What prog album are you ashamed to not like?

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 !!

How about high-rated albums you don't really like. 

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: None.

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.

Close to the Edge

Einwahn wrote: Close to the Edge Am I really a prog fan?

Dellinger wrote: There are many of the much beloved albums that just don't do it for me, though I would never consider myself ashamed about not liking them. I just don't. However, not exactly ashamed, but "Tales from Topographic Oceans" sounds like an album that really is something else. More than just a rock album, something really special. Yet, I just can't get myself to love it. I do love Revealing Science of God, but the rest is just a bit too much for me. If I do put the album and listen to the whole of it I do enjoy it and all, but I wouldn't say I love it, even when I think it's really a special piece of art.

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.

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.

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.

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.