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"Some consider this album one of the earliest story-telling concept albums in history, as it pre-dates The Wall, a story-telling concept album by Pink Floyd."
Umm . . . actually no. The story-telling concept rock already had at least a decade-long history by 1977, and was already something of a cliche at the time Klaatu did theirs.
Give 5 examples. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.126.59.28 ( talk) 02:22, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
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The band was still anonymous and inaccessible when this record was released. Interviews, they did not exist.
So there were questions floating around.
The one I remember the most speculation about was whether "Loneliest Creature" had been influenced by "Loneliest Person" from
S. F. Sorrow (1968) by
The Pretty Things. S. F. Sorrow was in print in Canada (on Motown Records!) in a double with
Parachute, although it was not really well known.
The musical styles of the two songs are not terribly close, but there is a thematic equivalence, and they both conclude the storylines of their respective concept LPs.
A second question concerns "The Politzanian National Anthem". It's a catchy tune with Fascist lyrics. Not unlike
Die Fahne hoch (Horst Wessel Song) which you can see
Hermann Goering and other top Nazis singing in the big finale to
Triumph des Willens.
Is that intentional somehow?
Varlaam (
talk) 05:40, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
In the '70s, everyone agreed that that was a mouse squeak.
That is reasonable since there is a mouse on the cover of the album, just as there was a mouse on the cover of their previous album.
Right? This was never a controversial issue.
Varlaam (
talk) 05:48, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
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"Some consider this album one of the earliest story-telling concept albums in history, as it pre-dates The Wall, a story-telling concept album by Pink Floyd."
Umm . . . actually no. The story-telling concept rock already had at least a decade-long history by 1977, and was already something of a cliche at the time Klaatu did theirs.
Give 5 examples. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.126.59.28 ( talk) 02:22, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
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BetacommandBot ( talk) 20:28, 2 January 2008 (UTC}
The band was still anonymous and inaccessible when this record was released. Interviews, they did not exist.
So there were questions floating around.
The one I remember the most speculation about was whether "Loneliest Creature" had been influenced by "Loneliest Person" from
S. F. Sorrow (1968) by
The Pretty Things. S. F. Sorrow was in print in Canada (on Motown Records!) in a double with
Parachute, although it was not really well known.
The musical styles of the two songs are not terribly close, but there is a thematic equivalence, and they both conclude the storylines of their respective concept LPs.
A second question concerns "The Politzanian National Anthem". It's a catchy tune with Fascist lyrics. Not unlike
Die Fahne hoch (Horst Wessel Song) which you can see
Hermann Goering and other top Nazis singing in the big finale to
Triumph des Willens.
Is that intentional somehow?
Varlaam (
talk) 05:40, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
In the '70s, everyone agreed that that was a mouse squeak.
That is reasonable since there is a mouse on the cover of the album, just as there was a mouse on the cover of their previous album.
Right? This was never a controversial issue.
Varlaam (
talk) 05:48, 12 July 2011 (UTC)