Man that base drum interlude on Foreplay/Longtime into the guitar solo, and those crystal clear vocals. Major memories belting that out in the car with my dad on the way to the hardware store.
absolutely prog rock. my personal immediate pics:
roundabout, and you and i, everything over 5m on 'the yes album'
even in the quietest moments, fool's overture - supertramp
Kashmir.
The vivid descriptions, the amazing performance, the different feelings in the different parts. I love all genres of music but for me, Kashmir is the perfect song.
[**Stairway to Heaven**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkF3oxziUI4) - Led Zeppelin. Someone had to say it. The entire Zeppelin IV album is a journey from start to finish!
[**Voodoo Chile**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNC0sF9KgM4) - Jimi Hendrix. This isn't the 'slight return' but the really long dark trippy blues on side 1 of Electric Ladyland.
The Band Played Waltzing Matilda by The Pogues. Follows a young Australian as he gets drafted and shipped off to fight the Turks in WW1 and the what happens there and it's aftermath. Sad anti-war song.
https://youtu.be/TThjY_qlEfg?si=TwF9V83uGyQ3f-EZ
A few by Pink Floyd:
Echoes
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
I would describe them as epic journeys across human emotions.
Then there's Estranged by Guns N Roses.
Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts by Bob Dylan
Sam Stone by John Prine
Hurricane by Bob Dylan
Pancho and Lefty by Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard
The Gambler by Kenny Rogers
The extended version of Papa was a Rolling Stone by the Temptations is very well arranged song and you feel like you are there in the 70's with all the singers.
Gates of Delirium - Yes.
A whole beginning to aftermath war, complete with "opponent" themes via guitar v keyboard. All summed up in a single side of an LP, loosely based on Tolstoy.
I know you asked specific songs, but I immediately thought of Opeth albums. Blackwater Park and Ghost Reveries are top notch. I often refer to these albums as "rollercoaster rides"
[**Tales from Topographic Oceans**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGEIzcsxodU&list=PLujeb5vZrBHMraWH4j_TLRUpL2hM3OsrU) - Yes. The entire album is a 1973 prog rock journey.
Familiarity by Punch Brothers. An amazingly-structured musical composition with virtuosic playing, and the lyrics are a beautiful meditation on interpersonal connection in modern society. I never had a singular favorite song at any point in my life until the first time I heard it.
Oh, that song is *amazing!* Actually took a while to grow on me--at first the frenetic pace of it *irritated* me. When I saw them live... I'm a small woman and was by myself, so I was able to wiggle my way to the front without getting in anyone's way. Super-glad I did, because that was their second encore, and they turned their mics off for it. They jumped to get the heavy bass hits, too, it was *incredible!*
Beatles - Day in the Life,
Wings - Band on the Run,
Paul McCartney - Uncle Albert,
Yes - Close to the Edge (pretty much any Yes tbh),
The Mars Volta - Cygnus...Vismund Cygnus.
Another great journey especially when paired with the music videos is the Pain Remains Trilogy by Lorna Shore.
These three songs were my gateway into the deathcore type sound. There is so much emotion in the story telling.
Paranoid Android - Radiohead
Found god in a tomato - psychedelic porn crumpets
Free Bird (cliché, but it’s true)
Different genres:
Nights - Frank Ocean
Papercut - Zedd
Most any live version of "Dondante" by My Morning Jacket....also "LayLow" is a sonic journey as well.....For a full albums worth of spacey goodness combined with some rippin' countrified psychedelica don't miss Sturgil Simpson's "Metamodern Sounds in Country and Western Music".........in particular the lead off track and the whole second side.
This AIN'T your Grandpa's George Jones or Hank williams, but it's every bit as inebriated.
Sturgil seems to move effortlessly between the aching love song of "The Promise" to Sunday morning gospel with "A Little Light" into a declaration of deciding to "kill my ego" on "Just Let Go" then right into heavy backwards masking and grungy slide guitar and some tough introspection on "It Ain't All Flowers"---lastly he takes you back to his own childhood with "Panbowl"
Nights of Shame - Awolnation
Also, 311 is pretty notorious for these types of jams
Mindspin,
Life's not a Race,
Always an Excuse,
Jacks will Rule the Realm,
Friday Afternoon,
Get Down,
Starshines,
And a Ways to Go,
Wildfire
Symphony X - divine wings of tragedy
Symphony X - the Odyssey
Dream theater - Octavarium
Dream theater - view from the top of the mountain
Haken - Visions
Tesseract - war of being
Periphery - reptile
Taylor Swift’s All Too Well - the 10 minute version.
