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Joined: March 08 2005
Location: Finland
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 Posted: June 26 2005 at 12:49 |
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Cinema
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Posted: June 26 2005 at 13:56 |
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The worst? Well, let's take a look at the bombs lurking in my collection:
Madrigal - On My Hands
Druid - Toward The Sun
Starcastle - Does it matter which album? They're all bad. Sorry to admit I
even have them in my collection. What was I thinking? I'm an idiot.
Frameshift - Unweaving The Rainbow
Museo Rosenbach - Exit
Regarding Yes' Tormato, I like it ... a lot. Admittedly I hated it when it
came out all those years ago. But now, some 20 plus years later, it's
definitely up there as one of my favorite albums.
And to those who say it's un-Yes-like, it couldn't disagree more. No two
Yes albums sound alike (discounting Anderson's vocals, of course). TFTO
doesn't sound like The Yes Album. Relayer doesn't sound like CTTE. Big
Generator doesn't sound like ... well, let's move on. Talk doesn't sound
like Going For The One. That's part of Yes' beauty: Each album has Yes
exploring a new direction and/or ideas, yet the results are unmistakably
Yes.
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mickstafa
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Posted: June 26 2005 at 15:03 |
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Well said about the Yes stuff, Cinema. I agree 100%.
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Gluonio
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Location: Greece
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Posted: June 26 2005 at 16:15 |
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Now my biggest dissapointment was Triumvirat's Spartacus and the reviews were talking about a masterpiece.Sorry guys ,but it is a mediocrity!
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...But my dreams are for dreaming and best left that way-and my zero to your power of ten equals nothing at all...
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Mr Class & Qual
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Joined: June 09 2005
Location: New Zealand
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Posted: June 26 2005 at 17:11 |
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There have been many over the years but the most recent would have to be Nektar's "Recycled." I had never heard this band before and a large number of people were raving about them on another Prog site so I bit the bullet and purchased this album as the general consensus seemed to be that this was one of their best. Well, the last track is absolutely gorgeous, beautiful melody, uplifting and powerful, the rest of the album is just a bore and completely unmemorable!
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The Doctor
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Joined: June 23 2005
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Posted: June 26 2005 at 17:17 |
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Hmmmmm...I like Yes' Tormato, Nektar's Recycled, Marillion's Misplaced Childhood, and the first two Starcastle albums for that matter. Guess I'm a prog misfit.
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I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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Vingatondooda
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Posted: June 26 2005 at 19:08 |
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THE BEAT GOES ON.....Vanilla Fudge
and it only cost me a buck but how will I ever get that time back?
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if you are listening
in the moon’s shadow
is a rock glistening?
Have your fields gone fallow?
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Cinema
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Posted: June 26 2005 at 19:21 |
 The Doctor wrote:
Hmmmmm...I like Yes' Tormato, Nektar's Recycled,
Marillion's Misplaced Childhood, and the first two Starcastle albums
for that matter. Guess I'm a prog misfit. |
Different strokes for different folks, my good Doctor. It's what makes the world go 'round.
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steelyhead
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Posted: June 26 2005 at 23:17 |
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GTR of course it was that tepid, horrrid album, that still make me wanna puke. A joke of a band.
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The Doctor
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Posted: June 26 2005 at 23:20 |
steelyhead wrote:
GTR of course it was that tepid, horrrid album, that still make me wanna puke. A joke of a band. |
You would think that two of the best guitarists in the business could have come up with something better than a tepid AOR album. Especially considering that most of Hackett's other work has been so damn good. Howe's has been pretty good too, as long as he doesn't sing. Not sure that GTR makes me puke, but it was somewhat of a disappointment.
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I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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Guillermo
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Posted: June 27 2005 at 01:34 |
moonlapse wrote:
It's not prog, but my worst purchase has to be "I Should Coco" by Supergrass. A horrible CD. I think somebody had compared them to Radiohead somewhere on another forum (but not here...) and it had a full 5-star rating on amazon.com (and still does today for that matter) . So looking for something new to listen to, I decided to purchase it. Basically the whole CD is "we're young, we're brit, we rock" pop crap. Really boys, who cares? You suck. Blah  |
Eight years ago, the song"Alright" by Supergrass appeared in my country in a TV ad for ice cream. I liked the song a lot. For a time I wanted to buy their "I Should Coco" album which has this song. But I didn`t buy it, because in the same year on the TV I watched a Glastonbury Festival broadcasting, with Supergrass playing this song.I still like this song a lot, but yes, I agree that their music was at that time most for teenagers, and many people in the public of Glastonbury were teenagers using strange hats. Anyway, it is their music for these teenagers. When I was a teenager I listened to Prog bands while the majority of my school peers were into Disco Music. That was a long time ago.
