[ronniesgal]

talkin’ about Rock n Roll on Easter?? LOL, someone, somewhere is having a cow.
PS I agree the 70’s produced some great musicians/ songwriters.

[Windflier]

Funny how it's mostly 70's music.

Well, we were a more culturally homogeneous people back then. Americans still created music and art for Americans. We were unapologetically western, and celebrated our place in the grand human pantheon through art in all its forms.

In my view, the corrosive and degrading influences of the left have slowly eroded the foundational underpinnings of our culture, and it's reflected in the gradual debasement of the arts.

[dfwgator]

Marillion with Fish:

Script for a Jester’s Tear
Fugazi
Misplaced Childhood
Clutching at Straws

All great albums

[djf]

Talking Heads.

I’ve heard David Byrne has a mild case of Aspergers... easy to believe when you hear their lyrics...

[RideForever]

Mumbo-Gumbo ‘Love Makes You Stoopid’

[Paal Gulli]

Most of Steely Dan’s stuff was sophisticated and thought-provoking (if that qualifies as intellectual), particularly ...

Doctor Wu

Deacon Blues

Sail the Waterway

Show Biz Kids

Any World (That I’m Welcome To)

Any Major Dude

My Rival

Time Out Of Mind (cryptic drug referrences)

Midnight Cruiser

Bodhisattva

(You Got) The Bear

Reelin’ in the Years

The Royal Scam

Almost Gothic

The Second Arrangement

Throw Back The Little Ones

Things I Miss The Most

[Grimmy]

It’s more close to blues than rock, but it’s a good one for thinking on...

Brown Bird - Bilgewater
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoqH9irCn3o

snip:

When every day’s like a war between the will to go on
and a wish that the world would spiral into the sun
Turn your head toward the storm that’s surely coming along.

If the sun was always shining and the load always light
We’d be shaken like a leaf with with every God given night
And we’d break under the weight of any pressure that was ever applied

[wardaddy]

Moody Blues albums 1967-1972

Days of Future Passed to Seventh Sojurn

Days of Future Passed
In Search of the Lost Chord...particularly
Threshold of a Dream

All were heavily listened to soundtracks to my own interstellar exploration

In a few years I realized how much reference they used to notable historical writers and philosophers

Orchestra meets guitar meets Sidney

[wardaddy]

So I’m now sitting in the tub while wifey tries to get the large family together for Easter brunch and I’ve now got the Moody Blues intellectual music blaring from my little Altec flip speaker

She’s punk rock girl...an early Xer as opposed to me as Boomer apex year

“It’s Easter why are you listening to tripping music”

She doesn’t know much of the Moody Blues is really love songs

[BlueLancer]

Just about every Al Stewart song contains a history lesson inside ...

Roads to Moscow
The Running Man
Last Train to Munich
Trains
Palace of Versailles
A Child's View of the Eisenhower Years
Hanno the Navigator
Shah of Shahs
Old Admirals
Royal Courtship
The Immelman Turn
Franklin's Table
A League of Notions
Joe the Georgian
The Last Day of June 1934
Peter on the White Sea
Flying Sorcery
Helen and Cassandra
Russians and Americans
Post World War II Blues
Nostradamus
Murmansk Run/Ellis Island
Fields of France ...

...etc, etc, etc ...

[wardaddy]

Steely Dan of course

I always found myself listening to the lyrics of Dylan as well as the Band

I was a Band fan

And I know it sounds crazy but some of Jim Morrison’s lyrics would catch your attention

His odd to Oedipus Rex sure as hell did didn’t it....lol

[Califreak]

Canadian Railroad Trilogy by Gordon Lightfoot

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PXzauTuRG78

[wardaddy]

I like Robert Hunter/Garcia lyrics too

So shoot me

Listening to Ripple right now

[ex91B10]

Jethro Tull-Thick as a Brick.

[ADemocratNoMore]

So much to say about the subject and no time right now. A lot of Freepers have already mentioned many of my favorites.

Right at the top of my list, although there are no lyrics, is Mike Oldfield, especially his live concerts featuring Tubular Bells I, II and III.

TB I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hWU8i8ZPDo

TB II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7U1fvpuWWU

TB III https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTZyudLLJSU

Tales from Topographic Oceans & just about anything else - Yes

Thick as a Brick and Passion Play, Benefit, Stand Up and Time Was - Tull

Supper’s Ready & just about anything till Gabriel left - Genesis

Just about anything from ELP

Just about anything from Pink Floyd

Song for Eternal by Kobatyu - My favorite Vocaloid epic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY-toPPijSE

Ghost Love Score - Nightwish - Somebody mentioned them up-thread, here’s a link...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V_eoR6r1Tw

Saturday Night in Bombay - Remember Shakti

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFqOge9Nego

Paradis - Wintergarten

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0SKEgMEw5Y

Have seen Yes, Wakeman, Tull, Floyd, Genesis and ELP, amongst many others on multiple occasions.

Thus concludes my “short” post on the subject. Will there be a part 2 ?

[minnesota_bound]

Rock attained perfection in 1974
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLqfXlIq6RE

It’ll Happen To You! (The Simpsons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGrfhsxxmdE

Grand Funk Railroad, Homer’s Favorite Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXKmsvRXE4A

[PUGACHEV]

For "Intellectual Rock" I cannot think of a better song than Walter Becker's (one-half of Steely Dan) Surf and/or Die, from his album 11 Tracks of Whack.

"In a near random universe there are still certain combinations
Picked out from all other possible ones
Which, when given some time and the just-right circumstances
Not too far from the earth or too close to the sun
They will dance and they'll spin in the embrace of the trade winds
Playing havoc with the hearts and the upturned faces down below
Until the laws of curved spacetime, susponed without warning
Kick back in with a vengeance for the last act of the show
Going too far too fast in that final wing over
As your glider comes tumbling out of the clouds
And you clutch at your chest but the chute never opens
And they find you there tangled in that white nylon shroud..."

[CJinVA]

Rush.
Freewill
Tom Sawyer

[HandyDandy]

Dudes, like hands down best all time rock opera Quadrophenia of all time best hands down, man.

[Pelham]

Procol Harum’s album ‘Shine On Brightly’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7TcdSWNi9M