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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 27 2009 at 15:39
Originally posted by Diaby Diaby wrote:

 
 
Underrated:
Duel with the Devil and Stranger in Your Soul by Transatlantic (everybody's speaking of All of the Above, but I think these two are both better).


Which album did you listen first? Bridge Across Forever or SMPTe?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 27 2009 at 17:30
Overrated: Me
Underrated: Me.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2009 at 06:15
Underrated album:
 
Brave New World 'Impressions On Reading Aldous Huxley'
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 03 2009 at 22:32
underrated: PANGEE - "Quartus Frénésis"
 
overrated: PORCUPINE TREE - "Anesthetize"(the predictability has run its course...although I've been a fan since early '90s so I'm "Tree'd out). Wink
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 04 2009 at 23:34
Underrated: "Halleluwah" (from Tago Mago) by Can

Overrated: "Cygnus X-1" (from Farewell to Kings) by Rush
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 05 2009 at 09:30
Originally posted by catfood03 catfood03 wrote:

Underrated: "Halleluwah" (from Tago Mago) by Can 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 05 2009 at 13:44
underrated = ATOLL's "Tunnel Part 1 & 2"
 
overrated = seconded Rush's "Cygnus X-1"
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 05 2009 at 20:11
Originally posted by MFP MFP wrote:

Originally posted by catfood03 catfood03 wrote:

Underrated: "Halleluwah" (from Tago Mago) by Can 

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Indeed, the funkiest 18 minutes committed to tape!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 08 2009 at 12:04
overated epics 2112,rush  reflection tool  and last but not least cinema show Genesis 
 
Underrated epics
 
Battle of epping forrest Genesis.   Plague of Lighthouse Keepers  VDGG  ghost love score Nightwish and last but not least  L'auberge du Sanglier Caravan


Edited by misterfool - June 08 2009 at 12:15
the point of war is not to die for your country

it's to make the other one die for his
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 08 2009 at 16:15
"A Saucerful of Secrets" seems pretty underrated to me.  I really don't hear of it much anywhere, especially since it was one of the most experimental moments of Pink Floyd's career.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 08 2009 at 18:54
I think Grendel is overrated. It somehow developed cult status, but once you get down to listening it isn't anything more than a sub-standard Genesis knock off.

One that never seems to get mentioned is Fand by The Enid - a wonderfully coherent piece that is the very definition of 'epic'
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 12 2009 at 22:10
Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:


Over: Close to the Edge
Under: Tales (pick one)

Agree with CTTE title track as a bit overrated (though the Mander Pipe Organ interlude is awesome!)  Would change your underrated selections (any from ToTO) to "Awaken" from GFTO.  Why doesn't anyone else think this is one of the best songs Yes ever did?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 15 2009 at 22:49
How about for an underrated epic - In The Dead of Night/By the Light of Day/In the Dead of Night(reprise) by UK.  I won't make any fans for this, but even though Rush is one of my favorite bands of all time, I think 2112 is overrated.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2009 at 01:19
Overrated epic (and overrated being understood to mean a song that many others seem to enjoy that I don't really get anything out of, in anticipation of the inevitable floods of people who will talk about how overrated and underrated are meaningless, or whatever): Plague of Lighthouse Keepers. I always see VDGG fans defend this one as being up there with Supper's Read and Close to the Edge, but I don't really think it is. I feel that it just gets bogged down. I think there's a good eight minute section in the middle of it where my interest just vanishes entirely.

I'm not even sure if there is such thing as an underrated epic, because when someone releases an album, a twenty minute song is inevitably going to receive the most attention. I think I might say Marsbeli Kronikak by Solaris. Although, I haven't heard that one in years, so that might just be nostalgia talking.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2009 at 17:13

This Strange Engine by Marillion is sooo underrated.

"When you grow up and leave the playground
Where you kissed your prince and found your frog
Remember the jester who showed you tears; a script for tears"
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2009 at 11:23
over: supersready
          moving pictures

under: A Saucerful of Secrets
            Camel
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2009 at 23:22
Originally posted by Gooner Gooner wrote:

overrated: PORCUPINE TREE - "Anesthetize"(the predictability has run its course...although I've been a fan since early '90s so I'm "Tree'd out).


I'd agree its overrated, but, the last 6 minutes are amazing... The rest of the track, other than the awesome drum track, is a bit... Meh.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2009 at 23:23
Originally posted by Tearful Jester Tearful Jester wrote:

This Strange Engine by Marillion is sooo underrated.



Yes it is - In my top 5 songs EVER

EDIT:

Ocean Cloud by Marillion is also amazing...ly underrated.

Edited by progkidjoel - July 25 2009 at 23:24
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2009 at 10:03
Originally posted by Green Shield Stamp Green Shield Stamp wrote:

Overrated - the album Images and Words by Dream Theater
Criminally underrated - the album The Final Cut by Pink Floyd
Have to agree with The Final Cut as criminally underrated.
Overrated - Tubular Bells. I have three versions of it as I thought I was missing something, but it just doesn't click for me.  Olffield can remix and rerecord it 10 more times, but I'm done with it. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2009 at 10:25
Not underrated, simply too little known: All three epics on Mother Gong's album "Fairy Tales":
Wassilisa 22: 28
The Three Tongues 12:41
The Pied Piper 14:38


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