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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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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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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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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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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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The first two things that come to my mind are Trout Mask Replica and Pawn Hearts.
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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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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Can you get more pretentious and OTT than Tales From Topographic Oceans?
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Can you get more pretentious and OTT than Tales From Topographic Oceans?
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For me it's The Wall, with all of Waters' solo albums a close second.

Edited by SteveG - June 29 2020 at 06:21
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