Worst Rated Efforts from the Big Six

I love Invisible Touch :( 

Chaser, having just listened to Beat again in full after many years, your sentiment holds true with me. I appreciate it more than I used to (my tastes have expanded since then). I needed time and experience, exposure to more kinds of music, to "get" it more.

By the way, when using terms such as "dire", to me it would benefit from some elaboration (my wife says I'm far too fussy on this kind of point, but I do try to think about the context). Dire in what way? I don't think that the musicianship could be considered dire? The composition? I don't see how either. The experience could be dire, and I guess that's all that was meant -- in which case I would phrase it as "I found it dire" rather than "just dire". My British dad would claim that rock and pop music generally is horrid, and he was a nuanced thinker in most matters (he did mean it quite literally methinks, but then he thought it to be of lower artistic value and less intellectual than classical music, and I might be inclined to agree on the whole).

^^ Questions, I like it, but I have considered Beat to be something of a step down from the King Crimson that came before (and I prefer Belew's Lone Rhino) -- I didn't find it quite as adventurous despite the quirkiness as earlier albums, and stylistically it didn't appeal to me as much on the whole. I would have liked it to be a bigger departure from Discipline. I like some songs off it, and others not so much. For instance, I like "Sartori in Tangier" a lot and love "Requiem" (one that I've seen hated, but then it would be too "out there" for many), but "Heartbeat" I don't like as much (provides good contrast, mind you). Requiem's opening is reminiscent of some other music in my collection, which I can't quite recollect right now. Maybe I just never had listened to the album enough, or at the right time, to let it really grow on me. There is some really good playing, and it is still quirky, and there is interesting music on this album, though. If one is into the Talking Heads kind of scene, and certain stuff by Zappa, one might well enjoy it more.   

I would have sooner listened to other stuff from 1982 in ProgArchives such as Zanov's In Course of Time, Art Zoyd's Phase IV, Jean-Paul Prat's Masal, and Brainticket's Voyage, but variety is the spice of life.

As I already mentioned, though, I do appreciate Beat considerably more than I once did (even though I quite liked it before). I am wary to give other options on the list a proper spin. I liked the Pink Floyd when it came out, but it didn't appeal when last I played it.

Edited by Logan - August 08 2018 at 13:10

Went for Open Your Eyes, but could have easily gone for In the Hot Seat. To be fair, Emerson had difficulty playing at that time. Yes's excuse?

It has to be ELP, although it´s the only album I haven´t heard from those. Going to listen it soon, I am interested, can I listen it whole through...

Sad to say that a Yes album has to be the worst of the lot.  "Open Your Eyes" is the worst of them all, though the last two Yes albums were even worse that that.  I like "Beat", and "Under Wraps" isn't that bad.  Even "A Momentary Lack of Reason" has more high points than "The Final Cut".  "In the Hot Seat" and "Invisible Touch" are both failures when it comes to prog and are the runners up to the worst.

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For me it's a tie between "Invisible Touch" and "Open Your Eyes". Both left me equally disappointed. "In The Hot Seat" follows very closely.

Edited by Manuel - August 08 2018 at 08:53

Logan wrote: Saperlipopette! wrote: Chaser wrote: I have to say that I disagree that Beat is a poor album.   No one stated that its poor though - I just their lowest rated album Hercules did in the post just prior to Chaser's. Pretty dreadful implies poor and dire can mean very bad.

Invisible touch is a decent album especially Domino and The Brazilian---