Your Worst Purchase
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Topic: Your Worst Purchase
Posted By: Dr Know
Subject: Your Worst Purchase
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 11:11
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What has been the worst album you have bought? For me it was Marillion-Tales from the engine room with the Positive light. It was so bad that I gave it to a man on the street |
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Posted By: Paco Fox
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 11:16
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I recently bought a folk-psych album by a certain band called Isolation, which was described as being similar to Ithaca (their album 'A Game for all who know' is one of my favourite folk-psych -and a bit prog- records) This one sounded nothing like Ithaca. It was really terrible. And it wasn't cheap... |
Posted By: Legoman
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 11:25
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That's, ummm, quite the story. You just gave it to him? Weird... My only real bad album purchase so far, being as I only have 22 albums  , would have to be Queen on Fire - Live at the Bowl. Not like it is a bad live album but I just don't compilation albums.... then again, I didn't buy that album either so... I guess I can't complain. |
Posted By: stechell
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 11:43
| My worst purchase....mmm....it must be Eloy's Planets. |
Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 11:59
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ELP's Works Vol.1 When it came out I had such high expectations, especially for Keith Emerson's foray into composing a symphony piece of his own, but it fell so flat and boring that I don't think I ever listened to it again and eventually sold it to a used record shop in Redondo Beach! I've probably bought much, much worse music but I don't think I've ever been so disappointed. ------------- "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 |
Posted By: Winter Wine
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 12:02
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Definately not 'Ummagumma'
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Posted By: D.Noisserger
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 12:29
James Labrie - Elements of Persuation .... beuh
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 12:37
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GTR - GTR. It only cost me about 2 euros though, so it doesn't really count. The same goes for: Yes - Union. I paid almost nothing for it. Both new, no second hand buys. Okay, one where I paid a "full price": IQ - Subterranea. I love early IQ, and Ever is still very good, but I can't understand why people like Subterranea so much. I like the story line and the art work, but I think the music is very disappointing |
.Posted By: Junges
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 12:38
| Alice Cooper - Humanary Stew (A Tribute to Alice Cooper) |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 12:41
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As far as buying one and never listening to it... both Time Requiem CD's. ------------- |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 12:41
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D.Noisserger wrote:Posted By: Junges
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 12:43
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I love it! |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 12:44
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^yeah I think it rocks- music AND vocals. ------------- |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 13:00
| 1) pain of salvation (rememedy) 2)tangent (drive thru) 3) Guy manning ( a matter of life and death) 4)Magellan (test of wills) 5) Pendragon (believe) I can go on but I wont bore you all.. oh i forgot 6) KAIPA (mindrendering) |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 13:05
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Non prog- Nirvana Nevermind From prog it would probably be Pendragens The Jewel, but its not that bad. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 13:07
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Steve hackett: "Cured", "Darktown"
The Residents: "Wormwood" Camel's first album Every Porcupine Tree album after "Signify" ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: iguana
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 13:13
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for me that has to be the first SHADOW GALLERY
album, to which i took an extreme dislike as soon as i put it on – there may have been one ore two that i can't think of right now, but this sonic abomination tops the lot... hang on, these just crossed my mind: ASIA-silent nation KANSAS-somewhere to elsewhere both bored me senseless! ------------- progressive rock and rural tranquility don't match. true or false? |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 13:19
 RIVERSIDE;S 2 CDS WERE THE BEST BUYS I DID ALL YEAR, BECAUSE I LISTENED TO ME & ME ONLY
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 13:47
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I really want to but some ""NEKTAR"" cds. I know that a new greatest hits remastered came out last week called """WAVES"""but nobdy seems to have it.. Please help me out............... |
