Worst prog album you ever heard/bought?
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Topic: Worst prog album you ever heard/bought?
Posted By: YesFan72
Subject: Worst prog album you ever heard/bought?
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 20:13
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What prog album (if any) do you regret spending time listening/buying? ------------- 
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 20:27
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Queensryche- Operation:Mindcrime II. Dreadful album IMO.
------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: YesFan72
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 20:30
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I suppose I should add something as I started this...
I have never bought a prog album I really hated, mostly because I read the reviews first and preview a song or two if I can. -------------
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Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 21:12
| Pain of Salvation - Be. |
Posted By: Purplefloyd
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 21:50
| Colors by Between the Buried and Me...got good reviews but not my kind of thing apparently. |
Posted By: Woodbridge
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 22:27
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I'm not so sure if the album is considered "prog" or not but I really wasn't a huge fan of Kansas' "In the Spirit of Things."
I love a lot of melodic/arena/AOR stuff but even in that realm, the album was really lacking. Didn't like it at all.
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Posted By: ProgBagel
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 22:31
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I've heard so many prog albums as of late that I can only remember the most recent ones being terrible.
I'm inexperienced with the neo-prog genre, I gave Carptree - Man Made Machine a listen, it was really bad. |
Posted By: Tommydouglas
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 22:41
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Wayyyyyy back in my teen years, after thinking Emerson Lake and Powell was mindblowingly awesome, I stumbled across the latest ELPish incarnation "3" which you'll remember was Emerson, Palmer and Robert Berry. Thinking it was going to be just as great as EL Powell, I bought the vinyl--remember vinyl kids?--and biked home asap plopped it onto the turntable and ughhhh. What a dissapoinment--poppy, with the exception of desde la vida (sp?). Ever since Asia and 90125 prog groups were convinced they could do the next "owner of a lonely heart" if they just tried. Never really worked after that.... Too bad EL Powell never put out another album. ------------- "I'm not really spiritual, just religious." |
Posted By: SoundsofSeasons
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 22:45
YES! God yes! Oh... the worst album i've ever heard in my entire life. Well, at least the worst prog. ------------- 1 Chronicles 13:7-9 Then David and all Israel played music before God with all their might, with singing, on harps, on stringed instruments, on tambourines, on cymbals, and with trumpets. |
sleeper wrote:Posted By: Woodbridge
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 22:47
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I've been on the fence about picking up OMII for quite some time now...
What qualities make Part II worse than the original?
Not having Chris DeGarmo around has to be a factor, I'm sure.
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Posted By: eitan daniel
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 00:22
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the dark thrid for me (PRR), after all the reviews i was sure it was going to be a 'sure thing' well, it wasn't for me. ------------- stay present, stay attuned |
Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 00:24
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Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante
That being said, I've been pretty fortunate. -------------  <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Posted By: asimplemistake
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 00:28
| The main one that comes to mind is DT's Octavarium. Even when I liked them I didn't like that album. Now that I dont listen to them...and I still don't like the album. |
Posted By: ClassicRocker
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 00:40
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Trout Mask Replica One listen =  (and no, I'm not going to listen to that stuff until it "grows on me"  )------------- 
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Posted By: Walker
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 01:06
I love that album!
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Posted By: prog4evr
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 01:15
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As Yes was on its first downward spiral with Tormato (1978) and Drama (1980), it is sad - but true - to admit that the worst prog album (put out by them and probably by anyone) is 90215. Such a disappointment... |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 01:15
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Radiomobel Tramsebox ..if I could have given it 0 stars I would have |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 01:18
maybe, but it's a *great* pop record... I suspect you haven't heard enough bad prog.. I mean bad.. |
Posted By: Teh_Slippermenz
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 01:19
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"Discipline" by King Crimson I got it out of the library. Listened to all of it. The only track I was able to stand listening to more than once was "Elephant Talk". I'm sorry, but that is probably the most disappointing progressive album that I have ever spent time listening to. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 01:21
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Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 02:02
He weeps for you my friend. It's a great album, just not traditional KC. Discipline is one of those albums that you really have to let grow on you. I didn't like it at first either, now I think it's one of their best albums. |
Posted By: Lofcaudio
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 02:34
| Vapor Trails |
Posted By: Avantgardehead
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 02:49
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I would say "Scarsick" by Pain of Salvation, but it's more regressive than progressive...
