Prog tracks that you feel get too much hate...

Saperlipopette! wrote: So Meddle is my favorite Pink Floyd album. I'm not gonna fight for Seamus. I do find it enjoyable and fun enough (but I wouldn't mind if they had included the studio version of Embryo instead). -San Tropez however is just so effortlessly beautiful to me. I love it as much as anything. I feel like the average progger dismiss it by default. When it's not judged on its own terms you miss out on what it actually aims for - and succeed at. I know I'm exactly like that myself at times though. Maybe More Fool Me is an excellent track for what it is too, I wouldn't know, and I never want to hear it again. So while I think it's unfair each time I'm the one with the unpopular opinion, I fully understand why and how this happens.

I agree about 'San Tropez' - the light cocktail hour jazzy feel nicely fits in with the overall romantic feel of the album (though not as a stand alone track). Embryo would have been an interesting inclusion, tho the band claimed it was never properly finished (hence the hasty withdrawal of the Harvest label double sampler 'Picnic'). The other nice inclusion, again with a romantic feel, could have been 'Biding My Time' had it not been shoved out on 'Relics' earlier in the year. Yes, 'Seamus' is the definitive throwaway track.

Meddle is my favourite album of all time by the way, as it was my entry point into the Floyd (and the start of a lifelong obsession with all things Floydian). Not only that, on a wider scale, 'Meddle', and the live album of Ummagumma proved to be my gateway into prog generally... all back in 1971/2!

Emerson's Piano Concerto n°1, but we've already had this discussion...