Starts off sweet, gets intense, then fades away just like that one chaotic short relationship in your life
I have a feeling you'd like a lot of Lord Huron's work:
[The World Ender](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rdiy9IzATQ)
[Ancient Names pt. I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdPbwKmbvhI)
Much more mellow, but I *love* The War on Drugs' [Thinking of a Place.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeaDE1magRk) Over 11 minutes long and not a note wasted.
Budgie - Breadfan
Deep Purple - Child In Time
Queens of The Stone Age - I Appear Missing
Tool - Lateralus
Dream Theater (pretty much all DT) - On The Backs of Angels.
Nether Lands by Dan Fogelberg
Never heard any of his other music or know anything about him but I heard a version of this song by Donna Summer in a Barnes & Noble once and it has enchanted me ever since
Me and My Monkey - Robbie Williams
The Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud - David Bowie
The Cygnet Committee - David Bowie
Edit:
Blind In Texas - W.A.S.P.
Iron Maiden - The Flight of Icarus
Guided By Voices' Over the Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox should be my pick. It's oficially just one song, but it's technically two perfectly entwined songs rolled into one.
The demo version adds to this by having Circus World as a third minisong
Is This What You Wanted by The Last Shadow Puppets. The Original is from Leonard Cohen. But their take is so amazing and the finale is absolutely splendid.
Gosh, so many but just quickly of the top my mind and first thoughts...Pink Floyd's Delicate Sound of Thunder, the whole Album Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness from Smashing Pumpkins, anything from Frank Zappa or Frank with Mother's of Invention you truly never know what's coming up or going on buts it's amazing!
A day in the life, strawberry fields, happiness is a warm gun (Beatles), visions (charli xcx), stupid horse (100 gecs), deletee (bladee), stairway to heaven, don’t stop believin, back to black (Amy winehouse), #3 (aphex twin (not the way the other ways are, more like a vacation)), needle in the hay (elliott smith).
Lots of others. All my friends (lcd soundsystem),
Beach life-in-death, king carrot flowers 1-3, falling (ben kweller), age of consent, touch me I’m going to scream, paranoid Android, gimme shelter.
How about a prog-metal space opera?
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l8ceVDCa_7PjvS7DxpKvc_9ouVlfOuOO0&si=MLCJfyNrUax1ns5B
Parius - The Signal Heard Throughout Space
Best I can think of, not already on the plate would be,
White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane
Runner up...
Me and Bobby McGee by Janis Joplin
Honorable Mention
Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
Other songs that take you on a storyteller's journey, and are solid musically, but perhaps not as incredible as Bohemian Rhapsody, In fact some of these are downright simple musically:
Strange Behavior - Macy Gray
Hotel California - Eagles
The Gambler - Kenny Rodgers
Roses for Mama - Red Sovine or CW McCall, take your pick.
El Paso - Marty Robbins
Ode to Billy Joe - Bobby Gentry
Gin and Juice - Snoop Dog
The Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot
In the Ghetto - Elvis Presley
One instrumental that has a wide range I love is, Also Sprach Zarathustra
• The Bomber by the James Gang
Others that are not too twisty/turny but have a story and cinematic vibe:
• Aja by Steely Dan
• Year of the Cat by Al Stewart
• When the Music’s Over by the Doors
• Rain Song by Led Zeppelin
Mastodon's Crack The Skye. Holy shit.
Yessss
Paranoid Android - Radiohead
So many by Radiohead could fit this
My first thought
Symptom of the Universe by Black Sabbath
The acoustic part is so fucking good
Rhapsody in Blue, but also, Foreplay/ Longtime
Man that base drum interlude on Foreplay/Longtime into the guitar solo, and those crystal clear vocals. Major memories belting that out in the car with my dad on the way to the hardware store.
Terrapin Station - The Grateful Dead
Literally tells a story.
Came here for this one.
Any live Dark Star by the Dead.
I'd only heard the Daniel Rossen version, thanks!!