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Avantgardian |
Posted By: Negru Voda
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 02:55
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Beat and Three Of A Perfect Pair. Discipline was OK so I expected the others to be on the same level. God, they're terrible. |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 03:24
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A toss up between The Mars Volta's Frances the Mute and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum's Of Natural History. Both are unlistenable in my opinion. They manage to oust my old enemy Love Beach from my "most hated" list by some way. As a postscript, I should add No Pussyfooting by Fripp and Eno. Much though I admire Mr Eno's other work, this is a total waste of vinyl. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 03:36
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I ordered a used CD that was listed as a Larry Coryell album. Turned out to be an Alphonse Mouson disco album with Coryell nowhere in sight. Never been disappointed by a progressive album, even some of the ones others have listed here. I also ordered an album by Skeleton Crew, which I thought was Fred Frith's Skeleton Crew, but was instead a christian rock album. Thanks, but no Thanks/ ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: apps79
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 04:49
| djam karet-the ritual continues...really weak and has nothing to do with rock... |
Posted By: Baza
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 06:20
| I stopped bying albums which I haven't heard and liked before the purchase, so I don't buy albums that I may not like anymore. Before that, I only bought albums that had good reviews, but some of them I didn't like. I don't want to piss people off here by naming albums that I don't like which are considered good or even masterpieces by the majority, but I have to name 1 album which I completely dislike: Marillion - Misplaced Childhood. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 06:50
| Fear of a Blank Planet - Porcupine Tree |
Posted By: cynthiasmallet
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 06:57
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This is is hard, I can't think of one off the top of my head.... I guess it would have to be Genesis-Wind And Wuthering. ------------- Would you like to watch TV, or get between the sheets, or contemplate the silent freeway, would you like something to eat? |
Posted By: proger
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 07:04
its a nice album but nothing more... for me I dont love Cravan- in the land... ------------- ...live for tomorrow... |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 07:06
The musicianship is well below the level of the original, the song writting is terrible and it was completely unecessary. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005
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Posted By: proger
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 07:06
same... what is the big deal with this album??? ------------- ...live for tomorrow... |
Posted By: Snipergoat
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 07:31
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DT - Systematic Chaos Marillion - Misplaced Childhood |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 07:34
Actually, I'm very surprised that people here like very much Porcupine Tree. |
Posted By: Thandrus
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 09:54
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I almost always forget the albums I don't like... but some albums really hurt my memories so far:
Genesis - Abacab, Genesis...
Yes - Open You Eyes
Supertramp - Free As A Bird
Barclay James Harvest - Face To Face, Ring Of Changes
Tangerine Dream's awful end-0f-80's hollywood soundtracks...
But 99 from 100 bad prog albums still contain something interesting... that is one of the features of prog that is worth respecting. In these albums I've listed I couldn'f find anything appealing... I triend really hard (that means I gave them about 3-4 listens) but still...
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Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 10:08
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There really is little point to threads such as this unless there is some constructive discussion. simply listing albums which have disappointed you does not help anyone.
What were your expectations, and in what way were they not met?
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Posted By: Darklord55
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 10:13
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Neal Morse-Testimony. This is the first and last I tried since his changeover. Imho most of the lyrics and music remind me of the happy, clappy, sappy praise songs that seem to be popular at the moment. In my opinion this type of music/lyrics lowers The Almighty to the status of a locker room buddy. It baffles me that Morse gets such glowing reviews here. |
Posted By: YesFan72
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 10:13
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I suppose just to know what albums people really hated, and see if they happen to be ones that are overrated. -------------
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 10:24
That's interesting... although I wouldn't say it was the worst, it cwertainly was one of my personal 'biggest disappointments'.....
