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moshkito 
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 Posted: April 17 2013 at 13:04 |
 silverpot wrote:
Pink Floyd's San Tropez is their absolute zero point. It really makes me embarassed on their behalf, it's so incredibly bad. 
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There is no zero point ... they had some "curios" and some stuff that was added to an album, to make an album ... so what? I suppose you would love to read your comment if that was your band? Ohhh wait, you would tell us you would never do that ... after the fact!
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Blacksword
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Posted: April 17 2013 at 13:36 |
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Circus of Heaven:"Was that something beautiful, amazing, wonderful, extraordinarybeautiful?""Oh, It was ok. But there were no clowns, no tigers, lions or bears,candy-floss, toffee apples. No clowns."
 
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Yep! Dire.
Illegal Alien by Genesis is horrendous too.
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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silverpot
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Posted: April 17 2013 at 14:17 |
moshkito wrote:
silverpot wrote:
Pink Floyd's San Tropez is their absolute zero point. It really makes me embarassed on their behalf, it's so incredibly bad.
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There is no zero point ... they had some "curios" and some stuff that was added to an album, to make an album ... so what? I suppose you would love to read your comment if that was your band? Ohhh wait, you would tell us you would never do that ... after the fact!
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Ok, I should have added - In My Humble Opinion. But I thought that was somehow understood since the thread title itself imply this. 
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fudgenuts64
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Posted: April 17 2013 at 14:57 |
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Prophets of War by Dream Theater, the song itself is ok but James just sounds awful.
Edited by fudgenuts64 - April 17 2013 at 14:57
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The Mystical
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Posted: April 17 2013 at 15:10 |
AAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHH can't dance, AAAAAAAAAGGHGHHHH can't talk The only thing about me is the way I walk.
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Posted: April 17 2013 at 15:10 |
richardh wrote:
The Battle Of Epping Forest mainly for the attempt at different accented voices . Also completely devoid of interesting musical content. Novelty track at best. At least ELP kept Benny The Bouncer to only 2 minutes.Whoever said Works Volume One in its entirety - I will hunt you down |
Never thought other ELP efforts would be mentioned before Love Beach. Maybe Canario is worthwhile. Otherwise, 
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Wolfhound
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Posted: April 17 2013 at 16:40 |
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Pretty much everything by Opeth prior to Heritage. I like the Heritage album a good deal, but I can't stand everything they did before. After I got Heritage (my first prolonged musical listening experience with Opeth) I went back and tried to gel with their earlier stuff and I still could not stand it. The music is decent, but as soon as the "vocals" kick in the whole thing is ruined for me. I cannot stand the growling, gut vomiting vocals; grates on my ears, my musical sensibilities and just about every fiber of my being.
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Posted: April 17 2013 at 18:40 |
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I'm a clown, I'm a clown in the eyes of the world. Not a bad song up until that point. Then Yeesh...
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JocBT
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Posted: April 28 2013 at 18:18 |
ProgMetaller2112 wrote:
King Crimson-Heat in the Jungle(an anagram for heat in the jungle), it's so bad I don't even wanna pronounce the name of the song anymore
King Crimson-Two Hands
King Crimson-Sleepless
Rush-Red Tide
Yes-Circus of Heaven
Genesis-Silver Rainbow
All these songs make me 
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Wow  Thela Hun Ginjeet is one of my , if not my favourite King Crimson song :s also, Sleepless is high up there too, top ten for sure :) and once you get past the childish sound of Circus of Heaven and actually appreciate the song, it's quite beautiful. The others I don't necessarily agree with but I can understand.
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Posted: April 28 2013 at 18:20 |
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Aussie-Byrd-Brother
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Posted: April 28 2013 at 18:24 |
As much as I love most of their albums (but haven't listened to them in AGES), Fleetwood Mac's `Never Goin' Back Again' (I think that was what is was called!) used to drive me up the wall! A bit too cute for me!
These days it doesn't annoy me like it used to....must be mellowing! 
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Posted: April 29 2013 at 00:55 |
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Posted: April 29 2013 at 04:47 |
richardh wrote:
The Battle Of Epping Forest mainly for the attempt at different accented voices . Also completely devoid of interesting musical content. Novelty track at best. At least ELP kept Benny The Bouncer to only 2 minutes.
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Just want to say I like The Battle of Epping Forest.
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Tapfret
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Posted: April 29 2013 at 04:53 |
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^Me too. I find it interesting that the number 3 most popular album on PA has about 20% of it taken up with a song that many abhor only slightly less than The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles.
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The Mystical
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Posted: May 03 2013 at 06:54 |
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I am currently digging:
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Please drop me a message with album suggestions.
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The Mystical
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Posted: May 03 2013 at 06:55 |
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I am currently digging:
Hawkwind, Rare Bird, Gong, Tangerine Dream, Khan, Iron Butterfly, and all things canterbury and hard-psych. I also love jazz!
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Posted: May 03 2013 at 06:58 |
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Has anyone mentioned ABWH's "Teakbois"? That's more cringe-inducing than "Circus of Heaven".
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Dean
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Posted: May 03 2013 at 07:58 |
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....someone get me a ladder.
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What?
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Aussie-Byrd-Brother
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Posted: May 03 2013 at 08:09 |
Chopper - good call, that `Teakbois' is excruciating!! About half of that ABWH album is good, the rest is pretty lousy. That carribean/calypso thing `Hope For The Future on Marillion's `This Strange Engine' is pretty wretched too, but not as bad, and I do really enjoy that album.
But I had something of an awakening today. I was in a nearby second hand record shop, and they were playing Billy Joel's `Still Rock N Roll To Me' (I assume that's the title), and about two minutes in I thought `God, this song is the cheesiest piece of garbage I've ever heard' lol! Aboslutely dire and unbearable, from the sappiest drip in pop music. I felt like turning to others in store saying `Is anyone else hearing this s**t?!'
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Ambient Hurricanes
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Posted: May 03 2013 at 09:52 |
infocat wrote:
MJAben wrote:
Melomaniac wrote:
Another Day by Dream Theater (Images and Words) ; that sax part reminds me of Kenny G !  |
LaBrie's vocals in that song don't work but I always thought the sax part itself was quite nice personally.
As for me, with regards to DT, when Portnoy growls in 'A Nightmare to Remember' or the entire concept for 'The Great Debate'... God that song didn't age well.
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I love "The Great Debate"!
"Are you justified in taking LIFE TO SAVE LIFE <chunk><chunk><chunk><chunk>"
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The Great Debate is an excellent song, in my opinion, very intense and quite unique in DT's catalog; but while I like the idea of writing a song about embryonic stem cell research, the band's refusal to actually take a side on the issue (at least you can't tell what they think from the song) made the song sound somewhat tentative and kind of pointless lyrically.
HolyMoly wrote:
Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote:
Holy, I always found Steven's lyric on much of that song as kind
of...idiotically clever?! They capture bulls**t teenage rebellion and
`don't give a f**k' attitude pretty well....sorry for the swearing,
kids! 
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But it seems as if the song/album is meant to be somewhat
sympathetic to the situation of such teenagers, so why present it as
"bulls**t rebellion", as you said? It just leaves me wondering about
either Wilson's intentions or his execution. It's like if my dad wrote a
song about me when I was a teenager, and put words in my mouth like "I
am so full of angst, and I am engaging in rebellion". Thanks, dad.
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think it's supposed to be sympathetic and critical at the same time;
about people who are enslaved to the kind of thinking he's singing
about. I think it works as a critique of nihilism among youth, but
definitely not if you try to apply it to teenagers in general. I'm 18
and have only ever known a few people who were anywhere near like this.
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