Posted By: FragileDT
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 14:03
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Haven't been disappointed with a CD is a while. ------------- One likes to believe In the freedom of music But glittering prizes And endless Compromises Shatter the illusion Of integrity |
Posted By: limeyrob
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 14:08
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The album I bought which I liked the least was Mars Volta - Frances the Mute. I couldn't even get to finish it. My most recent disappointment was Dan Swano - -Moontower. Such excellent music spoilt by growling. Especially when he has such a great normal voice (Nightingale) |
Posted By: Zweck
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 14:11
Because it's a good album. I'm not to happy-dappy about buying "Islands" by King Crimson, but then again, I have that album by Lorraine, which is an abomination. |
Posted By: Dr Know
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 14:23
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Nevermind? A good album? |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 14:29
Mine (non-prog) has to be St. Anger by Metallica it's the worst piece of music I have ever heard, recommend me sth worse |
Posted By: Jeremy Bender
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 14:40
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'Nevermind' is a classic. Fresh, to-the-point, kick-ass, killer production. In short: a lot better than most progrecords ever made. But some people 'round here are a bit narrow-minded to say the least And this comes from a guy with ELP and Pink Floyd as his favorite bands I'm not a fan of Nirvana, but I can hear and understand why it is a great record. Worst purchase: 'Toilet Seat' by ELP |
Posted By: Dr Know
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 14:51
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Nirvana is all hype and you swallowed it Either that or you have too much wax in your ears
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Posted By: stechell
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 14:55
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My Non Prog...all of them!!! Really, Radiohead - OK Computer Oasis - last one (can't even remember its name!!) Prog.... Eloy - Planets Dream Theatre - Images and Words, Scenes from metropolis...well, not that bad Rush - they were on sale then bought 2112, Moving pictures, hemispheres...how can a guy sing that terrible...his voice is really horrible....unlistenable
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Posted By: Dr Know
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 14:57
Stechell is going to be flamed for that blasphemy about Rush
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 15:00
Well, I'm not sure 'Nevermind' is better than 'most prog records ever made' but I'd agree it is a modern classic. I bought it and loved it at the time, and thats from someone who regards Genesis and Renaissance as being among my favourites.. I've never bought any prog albums that I've hated, but among those I've been dissapointed by are.. Zones - Hawkwind (Some reasonable songs, but terrible production and musicianship) ELP - Works II (Weak and erratic IMO) King Crimson - In the Wake of Posseidon (Noisy and chaotic and not to my taste) Train of Thought - Dream Theater (Far too heavy for me) ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: limeyrob
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 15:01
| You might as well add me to the bonfire as I just can't seem to see the positive side of Rush's music - I have tried, believe me. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 15:04
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Thats fair enough. I dont think it warrents burning you alive.. Rush, for me are one of the best bands that ever played a note, but I understand people not liking Lees voice. Would you say that was your biggest gripe about them? Or do you simply not like the songs? ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Chris_Kemp
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 15:05
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After Argent broke up, Henrit-Verity-Rodford formed this band called Phoenix. It must have been like '77'-78. Horrible! And not at all progressive. I was so bummed. Listened to it, like twice. The guy that mentioned Steve Hackett's Cured is right. After Sprectral Mornings and Defector it was a horrible disappointment! He's never been as engaging since, but I still buy some of his later stuff. It is not as bad as Cured. I know people swear by this band, but I can't get into Angel's Egg by Gong. Hilliage was on it and Gong got a lot of hype but after repeated listenings, it just didn't take. "Stardust are We" by The Flower Kings. I was first exposed to Roine on "My New World" by Transatlantic which is awesome and bought "Space Revolver," which though spotty, had some good stuff (I Am the Sun. Pts. I and II especially). Everybody talked about how great Stradust are We Was, so I bought it. Just too much mediocrity. Gave them one more chance with the "Rainmaker". Disappointed again. Haven't bought another one since. The perfect example that putting down everything you record when you are basically the only writer in the band is not a good idea.