The worst?? Yes: 'Open Your Eyes' really does take some beating....with Marillion.com not far behind it... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 10:29
Love the album to bits. Did not even think that he demoted God on that one. Great album I say.  ------------- 
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 10:34
no offense intended, but that is exactly the argument my Mum uses against any religious music which was written post 1830... (except she's never used the expression 'locker-room' or 'buddy' to my knowledge....  ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 10:36
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Well, the worst albums are the ones you expected to be good, but turned out to be TERRIBLE, so going by those guidelines, the worst prog album I've ever heard has to have been "Awake" by Dream Theater, since the band was the main subject of conversation here last year; I stole the album and it turned out to be contrived, gesticulating, overwrought, pseudo-macho nonsense with the least sense of musical delicacy ever put to album. not exactly what I hoped for ;P
------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 10:43
^ my favorite DT.. ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 10:47
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sorry =P at least we agree on the avant-garde
------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: SilverEclipse
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 12:15
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Ummagumma by Pink Floyd. I know some people really love it, but I think it's nonsense with no direction.
------------- "and if the band your in starts playing different tunes, I'll see you on the dark side of the moon" |
Posted By: Visitor13
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 12:23
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I (legally) sample albums before buying them, so if a piece sounds castrated, I usually don't listen to the whole album.
Examples of one-balled (not wholly castrated  ) and yet highly popular albums include CDs from Genesis, Dream Theater, Magma, Yes, Riverside, Gong etc.
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Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 14:09
Sorry, it wasn't a dig at you so much as the generally uninteresting responses.
 It's a pet bug of mine that negative threads should at least be usefully negative.
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 15:01
mine too....  ...5 stars.... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 18:19
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Probably these: ../Review.asp?id=95634 - 
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ACQUA FRAGILE - Acqua Fragile
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ACQUA FRAGILE - Mass Media Star
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DEVIL DOLL - The Girl who Was... Death
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GENTLE GIANT - Giant For A Day
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DREAM THEATER - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
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DREAM THEATER - Octavarium
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NEW TROLLS - Concerto Grosso Per I New Trolls
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NEW TROLLS - UT
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NEW TROLLS - Searching For A Land
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NEW TROLLS - Concerto Grosso N. II
../Review.asp?id=95034 -
FORMULA 3 - Dies Irae (Formula 3)
../Review.asp?id=95043 -
NEKTAR - Magic is a Child
../Review.asp?id=94127 -
UNO - Uno
../Review.asp?id=92856 -
TANGENT, THE - A Place In The Queue
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ENID, THE - Aerie Faerie Nonsense
../Review.asp?id=95033 -
JUMBO - DNA
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SUPERSISTER - Spiral Staircase ../Review.asp?id=92884 - ../Review.asp?id=92885 -
../Review.asp?id=92836 -
COMUS - To Keep From Crying ../Review.asp?id=92963 -
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BUON VECCHIO CHARLIE - Buon Vecchio Charlie
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HORSLIPS - Book of Invasions: A Celtic Symphony + ELP: Brain Salad Surgery. Removed Queensryche because they shouldn't be in the archives in the first place. ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 20:14
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Where are all of the Love Beach haters????
I'm going with Rock 'n Roll Prophet by the mighty Rick Wakeman here. Probably the closest thing I've ever heard to a vinyl disc with absolutely no redeeming features.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 20:48
| Don't know about worst, some of the really bad ones I forget, but there is one by a modern stuporgroup that I found anything but super. |
Posted By: Avantgardehead
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 22:03
Excellent album, but this band is the polar opposite of accessible or easily-digested in just about every area. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Avantgardian |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: December 25 2007 at 12:34
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yes-90125 except for owner of a lonely heart. everything else was really bad. |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: December 25 2007 at 18:32
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Sinister Street - Eve of Innocence. You guys don't even know. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: December 25 2007 at 20:50
It's not that bad. I find Changes and the last three tracks listenable (although Hearts just barely makes it.) Owner on the other hand makes me want to reach for a shotgun....
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: December 25 2007 at 20:55
I don't get it...my favorite song on 90125 is Owner of a Lonely Heart. Definitely one of the best mainstream hits of the 80s and a real class act song. 
