Are we caring if the story is comprehensible or not? 
Because if not, then I nominate:
Jon Anderson: Olias of Sunhillow
After 40 years I still don't quite understand the story, but I dearly love the music.
Besides, Jon once said something to the effect that he often wrote lyrics simply for the sounds the words made, as much as any literal meaning they might have had. This leaves much to interpretation - diyImagery!
A personal example: For years I thought I had read in the liner notes that the ship in the story, The Moorglade, was propelled through space by the power of the singing voices of its occupants! Reading them now, I find no specific reference to this, and can only attribute my earlier misreading to the various altered states under which I used to enjoy this record. Still a pretty cool idea though, eh? Plus, the music is so glorious that there's at least one passage where it's easy to imagine this happening.
Gotta love the '70s, heh.
Because if not, then I nominate:
Jon Anderson: Olias of Sunhillow
After 40 years I still don't quite understand the story, but I dearly love the music.
Besides, Jon once said something to the effect that he often wrote lyrics simply for the sounds the words made, as much as any literal meaning they might have had. This leaves much to interpretation - diyImagery!
A personal example: For years I thought I had read in the liner notes that the ship in the story, The Moorglade, was propelled through space by the power of the singing voices of its occupants! Reading them now, I find no specific reference to this, and can only attribute my earlier misreading to the various altered states under which I used to enjoy this record. Still a pretty cool idea though, eh? Plus, the music is so glorious that there's at least one passage where it's easy to imagine this happening.
Gotta love the '70s, heh.
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The Pro's and Con's of Hitch Hiking and Radio Kaos both by Roger Waters and pretty much anything by Pink Floyd.
I've always felt that an album should ' tell a story ' of sorts with each track somehow relevant to the others rather than just being a collection of random and unconnected material , Demon Days by Gorillaz is a good example of this.
I've always felt that an album should ' tell a story ' of sorts with each track somehow relevant to the others rather than just being a collection of random and unconnected material , Demon Days by Gorillaz is a good example of this.
Pink Floyd - The Wall
I tend to include the late 60's as well
To a varying extent, any Moody Blues album from that era starting with Days of Future Passed, an album commissioned by Deram Records to showcase their "Deramic Sound System" (Stereo) in 1967. It chronicles a typical day and was recorded with a full orchestra.
Other good choices, very popular with the altered states crowd:
On the Threshold of a Dream
In Search Of The Lost Chord
A Question Of Balance
To Our Children's Children's Children
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Excellent half album stories from around 1970 these were constantly in my car 8 track player along with Abbey Road and a couple of Traffic tapes (Low Spark and Shootout):
Caravan - In The Land Of Grey And Pink (entire album second side starting with Nine Feet Underground).
McDonald and Giles - McDonald and Giles The "Birdman" which was the second side of the album. From a couple of ex King Crimson members.
I'm sure that there are many more, but as some say.....If you can remember the 60's / 70's you didn't really experience it.
I tend to include the late 60's as well
To a varying extent, any Moody Blues album from that era starting with Days of Future Passed, an album commissioned by Deram Records to showcase their "Deramic Sound System" (Stereo) in 1967. It chronicles a typical day and was recorded with a full orchestra.
Other good choices, very popular with the altered states crowd:
On the Threshold of a Dream
In Search Of The Lost Chord
A Question Of Balance
To Our Children's Children's Children
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Excellent half album stories from around 1970 these were constantly in my car 8 track player along with Abbey Road and a couple of Traffic tapes (Low Spark and Shootout):
Caravan - In The Land Of Grey And Pink (entire album second side starting with Nine Feet Underground).
McDonald and Giles - McDonald and Giles The "Birdman" which was the second side of the album. From a couple of ex King Crimson members.
I'm sure that there are many more, but as some say.....If you can remember the 60's / 70's you didn't really experience it.
Are we caring if the story is comprehensible or not?
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Yes that is what makes it interesting
At least that fact that it is a story and not a loosely tied group of songs
A wonderful choice.
Side note: Have you ever been bothered by the very brief pause between the somber end of "Hello Earth" and the chirpy start to "The Morning Fog"? Awhile back, I edited the end of Hello's FLAC file to add a few seconds of silence, and find the transistion to be much less of a jolt now.
Patrick Moraz's relentless, amazing solo album from 1976, generally referred to as The Story of i
A story only have a sense in his cultural field.
An alien would find all our stories totally ridiculous and pointless.
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