most fucked up rock opera protagonist

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2008-06-02 11:00pm

Tommy - Tommy-The Who (can't see, speak, or hear because he's mentally closed down his mind.)
Desmenova -Imaginos/Astronomy - Blue Oyster Cult (servant of aliens out to destroy humanity by causing wars.)
Kilroy- Killroy was here-Styx (rock musician who escapes a life sentance under a fundy government, spends his life disguised as a robot.)
Pink- The Wall- Pink Floyd (traumatized by Nazis, his mother, his wife, and drugs)
The young man- Quadrophenia- The Who (a schitzopherenic teen trying to find his place)
Ziggy Stardust- Ziggy Stardust -David Bowie (a musciican/missiah)

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2008-06-02 11:14pm

What? Where's Nikki from Queensrych's Operation Mindcrime?!

The Duchess of Zeon · Post by **The Duchess of Zeon** » 2008-06-02 11:20pm

Unfortunately, by having turned the Oresteia into a Metal Opera, Virgin Steele automatically wins this. Orestes being told to kill his mother to avenge his father by the gods and then having them drive him insane is about as fucked up as it gets.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2008-06-02 11:38pm

thanks ladies

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2008-06-03 02:54am

Frances the Mute by The Mars Volta...

It supposedly tells a story but I haven't taken enough drugs to figure out exactly what it is yet. I do know that it has some very disturbing imagery and is, apparently, about the meaning of family.

The protagonist is Cygnus and he's searching for his biological parents but seeing as it's sung half in Spanish and the English half is mostly metaphors, symbolism and imagery pulled from a bad trip I had to look it up to figure that much out.

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2008-06-03 02:55pm

Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick bears mention, as a poem written by Gerald Bostock.

Also, Diamond Dogs by Bowie is something of a rock opera, being a glam/soul vision of 1984. The plot isn't fully resolved though, and the characters just fade away, after realizing that their whole rebellion was orchestrated by the government.

In a similar vein, Station to Station and Low could be considered such as well; pertaining to the Thin White Duke, but the plot is even more tenuous here.

And thank God that no one has brought up that Green Day tripe.

EDIT: And there's 2112 by Rush. I'm ashamed of myself for forgetting that.

Ziggy Stardust · Post by **Ziggy Stardust** » 2008-06-05 12:22am

Rael in Genesis' "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway." Of course, the plot to that rock opera is utterly non-sensical.

Sebastian Sorrow in "S.F. Sorrow" by the Pretty Things.

Any of David Bowie's characters - Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, the Thin White Duke, Major Tom ...