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Points: 31 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 06 2016 at 14:39
Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Let's see. I find these to be the most overrated:

1  Karn Evil 9 - I was forced to listen to it once. The longest half an hour so far in my life. 
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... nothing comes close, not even more ELP

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im with you here, I think KE9 is overrated as a tune and ELP as a whole, I just  don't get the attraction to this band I mean the musicians are good I just find the music tedious and soulless I don't even like lakes singing with KC and I'm a fan!
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Originally posted by EddieRUKiddingVarese EddieRUKiddingVarese wrote:

Originally posted by progbethyname progbethyname wrote:

Originally posted by EddieRUKiddingVarese EddieRUKiddingVarese wrote:

Anything by Genesis or Moody Blues



Trying to stir the pot are you?
Sorry but Genesis?
Eddie are you kidding! ?


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Dream Theater - infinite directionless "music" masturbation.
Camel - sorry, canīt get into it, Itīs just OK like hundreds of OK bands.
In the Court of Crimson King - Love KC, but donīt love this album, itīs just OK.




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Originally posted by Devoncir Devoncir wrote:

Dream Theater - infinite directionless "music" masturbation.


Thumbs Up LMAO - couldnīt have said it better 




Edited by Son.of.Tiresias - October 12 2016 at 12:22
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^ that's harsh Stern Smile
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- Yes' CTTE is an ugly patchwork of so-so songs that the musicians thought to make it better by sticking them together.
 - King Crimson can't even record ONE song. I mean, you can't seriously call their pieces of noise "songs"?
 - Jethro Tull was a mediocre blues band and, all of a sudden, they tried to write progressive songs. And they failed.
- ELP's best songs are on Pictures At An Exhibition.
 - Genesis? Don't hurt yourselves: go listen to the Beatles instead.
- VdGG don't produce songs: their tracks are nothing but the soundtrack to Hammill's owl vocals.
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Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

- Yes' CTTE is an ugly patchwork of so-so songs that the musicians thought to make it better by sticking them together.
 - King Crimson can't even record ONE song. I mean, you can't seriously call their pieces of noise "songs"?
 - Jethro Tull was a mediocre blues band and, all of a sudden, they tried to write progressive songs. And they failed.
- ELP's best songs are on Pictures At An Exhibition.
 - Genesis? Don't hurt yourselves: go listen to the Beatles instead.
- VdGG don't produce songs: their tracks are nothing but the soundtrack to Hammill's owl vocals.

I can understand someone feeling that way about 21st Century Schizoid Man or Larks' Tongues In Aspic, but I'm not sure how one could possibly conflate I Talk To The Wind, Cadence And Cascade, Lady of The Dancing Water, Song of The Gulls, Islands, Book of Saturdays or Exiles as noise...
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Originally posted by Magnum Vaeltaja Magnum Vaeltaja wrote:

Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

- Yes' CTTE is an ugly patchwork of so-so songs that the musicians thought to make it better by sticking them together.
 - King Crimson can't even record ONE song. I mean, you can't seriously call their pieces of noise "songs"?
 - Jethro Tull was a mediocre blues band and, all of a sudden, they tried to write progressive songs. And they failed.
- ELP's best songs are on Pictures At An Exhibition.
 - Genesis? Don't hurt yourselves: go listen to the Beatles instead.
- VdGG don't produce songs: their tracks are nothing but the soundtrack to Hammill's owl vocals.


I can understand someone feeling that way about 21st Century Schizoid Man or Larks' Tongues In Aspic, but I'm not sure how one could possibly conflate I Talk To The Wind, Cadence And Cascade, Lady of The Dancing Water, Song of The Gulls, Islands, Book of Saturdays or Exiles as noise...


Get him to listen to some musique concrete or japanoise and he'll be begging for the tight, focused songwriting of Moonchild or Providence
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Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

- Yes' CTTE is an ugly patchwork of so-so songs that the musicians thought to make it better by sticking them together.
 - King Crimson can't even record ONE song. I mean, you can't seriously call their pieces of noise "songs"?
 - Jethro Tull was a mediocre blues band and, all of a sudden, they tried to write progressive songs. And they failed.
- ELP's best songs are on Pictures At An Exhibition.
 - Genesis? Don't hurt yourselves: go listen to the Beatles instead.
- VdGG don't produce songs: their tracks are nothing but the soundtrack to Hammill's owl vocals.

