Albums you dislike with one song you do - Progressive Rock Music Forum

More Fool Me is all that keeps SEBT from being a perfect prog record for me.

Instant skip and mood killer.

"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021

One album that comes to mind for me is The Edgar Winter Group - They Only Come Out At Night, the one great track being "Frankenstein":

It even has cowbell on it!!

Edited by I prophesy disaster - October 06 2021 at 03:00

No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.

King Crimson's Red album and the classic song "Starless", which saves the album from being a 2-star dud.

ELP - In the Hot Seat - it's got a re-worked version of Pictures at an Exhibition

The only controversial one I can think of is Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother which quite frankly bores the heck out of me except for "Summer '68" which I find kind of cute.

Other examples include:

- Camel - Dust And Dreams: "Hopeless Anger"

- David Bowie - Tonight: "Loving The Alien"

- Electric Light Orchestra - Discovery: "Don't Bring Me Down"

- Frank Zappa - Zappa In New York: "The Black Page"

- Mr. Bungle - The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny: "Hypocrites"

- Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero: "Another Version Of The Truth"

- Rush - Roll The Bones: "Where's My Thing?"

- Steve Hackett - Till We Have Faces: "The Rio Connection"

- The Alan Parsons Project - Ammonia Avenue: "Don't Answer Me"

- The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet: "The Whip Hand"

- Yes - Talk: "Silent Spring"

- Zamla Mammaz Manna - Schlagerns Mystik: "Ödet"

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Dream Theater's The Astonishing had one good song. Don't remember which one, but the rest of the record wasn't my thing.

Jethro Tull's later albums all fit this description for me, or close to it, anyway.

Stormwatch was pretty much the last album I enjoyed in its entirety. After that one, I just felt like Ian Anderson had lost his mojo for songwriting (and also quickly began losing his vocal ability).

"A" had Black Sunday, but I can live without the rest of that album.

"Broadsword" was a little better, but not by much - maybe 3 or 4 tracks I liked.

"Under Wraps" has about 3 tracks I enjoy as well, the rest was dross.

"Crest Of A Knave" - same. Again, maybe 2 or 3 tracks that I could get into.

"Rock Island" was a dud, with "The Whalers Dues" being the only track that had any worth to me.

"Catfish Rising" was a bit of an exception for me - several tracks on that one were pretty good in my opinion, notably "Roll Yer Own," "Rocks On The Road," "Thinking Round Corners," "Like A Tall Thin Girl," and "Gold-Tipped Boots..." were all tracks I thought were pretty good, solid Tull material.

"Roots To Branches" was dismal and boring, with "Beside Myself" being the only song I found even marginally interesting.

"Dot Com" - another dud. Barre's main riff in "Hunt By Numbers" is high-level, but even then it's not enough to save the song, and the rest of the album is a joke.

(It pains me to express these views, as I am a HUGE JT fan. I've seen them 11 times in concert over the decades. As far as I'm concerned, their output from "Benefit" through "Songs From The Wood" is absolutely stellar, and rivals the best any of their prog-band peers were putting out.)

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Cristi wrote:

^ Roots to Branches is one of my favorites from Jethro Tull. Tongue

I'm truly glad you enjoy it! I saw them on the tour for Roots to Branches at the Rosengarten Mozartsaal in Mannheim. I've tried so hard to like that album. I even gave it a fresh listening about a month or so ago. I still just don't hear what you hear, LOL.

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U2 - "All That You Can't Leave Behind". It's not just the album but I can't stand U2, period. Except for "Beautiful Day", which to me is so good I can't believe U2 wrote and performed it.

dwill123 wrote:

U2 - "All That You Can't Leave Behind". It's not just the album but I can't stand U2, period. Except for "Beautiful Day", which to me is so good I can't believe U2 wrote and performed it.

there are probably a load of U2 albums that might qualify for this thread but the obvious one for me is Joshua Tree and Without Or Without You. An absolute classic beauty of a song but the rest I could not care less about.

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