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Post by sevenleaf on Sept 10, 2012 20:54:42 GMT
Anyone recommend me some cracking concept albums? Been listening to A Grand Don't Come For Free a bit lately, and now I have a tedious hour drive to work and back every day I quite fancy getting settled in to something.
I'm leaving audio books until I a) hit 40 b) wear leather driving gloves or c) start acting like Alan Partridge.
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Post by danscouse on Sept 10, 2012 21:02:31 GMT
Radio kaos roger waters, sf sorrow the pretty things
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Post by eddiemurphy on Sept 10, 2012 21:06:15 GMT
donald fagen - the nightfly & kamakiriad.  Donald Fagen's 1982 solo debut extends the sleek, smart pop craft of his work with Steely Dan into the realm of the concept album, taking the Dan's penchant for intricate plotting, evocative narrative voices, and allusive imagery to the logical next step. Fagen's connective thread is futurist nostalgia for the "New Frontier" as anticipated from the prosperous vantage point of late-'50s America. He romanticizes a brave new world of technology in the sultry diorama of "I.G.Y.," celebrating the coming glories of the Atomic Age. He then filters that view through his own suburban adolescence--a would-be seduction in a fallout shelter, the siren song of a graveyard-shift jazz DJ, a not-quite-hard-boiled noir adventure ("The Goodbye Look") that borrows its title from an early '60s Ross MacDonald mystery. Song for song, the set's a stunner and stands apart from Steely Dan thanks to a unique, poignant romanticism embodied in Fagen's yearning "Maxine" and a creamy update of Dion & the Belmonts' "Ruby Baby." --Sam Sutherland |
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Post by eddiemurphy on Sept 10, 2012 21:23:42 GMT
the surf was easy on the day i came to stay on this quiet island in the bay. |
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Post by Simone on Sept 10, 2012 21:29:08 GMT
 Willie Nelson's "Phases and Stages", which is a concept album about the breaking up of a couple, first side from the wife's point of view, then from the husband's -- it's also a good introduction to american progressive country music.  also, Laura Nyro's phenomenal "Eli and the Thirteenth Confession" is sort of a concept album built around a character who grows from girl to woman. The genre is mainly pop/soul piano-driven music. ps. loved The Nightfly when I was 15 or 16, it was one of the first records my bass teacher made me listen to. |
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Post by eddiemurphy on Sept 10, 2012 21:39:49 GMT
ps. loved The Nightfly when I was 15 or 16, it was one of the first records my bass teacher made me listen to.  |
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Post by eddiemurphy on Sept 10, 2012 21:46:12 GMT
just checking out some laura nyro right now. another one dead from ovarian cancer.  watching some gilda radney (saturday night live) vids the other day. who also died from ovarian cancer. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2012 21:48:05 GMT
27 not out
Trouble in springville canyon
brainwashed
the murderer
biblical tales & other revelations
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Post by Simone on Sept 10, 2012 21:49:16 GMT
check this out eds
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Post by eddiemurphy on Sept 10, 2012 22:03:46 GMT
Radio kaos roger waters, sf sorrow the pretty things remember this scottish bloke on a forum used to bang on about radio kaos.  he never used to shut up about radio fucking kaos.  |
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Post by ton on Sept 10, 2012 22:14:36 GMT
Trouble is a Lonesome Town by Lee Hazlewood. Anything by Lee Hazlewood.
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Post by Simone on Sept 10, 2012 22:47:59 GMT
a reminiscence of a record I read about on those books like Fuzz Acid & Flowers or something similar is Alien City by Seattle band Alien City (1979).  from the liner notes: "Alien City was composed over a period of five years. It is a song cycle of epic proportions centering around the incarnation of Celestial Visitors to this planet. They take youthful bodies with the soul mission off increasing the intelligence of the human race. Alas, in their compassionate endeavors they become trapped in the pernicious web of the world and their aim becomes warped and sarcastic. In taking mortal bodies they lose their reference point, their center of gravity, and they eventually become as depraved and stupified as the very people they initially intended to illuminate. There is no story line; no characters are introduced. The work is arranged in four movements." I think this is where that priest who looked like Desailly got his sermon from. |
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Post by Columbia_rocks_man on Sept 12, 2012 19:37:59 GMT
I recommend Boston's classic 1976 debut album, Boston. It's not a strict concept album as such, but every track is about life. And it features a lot of huge choruses.
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Post by Rollinice on Sept 13, 2012 2:51:18 GMT
Australia by The Kinks
Watertown by Frank Sinatra
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Post by eddiemurphy on Sept 13, 2012 5:00:01 GMT
I recommend Boston's classic 1976 debut album, Boston. It's not a strict concept album as such, but every track is about life. And it features a lot of huge choruses. listened to that album many times. never once thought of it as a concept album. this is my favourite track. "every living thing that's died" |
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Post by barny on Sept 13, 2012 6:55:39 GMT
 FFS |
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Post by eddiemurphy on Sept 13, 2012 7:11:39 GMT
FFS 70's arena rock forever man.  |
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Post by caspergomez on Sept 13, 2012 7:48:09 GMT
Mahoney recommended Dark Side of the Moon
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Post by Columbia_rocks_man on Sept 13, 2012 20:17:45 GMT
I recommend Boston's classic 1976 debut album, Boston. It's not a strict concept album as such, but every track is about life. And it features a lot of huge choruses. listened to that album many times. never once thought of it as a concept album. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2012 20:23:07 GMT
haha Darkside of the moon > life. |
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FFS
