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  • the repeat itself part is a bit tough with music. music is sorta a repeating sequence of notes and usually even the most complex will have some sorta of repeating element. That being said the band jethro tull has many songs that are story and two are album length. Pretty much all of them have at least a significant meaning but most are basically stories. The one that I think would most meet your criteria is passion play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XrlWumWbUU&t=241s&pp=ygUMcGFzc2lvbiBwbGF5 side one and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUyIhIhf3A4&pp=ygUMcGFzc2lvbiBwbGF5 being its from the days of records they needed a way of linking the two sides. Curiously in this one did it with a unrealted story that just sorta starts getting told in the middle of the song. You may not like that. Its other album length song, thick as a brick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldXdnZtTWp8&pp=ygUQdGhpY2sgYXMgYSBicmljaw%3D%3D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTWQv8RsI6s&pp=ygUQdGhpY2sgYXMgYSBicmljaw%3D%3D , is a story but its not as straight forward and more flowery being a bit more about life and society and the struggles of the individual. Its transition is really neat as the music blends with this wind sound which fades and then starts back up on side B. Its a great transition. If I get some time I will do a list of some other songs along with the idea of the story but they are not super long although most of their songs are not exactly short.

    • First I have to mention that there was an overlay of one of the shortened versions (20 or so minutes) of thick as a brick with a silent black and white short film called "an occurrence at owl creek bridge" but I can't find it. Likely it was taken down. But it is one of the best overlay music to film type of things I ever experienced.

      While goign through I realized how hard it is to say something has become a proper story and im not sure all of these are. There is a sort of tale around most all tull songs but many sorta walk the line between story and just sort of meaning. Also I likely lack some context to understand the story from some.

      "For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me" - this is about the guy who stayed in the lunar module on the first moon landing - 4mins "Aqualung" - about a homeless man - over 6 mins "cross eyed mary" - about a teenage prostitute - 4mins "Locomotive Breath" - shorter song about the plight of life - 4minish "Wind-Up" - about why worship of a god is necessary - 6mins "sweet dream" - if the collection of music videos made in a dvd called slipstream is to be believed its about a vampire seducing a girl. - 4mins "The Witch's Promise" - boy being seduced by witch - almost 4mins "Minstrel in the Gallery" - farciful story of a bard getting it over on the man - 8mins "Baker St. Muse" - adding this in because I feel its the songs the bard from minstrel in the gallery might of sung. Its one song that is sorta 4 songs and goes for 16mins "we used to know" - this song is sorta a meloncholy nostalgia for the band when it started and those not with it and sorta works as a brief story of being in a band before and after success "Quizz Kid" - about the game show cheating scandal from the 1950's - 5mins "Crazed Institution" - about being famous - just under 5mins "From a Dead Beat to an Old Greaser" - exactly as it sounds about generational divide - 4mins "Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die" - about generations sorta selling out. could be silent generation but I think its about boomers especially given its late seventies and its about where is your rock and roll spirit that defined you - 5+mins "Hunting Girl" - high status girl gets rare opportunity alone with a young nobody from the perspective of the nobody - 5mins "Velvet green" - guy trying to convince girl to take a roll in the hay - 6mins "Pibroch (Cap in Hand)" - guy walks in on cheating wife - 8mins "fire at midnigh" - guy walks home to loving wife - 2+mins "...And the Mouse Police Never Sleeps" - about cats - 3mins "Moths" - about the allure of fire - 3+mins "journeyman" - commuting home on a train - 4ish

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