top ten overrated prog songs

I'm sure there are lots of overrated prog songs, it just depends on who you talk to.   

All a matter of personal preference of course.   In my unassailable opinion almost the entirety of Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall are overrated.

Rush as a band are overrated. 

In Absentia by PT turned out to be hugely overrated: when I was first discovering these guys about a year and a half ago it seemed to be the one PT album the majority of fans suggested to get first, so I did.  I tried and tried to love it but it just didn't happen.  Too uneven.  Two *great* songs, a couple good ones, the rest meh.

Most of Camel's discography seems kind of overrated to me. Aqualung isn't all that amazing. I really like Close To The Edge, but for me, it pales in comparison to Thick As A Brick and Supper's ready 

Slaughternalia wrote: Most of Camel's discography seems kind of overrated to me. Aqualung isn't all that amazing. I really like Close To The Edge, but for me, it pales in comparison to Thick As A Brick and Supper's ready

Anything by Genesis.

kingcrimsonfan wrote: i know i started this topic but i am sick of people saying the classics are overrated they maybe popular in the prog rock community but by no means overrated its good stuff

Other than the 'classics', DT and PT, there's not a whole lot of prog that's popular enough to be 'rated' in the first place. Yeah, add Tool or Radiohead to that's it, really.  It is tough to call a band with a small if somewhat vociferous fanbase like Magma overrated because in the larger scheme of things they're not.

Anything from Porcupine Tree

Karn Evil 9 and Toccata from ELP's Brain Salad Surgery album.

Maybe Another Brick in the Wall by Pink Floyd, too. Not that it's bad or anything, it's just, y'know, they have about 100 better songs than that one.

progrules wrote: Plague of lhk

Gotta throw my lot in with this one. I've always felt Plague only goes so far before it ends up collapsing under it's own weight. It just gets bogged down somewhere around the 13-15min mark and never quite recovers. Not to mention the fact that most of the transitions are just awful. In my review of Pawn Hearts I felt that this song is what kept the album from being five stars.

Despite this, I see it being called one of prog's greatest epics or even one of prog's greatest songs. Never saw the appeal, on either a subjective or objective level, and so I can't help but call it overrated.

um to be honest I think Mirage is probably the most overrated album on this site, and I'm not too fond of Camel's other stuff either...

Never quite understood the term overrated, the way its used at PA, take some of the best music ever made, and look for the least great, of the greatness.

Edited by tamijo - July 18 2011 at 02:56