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re: Memorable songs from Concept Albums or Rock Operas, what are your favorites?

Posted on 4/6/20 at 1:27 pm to
Posted by Blizzard of Chizz
Member since Apr 2012
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Posted on 4/6/20 at 1:27 pm to
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Mr. Roboto.


Saw Styx in concert about 10 years ago. The one song everyone around me kept screaming for was Mr Roboto (which they never played). It’s kind of ironic considering that song and that album led to the demise of the band. Everyone hated it, but now they scream for it.
Posted by Perfect Circle
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Posted on 4/6/20 at 4:31 pm to
Bookends is a concept album that explores a life journey from childhood to old age.  Simon and Garfunkel
Posted by NewIberiaHaircut
Lafayette
Member since May 2013
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Posted on 4/6/20 at 7:15 pm to
Devin Townsend - Color your World

From the great Ziltoid The Omniscient album.
Posted by Jester
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2006
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Posted on 4/6/20 at 8:28 pm to
Murder By Death - Spring Break 1899

Not only is it a fantastic song, but it's a segue between two fantastic concept albums.
Posted by Perfect Circle
S W Alabama
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Posted on 4/7/20 at 2:56 pm to
The Moody Blues' "Days of Future Past" has been described as a suite of songs about the common man.
Posted by Tigris
Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Posted on 4/7/20 at 4:06 pm to
Skating Away (On the Thin Ice of a New Day) - Jethro Tull - originally on A Passion Play which was pretty badly overlooked.

Thick as a Brick (title song on same album) has held up really well.

quote:

And the sandcastle virtues are all swept away
In the tidal destruction the moral melee
The elastic retreat rings the close of play
As the last wave uncovers the newfangled way


The Live at Leeds version of Tommy is better than the studio album IMO, though I like both.

For me, The Real Me off of Quadrophenia is the pinnacle of Rock and Roll. Fantastic song.
Posted by Perfect Circle
S W Alabama
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Posted on 4/9/20 at 4:49 pm to
Zen Arcade tells the story of a young boy who runs away from an unfulfilling home life, only to find the world outside is even worse.

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