Which album do you "rather dislike"? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

I wish that Magma's Merci was listed. Not that that poor album put prog back a few years, but it would be twenty years until Magma released another great, or indeed any studio album.

Edited by Logan - March 21 2008 at 13:42

Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me.

Post Hackett Albums, any of them.

Dream Theater "Octavarium" LOL

Changed the subject title- apparently the word hate is harmful.

Yes' Big Generator seems to be getting a lot of choices, but I've never heard it so I didn't include it.

Toilet Seat - ELP

From that list: Love Beach

Transatlantic can't be metal, because it would sink

Ive still never heard Love Beach. Doesn't like I'm missing much.

I cant say I really hate any of the albums listed` - that 've heard - but I have an intense dislike for Invisible Touch; more for what it represents than the music itself.

Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!

There was once an album I hated so much I forced its title out of my consciousness.

Well though I'm not a massive fan of 80s Crimson (haven't heard it in years though), that shouldn't belong here. The same goes for ATTWT. These eras are not bad- I love ATTWT and to an extent Duke- especially when compared to the other rubbish here.

On a purely hype basis alone, it has to be Octavarium. I simply could not believe when I heard it that this AOR album (with the exception of the title track) was being called one of the greatest albums ever made. It's not.
If you bought the others expecting something good, I'd have read a few reviews first. They are as abominable as their reputation suggests.

These comments almost (almost) make me want to go out and find this album to listen to. The kind of "accident on the side of the road" thing. So awful, but you have to look.

>>Then, there's Love Beach. I reviewed this album on the main site, where I unleashed my venom on this album (look for 1800iareyay's review if interested). However, once I submitted the review, I discovered that I wanted to say more, which is part of the reason I sarted this poll. Love Beach is wrist-cuttingly bad. The pathetic lyrics, beyond subpar instrumentality, and commercial gloss shook my faith deeply in ELP, and prog since, at the time, ELP was the only prog band I had listened to. Thankfully, Yes swooped in a saved me soon after. After I began to appreciate prog, I thought my then-15 year old brain couldn't grasp the deep levels that surely must have been present on LB. So I listened to it again. About halfway through the seeming epic Officer and a Gentleman, I took out my trusty Boy Scout pocketknife, opened it, and plunged it into my thigh. I did this to distract myself from the pain. Love Beach, IMO, a stain on progressive music and, to me, is to prog as "Glitter" or "Showgirls" is to cinema. Nothing about that album is good, nothing. It will always get my vote not only as the worst album of prog, but my personal choice for the worst album of all time.<<

Poll Question: Which of these albums can you not stand?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
King Crimson- Discipline	5	[6.85%]
Yes- Tormato	5	[6.85%]
ELP- Love Beach	10	[13.70%]
Dream Theater- Octavarium	9	[12.33%]
Rush- Presto	6	[8.22%]
Genesis- And Then There Were Three or any post-Hackett album	17	[23.29%]
Other- Please specify	21	[28.77%]
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