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Frankh
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Perhaps finding the happy medium is harder than we know.
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Cristi
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nice thread
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omphaloskepsis
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The Wall, A Passion Play, and Tales From Topographical Oceans.
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richardh
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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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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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Jaketejas
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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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Rednight
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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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Steven Brodziak
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Saga 1981 World's Apart album.
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Well, there it is. (Amadeus)
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Saperlipopette!
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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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omphaloskepsis
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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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Dellinger
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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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