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The more times I hear Mike Oldfield's Hergest Ridge album, the less I like it, especially when it's compared with the far superior Tubular Bells and Ommadawn. Smile
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Neurosis were good, but the Steve Albini-produced albums sent me into a downward spiral after a few listens. Can't listen to anything past TSIB now.
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Unlike movies with a twist (once seen, the twist is known so a review is pointless)...Classics like TFTO actually mature like a good cheese. When I was young n daft I think that I almost liked Duke even tho I listened to some terrible stuff like Napalm Death, Slayer and Venom...mind you if I wanted summat to annoy my wife...😂
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I thought of another one for me and that is Point of Know Return by Kansas(thanks to the Kansas poll for reminding me). It's certainly not a bad album but the last time I listened to it it didn't have that excitement that it used to. I think some albums suffer from the law of diminishing returns more than others and just don't sound as good with repeated listens. I don't think this would happen with leftoverture but I should play it again soon to find out.
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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

Selling England by the Pound and Tales of Topographical Oceans were two that I loved when they came out (though never liked "The Battle of Epping Forest" and it took me a while to love "Dancing with the Moonlit Knight") but I have to psych myself into listening to today. 

Also, any/all of Peter Gabriel's solo albums after the first one. While I loved them when they came out, I've soured on all of them--'cept that first one. I LOVE the first one.

Also, Wish You Were Here--loved it as a kid, hate it now.


Would you attribute that more to burnout? There are many albums like Dark Side of the Moon which i still love but rarely listen to because i've just heard them way too many times but when i do the magic is still there.

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Selling England by the Pound and Tales of Topographical Oceans were two that I loved when they came out (though never liked "The Battle of Epping Forest" and it took me a while to love "Dancing with the Moonlit Knight") but I have to psych myself into listening to today. 

Also, any/all of Peter Gabriel's solo albums after the first one. While I loved them when they came out, I've soured on all of them--'cept that first one. I LOVE the first one.

Also, Wish You Were Here--loved it as a kid, hate it now.


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Eh? Who put SEBTP? No one got fed up with DSOTM yet? WHY FOOKIN NOT!!!!

Cuz its about the best album out there.  Never got tired of it. IMHO


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One of the advantages of having a large music collection is that there is always something to listen to without having to overplay anything. I try hard not to overplay my favorites so as not to kill the magic. Porcupine Tree is one of my favorite groups, same with King Crimson, but I'll sometimes go years without listening to them. Then I'll pull them all out and go on a listening spree and the magic is still there. Neil Young is another that I'll sometimes go 5-6 years without playing, then go on a weeklong Neil Young kick, listening to all his albums from first to last.

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I love pink Floyd to Death! but spends months without listening any of their albums as I had listen to the albums thousands of times!!! but I still love Mighty Floyd.
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For those that have been a fan for the past 35 years! those albums comes back to you! just give it a rest!! and watch!! how you will like to listen to them again!!! It might take a while or years but it will defiantly will!!!
There are thousands and thousands of albums and bands in the prog world and even in rock in general that you can listen to. So why  listening to the same albums over and over????
specially these days? if you were born in the 50, 60 or 70s it is a different ball game as it was not easy to have access to listen to many different albums as today you have spotify, itunes or yourtube. you know what I mean?
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Same to me for The Wall.
Gotta somewhat agree with Dream Theater. Although Train of Thought and Distance Over Time are my favorite discs from them now LOL
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

First ones that spring to mind are Pink Floyd's The Wall & The Final Cut, I was a bit of a Floyd fanatic when they came out but those two in particular aren't to my tastes any more.

