Lowest Rated Album On This Site?
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Topic: Lowest Rated Album On This Site?
Posted By: SuperMetro
Subject: Lowest Rated Album On This Site?
Date Posted: October 22 2021 at 10:34
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Hey guys, I was wondering to know what album could be the lowest rated here. My ideas: ~Collectors/Fans Only~ *Genesis Calling All Stations 2.48 with 1064 ratings *Genesis Invisible Touch 2.49 with 1366 ratings *ELP Love Beach 2.10 with 722 ratings *ELP In The Hot Seat with 419 ratings ~Poor, Only For Completionists~ Le Orme's Orme 1.48 with 55 ratings Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso ...E Via 1.26 with 58 ratings Triumvirat's Russion Roulette 1.47 with 90 ratings Wakeman's Rock N' Roll Prophet 1.45 with 49 ratings. I wonder if there are any in those sections with x>1000 ratings with 2 or 1 stars. Probably not since people would rather hear albums with good reviews. Critics would watch the terrible movies or albums so mainstreamers do not have to suffer from them.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: October 22 2021 at 10:41
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we need a lowest rated top 100, all albums rated 1star-2 stars. I bet I even like a few of them.
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Posted By: nick_h_nz
Date Posted: October 22 2021 at 11:16
Yeah, I would love to see that. I would find it just as interesting as a top 100, and likely find a few albums I like. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and all…. ------------- https://tinyurl.com/nickhnz-tpa" rel="nofollow - Reviewer for The Progressive Aspect |
Cristi wrote:Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: October 22 2021 at 11:35
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prog archives loves to hate Tomar Maxt - The Problem Of Pain: Part 1 1.57 - 39 ratings with numerous reviews
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Posted By: SuperMetro
Date Posted: October 22 2021 at 11:45
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This album looks like a laugh, maybe a cry. http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=1810 It is Banco's E...Via. Never heard it, but it looks like this album is filled with hate and the imprisonment of creative minds into the grasp of commercialism. Other albums might include: Camel: ICSYHFH(Although Ice is badass. Not that terrible, but still is) and The Single Factor(Not that bad, actually sort of like it) Caravan: The Album Genesis: Invisible Touch ELP: Love Beach PFM: Miss. Baker Le Orme: Orme.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 22 2021 at 12:21
If they're the lowest-rated albums, then I've already found an album I Love, especially when I'm on the Beach.
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Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: October 22 2021 at 13:23
It's Torman Maxt, and yea we don't bring that band up around here, at least not to those of us that were around when that thread went viral here -------------   
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: October 22 2021 at 13:35
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Sad to see Camel: ICSYHFH mentioned here, it's not a bad album at all IMO and it's not even low rated here on PA - 2.92.
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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: October 22 2021 at 14:48
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The question isn't albums that we find weak but the lowest rated. That's a quite clear question and surely no album rated higher than 2.00 qualifies even remotely. The lowest one listed in the thread up to now apparently has 1.26. Stern Meissen - Taufrisch has 1.15 with 13 ratings, although we might say it must have 50 ratings at least (there are numerous albums with one rating rated 1.00 for sure). Please from now on only post albums below 1.26 with more then 50 ratings, or lower than 1.15 if you're happy to go for fewer ratings!   |
Posted By: SuperMetro
Date Posted: October 22 2021 at 16:32
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So the lowest rated album listed on my thread is currently E...Via by Banco. Such ugly album art. Lets see if anybody can top. Or shall I say bottom that album.
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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: October 22 2021 at 17:01
| I normally don't pay attention to the ratings. If I like an album, I'll buy it and listen to it, no matter how good or bad the ratings are. |
Posted By: SuperMetro
Date Posted: October 22 2021 at 17:36
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It appears that when I look up the term, "poor, only for completionists", I get only a few albums. I guess E... Via is the worst reviewed. The highest rated album tells us that it gets up and down, but not on the board is does not. Lowest Rated: E...Via by "Banco" Banco released an eponymous album, Darwin, Io Sono Nato Libero, and Come In Un'Ultima Cena. "Banco" released Urgentissimo, Buone Notizie, another eponymous album, ...EVIA!!!, Donna Plautila, and others. It is so sad how some people really get into a band, but then learn that they have heard all of the good stuff and the remaining stuff to hear is either meh or crap. Banco seems to be one of those bands where you should listen to the top albums and then just hear those whenever you feel like it. I mean, perhaps the one with the tomato and Canto i Primavera are listenable ones. Their newest album has a 3.84 score, but the leader is dead and does not show up.
