Bottom 100 of ProgArchives
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Topic: Bottom 100 of ProgArchives
Posted By: floflo79
Subject: Bottom 100 of ProgArchives
Date Posted: March 15 2015 at 08:45
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After some work, I made a bottom 100 of ProgArchives. - Only studio albums - no proto-prog or prog related - 10 ratings minimum
No big surprises, but still interesting. Some ratings may change with time. ------------- 
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Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: March 15 2015 at 08:53
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I'm actually surprised to see a few artists on here, although most of them are albums I haven't heard. ------------- https://dreamwindow.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow - My Music 
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Posted By: floflo79
Date Posted: March 15 2015 at 09:00
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I'm glad that I've not heard many of them :) -------------
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Posted By: floflo79
Date Posted: March 15 2015 at 09:01
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I'm working to make the 100-200 part of the chart. -------------
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: March 15 2015 at 09:05
 51. Franco Battiato - L’Egitto Prima Delle Sabbie (1.73)amazing 1 star album.. and one of my best reviews  ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 15 2015 at 09:36
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I think i only know 3 or 4 albums from this big list |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: March 15 2015 at 10:01
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Hi,
Now ... HERE'S my kind of top ten! But it's missing way too many "little" bands that deserve to be listed here, though. Again, the main reason why I do not like the top/bottom ten, is because it is not about the artist, it's about the album you bought and not the rest of the artists' work.
For example, I have not purchased the later PFM stuff (yet) or even heard it. Doesn't mean I won't. If I get that far, I will! Samething wth Le Orme/Orme. But I never lost sight, for example, of Steve Hillage, or Daevid Allen, whose solo albums should be listed here, even though ... it will force an update of the definition!
I don't have all of these albums, but many of them appeared on the Space Pirate Radio shows and I remember them. That said, here is a small list of things that to me, are just a part of the artist's work and not a top or bottom anything!
Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - … E Via (1.26)
Klaus Schulze - Totentag (1.29) Tangerine Dream - Under Cover Chapter One (1.36) New Trolls - Quelli Como Noi (1.36) Goblin - Volo (1.36) Jane - Beautiful Lady (1.44) Le Orme - Orme (1.46) Tangerine Dream - Three O’Clock High (1.51) Ashra - Tropical Heat (1.51) Badger - White Lady (1.58) Steve Hillage - For To Next (1.60) Atoll - L’Océan (1.60) Amon Düül - Disaster (1.64) Machiavel - New Lines (1.63) Pat Metheny - Zero Tolerance For Silence (1.72) Franco Battiato - L’Egitto Prima Delle Sabbie (1.73) Acid Mothers Temple - Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO (1.87) ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: March 15 2015 at 10:17
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There's an album on there that I actually quite like, and that's Shub-Niggurath's Testament. I can see why it's so reviled by a lot of people who like Les Morts Vont Vite, because the character of the group had completely changed. The bleak and gothic prog of LMVV is gone and in its place is bleak and abstract free improvisation. But if you approach it with that expectation, and you actually like free improv, it's not bad. |
Posted By: floflo79
Date Posted: March 15 2015 at 10:22
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Agree with you Mascodagam, Testament is a pretty good album, and it don't deserve to be so low. Moshkito, I agree with you for some albums, but L'Océan, for example, is a really bad album, Atoll or not. -------------
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Posted By: twseel
Date Posted: March 15 2015 at 12:03
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Drawing Restraint 9, Unconditionally Guaranteed and the Acid Mothers Temple debut are pretty good ------------- 
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Posted By: floflo79
Date Posted: March 15 2015 at 12:38
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Agreed for Acid Mothers Temple debut, but Drawing Restraint.... is very bad, and Unconditionally Guaranteed is poor. -------------
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: March 15 2015 at 15:13
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Hi,
See ... I don't do that!
Because you like one album by JoeSchmoe, and you don't like the other, does not mean he is not an artist and deserves to be listed.
It's just sad to say that I don't like this album therefore it stinks and get it off the list ... c'mon, Picasso had his crap, so did Andi Warhol, so did the Beatles and Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd and Genesis ... so why are you still just talking "songs" and not an artist with a full repertoire of material, the combination of which, makes the artist worthwhile?
For me, that list was mostly about telling you that it was a part of an artist, whose work I enjoyed and still appreciate. Might not be the favorite album of theirs, but that's OK ... I still appreciate their work regardless! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: March 15 2015 at 16:21
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I actually like Triumvirat's Russian Roulette, but it took me quite a while to get to that point. I've always liked Badger's White Lady album, though it's not prog so much as something like a Jackie Lomax solo album. Most of the others I have never heard.
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: March 16 2015 at 00:35
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Of the ones I know, it makes sense...most are not prog and/or not very good or for fans and collectors only. AMT's debut is really the only odd duck of the ones I know...but I suppose it's a bit too noisy for some/most. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: March 16 2015 at 05:00
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Sort of surprised to see Adult Themes for Voice on there. I would think it would be more polarizing than having such a strong negative reaction. Okay maybe I'm not that surprised. But I thought there was some cool stuff happening. -------------  <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 16 2015 at 10:43
OMG there are actually 47 worse albums than In The Hot Seat
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: March 16 2015 at 11:21
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richardh wrote:Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: March 16 2015 at 11:32
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The only one I own is the Battiato album, which is an acquired taste to say the least. Oh yeah - I've heard In the Hot Seat twice, I think, and I'm pretty sure I'll never hear it again. As for the others listed, then it's probably the TD and Schulze ones I'm most likely to visit, although they're far from being on my wishlist. I may get the Shub album though as Masco's description entices the improv fan in me. Other than that, go fish. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: March 16 2015 at 12:03
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I am shocked to learn that somebody gave Rick Wakeman's Rock and Roll Prophet more than one star. ------------- 
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Posted By: sublime220
Date Posted: March 16 2015 at 12:52
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Friction? Did not see that coming... ------------- There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark... |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: March 16 2015 at 12:54
Brrrriinnngggg... (repeat a zillion times) ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: March 16 2015 at 12:55
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It is nice to see recognition awarded to these bottom feeders. nice work. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 17 2015 at 02:57
a rogue fairy probably
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Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: March 17 2015 at 10:47
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Wakeman's Family Album is a decent one if you like his '80s instrumental keyboard works. Santana's Beyond Appearances and Freedom aren't terrible albums by any means, and they're certainly better than the overly commercial dreck that kickstarted his career all over again with Supernatural. Apart from a couple cool instrumentals, Beck's Flash is inoffensive but not very interesting at all. Moraz's Timecode is awful. I'm surprised it's as high as it is. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: March 17 2015 at 13:07
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I'm surprised to see Split Enz' Conflicting Emotions in the list. It certainly isn't their best, but on the other hand, it doesn't deserve such a low rating.
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Posted By: fudgenuts64
Date Posted: March 17 2015 at 13:27
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Surprised to see Tangerine Dream so many times here... I love them! Tons of output probably did it. ------------- 
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Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: March 17 2015 at 14:04
Three O'clock High has some great music but many of the tracks are painfully short (cues, really). Dead Solid Perfect isn't bad at all, it's just from their late '80s phase and not as many Dreamers are as fond of that time (it sounds golden compared to much of what they did in the '90s). Under Cover, though...that was one of "those" times I wondered what Edgar was thinking... ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: March 17 2015 at 17:53
great cover.. but can you do that brilliance the justice it deserves in a album review ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |