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FunkyM

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Posted: December 12 2010 at 15:40

ferush wrote:

The Beatles and Rush don't have any bad album.

Maybe, but I'm not very fond of "Hold Your Fire".

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Posted: December 12 2010 at 15:44

FunkyM wrote:

ferush wrote:

The Beatles and Rush don't have any bad album.

Maybe, but I'm not very fond of "Hold Your Fire".

Funnily enough, that's the album that got me into Rush! Big smile

I like it.

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Posted: December 12 2010 at 15:56

I dunno, I tend to find a lot of the albums that are considered "bad" aren't as bad as people make them out to be. Even Love Beach isn't too bad IMO if you can get past some of the lyrics (seriously though, "Taste of My Love" sounds like lyrics for Spinal Tap).

That said, Yes' Open Your Eyes has to be a top contender.

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Posted: December 13 2010 at 10:02

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Posted: December 13 2010 at 18:25

We've had a couple of Kansas albums mentioned already (ignoring the 'all albums' post), but I really feel their most unlistenable effort was In the Spirit of Things. Ghosts, Rainmaker, and Bells of St. James are tolerable-to-decent, but the rest sounds much more hopelessly AOR than Power, which I actually enjoy. It's an album of huge, gorged, totally unlovely choruses.

I should state that I don't consider Drastic Measures to be a Kansas record. No Walsh + No Violin + barely any Livgren = not Kansas.

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Posted: December 15 2010 at 04:42

final cut by pink floyd

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Posted: December 17 2010 at 12:42

Without any doubt the worst prog album i ever got was the live crimson titled earthbound tough i love KC Thumbs Down

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Posted: December 17 2010 at 12:52

jean-marie wrote:

Without any doubt the worst prog album i ever got was the live crimson titled earthbound tough i love KC Thumbs Down

I like Earhtbound. Rough production but brilliant album.

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Posted: December 17 2010 at 12:54

chrijom wrote:

FunkyM wrote:

ferush wrote:

The Beatles and Rush don't have any bad album.

Maybe, but I'm not very fond of "Hold Your Fire".

Funnily enough, that's the album that got me into Rush! Big smile

I like it.

I love Hold Your Fire. But I have played it to death.

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Posted: March 19 2013 at 05:01

Can we turn all these suggestions into a poll?

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Posted: March 19 2013 at 05:03

Snow Dog wrote:

jean-marie wrote:

Without any doubt the worst prog album i ever got was the live crimson titled earthbound tough i love KC Thumbs Down

I like Earhtbound. Rough production but brilliant album.

You said it, man. Still rocks.

All those "worst" polls and threads make me wanna sh!t for some reason.

Edited by Dayvenkirq - March 19 2013 at 05:04

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Posted: March 19 2013 at 05:17

But they're a useful guide for 'what to avoid' - imagine the unsuspecting buyer finding a copy of "Love Beach" and thinking "well it's ELP, and there's a really long track on it - I'll buy it!"

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Posted: March 19 2013 at 05:31

^ That's not a very good way to think about the "sucking" albums, I think. Some people like crap. I like crap.

Edited by Dayvenkirq - March 19 2013 at 05:40

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Posted: March 19 2013 at 05:44

So do I, but hey...

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Posted: March 19 2013 at 06:33

Im not sure, but i remember listning to (part of) a very late effort by genesis, prob the last one.

Was not my cupa tea. So compared to how great Genesis was, its the worst effort from a major Prog band, i can come up with, and a little unfair, as i dont even know the whole album

Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours

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Posted: March 19 2013 at 10:10

Why a new poll? All releases are reviewed on this site (some to ad nauseum proportions). Generally, there seems to be a consensus reached on most.

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Posted: March 19 2013 at 22:37

Yes-90125

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Posted: July 07 2013 at 22:39

The worst in my opinion

Yes - Everything from the 80's on

Genesis - Everything after Peter Gabriel left

Rush - Vapor Trails, Roll the Bones, and Test for Echo

ELP - Love Beach eww.....

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Posted: July 07 2013 at 23:02

presdoug wrote:

Triumvirat's last album Russian Roullette is not only their worst,but one of the worst albums by anybody

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Posted: July 08 2013 at 00:07

FunkyM wrote:

That said, Yes' Open Your Eyes has to be a top contender.

I always refer to it as:

Ye$ : Open Your Wallets

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