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: October 22 2021 at 18:14
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RYM has a lowest rating chart RIght now it's Nostalgia Critic's The Wall Never heard of it so no idea! http://rateyourmusic.com/charts/bottom/album/all-time/" rel="nofollow - https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/bottom/album/all-time/
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: October 22 2021 at 18:18
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Looks like the lowest rated prog album on RYM at the moment is BLACK HOLE - Evil In The Dark 37 ratings with an average of 0.96 Well now, might hafta check it out! http://rateyourmusic.com/charts/bottom/album/all-time/g:progressive%2drock/" rel="nofollow - https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/bottom/album/all-time/g:progressive%2drock/ Here's the title track. What do YOU think? ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: October 22 2021 at 18:19
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Here's the lowest rated prog albums. Yep, that Black Hole is AWFUL!!!!! http://rateyourmusic.com/charts/bottom/album/all-time/g:progressive%2drock/" rel="nofollow - https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/bottom/album/all-time/g:progressive%2drock/
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: October 22 2021 at 18:45
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Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: October 22 2021 at 19:20
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Lmao. Doug Walker has a terrible sense of humor when it comes to parody. Kickassia is a great example of that. ------------- “On the day of my creation, I fell in love with education. And overcoming all frustration, a teacher I became.” — Ernest Vong |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: October 22 2021 at 20:50
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This probably doesn't meet the minimum number of ratings for the OPs criteria. But I just ran across this today. http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=24040" rel="nofollow">
1982 1.14 | 11 ratings
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: October 22 2021 at 20:56
That is absolutely like The Shaggs gone metal. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: SuperMetro
Date Posted: October 22 2021 at 21:36
Man, he must return to forever after making this album.
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: October 23 2021 at 00:15
I really wonder what his thoughts are looking a this cover now. I'd like to know the story behind the pitch for the cover or if it was in fact his idea. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: October 23 2021 at 01:01
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The only reason that The Wall cover album is rated so low is because Doug Walker is a guy whom everybody loves to hate at the moment, similar to how Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas was the lowest rated film on IMDB for a while. I'm sure it sucks (I don't hate myself enough to waste my time on an album like that) but I'm also sure that there are many far more revolting things out there ------------- https://mirasnelder.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow - Freelance composer, accepting commissions | https://mirasnelder.bandcamp.com/album/altered-acuity" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp page |
Posted By: Necrotica
Date Posted: October 23 2021 at 01:31
Doug Walker's album is currently my least favorite album of all time, but I will admit that's more from personal bias. I was such a huge Channel Awesome/TGWTG fanboy growing up, so seeing their empire crumbling under such damning allegations and progressively worse videos was absolutely heartbreaking for me. And once I got to the Wall review, I was so jaded and irritated with his work at that point that I pretty much swore off Doug Walker's content forever. A few years later and that still hasn't changed; however, I do still watch former creators like Todd in the Shadows and Lindsay Ellis quite frequently. But yeah, the Wall cover album is horrendous in my opinion, and I massively dislike all of Doug's more recent reviews (at least the ones I've vaguely seen in passing, since there are so many other channels I could be spending my time with).
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Posted By: Cylli Kat (0fficial)
Date Posted: October 23 2021 at 08:34
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Somehow, I was under the impression that this guy may have topped the bottom of the list here at P/A: Simon Railton http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=4708" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=4708 ------------- (Insert Clever Words Here) I'm actually this guy: https://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=17597" rel="nofollow - Cylli Kat |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: October 23 2021 at 08:46
The first album has a rating of 1.27/14 ratings. Still not that many ratings. I think people just avoided this project and the second release got just 1 star rating from one user. The first album's cover looks familiar to me, I may have tried to give the album a listen at some point, long ago.
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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: October 23 2021 at 08:54
This one has only 14 ratings... but eight reviews. Eight!! That's something that even many albums with 100 ratings do not have.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: October 23 2021 at 09:07
oh yeah, my bad, forgot about the reviews.