------------- "That's not your face...it's mine! IT'S MINE!! |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 15:07
Sorry but I find Dave Grohl (sp?) to be the only member of the band with any real talent. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005
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Posted By: sm sm
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 15:31
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Jethro Tull - Under Wraps. Too synth pop/new wave and (most importantly) not good synth pop/new wave recordings at that. Likewise, Renaissance - Camera, Camera, 1st side of ELP's -Love Beach. Early Pendragon. Camel's -a stationary traveller I am sure there are others like this, particulary when record companies where pressuring Prog Bands to go in a new wave or pop direction. While I should listen to them again, I did not find the songwriting or performance up to par on Jethro Tull's Too Old for Rock and Rock and Catfish Rising, Caravan's Cunning Stunts. the Third Greenslade recording, Ekseption's 2 disc set containing their first four lps |
Posted By: Shark Sandwich
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 15:41
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Prog: Genesis - Wind & Wuthering (did NOTHING for me) Non-prog: Metallica - Re-Load (even worse than St.Anger) |
Posted By: bertburt
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 15:43
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Phish - The Siket Disc A turd of the highest order. A wretched collection of festering sewage. An Agent of Satan.
I don't like it very much.
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Posted By: MANTICORE
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 15:45
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Steve Howe - Beginnings Devil Doll Pity for them -------------  |
Posted By: Greg W
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 15:55
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Kate Bush-Hounds of Love Her caterwahling is less appealing than listening to my girl cat in heat. What a bunch of complete nonsense. |
Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 16:02
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Prog; Emerson Lake and Palmer's 'In Concert'/ King Crimson's 'Earthbound'- the worst live albums I've ever come across, ever. Also Rick Wakeman's 'Rhapsodies', though it has a few good songs, can go into this 'hall of shame'. Non prog; one absolutely sticks out for me, and I am thoroughly ashamed of buying it... |
As I was a fan of Peter Wyngarde's performance as the womanising super sleuth in the 60s/70s TV shows 'Department S' and 'Jason King', I bought his plain bizarre and awful album....probably the worst decision I ever made musically speaking...Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 16:04
I think it's her best album! ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Progfans
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 16:12
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I think this is Landberk Unaffected because i paid to much for (30$ us ) for and the vocal are... Not good for be polish. I'm a big fan of landberk and i got all the albums but THIS album are  ------------- La cuisine c,est comme l,amour, il faut y croire pour que ca marche |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 16:15
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hmmm... honestly... not one. Know my musical limitations to stay the hell away from stuff that I probably won't like (prog-metal) and of the 70's groups across the complete sub-genre spectrum.... not a single album that I regret getting. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: cmidkiff
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 16:22
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Alaska, thier first and only CD I believe. Quite poor. ------------- cmidkiff |
Posted By: razifa
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 17:23
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An allbum called "Blackened Mystery" from "Nightmare's end"... A horrid heavy metal band... definetly the worst purchase!!! ------------- ********** **razifa** ********** |
Posted By: eugene
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 17:25
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Exactly same with me. I was so disappointed I felt obliged to write 1 star review here to prevent others from such mistake of purchasing this crap. Same goes to last two Garden Wall albums and Edhels "Universal" Also last solo album by Steve Walsh turned out to be very weak except for one last track. Latest works by Arena and Spock's Beard were extremely disappointing to me. And last Kaipa and Flower Kings albums did not live up to my expectations. So all in all a lot of rubbish was issued lately even under big names of prog.
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Posted By: Flying Dutchman
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 18:09
| Hate to say it, but as far as prog goes, probably Wakeman- Songs from Middle Earth. Too boring. either that or this compilation called prog rock Epics that I found in the discount bin for 3 bucks. Turns out the only "epic" song on it is a Tab in the Ocean by Nektar. A nice cover of carpet crawlers by John Ford from Strawbs, then a crappy reworking of Long Distance Runaround and Roundabout, which I already don't much like. A carppy industrial version of I talk to the wind, a nice more metally version of Red, and You're own special way redone by Wetton, which is a crappy nonprog song to begin with. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 18:45
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hahahah... thinking back over it.... I do remember ONE horrid purchase
that is a favorite story of mine.... and the only album (CD) to take a
death flight onto I-95.......... Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason...... halfway through the first listen...out to window to a quick death in Springfield Virginia. I had waited so long for that to be released.. the return of Floyd... hahahah yeah right... Music so bad... even a 20 year old punk could recognize the sound of a band leaving all artistic pretenses behind and making a grab for cash.... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 18:50
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And then there were three by Genesis, I expected progrock but unfortunately I was confronted with Phil Collins inspired pop-prog, goodbey to symphonic rock Genesis .. .....
