Your Least Favorite Prog Bands/Albums

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MOSTLY AUTUMN  &  PAVLOV'S DOG !!!

Sean Trane wrote: [QUOTE=aqualung28]Styx.  Do I really have to say why? We are speaking about prog bands , here. Not radio-friendly FM rock!

 

 

I could list 30 or 40 Styx songs that easily qualify as prog, much of it killer too. Sure, they had a very melodic, commercial leaning, but that was mostly on the late '70s/early '80s material. I proudly stand up for Styx, cuz there's more to them than Kilroy Was Here and the even worse Cornerstone. I used to dislike Styx too, until I gave Equinox, The Serpent Is Rising and Crystal Ball a good listen. there's more to Styx than FM Radio rock. Like what you don't hear on FM radio, for one...

worst bands: Pavlov's Dog (is this prog? is this vocalist for real?), Doctor Nerve (totally annoying!), Starcastle (Yes copycats)...and speaking of Yes,I would NEVER call them BAD, but I cannot, no matter how many times and albums I've tried, get into YES. (here come the insults...) It's Anderson's vocals I can't get into, way to "twee". Musically they are beyond good, but it's just those damn vocals...not for me (that's why I dislike Starcastle too...) (Yes, I already tried 'Drama', recommended by a friend who knows I don't like Jon Anderson...and the guy sounds just like Jon Anderson!)

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Cluster One wrote:

ELP is my most disliked, Carl Palmer excluded. They are grossly overrated. Always over-the-top, and self important, EVEN FOR PROGGERS. Their 'landmark' and 'revolutionary' prog work of 1973 has not stood up well over time. Listen to their work now and prepared to be completely underwhelmed. All style, no substance. Too many covers and 'arrangements' of other people's works, way too much 'noodling' on the keys by Emerson (the Steve Vai of Keyboards). Karn Evil my a$$. A great indication of how being faster, does not always translate into being better. Give me Banks, Wright or Eddy Harsch any day.

"Someone get me a ladder." Such a touching lyric...

 

Get real man!

Spock's Beard and Glass Hammer - all the elements that I like are in there, but somehow it just doesn't add up for me.

UFO's second album is prog and is really boring.

Styx, if it can be seriously consider prog. Asia, a superband with super musicians and super boring music.

Jim Garten wrote: Pallas - just don't get me started on Pallas...........

Why Jim, what's wrong with Pallas ?

I cannot get into the following:

Jethro Tull (cringe music extraordinaire,hey nonny-nonny-aw forget it!)

VDGG (uggghhh)

Paatos (see JT)

Zappa (not my cup o' char)

Anglagard (ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ)

Echolyn (see zappa)

Magma (see Vdgg)

The mars Volta (music for people who cant see further than the end of their nose)

Dream Theater ("music" for people with virility problems)

Radiohead (prog only if you want to appear intelligent,sensitive and hip)

Fantomas ( the sound of barrels being scraped is preferable and more musical)

by the way, I own enough albums by this lot to actually form an opinion!

 

I'm...  really not sure.  I've heard some prog that didn't catch my eye (ear?), but I usually just traded it back in or something, never really dwelled on it or thought about it.  I guess I could just go with Enchant, it seems no matter how many different albums by them I try, I can never find one that seems like more than a conscious attempt to write in odd time without having good riffs. 

Cluster One wrote: ELP is my most disliked,

I never disliked ELB, though never thought they are from the Champion's League of Progressive with Yes-King Crimson-Jethro Tull-VDGG-Genesis-Pink Floyd.

Really very overrated band, IMO.