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I legit don't think I can answer this question, no matter how hard I think about it.

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easy. Lamb lies down on Broadway. 
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Here's some horrible albums for you:













This is the worst metal album ever made Dead

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Hey!!! That's my album! Hey!!!
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I found the bread
I found jelly
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Originally posted by dougmcauliffe dougmcauliffe wrote:

Momentary Lapse of Reason, Horrible, Unlistenable. It sounds like a poor imitation of Floyd. Everything about it is just dull and sub par.
Horrible, perhaps. Unlistenable, no.
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An album with pan flute versions of ABBA songs.
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Originally posted by NutterAlert NutterAlert wrote:

easy. Lamb lies down on Broadway. 

Not even close. If you legitimately feel that way then you are definitely in the minority.
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Originally posted by iluvmarillion iluvmarillion wrote:

Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Queensryche - Dedicated to Chaos 
Iron Maiden - Virtual XI
80s Renaissance
DT - The Astonishing


Camera Camera? Those is fighten' words!

Well Camera Camera is the worse album I've ever heard while The Astonishing is a great DT album.
 

The Astonishing is in my top 5 favourite DT albums but I can see what it would divide opinion. I hate DT when they go too 'technical metal' like Systematic Chaos as I mentioned earlier in the thread. The Astonishing is mainly just songs.
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Originally posted by NutterAlert NutterAlert wrote:

easy. Lamb lies down on Broadway. 

Not even close. If you legitimately feel that way then you are definitely in the minority.
 

The first half is the best prog ever made although I admit to being a lot less convinced about the second half. I reckon overall there is at least 60 minutes of fantastic prog so that will do me fine!
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by iluvmarillion iluvmarillion wrote:

Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Queensryche - Dedicated to Chaos 
Iron Maiden - Virtual XI
80s Renaissance
DT - The Astonishing


Camera Camera? Those is fighten' words!

Well Camera Camera is the worse album I've ever heard while The Astonishing is a great DT album.
 

The Astonishing is in my top 5 favourite DT albums but I can see what it would divide opinion. I hate DT when they go too 'technical metal' like Systematic Chaos as I mentioned earlier in the thread. The Astonishing is mainly just songs.


The Astonishing should be so good.......but really truly isn't!

I bought De-Loused In The Comatorium by The Mars Volta, but my car stereo ejected it after 3 songs, just before I was about to.  Awful..............

And I know this will be controversial, but OM by Queensryche just does nothing for me...
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Queen + Paul Rodgers- The Cosmos Rocks
Mike Rutherford - Acting Very Strange (Mike's voice is worse than Steve Howe's and Tony Banks combined)

Those are about as bad as it gets for me. The Queen and Paul Rodgers is mostly just really boring but boring for a rock album let a lone a hard rock album is not a good thing.
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OK Computer and the first two Tool albums. In the context of the pop culture du jour and the need for people to want to have something substantial in their pop rock they choose these. Listening to OK PC Mac was like having my head squished between the most boring guitars ever. Kid A nicked all it's ideas from the R.I.O. and was therefore modertaley interesting - and even listenable for the first half. But that guy's vox... Tool were excellent cures for insomnia. I still have 10K days - slightly better in that it sounds like good heavy backing tracks in search of harmony. But I've just yet to get rid of it...

Pavlov's Dog Pampered Menial which is not fair as they try to be unique and it didn't take off at all with me. Same with VDGG. C'est la vie.

There are things that spoil otherwise good releases (Steve Howe's vocal which is the opposite of his superb guitar. Hackett as well. But so many saving graces. It's usually the vocal that does it.

Oh and I picked up a 4 CD 2 DVD set of Neal Morse's. Trying way too hard to be prog as opposed to using sophisticated music to convey a musical emotion. It was excellent and boring at the same time.

There was one other I can't remember who it was but supposed to be the best of a pitiful three. That was returned in the days you could still do that. Still not a bad average out of all the prog rock that's piling up here...
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I strongly dislike anything from Transatlantic, which is ironic as I love Pete Trewavas and Roine Stolt.
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for me, it's probably anything by Ayreon.... frankly, I find it all rather excruciating
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Any album in the Avant Prog section. Thumbs Down

I do like many of the "worst albums" already mentioned though, including:-

Anything by Ayreon
Asia - Astra
Dream Theater - The Astonishing
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Pavlov's Dog
Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Queen + Paul Rodgers - The Cosmos Rocks
Radiohead - OK Computer
Renaissance - Camera Camera
YES - The Ladder (third favourite YES album after Mirror to the Sky and The Quest)

...but not including Celine Dion. Tongue


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Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

for me, it's probably anything by Ayreon.... frankly, I find it all rather excruciating
Same here, but I've never actually finished an album by them.

Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Prog:
Acqua Fragile - Mass-Media Stars (a constipated Peter Gabriel - no thanks)
More worst I've heard that I've actually bothered listening to (that's prog relevant in one way or another):

New Trolls - Concerto Grosso n°2 (1976)
Comus - To Keep From Crying (1974)
Vanilla Fudge - The Beat Goes On (1968)
Iraklis - I Stigmi (1984)
Arti & Mestieri - Quinto Stato (1979)
Birth Control - Increase (1977)
Gentle Giant - Giant for a Day! (1978)
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I'm sure I've given a cursory listen to a lot of terrible albums, too many to remember. Of those I've rated on Gnosis the worst are:-

Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Staid - Break The Cycle
Nickelback - Silver Side Up

Of the prog

Allan Holdsworth - Metal Fatigue
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime


Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - July 31 2023 at 11:25
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Anderson Stolt album. Jon is singing every second. It has no room to breathe, and the album is mixed/mastered horribly.
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Nickelback - Silver Side Up
I'm sure it's an abomination, but you've actually listened to it?
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