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Avatar: Photo of Solar Eclipse, Mexico City, July 1991. A great experience to see. Maybe once in a lifetime.
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Jim Garten
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Posted: June 27 2005 at 03:25 |
Cinema wrote:
Druid - Toward The Sun |
There's an album I thought I'd forgotten; thanks a bunch for the reminder  - prog by numbers, by musicians who couldn't play.
My own biggest dissapointment has to be the GTR album; it all seemed such a good idea, Steve Hackett & Steve Howe, the two giants of 1970's prog rock guitar release an album together.
I buy it the day it's released (1984/1985?), throw it onto the record deck, sit back and.....
vomit!
45 minutes of sub-American AOR trash.
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012
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stonebeard
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Posted: June 27 2005 at 04:42 |
really, there isn't a PROG album i regret buying. though, to be fair i haven't "bought" all that many, having squeezed and burned all the Yes and DT cd's i own from the local library.
in other music, Phish's sign off, Undermind was absolutely horrible. not prog either. country jam crap.
listening to Junta now. that's good, man.
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stonebeard
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Posted: June 27 2005 at 04:51 |
...forgot some...
Workingman's Dead by the Greatful Dead...
...and everything I own by any grunge band from the 90's, which, embarrassingly admitted, is far too many .
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Mategra
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Joined: August 23 2004
Location: Sweden
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Posted: June 27 2005 at 04:53 |
T0|2|\|4|)0 wrote:
Karnataka - Delicate Flame of Desire - I don't know how anyone would consider this crap to be prog. |
That's one of my worst purchases too.
Also IQ - The Seventh House. Very, very bland and disappointing.
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barbs
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Joined: June 04 2005
Location: Australia
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Posted: June 27 2005 at 05:04 |
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Not prog but as a young lad I went into a record bar to buy a Steely
Dan LP and forgot the name of the band and came out with a Steeleye
Span LP instead. Didn't realise until I got home and put it on that it
was folk. Still it helped to broaden my understanding of music, and I
must admit to liking certain groups from that genre now such as
Planxty, Clannad and Lorenna McKennitt.
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Eternity
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Yurkspb
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Joined: May 06 2005
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Posted: June 27 2005 at 06:44 |
Not prog:
1. War of the Worlds (rock opera 1975)
2. Metallica - St.Anger
3. Some of Queen drummer Roger Taylor solo efforts
Prog:
1. Conspiracy - the Unknown
2. Mother Focus
3. Rick Wakeman - some of his 80-90's stuff
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Alucard
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Posted: June 27 2005 at 08:05 |
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My worst purchase was Caravan : Blind Dog at St. Dunstans In the beginning I didn't realize that the flaw on side 2 was intentional. So I went back to the record store and changed it. Back home I put the record on: same problem. I went back to the record store and said to the guy quiet exasperated : this is the second record you sold me with a flaw. So he pulled out a third record put it on the record player and by listening to it until the end we both realized it was on purpose and had quiet a laugh!
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Tadpoles keep screaming in my ear
"Hey there! Rotter's Club!
Explain the meaning of this song and share it"
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widjum
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Posted: June 27 2005 at 08:25 |
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Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory , closely followed by Working Man "Rush Tribute".
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Sir Hogweed
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Joined: March 29 2005
Location: Netherlands
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Posted: June 27 2005 at 11:01 |
steelyhead wrote:
GTR of course it was that tepid, horrrid album, that still make me wanna puke. A joke of a band. |
I must agree fully. Luckily a friend of mine had the same great expectations about the Hackett/Howe cooperation as I and he bought it before I had the chance. Whe had a mutual listen to it and I remember it was so terribly bad that it became almost good on a humurous scale, so by the end of the album we both simply laughed our *sses off.
That was some years ago, so I downloaded a song from this site and the effect on me hasn't changed a bit. I'll invite everyone with some real stomach to do the same and have a good laugh over this crap!
Please Steves, do not take offence, there's no accusing you of selling out since the album was a flop anyway. Is there a positive thing to say? Yes, in the end it might have helped them getting back to prog.
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