Horrifically Bad Progressive Albums.

Hawkwise wrote: anything by Kansas  ............................................ runs away laffing,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, hides behind the sofa.......... chuckling like a loon

I'm a little afraid to voice my opinion on this matter. Some of what I find to be the most horrible progressive is actually rated fairly high here (3 or better). I'm afraid I might get excommunicated.




 

Fartcattle, er Starcastle

 

 

Can you say "blatant ripoff," boys and girls?

Hawkwise wrote: anything by Kansas  ............................................ runs away laffing,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, hides behind the sofa.......... chuckling like a loon

Easy Money wrote: I'm suprised people consider Sky to be prog rock, sounds like easy listening to me, and I don't mean cool lounge exotica type easy listening either.

Interesting viewpoint. Myself, I find SKY's first two albums to be quintessential prog, and very good to boot. What's not to like about Monkman's 'Where Opposites Attract'? Or 'Sahara', 'El Cielo', FIFO or 'Scipio' from Sky II? The production is lush and melodic, with absolutely no hard edges, so I suppose one might define that as 'easy listening', but those forst two albums are by no means 'rock classical' or 'muzak' as I've heard them described.

But it's good to hear differing opinions!

Like Slartibartfast says, a lot of bad 'prog' albums are bad because they aren't really progressive, but instead resulted from legitimate artists losing their way over trends or money:  Love Beach, Big Generator, Jethro Tull's Under Wraps and Robert Fripp's League of Gentlemen being some of the more glaring examples.

As far as technically 'legitimate' prog - it's a little obscure, but the FInnish band Apollo's self-titled album is one of the worst pieces of toe jam I've ever heard.  And for some reason Warner actually felt the need to reissue it a few years back so an entire new generation could be turned off on prog music.   Read the reviews - there's  no point rehashing their insights here.

instead of bashing a whole genre why not cite specific albums, as per the thread starters request

I'm suprised people consider Sky to be prog rock, sounds like easy listening to me, and I don't mean cool lounge exotica type easy listening either.

Being an old fart from way back, I can remember most of us who liked the original prog rock bands could not stand all the wannabes that came out in the mid-70s, but I'm not going to mention any names ... yet.

I have this jazz fusion record, Gregory James - 'Madagascar' (I actually own two copies) that I call the worst jazz fusion record ever. I like to play it for my friends, they usually can't take more than a few minutes.

I have a big record collection and bad music has it's own section, for instance politician Sam Ervin's talking version of Bridge Over Troubled Water or this cover band trying to do the Deep Purple version of Hush. I love listening to the kybdst try to imitate Jon Lord, he just sounds confused.

P.S. I have this religious record where this band tries to sonically potray the preacher's words with really bad avant-prog rock.

Edited by Easy Money - October 24 2008 at 20:28

Atavachron wrote: said it before, I'll say it again;  there's nothing worse than bad Prog.   Radiomobel's Tramsebox is surprisingly awful, not just the music but the performance, recording, everything.

I have it and will make a point of listening at breakfast tomorrow to confirm your assertion!

said it before, I'll say it again;  there's nothing worse than bad Prog.   Radiomobel's Tramsebox is surprisingly awful, not just the music but the performance, recording, everything.