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Title: Albums you would make into a rock opera.
Post by: glyphic on 26 Feb 2009, 08:34: I was thinking about this last night before I fell asleep. Some albums tell a story. Some albums don't. Some albums need to be turned into hilariously over-the-top rock operas with a laser light show and gore cannons.

My personal choice is An Albatross' We are the Lazer Viking

So, I propose a game. Using each track from the album, describe an idea for a scene for it. Basically, we should write a full story for the cd that corresponds (however vaguely) to the songs. I'll start. Just do the track after the person above you. After the album (and the rock opera) is over, start a new album.

1 I am the Lazer Viking - Our hero is introduced. Wearing dented and battered armor and animal furs, he towers over another warrior in the midst of a space battle. The asteroid on which the battle takes place is a smoking ruin. Around him, several groups of men are being torn apart by the terrifying vikings. His axe raises and his laser pistol throws light against the sky as he declares "I AM THE LAZER VIKING!!!" The axe falls.
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Post by: TLT Thomas on 27 Feb 2009, 17:59: I'd go with Nine Inch Nails' Year Zero. Futuristic holy wars, divine hallucinations, the Bush debacle taken to the dystopian extreme... It would make for an awesome sci-fi 1984-type epic.
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Post by: Big Happy Captain on 28 Feb 2009, 16:44: or The Downward Spiral- Nine Inch Nails.

i had a dream where i got to watch a stage show of that album, and the music was incredibly loud and i loved every second of it.

i think it would do well.
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Post by: look out! Ninjas! on 28 Feb 2009, 17:08: Tommy.

No, wait, that's not right. Ummm...

The Wall.

No, that's not right either. I'm just no good at this.
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Post by: Christophe on 28 Feb 2009, 17:19: (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/39/Slint_-_Spiderland.jpg)
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Post by: Catacombs on 28 Feb 2009, 17:23: Quote from: look out! Ninjas! on 28 Feb 2009, 17:08
Tommy.

No, wait, that's not right. Ummm...

The Wall.

No, that's not right either. I'm just no good at this.

Shit, you beat me to this joke.
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Post by: spoon_of_grimbo on 28 Feb 2009, 18:58: i'm wondering at this point whether you two guys who've mentioned NIN have seen the legendary "The Broken Video"... i'm pretty sure it's on youtube in its uncut form somewhere, and it's simultaneously awesome and wholly fucking disturbing.
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Post by: TLT Thomas on 28 Feb 2009, 20:02: Ah yes... the "Broken" videos. "Pinion" is disturbing yet interesting. "Happiness In Slavery" was VERY cringe-inducing. This club in Houston called Numbers used to play that a bunch on their big video screens, and I always went straight out to the patio once it came on.
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Post by: imapiratearg on 28 Feb 2009, 21:30: Heh.

Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. I think it'd be interesting to see what they'd do.

Also, The Flaming Lips got a stage version of Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (at least they were supposed to, I don't know what happened to that), so why can't someone do a Broadway rendition of Guided by Voices' Mag Earwhig!?
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Post by: Ballard on 28 Feb 2009, 22:43: OP needs to be appended with "please do not use Nine Inch Nails as an example".

The Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia
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Post by: Miniluv on 28 Feb 2009, 23:46: Kid A. You could do some trippy shit with "Treefingers."
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Post by: Zingoleb on 01 Mar 2009, 03:32: Quote from: look out! Ninjas! on 28 Feb 2009, 17:08
Tommy.

No, wait, that's not right. Ummm...

The Wall.

No, that's not right either. I'm just no good at this.

I was thinking about doing this joke, but apparently I'm not all that original.

Red-Headed Stranger?
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Post by: spoon_of_grimbo on 01 Mar 2009, 05:41: Quote from: TLT Thomas on 28 Feb 2009, 20:02
Ah yes... the "Broken" videos. "Pinion" is disturbing yet interesting. "Happiness In Slavery" was VERY cringe-inducing. This club in Houston called Numbers used to play that a bunch on their big video screens, and I always went straight out to the patio once it came on.

but have you seen the full length one? it basically takes the actual promotional release videos and puts them in what is essentially a fairly realistic snuff film, with all the other songs in there too. the finale with "gave up" will fucking haunt me...
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Post by: Be My Head on 01 Mar 2009, 07:40: (http://mediaportal.ru/uploads/posts/1184513805_songs_about_my_cats.jpeg)

They chase mice and toss around yarn while tripping out to Venetian Snares
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Post by: michaelicious on 01 Mar 2009, 09:17: I would pay to see that.
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Post by: Zingoleb on 01 Mar 2009, 09:35: Blood on the Tracks made into rock opera would either be pure amazing, or, more likely, depressingly awful.

