Worst Album - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Author

Message

Topic Search

Topic Options

Mascodagama View Drop Down

Collaborator

Honorary Collaborator

Joined: December 30 2006
Location: United Kingdom
Status: Offline
Points: 5111

Posted: March 02 2007 at 08:12

It's not an original choice, but definitely Love Beach. I picked it up on cassette tape from a bargain bin some time during the eighties, just to see how bad it really was.

Cost me 50p, and I overpaid by about 48p.

Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to.
Bandcamp Profile

Snow Dog

Special Collaborator

Honorary Collaborator

Joined: March 23 2005
Location: Caerdydd
Status: Offline
Points: 32995

Posted: March 02 2007 at 08:12

chopper wrote:

richardh wrote:

In The Hot Seat (in the toilet seat)

Abacab (abacrap)

..I've yet to muster the courage to get The Big Generator but I expect that must be a contender as well.

Don't believe everything you read about Big Generator, Richard. It may not be their best but it has at least 3 excellent tracks in "Love will find a way", "Final Eyes" and especially "I'm Running". Overall I prefer it to 90125 and Open Your Eyes.

As most people know, I'm a big fan of Big Generator. I love it in fact.

Cristi

Special Collaborator

Crossover / Prog Metal Teams

Joined: July 27 2006
Location: wonderland
Status: Offline
Points: 43510

Posted: March 02 2007 at 08:16

[[/QUOTE]

As most people know, I'm a big fan of Big Generator. I love it in fact.

[/QUOTE]

surely great to see someone who enjoys Big Generator

. I enjoy BG a lot.

chopper

Special Collaborator

Honorary Collaborator

Joined: July 13 2005
Location: Essex, UK
Status: Offline
Points: 20029

Posted: March 02 2007 at 08:18

Snow Dog wrote:

chopper wrote:

richardh wrote:

In The Hot Seat (in the toilet seat)

Abacab (abacrap)

..I've yet to muster the courage to get The Big Generator but I expect that must be a contender as well.

As most people know, I'm a big fan of Big Generator. I love it in fact.

It has to be said Ian, we have immaculate taste.

Snow Dog

Special Collaborator

Honorary Collaborator

Joined: March 23 2005
Location: Caerdydd
Status: Offline
Points: 32995

Posted: March 02 2007 at 08:25

chopper wrote:

Snow Dog wrote:

chopper wrote:

richardh wrote:

In The Hot Seat (in the toilet seat)

Abacab (abacrap)

..I've yet to muster the courage to get The Big Generator but I expect that must be a contender as well.

As most people know, I'm a big fan of Big Generator. I love it in fact.

It has to be said Ian, we have immaculate taste.

To my mind, it sounds nothing like 90125. It has a sharper more "edgy" feel.

Edit. Less "glossy" souding is wehat I'm trying to say I think.

Edited by Snow Dog - March 02 2007 at 08:26

febus

Special Collaborator

Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam

Joined: January 23 2007
Location: Orlando-Usa
Status: Offline
Points: 4312

Posted: March 02 2007 at 10:02

--The konstruktion of light by King Crimson

-AMLOR by Pink Floyd

-Under Wraps by Jethro Tull

-World record , the Quiet Zone by VDGG

-every AMON DUUL 2 after ''vIVE LA Trance''

-every GENESIS after ''Wind And Wuthering''

I don't dislike ''Love Beach'' and ''the Final Cut''

Paradox

Forum Senior Member

Joined: October 07 2004
Location: England
Status: Offline
Points: 1059

Posted: March 02 2007 at 10:54

The first thing that sprang to mind was either Crest of a Knave or Under Wraps by Jethro Tull, but both of those albums have a few good tracks on them too. But overall they are the (in my opinion) the worst of Jethro Tull's output.

Steel Monkey and Automotive Engineering i really enjoy!

sleeper

Prog Reviewer

Joined: October 09 2005
Location: Entropia
Status: Offline
Points: 16449

Posted: March 02 2007 at 12:05

Dream Theater- Octavarium
Queensryche- Operation:Mindcrime II

Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005

Melomaniac View Drop Down

Prog Reviewer

Joined: May 07 2006
Location: Canada
Status: Offline
Points: 4088

Posted: March 02 2007 at 12:06

Dream Theater - SFAM and Octavarium... SFAM has to be the MOST overrated album in the history of prog...

"One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio

Man Erg

Special Collaborator

Honorary Collaborator

Joined: August 26 2004
Location: Isle of Lucy
Status: Offline
Points: 7456

Posted: March 02 2007 at 12:13

Genesis - Genesis, ABACAB
PFM - Jetlag (sorry, too commercial for me)
Gentle Giant - Civilian
ELP - Love Breach (sic)
ELO - Discovery (Disco papp)
Rush - Hold Your Fire

Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.

Bj-1

Special Collaborator

Honorary Collaborator

Joined: June 04 2005
Location: No(r)Way
Status: Offline
Points: 31307

Posted: March 02 2007 at 12:59

Supertramp - Free as a Bird

JM Jarre - Deserted Palace

Genesis - We Can't Dance

Gentle Giant - Giant For a Day

King Crimson - Islands

RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!

markl

Forum Newbie

Joined: February 23 2007
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 22

Posted: March 02 2007 at 18:54

well here we go

anything after:

elp - bss

gentle giant - missing piece

pf - animals {maybe after the wall }

supertramp - breakfast

genesis - wind & wathering

yes - topographic oceans

eloy - time to turn

Jethro Tull - heavy horses

ok i know this is not going to make a lot of people happy

kc - red

i never felt anything after RED was really CK , i thought of them [ discipline ] as a totaly new band with no connection to the old one other then RF , BB

Edited by markl - March 02 2007 at 18:57

rileydog22 View Drop Down

Forum Senior Member

Joined: August 24 2005
Location: New Jersey
Status: Offline
Points: 8844

Posted: March 02 2007 at 20:40

^^It's not "After what album did the band go astray" but rather which SPECIFIC ALBUM is the worst. You gave periods, rather than albums.

I'm gonna have to go with Islands for King Crimson. There's only one piece there I like, Sailors Tale.

markl

Forum Newbie

Joined: February 23 2007
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 22

Posted: March 02 2007 at 21:42

rileydog22 wrote:

^^It's not "After what album did the band go astray" but rather which SPECIFIC ALBUM is the worst. You gave periods, rather than albums.

I'm gonna have to go with Islands for King Crimson. There's only one piece there I like, Sailors Tale.

right,,,,,,,,, but after these albums i lost all interest in them, but i know what your saying

as for islands i think it a underrated lp the frist 4 IMO was KC best period with lizard on top

The T

Special Collaborator

Honorary Collaborator

Joined: October 16 2006
Location: FL, USA
Status: Offline
Points: 17493

Posted: March 02 2007 at 21:47

Melomaniac wrote:

Dream Theater - SFAM and Octavarium... SFAM has to be the MOST overrated album in the history of prog...

Ok, let's see:

YES - 90125 (atrocious, so bad that the best song is actually Owner of a lonely heart)

Genesis - Invisible Touch (Also, GENESIS -the album- just because of Illegal Alien)

Evergrey - Monday Morning Atrocity (Evergrey is not one of my favorites, but this album sucks so much I had to put them in the list)

YES - The Ladder (it's very bad for me)

Royal Hunt - Paper Blood

Pain of Salvation - Scarsick (it's not terribly bad, but the band used to be SO good, it's such an enormous contrast)

I haven't heard many reputed atrocities as Love Beach or Islands or many others... And there are a lot of awful albums I could name, but from bands I don't consider among my top-20

Ivan_Melgar_M View Drop Down

Special Collaborator

Honorary Collaborator

Joined: April 27 2004
Location: Peru
Status: Offline
Points: 19535

Posted: March 03 2007 at 00:16

Well from a broader perspective by bands:

Genesis: Abacrap or Shapes, both are horrendous, but Mama is the worst thing after Who Dunitt? Invisible Touch has The Brazilian inmerese in a pile of crap so at least deserves 50% of a star, In would give -50 to ABACRAP or Shapes..
Yes: Big Generator, I thought nothing vould be worst than 90210 or was it 90125? I was wrong.
Triumvirat: A La Carte, the Rat turns POP
Kansas: Vinyl Confesions
ELP: Re-Works (Love Beach has Canario and In the Hot Seat has a studio vesion of Pictures), Re-.Works is perfect crap
STYX: Kilroy Was Here: Kilroy might have been there with Mr Lobotto but Music wasn't.
Peter Gabriel: OVO....For God's sake, it has Rap
ELO: Discovery (Very Disco) If already ELO is barely Prog, Discoovery is barely crap.
Rick Wakeman:Family Album (For God's sake he loves his family, why did he did that to them?)
Jon & Vangelis: Friends of Mr. Cairo, Never too good together but Short Stories was pretty decent, FOMC is Gouda, Camembert or Roquefort, don't which one precisely but that it's cheesy, it's cheesy.

Iván

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - March 03 2007 at 00:22

Cheesecakemouse View Drop Down

Forum Senior Member

Joined: April 05 2006
Location: New Zealand
Status: Offline
Points: 1751

Posted: March 03 2007 at 00:36

I'd have to say Ummagumma by Pink Floyd is pretty abysmill in places

The Miracle View Drop Down

Prog Reviewer

Joined: May 29 2005
Location: hell
Status: Offline
Points: 28427

Posted: March 03 2007 at 01:21

^My favorite PF album

last.fm

Cheesecakemouse View Drop Down

Forum Senior Member

Joined: April 05 2006
Location: New Zealand
Status: Offline
Points: 1751

Posted: March 03 2007 at 02:30

The Miracle wrote:

^My favorite PF album

how?, I mean the life stuffs great, but Grand Vizors tea party and Sysyphus are pretty much self indulgent. Of course I don't use that word self indulgent lightly, its an overused term that critics use if their appreciation is too poor to understand diverse music; but seriously Ummagumma was more interesting for PF to executethan it was to listen.

progismylife View Drop Down

Forum Senior Member

Joined: October 19 2006
Location: ibreathehelium
Status: Offline
Points: 15535

Posted: March 03 2007 at 02:50

Easy:
Rush - Hold Your Fire
see my review for my feelings on this album