I suspect it has not aged even as well as Waters' stuff. Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime was another dystopian concept album from my youth. Amused to Death is more powerful, but you might need multiple listens to really get it all. Radio Kaos is a little more overt in it's narrative, but not as good. The story makes me weep like a little girl in a few spots.īut they're both very much theme driven, not explicit. The music is kind of dated, but not good enough to be classic, but it's message is timeless. The music is pretty bad, but it has a few strong moments.Īmused to Death is a postmortem on the human race, culminating in an alien scientist performing a brief autopsy on our collective corpse. Radio Kaos is about a disabled boy who trolls the world into thinking nuclear war has started, and possibly starts one. Roger Waters solo albums Radio Kaos and Amused to Death both have some scifi themes and they tell stories subtly. Styx - Killroy Was Here: Cheesier than either the City Boy or Jeff Wayne albums mentioned above, but you know you're going to stand up and do the robot when Mr. You won't understand the words and this one is definitely not for the faint of heart, but it's definitely a dark prog rock masterpiece.Īnd then there's always. Magma - Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh: Part of Christian Vander's multi-album, sci fi Kobia story and sung in a language that he created specifically for these albums. Like the City Boy album above it delivers plenty of 70's art/prog rock cheese, but it's good fun and the Moody Blues' Justin Hayward lends his vocals to several songs. Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of War of the Worlds: It's exactly what the title suggests. Gary Numan - Replicas: He did much more than "Cars" and this album presented a future dystopia setting similar to that in the Terminator films (and the album preceded those by several years).
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Know any others? Message #scifi and let your friendly mods know!Ĭity Boy - The Day the Earth Caught Fire: Good 70's art/prog rock cheese that delivers some quite listenable songs with a loosely connected apocalyptic theme.
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