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What's your least favorite album from giants?
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No you're not the only one. I also think it's plain brilliant. This is Rogers soul laid bare. His most powerful lyrics ever. And Michael Kamen's orchestration is spot on. A dark album I agree, but plenty food for thought on it.
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Under Wraps from the list.
The Single Factor is Camel's weakest album indeed, but I don't think it's a bad album.

In the Hot Seat by ELP comes to mind
last album of Yes (what a disappointment that was for me)
Invisible Touch is much worse than Abacab
Beat by KC is not bad at all

The Wedge by Pallas, un-listenable for me




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I loved Test For Echo and Abacab so that's off the list. I always thought that Stationary Traveller was much worse than Single Factor. Under Wraps was pretty bad but it wasn't terrible. The Yes and Crimso albums are fine. That leaves TFC which I voted for just because of the perfection of their past 11 albums.
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Genesis – Abacab

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Yes - 90125


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Jethro Tull - Under Wraps
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I don't know all the albums from this list, but it seems to me that this shows just how great Pink Floyd is/was. I would actually consider The Final Cut a good album... even if it's not even close te being among my favourites from them. At least Big Generator and Abacab are indeed some really weak albums, the other ones I don't know, but for their reputation, I guess I wouldn't like Under Wraps much more, Beat I believe might be somewhat good though (it's King Crimson, after all), and Test for Echo I have no idea.
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Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

No vote. I am not familiar with most of these albums.
I have no problems with The Final Cut. Abacab is mediocre, but it has a few good songs.
Jethro Tull's Warchild and Rush's Roll the Bones are two albums that I would give a one star rating. In the case of Rush, it was reason enough for me to avoid their albums until Snakes and Arrows.
I just love Warchild - some great tunes. But we are all diffrent, and that not a bad thing.  
 
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Yes – Big Generator
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Abacab is a very good album - better than the three subsequent Genesis albums anyway. The Final Cut is a great album - better than some of Floyd's earlier albums (Ummagumma for instance) and better than the Division Bell. Test for Echo is a strong album. Rush have never released a bad album. Camel have produced a few great albums but compared to the other bans on this list they are quite mediocre. The Single Factor is no more mediocre than many of their other albums. However, Under Wraps is a real stinker with no redeeming features. It is tuneless, bland, horribly produced and tedious.
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Out of these I've heard, The Final Cut. I actually really like Test for Echo, never understood the hate. 
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Left out Love Beach???
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^It would've skewed the results. At least we have a close race right now.
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Floyd's The Endless River.
Yes' Heaven and Earth.
Moody Blues' Octave.
Genesis' Calling All Stations.
Tull's Under Wraps.
ELP's In The Hot Seat.
Rush's Test For Echo.
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All wretchedly bad. Crimson's Beat is their weakest, but miles ahead compared to the worst of the other former giants. I agree that Camel should not be included.
 
I think a more interesting idea would be to ask which of these former supergroups has the biggest drop-off in quality comparing their best to their worst (and which personnel are to blame!)
 
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You think Heaven and Earth is worse than Open Your Eyes? I think not.^^^^
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^Open Your Eyes starts off with what I think is a most underrated "New State of Mind", an enjoyable title track, and a serviceable "Universal Garden" before going off the rails.
 
Heaven and Earth has only Subway Walls, which overstays its welcome after the pretty much unmitigated dreck preceding it.
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^I like Heaven and Earth More than Open Your Eyes and Test For Echo is a long way from being Rush worst album which for me would be Presto or Hold You Fire ( However Rush are one of the most consistent bands in rock/prog history , not many real down moments). I agree with the ELP and Genesis ones though. A couple of truly unlistenable albums if ever there were ( and the joke was they were supposed to be commercial radio friendly stuff).
ELP's Love Beach has been the source of some good discussion recently. For me it has about 60% decent material and the rest could be binned ( A Taste Of My Love , Canario and the last half of Memoirs) . It could have been a decent commercial radio friendly prog album in the same vein as Duke but didn't quite make it.
 
Biggest drop off in quality. Many would say ELP yet many will say ELP were not that good in the first place. However to go from Brain Salad Surgery (1973) to Love Beach ( 1978) is a bit sad to say the least so I guess ELP are the ones to win this 'award' and perhaps dear Greg and his mate Pete should be lead to the gallows!
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:


ELP's Love Beach has been the source of some good discussion recently. For me it has about 60% decent material and the rest could be binned ( A Taste Of My Love , Canario and the last half of Memoirs) . It could have been a decent commercial radio friendly prog album in the same vein as Duke but didn't quite make it.
 


I agree about Love Beach being a precipitous drop from Brain Salad Surgery, but actually like the three tracks you singled out for culling. The March at the end of Memoirs is good and would have been great if the sound had been beefed up IMHO, the undercooked production being one of the main problems with Love Beach. I would list the other problems but don't have all day. Canario is an excellent track and Taste of My Love should be retained for its (unintentional) comedy value. All I Want is You is the one I 'd definitely drop, a thoroughly undistinguished slice of AOR. Remember my heart slumping when I saw them do this on Top of the Pops.
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

^I like Heaven and Earth More than Open Your Eyes and Test For Echo is a long way from being Rush worst album which for me would be Presto or Hold You Fire ( However Rush are one of the most consistent bands in rock/prog history , not many real down moments). I agree with the ELP and Genesis ones though. A couple of truly unlistenable albums if ever there were ( and the joke was they were supposed to be commercial radio friendly stuff).
ELP's Love Beach has been the source of some good discussion recently. For me it has about 60% decent material and the rest could be binned ( A Taste Of My Love , Canario and the last half of Memoirs) . It could have been a decent commercial radio friendly prog album in the same vein as Duke but didn't quite make it.
 
Biggest drop off in quality. Many would say ELP yet many will say ELP were not that good in the first place. However to go from Brain Salad Surgery (1973) to Love Beach ( 1978) is a bit sad to say the least so I guess ELP are the ones to win this 'award' and perhaps dear Greg and his mate Pete should be lead to the gallows!
 
We'll agree to disagree about Yes' and Rush's worst respective efforts, agreeing that all mentioned are sub-par.
 
Love Beach continues to garner interest in the same way an auto pile-up does. It was never going to be good, but there was promise of less-than-awful in a couple of places. Perhaps "Memoirs" could've amounted to something with another co-writer.
 
I agree that ELP takes the cake on plummeting quality, although Yes from Fly From Here to Heaven and Earth is close, as are the Moodies from Seventh Sojourn to Octave.
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Big Generator by far.
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I'm gonna go ahead and say Nursery Cryme. 

Besides the opener and closer, the album is a dud. 
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