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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

which prog artists jumped the shark, musically that is? LOL
I think when applied to rock music the correct term is "jumped the Shark Sandwich"...

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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

which prog artists jumped the shark, musically that is? LOL
I think when applied to rock music the correct term is "jumped the Shark Sandwich"...
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Originally posted by Frenetic Zetetic Frenetic Zetetic wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Can you get more pretentious and OTT than Tales From Topographic Oceans?

Nope! It's my first pick coming into this thread. No reservations, no shame, that album is the pinnacle of what everyone despised about prog rock, and for that reason alone it's an artistic gem worthy of praise! Yes took it all the way. Those boys knew their power.

It's still boring as hell though. Cool
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Originally posted by Mascodagama Mascodagama wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by Mascodagama Mascodagama wrote:

Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Rick Wakeman is everything and more that Prog's detractors claim it to be yet still manages to trample over good and bad taste with joyous abandon. If you can't tell there's shed-loads of tongue in cheek bravura at play here: check your pulse hipster.
OTT for sure - arguably not pretentious, though. 

can't figure out what OTT means Embarrassed
OTT = Over The Top (meaning excessive, extravagant, beyond the usual norms of good taste and common sense...).

I know what over the top means LOL
some abbreviations are obvious, some are not. 

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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by Mascodagama Mascodagama wrote:

Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Rick Wakeman is everything and more that Prog's detractors claim it to be yet still manages to trample over good and bad taste with joyous abandon. If you can't tell there's shed-loads of tongue in cheek bravura at play here: check your pulse hipster.
OTT for sure - arguably not pretentious, though. 

can't figure out what OTT means Embarrassed
OTT = Over The Top (meaning excessive, extravagant, beyond the usual norms of good taste and common sense...).

Edited by Mascodagama - June 30 2020 at 04:16
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Originally posted by Mascodagama Mascodagama wrote:

Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Rick Wakeman is everything and more that Prog's detractors claim it to be yet still manages to trample over good and bad taste with joyous abandon. If you can't tell there's shed-loads of tongue in cheek bravura at play here: check your pulse hipster.
OTT for sure - arguably not pretentious, though. 

can't figure out what OTT means Embarrassed
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Originally posted by Frenetic Zetetic Frenetic Zetetic wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Can you get more pretentious and OTT than Tales From Topographic Oceans?

Nope! It's my first pick coming into this thread. No reservations, no shame, that album is the pinnacle of what everyone despised about prog rock, and for that reason alone it's an artistic gem worthy of praise! Yes took it all the way. Those boys knew their power.

It's still boring as hell though. Cool

Nah it's just more Yes music for my ears, I love it all Wink.

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Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

Originally posted by Mascodagama Mascodagama wrote:

Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Rick Wakeman is everything and more that Prog's detractors claim it to be yet still manages to trample over good and bad taste with joyous abandon. If you can't tell there's shed-loads of tongue in cheek bravura at play here: check your pulse hipster.
OTT for sure - arguably not pretentious, though. 


I agree with you. It's just a very lazy association of ideas propagated by the 'trendier than thou' in our culture.
I don't know if you read the recent Vanity Fair piece, but my favourite nugget was that the show wasn't originally intended to be done on ice. It was just that Rick was dead set to do it at the Empire Pool in Wembley. But Brian Lane told him it was no go as the Ice Follies had booked the venue for a number of months and turned it into a skating rink. Wakeman, undeterred by considerations of mere sanity, promptly began to devise a plan to put the whole extravaganza on ice...
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Originally posted by Frenetic Zetetic Frenetic Zetetic wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Can you get more pretentious and OTT than Tales From Topographic Oceans?

Nope! It's my first pick coming into this thread. No reservations, no shame, that album is the pinnacle of what everyone despised about prog rock, and for that reason alone it's an artistic gem worthy of praise! Yes took it all the way. Those boys knew their power.

It's still boring as hell though. Cool
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Can you get more pretentious and OTT than Tales From Topographic Oceans?

Nope! It's my first pick coming into this thread. No reservations, no shame, that album is the pinnacle of what everyone despised about prog rock, and for that reason alone it's an artistic gem worthy of praise! Yes took it all the way. Those boys knew their power.

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Originally posted by Mascodagama Mascodagama wrote:

Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Rick Wakeman is everything and more that Prog's detractors claim it to be yet still manages to trample over good and bad taste with joyous abandon. If you can't tell there's shed-loads of tongue in cheek bravura at play here: check your pulse hipster.
OTT for sure - arguably not pretentious, though. 


I agree with you. It's just a very lazy association of ideas propagated by the 'trendier than thou' in our culture.
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Originally posted by Sacro_Porgo Sacro_Porgo wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Can you get more pretentious and OTT than Tales From Topographic Oceans?



Nah, Benny The Bouncer breaks the illusion that they were taking it all too seriously.

damn that 2 minutes LOL

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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Can you get more pretentious and OTT than Tales From Topographic Oceans?



Nah, Benny The Bouncer breaks the illusion that they were taking it all too seriously.
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Can you get more pretentious and OTT than Tales From Topographic Oceans?
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Oooh, the dreaded P word! lol

I don't know, it very well may not be prog, at least the over the top part. Plenty of pop and rock has a habit of going three steps too far for attention or art's sake. For my money, it's gotta be something by Muse, probably The Resistance, though The 2nd Law goes further out.
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Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Rick Wakeman is everything and more that Prog's detractors claim it to be yet still manages to trample over good and bad taste with joyous abandon. If you can't tell there's shed-loads of tongue in cheek bravura at play here: check your pulse hipster.
OTT for sure - arguably not pretentious, though. 
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One of my favourite music genres: pretentious over-the-top prog! - YouTube albums coming up soon. Wink
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Mike Oldfield~Tubular Bells, went Gold in the US and I think sold a gazillion copies in the UK. Love the album but man could have been reduced to a 45rpm 7" single......LOL

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JTull~TAAB
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Most pretentious - Wolf City by Amon Düül II
Most over the top - Tardigrade by Simon Says
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