Okay so anyone who listens to music even somewhat avidly understands what a
concept album is. However recently I've been listening to a lot of spacey, stoner rock, and doom-esque music. I've noticed that some songs contain the same idea of a concept album. Namely
Sleep's Aquarian. IMO the song appears to tell the metaphoric story of a perfect life. Ya know Buddha nirvana and all that. In life we first start out "trapped under leagues of ocean", we don't know much of anything and have yet to figure out the world.(song plays at slow tempo). However at one point we all "put [our mouths] onto the cup of potion" and "Drink down the nectar and escape the ocean". We're becoming enlightened and are now actively ascending the "ocean" and casting aside our petty thought and gaining a clearer perspective.(mid tempo) Eventually in a perfect world we "touch the sun and return to ocean"(cue solo and rapid tempo, followed by a return to the original slower pace). We achieve nirvana, and are sent back to the start via reincarnation thus the cycle continues.
Thoughts??
