Your Least Favorite Prog Bands/Albums

The Great Nothing is quite an adequate title for that Spock's Beard epic. It's not bad but it does very little to me.

Bands with lots of growling are not my cup of tea.

Some disappointing records

Soft Machinine: Two (their first is much better)

Amon Düül 2: Yeti (Tanz der Lemminge is much better, and Wolf City is positively great)

ELP: Works vol. 1

Roger Waters: Radio KAOS, The Wall Live in Berlin

Pink Floyd: Delicate Sound of Thunder

Jethro Tull: A Passion Play, Warchild, Too Old to Rock'n Roll Too Young to Die

Yes: Tormato, Drama

Genesis: Abacab (Duke isn't much to write home about either, though I like "Genesis")

Rush: 2112 (Awful! Cheesy metal with annoying, over the top, vocals. The title epic does not deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Echoes, Supper's Ready, Close to the Edge, Thick as a Brick, A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers, Shine On You Crazy Diamond or Tarkus.  

i have most of the albums in the PROG ARCHIVES top 100 review list, though the following bands have never or will ever appeal to me:

CAMEL  or any "canterbury" drippy hippy scene bands. music for elevators and supermarkets.

SOFT MACHINE  never really understood what was going on here at all!  a-b-c-d... etc. ??? 

VDGG "theme one" is a masterpiece to me, but not the albums. sorry guys, i  tried REALLY HARD to like these!

MEATLOAF  just sounds like a mess, a caricature (non-prog/metal people like this guy for some reason!)

MASTERMIND  i listened to all these albums and they just sound amateurish

GENTLE GIANT  can't bear to listen to this group for a minute

FRANK ZAPPA  "hot rats" is brilliant but the rest of these albums sound like somebody left the tape running and they're messing about!! brilliant musicianship nonetheless.

so there you go - one man's meat is another man's poison! though i still believe there is no such thing as bad music, as there's always someone that will like it !

Trotsky wrote: Manunkind wrote: UFO's second album is prog and is really boring. Really??? I'd heard great things about it ... apparently it contains one of the earliest 30 minute songs in rock ... Flying if I've not mistaken? I've still never heard the Mick Bolton-driven incarnation of UFO ... only the hard rock Michael Schenker one ...

Great things about this album? Well, there you have it, I suppose it is possible to like this album...

Yes, there's a 30 minute suite there, and it's probably this album's biggest flaw. The suite (and the rest of the album, too) is filled with Bolton's quarter-baked attempts at creating sort of a space-rock feel, sparse, slightly tripped-out guitar phrasing, a little like Syd Barrett on "Piper...". I think he fails miserably, his meanderings lead nowhere; boring like hell. The other musicians aren't doing anything decent, either. Schenker is a much better guitar player than Bolton, even though his style is completely different.     

Progressive metal bands that simply copy Dream Theater's sound... There are so many innovating and exciting progressive metal bands out there, that these boring and insipid retreads serve only to give prog metal a bad name.

For good prog-metal, see: Psychotic Waltz, Pain of Salvation, Fates Warning etc. etc.

Bands as Flower Kings and Spock's Beard that repeat themselves

Neo prog bands that try to sound like Genesis without inspiration

Dream Theater

Most of RIO bands (interesting but not my cup of tea)

Il Balletto di Bronzo (a classic but too noisy)

Deus Ex Machina (crazy energy plus screams).

Monster bands during 80s (Genesis, Yes) are not included due their non-prog condition.