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Originally posted by Mascodagama Mascodagama wrote:

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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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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 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 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 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.

Fantastic for driving long distances lol.

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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 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 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. 

which prog artists jumped the shark, musically that is? LOL
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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 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 Mascodagama Mascodagama wrote:

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"...

LOL
served with French fries and pickles? 
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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

Hi,

Well, so is Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and all that nazz ... so what else is knew? Did the sun come up? Embarrassed
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Originally posted by Mascodagama Mascodagama wrote:

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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Okay, as promised, here's the first of my pretentious over-the-top prog album choices, and I absolutely love it! Smile
 
FIRST+AID - Nostradamus (1976) - Album Review:- https://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=2283625
 
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Another contender maybe. Orchestra and each band member has a side. One is devoted to a piano concerto devised by a rock musician. No one is having any fun on this album , especially the listener Wink



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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?



I never liked "Brain Salad Surgery", or "Bull S**t S**t", as I call it, and not because of "Benny the Bouncer" (I actually like that song). What I dislike the most is that they split up "Karn Evil 9"; that really pisses me off. But the whole overall sound is bland and the musical colours used are dull and repetitive, unlike their other albums.

As for a pretentious albums I love: This:




Edited by BaldFriede - July 01 2020 at 11:54


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If OTT means cheesy and slightly ridiculous, then I guess I will have to nominate Into The Electric Castle by Ayreon (or possibly other Ayreon albums)...

Love them to bits, but yes they're OTT!!!
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Wakeman - Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Love it to bits though.
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Agreed.
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I almost forgot! Welcome - Welcome (1976). It's super over the top and the lyrics are pretentious as hell. But darn. It's an awesome album.
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