Worst album by our favourite Bands.

I may be resurrecting an old thread,but what do we think are the worst, most embarrassing albums by the top Prog bands.

I would like to start off with Tormato by Yes.

Given that this album was recorded by the full established band line-up it is appalling. Even "Dont Kill The Whale" cant save it from being an all-time turkey!

I'm a Floydian myself. Cannot think of anything crappy by Pink Floyd... but, in that stream, despite it ain't a studio album entirely, "Works". The worst compilation album by them...

Then, the never-ending story... "90125" by Yes, "Love Beach", ELP... hmmm "Invisible Touch", "Abacab", "The way we walk - The Shorts and The Longs" by Genesis... "Radiation", "Fall Out", "Anoraknophobia"... etc, MARILLION. Lemme see... hmm "Images and Words", DT...

when I think of more, I'l come back here and update my list

edit:

Oh yes! and "Volle Molle" (live recording) and "Illegal" by Grobschnitt

GENTLE GIANT - Giant for a Day (except for the two acoustic ballads) ; Civilian (75 % of it)

GENESIS - Abacab (except for Man in the Corner) ; Genesis (75 % of it) ; Invisible Touch (except for The Brazilian) ; Calling All Stations (a pity, since the vocalist's voice is awesome)

MARILLION - Radiation ; marillion.com   (IQ also had their unabashed pop era, yet their two albums from that time still contained some prog real gems, and the performnces were always energetic and ballsy, anyway)

ELP - Love Beach (I like For You, and most piano parts in the Gentleman suite, but let's face it, it lacks so much of the ELP fire - it can only be enjoyed for sentimental reasons, not aesthetic ones) ; In the Hot Seat

YES - Big Generator (75 % of it) ; Union (85 % of it) ; Open Your Eyes (except for The Balcony)

JETHRO TULL - Under Wraps

PINK FLOYD - The Final Cut (85 % of it)

No embarrassments from IQ, DREAM THEATER, KING CRIMSON, or VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR, just relative disappointments.

threefates wrote: As a Floydian, Land ( Floyd being my second favorite band).. you're gonna get a kick out of this....hehehe http://www.rogerwatersonline.com/comf_numb_version.mp3

A stabbing pain just struck on my chest like a lightning...  all I can think of now is Bob Geldof wearing leather pants while twanging off a monster guitar from hell in between top 10 "Miss America swimsuit", bathing themselves in cheap champagne and a numbing screaming crowd claiming "choke, choke, choke!"  

I though I tossed and turned enough in bed the night I first listened (in my defense, by mistake) to the "Scissors Sisters" pseudo-dance version of "Comfortably Numb"... one of my favorite ballads by Floyd turned into shreds... dreadful. I thought it'll be over after this crappy band covering "Another brick in the wall, pt.2" for "The Faculty" movie (booo)... but no. It had to be this way.  

Please Lord, gimme a sign if I should forgive the others trying to measure up to Floooooyd!!! Just a sign, a thunder, a flood, a non-alcohol beer... anything!!!

ELP - In The Hot Seat

Genesis - Abacab

Yes - 90125

James Lee wrote: I'm not a big fan of anything Floyd did after "Wish you were Here" but then again I can't totally call them bad albums. I think there was mostly junk on "Obscure by Clouds", though, and I can't let them off on the soundtrack loophole because "More" was mostly a pretty decent album.

Don't you like "Animals" then? My fave, though this may be for personal nostalgia reasons. Definitely my fave floyd sleeve. Battersea power station, talk about "Dark satanic mills"! (this may be an English thing!) 

http://bps.fika.org/

emdiar wrote: Don't you like "Animals" then? My fave, though this may be for personal nostalgia reasons. Definitely my fave floyd sleeve. Battersea power station, talk about "Dark satanic mills"! (this may be an English thing!)  http://bps.fika.org/

Since Animals is my favorite PF album.. I love that Battersea cover.. I took my own beautiful Battersea shot last year... its still a "dark satanic mill"! But I undersand they are going to turn it into a museum...