The album that dissapointed you heavily

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The Tea wrote:

 

For sure we always get dissapointed when our favorite band goes through the toilet door....so in my case, at first it was Train of thought (Dream Therater), but then I heard it properly and it kicks. But then  I liested to Six degrees of Inner Turbulence again.....the title track is gorgeous, but the first disc is just atrocious, the worst ever by DT, full of metallica, Nu-metal bullsh*t....

 

In classics, I was so desperate to finally meet Brain Salad Surgery....when I did, it dissapointed me in a way: I was expecting three musical wizards, and I got them...I was expecting prog-rock....and I missed the ROCK part....ELP was the only band ever that was JUST PROG, no prog-rock, just prog. ELP were in a genre of their own....

 

 

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 und vas ist das "liested?"

 

Seriously though, there's plenty of rock in ELP -- just ask any classical purist. They despised ELP for daring to "pollute" the classics with rock!

Edited by Peter Rideout - October 24 2006 at 23:16

For sure we always get dissapointed when our favorite band goes through the toilet door....so in my case, at first it was Train of thought (Dream Therater), but then I heard it properly and it kicks. But then  I liested to Six degrees of Inner Turbulence again.....the title track is gorgeous, but the first disc is just atrocious, the worst ever by DT, full of metallica, Nu-metal bullsh*t....

I hope that's not sarcasm Mr. Rideout. I take insults to my favorite band poorly.

Edited by stonebeard - October 24 2006 at 22:54

I'll go with IQ - dark matter!

Hmm ...  A number of candidates spring to mind. Supertramp's Famous Last Words would be one - 'poppy' and trill. And how about Yes' Open your Eyes  ? How on earth, having just shown on Keys that much of the old magic was still there, could they possibly produce such a collection of dull, instantly forgettable songs ? But arguably the worst of all was Genesis' appalling Abacab. Another of the true greats, Genesis had managed to weather the storm and survive (albeit in reducued format) into the eighties. I can remember having high hopes for this album. Hopes, alas, that were cruelly dashed. An embarrassingly bad album.

jplanet wrote: ELP's Black Moon. I just couldn't get through a single song. It left such a bad impression on me that I didn't bother to see them when they toured, which I heard was a phenomenal show.

King Crimson' Islands. I knew it wasn't rated above four stars, but I'd seen a bunch of people say it was one of their favorites. I poped it in the CD player expecting an interesting album, but instead I heard one of the most boring albums in my life featuring one of the most annoying vocalists I'd ever heard.

For me it has to be Duke. I was 13 when And Then There Were Three came out and although it's not a classic it still has a definite prog feel to it at times whereas Duke was just a stream of pop drivel with one good instrumental. Works was also quite awful with Greg Lake's side being the wussiest sentimental rubbish imaginable and the whole album nothing like ELP had done before. I also agree with those who nominated Tormato, to go from the majesty of Awaken, the stunning beauty of Turn Of The Century and the bombastic brilliance of Parallels to a feeble offering with Rick Wakeman foresaking proper keyboards for an instrument called the Birotron is simply amazing. Save The Whale and Circus of Heaven are two of the worst songs I've heard in any style whatsoever. Three once marvellous bands reduced to such incompetence and lack of imagination or having any idea at all what their fans would like to hear is really quite stunning.

Ive only really been dissapointed in an album twice, Dream Theater's Octavarium is easily their worst album and Yes Close To The Edge is just plain dull. With Yes' CTTE, I was expecting somethingto rival Foxtrot or Animals, but instead I got a cure for insomnia.