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Emperor 
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 Posted: February 14 2005 at 03:21 |
The epic from Rick Wakeman's COST OF LIVING album (1983, the last track) - the great ones both - and the track, and the story!
Frank Zappa: Longsome Cowboy Burt.
Gentle Giant - almost any track from 3 FRIENDS! 
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I Prophesy Disaster...
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Paco Fox
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Posted: February 14 2005 at 04:16 |
Folk rock has many story-driven songs, son The Strawbs followed that scheme in their early records. Not only 'Vision of the Lady in the Lake', but also their previous first epic 'The Battle'.
Horslips' "The Tain" is a complete story, but I suspect we are talking about songs, not concept albums.
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Trotsky
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Posted: February 14 2005 at 04:20 |
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Procol Harum's Keith Reid had provided us with more than a few over the
years ... A Salty Dog, Lime Street Blues and A Whiter Shade Of Pale
(even if I still occassionally change my mind about the exact meaning
of that that acid-drenched, Canterbury Tale-influenced love song) for
starters ... but there are literally dozens ...
Must admit two of my favourite story-tellers are non-proggers Al Stewart and Chris De Burgh ...
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"Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.”
"No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present."
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Lunarscape
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Posted: February 14 2005 at 20:12 |
Wakemans Journey To The Centre Of The Earth tells one hell of a story. !
Quite a few Pendragon Songs are pretty good stories too...
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Lunar
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Music Is The Soul Bird That Flies In The Immense Heart Of The Listener . . .
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Big Ears
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Posted: February 15 2005 at 10:48 |
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Karn Evil (or is it Eval?) 9 by ELP on Brain Salad Surgery tells of computers questioning the people that created them - 'I'm perfect, are you?'. This may sound unoriginal, but was ahead of its time in the early seventies. Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman on Love Beach is a story told through letters. It was considered inappropriate by the media, but rewards careful listening.
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Garion81
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Posted: February 15 2005 at 12:40 |
The story of an elderly man who's wife has recently died. In a long and desperate night see's here ghost underneath the light from a lampost outside his window is the story of The Lamplight Symphony by Kansas.
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"What are you going to do when that damn thing rusts?"
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frosty
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Posted: February 15 2005 at 17:31 |
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Twelfth Night - Sequences. The madness that was trench warfare in WW1.
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Paco Fox
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Posted: February 16 2005 at 03:46 |
 Garion81 wrote:
The story of an elderly man who's wife has recently died. In a long and desperate night see's here ghost underneath the light from a lampost outside his window is the story of The Lamplight Symphony by Kansas.
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That reminds me that Genesis' "Home by the sea" is about some ghosts being locked in some dreadful event of their past live and having to tell their story to anyone who enters the house. Not a proper story in the sense that it doesn't have a beginning, a middle and an end, but I read somewhere that it was inspired by an event in 'The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant', and I've always wondered if this was really so. Does anyone know?
Back to the main topic, I also like Al Stewart as a storyteller. I specially love his classic 'The Year of the Cat' (Prog connection: Alan Parsons producing), wich tales how he bumped into a woman when on holiday and spent the night with her, even loosing the tourint bus. It's very romantic, and it is said the events took place just in the area where I was born in the south of Spain.
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sigod
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Posted: February 16 2005 at 04:34 |
As storytellers go, Peter Blegvad of Slap Happy/Henry Cow fame know's
how to spin a mean yarn. The track 'King Strut' from one of his later
solo albums is a cracking story about a dreamer who goes from rags to
riches with the aid of a dying man's mystery gift, only to find out
he's dreamed the entire thing while at the window of a burning mental
asylum. Wild stuff!
And how can we forget Mr Waters and the Floyd... 
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
- Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill
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Cluster One
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Posted: February 16 2005 at 04:48 |
ivan_2068 wrote:
Well, Genesis has a lot:
- Can Utility and the Coastliners: Story of King Canute (or Knute) of Norway
- The Return of the Giant Hogweed: True botanical story
- Musical Box: Fiction terror story about Cynthia and Little Henry
- Fountain of Salmacis: The mythological story of Hermaphroditus
- White Mountain: Based in Jack London's White Fang
- Get 'em Out by Friday: Sci Fi and Political story
- The Knife: The story of a revolutionary messiah
- Watcher of the Skies: Sci Fi story
- Eleventh Earl of Mar: True story about Sir John Erskine, a mediocre warrior and politician
- Battle for the Epping Forest: Story about a gangs fight, suposedly based in real facts
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What Ivan said  (although gotta put 'Supper's Ready' on that list as well.)
Peter Gabriel is prog's ultimate story teller!
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Marmalade...I like marmalade.
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