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Posted By: TheLionOfPrague
Date Posted: October 27 2021 at 11:53
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http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=786 I'm surpised by how little and how poor For Absent Friends' ratings are. ------------- I shook my head and smiled a whisper knowing all about the place |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 27 2021 at 12:24
The lowest-rated album for me is Robert Wyatt's truly dreadful "The End of an Ear" - the only album I've ever given a 1-star rating to. Even Robert Wyatt himself has publicly disowned the album as an embarrassment and he doesn't include it in his discography. 
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: October 27 2021 at 12:28
I LOOOVE that album! He may have disowned it but i adopted it ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: October 27 2021 at 12:30
You misunderstood, again. The thread is not about which album you would rate low or the lowest, but what albums are rated very low on PA.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 27 2021 at 12:41
Robert Wyatt's awful "End of an Ear" album makes ELP's "Love Beach" look like a masterpiece by comparison.
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: October 27 2021 at 12:46
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: October 27 2021 at 12:51
You know, i avoided End of an Ear for the longest time based on the ratings but when i finally checked it out i was quite surprised that it is one of the most creative and original albums of the entire 70s. It might be too weird for you or others but in terms of creativity, originality and progressiveness, it is a classic IMHO. As far as Love Beach goes there is no comparison. That album was a lifeless limp lump of recycled and watered down material that ushered ELP down the drain. ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: October 27 2021 at 12:53
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Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: October 27 2021 at 15:20
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Shub-Niggurath's http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=4329" rel="nofollow - Testament is the most poorly rated album from a well-respected band that I'm aware of (1.52 with 22 ratings). ------------- https://mirasnelder.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow - Freelance composer, accepting commissions | https://mirasnelder.bandcamp.com/album/altered-acuity" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp page |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: October 27 2021 at 16:13
I have the previous one, C'etalent de tres grands vents, it's pretty awful, so if that is worse, yikes. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: October 28 2021 at 03:02
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ELP's In the hot Seat got 1.78 | 419 ratings | 32 reviews No surprise here...
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Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: October 28 2021 at 06:54
I think that really this is a about a mismatch of expectations, in that they radically changed what they were doing - moving from the operatic doom-Zeuhl of the debut into what is basically free improv on the later records. If you pick those albums up expecting prog, or any kind of rock content, or indeed any recognisable musical structure, you're gonna be hella disappointed. FWIW I quite like both albums. They convey a certain mood and atmosphere of bleak existential emptiness (to me...). Can't say I spin them often, however. ------------- Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to. http://bandcamp.com/jpillbox" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp Profile |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: October 28 2021 at 07:34
"Stanley, what we want here is for you to convey "the epitome of awkward embarrassment" in one painfully contrived pose. See, that way with a little luck the people who buy the album - let's call them "suckers" - may become so fixated on the awfulness of the cover art that they fail to notice how on this album we took your massive instrumental talents and deployed them into music of such all-numbing blandness that it makes Spyro Gyra sound like Iannis Xenakis. The transparent cranium...? Yeah, that used to belong to the mastering engineer. He had to listen through the tapes so many times that his brains dribbled out of his nose like liquidised mac and cheese. This is all that's left. Sad really, but we felt he'd like his sacrifice to be recognised somehow." ------------- Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to. http://bandcamp.com/jpillbox" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp Profile |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: October 28 2021 at 07:39
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The Force of Love is actually a good song imho. ------------- “On the day of my creation, I fell in love with education. And overcoming all frustration, a teacher I became.” — Ernest Vong |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: October 28 2021 at 07:42
Holy Mother of Bass! I didn't know Stanley did disco.
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Posted By: SuperMetro
Date Posted: October 28 2021 at 09:04
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Posted By: Cboi Sandlin
Date Posted: October 28 2021 at 09:07
| What about Open Your Eyes, that album is trash |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: October 28 2021 at 09:13
Rated at 2.04.
