I've had Universal Migrator part 1 and 2 by Ayreon for about 8 months now, I have never really given it more than a casual listen every now and then but I knew that most of the material was pretty good, and I never followed a long with the concept or anything, as I said it was mostly just casual listens. That was until today. Today I was loading up a lot of my albums onto iTunes for my gf as she has an ipod now, I load up this album and decided to let it play through while i was loading up the rest of the stuff. I didn't have anything particularly important to do so I read through the whole concept while listening and I fucking love it. Mainly Flight Of the Migrator grabbed me the most, but its one of the few concept album that has really grabbed me by the emotive balls and not let go. By the end of it I was thinking fuck this is a really good story why didn't I pick up on it earlier? I think this kind of story would be pretty cool if it was made into a movie.
Anyway concept albums don't usually grab me, a lot of the time IMO bands can't really make the story or theme sound convincing, either the lyrics and plot are cheesy or the music doesn't mold to the storyline well enough. V -The New Mythology Suite is a concept album that I can get into because the music is excellent and the storyline is played out with mostly good results. On the other hand something like Dream theater's Scenes from A memory while musically excellent, the story just makes me laugh not because of the content but because its just so cheesy when DT do it, I think if the lyrics were done a little better and there was more fine tuning it could be really compelling.
What are some concept albums that have really pulled you in and emmersed you in both the music and the concept. I'd love to hear thoughts and maybe I can pick up on a few of these albums.
Anyway concept albums don't usually grab me, a lot of the time IMO bands can't really make the story or theme sound convincing, either the lyrics and plot are cheesy or the music doesn't mold to the storyline well enough. V -The New Mythology Suite is a concept album that I can get into because the music is excellent and the storyline is played out with mostly good results. On the other hand something like Dream theater's Scenes from A memory while musically excellent, the story just makes me laugh not because of the content but because its just so cheesy when DT do it, I think if the lyrics were done a little better and there was more fine tuning it could be really compelling.
What are some concept albums that have really pulled you in and emmersed you in both the music and the concept. I'd love to hear thoughts and maybe I can pick up on a few of these albums.
that is hilarious!
