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Pop albums with an opening overture?

Ray Thomas album "From Mighty Oaks" has a very nicely done opening orchestral overture of the album by the same name.  Never thought about it before before digging this album out for conversion to music library.   Not a very common thing for a non themed pop album to do that.   Any others come to mind?   

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firstgrowth
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Yes-Close to the edge.
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slaw
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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road...  "Funeral For a Friend"
Alan Parsons "I Robot"
Steve Miller "Fly Like an Eagle"
Pink Floyd  "Speak To Me"


csmgolf
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Queensryche- "Operation Mindcrime"
reubent
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An of course........

Rush "2112"
reubent
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The Tubes - "What do you want from Live?"
trytone
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You could make an argument for Quadrophenia, amid the slamming surf are faint fragments of melodies you will hear later, much in the fashion of an opera overture.
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toddverrone
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The Gorillaz - Plastic Beach has an opening track appropriately named 'Orchestral Intro'. 
bec1195
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Al (Kooper) also included an overture on his first solo album, "I Stand Alone."  Both this one and the B,S & T overture include some "psychedelic" sound effects.  
bec1195
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Blood, Sweat & Tears’, "Child Is Father To The Man." A great album.
jafant
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Pet Sounds.
raymonda
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The Who, "Tommy".
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geoffkait
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Stones' Their Satanic Majesties Request

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mapman OP
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Of course "Days of Future Passed" by Ray Thomas and the Moodies would be another more obvious and  better known album.   Happy 50th anniversary on that one.
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tom6897
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ELO, Chicago, Queen, and Kansas come to mind. Let me think a little longer about this.
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