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tdreamer 
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 Posted: June 08 2006 at 09:50 |
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After such a long wait Vapour Trails was a big let down as was MindecrimeII.
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thellama73
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 09:53 |
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Discipline was a huge let down for me too. I still can't get into it.
Also Sigur Ros - (). I had read hundreds of five star reviews for this
band and they sounded right up my alley, but man what a terrible record.
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Masque
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 10:09 |
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Chicapah
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 10:25 |
Yes - Drama (and I thought Tormato was weak!)
Genesis - And then there were three
ELP - Works Vol. I
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"Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain
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riversdancing
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 10:28 |
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Rush - Test For Echo
Voivod - Voivod, but the forthcoming album is even worse. Katorz is a beautiful tribute to the fallen friend, but please do not destroy the legend!
Queensryche - Hear In The Now Frontier
Marillion - Radiation
Dream Theater - Awake (seriously! In '94 it was a huge disappointment for me.)
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Güdron
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 10:58 |
Oh yeah, The Final Cut, definitely. What a let down it was… I wonder if people still listen to that album…
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resistance is futile
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Prog-jester
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 10:58 |
From the recent disappointments - GARDEN WALL's albums 93-97.Pure $%&$$&*,avoid THIS!!!  .Others from my Garbage Box: CAFEINE,BLUE SHIFT,IN NOMINE,MAGELLAN...From previous years I remember my disappointments in MARILLION's "Cluthing at Straws",DT's "Octavarium"(though I like "Train of Thought"), SATELLITE(now I CAN listen to them,but in the very first listening I was bloody disappointed - are they the same band ,which made genius "Moonshine"?).
Also I found some pretty famous bands to be boring and repetitive to my taste - RUSH,GLASS HAMMER,ARENA,PENDRAGON,TANGENT,FLOWER KINGS and SPOCK'S BEARD.They're nice,but not much interesting for me
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Teaflax
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 11:05 |
 Güdron wrote:
Oh yeah, The Final Cut, definitely. What a let down it was… I wonder if people still listen to that album… |
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do. I think it's one of Floyd's five best, after Piper, AHM, DSotM and
Animals. It's certainly better overall than The Wall, though without
any of the standout songs of that album.
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Masque
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 11:10 |
Prog-jester wrote:
From the recent disappointments - GARDEN WALL's albums 93-97.Pure $%&$$&*,avoid THIS!!! .Others from my Garbage Box: CAFEINE,BLUE SHIFT,IN NOMINE,MAGELLAN...From previous years I remember my disappointments in MARILLION's "Cluthing at Straws",DT's "Octavarium"(though I like "Train of Thought"), SATELLITE(now I CAN listen to them,but in the very first listening I was bloody disappointed - are they the same band ,which made genius "Moonshine"?).
Also I found some pretty famous bands to be boring and repetitive to my taste - RUSH,GLASS HAMMER,ARENA,PENDRAGON,TANGENT,FLOWER KINGS and SPOCK'S BEARD.They're nice,but not much interesting for me |
Sad you feel that way about Magellan .. what CD did you listen to ? because they have some good stuff and not so good stuff 
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MajesterX
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 11:31 |
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I'm probably going to get killed for this, but Dark Side of the Moon I was disappointed with. I found it to be just useless sound effects and not enough melodies and main insturments. I really never got anything out of it.
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Lofcaudio
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 11:33 |
As far as not living up to my expectations:
1) Foxtrot (Genesis)...this isn't a terrible album, in fact it's quite good. But it probably does not make my top 50 favorite prog albums. I was expecting this to blow everything else away. Alas, it did not.
2) Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)...like Foxtrot, this is a good album, but I just don't get much out of Shine On You Crazy Diamond (I actually prefer Welcome to the Machine). This also wouldn't make my top 50 favorite prog albums.
3) Vapor Trails (Rush)...I can't stand this album, but I do enjoy Test for Echo and Counterparts.
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Prog-jester
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 11:36 |
Masque wrote:
Sad you feel that way about Magellan .. what CD did you listen to ? because they have some good stuff and not so good stuff |
Hate to say that,but I DISLIKE everything Trent does: EXPLORER'S CLUB,LEONARDO PROJECT,etc... I'm pretty sure he's a nice guy,but his music drives me nutzzz!!!  I just dislike it!!!
I heard Impossible Figures,Hundred Year Flood, Hour of Restoration and Impending Ascension
Edited by Prog-jester - June 08 2006 at 11:37
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Progfans
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 11:45 |
Dream Theater Octovarium
Pink Floyd The Final Cut
Genesis All after Trick of a Tail
King Crimson Beat
Landberk One man tel another ( Big trouble with the singer)
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La cuisine c,est comme l,amour, il faut y croire pour que ca marche
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Empathy
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 11:59 |
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Pure Brilliance:
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Empathy
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 12:01 |
Teaflax wrote:
Güdron wrote:
Oh yeah, The Final Cut, definitely. What a let down it was… I wonder if people still listen to that album… |
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do. I think it's one of Floyd's five best, after Piper, AHM, DSotM and
Animals. It's certainly better overall than The Wall, though without
any of the standout songs of that album.
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I also really enjoy The Final Cut, although I wouldn't rank it as one
of their best. I'll take it over Post-Waters Floyd anyday.
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Pure Brilliance:
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Logan
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 12:07 |
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Camel - Rajaz. I'd heard great things about this album as a
return to form for the band, but found the album rather tedius.
Not bad, but not as good, I felt, as some had led me to believe.
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"Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967).
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RoyalJelly
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 13:15 |
Zargus wrote:
If we are talking about prog: Tormato... after such a great album that was Going for the one the same lin up comes up with this? its probobly not the worst album i have ever heard it got some good stuff but if you comper it with GFTO its pathetic. |
For me and my friends, Going for the One was already a major dissapointment. Until then, Yes had always "progressed", moved into new terrain and taken major chances, but here it seemed like the first time they held back and moved on familiar ground. And after the wildness of Moraz's blistering keyboards, Wakeman was just so charming and SAFE again. OK, there were some beautiful moments, like "Turn of the Century", but nothing as earth-shaking as "Sound Chaser" or "Gates...". Tormato of course was a disaster, and by today's standards, GFTO is not such a bad album, but at the time, it was the first sign that the whole progressive movement was about to become tame, commercial, and irrelevant. There were worst disappointments to follow, leading to the final blow of Love Beach, but by then we'd given up expecting redemption from our previous heroes...that era was over, and everybody hunkered down for the 80s and New Wave.
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Gormenghast
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 13:21 |
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the last Pendragon album (Believe, I think) sucked balls, imo.
I was gutted with Octavarium as well
Edited by Gormenghast - June 08 2006 at 13:23
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Rutgers Joe
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 13:42 |
TORMATO
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It sucked then, it sucks now and it will always suck...
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BaldJean
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 13:42 |
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"Animals" by Pink Floyd and everything that came after it. Everything
is quite dull about that album, not even interesting sound effects. The
best part is the beginning of "Sheep", and "Dogs" has a few moments
too, but all in all - no thanks. Mark that I was a kid still when that
album came out (I must have been 8 or 9), but I remember very well how
very disappointed my parents were too. It is not for nothing that a
young man with an "I hate Pink Floyd" t-shirt started a musical
revolution around then.
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