Which self-indulgent album is your favourite?

Self-endulgent? Playing with yourself and hopefully conjuring up something interesting. Can of course also be a negative, where the accolade simply means X artist staring way too deep into the more boring parts of their belly-button. Can work both ways.
Anyhoo Atom Heart Mother, The Lamb and X could all be described as such..and I love them all.

I will say this though. More often than not it’s the actual music that ends up turning me off. Not necessarily the deeper thought or indeed ideas behind. Put another way: I love Dave Grohl. Love his drumming and his whole persona. Seems like such a nice guy and furthermore knows a thing or two about rock music. In fact he tends to say all the right things. He even have some deeper thought running through some of lyrical content which I rather like…but the music and delivery simply falls flat on it’s face to me.
Same thing with Danish rock semi-deity Tim Christensen who says all the right things and has a multitude of seriously interesting ideas and influences from all over the map…he even plays a mean guitar…yet musically I’m bored out of my mind.

WJA-K wrote: Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: Probably Atom Heart Mother. Nice one! I love this one too.

This, and Passion Play for me.

Cactus Choir wrote: Neu!mann wrote: "A frequent criticism at the time was of 'self indulgence'. In practice, when you let rip this is always a risk. In principle, to consider acting in accordance with one's musical sense-of-rightness as indulgent is a terrifying commentary upon the extent to which our culture has become aberrant in its values and out-of-touch with its innate humanity. Young musicians of the time who were self-indulgent were not, as far as my perception went, playing what was true for them but what they believed to be in fashion." --Robert Fripp, 1992 So is he saying that the Golden Era of Prog was young musicians playing 'self-indulgent' music they didn't believe in just because it was fashionable? That's what I understand from it anyway, and in my idealistic mind I'd like to believe that wasn't true much of the time.

Neu!mann wrote: "A frequent criticism at the time was of 'self indulgence'. In practice, when you let rip this is always a risk. In principle, to consider acting in accordance with one's musical sense-of-rightness as indulgent is a terrifying commentary upon the extent to which our culture has become aberrant in its values and out-of-touch with its innate humanity. Young musicians of the time who were self-indulgent were not, as far as my perception went, playing what was true for them but what they believed to be in fashion." --Robert Fripp, 1992

Atavachron wrote: Oh come on people get with it, I didn't add the 't' to the Song Remains the Same...and only ProgRelated here.

I literally looked up all the major 70s prog bands on Wikipedia and there's seriously nothing with that abbreviation, lol

Duddick wrote: Atavachron wrote: probably Tales from Topo, but there are many--  Meddle, Passion Play, SRtS. What a glorious time for music. What is SRtS? I’ve tried and can’t work out what it’s an acronym for?

Atavachron wrote: probably Tales from Topo, but there are many--  Meddle, Passion Play, SRtS. What a glorious time for music.

Tales