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What prog album are you ashamed to not like? |
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dr wu23 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: August 22 2010 Location: Indiana Status: Offline Points: 10215 |
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Like others have already said.......none.
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One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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noni ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 03 2008 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 843 |
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Music is like art, we cannot all like the same picture. We are all individuals and have certain tolerances.. I have to say I once hated Country and Rap. But recently their music has really improved... Heavy metal or prog metal is probably the only genre I cannot stand. Too much noise for my ears I'm afraid !!
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RockHound ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 03 2013 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 262 |
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I am certainly not ashamed to dislike anything, but I do share the puzzlement of many regarding VDGG, which I recognize as great stuff, but it just doesn't speak to me.
I feel the same about Magma - I just can't get into them, but far be it from me to step on a Magma fan or feel guilty about not wishing to pursue extraterrestrial language. Now guilty pleasures are another thing. I always like springing a dense work of proggery on an unsuspecting person who has never experienced totally bizarre music. Fripp and Eno's No Pussyfooting is one that I have used with great success trying to freak out mainstream metalheads. The uninitiated kind of get it but are unnerved by how otherworldly the whole affair sounds. And a lot of people think I should be ashamed of the dense, overblown, and pretentious music that attracts me.
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axeman ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 13 2008 Location: Michigan, US Status: Online Points: 148 |
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How about high-rated albums you don't really like.
I'm not really embarrassed about it, but I listened to Maudlin of the Well, Part the Second 2 times through waiting for it to grow on me...and there is no part of it I like. Also, I've never been embarrassed to like Dire Straits. Heard them on a King Biscuit show one night and they became one of my favorites. Telegraph Road, Private Investigations, Romeo and Juliet, got me in, but I've gradually learned to like all their more popular stuff too.
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ghost_of_morphy ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: March 08 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2755 |
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None.
People have tried to shame me into stopping hating on ELO's first, mega-crappy album though.
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moshkito ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 04 2007 Location: Grok City Status: Online Points: 7429 |
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Thank you .... NONE for me!
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... none of the hits, none of the time ... now you know what the inner art is all about!
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uduwudu ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: July 17 2007 Status: Offline Points: 2118 |
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Ha. The same two I have. I really respect this band but can't quite yet really do more than that. Maybe something to do with a lot of technically great playing but a little lacking on memorable tunes. I could be wrong of course and just need to be steered right. |
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uduwudu ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: July 17 2007 Status: Offline Points: 2118 |
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Ashamed to not like an album of music...
Seems weird to me but I suppose I should feel ashamed for not liking Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra. Almighty opening riff number then half an hour of bland violins. Padding? Oh that's the prog part. Now for the rock part... actually nothing. Except... once upon a time there was an anomaly. Genesis. Ashamed to like? Now this was an odd one. If I said how much I liked SEBTP, Nursery Cryme, Lamb etc then this was a pop cultural faux pas that showed how out of touch I was for not being into '80s pop. Speaking of which, if I like post Duke albums then I was some trendy '80s pop fan who really needed pop cultural direction. Foxtrot oscar the lot of them. So while I wasn't ashamed of any Genesis I had to act like I was which was so stupid but I did not want to get into the arguments with idiots, er, I mean people. Not all the time anyway. Not everything Genesis did hit instantly btw, sometimes somethings had to take a while and I had to allow the old musical sense to reorient. Such is life, such is music. |
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uduwudu ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: July 17 2007 Status: Offline Points: 2118 |
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Unless Pawn Hearts counts? Highly regarded and I tried my best but it did not take... I am so humiliated.
My music teacher at school was well into VDGG, PF and Zeppelin and others as well as the usual truckload of symphonies and concertos but VDGG still never worked for me. Sorry. ;) |
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Einwahn ![]() Forum Newbie ![]() ![]() Joined: October 18 2014 Location: BronYrAur 48km Status: Offline Points: 5 |
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Close to the Edge
Selling England by the Pound The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Am I really a prog fan?
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YESESIS ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: July 26 2017 Location: North Carolina Status: Offline Points: 751 |
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I'm sure you are. And I believe that you would come to love all three of those albums if you just give them another chance and listen all the way through(certainly Close to the Edge). The other two may be a bit of an acquired taste, although The Lamb shouldn't take much acquiring. Do what you want and I'm not trying to judge at all(we all like different things), just I honestly believe that anyone who gives Close to the Edge an honest chance will come to love it.
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micky ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 02 2005 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 41755 |
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hah... another mother's basement type I see...
no... there is a reason Yes is what it is.. and that album is what it is. So no.. no progger card for you. Look on the bright side... you join the cool crowd. Proggers are whimps and pussies who dig absolute sh*t like VDGG ... just because it is sh*t... the cool crowd like good music..no matter what is called... prog or not... and isn't afraid to say that some prog is pure sh*t. So get back to CttE and when it finally hits you.. come find me for the Cool Crowd card. Then I'll put you onto some Willie Nelson.... |
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I find your lack of Bassoon disturbing.....
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BrufordFreak ![]() Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 25 2008 Location: Wisconsin Status: Offline Points: 1920 |
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Used to be GG and VDGG but now I LOVE all Shulman brothers & Co. albums. I now LOVE H to He, Who Am The Only One but have never been able to get into any of the other VDGG or Hammill "masterpieces." Larks' Tongue was the first album that came to mind when I read the OP. I just don't hear or feel the "genius" here...
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Drew Fisher,
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zwordser ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 04 2008 Location: New Mexico Status: Offline Points: 262 |
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Ditto. Except "Ritual" is the track I like the most. While Relayer has grown on me in leaps and bounds to become what I consider Yes's best, just haven't been able to get into the Tales much. |
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JD ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: February 07 2009 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 5539 |
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Thank you for supporting independently produced music
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Lewian ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: August 09 2015 Location: London Status: Offline Points: 1242 |
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I'm in the same boat as almost everyone when it comes to not being ashamed.
That aside, there's a couple of things of which I believe that I could somehow still much better figure out how good they are than I've managed to up to now. Pretty much the whole Henry Cow catalogue falls into that category. |
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Argo2112 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: June 20 2017 Location: New Jersey Status: Offline Points: 484 |
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I guess Court of the Crimson King. I Love 21 century Schizoid Man but a lot of the rest of the album feels like it drags out for me. May be I need to be in the right frame of mind when I listen to it again.
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Progosopher ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 12 2009 Location: Coolwood Status: Offline Points: 3995 |
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I don't do shame for my listening, nor should anybody no matter who says what you should be enjoying. That goes for Prog snobs, AOR producers, music critics, etc. If you don't like what you have been hearing, find something else. Even if you like what you are hearing, never stop exploring - there is just too much good stuff out there. And you don't have to like everything that comes your way.
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The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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Salmonyappi ![]() Forum Newbie ![]() Joined: October 30 2014 Location: The Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 1 |
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I'm a bit stunned by the many times Pink Floyd is mentioned in prog-reviews, and as if this is a good thing!
Of course there are always songs or even albums that are enjoyable but in the whole I'm not a Pink Floyd fan. Same for Rush. I'm a big progfan but I do not have one album of Rush...... Ashamed? Not really, but a blush on the cheeks to all the fans of the mentioned bands....... |
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Rednight ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 18 2014 Location: Mar Vista, CA Status: Offline Points: 2841 |
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2112, Side One, as it appears to have quite the following among P.A.-ers. It always came off as simply a finger exercise for Lifeson replete with some dull transitions here and there. Overshadowed fiercely by subsequent albums.
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"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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