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: October 28 2021 at 09:37
Even hell has a door policy it seems ------------- 
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: October 29 2021 at 02:14
I note that Tony Kaye's recent album End Of Innocence is on there . Definitely the worst new album I've heard this year. Just a very 'nothing' album that was not what I expected ( I was hoping for some trademark organ at least) . It feels like a third rate Vangelis album instead. currently has a PA rating of 4.00 ( 1 rating)
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: October 29 2021 at 02:18
| ^ In The Hot Seat is 11. The Astonishing is 12 (only me that likes it then lol) . Yes have quite a few entries , no prizes for guessing which ones! I am am little shocked to see ELP - Black Moon in there though. That's a stand up album imo. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: October 29 2021 at 02:32
| Wait, Pope Francis is at number 3? |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: October 29 2021 at 02:37
Damn straight. It doesn't have a single bad track on it -------------
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 29 2021 at 03:53
Yes, who would've guessed Rock Bottom would turn out to be Robert Wyatt's top album after his inauspicious debut album.  I just listened to a couple of dreadful trance dance albums by Wishbone Ash (Trance Visionary & Psychic Terrorism). They're two of the lowest-rated albums on PA (and deservedly so). I was being relatively generous in giving both albums 2-star ratings.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: October 29 2021 at 03:55
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^ oh, yeah, that was weird, I don't know what was happening with them.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 29 2021 at 04:19
Maybe they were Just Testing the loyalty of their fans, but those two awful trance albums were a very Strange Affair. The Time Was when Wishbone Ash used to be a pretty decent Bona Fide rock band, but it must have been a case of picking up the Bare Bones of their flagging career after those two disastrous dance albums.
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: October 29 2021 at 05:01
Never heard of those albums before. Is it really the same band that made Argus?
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: October 29 2021 at 05:08
at least a couple of same members.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 29 2021 at 05:15
Honestly, you'd never guess it was Wishbone Ash if it didn't have their name on the album cover. This is just dreadful.... Wishbone Ash - Narcissus Nervosa |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: October 29 2021 at 05:22
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Sea Of Tranquility recently did a round table on albums that they hate which seems appropriate for this thread. Plenty of sacred cows slayed and very funny:- ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: SuperMetro
Date Posted: October 29 2021 at 06:16
| That one guy disliked ITCOTCK and said Pawn Hearts was the worst along with some other guy! |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: October 29 2021 at 06:56
I suggested that for inclusion a few years back and i think it went nowhere! Basically he is preaching with some prog music in the background. ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: October 29 2021 at 07:07
That's George, the reactions of the rest of the panel to his picks is priceless. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: October 29 2021 at 07:11
the guy is trollish
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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: October 29 2021 at 08:05
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 29 2021 at 09:12
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I thought Rick Wakeman's 1991 collaboration with Norman Wisdom - "A World of Wisdom" - might be one of the lowest-rated albums on PA, but it's not even close with a rating of 2.5. I believe Rick Wakeman only made the album because Norman Wisdom was one of Rick's neighbours on the Isle of Man at the time. One thing's for sure, you won't find any mention of the album at Rick's Plaice.
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Posted By: SuperMetro
Date Posted: October 29 2021 at 09:20
| The lowest is 1.26 with Banco's ...e via. God what happened to them, their first album was great and was genius. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 29 2021 at 09:44
I don't know much about Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso, but I'm a big fan of Banco de Gaia, even though the music is described as techno-trance on Wikipedia. Thankfully though, it doesn't anything like the techno-trance of Wishbone Ash.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: October 29 2021 at 10:59
such a pointless post
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 29 2021 at 11:12
Don't tell anyone, but I had to give Banco de Gaia a free plug as the co-producer of his albums is a close friend of mine.
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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: October 29 2021 at 12:25
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Posted By: SuperMetro
Date Posted: October 29 2021 at 14:44
Unnecessary Filler: Pawn Hearts is far from the lowest rated. One of the highest rated on the site. I heard the album one time earlier this month, and Peter Hamill is far from annoying. I even gave it 5 stars.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: October 29 2021 at 14:45
some people just dislike VDGG and Peter Hammill.
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Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: November 01 2021 at 18:33
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http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=6271" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=6271 This album is rated pretty low. And I don't think it's that bad. I'm listening to the track Miwaukee and I'm liking it. ------------- “On the day of my creation, I fell in love with education. And overcoming all frustration, a teacher I became.” — Ernest Vong |