Welcome back to the Various Artists/Various Blogs Festival! The festival runs December 1st-10th, across many blogs in the Community… Check out THIS PAGE at Bruce’s site for all the posts as we go along! And most importantly: our huge thanks to Bruce for getting the ball rolling on this, and for all his hard work in making it all happen!
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This 1990 budget compilation is a brilliant listen. It’s the kind of set you can throw on, do other things, and let the time pass as the songs take you away.
The list of artists is impressive, and the songs are all worthy of inclusion: check out the track list photie (below). I couldn’t find what criteria the makers of this comp used when defining ‘rock opera,’ (I mean, some were obvious, not so with others to me, anyway) but no matter. I let the tunes do the talking and all was well.
Check it out:
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Interesting to see a track from Oxygene – it didn’t feel like an album with ‘singles’, it would be interesting to hear it out of context.
Nothing wrong with that opening track of course!
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Geoff, the whole mix is a bit like shifting without a clutch, so by the time JMJ rolls around, it’s just another oddity in the mix! That said, it’s fascinating and I quite enjoyed it all!
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like shifting without a clutch, i like that simile – doesn’t sound like the smoothest of transitions, but it gets the job done!
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True, it does, but it’s also hell on the transmission…
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Nuthin from Current River?
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Yeah. They had that guy with a wolf hat didn’t they?
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Crazy antics of a Beat Generation….
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Crazy antics in a Thunder Bay subdivision.
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HAHAHAHA…..pretty much!
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I was surprised by this too…
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There are quite a few I would change.
Seven Bridges Road-Eagles, Paradise By The Dashboard Light-Meatloaf are 2.exampkes.
I would want to add JC Superstar, Tommy, some Floyd, Beatles, early Genesis, ELP, Bowie etc.
As for Albatross, I may be the only one who sees this working. 3 guitars and cymbals sound very operatic to me. I know I would go see an opera based around this song.
If there is such a thing as a blues rock opera, sign me up.
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Your suggestions also work for sure. Defnitely needed some Floyd! If by ELP you mean ELO, they’re on here, CD1 track 8. Albatross was alright by me, as it was an odd enough mix and I wasn’t sure what they were using to define Rock Opera anyway. I mean, how does the Canned Heat track fit in? At 2:53 it’s a basic blues rock track from them!
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Emerson Lake & Palmer.
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Ohhhh yeah right! Them too! Hahaha I just thought because the ‘o’ is next to the ‘p’ on the keyboard… Gotcha! I’ll go back to sleep now…
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Quite a few good songs on this. I see HMO’s point though. If it had been me, the Fleetwood Mac song I would have used would be “Go Your Own Way.” That’s just my personal choice.
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That’s a great song too, but maybe overplayed so that’s why it was left off? I can only surmise, of course…
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Albatross?!
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Um, yes? It’s here, anyway! 🙂
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Nothing from Jesus Christ Superstar.
JCS album almost made the list on my albums to review for this comp group post thingu, but I had too many others to do. Oh well.
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Another great suggestion. We’re building a CD3, here!
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Who’s missing.
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Definitely an oversight, good call!
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I was wondering if anyone would get that joke.
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I got it straight off. Awaiting my No Prize in the mail! 😉
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It actually made me think of this old clip of Slappy The Squirrel from the Animaniacs. Very much like Abbott & Costello…
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