I know one so far, Legend of Arthur and the Roundtable, but I want to learn about more and listen to more for inspiration and the story telling potential it holds.

Any suggestions would be great

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Rush's early albums were themed. The first was a plain rock album, but after that were theme based. Their fantasy themed albums were

Fly by Night
Caress of Steel
A Farewell to Kings

2112 was more sci-fi, and then after that they were more mixed, with albums containing fantasy or sci-fi, or just political or contemporary topics. But there's a lot of material to listen through.

Aside from their historical or political stuff, none of the fantasy is tied to any particular folklore; it's just fantasy stories. You won't find, like, songs about Merlin, or Achilles, or whatever

[–] cfi@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'd absolutely put Hemispheres in there too. The first track of Hemispheres is a direct sequel to the last track of Farewell to Kings. Also Xanadu from Hemispheres is very much a fantasy song.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. The CD only has 4 tracks, though ;-)

[–] thumdinger@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Clocking in at 37 minutes. Don’t judge prog by the number of tracks… pretty typical album runtime for anything released in the vinyl era.

Also, it’s fantastic.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I thought the smiley face was sufficient to express that I was joking.

[–] thumdinger@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oops ;-)

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 10 months ago

S'allright. Use of old-time smilies of fading away, and with it, our recognition of them when they pop up.