------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: December 26 2007 at 01:19
| Everybody has different tastes, of course. I will admit that the production on Owner is impressive, but once I got used to all of the bells and whistles that horn threw in, I realized that there isn't much else to the song except for an ok Rabin solo. Our Song is my favorite off that album. |
Posted By: heyitsthatguy
Date Posted: December 26 2007 at 01:29
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I dunno probably some avantgarde album AHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHHAHAHA just kidding in actuality, Scarsick's second half was pretty brutal (the first half was hysterical though...not sure this was intended though). Most DISAPPOINTING would have to be Deadsoul Tribe's "The January Tree" had such high reviews here, and it came off as nothing more to me than derivative, derivative, derivative. And I enjoy Neal Morse  ------------- 
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: December 26 2007 at 01:33
| Yes-90125 |
Posted By: progadicto
Date Posted: December 26 2007 at 01:43
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-Dream Theater always dissapoint me... Great musicians but their albums are really senseless...
-Manticore - Time to Fly
-Jadis - More than Meets the Eye
-Tangerine Dream - Optical Race
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Posted By: Sckxyss
Date Posted: December 26 2007 at 02:05
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Magma - Merci
King Crimson - Beat
I don't buy albums that are rated low most of the time, and these two were exceptions because of fanboyism. They both lacked any good composition (well, 1 or 2 tracks on beat were good), and had 80s pop written all over them.
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Posted By: blue_sheep
Date Posted: December 26 2007 at 14:13
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'On The Sunday of Life' by Porcupine Tree is probably the only progressive album that I have ever bought and disliked, but even so it was not terrible. The main problems I had with 'On The Sunday...' were Steven Wilson's voice, he sounds nothing like he does on the other albums, the programmed drums and the many short songs that consist of nothing but (programmed) drum solos, odd sounds and dull narrations. ------------- Sadly I am yet to find an experimental progressive avant-garde garage rock band. |
Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: December 26 2007 at 22:41
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I am split between Egyptian Kings' "Algamest," and Kayo Dot's "Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue." They may not be the worst, but they seemed like it after the all the hype. ------------- a.k.a. H.T. http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: December 27 2007 at 13:40
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Counting only prog albums, I mean, not counting albums by prog bands which weren't prog (like Invisible Touch), I have to go with Kayo Dot's Dowsing Anemone in Copper Tongue. ------------- 
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 27 2007 at 15:57
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sort of hard to argue with these two.... one ended up tossed out the window of a moving vehicle... the other... well... my review spoke for itself. Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason. DT - SFaM ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: December 27 2007 at 16:03
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Worst i've bought:
Queensr˙che - s/t
Mike Oldfield - Amarok
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Posted By: Dim
Date Posted: December 27 2007 at 17:29
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DT- Scenes from a memory, hair metal song +3 or four extra minuetes.
Neurosis- Given to the rising- Sludge and yelling taken to far.
Becoming the archetype- the physics of fire, WHATS THIS? The greatest harcore band out there go's Dream theater, WHY? ------------- 
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Posted By: Evans
Date Posted: December 27 2007 at 17:41
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Well, the only one that i have ever put on and really just thought that it was a total drag for it's entire duration was probably Emerson, Lake and Palmer's debut. I can't say i regret bying it because it was cheap, but still. Never really listen to it. The worst album that i actually regret bying was OOIOO's Kila Kila Kila, because it was pretty much... uniteresting. Plus it wasn't as cheap as ELP. Now the worst album i have ever HEARD... well, it's either Träd Gräs och Stenar's debut (even though that one has ) one redeeming quality in it's cover of All along the Watchtower or possibly some of that bullsh*t Merzbow keeps churning out for all those gullible enough to actually consider themselves alternative and more cool because of their music taste.... yeah.. it has to be Merzbow. :) ------------- 
'Let's give it another fifteen seconds..' |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: December 27 2007 at 17:53
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I've probably heard my share of bad prog albums, but now it's not easy to remember which one really takes the cake. Besides SfaM, I think this very dubious prize could go to a Russian band called Little Tragedies - I'm afraid their name speaks for itself. A monument to boredom and lack of ideas if I've ever heard one.
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: December 27 2007 at 18:06
Love both of those albums but Momentary Lapse is definitely one of Floyd's best, and I don't care if I'm in the minority. Pink Floyd were at their worst when they were soulful and bluesy and there's not that much on here. Just classic spaciness. Some odd 80s accents, but overall better than many many Floyd albums. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: The Owl
Date Posted: December 31 2007 at 10:08
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Rick Wakeman's "Myths and Legends of King Arhur & The Knoghts fo The Roundtable", WHAT A PIECE OF OVERBLOWN VACUOUS CRAP!!!
