Horrifically Bad Progressive Albums.

Warse pwog wobblay be QUASAR -LORELI. 

laplace wrote: I've enjoyed everything I've heard by Thinking Plague and always thought that, of all the american Draky/Kermanish bands, they were one of the ones who least suffered from painful elaboration...

I got a little carried away. Its far from one of the worst albums of prog I know. Very far. I'm just not very fond of In this Life, and find most of the tracks totally unmemorable for the same reasons as Plainview. But Moonsongs, is which I mentioned is here. Still great but when I got this, I already had it on two other albums (but it seems my preferred version actually appeared here first. Oops).  

I prefer 5'uu's, especially Regarding Purgatories to most of Thinking Plague.

Anything with Mars Volta or Porcupine Tree makes me run like hell, two of the worst bands i ever come across, desaster all the way. Specialy De loused.... from Mars and In dementia from Porcupine are for me real bad albums with nothing to offer.

MikeEnRegalia wrote: Disco Volante is a great album ... I don't see the point. If by "horrifically bad" you simply mean "very experimental/unusual" then maybe you should rename the thread.

:B
I was merely providing an example of how wide my range of musical taste is... I love Disco Volante as well as other Mr. Bungle releases as well as a crapload of other subgenres of the ever growing progressive rock.... scene?

Well, from a quick read through of this thread I have a list of albums or bands that were considerd to be the worst from you guys.

Torman Maxt (the most suggested... now I'm really curious to know how they sound like. It'll be really ironic if I found this album to be even enjoyable seeing as how people dismiss their album!)

Little Tragedies (even the name somewhat suggest that listening to them will result in little tragedies of my ear drums crying. Strange that their albums have somewhat of a good rating. But never judge a book by the cover as many would say.)

Apollo's Apollo (as I look at their band picture I can't help my self but chuckle... they look ridiculously silly and uncomforatble in those costumes. <(  O)-(O )> )

and Fleur de Lis's Facing Morning.

In a way I feel excited for some reason to be venturing on to the ugly sides of progressive rock and it feels like it may be a bit of good ear training for any future albums that I may listen to that may be terrible. When such a record comes, I shall be ready for it. >:{D

Of course I shall have to check out Calling All Stations by Genesis and the infamous Love Beach by Emerson Lake and Palmer. And perhaps I should checkout some of Rush's albums that cames out in the nineties (my friends say those are some of the wort prog that they have heard... but we'll see)

If I am to come back from the journey alive, afterwards I shall listen to nothing but the good stuff.. or what I consider to be the good stuff. Hopefully my ears won't be too dead from their traumatizing experiences.

Also others may proceed to continue to suggest to me (in their opinion with a valid reason) the wosrt/ horiffic progressive band/ album ever.

As for the ones I skipped, I shall check them out later. Especially Ayreon. Only heard their Human Equations album.

stonebeard wrote: (Ladies &..) Gentlemen, let me present: http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3718

Now after reading this thread I want to hear Torman Maxt. 

Gentlemen, let me present:

http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3718

Henry Plainview wrote:  Oh yes, I forgot, Torman Maxt paid M@x good money to let us know that they are the worst prog metal you'll ever hear. And that they read CS Lewis. Most amusing.   I would nominate In This Life by Thinking Plague as the worst Avant-prog, and probably one of the worst albums of prog in general. Maybe their other albums are better, but this album sounds like a regular rock band that isn't allowed to play any consonant harmonies or play in 4/4, with a singer who desperately wishes she could sound like Dagmar. That is not what prog is about. That they appear to think they are the best avant-prog band in the world doesn't help either.

That's very precise. There's other albums and tracks I really enjoy by them. Moonsongs from 87 (both early years and original versions) is pretty amazing, but doesn't sound like This Life at all.

I like a lot of his music but, some Dave Kerman related bands and projects has that forced weirdness/complexity/unatural feel that great Avant/RIO doesn't have.

Acqua Fragile is the worst Genesis ripoff among quite a few awful ones. Umemorable songs and a Peter Gabriel soundalike but with a serious constipation problem (pressing the words out) a bad accent and very silly lyrics. 

There's some even worse Zucchero-soundalike (also with the constipation) vocalist, in a band from Mexico I can't remember their name right now. Their music was cheesy, thin symphonic anno 1981 (that's neo, I guess)

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

i remember to slam about a Edhels album.. that was Oriental Christmas.