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    Posted: June 29 2020 at 06:20
For me it's The Wall, with all of Waters' solo albums a close second.

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Can you get more pretentious and OTT than Tales From Topographic Oceans?
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Can you get more pretentious and OTT than Tales From Topographic Oceans?
Don't forget that you have to love it! If not, then you can't list it.
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Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Can you get more pretentious and OTT than Tales From Topographic Oceans?
Don't forget that you have to love it! If not, then you can't list it.
 
I didn't forget, I do indeed love it. Every minute of it.


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The first two things that come to my mind are Trout Mask Replica and Pawn Hearts.
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Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt.2 Scenes From A Memory
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

The first two things that come to my mind are Trout Mask Replica and Pawn Hearts.

Thes two for me, plus Electric Masada - At The Mountains Of Madness
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

The first two things that come to my mind are Trout Mask Replica and Pawn Hearts.
 
I thought of Pawn Hearts, but while I do love it, I'm not sure how "pretentious over the top" it is (perhaps I'm too close to the album to be an unbiased judge of it).
 
One other album that comes to mind is MDK. Certainly over the top, but while I do like the album, I can't exactly say that I love it, certainly not all of it.
 
But when it comes to full-blown over the top, it would be hard to beat Brainticket - Cottonwood Hill.
 
 
 
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Tales For Toe-picking Orphans. Perhaps ELP's Works I, which is only a shade less ridiculous than the members of KISS releasing 4 separate matching albums for each member.
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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.
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I would have to give Pictures At An Exhibition by ELP honorable mention as I do kinda like it. Sometimes. Embarrassed 
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Most pretentious - Wolf City by Amon Düül II
Most over the top - Tardigrade by Simon Says
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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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One of my favourite music genres: pretentious over-the-top prog! - YouTube albums coming up soon. Wink
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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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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 chopper chopper wrote:

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