If Edgar Alan Poe's The Raven was a song
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Topic: If Edgar Alan Poe's The Raven was a song
Posted By: A Bard
Subject: If Edgar Alan Poe's The Raven was a song
Date Posted: March 18 2020 at 07:05
| If the Raven was a song it would have the same lyrics from the poem. This would make about 20-30 Minutes long. It would probably be Neo-prog but which band. The only Neo-Prog i really know is early Marrllion. It can be any band at any point in time. I hope you enjoy my little Thought Experiment |
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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: March 18 2020 at 07:33
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The Alan Parsons Project, naturally. Not sure that they could stretch it out to 30 minutes but I'd have like to see them try. ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: March 18 2020 at 07:50
| Bubblemath, Haken, Echolyn, Izz, Big Big Train, Mike Keneally, Marco Minnemann, Frost*, Thank You Scientist, could all pull it off. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 18 2020 at 07:57
Steven Wilson. 
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: March 18 2020 at 09:14
They already did but it's not 30 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfBpxfRAPo4&list=PLvudnxdw_da0iz7J9kWiG0q6r7uHpojQ8&index=3&t=0s" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfBpxfRAPo4&list=PLvudnxdw_da0iz7J9kWiG0q6r7uHpojQ8&index=3&t=0s |
SteveG wrote:Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: March 18 2020 at 09:35
  Thanks for the news flash. Check out my PA review of Tales Of Mystery And Imagination that I wrote last February.
My idea was to make that song 20 minutes longer.
(Why do I feel that I'm wasting my breath?)
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 18 2020 at 10:48
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I would imagine that that Alan Parsons Project song would be the first thing to come to most people's minds when looking at the topic title. Some others: The Grateful Dead did a The Raven, and I know Queen did one based on it. And Peter Hammill, the singer in Van der Graaf Generator, did a whole album based on Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher. As for which Neo-Prog band, I'm not a fan of Neo Prog so I don;t know, I could imagine many taking that one, also could imagine plenty in Prog Folk, Psych, Crossover, Prog Metal, Symphonic Prog, and others. For a 20-30 minutes song, then maybe a Symoh or Neo-Prog band, or jam band. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: March 18 2020 at 12:59
Hi, I think we would be better served if we hired him as a janitor making sure the equipment in the studio works, is clean so the "CONTRA-PROG" Virus doesn't his any players or technicians working in the studio!   My choice, btw, these days ... would be CLAUDIO SIMONETTI's GOBLIN ... after that ... hmmm .... not sure that many folks here are even listening to it. The latest is very good!
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Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: March 18 2020 at 20:47
| hmm actually saw a play in New York about 5 years ago called "Nevermore", a musical based on the life of Edgar Allan Poe. The music and dancing were great as was the credible storyline. And yes, one of the songs was indeed "The Raven" |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: March 18 2020 at 20:52
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Ah from the now semi-distant past, a group called Mark 1, album "criminal Element" and a song called "The Raven". EDIT - I figured they were on PA, but they aren't and sure should be |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: March 19 2020 at 02:50
but the lyrics are not the lyrics of "The Raven". I had to learn the poem by heart back in high school -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: March 19 2020 at 04:16
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: March 19 2020 at 20:02
I'll just give the first of 18 stanzas: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore. While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
"’Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door - Only this and nothing more."------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: March 20 2020 at 04:10
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^ Wow. I've got goose bumps. Thanks jean. ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: March 20 2020 at 04:25
Did you get that from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLiXjaPqSyY" rel="nofollow - The Simpsons ? ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: March 20 2020 at 04:56
I know there is a Simpsons episode in which Lisa reads "The Raven" to Bart, who finds it boring. I actually saw that episode ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
