Worst Prog Band?

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 The T wrote:

 Moatilliatta wrote:

OK, I'm going to keep this one as brief as possible.

Sigur Ros, now that you've brought in new adjectives to describe them, it's become clear that you have only listened to one of their albums. I've heard more but reviewed only one. The same that I dislike DT-haters reviewing every DT album with one star, I guess Sigur Ros fans would dislike if I, a person who is known for not liking Sigur Ros, would review all their albums (or the ones I've heard) with low ratings.   I went to your collaborator page, and sure enough, you've only put down a review for ( ), and for that I can understand your position completely. Well, I don't know for a fact that you listened to several Sigur albums and only reviewed one, but it seems like you hated ( ) so much that you didn't bother with any of their other albums. Almost.  If that is true, it's not fair to say they don't change or have one mood only. In the ones I've tried, yes. I don't see what's wrong with having a common mood throughout an album, but if a band maintained that mood throughout all of their albums, I would agree that that is not desireable. haven't tried their newer stuff though. However, please take a few minutes to listen to their song "Gobbledigook" Doing so right now... Never had... and tell me that Sigur Ros doesn't change, revolves around "bland repetition," and maintains one mood only. that song sounds a little better, less whining, in a different mood... It's better, I can say. Well, maybe they have improved with time after all. But that's just one song. Let me try more from that new album right now... I'm trying "Festival" which is longer and therefore more dangerous... let me see... 

DEP: sure, you like some techy bands, but what I noticed from your profile about which ones you like is that they are not the hectic, noisy kind like DEP and TRC are. That is kinda true. But there are some that, while noisy and not too much to my liking, I can recognize as bands with quality and merits.... I fail to see it with DEP. Certainly the ones you do like are loud and what not too, but there is a certain thing about the speeds, dissonance and spastic nature in these two bands' music that differs from the ones you enjoy most.  That's true but, again, when we have a thread about worst band with no judging parameters, I will use what for me is destroying music as parameter for bad, and DEP are masters of that. 

The parameters thing is completely true, but what I was trying to get at is if two bands fail on the sibjective taste level, they can still be evaluated in other ways, like instrumental skills. Correct. And I would be a fool if I didn't recognize that DEP can play their asses off their instruments. They CAN play. No question about that. I'm just accusing them of what others accuse DT of: playing as fast and technical as possible with no purpose. I was not trying to tie it into the topic of this thread; I was merely pointing out that even if your tastes tell you something is bad, you can still look past that, if only for a moment, and evaluate other parts of the music.Which I tried. And if not evident, it was my bad. 

Edit: I've finished "Festival" from their last album and.... well....... it's my good old Sigur Ros, the one I have to stay away from...  

You didn't find the build and finale of Festival extremely more peppy/postive/happy/etc. than the material on ( )? Still, I will agree that Festival is more on the bland/boring side of Sigur Ros compositionally so I can't argue with you too much there. Anyhow, most of the new album and even a handful of songs on Takk... might be a lot more to your liking, especially the first four tracks. It still won't be one of your favorites, but still, you may notice that they aren't as "bad" as they used to be.

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