Your Prog Rock Hot Takes

Frets N Worries wrote: Not sure how hot these are, but I believe "Flight" is Hammill's greatest (solo) musical achievement, as well as King Crimson's "Islands" being superior to "Lizard"

I need to listen to that Peter Hamill album then. My favorite solo album of his is the very proto punk like Nadir's Big Chance. Many consider 'Silent Corner and Empty Stage' [which has it's good moments as well] to be his top tier work but I haven't completed his solo discography [I was really disappointed by his first effort I think; much lower in quality than what VdGG was putting then, IMO].

I agree with another post stating that Aqualung > Thick as a Brick. Despite listening to the latter couple of times, I still find myself coming to the former which has a certain quality to it. The latter's bloatedness (which I know was created as a satire on the theme of concept album itself] reminds me of Yes' Tales of Topographic Oceans sometimes. I don't have a prog hot take unless you want me to dismiss an entire genre of music that predates rock as boring [Yes, I tried everything from big band to swing to cool jazz but apart from Miles Davis, I never had fun listening to jazz]. Even Mahavishnu Orchestra's work tires me sometimes [after the ferocious opening track Inner Mounting Flame gets over and boredom begins for me]. But I have resigned that to individual taste and have surfeited myself to the fact that maybe jazz and it's prog off shoots aren't meant for me.