[winterlover]

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[jacksonplayer]

Originally Posted by Jongpil Yun

Tales from Topographic Oceans is the most self-indulgent album ever.

And also one of the most amazing. Not for folks with short attention spans, however. I've been listening to that album for over 20 years, on three different formats, and I still hear something new every time I play it.

I agree with the notion that all music is self-indulgent at some level. The "anti-self-indulgence" crap comes from the Robert Christgau school of rock criticism that took hold in the mid-to-late '70s, which (quite pretentiously) viewed rock music as a tool of "class struggle", and criticized as "bourgeois" any rock music that dared to be something else.

[tequila_sauer]

An album about a man that has dreams leading him to believe he has a connection to a woman murdered decades before he lived has medieval words and a cover that looks like something from Harry Potter or Dungeons and Dragons?

Has this writer ever actually HEARD Scenes from a Memory?

Apparently if you spend more time composing and recording complex instrumentation than you do trying to down tune and get the most distortion, you're considered self indulgent. I guess all music should just contain short, chorus-driven radio songs with Kurt Cobain wannabes fronting the band.

[Triple-J]

Hey man don't go knocking Kurt he wrote "In Utero" an album which was (and still is) considered self indulgent at the time of its release.

[Loomer]

It's a bit Ironic that they have Jethro Tull's "Thick As A Brick" on that list, since that album was basically basically made as a good-natured spoof of the whole Prog-Rock scene at the time