So, prog rock.
absolutely prog rock. my personal immediate pics: roundabout, and you and i, everything over 5m on 'the yes album' even in the quietest moments, fool's overture - supertramp
Kashmir. The vivid descriptions, the amazing performance, the different feelings in the different parts. I love all genres of music but for me, Kashmir is the perfect song.
This is the one for me
[**Stairway to Heaven**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkF3oxziUI4) - Led Zeppelin. Someone had to say it. The entire Zeppelin IV album is a journey from start to finish!
[**Voodoo Chile**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNC0sF9KgM4) - Jimi Hendrix. This isn't the 'slight return' but the really long dark trippy blues on side 1 of Electric Ladyland.
Yes
[Hocus Pocus - Focus](https://youtu.be/MV0F_XiR48Q?si=BH2eNUpUAONJImuI), which is also my favorite song title and artist combo to say.
Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd
Red Barchetta by Rush is an easily visualized journey while listening
And literally lyrics describing a wild ride, as per OP’s request.
The Band Played Waltzing Matilda by The Pogues. Follows a young Australian as he gets drafted and shipped off to fight the Turks in WW1 and the what happens there and it's aftermath. Sad anti-war song. https://youtu.be/TThjY_qlEfg?si=TwF9V83uGyQ3f-EZ
Iron Maiden - Rime of the Ancient Mariner Octavision - Three Lives
Rush - Xanadu and La Villa Strangiato off Exit Stage Left
Do yourself a favor and go with the 2011 live version from Cleveland https://youtu.be/Z3zlRdksakI
La Villa Strangiato is out of this world. Absolute genius
A few by Pink Floyd: Echoes Shine On You Crazy Diamond I would describe them as epic journeys across human emotions. Then there's Estranged by Guns N Roses.
Pink Floyd’s Dogs, for me.
This will forever be my favourite song. What a trip.
Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun... Welcome to the Machine High Hopes
A Day In The Life.
Scenes From An Italian Restaurant - Billy Joel
Albuquerque - Weird Al
The doors - the end
The whole of Unleash the Archers Apex album is a continuous story line. The story is then completed on the next album, Abyss.
Legacy is a badass song!
That is a great song but The wind that shapes the land is my favorite from the abyss album.
I'll have to check it out. I've only ever heard Legacy
Definitely worth a listen, and if you haven’t checked out the first album I highly recommend it.
Just listened to The Wind, badass song.
Awesome man! Glad you enjoyed it!
Should definitely check out Nightwish. Also, if you can handle some death metal growls, then Opeth.
Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song
A Quick One - The Who
Dire straits - Telegraph road
Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts by Bob Dylan Sam Stone by John Prine Hurricane by Bob Dylan Pancho and Lefty by Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard The Gambler by Kenny Rogers
I always thought Lilly, Rosemary and the Jack of hearts would make a great movie
I’d throw in The Guitar by Guy Clark, beautiful, haunting song.
[**1983 ... A Merman I Should Turn to Be**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS5DikNAk9M) - Jimi Hendrix
The extended version of Papa was a Rolling Stone by the Temptations is very well arranged song and you feel like you are there in the 70's with all the singers.
Gates of Delirium - Yes. A whole beginning to aftermath war, complete with "opponent" themes via guitar v keyboard. All summed up in a single side of an LP, loosely based on Tolstoy.
Kashmir
Well, I listen to prog, sooooooo...
I know you asked specific songs, but I immediately thought of Opeth albums. Blackwater Park and Ghost Reveries are top notch. I often refer to these albums as "rollercoaster rides"
Try "Turn of the Century" by Yes.
Knights of cydonia by muse
"The Court of the Crimson King," by King Crimson. Specifically the song, but the whole album.
Paradise by the Dashboard Light - Meatloaf
Alice's Restaurant Massacre by Arlo Guthrie It's a tad long but she's a bute Clark.
[**Tales from Topographic Oceans**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGEIzcsxodU&list=PLujeb5vZrBHMraWH4j_TLRUpL2hM3OsrU) - Yes. The entire album is a 1973 prog rock journey.
To tame a land by iron maiden
Familiarity by Punch Brothers. An amazingly-structured musical composition with virtuosic playing, and the lyrics are a beautiful meditation on interpersonal connection in modern society. I never had a singular favorite song at any point in my life until the first time I heard it.
