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Points: 4006 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 24 2010 at 03:06
Close To The Edge -> Tales From Topographic Oceans.
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Points: 1551 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 24 2010 at 02:40
What about MARILLION going from  the painful ''Holidays in Eden'' to the masterful  ''Brave''?
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Points: 1217 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 24 2010 at 00:12
I'm going to have to disagree with you about The Final Cut. Without a doubt, it's my favorite Floyd album.
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Points: 1072 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 23 2010 at 23:53
BY THE LACK OF GOD... The Final Cut would be better than the Wall if only the Wall weren't the wall. Its Like Everest to K2.

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Points: 206 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 23 2010 at 23:52
I think that  a classic example is Genesis after Trick of the Tail. For me that album was on par with the gabriel era releases, its just to bad that they couldn't keep it going, if they at least stuck with the trick of the tail sound and tried different things that where still experimental and stuck with the interesting lyrics and concepts it would've been great.
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Points: 206 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 23 2010 at 23:41
Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

I just thought of poor old Metallica who releases the stinker 'St Anger' and then followed up with one of the most dynamic prog metal albums, the fantastic 'Death Magnetic'. Now theres a contrast.

Agree 100% on that, I was so glad that Death Magnetic was a return to form for them, it was just so much better than st. anger, reload, load, and the black album, best thing they've done in quit some time and it was great to hear a instrumental from them again to.
 
 
While we are at it - how do people feel anout ELPs followup to Love Beach?;  
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Points: 65760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 23 2010 at 23:23
I would say the opposite is more true with PF, but that's just my opinion.

Magma went from Merci (rated 2.52 here) to KA (4.47). I've not heard Merci, so I cannot judge it, but KA is the best Zeuhl album I've heard.


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Points: 14258 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 23 2010 at 23:12
I just thought of poor old Metallica who releases the stinker 'St Anger' and then followed up with one of the most dynamic prog metal albums, the fantastic 'Death Magnetic'. Now theres a contrast.
 
 
While we are at it - how do people feel anout ELPs followup to Love Beach?;  
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Points: 14258 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 23 2010 at 21:31
The idea just dawned on me from another thread that prog music is so personal that some albums may appear to be brilliant masterpieces and then the band's next release comes across as an absolute disaster. A case in point.
 
I can state that I consider Black Bonzo's 'Sound of the Apocalypse' a masterpiece, yet their latest followup release is a fizzer in my opinion, discarding everything that made the debut so great. 'Guillotine Drama' is abysmal in comparison to the SOTA which really stunned me for both musicianship and conceptual songwriting. See my reviews on these for further details if you like.
 
So there you have their descent from the best to worst.
 
 
 
Another case in point. When Pink Floyd released 'The Wall' I thought I had heard quite possibly the greatest piece of music in history, and then 'The Final Cut' was released. TFC is simply apalling and showed how a band can go from the peak of the mountain to the abyss.  
 
 
So what albums by an artist can you name where they went from brilliant to the pits on subsequent releases. or you may like to vent your opinion on artists that went the opposite direction; from an apalling album to an absolute masterpiece on their next release. I look forward to the responses.
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