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Points: 10063 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 23 2007 at 10:29
Originally posted by Darklord55 Darklord55 wrote:

Neal Morse-Testimony.  This is the first and last I tried since his changeover.  Imho most of the lyrics and music remind me of the happy, clappy, sappy praise songs that seem to be popular at the moment.   In my opinion this type of music/lyrics lowers The Almighty to the status of a locker room buddy.  It baffles me that Morse gets such glowing reviews here.  Shocked

Love the album to bits. Did not even think that he demoted God on that one. Great album I say.Smile

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Points: 20345 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 23 2007 at 10:34
Originally posted by Majestic_Mayhem Majestic_Mayhem wrote:

   In my opinion this type of music/lyrics lowers The Almighty to the status of a locker room buddy.
 
no offense intended, but that is exactly the argument my Mum uses against any religious music which was written post 1830... (except she's never used the expression 'locker-room' or 'buddy' to my knowledge....Ermm
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Points: 7606 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 23 2007 at 10:36
Well, the worst albums are the ones you expected to be good, but turned out to be TERRIBLE, so going by those guidelines, the worst prog album I've ever heard has to have been "Awake" by Dream Theater, since the band was the main subject of conversation here last year; I stole the album and it turned out to be contrived, gesticulating, overwrought, pseudo-macho nonsense with the least sense of musical delicacy ever put to album. not exactly what I hoped for ;P
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Points: 31644 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 23 2007 at 10:43
^ my favorite DT..Cry
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Points: 7606 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 23 2007 at 10:47
sorry =P at least we agree on the avant-garde
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Ummagumma by Pink Floyd.  I know some people really love it, but I think it's nonsense with no direction.  
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Points: 4702 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 23 2007 at 12:23
I (legally) sample albums before buying them, so if a piece sounds castrated, I usually don't listen to the whole album.

Examples of one-balled (not wholly castrated ) and yet highly popular albums include CDs from Genesis, Dream Theater, Magma, Yes, Riverside, Gong etc.
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Points: 15585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 23 2007 at 14:09
Originally posted by YesFan72 YesFan72 wrote:

I suppose just to know what albums people really hated, and see if they happen to be ones that are overrated.
 
Sorry, it wasn't a dig at you so much as the generally uninteresting responses.Wink
 
It's a pet bug of mine that negative threads should at least be usefully negative.
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Originally posted by Bj-1 Bj-1 wrote:

^ my favorite DT..Cry
 
mine too....Shocked...5 stars....Confused
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Probably these:

1%20stars ACQUA FRAGILE - Acqua Fragile
1%20stars ACQUA FRAGILE - Mass Media Star
1%20stars DEVIL DOLL - The Girl who Was... Death
1%20stars GENTLE GIANT - Giant For A Day
1%20stars DREAM THEATER - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
1%20stars DREAM THEATER - Octavarium
1%20stars NEW TROLLS - Concerto Grosso Per I New Trolls
1%20stars NEW TROLLS - UT
1%20stars NEW TROLLS - Searching For A Land
1%20stars NEW TROLLS - Concerto Grosso N. II
1%20stars FORMULA 3 - Dies Irae (Formula 3)
1%20stars NEKTAR - Magic is a Child
1%20stars UNO - Uno
1%20stars TANGENT, THE - A Place In The Queue
1%20stars ENID, THE - Aerie Faerie Nonsense
1%20stars JUMBO - DNA
1%20stars SUPERSISTER - Spiral Staircase
1%20stars COMUS - To Keep From Crying
1%20stars BUON VECCHIO CHARLIE - Buon Vecchio Charlie
1%20stars HORSLIPS - Book of Invasions: A Celtic Symphony
 
 + ELP: Brain Salad Surgery.

Removed Queensryche because they shouldn't be in the archives in the first place.
Over land and under ashes
In the sunlight, see - it flashes
Find a fly and eat his eye
But don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
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Where are all of the Love Beach haters????
 
I'm going with Rock 'n Roll Prophet by the mighty Rick Wakeman here.  Probably the closest thing I've ever heard to a vinyl disc with absolutely no redeeming features.
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Points: 37240 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 23 2007 at 20:48
Don't know about worst, some of the really bad ones I forget, but there is one by a modern stuporgroup that I found anything but super.
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Points: 1170 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 23 2007 at 22:03
Originally posted by Rocktopus Rocktopus wrote:


1%20stars DEVIL DOLL - The Girl who Was... Death


Excellent album, but this band is the polar opposite of accessible or easily-digested in just about every area.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 25 2007 at 12:34
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except for owner of a lonely heart. everything else was really bad.
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Points: 28057 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 25 2007 at 18:32
Sinister Street - Eve of Innocence.

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Points: 2755 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 25 2007 at 20:50
Originally posted by jwxlite jwxlite wrote:

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except for owner of a lonely heart. everything else was really bad.
 
It's not that bad.   I find Changes and the last three tracks listenable (although Hearts just barely makes it.)  Owner on the other hand makes me want to reach for a shotgun....
 
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Points: 28057 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 25 2007 at 20:55
I don't get it...my favorite song on 90125 is Owner of a Lonely Heart. Definitely one of the best mainstream hits of the 80s and a real class act song. Big%20smile
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Points: 2755 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2007 at 01:19
Everybody has different tastes, of course.   I will admit that the production on Owner is impressive, but once I got used to all of the bells and whistles that horn threw in, I realized that there isn't much else to the song except for an ok Rabin solo.  Our Song is my favorite off that album.
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Points: 10094 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2007 at 01:29
I dunno probably some avantgarde album AHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHHAHAHA







just kidding



in actuality, Scarsick's second half was pretty brutal (the first half was hysterical though...not sure this was intended though). Most DISAPPOINTING would have to be Deadsoul Tribe's "The January Tree" had such high reviews here, and it came off as nothing more to me than derivative, derivative, derivative. And I enjoy Neal Morse Wink LOL


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Points: 25210 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2007 at 01:33
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