Comments on: SF Concept Album Tragedy

By: Nick Stathopoulos

Nick Stathopoulos — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:38:18 +0000

Woah! Sci-Fi concept albums…I’ve got gazzillions! From Mecco to Tomita…Vangelis to Toyah…Tangerine Dream etc. etc…but the all-time No. 1 has got to be Jeff Wayne’s musical War of the Worlds! Don’t get me started…
PS…attention Rob Hood: Mike Batt’s The Hunting of the Snark…yes I’ve got it too somewhere! Terrible! Did anyone see the live version on TV years ago?
PSS. Kraftwerk is responsible for me meeting Adrian…

By: caspar

caspar — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:19:21 +0000

ah, a blog post after my own heart. i just heard an album that’s turned me heavily onto concept albums & you guys clearly have to update your collections with it.

the protomen, by the protomen

it’s their debut & they only have one other release which is a remix of it in the 8-bit video game style.

but listen to tracks from it here :

http://www.myspace.com/theprotomen

& check out a video for their first track here :

http://www.protomen.com/

every song is a chapter in the story & every song is a powerful rock explosion.

…

ALSO – i just thought of one other, that lists beyond what you’ve listed so far, guys.

30 seconds to mars, by 30 seconds to mars
(a.k.a welcome to the universe)

they have since collapsed into emo obscurity, but their first album produced by bob ezrin (who also did pink floyd’s ‘the wall’) is a mighty science fiction concept album about saving ourselves by getting off this planet & escaping into the abyss to start a new word with new beliefs.

track it down though. their myspace only has their new (& awful) emos style songs. their first record they are ashamed of now for some reason – probably because it’s far better than they’ve become.

so yeah – dig in, dudes.

By: Jacq

Jacq — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:03:12 +0000

Aaand.. “none of you thought to mention it”

By: Jacq

Jacq — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:01:51 +0000

Oops, sorry, I’ve been stuck with aqua text on a lime green background here – that should have been “Ahem, Squiddites”

By: Jacq

Jacq — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:00:25 +0000

Ahem, Squiidites,
If We’re talking CONCEPT ALBUMS here, what about David Bowie’s “Diamond Dogs” I am ashamed that none off thought to mention it!
Jacq.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 06:13:16 +0000

What about Daft Punk’s Interstella5555? Techno with an accompanying anime film.

And action figures!

http://www.daftpunk.com/5555/index.html

Or the KLF with their continual Illuminatus references.

By: Robert Hood

Robert Hood — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 22:57:20 +0000

And I’m right now listening to Ozric Tentacles’ 1994 album ‘Become the Other”. Not exactly a concept album perhaps, but as there’s no vocals, it might as well be!

By: Robert Hood

Robert Hood — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:05:30 +0000

Some SF concept albums I found in my CD cupboard:

Hawkwind, “Space Ritual”, “The Chronicle of the Black Sword” … oh, nearly everything they’ve done!

The Who, “Tommy”

Pete Townsend, “The Iron Man” (based on Ted Hughes’ book); also “Psychoderelict”

Genesis, “The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway”

Rick Wakeman, “Journey to the Centre of the Earth”

Yes, “Tales of Topographic Oceans”

Queensryche, “Operation: Mindcrime”

King Crimson, “In the Court of the Crimson King”

The Alan Parsons Project, “I Robot”, “Tales of Mystery and Imagination”

Rush, “2112″

Concrete Blonde, “Bloodletting”

Assorted Pink Floyd and an album based on “The Hunting of the Snark” that I can’t find at the moment…

By: Chris Lawson

Chris Lawson — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:29:58 +0000

Thank you, Jeremy and Deb. Who says you can’t get good help no more?

By: deborahb

deborahb — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:15:14 +0000

I made an lj feed already. Because a blog without an lj feed is just plain weird.

http://syndicated.livejournal.com/talkingsquid/