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Most Pretentious Over The Top Album That You Love! |
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micky 
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Pholas Dactytlus's bruising and braincell killing masterpiece of pretension and shear over the topness that make ELP look like fucing Camel or Genesis is the first to come to mind.. and god damn do I love that album
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satanellus
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It's really sh*t for driving short distances though. "Just leaving home now. I'll be there in 5 minutes." "Where the f**k have you been? You said you'd be here an hour and a quarter ago!"
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King of Loss
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Posted: July 01 2020 at 18:39 |
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Tales from Topographic Oceans!
 One of my favorite prog albums ever.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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My main problem with BSS is that parts of Karn Evil 9 first impression repeat itself too much and it gets to be a bit tiring after a while. Other than I think it's pretty great. I especially like the latin jazz piano part(don't remember exactly which section)and also tocatta.
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BaldFriede
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Posted: July 01 2020 at 17:34 |
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I like their debut, "Tarkus", "Trilogy" and to a certain degree "Pictures at an Exhibition". I mostly dislike "Brain Salad Surgery". Anything after that I don't like at all.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: July 01 2020 at 17:17 |
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For me it would be olias of sunhillow by Jon Anderson, tales from topographic oceans or maybe MDK by Magma. Maybe Brain Salad too what the heck.
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^I'm beginning to think there's way more classic rock fans who like ELP than actual prog fans who do.
 Maybe because classic rock fans don't over analyze and just enjoy the music. Just a thought. :P
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Frenetic Zetetic
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KE9 is pretentious AF. The whole thing feels contrived. Too preconceived. Too overdone. The way the vocal melody and moog melody match up at certain parts drives me crazy, and feels forced. |
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BaldFriede
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Posted: July 01 2020 at 14:38 |
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I just listened to that album for the very first time, and it is really absolutely pretentious and over the top. It even includes, for whatever reason, parts of a Hitler and a Kennedy speech. Did I like it? No. This overgrown cheeseburger made me burp. I need to wash it down with a bottle of Bordeaux.
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The Anders
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Posted: July 01 2020 at 14:31 |
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I do love quite a few albums that are over-the-top. But pretentious for me means music that pretends to be something it's not - or alternately, pretends to be significant without actually being it. And that usually leaves me cold.
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Posted: July 01 2020 at 13:36 |
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Ayreon's Into the Electric Castle comes to mind. Love the album, but the concept seems over the top and the campy sci-fi lyrics really hits the "P" word fairly nicely.
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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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Agreed.
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Wakeman - Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Love it to bits though.
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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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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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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
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Psychedelic Paul
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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!
FIRST+AID - Nostradamus (1976) - Album Review:- https://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=2283625 |
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Hi, Well, so is Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and all that nazz ... so what else is knew? Did the sun come up?
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