Top 10 Favorite Albums rated less than 3.00 on PA

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Edited by omphaloskepsis - Yesterday at 15:27

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Edited by Rexorcist - April 10 2025 at 21:54

I started a similar thread a while ago. I don't know whether I can come up with a definitive '10' for me, but I have a few... many good albums often tend to have been marked down, simply because they weren't 'prog' enough or perhaps too commercial, where on more mainstream sites, they would score a higher rating?
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Edited by Jared - Yesterday at 03:06

1. Alquin - Best Kept Secret (2.66)
2. David Gilmour - About Face (2.92)
3. Fish - Suits (2.90)
4. Genesis - s/t (2.79)
5. ELP - Works Vol. 1 (2.97)
6. Genesis - Invisible Touch (2.51)
7. Roger Waters & Ron Geesin - Music from The Body (2.80)
8. IQ - Nomzamo (2.84)
9. Roger Waters - Radio K.A.O.S. (2.96)
X. Gentle Giant - Civilian (2.78)

RUSH Test for Echo (2.89) - The next two albums I like less, rated better here on PA. 

Undoubtedly the 2 IQ albums, which I absolutely adore….

Cristi wrote: RUSH Test for Echo (2.89) - The next two albums I like less, rated better here on PA.  Oh well...

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Hi,

Emerson, Lake, Palmer- "Works Vol.1" (2.97)
Hawkwind- "It is the Business of the Future to be Dangerous" (2.87)
Vangelis - Beauborg (2.62)
Vangelis - See You Later (2.58)
Alquin - Best Kept Secret (2.66)
Roger Waters - Radio K.A.O.S. (2.96)
Anthony Phillips Private Parts & Pieces VII - Slow Waves, Soft Stars

A few comments, and some of the reasons why I do not rank/rate albums. The differences in feelings and thoughts is scary sometimes!

ELP did something that many folks thought could not be done, though I think they miught have done it because PF did it first, and many folks did not like it at all. Sad, because you get to know the artist a bit better on both situations, and that is always nice ... I can't see how a bunch of songs would make these albums better.

Hawkwind's IITBOTFTBD is an ambient album, following Electric Tepee which is also an ambient album, but a really hard rocking one, in the style of Space Ritual. This next album continues the ambient touch and it is much softer, and very nice. Only thing that makes this album kinda lose its quality is the addition of a Rolling Stone song, though it was something that Hawkwind had done for fans many times before ... but for me, it makes the quality and feeling of the album going downhill, and kinda meaningless! I guess it's all just a bunch of songs!!! Really poor decision in terms of defining what makes an album and what should be on it!

Vangelis ... there are some thoughts that Beauborg was something having to do with the record company ... not sure at all ... but while it feels odd and totally off the record, "no music", it is not a surprise, and kinda feels like an album to fill the spots somewhere ... but while it is not about "music" in that album, it is a far out album, if you learn to spin it faster or slower ... and get some really far out different sounds ... !!!!! See You Later, is a very nice album, but I think that folks wanted some more soundtrack like stuff, not a few songs, which would, more than likely, be a record company request to help with more sales!

Alquin's Best Kept Secret is an outstanding album, and adds to the previous couple of albums really well, and fit beautifully in the shows at the time, by Guy Guden ... that album got played and then some and eventually appreciated by some of the cats slumming in that station!

RW's Radio Kaos, is an album that doesn't really make sense, and seems screwed up, until you hear the story of what happened in LA and specially KMET, of which Jim Ladd had been a part of ... and the album, was probably making sure that we got to know what was going on ... sadly, we don't give a sh*t as sometimes we only want songs, that do not have a meaning that makes us feel guilty because we don't care! I have a funny idea that Jim Ladd was paid to never say anything about it ... because he stayed quiet about it all as far as I know! A really bad moment in the history of FM radio in America, and how corporate didn't give a damn about the music! And eventually led to the Great American FM Radio Rape a couple of years later!

AP ... one of the finest and that album was the soundtrack for a poem that I did for the Ygdrasil Journal of Poetic Arts, when I created an audio issue in 1999 and then redid it a few years ago. My tip of the hat and a large gracious thank you to AP for allowing me to use this piece of music ... I cried when I received the email letting me use it ... and I think he had seen, or possibly checked out the Ygdrasil Journal of Poetic Arts, a very progressive poetry group of folks, that did not care for limits and wrote some of the neatest things ever. (It has retired after 30 years, and being archived in the National Library of Canada!!!)


Edited by moshkito - 9 hours 18 minutes ago at 07:55