Hit three power chords - "DUN DUN DAHHHH" - "TANGLED UP IN BLUUUUUE"
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Post by: Cadeonehalf on 03 Mar 2009, 17:46: I'd love to see Tool's 10,000 Days as a rock opera, mostly because it'd be even more random and confusing than the Wall ever pretended to be.
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Post by: Nodaisho on 03 Mar 2009, 17:49: Sculptured's Embodiment?

A terminally ill guy singing death metal.
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Post by: Scandanavian War Machine on 03 Mar 2009, 17:59: Akron/Family's Love Is Simple would be pretty fucking sweet, maybe. also, Colors by Between the Buried and Me.

got both ends of the spectrum, there.
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Post by: Ballard on 03 Mar 2009, 18:41: I'd see a rock opera-styled one-man show by Devin Townsend.
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Post by: imapiratearg on 03 Mar 2009, 18:51: Quote from: Scandanavian War Machine on 03 Mar 2009, 17:59
Akron/Family's Love Is Simple

Yeeessssss

I would like to put forward Grails' Take Refuge In Clean Living or Doomsdayer's Holiday for discussion.
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Post by: Fishboy on 03 Mar 2009, 19:06: Not so much a rock opera, but Black ships ate the sky would be ten thousand kinds of awesome.
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Post by: Scandanavian War Machine on 04 Mar 2009, 11:46: JOURNEY TO THE PLANET OF BIRDS BY DJ FRANE

DUH
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Post by: Thrillho on 04 Mar 2009, 15:23: Quote from: imapiratearg on 28 Feb 2009, 21:30
Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.

HAEMORRHAGE
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Post by: the_pied_piper on 04 Mar 2009, 15:34: Quote from: imapiratearg on 28 Feb 2009, 21:30
Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.

Rock opera not fetish porn.
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Post by: Sox on 04 Mar 2009, 16:48: The Afghan Whig's Gentlemen. The stage would basically just be a play by play of the entire record, but acted out.
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Post by: Ballard on 04 Mar 2009, 18:27: I get the feeling that would involve a lot of seeing Greg Dulli naked.

And honestly I think nobody's wanted to see that since 1996.
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Post by: Jace on 05 Mar 2009, 01:35: Mastodon's Leviathan.

The framework is there, just capitalize on it.
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Post by: Fishboy on 05 Mar 2009, 03:41: Quote from: the_pied_piper on 04 Mar 2009, 15:34
Rock opera not fetish porn.

They're not mutually exclusive.
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Post by: pwhodges on 05 Mar 2009, 03:57: Wagner's Ring. It's strong on the opera, but a little lacking in the rock (except ones with fire round them).
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Post by: Ballard on 05 Mar 2009, 09:04: Paul quiet before Dream Theater takes that as a sign to write a 20-minute prog rock wankfest based on the Ride of the Valkyries.
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Post by: spoon_of_grimbo on 05 Mar 2009, 11:58: "Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious" by Carcass.

It'd be the world's first slasher/gore-fest b-movie-style musical, set to a death-metal concept album about ways to dispose of corpses.
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Post by: mberan42 on 05 Mar 2009, 12:47: Quote from: Ballard on 28 Feb 2009, 22:43
The Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia

I'd pay to see that.
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Post by: ImRonBurgundy? on 06 Mar 2009, 18:47: Lightning Bolt- Wonderful Rainbow

Scenes 1-10: people are beaten with hammers
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Post by: The Joker on 08 Mar 2009, 18:23: Dark Side of the Moon. For people who don't want to actually do drugs.
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Post by: Kyros on 08 Mar 2009, 18:49: Something really random like Separation Sunday by The Hold Steady, or All Hail West Texas or Tallahassee by The Mountain Goats, or maybe Okkervil River's last two albums?
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Post by: Caspian on 08 Mar 2009, 18:55: Isis's Oceanic would fit fairly well.

Also, Slayer's Show no Mercy. No idea what plot it would have, but it would be a real riff-tastic musical.
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Post by: Ballard on 08 Mar 2009, 19:36: Quote from: The Joker on 08 Mar 2009, 18:23
Dark Side of the Moon. For people who do want to actually do drugs.

FYP.
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Post by: spoon_of_grimbo on 09 Mar 2009, 07:26: Quote from: Caspian on 08 Mar 2009, 18:55
Isis's Oceanic would fit fairly well.

now THAT i could get behind! i gave it a listen the other, i'd forgotten how earth-shatteringly epic it truly is!
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Post by: MrBlu on 09 Mar 2009, 21:35: Songs For The Deaf

And..

