What's your least favorite album from giants?

SteveG wrote: Lear'sFool wrote: Think I'll nominate Love Beach. ELP certainly was a giant, and they fell FAR from their grace when they were forced to cut that. But the cover... there is no way they didn't agree to that.  Good Lord. I'm starting feel some ELP bias toward the OP now!

octopus-4 wrote:

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

Hi,

dave-the-rave wrote: After the fairly commercial, hard-rocking sound of 'The Wall,' 'The Final Cut' was incredibly disappointing. It sounded like all the slow parts of The Wall strung together for 40 minutes. But a few years ago, I figured something out. The key to enjoying 'The Final Cut' is to put on the headphones and imagine that you are listening to a Broadway show, that is, the telling of a story through music and the spoken word.  It's a musical, for crying out loud. That's what occurred to me, and turned me from a hater to someone who could at least appreciate what Roger had created. (Still doesn't rock, though.)

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

I agree.

I would nominate maybe Giant for a Day?

And hem, I think Hold Your Fire is FAR worse than Test for Echo.


Edited by aglasshouse - January 10 2015 at 13:04

Test for Echo is awful and uninspired IMO. I also love the Final Cut.

I went from disliking Final Cut to enjoying. Took a long time but it was when getting a disc of the video EP that I realised it does have some nice tunes. A fair stack of DG solos. It's not really a rock album though; no problem. It approaches the concept of war, as a prequel to The Wall rather than a sequel. I think after the appeal of Comfortably Numb and perhaps with the exception of Sorrow the lack of a similar follow up and conforming to audience expectations has ensured alot of later Rog and PF music to exasperation.

It's still very austere like most of Roger's later work which is concealing the heart of this album.

Some albums have such a bad rep that I've avoided them - I mean I have to find time to play music I like never mind find stuff I might not.

Love all 80s and Beyond Crim, everything Yes, Genesis but did not like Test For Echo much - thought Rush were trying to be grunge. Uh uh. Still not heard Love Beach largely because buying anything with that cover (is it on CD?; not sure I've seen it) but it seems like buying gay porn to me. Not ideal... plus it has less than a high rep.

Big Generator has a truly awful cover (the turquoise version being slightly less awful than the yellow / pink but I found this project fine. Obviously nothing sounds like Heart of the Sunrise (why should it) it's a new band with an established name for sales purposes.

Hard to find too many albums that don't have something good on them somewhere though I recall being a bit appalled at the blandness of Camel's Breathless. Still, it's not on the list so... probably Test For Echo. But it's not that bad and I'd listen to it constantly compared to some certain mindless mainstream I hear from time to time.

Maybe not everything's classic on this list but nothing to get too over emotional over.