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Dellinger 
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 Topic: Most Pretentious Over The Top Album That You Love!Posted: February 06 2022 at 23:50 |
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Most pretentious album that I love? I guess Myths and Legends of King Arthur, by Rick Wakeman.
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Posted: February 05 2022 at 02:05 |
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I'm having fun. Especially on Greg Lake's side. "Hallowed Be Thy Name" is seriously underrated. When it comes to over the top, happy prog, it's hard to beat Moon Safari's "Blumljud". Over a hundred minutes of "flowers bloom like madness in the Spring". Edited by omphaloskepsis - February 05 2022 at 02:13 |
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Posted: February 05 2022 at 01:52 |
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...Ralf had a kind of German idea in mind,” Flür recalls. “Germany also needed something like The Beach Boys... ...The seven-line nursery rhyme describes the view over a sunlit valley,
the colours of the grey road with its green-edged white stripes, and the
sound of a car radio which plays the song’s refrain back to itself. A
droll, self-referential feedback loop. But of course, the lyric mostly
consists of the single childlike chant “Wir fahren fahren fahren auf der
Autobahn” (“We drive drive drive on the motorway”) repeated over and
over. Anglophone listeners were quick to make phonetic connection with
the refrains in “Fun Fun Fun” and “Barbara Ann” by The Beach Boys. But
although Kraftwerk were fans of their car-loving California cousins,
Hütter insists “Autobahn” is not a sly homage.... ...In the case of The Beach Boys, ‘Fun Fun Fun’ is about a T-Bird,” Hütter explains. “But ours is about a Volkswagen or Mercedes..
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Posted: February 05 2022 at 01:26 |
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Saga 1981 World's Apart album.
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Well, there it is. (Amadeus)
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In the progressive electronic world, Kraftwerk's Autobahn. Pretentious, yes, but still a journey.
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"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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I would probably say Rush’s “Caress of Steel”. There seems to be a lot of self-indulgence on this album, but because this pretentiousness was probably for the positive purpose of being daring and risky, I’ve always enjoyed it while most people pan it. Plus, I love the chord strum on Bastille Day, the bassline in The Necromancer, the chords in Fountain of Lamneth. Also, I think No One at the Bridge is one of the best early Rush songs because of the heartfelt lyrics just fitting the overall mood of the song.
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Saperlipopette!
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Not the biggest fan of "pomp", but this sort of qualifies: Magma - Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh -but I do not think Christan Vander was "attempting to impress by affecting greater importance", which is what pretentious means - so not really.
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I may have missed this comment when it first got posted so addressing it now: The splitting of KE9 was essential because they couldn't have released it as Vinyl and Cassette editions with a 15 minute Side One and 30 minute Side Two. CD (and MP3) re-issues have sorted this so it's not a problem anymore. The bland sound is largely down to the production. Eddy Offord was no longer working with ELP and it shows badly. I do love the synths on Trilogy way more than BSS but the latter is still much the superior album in my book. It flows better and Carl Palmer was at his very peak , and the drums are probably what really makes it for me. For what its worth I would recommend the live triple version to you as it's a bit more 'meaty' sounding.
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omphaloskepsis
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Posted: January 29 2022 at 12:14 |
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The Wall, A Passion Play, and Tales From Topographical Oceans.
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Posted: January 29 2022 at 10:33 |
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nice thread
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Morning has broken... |
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Perhaps finding the happy medium is harder than we know.
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OOT prog all day, son! Go big or go home! I love the lines we draw in the sand though it's super interesting!
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Yes good points. Mike Oldfield may well have got so immersed in recording 'Incantations' and not realised that there was an assault on Prog going on . The whole rise of Punk and New Wave was probably more of an issue for new Prog bands starting out and lesser known bands then Mike Oldfield-just looking at Britain. Possibly the 'pushing it as far as it could go' album must be ELP 'Works Volume 1' complete with a piano concerto . Not a release that I love ,but admire the sheer brashness of the band.
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Posted: July 06 2020 at 10:14 |
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Good call! Not the biggest fan of the voice, but otherwise indeed, pretentious and cool.
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Posted: July 06 2020 at 08:58 |
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anything in the last 12 years by Nightwish, perhaps Imaginearum being the best
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Posted: July 06 2020 at 08:41 |
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OTT Prog is my favorite Prog!!!
(Tales and The Lamb are my two favorite LP's ever...)
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Oldifeld locked himself away for 9 months to record this so was probably not that 'brave' and may not even have realised that music was changing. He certainly 'rectified' that on Platinum. Incantations is a desert island disc for me. I love it but he was certainly pushing it as far as it could go. That was probably the last really OTT album of the seventies (well until The Wall)
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Posted: July 05 2020 at 23:29 |
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I quess Wigwam´s Fairyport is also pretentious if Trout is too...
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Posted: July 05 2020 at 14:40 |
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Mike Oldfield's 'Incantations' .....There are some great ideas spread a bit too thin for a double album, but I wouldn't change it. And having Maddy Prior singing a piece based on Longfellow's 'The Song of Hiawatha' and a choir singing the Ben Johnson poem 'Diana' with an orchestra featured throughout seems a brave move in 1978 when there was a backlash against Prog. Sections of the album have a subdued almost type disco beat, particularly in part one. Very fond of this album
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Posted: July 05 2020 at 11:14 |
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I know they aren't a lot of people's cup of tea, but I am surprised no one mentioned The Mars Volta's Frances the Mute. Yes, it IS pretentious and OTT as hell, but it is also the album that made me fall in love with the band.
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