"Down Below It's Chaos" by Kinski
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Post by: KickThatBathProf on 09 Mar 2009, 21:55: Efterklang's Parades

Tension and release, baby
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Post by: imapiratearg on 09 Mar 2009, 22:06: Quote from: Kyros on 08 Mar 2009, 18:49
Something really random like Separation Sunday by The Hold Steady, or All Hail West Texas or Tallahassee by The Mountain Goats, or maybe Okkervil River's last two albums?

Tallahassee would make for an awesome stage adaptation.
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Post by: Invammocon on 10 Mar 2009, 03:51: Any album by Logan Whitehurst and The Junior Science Club, probably "Goodbye, My 4-Track".
"Happy Noodle vs. Sad Noodle" would be epic.
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Post by: Lummer on 10 Mar 2009, 04:35: Quote from: Ballard on 03 Mar 2009, 18:41
I'd see a rock opera-styled one-man show by Devin Townsend.

I would not be one bit surprised if he actually did that one day. Still I think the "Ziltoid" album would make for an incredibly fun night, if put into stage musical form. They hardly have to change one note, just add more silly-looking puppets!

Quote from: PantsFTW on 05 Mar 2009, 01:35
Mastodon's Leviathan.

Well, obviously noone can be surprised about me agreeing with this. That said, "Blood Mountain" and "Crack The Skye" could work as well. I guess this goes for pretty much all concept album.
Come to think of it, I would really, really love it if someone did Genesis' "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" as a big theatrical production or a film.
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Post by: The Joker on 16 Mar 2009, 11:37: Quote from: Ballard on 08 Mar 2009, 19:36
Quote from: The Joker on 08 Mar 2009, 18:23
Dark Side of the Moon. For people who do want to actually do drugs.

FYP.

For both groups, I guess.
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Post by: JimmyJazz on 16 Mar 2009, 13:15: I'm pretty sure the world doesn't need anymore rock operas. Seriously guys.
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Post by: valley_parade on 16 Mar 2009, 13:39: Merzbow's complete discography.
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Post by: BlahBlah on 16 Mar 2009, 13:49: Quote from: JimmyJazz on 16 Mar 2009, 13:15
I'm pretty sure the world doesn't need anymore rock operas. Seriously guys.

This.
No album, however awful it may be, deserves to be made into a rock opera.
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Post by: Lummer on 17 Mar 2009, 03:47: What the hell is wrong with you people?! :-(
Concept albums are awesome!
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Post by: Stupid Human on 17 Mar 2009, 05:01: Quote from: Lummer on 17 Mar 2009, 03:47
What the hell is wrong with you people?! :-(
Concept albums are awesome!

Agreed.

Also I move to nominate Ziltioid the Omniscient, because I'm a nerd at heart.
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Post by: Koremora on 18 Mar 2009, 00:22: Quote from: valley_parade on 16 Mar 2009, 13:39
Merzbow's complete discography.

I'm pretty sure if this was made into a rock opera, it would just be hours of BDSM sex coupled with Japanese occult oddities. I mean, it would be if Merzbow had his way.
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Post by: billiumbean on 19 Mar 2009, 22:34: I really wish people would appreciate symbolism a bit more.
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Post by: David_Dovey on 20 Mar 2009, 02:06: Care to elaborate a tad or are you being deliberately obtuse?

Quote from: Lummer on 17 Mar 2009, 03:47
What the hell is wrong with you people?! :-(
Concept albums are awesome!

A concept album and a rock opera are not the same thing and I hardly think every (or even many) concept albums would translate to dramatic performance, particularly albums that focus less on story and more on an abstract theme.
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Post by: Hat on 20 Mar 2009, 03:20: Frantically wiking whether critical opinion considers Bat Out Of Hell as a concept album or Rock Opera so that I don't look stupid.

It's probably both, like Operation:Mindcrime or some shit.

Oh god what is it with these Rock Operas and their terrible sequels.
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Post by: BeoPuppy on 20 Mar 2009, 03:27: Alas, indeed, Mindcrime II made me weep from frustration. That particular crime should not have been ...
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Post by: Hat on 20 Mar 2009, 06:25: Actually I really regret having missed seeing both Mindcrimes performed together because I'm sure it would have been ridiculous but holy fuck I love ridiciulous shit.
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Post by: BeoPuppy on 20 Mar 2009, 07:09: ... well, there is a DVD ...

I know, poor substitute but certainly the first Mindcrime is displayed wonderfully.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CkIo55cObA&feature=related

And THAT is just ... awesome.
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Post by: tigrar on 20 Mar 2009, 18:10: Cursive- Domestica
Of Montreal- Skeletal Lamping
Red Sparowes- At The Soundless Dawn
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Post by: Koremora on 20 Mar 2009, 18:30: The live show of Skeletal Lamping pretty much already takes care of this.