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Posted: June 08 2011 at 22:35
Agreed! How can folks put Tommy on a higher level? To me, nary a second of the music in the original 1970 recording of JCSS goes wasted, but Tommy has the Underture, man!
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Posted: June 08 2011 at 22:45
I honestly do enjoy Who's Next and...uhm... one-fourth of Quadrophenia, but they're pretty low on my list. (to put it into perspective, PRINCE is higher than they are.)
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Posted: June 08 2011 at 22:49
^There's like 5 minutes in Who's Next that I enjoy (Baba Riley or whatever, the famous song)... The rest bores me so much. Lady Gaga is higher on my list...
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Posted: June 09 2011 at 00:13
While I could complain about the heinous omission of some of my favourite obscure rock operas, like Devil Doll's Dies Irae and Angizia's Das Tagebuch Der Hanna Anikin like a good prog fan, where the hell are Quadrophenia and The Wall in this list?! Srsly.
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Posted: June 09 2011 at 12:14
^So for you saying that a band bores you = saying that a band is talentless.
The Who bores me to death and they are talented. But if you really need to stick to your definition, then go ahead, label them talentless with my approval.
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Posted: June 10 2011 at 07:27
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I would've put Jesus Christ Superstar. It started out as a rock opera
It's better than all the ones on this list...
It's incredible ain't it? Just the overture alone beats the entire list
The overture is amazing, the moment the Judas theme appears is powerful, and then the Superstar theme; it actually resembles a proper overture, giving a tour of the themes to be used in the rest of the work.
Yeah man, a band I was a member of for 2 years covered Heaven on Their Minds, such fun to solo over and a very powerful song for a vocalist. I'm also very partial to Gethsemane as it brings me to tears almost every time:
Excellent version.
As far as the above comment is concerned, I don't believe in talent that much anyway so I'll keep out of that one however I will say that I don't particular enjoy The Who either.
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Posted: June 11 2011 at 23:48
Good to see The Kinks made it but the rest of the list is throwaway garbage (except for maybe Ziggy Stardust, which isn't a rock opera [but The Kinks' isn't either, necessarily]). I mean, where's Quadrophenia and The Wall? The list could use an embarrassingly large amount of different material.
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