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Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 18:51
The GTR tour would have been amazing to see though. One acoustic set from Howe, one set from Hackett, and then GTR to finish it up. So essentially, you would have gone for the first two sets and then left before GTR came up. ------------- 
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Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 18:54
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I feel the same way. I usually research an album before I buy it, and even the ones I do buy on a complete whim I usually like. -------------
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Posted By: Tony Fisher
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 19:30
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A Nice Pair - Pink Floyd. Having just got Meddle, Obscured By Clouds and DSOTM and loved them, I bought this double of their first two expecting much of the same. After listening to it, I nearly died. Not only is Piper At The Gates truly abysmal, but Saucerful is almost as bad. I gave it to the cricket club car boot last year and noone wanted it, so I got it back. My son has threatened to hack me to bits with an axe if I ever put it on again; I know how he feels. Brain Salad Surgery comes a close second and Tales From Topographic Oceans a dishonourable third. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 19:36
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Posted By: NotAProghead
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 19:52
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"Accordo" - solo album by PFM guitarist Franco Mussida. 45 minutes of some oscillator tones and nothing more! There is a warning, in Italian, on album cover, that no guitars here etc. If I knew it when ordered! Thrown away money. ------------- Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour) |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 19:58
hahahahh.... possibly the one album that might have broken a 30 or 40 album winning streak for the Italain prog genre. Have loved everything I've heard so far. Though I'm such the 'fanboy' right now.... I'd probably still find something to like in it. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 20:01
Same way here... though I went out on a limb with many before I really got into this site. Such a fan of prog that I find something to like in all the albums I guess hahahha. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Damen
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 20:04
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Close to the Edge by that horrible band Yes...
...kidding My worst purchase was probably Holidays in Eden by Marillion, I really don't care for that album at all.
I'm just waiting for someone to say their worst was a "Best of Christopher Cross" box set. ------------- "It's amazing that we've been able to put up with each other for 35 years. Most marriages don't last that long these days." -Chris Squire |
Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 20:07
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"Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence" - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 20:08
if it has 'sailing' on it you'll never hear that from me hahahhah. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 20:09
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Psobably Rush´s Counterpoints...I know a lot of people think it´s a pretty good album and bla bla bla...I can´t stand it And I don´t know if it califies as purchase...but someone gave me a burn copy of Pink Floyd´s Pulse...I dont like it... ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: VERS
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 20:19
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I now regret buying "The ultimate yes, 35th anniversary" Yes compilation album... nasty, what was I thinking? ------------- 
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Posted By: stan the man
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 20:22
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some greenday cd 4 years ago when i was 12. i liked it then but i shudder if i hear it now ------------- true as a lobster in a pteredaktyl's underpants. 
