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Azerate

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Posted: October 17 2006 at 13:39

FISH "Return To Childhood" -- Live (I have read that`s great live album but it was a HUGE dissapointment)

Genesis "Calling All Stations" (boooooooooring)

Asgard "Arkana" (it`s messy for me despite what other people say)

Tomas Bodin "I am" (I don`t know really why I don`t like this album but I had big expectations and this album let me down)

Derek Sherinian "Blood Of The Snake" (maybe I need to listen to it a few times more)

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Posted: October 14 2006 at 16:51

Under Wraps - Jethro Tull

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Posted: October 14 2006 at 15:08

just a few albums that come to mind....

- "Yes - Open your eyes" was a huge disappointment for me. When I bought it I was expecting a lot and I got anuninspired pop record instead

- "GTR" same thing, After I heard Hackett and Howe formed a band, I couldn't wait to hear it. It turned out to be full of accessible aor. I learned to appreciate the musicianship and some of the tracks later on but I had expected a more progressive record.

- "k2 Book of ...." It's not a bad album but I expected something that would have some similarities with UK. Apparently it held more infuences of Genesis. In any case, it is not the masterpiece some reviewers think it is, still an enjoyable record though...

- "Genesis - Calling all stations" : I was expecting a return to form but the album sounded like a bland Banks/Rutherford solo project. I did like Ray Wison's voice on "The lamb lies down" in the subsequent tour though.

I'm one of those strange guys that wasn't impressed by the second Riverside album. I loved the debut album but the second album is more standard prog metal and I really think they can do better than that.

- The last ELP studio album is really dreadful. I wasn't very keen on their comeback album either but I did give it a lot of turns, while "On the hot seat" was a major disappointment, another commercial aor album from a band that is capable of so much more. Eventhough the first track is splendid, the rest of the album really is a letdown. Fortunately there's that wonderful bonus track.

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Posted: October 14 2006 at 13:35

Fassbinder wrote:

First of all, these are the first five albums by ELP -- I liked them, but after some time lost any interest to them.

I share that opinion. For a while after I discovered them, they were the best I'd ever heard, but I quickly lost all interest in them. Weird... Can't really say they disappointed me though...

Another album (I've already posted a couple in this thread) that disappointed me a little is Tool's Lateralus. I really liked 10,000 Days, but so far, I can't say the same thing about Lateralus.

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Posted: October 14 2006 at 11:44

DT - When Dream and Day Unite

the only album i hadnt heard from them, as i expected greatness, i got a bad vocalist, bad production, terrible bass sound, lack of punch in the guitars, and one amazing instrumental.

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Posted: October 14 2006 at 11:13

Dream theater - ToT and 8VM

I still can't get how Dream Theater music is created by humans

Dream Theater in Monterrey, Mexico 03.03.06 Unforgettable

el böthy

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Posted: October 14 2006 at 09:53

Counterparts! God do I hate it! I think I was in the pinacle of my Rush-fanatism when I got it, but after the first listen...such crap! And I tried and tried and tried...and now that I think it over its because of this album I stoped liking Rush as much as I used to...

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Posted: October 14 2006 at 07:53

1. GOING FOR THE ONE. Wakeman's much-trumpeted return to the Yes fold! A noisy and chaotic album, far less original than the incredible RELAYER.

2. Wakeman's own RHAPSODIES. After the fairly good CRIMINAL RECORD, we were all waiting to see if he could come up with another great instrumental album. Instead, we got this absolute disaster. As far as I know, it is still unavailable on CD - and for a good reason.

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Posted: October 14 2006 at 07:46

Amputechture and Frances the Mute by THAT band...Mras Travolta,you know...

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Posted: October 13 2006 at 08:08

The Mar's Volta's "Francis the Mute".

Omar's much better at playing guitar than he is at editing/producing.

Luckily, he/they more than made up for that mis-step with the new album Smile

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Posted: October 13 2006 at 05:17

Fassbinder-- I know what you mean about CttE and though I happen to love it, it was after getting a bit bored with 'Fragile' and 'Yes Album'. As far as Foxtrot goes, I think alot of it has to do with 'Supper's Ready'...you just can't really beat that.

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Posted: October 13 2006 at 02:42

Well, the topic is "The album that disappointed you heavily" (I already said that it was Under Wraps by Jethro Tull), but in order to be heavily disappointed one (usually) has to have any expectations on an album (high ones, mostly). There are some albums that I feel certain degree of disappointment about them, but it's not so heavy. First of all, these are the first five albums by ELP -- I liked them, but after some time lost any interest to them. Then, Close to the Edge and Foxtrot. I'm not disappointed by them since I listened to them without any expectations. I just wonder, why Close to the Edge (which is not a bad album by any means) is considered number one Prog album (for me it's just a good Yes album; the group has the better ones, in my opinion), and why Foxtrot (which also considered as one of the best Prog albums) sounds for me like an album without any interesting tune.

