Lyrical Concepts - Your favourite... |
Post Reply | Page 12> |
Author | |
uduwudu
Forum Senior Member Joined: July 17 2007 Status: Offline Points: 2601 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Posted: June 24 2019 at 23:47 |
Big lyrical concepts from the days when people had attention spans... Vote for your favourite or even the one you think is the best. I tried to keep them as close in the same time frame as one another but I considered Roger Waters' (Pink Floyd -Dark Side Of The Moon) would be the inevitable winner.
|
|
richardh
Prog Reviewer Joined: February 18 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 29166 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
|
The Wall. That album was massively important to me in my early twenties. Waters was the only musician speaking to me. |
|
Sean Trane
Special Collaborator Prog Folk Joined: April 29 2004 Location: Heart of Europe Status: Offline Points: 20399 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
|
from this list, Quadrophenia
But if you included TAAB, it would've gotten the nod easily (APP sucks)
|
|
Meltdowner
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: June 25 2013 Location: Portugal Status: Offline Points: 10273 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
|
TFTO for the music, I really don't care about the lyrics of any of those.
|
|
BaldJean
Prog Reviewer Joined: May 28 2005 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 10387 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
|
of these definitely "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway"
|
|
A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
|
octopus-4
Special Collaborator RIO/Avant/Zeuhl,Neo & Post/Math Teams Joined: October 31 2006 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 14501 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
|
Unfortunately it's in Italian, but there's a binch of concept albums by Fabrizio de Andre which would deserve a translation:
Non Al Denaro Non All'Amore Ne' Al Cielo (Not for Money, Not for Love not for Heaven) is based on Edgar Lee Masters "Spoon River". Some songs are pure poetry. La Buona Novella (The Good Novel) is about the apocriphal gospels: an alternative, medieval, view of the gospels from the announcement to the crucifiction. The second has been extended and re-released by PFM few years ago, but I still prefer the original version. I think I'll review those two...
|
|
I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution
|
|
Mormegil
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 03 2010 Location: NE PA Status: Offline Points: 7573 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
|
The Lamb gets the nod . . .
|
|
Welcome to the middle of the film.
|
|
MortSahlFan
Forum Senior Member Joined: March 01 2018 Location: US Status: Offline Points: 3050 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
|
Roger Waters: (Pink Floyd - The Wall)
|
|
https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition
https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
|
uduwudu
Forum Senior Member Joined: July 17 2007 Status: Offline Points: 2601 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
Just wondering if Anderson, Ian's allegory of eternal death after
life will match with Anderson, Jon's circle of life after death.
|
|
tboyd1802
Forum Senior Member Joined: June 01 2012 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 898 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
|
Quadrophenia..
|
|
He neither drank, smoked, nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally, saving his money, he died early, surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me -- John Barrymore
|
|
moshkito
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 04 2007 Location: Grok City Status: Offline Points: 17965 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
|
Hi,
GENESIS will probably run away with this one, although I prefer PASSION PLAY, with the obvious point that it is really hard to figure out and explain to people what the album is really all about. My main complaint about the GENESIS effort is one of the last pieces in the album ... it's a cop out, and destroyed the story and the staging for me, by bringing it back to just another pop song for the masses. My guess is that the producers and such wanted something more positive than the whole story, and they were not interested in "The Nekkid Lunch" version of rock music! BTW, Roger's album should not be listed ... ANGE had the same thing done 20 years before and it was vastly superior ... with the exception that in many places folks hate singers that don't kiss the as* in English. EMILE JACOTEY is a hundred times better than Roger's effort, which is almost a complete rip off, made just for the rock'n'roll masses!
Edited by moshkito - June 25 2019 at 06:31 |
|
Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
www.pedrosena.com |
|
twosteves
Forum Senior Member Joined: May 01 2007 Location: NYC/Rhinebeck Status: Offline Points: 4095 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
|
The Lamb is genius----but I like the cosmic spaciness of Tales.
|
|
TenYearsAfter
Forum Senior Member Joined: February 01 2018 Location: Aruba Status: Offline Points: 345 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
|
The Lamb Lies Down On Braodway, check out: The Annotated Lamb Lies Down On Broadway by Scott McMahan, very interesting read for more understanding about Peter Gabriel his lyrics. Edited by TenYearsAfter - June 25 2019 at 10:50 |
|
Manuel
Forum Senior Member Joined: March 09 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 13481 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
|
I voted for Ian Anderson, though followed very closely by Peter Gabriel and Jon Anderson. Roger Waters is a little behind.
|
|
Man With Hat
Collaborator Jazz-Rock/Fusion/Canterbury Team Joined: March 12 2005 Location: Neurotica Status: Offline Points: 166183 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
|
APP
|
|
Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
|
The Dark Elf
Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: February 01 2011 Location: Michigan Status: Offline Points: 13184 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
|
A Passion Play. The most lyrically complex of the selections offered.
|
|
...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
|
HackettFan
Forum Senior Member Joined: June 20 2012 Location: Oklahoma Status: Offline Points: 7951 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
|
The Lamb of course
|
|
A curse upon the heads of those who seek their fortunes in a lie. The truth is always waiting when there's nothing left to try. - Colin Henson, Jade Warrior (Now)
|
|
verslibre
Forum Senior Member Joined: July 01 2004 Location: CA Status: Offline Points: 18378 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
|
APP>TFTO>TLLDOB
|
|
Frenetic Zetetic
Forum Senior Member Joined: December 09 2017 Location: Now Status: Offline Points: 9233 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
|
I'm definitely a Yes maniac, but Gabriel's story on TLLDOB is incredibly novel and almost untouchable in both its beauty and complexity. Tales is fantastic, but it is a little verbose and is essentially a super-stoned expansion of a footnote from a (good) book. Not belittling, but Gabriel's message was a little more in depth for me!
|
|
"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
|
essexboyinwales
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 27 2015 Location: Bridgend Status: Offline Points: 5215 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
|
The Wall, of these...
|
|
Post Reply | Page 12> |
Forum Jump | Forum Permissions You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum |