Thick As A Brick overrated?

Whatever people's opinions are - and they vary greatly - if you are a progressive rock fan you owe it to yourself to give this album at least one good listen and judge for yourself.

There is a reason it is so highly reverved by so many prog fans.

Not if people like it, it isn't. It's where it is because people have rated it so.

Personally, I slightly prefer Aqualung. I'd rate TAAB (yes, it looks ugly) as a very good 4* album. It doesn't captivate me in the way (say) Snow Goose, Argus or Selling England do. But the cover is brilliant.


Edited by Tony Fisher

the shortening of Thick as a Brick to TAAB is so ugly,BTW 

Again, there is no such thing as overrated. I rated TAAB 3 stars, I don't like it (some great moments) and I might not get it why people like it. But it's my loss if I don't like it... (I wish I liked it )

Dragon Phoenix wrote: Overrated is an overrated word. If you mean: is it mandatory to love the album, then the answer is definitely no. Personally, it does not do much for me even after numerous spins. But we all have different tastes even though we all love prog.

That's how I feel about it.

 I own the album, but I have trouble really getting into it. It seems to mimic itself over and over again. I don't know, but it's interesting to see how many people really like this album. That's fine, we need variety in thinking in this world.  I grew up in that era and I listened to it all and now I pretty much listen to YES, Genesis (Genesis not as often as I once did). ELP rarely. King Crimson a bit more and some Zappa. Pink Floyd on occasion.

Some of the other stuff I kind of lost interest in. A good example would be Gentle Giant and the Strawbs. I tend to listen to lots of fusion and some newer progressive rock. Porcupine Tree grabs me as well as some of the Flower Kings stuff, Spock's Beard, and the Liquid Tension stuff is great. Riverside is a pleasant surprise as well. To me the band that really grabs me though is still YES. After all those years I still think they are the finest band I have ever heard.

Overrated is an overrated word.

If you mean: is it mandatory to love the album, then the answer is definitely no. Personally, it does not do much for me even after numerous spins. But we all have different tastes even though we all love prog.

ken4musiq wrote: This was Anderson's need to provev that he could write a through composed concept album. And he did it better than anyone else.

that's right.after Aqualung,hearing that many called it a concept album he said

NOW I'LL GIVE YOU A CONCEPT ALBUM YOU'LL NEVER FORGET!!

Ghandi 2 wrote: I think it's overrated only in the sense that everything in the PA top 10 is overrated; it's impossible for it to live up to being on of "the greatest prog albums ever."

Please explain me this, if the ten best albums by Prog Archives are overrated, then all the best ten albums of every reliable Progressive Rock site are overrated, because I assure you:

1. Close to the Edge
2. Selling England
3. Dark Side
4. ITCOTCK
5. Thick as a Brick
6. The Lamb
7. Wish You Were Here

Are in almost every Prog site in the top ten. Of course you can find Foxtrot, Nursery Cryme and probably another Yes album in many other sites also.

So, the vast majority of Prog fans around the world who visit the net (I believe most of the fans do) are wrong and overrate the music.

Would love to see your top ten, because this makes me curious.

Iván

martinprog77 wrote: TheProgtologist wrote: andYouandI45 wrote: I think you have no balls. And just what is the point in that comment?

Giant age gap in action

TheProgtologist wrote: andYouandI45 wrote: I think you have no balls. And just what is the point in that comment?