Band: Best Album - Worst Album

progbethyname wrote: Oh I got one. DREAM THEATER IMAGES AND WORDS to FALLING INTO INFINITY ( literally!! Lol)

I actually think Falling into Infinity is not that bad a record. New Millenium and Lines in the Sand are pretty decent songs ;) If it had to be Dream Theater, I'd go for Scenes from a Memory - Systematic Chaos.

Yes: CTTE, anything after Going For the One

richardh wrote: Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: fudgenuts64 wrote: Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun/Signify WHAAAAAAAAATT?!?! Lol! `Signify' is everything that can go so right with modern progressive rock! It's got a beautiful blending of old and new styles, long instrumental passages without useless soloing, dark ambience, thoughtful lyrics, sublime group harmonies. It also serves as something of a nice send-off to the early days of the band, before Mr Wilson started focusing on perfecting his songcraft with `Stupid Dream' onwards. For me it's up there with Paatos' debut `Timeless' as one of the best modern progressive albums. ps - yeah, `Lightbulb Sun' is pretty damn good too! Signify is a 'transition album' to my mind and bridges a couple of seperate era's. Also PT have been so remarkably consistent that its hard to pick a 'worse' from anything they've done. Signify lacks a bit of focus and comes across as perhaps messy in the nicely ordered world of Mr Wilson

progbethyname wrote: I'm really not big on PORCUPINE TREE's overall sound, but I will concur in this thread that LIGHTBULB SUN is a pretty awesome album and the track RUSSIA ON ICE is easily my all time favourite PT track.

Nick, one of the times PTree played Melbourne, they performed `Russia On Ice'...I was in Prog Nirvana....and then just as it gets to that mind-blowing instrumental second half, I can't recall, they ever launched straight into another song or just ended it!!!!

I swear, my friend, it was like I was on anti-Viagra from that point, so deflated was I!

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: progbethyname wrote: I'm really not big on PORCUPINE TREE's overall sound, but I will concur in this thread that LIGHTBULB SUN is a pretty awesome album and the track RUSSIA ON ICE is easily my all time favourite PT track. Nick, one of the times PTree played Melbourne, they performed `Russia On Ice'...I was in Prog Nirvana....and then just as it gets to that mind-blowing instrumental second half, I can't recall, they ever launched straight into another song or just ended it!!!! I swear, my friend, it was like I was on anti-Viagra from that point, so deflated was I!

aghhhhhh. That does really make me upset that you had to go through that Hap-hazard experience. Russia on ice is a 13:32 epic that MUST be played in its entirety!!! No cutting and no splicing can occur, especially some-cheap audio crossfading experience leading in to another track. Boooooo!

Anyway, on a higher note. I did buy the special edition with the 5.1 surround sound DVD that's in it. Absolutely sublime! I cranked that entire album, back when I had my own place of course, and I experienced some of that musical nirvana you were talking about. Ahhhhh how I miss having my own home where sound could never be an issue. Lol

If I have a problem with the concept of this thread, I guess it's the use of “best” and “worst,” whereas, at least for me, I would put it as “most favorite” and “least favorite.” Calling something the “worst” implies that it's horrible, awful, bleccchh, dry-heave-inducing, when in actuality there may be many things (in this discussion, songs) that I like about it, but just not as many as my most favorite.

Having said that, I can say that for Procol Harum, it's A Salty Dog (most favorite) and Something Magic (least favorite).   But I still don’t consider SM an awful album.

Likewise, in the case of Flash, their first, “Flash”, is my most fave, and the 2nd, “In the Can”, is my least, but I don’t actually dislike any of it.

Makes sense, I hope?

Test  for Echo worse than Vapor trail??

I am afraid I am serious! Especially about BBT! Bought English Electric with great anticipation, but oh was I disappointed, seldom heard such boring "Soft-Prog". Its Prog for hotel lobbies and elevators if you ask me. I have given up on BBT since Sean Filkins is not with them any more. His Solo Output is so much much better than BBT's albums without him.

PG3 - PG Us

Frank Zappa:
    Serious music: Best - TIE Waka/Jawaka or Hot Rats Worst - Francesco Zappa
    
Humorous music: Best - Sheik Yerbouti Worst - Thing-Fish

with the Mothers: Best - Burnt Wienie Sandwich Worst - Just Another Band from L.A.