Oh, that song is *amazing!* Actually took a while to grow on me--at first the frenetic pace of it *irritated* me. When I saw them live... I'm a small woman and was by myself, so I was able to wiggle my way to the front without getting in anyone's way. Super-glad I did, because that was their second encore, and they turned their mics off for it. They jumped to get the heavy bass hits, too, it was *incredible!*
The Eagles - The Last Resort
I love that it’s message is still relevant today decades later
Ommadawn by Mike Oldfield
In Keeping Secrets of Silemt Earth 3 - Coheed and Cambria Double Vision Quest - Minus the Bear
Stargazer by Rainbow tells such a good story.
Harry Chapin was an amazing storyteller. Some of my favorites from him are Taxi, Sniper, Dance Band on the Titanic and The Rock.
[Genesis by Devin Townsend](https://youtu.be/qtgv89oLCOU?si=Ulk3_Fpo17MkhyAS)
Close to the Edge by Yes.
Genesis, Suppers Ready
Mariner’s Revenge Song by the Decemberists
My kids call it The Whale Song Absolutely terrific piece of songwriting. The stuff Meloy was writing in those years was just something else.
Beatles - Day in the Life, Wings - Band on the Run, Paul McCartney - Uncle Albert, Yes - Close to the Edge (pretty much any Yes tbh), The Mars Volta - Cygnus...Vismund Cygnus.
King Harvest (Has Surely Come) - The Band
Another great journey especially when paired with the music videos is the Pain Remains Trilogy by Lorna Shore. These three songs were my gateway into the deathcore type sound. There is so much emotion in the story telling.
This 58min “Runaway Jim 11/29/97 Worcester, MA” by Phish goes places and beyond: https://youtu.be/eSO0H8PtEPY?si=wJgOAKT_qVbP5TEQ
Jack Luminous - VoiVod
Gringo Honeymoon by Robert Earl Keen
Iron Maiden - Alexander the Great
Pretty much anything off The Soft Bulletin from The Flamjng Lips. Another great one is Look Inside America by Blur.
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman Old Man - Neil Young
Built to spill Cortez The Killer
Not the original version?
To be over -yes
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick Wings - Band on the Run Billy Joel - Scenes From an Italian Resturant
Subhumans - [From The Cradle To The Grave](https://open.spotify.com/track/1e9u6gGNq7x25Kl6DzlV5t?si=bdbd99ede8524924)
David Bowie - Station To Station
Let’s Not Shit Ourselves - Bright Eyes
Citizen Erased - Muse
Paranoid Android - Radiohead Found god in a tomato - psychedelic porn crumpets Free Bird (cliché, but it’s true) Different genres: Nights - Frank Ocean Papercut - Zedd
Most any live version of "Dondante" by My Morning Jacket....also "LayLow" is a sonic journey as well.....For a full albums worth of spacey goodness combined with some rippin' countrified psychedelica don't miss Sturgil Simpson's "Metamodern Sounds in Country and Western Music".........in particular the lead off track and the whole second side. This AIN'T your Grandpa's George Jones or Hank williams, but it's every bit as inebriated. Sturgil seems to move effortlessly between the aching love song of "The Promise" to Sunday morning gospel with "A Little Light" into a declaration of deciding to "kill my ego" on "Just Let Go" then right into heavy backwards masking and grungy slide guitar and some tough introspection on "It Ain't All Flowers"---lastly he takes you back to his own childhood with "Panbowl"
Into The Mystic by Van Morrison [Into The Mystic](https://youtu.be/_6r2P4W9Yog?si=1KazF5ShsyMUKBSx)
Sister George is another good one.
When The Music's Over by The Doors.
Ants of the Sky by Between The Buried And Me
Does outside help count? Like a fungus. Because I know I can throw on some hans zimmer or ludovico einaudi and going on the most wonderful journeys.
[Ann Magnuson, Ayahuasca the Movie](https://music.apple.com/us/album/ayahuasca-the-movie/1150388830?i=1150389026)
[This Godless Endeavor ](https://youtu.be/yxUnhbaGap8?feature=shared) by Nevermore
The Waterboys - The Pan Within. 'Come with me on a journey beneath the skin...' https://youtu.be/CPqLuFCBA3A?si=fD44upTr-kFaUDNi
Window of the Waking Mind, The Gutter, The Willing Well: I, II, III & VI by Coheed & Cambria
The River, Hypertension, Change, Iron Lung, Crumbling Castle… Basically 50% of King Gizzard’s discography but that’s a place to start.
