Awful album, outstanding song

uduwudu wrote: beeebon wrote: I might be sticking my neck out a bit here, but over the years I have come to realise that on the studio disc of Floyd's Ummagumma I only really like the song Grantchester Meadows and find the rest of the material particularly uninspired and bland. It's essentially an unrealized Floyd album. Most of the material are effectively demos and should have had the input from the rest of the band. Then The Narrow Way might have been given more value than DG's demo.

I'll give Grantchester Meadows another listen then as I've only been playing Sysyphus and The Narrow Way .

Jon Anderson's "City of Angels", quite a popish, poor album, but the song "Top of the World" is outstanding.

Genesis (1983) - "It's Gonna Get Better" 

Edited by Guillermo - March 30 2017 at 21:53

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Thatfabulousalien wrote: I actually prefer Sysphus, Narrow way and Grand Vizier's garden party to the rest of the double CD

I've had a couple more listens to Ummagumma's studio disc and rather enjoyed it. It sounds to me like Pink Floyd were taking their classical influences from the more contemporary 20th century avant garde rather than the 18th and 19th century compositions used more often in prog rock, so the problem for many listeners may be that it's actually too progressive .

I always struggle with these kinds of topics....  a truly awful album?  I simply can't think of one that did have a great song on it. Granted we are talking prog fans here but for most normal people...  having one precludes the other. If it has something good on it, first off it rarely is the only one, most albums simply aren't that diverse in style or sound.  I can't think of single example where just one track was so much above every single other one to make that distinction.

cstack3 wrote: Mine would be Asia's debut LP, and outstanding song would be "Sole Survivor!"  RIP John Wetton....

The 1971 album by Made In Germany who seem to have been undecided whether to aim for prog rock or Eurovision. Goodness knows who turned up to their concerts (if anyone). Nobody wanted to post the most awful track "Made In Germany" on YouTube. "The Arrow And The Song" though is fantastic.

This was long the way I felt about Steve Hackett's Cured album. There are some okay songs, but I could dismiss the whole album as a blunder were it not for Air-Conditioned Nightmare, which for quite a while was my all-time favorite song of his. (Not sure if I have a favorite anymore.)