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    Posted: October 24 2005 at 12:51

Which novels would fellow proggers think would make a good Progressive Rock concept album?

Probably Sci-Fi and fantasy would be the obvious choices, but I wonder what else?

Also which bands would you like to write and perform your choices?
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Points: 4097 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 24 2005 at 12:53
Interesting topic! I'll reflect a little and post some thoughts.
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Points: 4097 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 24 2005 at 12:54
In fact, it's also inspired me to make a sister topic
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The Many-Coloured Land by Julian May
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Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot.
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 24 2005 at 13:00

Originally posted by horza horza wrote:

The Many-Coloured Land by Julian May

What......a 10 Cd box set?
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What about "A Mothers Gift"
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Points: 2530 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 24 2005 at 13:04
How about The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Stephen Donaldson ??
Originally posted by darkshade:

Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot.
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 24 2005 at 14:37
Non music prog Lounge?.........so an album isn't music, but art as an album is? WTF?
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Points: 4097 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 24 2005 at 15:12
They like me better
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Points: 88 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 24 2005 at 15:55

Great topic! 

I've always wanted to see someone do Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg.



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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Non music prog Lounge?.........so an album isn't music, but art as an album is? WTF?


dumped in the 'where are they now file'
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Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot.
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Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss.
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Hmmm...I can see it now:  Green Eggs and Ham by Dream Theater.

LaBrie croons:
No, I don't want them
No, I don't need them
No, I don't like them
Sayayayayayam, I yam.
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Ray Bradbury was my favourite author in my youth. I'd like to hear an album interpreting his short stories * mainly from the collections The October Country and The Illustrated Man (compare Alan Parsons Project & Poe)!  ...Funnily there's (at least) two albums inspired by Bradbury's novels: by Solaris and by The Enid, haven't yet heard them. And then there's 'Medicine Man' by BJH inspired by Something Wicked This Way Comes as is The Enid album too.

* for example: The Skeleton, The Scythe, The Lake, Uncle Einar, Jack-in-the-Box, The Long Rain, The Rocket Man, Kaleidoscope, etc... (BTW John Carpenter's film Dark Star ends with a scene reminding very much of the story Kaleidoscope in The Illustrated Man.)

Did you know Peter Bardens voted for Hesse's Steppenwolf  when Camel was planning a concept album which became The Snow Goose ? I would have preferred that...
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Points: 12625 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 25 2005 at 02:29

Sci-Fi & Fantasy books:

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams - Mr. Bungle

Asimov's I robot - two different bands came to my mind - Anglagard and Dream Theater.

The Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft - Ayreon

Fiction books:

Lord of the barnyard by Tristan Egolf (RIP) - Tool

La Storia by Elsa Morante - PFM

El Misterio De La Cripta Embrujada by Eduardo Mendosa - Djam Karet (although there is need of lyrics) or Mia or Triana
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Points: 10266 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 25 2005 at 04:19

Novels (or stories) that actually have been made into albums:

Hawkwind: "The Chronicle of the Black Sword", based on the "Elric"-saga by Michael Moorcock. Also the live-album "Live Chronicles", which also includes a few tracks that didn't make it onto the album.
Bo Hansson: "Lord of the Rings".
Peter Hammill: "The Fall of the House of Usher" (an opera even).

As to what I wish: "Die Andere Seite" (The Other Side), a novel by Austrian illustrator Alfred Kubin (he is famous for his illustrations of Poe). Peter Hammill could do it.

 


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Harry Potter done by Dream Theater
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Points: 2530 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 25 2005 at 17:42
Harry Potter done by The Mars Volta
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Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot.
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Points: 67452 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 26 2005 at 08:05
The Trial by Franz Kafka. Radiohead could do it.
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Points: 1881 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 26 2005 at 10:54
I read a bleak (but well written) book called "Hunger" by Knut Hamsun about a bloke wandering homeless, jobless and starving around his home town in Sweden I think it was....concept for Roger Waters maybe? Plenty of opportunity for self-pity.

Or how about a politically charged novel like "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists" turned into a rock opera by Robert Wyatt and a reformed Henry Cow.
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