In which they fully embrace their prog-rock bombastic tendencies with a full-on rock opera.
I haven't really been able to fully embrace my prog-rock bombastic tendencies since high school. At the most, I shake hands with them.
I bet I will, since prog-rock was the music I was really into when I first got into music on my own (as opposed to hearing it from family or friends).
My older brother was into Pink Floyd, so
The Wall
was my fave album when I was in high school. The first music I got into on my own was The Velvet Underground, when I was a sophomore in college.
eta: Oh yeah, and David Bowie, when I was a freshman.
Jethro Tull was the first band I was really into (so that mulit-part epic on Crane Wife really struck a note with me), but I dived head-long into the art rock abyss - Yes, ELP, King Crimson, Floyd. I branched of into space-rock.
There still bits of all of them I love, but the only one I could say I'm still really a fan of is Crimson. They were definitely a different breed of prog, even in their early days, though.
This all led to stuff like Roxy Music, Eno, Talking Heads, and onward. Then my older brother lent me a couple of Clash albums which really expanded things.
We will not speak of the fusion phase I went through, however. Oh, wait...
My 15-year-old niece's favorite band is Pink Floyd. And, for her birthday, she asked my brother for a turntable and some real-life LP records! He got her one of those portable ones so she could take it over to her friends' houses.
"Shine on You Crazy Diamond" saved me in high school. So many horrible, horrible days were offset just by that song being available to me in my Walkman.
Stephin Merritt
Coraline
musical! [link]
I just heard a Yes song on the radio, and had to look up the lyrics to make sure I wasn't nuts.
Here is my heart,
Waiting for you
Here is my soul,
I eat at chez nous.
Chez nous? Really? I eat at our house?
Our house? In the middle of the street?
(Haven't had caffeine yet. Can you tell?)
Welcome to the House of Fun, tommyrot.
Now I'm trying to think about a song that has lupus in it.
Then again, I might as well think of a song which doesn't have lupus in it, because it's never that, right?
Now I'm trying to think about a song that has lupus in it.
The Ballad of Dennis Moore?
No wait, that was lupins.
