Great albums with no good songs

Hi,

I would think that folks that are not used to the free form styles of 50 years ago, TODAY, would not exactly enjoy a whole lot of the things that helped define, and make "progressive" so important at the time.

One  must also remember that the "controls" of synthesizers were very bad, and difficult ... if you ever read Edgar Froese's book on TD, you will find how they struggled to create an echo chamber ... until such a time when a synth could do it, which was still a few years to go. Also, how Christopher Franke at times had a really hard time getting to a certain point, to get his MANUAL abilities to make things come out like a sequencer, properly, and if the bootlegs are any truth, how they succeeded, even without the various modern things. But the different temperatures and locations always made his ability a serious challenge. It's a shame that he does not get any recognition for the work he did ... he deserves a lot of credit for it all.

I like to suggest to "suspend" the ideas that we have about music, when looking at things that are 50 years old ... it is a different time and place, and therefore the music would be vastly different to what we hear today.

I bought The Flower Kings Stardust We Are in 2005 or 2004 based on recommendations, and found it very tedious. Considering that that was considered  a great album with no songs that I found that good, thjat could be my choice for this topic.  I could also add Spocks Beard's Snow and early Transatlantic as I also bought albums by those at that time based on recommendations that did not appeal to me at all.  I was pretty careless with purchases then.

 

This is not on-topic in that it is not what the OP intended, but The Shaggs' Philosophy of the World could be considered a great album with no good songs.  It is considered to be a great album of the so-good it's bad variety (and it is said that Zappa called The Shaggs better than the Beatles) and they are all bad songs in terms of competence.  But I love every song and love the album unironically.  They were young and very new to playing, but had a big impact with this greatly bad and badly great album.  There's  a certain naive earnestness to it that makes it charming, and it does sound rather avant-garde in its primitivist incompetent way.  The lyrics are a treasure.  It's the album I consider greatest with the worst songs that comes to my mind.

Anyway I got very bored with TFK until they came back with Banks Of Eden. Roine had suddenly discovered the 'edit button' bless him. 

Yes, they're really good musicians. I love Thomas Bodin, he's a sensational keyboardist.