70s scifi concept album - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Braka wrote:

If we're flinging around ideas, I might as well admit that one of the first things that came into my head was the Hawklords album '25 Years On'. It was a one-off, was British, had a monotone (though not dark) cover, and was (apparently) about a huge corporation running everything:

"The entire concept found it's epitome in the accompanying tour-booklet... a huge futuristic mega-trust named PAN-TRANSCENDENTAL INDUSTRIES, that lined out it's futuristic techno-economical visions of the entire planet's future... - based on it's own word of the "industrialisation of religion"

- from Knut Gerwers site

And they even had an (admittedly small) logo on the front cover, with the phrase 'Reality you can rely on'

But it also had 'Hawklords' scrawled across the cover in shocking pink, plus considering the level of obscurity you've already eliminated, I doubt you'd have missed this.

God I loved that song "Psi Power", which got a lot of airplay on the Carleton U radio station in Ottawa at the time. Is the rest of the album good?

i know not a prog band and all the songs are not about space but BOSTONS debut album and KANSAS MONOLITH are in opinion, are space /concept albums 70,s

kenethlevine wrote:

God I loved that song "Psi Power", which got a lot of airplay on the Carleton U radio station in Ottawa at the time. Is the rest of the album good?

Well it's Robert Calvert singing with a 70's incarnation of Hawkwind, so it's never going to be bad :) - that being said it's not as good as 'Quark' or 'PXR 5' on either side of it, but if you don't mind the more stripped back new-wavish style and production, yeah, it's good. 'PSI Power' is definitely one of the best tracks, but 'Age of the Micro Man' and '25 Years' are keepers, too. There's nothing bad that I can remember on it, though 'Flying Doctor' has Calvert indulging his obsession with comedy and aircraft again, in a way which fans of Brock's cosmic seriousness may not find appealing!

Yeah, I like it.

Boston's debut isn't a concept album. It consists of songs that had existed at the time for many years, some under different titles, as the band had operated pre-contract under a different name (Mother's Milk). The songs were all re-recorded versions of those that circulated on the band's submission demo to various labels.

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Why did rgodfrey remove his posts?

"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy

Wasn't there an R Godfrey from the group "The Enid". He was the guy who arranged the orchestra on the early BJH albums, and sued the band for compensation when they finally achieved commercial success without the orchestra. He lost.

What if we're the ones imagining this whole conversation?

My prog band - Boreal Kinship

maybe he realized that the album was something of his dreams and never existed, and was embarrassed?

^ He still should let us know.......and he’s most likely reading this thread as we go along.

Edited by Tom Ozric - December 11 2018 at 15:50

Tom Ozric wrote:

^ He still should let us know.......and he’s most likely reading this thread as we go along.

I don't know, he hasn't visited since Sunday.

Edited by Atavachron - December 11 2018 at 16:19

"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy