Worst Album by a Great Prog Band

dr wu23 wrote: Looking at the classic great proggers.......imo definitely Love Beach by ELP.

Although ELP's Love Beach definitely deserves its place in prog opprobrium (LOL), I'd have to say it has stiff competition in GG's "Giant for a Day."

Uriah Heep — Conquest. E'en worse than Abominog!

Snow Dog wrote: chrijom wrote: FunkyM wrote: ferush wrote: The Beatles and Rush don't have any bad album. Maybe, but I'm not very fond of "Hold Your Fire". Funnily enough, that's the album that got me into Rush!    I like it. I love Hold Your Fire. But I have played it to death.

Hold your fire is a great listen.
I am with you here. ;)

Snow Dog wrote: maani wrote: Although ELP's Love Beach definitely deserves its place in prog opprobrium (LOL), I'd have to say it has stiff competition in GG's "Giant for a Day." BTW, I have always felt that Abacab and Tormato get a far worse rep than they deserve.  As for Systematic Chaos, I'm not sure if I was listening to the same album as those who listed it, but I absolutely love that album! Peace. re Systematic  Chao....me too!

I love Systematic Chaos too; Black Clouds is the only later DT album I found disappointing.

Maybe not a one particular album comes to mind, but sometimes it's the problem I have with Edgar Froese and TD's latter day work. They melt together, and one sounds like the other, and while it's still TD - it's definitely not the kind of TD I cherish the most. Seems to me, that dear monsieur Froese would do himself some good by taking a long vacation, smoking some weed, pulling the plug to his endless string of albums, - hopefully finding what he seems to have lost nowadays, his patience. He has become so focused on spiralling bleeping melodies, that he's completely forgotten about the slow drones, and the magic of throwing something out there, wondering where it will fall in the music. 

Roll the bones- Rush   (I wouldn't call it crap. But I get tired of it with the exception of a couple of songs, too R.E.M.-like if you get what I mean).

Genesis-Invisible Touch
Yes-Open Your Eyes
ELP- In the Hot Seat
Jethro Tull-Under Wraps
Queen-Hot Space
King Crimson-Beat

Under Wraps together with Hot Space are the worst of these all.

Mike_Zed wrote: I'll go for VDGG's Still... nah, just kidding - The Quiet Zone - The Pleasure Dome. Sooooooooooo fu...ing boring.

andreol263 wrote: FusionKing wrote: Atom Heart Mother- Pink Floyd    (An overrated stinker.  The horns clash and the choir sound amateur, the rest of the album is mediocre especially for Floyd) Really?? the best album from Pink Floyd?!(Alan Psychadelic Breakfast is a total masterpiece, even better than Echoes and Time.

Atom Heart Mother is my favourite Pink Floyd album, particularly for the AHM suite, which for me is the gretest thing put out by Pink Floyd, but I like Alan's Psychadelic Breakfast a lot too. I think Geesin did an amazing job with what was sent him to put together the AHM suite, and Aldiss did really good work with the choir. Interesting tidbit:

wikipedia wrote: Stanley Kubrick wanted to use this track for his film A Clockwork Orange; however, the band refused permission.[6] Kubrick did, however, include the album cover in the film. It can be seen on a shelf in the music shop scene. Years later, Kubrick refused Roger Waters permission to use audio samples from his film 2001: A Space Odyssey on Waters' solo album Amused to Death.[7]

Pastmaster wrote: Dream Theater - The Astonishing and Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. I have nothing more to add, two truly atrocious albums.

Disagreeing again with a post on Pink Floyd. I think that The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is a terrific debut album, and is one of my particular favourite albums from 1967.

Edited by Logan - July 06 2016 at 11:56