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Entirely tangential, but the best album I've heard is Music Inspired by The Lord of the Rings by Bo Hansson. Instrumental progressive rock that, at least for me

Entirely tangential, but the best album I've heard is Music Inspired by The Lord of the Rings by Bo Hansson. Instrumental progressive rock that, at least for me, entirely evokes a fantasy-like feeling and might even be, dare I say, superior to Howard Shores' score for the films. Now that I think about it, Tolkien and works related to him seem to have set the bars for a few things - worldbuilding, fantasy literature, epic films, etc.; not to mention more than a few things that have been directly inspired by his works.

ghostbrainalpha 8y ago
Sounds a lot like The Grateful Dead trying to LOTR. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs0AmruS8Ro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs0AmruS8Ro
- cocacola1 8y ago
  I've actually never listened to The Grateful Dead, so I can't say one way or the other :(
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BerislavLopac 8y ago
Some time in early 90s I have actually set up a small ballet production with that album. :)
albutr 8y ago
Never heard of this before, but from what I just listened to it sounds pretty great, very ambient. It's kind of weird that it's so old, it was published on vinyl in 1970, and according to wikipedia, this album hit the top 40 in the UK (idk why but I just automatically assumed it was much more recent, and not well known). So, it came out right around the same time that Zeppelin was putting out their first albums, and LZ IV also had several songs referencing lotr. Makes me wonder if rock musicians who wrote lotr-themed music was a sterotype/trend in the 70s.
- cocacola1 8y ago
  Glad you like it! If I had, to I might ascribe to the fact that the 60s and 70s apparently had a resurgence in popularity of Lord of the Rings as a new generation discovered the works. This for some reason reminded me of a video in which Larry Wall says that Hobbits embody the three virtues of a programmer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G49RUPv5-NU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G49RUPv5-NU
8bitsrule 8y ago
Didn't know of that! Sounds like it might be similar to 1979 album https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentateuch_of_the_Cosmogony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentateuch_of_the_Cosmogon.... Two records of music by Dave Greenslade (w/Phil Collins) included a hardback book lavishly-illustrated by Patrick Woodroffe. That production may have been encouraged by Jeff Wayne's 1978 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Wayne%27s_Musical_Version_of_The_War_of_the_Worlds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Wayne%27s_Musical_Version...

ghostbrainalpha 8y ago

Sounds a lot like The Grateful Dead trying to LOTR. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs0AmruS8Ro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs0AmruS8Ro

cocacola1 8y ago
I've actually never listened to The Grateful Dead, so I can't say one way or the other :(

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BerislavLopac 8y ago

Some time in early 90s I have actually set up a small ballet production with that album. :)

albutr 8y ago

Never heard of this before, but from what I just listened to it sounds pretty great, very ambient. It's kind of weird that it's so old, it was published on vinyl in 1970, and according to wikipedia, this album hit the top 40 in the UK (idk why but I just automatically assumed it was much more recent, and not well known). So, it came out right around the same time that Zeppelin was putting out their first albums, and LZ IV also had several songs referencing lotr. Makes me wonder if rock musicians who wrote lotr-themed music was a sterotype/trend in the 70s.

cocacola1 8y ago
Glad you like it! If I had, to I might ascribe to the fact that the 60s and 70s apparently had a resurgence in popularity of Lord of the Rings as a new generation discovered the works. This for some reason reminded me of a video in which Larry Wall says that Hobbits embody the three virtues of a programmer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G49RUPv5-NU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G49RUPv5-NU

8bitsrule 8y ago

Didn't know of that! Sounds like it might be similar to 1979 album https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentateuch_of_the_Cosmogony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentateuch_of_the_Cosmogon.... Two records of music by Dave Greenslade (w/Phil Collins) included a hardback book lavishly-illustrated by Patrick Woodroffe. That production may have been encouraged by Jeff Wayne's 1978 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Wayne%27s_Musical_Version_of_The_War_of_the_Worlds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Wayne%27s_Musical_Version...