There's some narration on Glass Hammer's Lex Rex also.
There's some narration on Glass Hammer's Lex Rex also.
really cool album, fuck the arguers lolOriginally Posted by Dave (in MA)
People might argue that it's not prog, but it was the inspiration for Days of Future Past.
The most original of all prog concept albums,
Theman Simpulse by Those Men.
If there WASN'T narration, you'd NEVER be able to follow the story.
Lest we forget: Rick Wakeman's Journey to the Center of the Earth.
There was also a CD by Rain released in 2004. I was not fond of it at the time but is grown on me since. You can find reviews here: http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=7644
Tom
Moody Blues
The live version of the Pretty Things/S.F. Sorrow with Arthur Brown as narrator.
Lou
Looking forward to my day in court.
Rick Wakeman - Return to the center of the earth
I wanted to post that original cover, it being the only one I have ever seen, but couldn't find a photo of it.Wow, what a butt-ugly cover! Comic Sans ought to be outlawed! Here’s what the original cover looked like:
What's comic sans?
I like it. Read the names of the players, and try to imagine how it could be bad.How is that? I've always wanted to hear it.
We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
Ugly-ass font that makes everything look like a six-year-old child’s spelling notebook.
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MIKE (a.k.a. "Progbear")
"The world of the heterosexual is a sick and boring life." --Edith Massey
N.P.:“Essence of Porphyry”-Stackridge
Camel - Snow Goose could have become one of the greatest narrated prog-rock albums... I wonder how it would sound the way they originally planned.
"The world will soon be right again,
Innocence and undying love will reign." - Transatlantic
Lest we forget: post #1.
Do people really pay that much attention to fonts? To me there are two classes of fonts: legible and illegible. Were I to invest any time into the aesthetics of individual fonts, I would have to agree that the one on the new cover of Peter and the Wolf is indeed ugly ass. Here is a font-related query: Why would anyone desiring to sell a CD make both the name of the band and the name of the album illegible on the cover?Ugly-ass font that makes everything look like a six-year-old child’s spelling notebook.
We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
Alan Stivell: Raok Dilestra
Fripp & Toyah: The Lady or the Tiger?
Jethro Tull: The Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles
One of the songs on the first Mangala Vallis album has a short narration, can't recall song title.
Not prog but rather epic metal, Manowar employed Orson Welles to do narrations on a few tracks:
You say Mega Ultra Deluxe Special Limited Edition Extended Autographed 5-LP, 3-CD, 4-DVD, 2-BlueRay, 4-Cassette, five 8-Track, MP4 Download plus Demos, Outtakes, Booklet, T-Shirt and Guitar Pick Gold-Leafed Box Set Version like it's a bad thing...
Armando Tirelli El Profeta (1978)
Milkweed Milkweed (1978)
Miklagård Miklagård (one epic only; 1979)
Indexi Modra Rijeka (some parts only; 1978 - beautiful album, btw)
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
always detested narration in rock albums .... especially that ultra-camembert-esque Wakeman crap or the horrible (even laughable) Lord Of The Ages from Magna Carta .... I always thought that if you needed narration in music, it's because you're not a good songwriter... or your project is not fit to be put to music)
With the exception of APP's Tales and Alice's Black Widow, that is
However as a kid, I kinda liked Peter & The Wolf... though i'll have to look for that rock version
Shirley you mean APP...
Yeah, they can be extremely cheesy, but in Lost Chord, it's rather fine
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
I'm rather fond of the Clive Nolan/Oliver Wakeman "Hound Of The Baskervilles"
MOTHER GONG "Fairy Tales"
Neuschwanstein - Alice in Wunderland
I'd say it's a great addition to a Zappa collection. They do an especially fine job playing the stuff that was originally conceived on Synclavier and never really intended to be played by humans (e.g. "Put a Motor in Yourself" from CPIII). Plus you get a full alternate version of "Greggary Peccary" that's not as good as the original (of course) but is an admirable and worthy effort. The Ensemble Modern seems to "rock" a bit more than your average orchestral group, so the whole thing has lots of energy too.
As far as narrated prog albums, I may be scraping the bottom of the barrel by now, but I haven't seen Aphrodite's Child "666" mentioned yet - - there's a bit of between-song commentary in there.
No, Shirley meant TAAB2 but had a brain-fart.
Planet X - King of the Universe
And if there were a god, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence - Russell
In Held 'Twas In I - Procol Harum
Back to the Beginning - Bruford (Annette Peacock's songsprecht)
The Pentatuch of the Cosmogony - Dave Greenslade (I think?)
Sternenmadchen, Cosmic Jokers and Galactic Supermarket - Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser and Gille Lettman
Klopfzeichen and Zwei-Osterei - Kluster
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And their far less famous Greek space-rock brethren P.L.J. Band on their 1980 debut Armageddon.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
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