top ten overrated prog songs

I think we have some trolling going on here!

^ Well I agree with your first statement... "Red" isn't overrated and I'm right and you're wrong!

I think Syd Barrret is overated in a kinda under-rated way... if that makes any sense.

ExittheLemming wrote: dinnerordie17 wrote: I think Syd Barrret is overated in a kinda under-rated way... if that makes any sense. He produced some of the finest pop songs of all time during a very short career (and also found time to produce a slew of incoherent garbage) - If that's what you mean?

People are being unfairly harsh towards KCfan. 

frippism wrote: "Red" isn't overrated and I'm right and you're wrong!

Frederik wrote: I can't quite get my head around A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers... I've only heard it a couple of times but I keep coming back to it, cuz despite disliking some of the parts, I adore some others... It's confusing Oo

Tom Sawyer by Rush. I mean it's a great song no doubt, but that is what the people out of the prog sphere only really know by it's heavy radio play. And Rush has much better to offer than that song.

Slaughternalia wrote: ExittheLemming wrote: Here's a list of songs/pieces that I believe are very highly regarded by many prog fans but leave me completely cold (I guess it's my loss c/f nacrissistic w***kery) 1 - Close to the Edge Yes - the string of pearls that dreamed of being a diamond tiara 2 - Thick As a Brick Tull - the parody that came to represent what is being parodied 3 - Arrow VDGG - the tortured artist bites the hand that feeds him 4 - Moonchild  Crimson - stoned hippy amateurish noodling 5 - Echoes Floyd - stoned hippy professional noodling 6 - Lizard Crimson - how to stretch going from straight to swung time in 20 minutes 7 - In My Time of Dying Zep - gives 'interminable dirges' a bad name 8 - Interstellar Overdrive Floyd - good loving home required for affectionate little orphan riff 9 - Formentera Lady Crimson - stoned hippy semi pro noodling 10 - Elektrolurch Mutation Guru Guru - smug hippy garbage If anyone feels sufficiently narcissistic today, head over to the Rogues Gallery thread and indulge yourselves. Get the hand lotion ready fellas.... Nobody likes Moonchild

I love Moonchild. All of it. Actually there is not one song on this list which I consider to be overrated, and "Lizard" is underrated even. "Close to the Edge" as a whole album is not the celebrated 5 star album, in my opinion, but I would not call the song itself overrated.

By the way: Did you really mean "Elektrolurch Mutation"? Or did you mean the original "Elektrolurch" from the fourth and self-titled Guru Guru album? Because it is the latter which is held in high regard.


Edited by BaldFriede - March 03 2012 at 07:18

There is one thing I would like to say about Moonchild: Some people claim that the instrumental part of it is just pointless noodling. Those people have not been really listening; it is anything but that. The instrumental part mirrors the lyrics; each line of them can be found in it. Granted that the instrumental means used for this are unusual, and it is your good right not to like them, but it is anything but pointless, and it is certainly not noodling. You hear the Moonchild play,hide and seek, you hear her dropping stones, you hear the appearance of the sunchild, and so on. So unusual musical means: Yes. Pointless noodling: No.


Edited by BaldFriede - March 03 2012 at 09:44