Most is rubbish. Beatles are nursery GENESIS and "Moonchild" is all they could possibly dream of not only vocally. Greg Lake is one of the best vocalists in Rock. "Starless" and its crushing beauty is totally beyond their wildest dreams. Their stopped to perform for audiences already in 1966, I read. How stupid is that. They became a joke. And Martin Lancelot Barre can play the electric guitar and Ian Anderson plays both the acoustic guitar ans the flute brilliantly, he also sings well in his younger days (grin). Beatles never learned to play guitar solos, did they ?

CttE is very overrated, and I partly agree with that. My 7th or so fav Yes album btw.
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Wait, I have only begun! Stay tuned to read me complain about the songwriting of: Soft Machine; Caravan; Henry Cow; Mike Oldfield; Pink Floyd; Gentle Giant... Negativity has just started!
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Originally posted by doompaul doompaul wrote:

Golf Girl - Caravan

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Now appeared twice here already. 
Is there even anyone who takes this song seriously?
I think it's fun; that's probably as high a rating as it gets.

A very nice song, and brings very happy memories for me Heart. 
She was such a lovely girl, but how can I forget her...
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anything by Rush


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Points: 11612 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 13 2016 at 11:46
Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

Wait, I have only begun! Stay tuned to read me complain about the songwriting of: Soft Machine; Caravan; Henry Cow; Mike Oldfield; Pink Floyd; Gentle Giant... Negativity has just started!
As you've already written more than enough to both make a complete fool of yourself and made sure never to to be taken seriously again - there's really no need. 
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Points: 66256 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 13 2016 at 12:09
Anything in the Krautrock category.
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Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

Anything in the Krautrock category.

Krautrock and Rush really don't go along; you can either love one or the other


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I know some people may kill me for this...., but Camel is EXTREMELY BORING!, really, i can't get a count on how many times i tried to listen to the debut,Mirage, Snow Gnose and fall asleep, for me, the most interesting is the debut from these three.
And other thing, yeah, i really like Hemispheres, 2112, Moving Pictures and some of their early works, but for me, the best album by them is Permanent Waves, and yes, it's not so progressive like Hemispheres or Farewell to the Kings and it can even be a little chessy(everything turns chessy with Lee's singing, oh god, i hate this man voice), but musically, it's the one that i like the most.
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Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

Wait, I have only begun! Stay tuned to read me complain about the songwriting of: Soft Machine; Caravan; Henry Cow; Mike Oldfield; Pink Floyd; Gentle Giant... Negativity has just started!

So.... what prog groups do you actually like (given you're on a prog forum)? 
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Originally posted by mechanicalflattery mechanicalflattery wrote:

Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

Wait, I have only begun! Stay tuned to read me complain about the songwriting of: Soft Machine; Caravan; Henry Cow; Mike Oldfield; Pink Floyd; Gentle Giant... Negativity has just started!

So.... what prog groups do you actually like (given you're on a prog forum)? 


ABBA and the Bee Gees.

And ELO (who is superior to ELP).
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^ you're having so much fun trolling
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

^ you're having so much fun trolling


Actually, not so much.
In fact, I do that trolling thing only when I'm really, really angry, trigerred, irritated and ready to yell funny names to people writing "unpopular opinions" about "overrated songs".
For a few days, I've read some declarations which baffle me and make me wonder if the whole forum isn't polluted with trolls more subtle than I. Since I can't and don't feel like going berserk about musical tastes discussions, I try to shut my big mouth and not say depreciative answers filled with uncouth words. But, as I still need to release some steam before I explode, I try to do it by trolling (and in a really poor way).

Maybe I should show my true colours, but it would be the colours of a True Prog Fondamentalist saying to the forumites: "Thou shalt not speak bad about Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, ELP and the other Great Sacred Names of Progressive Rock or be ready to be stoned!"
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