Want more proof?
Here's the whole spectacle at Wembley--with the full Ice Capades treatment no less (pathetically hilarious)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_hM1dtRolY - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_hM1dtRolY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL9NJh_0oy4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL9NJh_0oy4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPYI7pQ7oSg - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPYI7pQ7oSg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXlZ0x0Ghrk - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXlZ0x0Ghrk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tCCP50sHII - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tCCP50sHII
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYNMuMHECuA - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYNMuMHECuA ------------- People are puzzled why I don't dig the Stones, well, I listened to the Stones, I tried, and I tried, and I tried, and--I Can't Get No Satisfaction! www.myspace.com/theowlsmusic |
Posted By: cookieacquired
Date Posted: December 31 2007 at 10:45
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KC- BEAT! (gah)
That album.... *shudder*
That being said, I gave it two listens
before hastily returning it to the library ------------- 
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Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: December 31 2007 at 20:08
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Opeth's Blackwater Park. Just death metal to these ears. E ------------- 
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Posted By: markosherrera
Date Posted: January 04 2008 at 03:21
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Tony Banks Statement
Steve Hillage..I DONT REMEMBER THE NAME BUT in THE COVER APPEAR SOMETHING like a ovni
Novalis-Banished bridge(-awful voices)
City-(Terrible bad musicians)
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Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: January 04 2008 at 03:35
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Damn, this is unfair! You guys have prog at your libraries. I was lucky to steal, er, "borrow" a single Tull album from mine. ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: January 04 2008 at 07:11
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There is absolutely no doubt which album is the worst prog album of all times, and probably the worst album ever: "Psychedelic Underground" by Amon Düül, the first ever Krautrock album. Anyone who has ever heard it will wholeheartedly agree. It is, however, a very important album nevertheless. After this album no German band needed to have an inferiority complex; you simply could not get any worse. And, however bad the album may be from a musical point of view, there is a certain charm to it.
-------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Norbert
Date Posted: January 04 2008 at 08:50
| Probably Train of thought is the worst album which sits on my shelfe. No track which I really like, not painfully bad though, that's the rason why I have not gotten rid of it(yet). |
Posted By: A B Negative
Date Posted: January 04 2008 at 09:36
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After my friends let me hear some Jethro Tull albums (Living in the Past, Aqualung, and Thick as a Brick), I bought Under Wraps. What a disappointment. The next Tull album I bought was A, not much better. These albums bore no relation to the music I'd heard before. You got the idea that they were trying to reinvent themselves in order to stay relevant (whatever that means), never a good idea. ------------- "The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time." |
Posted By: Avantgardehead
Date Posted: January 04 2008 at 15:03
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"Thick as a Brick" was a huge disappointment to me. In my opinion, it doesn't deserve 90% of the constant praise it gets. Most of the other JT albums were disappointments as well... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Avantgardian |
Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: January 04 2008 at 15:36
I'm afraid I may agree with you. I like only "New Faust" partially, other albums are ..erm...Okay, I won't ruin my "Russian Prog Aficionado" positive image
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Posted By: nightlamp
Date Posted: January 04 2008 at 16:01
| I was pretty disappointed by Rick Wakeman's King Arthur... and Wishbone Ash's Argus. Neither were awful, but they didn't deliver what I expected. |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: January 06 2008 at 12:53
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Counterparts from Rush
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Posted By: SilverSean
Date Posted: January 06 2008 at 22:07
Agreed. I still love DT but I haven't listened to that one in a while. The only good part is the last 10 minutes of Octavarium. ------------- Hold on to the Dream... |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 07 2008 at 07:28
thankfully for her it came from MY collection  we are sort of harsh on prog... that is not progressive... but regressive.. especially of the symphonic variety.. you can only perfect the wheel once. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: limeyrob
Date Posted: January 07 2008 at 09:25
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Normally I do a fair amount of research before I buy so I shouldn't have been disappointed and so I'm not going to name any names. Of the few I have bought on speculation (mainly due to posts on PA and other web site reviews) I'd say that I am well ahead but I'd just like to say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder - and that not everyone sees the same thing.
