In what way did your prog favs let you down?

VDGG = ALT is the pits

I was never chronological in my pursuit of Pink Floyd's catalogue, but when I came across The Final Cut, I felt let down. In a big way. I know it has its fans here and I love the fact that we all are different, but to me personally, it feels like foreplay after the orgasm. The Wall expressed everything integral to Waters' inner demons in terms of his father and the war - yet with The Final Cut we get even more from the same drawer. Only with plastic patch work music and half a band.

Who can blame em?

Guldbamsen wrote: The Doctor wrote: My fav is Clutching at Straws.  Marillion did disappoint me with Radiation, coming off the excellent This Strange Engine, and then followed Radiation up with what I thought was a rather boring album, .com.  Clutching is very close to being my favourite too, but that's because I love the beatnik approach of the lyrics. Always read a lot of Kerouac and Burroughs.

I stopped listening after Misplaced Childhood, I'm afraid.

The last 20 years of sideshow buffoonery by Yes has been exceedingly disappointing. And it seems to get exponentially worse as time goes on. There was a time in my life when they were it, but even listening to their classics now gets clouded by images of recent rubbish albums and line-up changes. Chris Squire's jackbootery as the masthead for their current devolving enterprise.

Ady Cardiac wrote: i brought a gentle giant cd set last year.....was the last 6 albums  i think.....its frightening as the albums get worse as they go along.....the last one is awful.......which is a shame.

Edited by irrelevant - March 16 2013 at 21:27

I really like the saying "If you don't have something nice to say about someone, don't say anything at all."

Edited by brainstormer - March 17 2013 at 22:44

Yes in the 80s, nothing wrong with trying to do something completely different than before, but does it have to sound awful? In a way I guess parts of "Going for the One" and "Tormato" were disappointments as well, nowhere near the perfection of "Relayer". Still, they both had some extremely strong moments.

I was pretty disappointed when I met Steve Howe and asked him to sign a picture of Tomorrow I had. He looked at it aghast, then sighed, "How embarrassing... Look at those trousers..."

twosteves wrote: that's Howe being very nice lol--he's notoriously aloof----of course he wouldn't shake my hand when I met him but he barely wanted to speak.