like Asimov, and others made you flip ... it was so out there! More than half this stuff listed here is not "sci-fi" at all ... it's just a lyric, but you believe it?
 
Strange!
 
I might look at the old LPs for Hawkwind, like "In Search of Space", "Space Ritual" and "DoReMi" ... and even the stories and art work, was some kind of a culture that was sci-fi related, via Michael Moorcock, but the one album with him, that we mention is the one, where he had the least influence on the material, and was instead replaced with his voice, to make it sound more ... sci-fi ... and he comes off just like Walter Wegmuller did in TaroT for the Cosmic Couriers ... !!!!!
 
If Sci-fi is an extra-ordinary world that we don't know, then, most of the music listed here is the worst example of sci-fi ever ... and it tells me that very few people have EVER, spent any time, actually reading science fiction, and that their idea of this is the comic book versions that appear in the movies! THAT is not "sci-fi" at all ... that's ENTERTAINMENT!
 
Don't insult "sci-fi" and its outstanding literary tradition! Please
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