What's the best rock opera ever made? - It's not The Wall.

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

What do you guys think is the best rock opera ever made? Not concept album--rock opera.

I'd have to say it is The Who's Quadrophenia. It's the album I keep coming back to over and over again. I'd say it has thematic parallels to Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, but that book sucks and nobody should bother reading it. You should, however, listen to this masterpiece.

Instead of some prog rock bullshit about discovering a guitar and freeing humanity or some bullshit, it's about a young mod that becomes disenchanted with all that bullshit.

I'd say The Real Me and Punk and the Godfather are some of the best rock songs ever made.

What do you guys think? Think there's something better?

 

[escapegoat]

The Nightman Cometh.

 

[Dick Pooman]

Tommy is my favorite

 

[Rand /pol/]

Rock Opera is gay

 

[ES 148]

Tommy, probably.

 

[The Shadow]

Does it count if it's a lift of another story made for the screen?

 

[User names must be unique]

Rock opera, aint got shit hip-hopera

 

[Kratos' Beard]

inb4 Avantasia.

 

[OldGuy]

Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1W4BwLEykGU

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

Tommy is my favorite

Somewhat thematically similar to the Wall, came before it, and is superior. Tommy is pretty good though I think even Quadrophenia blows it away.

Tommy's got most upbeat song about being molested I've ever heard.

 

[TheCapybara]

Does The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars qualify?

 

[HomeAloneTwo]

All of the Coheed albums tell a pretty elaborate and interesting space opera

 

[Lez]

I'm obligated to post this.

 

[oldTireWater]

Tommy's got most upbeat song about being molested I've ever heard.

Well, Pete Townshend may have had a dog in that fight.

Besides his arrest for assaulting a police officer in 1967 and issues with destruction of property, Townshend was cautioned by British police as part of Operation Ore, a major investigation on child pornography conducted in 2002–2003. Townshend was placed on the sex offenders register for five years in 2003 after admitting he had used his credit card to access a child pornography website.[116][117] Townshend initially claimed that he accessed the images as research in a campaign against child sexual abuse;[118] in 2012, he wrote in his autobiography, Who I Am, that he had accessed the illegal images to prove that British banks were complicit in channelling the profits from pedophile rings.[119]

 

[dookerbewitt]

Rock&Rule

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

Well, Pete Townshend may have had a dog in that fight.

I know, I've always found his excuse of "the banks are in on it!" to be laughably pathetic. The banks don't fucking know they're going anything involved with child porn, these people hide what they're doing.

I made a snide remark about prog rock and "discovering a guitar and saving humanity" but that would have also sort of been the plot of The Who's planned rock opera Lifehouse if that didn't fall through, hah.

 

[sasazuka]

The best rock opera *never* made could be Jim Steinman's Nosferatu: Vampires in Love, about a teacher falling in love with a vampire boy at a supernatural boarding school. The feature song was going to be, of course, Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart".

Spoiler: Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart

The "Total Eclipse of the Heart" music video, directed by Russell Mulcahy, serves as a sort of highlight reel of the Nosferatu: Vampires in Love rock opera that might have been, which is why there are some really disjointed moments like the roaming groups of ninjas and greasers.

 

[Pointandlaugh]

 

[Winnie the Poohnani]

The best rock opera *never* made could be Rick Steinman's Nosferatu: Vampires in Love, about a teacher falling in love with a vampire boy at a supernatural boarding school. The feature song was going to be, of course, Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart".

Spoiler: Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart

The "Total Eclipse of the Heart" music video, directed by Russell Mulcahy, serves as a sort of highlight reel of the Nosferatu: Vampires in Love rock opera that might have been, which is why there are some really disjointed moments like the roaming groups of ninjas and greasers.

Thank you for that. I have always wondered what was up with the candles and glowing eyes and curtains blowing in the wind in that video. But especially the glowing eyes. Mystery solved.

 

[The Shadow]

Speakimg of Steinman, Streets of Fire isn't quite a rock opera but it's pretty close. It has rock and roll...and it's operatic.