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Title: Rock "Operas"?
Post by: Rainer on March 28, 2008, 01:46:51 PM: From the late 60s / early 70s. Been listening to a lot of them recently:

Tommy (The Who)
SF Sorrow by (Pretty Things)
Odessa (Bee Gees)
A Teenage Opera (Mark Wirtz)

Any other recommendations?
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Post by: Stupornaut on March 28, 2008, 02:01:02 PM: Quadrophenia is great, no matter what Richard Nixon said.
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Post by: TL on March 28, 2008, 02:16:32 PM: Jesus Christ Superstar, yo!
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Post by: Matt on March 28, 2008, 02:32:14 PM: How about every other Kinks album?

My favorite:
(http://listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/arthur.jpg)
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Post by: bruce on March 28, 2008, 02:46:40 PM: Quote from: Matt on March 28, 2008, 02:32:14 PM
How about every other Kinks album?

My favorite:
(http://listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/arthur.jpg)
Village Green Society also buddy

Not really a rock ' opera' but a story: Lou Reed - Berlin
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Post by: JonFromMaplewood on March 28, 2008, 02:50:44 PM: I still have a soft spot for The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway.
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Post by: Jason on March 28, 2008, 02:51:55 PM: Does Jeff Wayne's War of the World's count?
If it doesn't, it should.
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Post by: Stan on March 28, 2008, 03:19:30 PM: Quote from: Jason on March 28, 2008, 02:51:55 PM
Does Jeff Wayne's War of the World's count?
If it doesn't, it should.

Agreed. What about The Story of I by Patrick Moraz?

[youtube]bTGUOqk_vlQ[/youtube]
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Post by: Gilly on March 28, 2008, 03:36:42 PM: Husker Dude: Zen Arcade
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Post by: gravy boat on March 28, 2008, 03:43:42 PM: Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
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Post by: moonshake on March 28, 2008, 03:57:16 PM: (http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/6783/minutemensx8.jpg)
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Post by: Turf Out on March 28, 2008, 04:10:41 PM: Can we open this up to include "concept albums"?
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Post by: Phantom Hugger on March 28, 2008, 04:12:00 PM: (http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m1/theimann/The_Bastard-Hammers_of_Misfortune_4.jpg)
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Post by: Stupornaut on March 28, 2008, 04:36:45 PM: If you scratch the whole "rock" conceit: Prince Paul's A Prince Among Thieves. Brilliant. Even Everlast sounds great on it!
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Post by: dave from knoxville on March 28, 2008, 06:16:52 PM: The alpha and the omega; I bet I have heard it start to finish 100 times

(http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee183/gaughin/ref-roger-deantales.jpg)
Title: Re: Rock "Operas"?
Post by: TremblingEagle on March 29, 2008, 04:02:17 AM: Quote from: Stupornaut on March 28, 2008, 04:36:45 PM
If you scratch the whole "rock" conceit: Prince Paul's A Prince Among Thieves. Brilliant. Even Everlast sounds great on it!

thats more of a concept album
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Post by: Stupornaut on March 29, 2008, 01:36:04 PM: Quote from: TremblingEagle on March 29, 2008, 04:02:17 AM
Quote from: Stupornaut on March 28, 2008, 04:36:45 PM
If you scratch the whole "rock" conceit: Prince Paul's A Prince Among Thieves. Brilliant. Even Everlast sounds great on it!

thats more of a concept album

Nah, it's got a narrative and everything.
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Post by: John Junk 2.0 on March 29, 2008, 02:28:20 PM: Prince Among Thieves has more narrative than Arthur! Plus it has Mario Bros. samples.
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Post by: John Junk 2.0 on March 29, 2008, 02:29:24 PM: Quote from: dave from knoxville on March 28, 2008, 06:16:52 PM
The alpha and the omega; I bet I have heard it start to finish 100 times

(http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee183/gaughin/ref-roger-deantales.jpg)

Dave From Knoxville! You and Christina the Yes fan would get along swimmingly. I'm mostly just a fan of Side One of this.
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Post by: TL on March 29, 2008, 03:07:07 PM: Side two of Small Faces' Ogden's Nutgone Flake is the story of your friend and mine, "Happiness Jack" as he rides a giant fly to find the missing half of the crescent moon. It ends with the wisdom, "Life is just a bowl of All-bran."
(sorry for the spoiler there...)

(http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/1/1d/200px-Ogden's.jpg)
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Post by: dave from knoxville on March 29, 2008, 06:04:39 PM: I have mentioned this somewhere before, but here's a rock opera about the Protestant Reformation

(http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee183/gaughin/Scriptura.jpg)

Hey TL, it's about time for a rock opera about chain-fighting, don't you think?
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Post by: TL on March 29, 2008, 06:29:31 PM: Quote from: dave from knoxville on March 29, 2008, 06:04:39 PM

Hey TL, it's about time for a rock opera about chain-fighting, don't you think?

In the works, Dave!
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Post by: Stupornaut on March 29, 2008, 06:45:31 PM: Quote from: TL on March 29, 2008, 06:29:31 PM
Quote from: dave from knoxville on March 29, 2008, 06:04:39 PM

Hey TL, it's about time for a rock opera about chain-fighting, don't you think?

In the works, Dave!

It should be the story of a showdown between two top-notch chain fighters to decide which one is the best. And it should sound like Harvey Scales' Hot Foot: A Funque Dizco Opera. (http://www.discogs.com/release/1021506)