Worst Album in the Symphonic Top 20

Drew wrote: My vote goes to Nursery Cryme- I gave it two or three listens and I just don't understand why it's so regarded.

Peter wrote:   Well, because we who like it a lot are not you.  (Different strokes for different folks -- surely you understand that people vary widely in personality, history and tastes.)

Peter, you're going quite to a extreme here, read the question well:

"Which of these do you like least?"

Drew wrote: My vote goes to Nursery Cryme- I gave it two or three listens and I just don't understand why it's so regarded.

He's just saying that he doesn't understand why it's so regarded, that's pure opinion. If he had said, it's a sh*tty album or the album sucks, or something of the like, I understand, but he didn't say that.

I sometimes don't understand why Rush is so regarded as a great Prog band, but not saying it's bad, nor they are not Prog, or whatever. I simply don't understand.

Peter wrote: One person's not liking a given popular album does not make that album bad, or 'worst," of course.

He didn't say it was a bad album nor worse.....and again, the question doesn't ask any of that....

Since Camel is racing away on its long limbs from the rest of the pack , I thought I will open Anglagard's account instead.  Cert1fied summed it up nicely, King Bore indeed!   No offence meant, I just don't like this album at all. And I agree with manofmystery, though not necessarily about Genesis , the list is full of overrated albums - Trick, the Camel albums , aforementioned Hybris, Scheherazade, Leftoverture, it goes on. And while Depois Do Fim is a good album, again I am not sure exactly what catapults it into the top 20.  

micky wrote: ^ maybe Vic is a convert to the church of Micky hahhah not that CttE is a 'worst' album... it is not a top 20 SYMPHONIC album... like I said.. the title track is not more than a perfectly executed  18 minute long pop (in structure) song.

it really is. there's the intro/guitar solo - verse - chorus - verse - chorus - bridge - keyboard solo - verse - chorus - end....

Raff i agree with you, i would replace the album you suggested. I think that is not that bad, but there are other albums to consider. have a lot of options, but cant seem to make a choice. You suggested ELP debut right? if so would you recommed another to the list?

I also wonder why ELP doesn't have a single album in the top 20. I know a lot of people here don't like them, but they are pretty representative of symphonic prog.

birdwithteeth11 wrote: I also wonder why ELP doesn't have a single album in the top 20. I know a lot of people here don't like them, but they are pretty representative of symphonic prog.

There's your answer in bold since the top twenty is a popularity list based on ratings, and not a representative list (incidentally, a representative list for each category has been suggested as an additional list a number of times).

A general comment here. Let's keep the posts constructive. The albums listed in the poll are at the top of our chart because the majority here think they should be there. Poeple are quite welcome to dislike the albums of course, but they must accept it is they who are in the minority, here at least.

I really like Hamburger Concerto, especially the eponymous piece, but I feel that it's rhythmically let-down.  Allen is not the interesting drummer that van der Linden is (the drumming actually irritates me at times in HC -- repetitive, heavy-handed, and dull).  Also, one of the best pieces, for me, from that album is Focus' adaptation of "The St. Anthoni Chorale" so it loses originality points (I know that adaptations were common in Prog).  Still, I find it wonderful, it moves from the ridiculous to the sublime, and has one of the great finales in Prog.  

Few bands manage to reach the level of success  like Kansas Leftoverture did and it did so not just for its prog elements (as witnessed on guitar hero 2 carry on wayward son) The album flat out rocks in many places it has all the ingredients one who knows what they are talking about looks for in a album serenity and fusion its a melting pot of ideas .. disapointed in one of prog rocks biggest hopes to crack the commercial code being shot down like are in this poll !  Had they been called London I bet it would be a differant story.