Ode to the Concept Album - Mooniverse Show #53

[thegooze]

Hi Dale! The most obvious one I don't see listed is: 1) Pink Floyd's-Animals-1977 based on Roger Water's interpretation of George Orwell's Animal Farm. 2) Is actually a 3 Cd concept, The Radio Gnome Invisible Trilogy of Planet Gong's Pothead Pixies flying around in there Flying teapots and with the help of the Octave doctors bringing there listeners to a new consciousness. (Or in my case Unconsciousness from too many bong hits .) Later in the following discs you get the characters from planet gong introduced and finally in the 3rd disc you have it all come together in a cosmic revealing of your own self awareness. The discs are: GONG-Flying Teapot-1973, GONG-Angels Egg-1973, and GONG-You-1974. In that order 3) CAMEL-Nude-1981. This story of a WWII Japanese soldier who was forgotten on a Pacific Island for 20 years, unaware the war was over. 4) SAGA-The Chapters Live-2005. Saga finally puts the chapters in order and performs them live. This deserves it's own show, don't you think? 5) How to make a Burger is covered by: FOCUS-Hamburger Concierto-1974 Taken from a Brahms piece. I'll take mine Medium Well. With a cold one of course.

[Ted]

Dale,

Adding to your list:

Neal Morse, Sola Scriptura, 2007
Rick Wakeman, Myths & Legends of King Arthur, 1975

my 2 cents on an early Sunday AM.

Regards fromTexas,
Ted

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by thegooze

Hi Dale! The most obvious one I don't see listed is: 1) Pink Floyd's-Animals-1977 based on Roger Water's interpretation of George Orwell's Animal Farm.

It wasn't an "interpretation" of Orwell's Animal Farm but a loosely analogous stolen concept retooled and applied to many (then) present day political issues in the UK.

Both are great stories in and of themselves. Those here from the US should pay careful attention to and heed Orwell's warnings of Animal Farm in correlation with the current US federal administration.

ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL; SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.

[Diff_Drummer]

Alright gang - how could we get this far into the thread and not have picked up the Pink Floyds "The Wall" (1979) was not lisited. Also Floyds "The Final Cut" (1983) even though it was pretty much a bad Roger Waters self indulgence and not much of a Floyd cd, IMHO.

Also:

Alan Parsons Project "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" (1976)
Dream Theater "Metropolis Pt.2: Scenes from a Memory" (1999)
Genesis "Duke" (1980) (Not sure if this one really qualifies but I'm throwing it in the mix.)
Jethro Tull "Thick as a Brick" (1972)
Yes "Tales from Topographic Oceans" (1973)
Marillion "Missplaced Childhood" (1985)
Triumvirat "Pompeii" (1977)
Styx "Kilroy was Here" (1983) (Is this really prog?)

That's all I can think of at the moment. Prog On!

Diff_Drummer