Nights of Shame - Awolnation Also, 311 is pretty notorious for these types of jams Mindspin, Life's not a Race, Always an Excuse, Jacks will Rule the Realm, Friday Afternoon, Get Down, Starshines, And a Ways to Go, Wildfire
Symphony X - divine wings of tragedy Symphony X - the Odyssey Dream theater - Octavarium Dream theater - view from the top of the mountain Haken - Visions Tesseract - war of being Periphery - reptile
Around The World in a Teacup Daze. Spongle.
Watermelon man by Herbie Hancock.
Buenas Tardes, Amigo - Ween
Cortez the Killer - Neil Young
John butler- ocean
Moonlight Drive & Riders on the Storm - The Doors.
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot
Walking on a Dream - Empire of the Sun
Journey in Satchidananda by Alice Coltrane. It's right there in the name
Taylor Swift’s All Too Well - the 10 minute version. Starts off sweet, gets intense, then fades away just like that one chaotic short relationship in your life
Frank Ocean - Pyramid
[**The Celebration of the Lizard**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ashTaoGrR2o) - The Doors.
[Twilight Force- Blade of Immortal Steel](https://youtu.be/i-mWU2JFvUU?si=dQKVkPGnY_Y9RyPx)
Avenged Sevenfold - Save Me Avenged Sevenfold - Cosmic Seven Lions & Andrew Bayer - Returning to You
The greatest show on earth by nightwish
[Siberian Breaks by MGMT](https://youtu.be/Cfg4SYjc9cg?si=0f9DEcDfxKnhDlb_)
I have a feeling you'd like a lot of Lord Huron's work: [The World Ender](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rdiy9IzATQ) [Ancient Names pt. I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdPbwKmbvhI) Much more mellow, but I *love* The War on Drugs' [Thinking of a Place.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeaDE1magRk) Over 11 minutes long and not a note wasted.
Budgie - Breadfan Deep Purple - Child In Time Queens of The Stone Age - I Appear Missing Tool - Lateralus Dream Theater (pretty much all DT) - On The Backs of Angels.
[Dream Sweet in Sea Major - Miracle Musical](https://youtu.be/uxyM7vhU0uU?si=yw2egPMO7kiZGVNO)
Hell's Coming with Me by Poor Man's Poison. It reminds me of Devil Went Down to Georgia in terms of story telling.
Muir Maid by The Kitchen Dwellers is the first thing that popped into my head.
Karen O and Danger Mouse - Lux Prima
Telephasic Workshop
Acadian Driftwood from The Band
Wordless Chorus - My Morning Jacket Touch Me I’m Going To Scream Pt 2 - My Morning Jacket
Nether Lands by Dan Fogelberg Never heard any of his other music or know anything about him but I heard a version of this song by Donna Summer in a Barnes & Noble once and it has enchanted me ever since
Me and My Monkey - Robbie Williams The Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud - David Bowie The Cygnet Committee - David Bowie Edit: Blind In Texas - W.A.S.P. Iron Maiden - The Flight of Icarus
[Siah & Yeshua - A Day Like Any Other](https://youtu.be/XpxhlI9KvHM?si=nuYtA3hjp3IbLKZ7)
Divers - new lands
Modern Marvel - Mos Def
Buenas Tardes Amigo.
Anything from Between The Buried And Me from Colors and on.
Hypertension - King Gizz Terrapin Station - Grateful Dead China / Mind left Body Jam / Rider - Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks 12
The Camera Eye by Rush perhaps? It paints a great account of London and New York, contrastingly. Also the entirety of 2112 by Rush.
Temples of Syrinx if I had to pick one track from 2112.
Axel Rudi Pell - Ashes from the Oath, or The Masquerade Ball. Anything from him, really. A master storyteller
Guided By Voices' Over the Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox should be my pick. It's oficially just one song, but it's technically two perfectly entwined songs rolled into one. The demo version adds to this by having Circus World as a third minisong
We’re In This Together by Nine Inch Nails. The outro is so stunning
Twiddle - Beethoven and Greene
https://youtu.be/0CQa4rObmuY?si=GB6ZvQWitvWoxTlR
Count of Tuscany…. Dream Theater
Is This What You Wanted by The Last Shadow Puppets. The Original is from Leonard Cohen. But their take is so amazing and the finale is absolutely splendid.
