What's your least favorite album from giants? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

The only one I've sat through is Beat. Probs their worst but it's still okay.

Dayvenkirq wrote:

Walton Street wrote:

i'm probably the only person on this planet that thinks The Final Cut is a masterpiece

No, you are not.

Roger was working so hard on it, really emotionally draining everyone around him, and this is how we repay him.

I love the construction of the Final Cut album. It seems to breathe history and the sparse feel, often quiet and acoustic, work brilliantly to make the album intimate. It also seemed entirely unconcerned about "fitting in" to the 80s commercial sounds that other prog giants seemed to be chasing with sometimes less than awesome results. Final Cut is just playing music to suit the personal themes and I think Waters made some great choices.

Walton Street wrote:

i'm probably the only person on this planet that thinks The Final Cut is a masterpiece

No, you are not.

Roger was working so hard on it, really emotionally draining everyone around him, and this is how we repay him.

octopus-4 wrote:

SteveG wrote:

Lear'sFool wrote:

Think I'll nominate Love Beach.

ELP certainly was a giant, and they fell FAR from their grace when they were forced to cut that.

But the cover... there is no way they didn't agree to that. Confused

Good Lord.

I'm starting feel some ELP bias toward the OP now!

But Renaissance's Time Line is even worse, and also the cover art is not better than Love Beach

never saw the Renaissance cover before - had to google it.

It looks like the cover from a Bonnie Tyler album.

That and Love Beach just scream prog don't they :)

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Lear'sFool wrote:

Think I'll nominate Love Beach.

ELP certainly was a giant, and they fell FAR from their grace when they were forced to cut that.

But the cover... there is no way they didn't agree to that. Confused

Good Lord.

I'm starting feel some ELP bias toward the OP now!

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The Dark Elf wrote:

As Tull is my favorite, Under Wraps was astoundingly annoying. Next, I'd say the Final Cut. As for the rest of the albums on the list, I stopped caring about the bands (like Yes and Genesis) before the albums you listed, as they had already headed for banality.

I think you hit it squarely on the head .. most of the albums, listed in this poll, simply failed to produce an emotional response in me :)

But The Final Cut irritates me on several levels. #1: Too much poetry and almost no music. When I want poetry, I open a Fripp-damned poetry book. #2. Waters' social and political observations had evolved into tunnel vision, and his convictions - into fixations. I'll stop here, so as not to offend anyone.

And it does stand out, because I rate all post-Barrett PF albums before The Wall and after The Final Cut at least 3.5 stars.

I think I can understand why TFC irritates you, as what you mention are effectively its defects, but if you go back to 1983 and look at it not as a Pink Floyd album but just for its own qualities (or defects), I think it's not that bad. It's surely better than Pros and Cons and of most of the rubbish released the same year. Two Suns in the Sunset is a great song and there's still some Gimour. The passage from scream to sax in The Gunner's Dream is excellent and it's not the only good thing. I have to add that this album did something to me at subliminal level. I have listened to it for the first time before going to sleep and I remember dreaming about sentences listened only once.

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The Dark Elf wrote:

As Tull is my favorite, Under Wraps was astoundingly annoying. Next, I'd say the Final Cut. As for the rest of the albums on the list, I stopped caring about the bands (like Yes and Genesis) before the albums you listed, as they had already headed for banality.

I think you hit it squarely on the head .. most of the albums, listed in this poll, simply failed to produce an emotional response in me :)

But The Final Cut irritates me on several levels. #1: Too much poetry and almost no music. When I want poetry, I open a Fripp-damned poetry book. #2. Waters' social and political observations had evolved into tunnel vision, and his convictions - into fixations. I'll stop here, so as not to offend anyone.

And it does stand out, because I rate all post-Barrett PF albums before The Wall and after The Final Cut at least 3.5 stars.

As Tull is my favorite, Under Wraps was astoundingly annoying. Next, I'd say the Final Cut. As for the rest of the albums on the list, I stopped caring about the bands (like Yes and Genesis) before the albums you listed, as they had already headed for banality.

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micky wrote:

.... LOL

which brings us to the sh*t stain on the world of music that AMLoR was. It tried to be 'Floyd' more to prove TO Roger that Floyd could live without him. It was the final and most public act in that bitter custody fight, and unlike The Final Cut .. it did pretend to be what it was not. Cool MTV videos aimed to cash in a reputation that was earned a decade earlier, marketed to teens too young to catch the group in their early 70's heyday. That is what it tried to do .. and what it did.. was SUCK SO BADLY I threw the godamned CD out of the car window after the first listen right into the middle of traffic on I-95.

hah.... LOL

I felt sick listening to it. It was like how Seth Brundle described the steak that they put through the transporter in The Fly. It looks like steak, it was technically steak, but the flavour was wrong .. blah. A poor imitation.

It proved to me that although he other musicians of PF are incredibly proficient, Waters was the soul of the band.

Oddly enough though - somehow they did get it back with the Division Bell.... as if they solved the puzzle somehow.

as far as Final Cut goes ... i don't care if it was a One Direction/Celine Dion collaboration .. i love every second of it.

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A lot of crap here.

Yes just over Camel and Genesis.

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Poll Question: Pick the worst!!
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Pink Floyd – The Final Cut	21	[20.00%]
Genesis – Abacab	12	[11.43%]
Yes – Big Generator	26	[24.76%]
King crimson – Beat	10	[9.52%]
Camel – The Single Factor	3	[2.86%]
Jethro Tull – Under Wraps	17	[16.19%]
Rush – Test For Echo	11	[10.48%]
other?	5	[4.76%]
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