Most pretentious album?

Ghost Rider wrote: Pure, unadulterated wisdom.... The current fad for minimalism (which has its merits, if done in the right way - otherwise it's just cold and devoid of feeling) would deny artistic value to many masterpieces of the past on the grounds of their being pretentious.

Well tank you. Yours is an excellent point, also; a good thing to know is that all the various forms of minimalism that have emerged in the past were initially received as extremely pretentious (like Le Corbusier in architecture, Mondriaan in painting or Tristan Tzara in poetry in the modern era) before being accepted as true expressions of human creativity. So pretentiousness goes both ways, pomposity and minimalism...

ELP

Notwithstanding the fact that I never heard Skinny Fists or the second Moodies' album mentioned, I think none of the albums mentioned is pretentious. For instance, I love Yes' Tales From Topographic Oceans because Yes didn't think that the idea was too far out. They just did what they wanted to do, and thirty + years later the album still shines, after the release of so many muzak through the years by other artists. I hate it when the so-called serious music press is condescending in its attitude towards the 'pretentious' progressive rock.