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Points: 1413 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2014 at 14:55
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CTTE - half of it is uninteresting
TAAB - no idea how one could listen to it more than twice
ITCOCK - half of it sounds like a demo tape by a no-composer, no-lyricist, no-singer band. Could have been of interest, had it come a few years before Sgt. Pepper.

All VdGG, summarily, is awful:)

Dream Theater, Rush and other heavy people that are often discussed and praised here despite having few or no prog credentials. Miles Davis is not prog either. 

Most of Italian prog is unoriginal

Most of Zeuhl and Krautrock registers with me as "low quality music"

The 2000's Porcupine Tree was great; Steven Wilson is not.

 
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99% of Dream Theater's music (despite being a huge Symphony X fan), and Dark Side of The Moon. It just never clicked with me.
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Hawkwind. Anything with Michael Moocock's influence. I love the Elric stories, but Hawkwind always sounded like punk rock thrashing to me. I can't digest them as Prog.

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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2014 at 07:56
Kahn and everything by Syd... also the Giles album, Trout Mask Replica...

Actually I don't really think there is a reason I should like any of those. Confused


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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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I don't like Close to the Edge and I am surprised so many prog heads like this album so much. This album is just playing the instruments in different signatures and tempos. Completely forgettable. 
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Points: 10970 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2014 at 05:34
Originally posted by Horizons Horizons wrote:

I thought this thread was about album you could like or should like?

Meaning there are things you typically look out for in their music but for some reason they don't click. If you find a band awful in all points then i guess it's shouldn't be on a list titled "An Album I Should Like, But Don't"
If that really was the case, I would have to add ... VdGG's Godbluff. I don't hate the album, but I don't really like it that much either. They don't sound as ballsy as they did in '70-'71. It just sounds like they are trying really hard to rock, to blow me away with something big, but there isn't such moment on that album. Ten minutes of "The Sleepwalkers" - not a single explosion.
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That's odd, it's completely the opposite for that album. Their previous stuff screamed AOR or that classic rock feel in a very American way. PotKR seemed a little more musically interesting and didn't scream radio rock. Dust in the Wind is an obvious hit but it still doesn't have that overly American feel. Plus it;s a great song regardless. 

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Originally posted by Horizons Horizons wrote:

I thought this thread was about album you could like or should like?

Meaning there are things you typically look out for in their music but for some reason they don't click. If you find a band awful in all points then i guess it's shouldn't be on a list titled "An Album I Should Like, But Don't"

That being the case, I should like Kansas, "Point of Know Return," but I do not.  The four albums they did before that one showed me that they could be an American progressive-style band to be reckoned with.  But, then, they gave in too much to the record-label's cry for "more hits, more hits," and put out the sadly disappointing PoKR...
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Meddle, Animals,Wish You Were Here, The Wall...all of em hav amazed me immensly...but somehow DSOTM didn't click.
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Anything by Curved Air. Also, the entire Hawkwind catalog.
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Originally posted by Meltdowner Meltdowner wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

There was a single disc version which chopped Part 3 down to 13 minutes (sacrilege!) but I guess that's not what you are looking for!

Have you tried the live version from Exposed? This is more or less an edited version.

I just finished listening to Exposed: I really liked it, he didn't over repeat at all, although I still found the sang parts annoying (I think it's the main reason why I don't like Incantations). The funky flute and drums Tubular Bells was also great. Thank you for the suggestion Smile

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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

There was a single disc version which chopped Part 3 down to 13 minutes (sacrilege!) but I guess that's not what you are looking for!

Have you tried the live version from Exposed? This is more or less an edited version.

I just finished listening to Exposed: I really liked it, he didn't over repeat at all, although I still found the sang parts annoying (I think it's the main reason why I don't like Incantations). The funky flute and drums Tubular Bells was also great. Thank you for the suggestion Smile
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Points: 10279 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 13 2014 at 17:09
Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by Meltdowner Meltdowner wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by Meltdowner Meltdowner wrote:

Originally posted by Xonty Xonty wrote:

Does anyone else have this, where a highly rated album by a band you really like ends up being bad?


Mike Oldfield - Incantations (the definition of repetition)

It was meant to be of course although you are perfectly entitled to not like it. It would be my MO desert album album pick. Part 3 is one of the best prog tracks I've heard save for the poor mixing of Pierre Moerlen's drums (they need to be much higher in the mix) but there are so many high points to make up for it.

I would certainly like it if it was compressed to one disc. I like some parts of it but he repeats them to the point of exhaustion.

There was a single disc version which chopped Part 3 down to 13 minutes (sacrilege!) but I guess that's not what you are looking for!

Have you tried the live version from Exposed? This is more or less an edited version.

I didn't know Exposed but by the track lenghts it seems more acceptable. I'll give it a try Smile


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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Btw Sagi, I received mail from you
It's at my folks' place, but I'll be leaving for it later today. I can't wait to check it out!
Would've dropped you a mail in here but it's too damn complicated over the phone. What we need is an app made for PA.

That's great! it actually took me so long to send it but I'm glad it arrived now.

I wonder what you'll make of it...

P.S - You owe 2.5 bucks LOL
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Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Dayvenkirq wrote:

Originally posted by Sagichim Sagichim wrote:

I love all the krautrock obscurities but for some reson can't click with the big names - Can, Ash Ra Tempel, Guru Guru, Faust etc. It's not that I don't like it, I do but I'm not blown away at all.
People love certain brands of the Krautrock sound for their own reasons. Popol Vuh? That's like (mostly) acoustic ambient to me, and I'm big on soft atmospheres. Faust? These guys just want to scream, but they scream on their instruments.

Why do you love specifically obscurities?

I don't really know, it's not the fact that they are obscure, it just turned out like this for some reason.
I had a problem getting into Popol Vuh as well but that's sorted out now. Hosianna Mantra (the only one I have) is beautiful.
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Btw Sagi, I received mail from you
It's at my folks' place, but I'll be leaving for it later today. I can't wait to check it out!
Would've dropped you a mail in here but it's too damn complicated over the phone. What we need is an app made for PA.
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Points: 10970 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 13 2014 at 06:33
Originally posted by Sagichim Sagichim wrote:

I love all the krautrock obscurities but for some reson can't click with the big names - Can, Ash Ra Tempel, Guru Guru, Faust etc. It's not that I don't like it, I do but I'm not blown away at all.
People love certain brands of the Krautrock sound for their own reasons. Popol Vuh? That's like (mostly) acoustic ambient to me, and I'm big on soft atmospheres. Faust? These guys just want to scream, but they scream on their instruments.

Why do you love specifically obscurities?


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^Hmmm...I don't think I heard those, but thanks I'll check it out Thumbs Up
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