Your favorite, everybody's worst (and vice versa)?

We all have them ; favorites. But sometimes, your favorite album by a band is everyone else's least favorite album... and in some cases, your least favorite album by a band is everybody else's favorite.

My favorite (or tied for favorite, at least) Grateful Dead album is "Go to Heaven", which is generally considered an embarrassing failure.

In the short amount of time I've been into the Swedish band Dungen, I've read the most positive reviews for their "breakthrough" album Ta Det Lugnt, but that's probably my least favorite of their six albums, at least right now.  I still rank it very highly (I'd probably give it 3.5 stars).

For The Guess Who (sorry, not a prog band, but I'm on a roll here), their most popular album (American Woman) is my least favorite, at least from the 10 or so albums with Burton Cummings prior to his original split from the group.

I will confess it's hard to really definitively say which albums are "most favorite" and "least favorite" among the populace at large, with most bands anyway.  So this is all conjecture just for fun, because making generalizations is actually very fun to do , even as we admit they're usually incorrect.

I probably should put a bulletproof vest and helmet on for this one, but I HATE Dream Theater's Scenes from A Memory ! 

Not prog, but I've seen Metallica being mentioned from time to time in different threads so I thought I could bring them up. Now, I'm not a fan, not a bit, I find them excruciatingly boring. With one exception, St. Anger. The album the true fans absolutely hates. I think it's rather interesting. Sounds like they've been listening to Tool.

I'm REALLY not a fan of most symph bands.

Melomaniac wrote: Close to the Edge your least favorite ?

I would say yes, but Yes have several albums that are worse even than that

1) I am passionately in love with Gentle Giant's The Missing Piece
2) My least favorite Gentle Giant album is Three Friends, to me, it sounds uninspired
3) My least favorite King Crimson album is Red
4) I am passionately in love with the album You Can Help Me by Jail, dissed by proggers as not prog enough, but it works wonders for me
5) I love Wallenstein's No More Love album incredibly, and think it is just about the best thing they ever did.
6) My favorite album that is not full blown prog, but could be described as prog-related or Crossover Prog is Helmut Koellen's solo album You Won't See Me. Not considered so, and refused inclusion to PA.
7) Just about my all time favorite PFM album is Chocolate Kings, so many bad things said about it, but for me, the band are firing on all six cylinders on that record!
8) Very fond of the Wallenstein album Stories, Songs and Symphonies.
9) Though not prog, Budgie's album Power Supply has got to be the best NWOBHM sounding record from the early 80s.


Edited by presdoug - May 14 2013 at 16:40

1. I think Islands is one of the better KC records.
2. I prefer DT's Falling Into Infinity over Awake.
3. I think Morningrise is one of Opeth's best albums, second only to Blackwater Park.
4. I found Isis's Oceanic better than Panopticon.
5. Sounds that Can't Be Made is actually a solid Marillion album.
6. (prog related) I prefer LZ's Houses of the Holy over IV.

I remember a thread like this though I can't remember it's name. Oh well.

KC - Earthbound (one of my favorites from the band)
Genesis - FGTR (one of my favorites from the band)
PF - Final Cut, More (-"-)

I might think of more.

RedNightmareKing wrote: 1. I think Islands is one of the better KC records.2. I prefer DT's Falling Into Infinity over Awake.3. I think Morningrise is one of Opeth's best albums, second only to Blackwater Park.4. I found Isis's Oceanic better than Panopticon.5. Sounds that Can't Be Made is actually a solid Marillion album.6. (prog related) I prefer LZ's Houses of the Holy over IV.

I thought every Opeth studio album, from Morningrise through Watershed, is considered to be their classic stuff.

Edited by Dayvenkirq - May 14 2013 at 17:42