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R_DeNIRO

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Posted: November 27 2005 at 09:42

Overrated, without doubts.

We were always be much human than we whish to be.

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Posted: November 27 2005 at 09:45

This album can't be over-rated. The only way to over-rate it is to say that DSOTM is the best album in the universe. The music is quite simple here but there is also this thick varied soudscape which makes this album what it is. Also has beatiful harmony and moods on "The Great Gig in the Sky" and "Us and Them"

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Posted: November 27 2005 at 09:47

DSOTM is overrated.
CTTE is overrated.
ITCOTCK is overrated.

These stupid arse threads are a pile of crap.

Every few days, someone has to come along and shoot down one fo the greats. Meaybe they really feel that way. Maybe they do it to see the response. Doesn't matter though. Tomorrow, someone else will do it again.

In the end though, Dark Side of the Moon remains and always will remain, a MASTERPIECE!

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Posted: November 27 2005 at 10:25

It's pissing me off. Sth is over-rated? Bullsh*t

I know what I like and I like what I know...

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Posted: November 27 2005 at 10:31

IMO it's the mood in the music of Dark Side making it a
masterpiece. Just musicially, it might not be a masterpiece, but
with the creativity and mood the four guys were playing this
record makes it stunning.

And because it had so much influence on later records it just
can't be overrated I think.

There is no dark side of the moon. Matter of fact there's all dark!

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Posted: November 27 2005 at 10:36

Carpetcrawler wrote:

IMO it's the mood in the music of Dark Side making it a
masterpiece. Just musicially, it might not be a masterpiece, but
with the creativity and mood the four guys were playing this
record makes it stunning.

And because it had so much influence on later records it just
can't be overrated I think.

well said there

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Posted: November 27 2005 at 10:38

it's over- rated but really amazing albums still. ELP and genesis are over- rated, somehow i just cant stand their albums.

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Posted: November 27 2005 at 10:45

Yes, it is over rated. Pink Floyd in general is VERY over rated. I tried to get into their music. I tried, man. I mean, I really, really tried. I bought all their albums, listened to them intently, tried to like them. In the end I couldn't. They just didn't do it for me.

Then again, I've never done drugs. Maybe that could explain it.

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Posted: November 27 2005 at 10:50

You know what? I thought it was boring the first time I heard it too. I thought the only great song on there was "Money," and everything else was good but not great. But people, especially people who listen to more complex types of music, make a grave mistake in thinking that just because something is simple, they don't need to listen to it over and over again to grasp it. WarChild actually took me longer to understand than A Passion Play, believe it or not. In the Land of Grey and Pink is also a pretty simple and poppy album, and that one took me more time to understand than I thought it would have. I kept listening to DSotM, and eventually I realized that the music on this album is some of the most beautiful ever written. It's undoutbedly a bona fide masterpiece that does, believe it or not, need work, but once it snaps, if it does, it will be one of the most amazing things you will ever experience musically.

Music doesn't need to be complex to be good. The Beatles are one of the best bands ever, and their music is no "Larks' Tongues in Aspic" in terms of complexity, but it's still amazing.

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Posted: November 27 2005 at 10:52

Biggles wrote:

Music doesn't need to be complex to be good. The Beatles are one of the best bands ever, and their music is no "Larks' Tongues in Aspic" in terms of complexity, but it's still amazing.

Nicely said again!

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Posted: November 27 2005 at 10:55

matti meikäläin wrote:

it's over- rated but really amazing albums still. ELP and genesis are over- rated, somehow i just cant stand their albums.

What have ELP and Genesis got to do with this thread?

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Posted: November 27 2005 at 10:55

viperjr98 wrote:

Then again, I've never done drugs. Maybe that could explain it.

Neither have I, and I love Floyd. I don't think you went about it the right way, either. In general, I don't make a determined effort to get into something. For example, with King Crimson, which, "Larks' Tongues in Aspic" being my first KC album, was very hard to get into, I would just start by playing "Book of Saturday," which I thought was the only great song on that album, and I would just pick the album up now and again. The first time it really snapped I hadn't listened to the album in a month, and I had it playing in the background while I was doing my homework, and suddenly I understood it. If it just didn't do it for you, that's fair enough though.

The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe.

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Posted: November 27 2005 at 11:11

Thinking it's boring does not qualify it as overrated.

In my opinion, everyone that has said that DSOTM is overrated doesn't understand it.

And therefore does not understand prog rock.

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Posted: November 27 2005 at 11:12

I've got 3 copies of it and I still do think it is overrated a bit, as are CTTE and ITCOTCK. A 4* affair for me. But does my view change a thing? Nope!

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Posted: November 27 2005 at 11:40

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO OVERRATE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON!!!

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Posted: November 27 2005 at 12:31

How can one of the best albums be over-rated?

All the big classics would be OVERRATED from that point of view. Just stupid poll.

"All you need to do is sit back, and acquire the taste." - GENTLE GIANT

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Posted: November 27 2005 at 12:57

Snow Dog wrote:

matti meikäläin wrote:

it's over- rated but really amazing albums still. ELP and genesis are over- rated, somehow i just cant stand their albums.

What have ELP and Genesis got to do with this thread?

i really dont know, just wanted to tell you.

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Posted: November 27 2005 at 13:04

Although no single work will ever be unaminously enjoyed by everyone,
Dark Side of the Moon is whole-heartedly beloved by millions of fans as
the quintessential masterpiece of all time (not by me personally, although
I like it). And not as a passing phase, but with duration. Since its
conception fans from different eras have cherished it, revered it, and
sworn fealty to it.

What else can you ask of an album? Seriously.

To return to my first statement, it's alright and understandable to not like
Dark Side, but that doesn't intrinsically mean it is overrated.

Edited by AngleofRepose

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Posted: November 27 2005 at 13:10

Soime people can't forgive success, Pink Floyd created a new formula of good music with popular acceptance, and that can't be wrong.

I still the album as much as I did in the 70's.

Iván

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Posted: November 27 2005 at 13:43

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Suck my balls, Mr. Garrison.

What is a quote as trashy as this doing in our beloved Prog Archives?

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