Tago Mago is a pretty solid album, but I still dislike Aumgn imensely since it comes out as more of a sound collage (a la Revolution 9) than anything remotely close to a musical composition, so whenever somone says "well they don't wank like all the other prog bands" I can only assume that either they haven't heard that "song" or they have a very warped sense of sonic perception.
While their influence on Radiohead and Krautrock is greatly appreciated, I just don't see what makes them THAT special or unique, I don't think they are as great as many people make them out to be, especially when people make it out like they were the only band to use polyrhythms and atonal song structure at the time.
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