10 Albums We Love to Hate from 10 Artists We Love - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Psychedelic Paul wrote:

These are 10 of my least favourite prog albums from 10 of my favourite artists, arranged in alphabetical order:-

Kate Bush - The Dreaming (1982)

Steve Hackett - Cured (1981)

Steve Hillage - Rainbow Dome Musick (1979)

King Crimson - Discipline (1981)

National Health - Missing Pieces (1994)

Queen - Hot Space (1982)

Renaissance - Time-Line (1983)

Soft Machine - Fourth (1971)

Spooky Tooth - Ceremony (with Pierre Henry) (1970)

Van der Graaf Generator - Present (2005)

Which are your 10 least favourite prog albums

So, you love VdGG Confused

"Happiness is real only when shared"

^ But then again Malher never really dropped an embarrassment of a symphony - desperate to get some FM radio airplay. Which in many ways is why I remember Giant For A Day! as a complete abomination

I'll just mention one album:

Van der Graaf Generator - ALT

No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.

Psychedelic Paul wrote:

5 stars

1970: Van der Graaf Generator - H to He, Who Am the Only One

nice to see that

quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond

Steve Wyzard wrote:

Just off the top of my head:

1. Yes: Union

2. Genesis: Calling All Stations

3. Saga: Generation 13

4. Alan Parsons Project: Eve/Ammonia Avenue (tie)

5. Moody Blues: The Other Side of Life/Sur La Mer (tie)

6. Steve Hackett: Blues with a Feeling

7. E.L.P.: In the Hot Seat

8. Barclay James Harvest: Victims of Circumstance

9. Pink Floyd: The Wall

10. Marillion: Fugazi

Half of those albums are in my CD collection. Big smile

Psychedelic Paul wrote:

These are 10 of my least favourite prog albums from 10 of my favourite artists, arranged in alphabetical order:-

Kate Bush - The Dreaming (1982)

Steve Hackett - Cured (1981)

Steve Hillage - Rainbow Dome Musick (1979)

King Crimson - Discipline (1981)

National Health - Missing Pieces (1994)

Queen - Hot Space (1982)

Renaissance - Time-Line (1983)

Soft Machine - Fourth (1971)

Spooky Tooth - Ceremony (with Pierre Henry) (1970)

Van der Graaf Generator - Present (2005)

Which are your 10 least favourite prog albums

National Health and Soft Machine your favorite artists?? Which albums?

Can't say I hate any album but Dream Theater's "The Astonishing" was not for me.

Edited by Grumpyprogfan - May 04 2023 at 15:02

I hadn't listed Tangerine Dream earlier, but in fact I was a huge fan of them (and still am up to the point where they lost me) but the double whammy of Tyger and Optical Race (after a few albums in 84-86 that had not exactly been top notch either) made me lose interest in any further work. It took me some 30 years from 1988 before touching anything more recent of them.

Land of Cockayne also disappoints.

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Lewian wrote:

I hadn't listed Tangerine Dream earlier, but in fact I was a huge fan of them (and still am up to the point where they lost me) but the double whammy of Tyger and Optical Race (after a few albums in 84-86 that had not exactly been top notch either) made me lose interest in any further work. It took me some 30 years from 1988 before touching anything more recent of them.

Optical Race had such potential, and does have some nice material, but the duds and the soundbanks from the multiple D-50/550 units really bring everything down. At least we got one stunner with Edgar on guitar in "Sun Gate"!

What do you not like in '84-86? All tops, IMO, especially Poland.

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Lewian wrote:

verslibre wrote:

What do you not like in '84-86? All tops, IMO, especially Poland.

Poland and Underwater Sunlight are fine even though I don't listen remotely as often to them as to what came before, Le Parc less so, I mean it has some good stuff but is more superficial than earlier work, and I'm not a fan of Firestarter and Heartbreakers, which are much weaker than earlier soundtracks. The latter three are still enjoyable to some extent but three stars max for me (in fact also Underwater Sunlight which is good but hasn't anything really exciting on it). They churned out some further soundtracks in these years that I don't know.

I see that Underwater Sunlight has an average rating higher than any album between Exit and Hyperborea, but I think all four of these are quite a bit stronger.

Up to and including Underwater Sunlight I think TD were still putting out good stuff. Agree what you said earlier about Tyger, after that it was a slippery slope that followed. Edgar decided to shoe horn his son into the band in the early 90's and that didn't help matters imo. After Franke and Haslinger left it was Tangerine Dream in name only.