Edited by Fassbinder - October 13 2006 at 02:43

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Posted: October 13 2006 at 02:01

Atavachron wrote:

Whistler-- I'm actually kinda glad Meddle kept coming up as a record to hear, because it's usually Dark Side, Animals, Ummagumma, ad nauseam. Those *are* great records but it's nice to know some people still stick up for Medal...I mean Metal...I mean Meddle.

I'm on this despicable crusade with my art rock right now, where I'm listening to albums I bought over the summer one week at a time, and Meddle's week came up. Everyone asks me, "whatchu listin' to?" "Meddle, Pink Floyd." "...Pink Floyd's not metal!" And I...hmm. I guess this isn't a very interesting story after all.

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Posted: October 13 2006 at 01:58

Whistler-- I'm actually kinda glad Meddle kept coming up as a record to hear, because it's usually Dark Side, Animals, Ummagumma, ad nauseam. Those *are* great records but it's nice to know some people still stick up for Medal...I mean Metal...I mean Meddle.

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Posted: October 13 2006 at 01:57

I must be easy to please as I can only think of one or two. LOL

Too Old To Rock And Roll...just wasn't very good at all.
And Union at least had a cool cover.

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Posted: October 13 2006 at 01:46

Funny...I was just thinking about this. The most disappointing album I've heard to date is Meddle. It was sort of propped up, after I'd only heard Dark Side, as THE album I had to hear. And it opens on such a great track, but then it gets sorta boring and samey, save for a few bright spots (Fearless mostly). And the most disappointing track is Echoes. For the first eight minutes it's brilliant, but then it's just like the lads can't keep running with it...

"There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson

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Posted: October 12 2006 at 19:33

Nonprog: RHCP's Stadium Arcadium. OK, so I was half expecting to be let down, and there are still a few good songs on it. But the whole damn thing is sooo repetitive and bland (though not as bad as By the Way Dead

) Meanwhile, everyone's hailing it as the best album of the year.....to each his/her own I guess

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Posted: October 12 2006 at 18:30

Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason. - Oh dear Dead

Rush - Presto

It took me a while to get into 'Clutching at Straws'; it seemed to be a big change from their previous albums,

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Posted: October 12 2006 at 16:11

I remember being bitterly disappointed when Boston - Third Stage was released, it was billed as the second coming!

GTR was a real letdown too, I remember bringing that home when it was released and thinking "crap!"

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Posted: October 12 2006 at 16:03

I have to say, although I didn't think so at first, 'Clutching At Straws' is probably the best Marillion album, period. It's sometimes chillingly bleak and sad- see 'Going Under', 'White Russian', 'Warm Wet Circles' and 'Sugar Mice'- these songs were obviously the product of a troubled mind which Fish obviously was, at that point in time. A stunning album, though.

I agree that post Daevid Allen, Gong dovetailed into being just another jazz rock band. A good one granted, but there's nothing there that sounds like Gong of old. Why not just change the name??

I have to add to the dissenters for 'Calling All Stations'. It has a bad reputation for being the worst Genesis album ever and I have to concur with that. I was taken in by the 'return to prog/darker fare' hype that surrounded this travesty and was confronted by one of the most characterless albums I've ever had the 'pleasure' of hearing. Terrible.

Rick Wakeman's 'Retro' could have been better too, I felt. For all the hype about using vintage synths (and there were still a heck of a lot of digital Korgs etc on there imo), what was the point if most of it was pretty poppy, AOR material. Lyrically it was poor even by his standards too- I'd much prefer an instrumental album. It wasn't a bad album by any means, just I expected better.

The Flower Kings' 'Unfold The Future' was a bit of a letdown for me. It's not that bad but boy, do they ramble on- the only thing I liked much and can remember on here was 'The Truth Will Set You Free'. I loved 'Paradox Hotel' though- my prog album of the year of the new ones I bought.

Symphony X as a band let me down. For all the hype about their 'songwriting is stronger than other prog metal groups', I found them to be the cheesiest prog metal band I'd heard. Lots of shredding and that power metal sound that I dislike intensely.

More or less every Queensryche album apart from 'Operation Mindcrime' disappoints me. All I hear is Iron Maiden copies or mainstream rock on most of their other albums- hardly any prog. Arguably Iron Maiden are more progressive on average- that will set the cat amongst the pigeons....

I find the Hogarth era Marillion very hard to get into, aside from 'Season's End' (which rather obviously still sounds like the OLD Marillion). I'm not sure what it is, as I can't even call the albums bad (they certainly aren't) but Hogarth's ambling vocal style doesn't do much for me. I guess I'm more a Fish fan, so to speak. I keep on trying though...