Praised prog albums that you think are overrated

In the Court....

The first and last songs are good. All else is filler and the weird passage in Moonchild is icky.

Everything Rush & Dream Theater ever released (where is the hiding under the chair emoji when u need it?)

Logan wrote:

^ my favourite track on In the Court of the Crimson King is "Epitaph". And I really like "I Talk to the Wind". Different strokes for different folks obviously.

Based on my subjective biases, I do consider Yes' Close to the Edge to be a very popular album that is overrated. I could mention many others that are popular here. And fans overrate by the nature of being fans. There have been people here who who think that I have overrated albums by my favourite bands, and overrated my favourite bands just because that music/style is not to their tastes. Calling something overrated does usually just boil down to "I don't like it as much as others", which is pretty shallow.

Obviously, whether something is overrated or not is up to each individual. Ah, and I also think the same about "Close to the Edge". But not about "In The Court...". I think it's an almost perfect album... Although the improvised section of "Moonchild" is clearly the weak point.

Bloody bloody racket and rumpus

ThyroidGlands wrote:

Logan wrote:

^ my favourite track on In the Court of the Crimson King is "Epitaph". And I really like "I Talk to the Wind". Different strokes for different folks obviously.

Based on my subjective biases, I do consider Yes' Close to the Edge to be a very popular album that is overrated. I could mention many others that are popular here. And fans overrate by the nature of being fans. There have been people here who who think that I have overrated albums by my favourite bands, and overrated my favourite bands just because that music/style is not to their tastes. Calling something overrated does usually just boil down to "I don't like it as much as others", which is pretty shallow.

Obviously, whether something is overrated or not is up to each individual. Ah, and I also think the same about "Close to the Edge". But not about "In The Court...". I think it's an almost perfect album... Although the improvised section of "Moonchild" is clearly the weak point.

Well then...

Duos for fave acts

Jagga Jazzist's 'One-Armed Bandit,' Wobbler's 'From Silence to Somewhere,' Airbag's 'A Day at the Beach,' to name a few.

Looking at PA's top albums, I find all of these fifteen albums from "top 40" overrated. Because I don't like 'em as much as others:

Selling England by the Pound (love 2/3ds of it)
The Dark Side of the Moon (love 2/3ds of it)
Animals
Moving Pictures
Hemispheres
Kind of Blue (it's great, but come on!)
Si on avait besoin d'une cinquième saison
Hybris
From Silence to Somewhere
Crime of the Century
Metropolis Part 2 - Scenes from a Memory
The Raven That Refused to Sing
Scheherazade and Other Stories (never warmed up to Song of Scheherazade)
Birds of Fire
Images and Words

Neither Close to the Edge nor Thick as a Brick (+ countless other praised albums not included on my list) are personal favorites of mine, but acknowledge their greatness, and don't consider them to be overrated. In the Court of the Crimson King is perfection to me. Thinking of Epitaph as "filler" is... I don't know what. I think its a timeless masterpiece.