Biggest Disappointments

Mindcrime II, Empire

Yes. Fragile. Too many ideas, not too many any good. I don't like the hardrock attempt that is South Side of the Sky, as Howe's playing/tone is not hard rock. I don't like the short jumbley track. I don't like the one made of loops of Anderson, his voice os OKAY with Yes, but on its own its annoying. I don't like the riprise of this filth on the end of Heart of the Sunrise either. I don't like Cans and Brahms either. Brahms was a genious, Wakeman is a prat, I mean, 5 layers of synths to reproduce orchestral music? thats poor.

Also, ELP, I've allready said this haven't I?

lightbulb_son wrote: Biggest disappointment has to be Octavarium After hearing so much good stuff about DT i bought this and have been regretting it ever since

When you did some research you must also have heared much bad stuff about the album ... so why did you ignore that?

Biggest Disappointments....happily there are few.....

GENESIS..."and then there were three..." -  very low point in genesis' development, though phil took the band to greater heights in later years.

DEEP PURPLE..."who do we think we are?" ...something very wrong going on here, internal conflicts show through. got to like this album later and purple got over their differences...!

SUPERTRAMP..."some things never change"... supertramp-by-numbers.

YES...  "tales from topographic oceans"  i agree with rick wakeman on this one..probably should have been mixed down to single lp.

PINK FLOYD... "the final cut" ... the final PF album for me until my faith was completely restored with "division bell".

HAWKIND..."alien 4"..alien bore if you ask me..!!

QUEEN.."hot space"..experiment by the band that went badly wrong.

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Biggest disappointments? Tool's career.

 

 

For me, absolutely nothing. I research albums to death before I buy them.

 

Stream of passion. Not up to Ayreon standards.

Come to think of it "Storms over still water" from Mostly Autumn was an even bigger
dissapointment compared to the very good albums which they made before this. They've
gone metal (slightly exaggerating here) and it's definitely not a success.

I also find "The end is beautiful" from Echolyn not as good as "Suffocating the bloom" and
"As the world". This is still a reasonably good album though.


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Yes-Open Your Eyes, released only a few months after the release of "Keys to Ascension II" which included much better and promising stuff.

I can accept bad albums of a good bands if that was made when they were novices (From Genesis to revelation, for instance)-- but I can't accept bad albums after they have matured.
A real disappointment comes from high expectations: my biggest disappointment was Genesis Abacab; then my expectations lowered about Genesis. From Yes, after Union I thought Yes is a goner for good.
Jethro Tull's Under Wraps is a height of disappointment. Horrible. New Wave!
All of Mike Oldfield's albums containing songs after 1981, minus Crisis & Wind chimes, are purely horrible.
Pink Floyd's Wall and post-wall albums are simply an ego-maniac's dark poetry. Little or no music there.
Rush went down the drain after Signals-- but not all of the post-signals songs are bad.

Definitely Asia's first album - I think it was THE prog disappointment, bar none. Then I'd mention Kate Bush's "The Red Shoes" (but what a masterpiece her latest is!), Marillion's "Misplaced Childhood" (bores me to tears) and probably many others.

Another extremely disappointing effort, though non-prog, is Metallica's famed "Black Album". It bores me even more than Marillion.... All the songs sound the same.