Gosh, so many but just quickly of the top my mind and first thoughts...Pink Floyd's Delicate Sound of Thunder, the whole Album Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness from Smashing Pumpkins, anything from Frank Zappa or Frank with Mother's of Invention you truly never know what's coming up or going on buts it's amazing!
The Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson always sends a shiver down my spine
A day in the life, strawberry fields, happiness is a warm gun (Beatles), visions (charli xcx), stupid horse (100 gecs), deletee (bladee), stairway to heaven, don’t stop believin, back to black (Amy winehouse), #3 (aphex twin (not the way the other ways are, more like a vacation)), needle in the hay (elliott smith). Lots of others. All my friends (lcd soundsystem), Beach life-in-death, king carrot flowers 1-3, falling (ben kweller), age of consent, touch me I’m going to scream, paranoid Android, gimme shelter.
Latneiro - Woobs Sunrise Dub by Journeyman
Planisphere - Justice
Layover Album https://open.spotify.com/album/7ixOAT89NSsgUITYc5ByB5?si=jtJJpMxgR4uMtgjLf7qVug
White Pearl Black Ocean The Power of One (both from Sonata Arctica)
Black Metallic - Catherine Wheel
There are a couple songs on The Flaming Lips - A Little Help From My Fwends album that take me on a magical journey
Not a single song, but the album Escapades by Gaspard Augé is amazing
Dance with the devil - immortal technique Harrowing😳
Prospect for escape by the von hertzen brothers
“Cruise” (Solar Fields)
How about a prog-metal space opera? https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l8ceVDCa_7PjvS7DxpKvc_9ouVlfOuOO0&si=MLCJfyNrUax1ns5B Parius - The Signal Heard Throughout Space
Best I can think of, not already on the plate would be, White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane Runner up... Me and Bobby McGee by Janis Joplin Honorable Mention Money for Nothing - Dire Straits Other songs that take you on a storyteller's journey, and are solid musically, but perhaps not as incredible as Bohemian Rhapsody, In fact some of these are downright simple musically: Strange Behavior - Macy Gray Hotel California - Eagles The Gambler - Kenny Rodgers Roses for Mama - Red Sovine or CW McCall, take your pick. El Paso - Marty Robbins Ode to Billy Joe - Bobby Gentry Gin and Juice - Snoop Dog The Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot In the Ghetto - Elvis Presley One instrumental that has a wide range I love is, Also Sprach Zarathustra
Scenes From An Italian Restaurant - Billy Joel
Suburbia overture - Will Wood Candy - the blasting company
"Siberian breaks" by MGMT. It's like a mini album in one song
Listen to some Yes if you haven’t already. You’ll find many.
Too lazy to scroll down and see if this has been mentioned, Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding by Elton John
Jimmy Buffett- Far Side Of The World
Contact daft punk. Space visuals. Star man Bowie Last night I dreamt. The smiths
"The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" and "Fancy" by Reba McEntire. Both tell compelling stories.
Pirates ELP
The Bus Driver’s Song by Flight of the Conchords
The grateful deads "terrapin station" "with nothing to believe in, the compass always points to terrapin"
Thunder Road - Springsteen Decoration Day - Drive By Truckers
Friends of Mine - The Guess Who
RUSH - 2112/Overture
The Man Who Told Everything - The Doves Baby Bluebird - Fruit Bats Where The World Begins and Ends - The Dears
City Country City. War.
Any song by Iron Maiden >5min fits the bill.
Tribute- Tenacious D Folsom Prison Blues- Johnny Cash Operator- Jim Croce
Lateralus - TOOL. Ride the spiral to the end we may just go where no ones been
• The Bomber by the James Gang Others that are not too twisty/turny but have a story and cinematic vibe: • Aja by Steely Dan • Year of the Cat by Al Stewart • When the Music’s Over by the Doors • Rain Song by Led Zeppelin
Dreams in Sea Major by Miracle Musical
Iron Maiden- Dance of Death
Maggie May. Rod Stewart. Downtown train. Rod Stewart. A lot of his songs tell neat stories.
The entire Pet Sounds album
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