Worst prog album you ever heard/bought?

All of my ELP albums. :) Tiihii.
Also OOIOO's Kila Kila Kila. Avant-prog gets no special treatment from me.

limeyrob wrote: Normally I do a fair amount of research before I buy so I shouldn't have been disappointed and so I'm not going to name any names.

Vapour Trails - Rush (Not a dreadful album, but a very lacklustre effort from Rush, and a huge dissapointment for along term Rush fan)

Invisible Touch - Genesis (I've said it before. I wont repeat myself)

Brain Salad Surgery - ELP (Cant understand the fuss. Good ideas, not developed to their full potential. Big dissapointment. The worst rendition of Jerusalem I've ever heard. Awful production)

Train of Thought - Dream Theater (Non stop blistering musicianship from start to finish, but sadly without a worthwhile song in sight. Just gives me a headache)

Something wicked this way comes - The Enid (Had high hopes for this album, having heard The Spell and their 70's efforts, but to this day it just sounds like a disorganised mess to me)

Just opinion of course. Dont shoot me..

Prog-jester wrote: Ghost Rider wrote: I've probably heard my share of bad prog albums, but now it's not easy to remember which one really takes the cake. Besides SfaM, I think this very dubious prize could go to a Russian band called Little Tragedies - I'm afraid their name speaks for itself. A monument to boredom and lack of ideas if I've ever heard one. I'm afraid I may agree with you. I like only "New Faust" partially, other albums are ..erm...Okay, I won't ruin my "Russian Prog Aficionado" positive image

thankfully for her it came from MY collection

we are sort of harsh on prog... that is not progressive... but regressive.. especially of the symphonic variety.. you can only perfect the wheel once.

Counterparts from Rush

Ghost Rider wrote: I've probably heard my share of bad prog albums, but now it's not easy to remember which one really takes the cake. Besides SfaM, I think this very dubious prize could go to a Russian band called Little Tragedies - I'm afraid their name speaks for itself. A monument to boredom and lack of ideas if I've ever heard one.

I'm afraid I may agree with you. I like only "New Faust" partially, other albums are ..erm...Okay, I won't ruin my "Russian Prog Aficionado" positive image

After my friends let me hear some Jethro Tull albums (Living in the Past, Aqualung, and Thick as a Brick), I bought Under Wraps. What a disappointment. The next Tull album I bought was A, not much better. These albums bore no relation to the music I'd heard before. You got the idea that they were trying to reinvent themselves in order to stay relevant (whatever that means), never a good idea.

There is absolutely no doubt which album is the worst prog album of all times, and probably the worst album ever: "Psychedelic Underground" by Amon Düül, the first ever Krautrock album. Anyone who has ever heard it will wholeheartedly agree. It is, however, a very important album nevertheless. After this album no German band needed to have an inferiority complex; you simply could not get any worse. And, however bad the album may be from a musical point of view, there is a certain charm to it.

Tony Banks Statement

KC- BEAT! (gah)