As another Floyd fanatic, I tend to agree. Both albums suffer from what I call 'lack of Rick'.  'The Wall' is too long and rambling - if you separated the wheat from the chaff there is probably a first rate single album there.  I tend to find 'The Final Cut' more satisfying, even tho it is arguably a Waters solo album, supported by Dave & Nick.
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Not prog but Joe Satriani's stuff and Rage Against the Machine have all grown stale on me. In the case of Joe, I kind of feel bad about it. Like there are definitely still songs I adore but for the most part, as my interests in prog developed, I can feel that both of those acts are not particularly creative or original on a regular basis. 
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Genesis - Selling England by the Pound. I used to love it but now I find it meh and IMO Peter Gabriel's vocals on the album are sub par. Unpopular opinion, I know.
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Avalon? Roxy music is wimmin knicker dampening music is it not? I have too much REAL-PROG to bother with them....eddie jobson and phil manzanera wasted their talent in that band...Jobson should have rivalled wakeman n Emerson...too busy shagging groupies tho...
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I played Avalon for the first time in ages the other day and found it very ordinary. Not at all the way I remembered it back in the eighties as I always regarded it as very refined pop for that period. Kate Bush, Asia, U2 and Talking Heads far superior. Brian Eno is a superb producer. Every album he touches improves. The early Roxy Music albums however are still very good.
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Originally posted by tdfloyd tdfloyd wrote:

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Zeit is definitely a polarizing album and I always get a chuckle when I think of a review that I ran across years ago.  The guy said that Zeit sounded like listening to multiple fans in your refrigerator running at once!  To each their own.  
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And I would post that the guy that wrote that needs to find himself another job and forget talking about music, when he does not even listen to it!

It was the same thing way back when, at a time when someone (I think it was Rolling sh*tone) that has a review that TD sounded like washing machines ... and no one that I know of, other than Guy Guden, Paul,  myself and a handful of folks that heard Space Pirate Radio, ever worried about that ... and washing machines were played, of course, to show the difference, and then probably a funny bit with some really early Guru Guru, so it was all metalized, and ... to clean my shorts!

I get really tired with those folks ideas about music, which is not music at all ... it's just notes! 

We, specially at PA, need to stand up to that crap a lot more ... the music is what is important! 

PS: With only one problem ... now I will have to review a FAUST album ... and I will be in trouble! Wink
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Originally posted by friso friso wrote:

Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

Tangerine Dream - Zeit. When I came across this 2LP at a fair in the early-90’s, I looked forward in anticipated glory (it was the last album I managed to acquire of theirs at the time - come to think, I never got any more - my 21st LP from them). It was pretty amazing for some time, now when I spin it on the odd occasion, it seems like 80 minutes of my life I won’t get back. Yet Klaus Schulze - Cyborg, acquired not so long afterwards, is the opposite now - AMAZING.


Recently had the same experience. Zeit has its own magical charm, but Cyborg is much more rewarding (especially the second LP).
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Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

Tangerine Dream - Zeit. When I came across this 2LP at a fair in the early-90’s, I looked forward in anticipated glory (it was the last album I managed to acquire of theirs at the time - come to think, I never got any more - my 21st LP from them). It was pretty amazing for some time, now when I spin it on the odd occasion, it seems like 80 minutes of my life I won’t get back. Yet Klaus Schulze - Cyborg, acquired not so long afterwards, is the opposite now - AMAZING.


Recently had the same experience. Zeit has its own magical charm, but Cyborg is much more rewarding (especially the second LP).
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Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

Tangerine Dream - Zeit. When I came across this 2LP at a fair in the early-90’s, I looked forward in anticipated glory (it was the last album I managed to acquire of theirs at the time - come to think, I never got any more - my 21st LP from them). It was pretty amazing for some time, now when I spin it on the odd occasion, it seems like 80 minutes of my life I won’t get back. Yet Klaus Schulze - Cyborg, acquired not so long afterwards, is the opposite now - AMAZING.

Haha, for me it's the exact opposite with Zeit. When I got it, I was definitely too young for it and couldn't make sense of it (though already being TD fan for what came later). I came back to it about 10 years ago and now I think what a uniquely fascinating black hole of an album that is.
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