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    Posted: July 25 2023 at 06:39
Lowest-rated album reviews for British Prog:- 

3 stars 1968: Giles, Giles & Fripp -Cheerful Insanity -http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=2305824
3 stars 1975: Gilgamesh - Gilgamesh - http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=2336728
3 stars 1975: Hatfield & the North - The Rotters' Club - http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=2308113
3 stars 1975: Quiet Sun - Mainstream - http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=2287641
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Under Wraps - Jethro Tull. Unhappy
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My lowest rated review is Calling All Stations by Genesis which I gave 1 star (3/10).
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Originally posted by Beautiful Scarlet Beautiful Scarlet wrote:

Ye not all the music here is good. Giving all music five stars is kinda insulting to the better music.
Agree. I believe only 5% of any music collection deserves to be rated 5 stars. Just reviewed Miles Davis "In a Silent Way". Gave it two stars, and I think that's one too many. However, most other reviews gush over it. One of his worst albums imo.
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Ye not all the music here is good. Giving all music five stars is kinda insulting to the better music.
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Just checking through my recent written reviews. I gave Transatlantic, "The Whirlwind" two stars. I feel guilty about that one. I really enjoyed Kaleidoscope. Their most recent one, "The Absolute Universe" is a gem. I just felt "Whirlwind" represents everything bad about prog, verbose and overlong. Despite being just as long I don't get the same vibe with "Kaleidoscope". Two long compositions which don't bore me and a couple of appealing tracks in the middle. As for the comments about "Bursting At The Seams", if I was to review it I would probably give it four stars. "Tears and Pavan" is a favourite Strawbs track of mine. I don't get the point of some of the more negative reviews here such as for "Bursting At The Seams", but to be fair I'm sure many don't get the point of some of my negative reviews either.
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My lowest rated review has been for prog-related Wishbone Ash and their shhtinker album Locked In.

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1 stars  Wishbone Ash's album Locked In.

It is beyond my comprehension how a group could record one of *the* most awe inspiring albums of all time (There's The Rub) then in their next release produce something as dreadful as "Locked In".

There are two saving graces to this album: 1. the opening track "Rest in Peace" has a solo by Laurie Wisefield that is so unique that I still get goosebumps when I hear it and the harmony lead riffs are exquisite on this track...one of WA's great tracks and very progressive as a piece of music. 2. The last song "Say Goodbye" not prog at all but simply a fantastic rock ballad with great vocals, melody and musicianship.

All songs in between these 2 are mind boggling awful....everyone of them!

Let's list them: "No Water in the Well"...who was the bright spark who permitted Laurie Wisefiled to sing on record? His vocals are akin to Bob Dylan singing and being strangled at the same time. Extremely high pitched, nasal, grating and whining. OOOh dear.

"Moonshine" Laurie back again...who'd have thought? Stinking.

"She Was My Best Friend" had some potential but is so dreary and morbid and even Martin Turner's normally good vocals make you want to press the skip button immediately he get's into his most blubbering, weepy performance on record.

"It Started in Heaven"...yes, you've guess it, Laurie back again on vocals....it must have been written in his contract to take most of the lead vocals on this album. Terrible, terrible (did I say terrible?), yes, terrible song.

"Hast Past Loving" nearly makes it but obviously doesn't...Martin vocalizing.

"Trust In You" please Laurie...will you just shut up, shut up I say! But he didn't.

So there you have it, an album using the legendary Tom Dowd as a producer manages to create possibly the worst rock albums ever recorded.

Maybe my sentiments are a touch strong....as there are 2 great songs on "Locked In".

Let's say that "Locked In" is *nearly* one of the worst albums ever recorded.

But please download "Rest In Peace" and "Say Goodbye" from iTunes you hopefully will enjoy them both. They are brilliant.

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Thanks for the recommendations Octopus 4 and Psychedelic Paul.  I'll buy those albums along with Lazland's highest rated Mostly Autumn- "Dressed in Voices"
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Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

I gave Islands by KC two stars. Hee hee.

I gave every KC album after Islands a two-star rating, apart from Red, obviously. Admittedly, I've given higher ratings to KC & the Sunshine Band. Embarrassed
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Originally posted by omphaloskepsis omphaloskepsis wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

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You'd best avoid my 25 five-star ratings for Mostly Autumn then. Tongue

What's your favorite Mostly Autumn album? I've was wondering which one to dive into.Wink
I'd mostly recommend their unforgettable live album: That Night in Leamington (featuring the last appearance by Heather Findlay), or their first live compilation: The Story So Far. Thumbs Up

Porcupine Rain (from The Story So Far)


Evergreen (from That Night in Leamington)



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Having to suggest where to start with Mostly Autumn, I'd say The Spirit If Autumn Past and The Last Bright Light in one shot.
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

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You'd best avoid my 25 five-star ratings for Mostly Autumn then. Tongue

What's your favorite Mostly Autumn album? I've was wondering which one to dive into.Wink
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I gave Islands by KC two stars. Hee hee.
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So far my lowest rated review was of the Beatles/Tony Sheridan single "My Bonnie" (1 star). And it even comes from a big Beatles fan...
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But, fortunately, they weren't only "Giants For A Day", but they were really Giants for almost a decade. We really can forgive them for that last phase. God save their memory and their absolutelly amazing contibution to the prog world. One of the best and most important, indeed.
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^ Yeah, I guess one might consider Civilian as is its own era for its New Wave and AOR qualities.  The Gentle Giant became a very modest mouse -- without sounding like Modest Mouse, but I just wanted to say that.
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I agree that "Giant For A Day" is undoubtedly the weakest of all their studio albums. I also agree that "Interview" is the last great album of them. About "The Missing Piece", I like it, despite its pop approach. But, I can still see some lines of their prog career on it. I gave to it 3 stars. "Civilian" is a different thing. It isn't a bad album, it is even a good album but not to GG. It doesn't sounds to me as a GG album. It's a good album to be released by some other band but not by GG. I gave to it 2 stars.
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^ Giant for a Day would get two stars from me as well.  It's not really horrible, and I like Spookie Boogie very much, but its GG's weakest album.  I don't know how much I'd call it an  aberration, since I think it fits well with music from The Missing Piece and  Civilian, and even Interview (although Interview was for me the last very good GG album).  I would especially compare it to the pop rock approach of Civilian (same sort of allele frequencies).
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This is an interesting thing. But, as we can see, the motifs can be very diversified and the criterions too. In my case I only gave one star to two albums, till now, "Giant For A Day" of Gentle Giant and "Earthboud" of King Crimson, but by completelly different reasons.
In the case of Gentle Giant, I really thing that it is a very weak album in terms of quality and in terms of the DNA of the band's music. It's very hard for me to consider it an album of an amazing band capable of release so amazing masterpieces. We can say it's a kind of a freak album inside their discography.
In the case of King Crimson, it's a very different thing. As a live album we cannot say it is a true bad album. It has a very savage live performance with some good moments, especially "21st Century Schizoid Man". But, several reasons contributed to that, mainly the quality and demotivation of the line up at the time, and above all, the quality of the recordings of it, which were really awful.
So, we can have different reasons to give to an album the lowest rating, despite the quality of iband, which in theses both cases are unquestionable. These are two of the best prog bands ever.
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I have given a number of one star ratings, purely my own opinion. Most would make sense to others, but there are also those where I am clearly in the minority - We're Only In It For The Money probably being the most prominent. Ying Yang
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