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What's your least favorite album from giants?
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Originally posted by Walton Street Walton Street wrote:

i'm probably the only person on this planet that thinks The Final Cut is a masterpiece


Perhaps not a masterpiece, but a much better album than A Momentary Lapse of Reason for sure. Actually, I don't dislike any of the albums listed (I have never heard The Single Factor), though I think Under Wraps is possibly the weakest of the lot. 
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who the hell put Camel in the Giants???  LOL

yes they beat ELP... twice Angry... I'll give you that.  But 'giant'  sorry man...  'Giants' are bands even non prog fans have HEARD of...  hell  there are likely prog fans out there that haven't heard them.  4th division prog groupman...with a bit of a cult following here. pfff LOLClap
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Early eighties KC has always been a struggle for me so I voted for that even though from an intellectual point of view BG is a heap of dung by Yes standards. Trouble is though I can listen to it and even enjoy it. Damn.
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I like Test For Echo!

Big Generator is a car crash, the Final Cut and Under Wraps are poor and Abacab and The Single Factor are dreadfully substandard for Genesis and Camel respectively.

But Beat is desperately bad for King Crimson and I don't even like their "better" stuff much, so I'm going for that.
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Haven't heard it, but I would imagine the Jethro Tull entry is pretty poor against the seven or so competing entries. Call it a gut feeling.
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The 80's incarnation of Crimso is my least fave and my least fave of their 80's album is Beat Wink
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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

I voted for The Final Cut. I know there are those who think it's "Floyd's" finest moment (a fair few on this very board), but I'd quite frankly rather listen to Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music instead.

Beat and Abacab are two albums I really dig though. They don't deserve the bad rep imo (then again people are saying the very same about Final Cut right about..............NOW....no wait a minute....there it is: now).
 
 
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The Single Factor is absolutely the worst Camel album, and also Big Generator was the worst Yes albums until the recent one, but I donμt understand why I'm the only one who have voted for Abacab which I have to confess I've never listened to entirely because I get bored of it quite soon. The Final Cut is far from being a masterpiece but I think it's still a solid 3 stars album, despite the absence of Rick Wright.
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I voted for The Final Cut. I know there are those who think it's "Floyd's" finest moment (a fair few on this very board), but I'd quite frankly rather listen to Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music instead.

Beat and Abacab are two albums I really dig though. They don't deserve the bad rep imo (then again people are saying the very same about Final Cut right about..............NOW....no wait a minute....there it is: now).


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arrrrggh

I selected my fave from the list   ( Test for Echo  )

before realizing we were supposed to pick the worst

would have gone with  The Final Cut
or other  :      Love Beach
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Originally posted by Progosopher Progosopher wrote:

The Final Cut.  It barely qualifies as music in many ways.  I find it more of a collection of poetry than anything else
And it barely qualifies as Pink Floyd
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Originally posted by Progosopher Progosopher wrote:

The Final Cut.  It barely qualifies as music in many ways.  I find it more of a collection of poetry than anything else.  The lyrics are great, I will give it that, but it is more melodramatic than melodic between Waters' whispering and barking and the sound effects, as well as the unnecessary bursts of sound.  Some of this is used to good effect but it becomes tedious quickly to my ears.  I consider the rest of the list to be decent if substandard with the exception of Test for Echo which I find to be quite good.
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Big Generator, but there's loads of others worse than these albums.
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The Final Cut.  It barely qualifies as music in many ways.  I find it more of a collection of poetry than anything else.  The lyrics are great, I will give it that, but it is more melodramatic than melodic between Waters' whispering and barking and the sound effects, as well as the unnecessary bursts of sound.  Some of this is used to good effect but it becomes tedious quickly to my ears.  I consider the rest of the list to be decent if substandard with the exception of Test for Echo which I find to be quite good.
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I enjoy Beat, I could live some lives furthermore without the others. 
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This list is a little cringe-worthy. Yes, some of these albums had some good tracks, but overall "meh".
I'd have to go with Big Generator if I had to pick.
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Originally posted by O666 O666 wrote:

Yes - Big Generator.
 I think KC's Beat is a great album and I can't understand why you put that in this list!! I know about different opinions and ... but I really like to know your reference or reason to put BEAT in this list. Thanks

I'd go even further: why are Camel and Rush giants? 

Nothing against them, but you can't call every great prog band a giant; this makes the category meaningless. There should be some metrics and criteria; let's say top 5? If the PA Top 100 albums list is anything to go by, I'd say Yes, Tull, Genesis, PF and KC should qualify for the "giants" tier, while Rush, Camel, PFM, Anglagard, VdGG etc. would follow closely be the next tier (sub-giants, maybe?)   
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For me, the most disappointing albums by one of my favorite bands were the Doors 'Waiting For The Sun' and 'The Soft Parade'. I like their other four albums much better.

Also, 'Le Parc' by Tangerine Dream was really disappointing.
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