Great albums with no good songs - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Some albums are considered super mega ultra masterpieces even though they don't really have any good musical content and their warm reviews are usually influenced by how legendary or iconic they are. Here's a couple of my picks:

Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air
Tangerine Dream - Rubycon
Can - Tago Mago
Univers Zero - Uzed
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica

Edited by Hrychu - July 09 2024 at 19:43

“On the day of my creation, I fell in love with education. And overcoming all frustration, a teacher I became.”
— Ernest Vong

verslibre wrote:

Rubycon is a masterpiece and one of Tangerine Dream's finest works. It's just not for you.

The whole point of this thread is to list the "masterpiece" status albums that aren't for you. If you do love Rubycon, then by listing it here, you're not really contributing to the topic. ;)

“On the day of my creation, I fell in love with education. And overcoming all frustration, a teacher I became.”
— Ernest Vong

Hrychu wrote:

Some albums are considered super mega ultra masterpieces even though they don't really have any good musical content

This is a contradiction. If an album is great, then by its very definition it must contain good songs..

Hrychu wrote:

The whole point of this thread is to list the "masterpiece" status albums that aren't for you.

Then maybe you should rename the thread to "Albums that are considered masterpieces, but you don't like" or something like that. The current name now leads to confusion.

Edited by Junges - July 10 2024 at 01:49

Junges wrote:

Then maybe you should rename the thread to "Albums that are considered masterpieces, but you don't like" or something like that. The current name now leads to confusion.

No. That'd ruin the joke. The thred title is a spoof of "Crappy albums with one great song".

“On the day of my creation, I fell in love with education. And overcoming all frustration, a teacher I became.”
— Ernest Vong

Steven Wilson - Hand.Cannot.Erase.

More like "ears.cannot.stand", or any SW for that matter, no matter how many listens.

Welcome to the middle of the film.

Hrychu wrote:

verslibre wrote:

Rubycon is a masterpiece and one of Tangerine Dream's finest works. It's just not for you.

The whole point of this thread is to list the "masterpiece" status albums that aren't for you. If you do love Rubycon, then by listing it here, you're not really contributing to the topic. ;)

Your topic is not rightly named (as someone suggested), but also, you speak of "songs", about albums that really don't contain any:

"Songs" imply that there are sung vocals - which disqualifies instrumental music pieces (which can be called "tracks", "numbers" or "pieces").

Awesoreno wrote:

Most of the Tangerine Dream I have heard makes me feel similarly. It's certainly stimulating to me from an historical perspective, but I don't think I'm in a place in my life where I can really fully appreciate albums like Zeit, Phaedra, Rubycon, etc. Maybe Ricochet, I'll have to re-listen.

You listed two very different phases of TD Zeit is very different from Ruvbycon & Phaedra.

I can totally understand where the beatless Zeit can be boring and quite unsettling, but once the sequencers appear in Tangerine's creation, it becomes very different

yes, start with Ricochet for a reassessment (it's the most Floydian of their albums)

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

"Songs" imply that there are sung vocals - which disqualifies instrumental music pieces (which can be called "tracks", "numbers" or "pieces").

I think you're being overly pedantic. I've heard numerous native English speakers refer to any complete recorded piece of music as a "song".

Also, any Flower Kings album.

I see where you're coming from. TFK's style is pretty polarizing. Plus, Roine's lyrics can sometimes get on your nerves if you expect them to make sense.

Edited by Hrychu - July 10 2024 at 06:11

“On the day of my creation, I fell in love with education. And overcoming all frustration, a teacher I became.”
— Ernest Vong

moshkito wrote:

Junges wrote:

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This is a contradiction. If an album is great, then by its very definition it must contain good songs..

...

Hi,

Hmmmm ... what if the album is NOT about songs? I have never, once in 50 years, thought of TD or Klaus Schulze as "songs".

I think it was pretty clear that the thread's author meant tracks, compositions or whatever-word-makes you-happy when he wrote "songs". He even wrote "any musical content". So I don't understand the need to be pedantic, when it is pretty clear what he meant..

The corporate stadium rock version of Pink Floyd. Although often highly rated on this site, I find most of what Floyd did after Dark Side to be boring and tedious. I do love their early music though.

Hrychu wrote:

Junges wrote:

Then maybe you should rename the thread to "Albums that are considered masterpieces, but you don't like" or something like that. The current name now leads to confusion.

No. That'd ruin the joke. The thred title is a spoof of "Crappy albums with one great song".

If the thread title's a spoof, you have to roll with it.

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