As once was said - You can please some of the people all of the time, you can even please all of the people some of the time but you can never please all of the people all of the time.
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: January 07 2008 at 11:16
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Vapour Trails - Rush (Not a dreadful album, but a very lacklustre effort from Rush, and a huge dissapointment for along term Rush fan)
Invisible Touch - Genesis (I've said it before. I wont repeat myself) Brain Salad Surgery - ELP (Cant understand the fuss. Good ideas, not developed to their full potential. Big dissapointment. The worst rendition of Jerusalem I've ever heard. Awful production) Train of Thought - Dream Theater (Non stop blistering musicianship from start to finish, but sadly without a worthwhile song in sight. Just gives me a headache) Something wicked this way comes - The Enid (Had high hopes for this album, having heard The Spell and their 70's efforts, but to this day it just sounds like a disorganised mess to me) Just opinion of course. Dont shoot me.. 
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Posted By: Firefly
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 10:01
 One of my alltime fav albums, actually!
Another one of my absolute alltime favourites!!
I don't tend to make many mistakes buying albums I don't like, but I did buy Pink Floyd's The Division Bell. Hated it so much that I gave it away.
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Posted By: Firefly
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 10:15
I know what you mean about doing the research first, but I find that very often, reviews are useless to me unless I know something about the taste of the reviewer.
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Posted By: allan Duul II
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 22:55
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All of my music apart from some Gong, Acid Mothers Temple and the Pink Floyd discography was downloaded and cause I have read a lot of reviews and whatnot before downloading I am usually not disappointed, that being said alot of people raved about Galahad's empires never last which I thought was awful, but that doesn't happen to often. Tend to keep away from Neo-Prog really, I was disappointed with some of the later Krautrock albums I got too, like late Tangerine Dream, I cant stand that electro/techno nonsense. |
Posted By: Evans
Date Posted: January 12 2008 at 07:12
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All of my ELP albums. :) Tiihii. Also OOIOO's Kila Kila Kila. Avant-prog gets no special treatment from me. -------------
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Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: January 12 2008 at 07:24
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Union by Yes, there wasn't one track I gained any pleasure from listening too. |
Posted By: cacha71
Date Posted: January 12 2008 at 17:17
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I can't say that I have been really disappointed by any album I've bought recently because I read reviews and trust the star rating system and know to avoid things like doom metal which really isn't my taste... Before being online, however, I had some disappointments, but you know what they say, one man's wine is another man's poison. ------------- http://www.last.fm/group/Progressive+Folk |
Posted By: ProgBagel
Date Posted: January 12 2008 at 17:48
| Liquid Trio Experiment. |
Posted By: progrules
Date Posted: January 15 2008 at 02:50
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I do have a habit of just buying and see what happens although progarchives is a great instrument for avoiding big mistakes. In the period I didn't have this instrument yet I made some bad errors:
Just a reason to be out there - Jester's Joke. These guys couldn't sing and played amateurishly
Dream or reality - Tea for Two. Just some poor mellow stuff.
Lark's tongues in aspic - King Crimson. Still can't believe I'm just about the only one who gave this one star. Can anyone tell me what's so great (musicwise) about this album ? Dullest music ever ! ------------- A day without prog is a wasted day |
Posted By: Cheesecakemouse
Date Posted: January 15 2008 at 03:20
Larks tongue is so unique and pushes the boundary beyond symphonic rock into the unknown, a very daring album. Also consider all the 90s hard rock and metal bands that were influenced by Easy Money and LTIA II. For me this album was waaay ahead of its time just like Can's Tago Mago. |
Posted By: Forgotten Son
Date Posted: January 15 2008 at 10:00
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Sinister Street - The Eve of Innocence. Dull! Dull Dull! |
Posted By: ProgBagel
Date Posted: January 15 2008 at 12:56
| Do Make Say Think's self titled album. I think it is possibly the worst thing I have ever heard. |
Posted By: LARKSTONGUE
Date Posted: January 16 2008 at 18:31
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King Crimson's Earthbound because of the quality of the recording. ------------- ^ ^ ((( I ))) The fact is, no matter how |
Posted By: Jshutt64
Date Posted: January 16 2008 at 21:11
Union, by Yes. 
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