What is the worst album you've heard - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Catcher10 wrote:

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* VdGG~Grounding In Numbers, why even step in the studio?

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Agreed (and boy, do I love VDGG Cry

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Edited by Quinino - November 05 2018 at 05:06

verslibre wrote:

Atavachron wrote:

verslibre wrote:

Fischman wrote:

The Asia debut is fine if you dont expect it to sound like a Yes or KC spinoff...but they did get even less inspired with each subsequent album. But to lump them in with Journey and Survivor? That's just uncalled for.

If only you knew how many crazy Journey fans there are out there who would say it's outrageous to "lump" their favorite band in with Asia, Survivor, Foreigner, etc.! (And I like the first few albums by Foreigner a lot.)

And they'd be right. Journey was a great band. Survivor, Foreigner, Asia, might as well throw in Loverboy, not nearly in the same league.

Yes, "was." But they're not referring to albums like Journey and Look Into The Future. Most "Journeyfans" focus on the Perry era. And Journey had voluntarily begun the shift to AOR before Perry joined. The evidence is right there on Next, their third record.

As for Foreigner, have a listen to the very first album. Easily a few notches above those other bands you "lumped" them in with.

I'm talking about Perry era. The first few albums were fine for their time but Perry-era Journey offered hard pop-rock some quality songwriting, highly professional standards, and great musicianship (Neal Schon? Are you kidding? One of the best all-around rock guitarists in the business).

Great songwriting band, both early or later periods.

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Squonk19 wrote:

Arc - Neil Young. Played once - never again!

not made to be listened to more than once, but it isn't bad... Of course Weld is much better.

Hrychu wrote:

Worst album?
Prog - Rael - Mascaras Urbanas

just a clone album... hardly the worst in that clone-prog genre.

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

SteveG wrote:

Tull: Under Wraps. I never got past side 1.

I never heard it but catfish rising was pretty bad. Just boring songs. Zzzzzzzzz.

Boring doesn't mean bad... UW is offensive to the ears, though.

I'd say Close Your Ears from No... difficult to do worse after the two KTA and Keystudio.

Also Gilmour's worst solo AMLOR (it's not a Floyd album Wright & Mason almost don't play on it)

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

^Have you guys not heard the first three Journey albums(pre Steve Perry)?

I think they meant the Rollie & Dunbar-less and Perry-added Journey

BTW, Next is not good (only three tracks are OK) and even LitF is relatively average... it's only down to the great debut album for me.

YESESIS wrote:

*Puts on some solo Collins curls up on floor with thumb in mouth and starts gently rocking*

Phil killed un-prog music too

siLLy puPPy wrote:

Agitation Free - 2nd

Genesis - From Gensis To Revelation

you're kidding for AF's 2nd, right??

It's their best of the three (and not just IMHO)

As for FGTR, it's only the shadow of they would become, but it's not half-bad as its reputation is.... Much inspired on early Family, early Traffic and early Bee Gees.

Edited by Sean Trane - November 06 2018 at 02:13

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

SteveG wrote:

^ yeah Journey was a great band before they went sicky sweet commercial. After that I put them in the same pile with Asia, Styx, Survivor, etc., etc. On the bottom.

Ok, so in your opinion with which album did they stop being a great band?

After the first three albums.

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Quinino wrote:

Catcher10 wrote:

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* VdGG~Grounding In Numbers, why even step in the studio?

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Agreed (and boy, do I love VDGG Cry

)

Disagreed

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Jethro Tull - Warchild

Rush - Roll the Bones

siLLy puPPy wrote:

Sean Trane wrote:

Phil killed un-prog music too

siLLy puPPy wrote:

Agitation Free - 2nd

Genesis - From Gensis To Revelation

you're kidding for AF's 2nd, right??

It's their best of the three (and not just IMHO)

As for FGTR, it's only the shadow of they would become, but it's not half-bad as its reputation is.... Much inspired on early Family, early Traffic and early Bee Gees.

For me, those are two of the most boring albums ever. True musical torture!

Yeah I too thought 2nd was a weird album to consider "worst" - and like torture? To my ears it beautifully melodic only occasionally krauty jazzrock-fusion. One of my favorite "guitar-albums" actually.

-and yes I quite like FGtR as well, but I love the gentle late 60's psychpop of the Bee Gees, the Moodies etc...

rogerthat wrote:

Renaissance - Timeline. Horrible production, terrible songs, totally disinterested Annie, and then THAT cover.

After the cover for Camera Camera I thought it was an improvement!

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moshkito wrote:

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Saperlipopette! wrote:

Acqua Fragile - Mass-Media Stars (a constipated Peter Gabriel - no thanks)

Hm..I haven't listened to this for a long time, but I remember liking it.

I'm not sure that the album was actually listened to. Both AF albums are very good, and the sad thought of the year was when PFM took this very good singer for their lead, and then they forgot all the far out stuff they used to do vocally, by using one main vocalist. It killed AF, but their two albums are very satisfying.

Yes well I can't stand them and actually think he ruined PFM when he joined them.

moshkito wrote:

IF, btw, all you can hear is a constipated PG, I will state that you did not hear the album or bother listening to it at all. In fact, you will find that they were on at the same time as GENESIS, and it would not qualify as a copy, or constipated.

I don't care what you state - or that they operated at the same time. I never said they didn't. I didn't write he was a copycat but made a comparison/assosiation (and as you yourself mention Roger Chapman's similarly constipated vocals you've obviously understood what I meant by it). I listened more than enough and the vocals gets in the way of anything potentially attractive about them. Like so many vocalists do in different ways imo.

moshkito wrote:

AND, there are many other singers that are "constipated" and not many folks have said anything or that anyone copied them ... Joe Cocker, Roger Chapman, and many others,

Yeah - all kinda horrible. Next!

moshkito wrote:

BTW, I don't knopw why you would bother listening to something that you have been told is "bad/worst" ... you don't know how to define and make up your mind, do you? You need to be told?

Jeez...nobody told me anything. I made my mind up all by myself. Now leave me alone.

richardh wrote:

Triumvirat - Spartacus ( just a mess to me . I am really sorry Doug! I do like the first 2 Rat albums though)

Are you sure you don't mean Russian Roulette? LOL

richardh wrote:

Tangerine Dream - Zeit (sorry again but I really hate very early TD)

Even if you hate early TD, Zeit can't be the worst thing they ever did. For that, look at one of any number of albums they issued in the '90s! (I always talk about TD in the past tense now because, like Yes, there are no original members).

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richardh wrote:

Eloy - Ra (there are many 80's horrors in general and this is one of them!)

Good call!

Tangerine Dream - Zeit (sorry again but I really hate very early TD)

Now that's a five star masterpiece... tastes! Tongue