My reel to reel copy coming from a three LP set from the seventies. Not many was made, and even less was sold, I assume.
Jeff Wayne's musical version of Spartacus.
1992 concept album on two CDs. Narrator Anthony Hopkins.
Not as engaging as War of the Worlds, but a worthy effort.
1992 concept album on two CDs. Narrator Anthony Hopkins.
Not as engaging as War of the Worlds, but a worthy effort.
I don't know if they ever released an album of it, but in A man from the future, the Pet Shop Boys definitely tell a story.
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds "Murder Ballads",
David Byrne and Fatboy Slim "Here Lies Love"
David Byrne and Fatboy Slim "Here Lies Love"
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Radiohead: OK Computer and Kid A.
Don't know what story they tell, but they'll take you on a journey.
Ditto for Link in Park's A Thousand Suns
Don't know what story they tell, but they'll take you on a journey.
Ditto for Link in Park's A Thousand Suns
Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson
Besides the intriguing story the album is musically very interesting - with warm, funky, mysterious vibe.
Conceptually speaking, Histoire de Melody Nelson is perhaps the closest thing to a musical imagining of Vladimir Nabokov’s seminal and controversial 1955 novel Lolita. This is not to say that the two masterworks are directly linked, but that they present licentiously similar scenarios. Put simply, both concern a sexual relationship between a middle-aged man and an underage girl. Thus, for obvious reasons, were either effort executed with anything short of nuanced perfection, the dubious subject matter alone would render both works downright perverted, inaccessible and wholly inexcusable.
But like Lolita, Histoire de Melody Nelson is an artistic triumph about the power of human obsession. It’s an important, enjoyable work and one that rightfully demands to be heard almost 50 years later.
Besides the intriguing story the album is musically very interesting - with warm, funky, mysterious vibe.
Conceptually speaking, Histoire de Melody Nelson is perhaps the closest thing to a musical imagining of Vladimir Nabokov’s seminal and controversial 1955 novel Lolita. This is not to say that the two masterworks are directly linked, but that they present licentiously similar scenarios. Put simply, both concern a sexual relationship between a middle-aged man and an underage girl. Thus, for obvious reasons, were either effort executed with anything short of nuanced perfection, the dubious subject matter alone would render both works downright perverted, inaccessible and wholly inexcusable.
But like Lolita, Histoire de Melody Nelson is an artistic triumph about the power of human obsession. It’s an important, enjoyable work and one that rightfully demands to be heard almost 50 years later.
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