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Posted By: Nipsey88
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 20:32
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Probably my most disappointing purchase would be Gowan - Great Dirty World. I bought it sight unseen from Columbia House years ago because the description compared it to KC and Yes. When I got it, I found out the description was based on Jon Anderson doing backups on one track, and Tony Levin playing session bass. It was not prog, just crappy, wimpy pop. Gowans vocals made Jon's singing sound positively testosterone laden. Wimpy indeed. Speaking of Christopher Cross, HE would chuckle and call Gowan wimpy. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Nipsey88/?chartstyle=myspace02" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 20:33
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Im very dissapointed with Discipline I couldn't believe that one of my fav bands had made a bad album
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Posted By: mickstafa
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 21:02
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-Rick Wakeman: King Arthur... -- A few shining moments, but the vocals completely ruin it. -Patrick Moraz: Story of I -- I listened to this album so many times, but it simply comes across as cheesy. There was really only 1 excellent song on the whole album. -Yes: Big Generator -- Its only saving grace is Holy Lamb. -Jethro Tull: Under Wraps -- Its only saving grace is Under Wraps #2. -Jethro Tull: Dot Com -- eh... unfortunately just did not impress me -King Crimson: The Power to Believe -- Although I do admit I've only listened a handful of times.... -Kansas: Leftoverture -- One of the newest additions to my prog collection. Magnum Opus is a great piece of prog, but the rest of the album is pretty much ruined by the vocals. For me, it is the cheesy 80's power pop vocals mixed with (pretty darn good) prog music. Unfortunately, vocals usually make or break albums. Fortunately though, I don't think there is a single CD I own that is awful all the way through. But as your prog collection gets larger and larger, you just don't get a chance to listen to these lesser albums. |
Posted By: moonlapse
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 21:27
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Prog - FTM by TMV. Just can't get into it. Bought it at
lunch one day, put it in my car on the way home, and heard -
something. Ok, this is prog, it's just the intro, it'll get
better...and I waited for the real music, a real song, to start.
And waited, and waited. And then, I realized something - THIS WAS THE MUSIC... Repeated listens have yielded similar results. But hey it's better than my worst non-prog purchase, which is: I Should Coco, by Supergrass. I Should Puke. Why oh why did I buy this? |
Posted By: Diarrhea
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 21:58
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Not neccesarily worst but I did not like Dream Theater's Octavarium and Symphony X's V.......
But I love those bands by the way..... ------------- The World is a Big Ball!!! |
Posted By: Mikeypoo
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 22:11
| i would have to agree.. although i do not HATE octavarium... it was a major dissapointment. i also was extremely let down with "BE" by pain of salvation... tho it has grown on me somewhat.... i was just expecting so much more than i got. not bad by any stretch, but again, dissapointing. |
Posted By: OldFatherThames
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 22:40
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It has to Be Triumvirat - Spartacus After the first four note, i tought i had made a mistake and put Trilogy...I listen to it tought in its entire and what a piece of crap i found it was. Then probably go Barcley James Harvest - Baby James Harvest Really, a mediocre band, and a booooring cd ! "Thank you" is probably the worst song ever create in music !! |
Posted By: ____VdGG____
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 22:45
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Octavarium
The musicianship is very good, but I just find it dead and emotionless. I listened to it once and never touched it again (Please don't kill me all of you DT fans out there  )------------- Iron throated monsters are forcing the screams; Mind and machinery box-press our dreams |
Posted By: VERS
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 22:54
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hmm... I thought that was a great album, but hey, I respect your opinion. -------------
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Posted By: hamham
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 22:59
A bad purchase I made a while back was "Wiretap Scars" by Sparta. While it's an okay album, I was pretty disappointed when I found out it wasn't very much like the related The Mars Volta, who I liked at the time. |
Posted By: ____VdGG____
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 23:21
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It was my first (and only) DT album as well. I guess something in the music is just missing for me
I'll give it another go though, then maybe I'll come to appreciate it as well  ------------- Iron throated monsters are forcing the screams; Mind and machinery box-press our dreams |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 23:56
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Thats the spirit! ------------- |
Posted By: Norbert
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 03:05
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Posted By: Pylo
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 04:18
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Worst is not the proper word, but here are those I really disliked, without hope to change my mind, and sold to the second-hand shop.
Nevertheless I love other albums by King Crimson, Rush & Chandelier
------------- Pylo |
Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 04:27
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I bought a Steve Vai album - Passion and Warfare - completely soulless,
fancy licks at the expense of the music, self-indulgent, musical
masturbation. Ab-so-lu-te-ly bloody awful. ^^^^...and I have to agree with VdGG about Octavarium....my first experience of DT, very disappointing.... |
Posted By: AfanSpur
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 05:55
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Took me 15 to 20 listens before i got into, really got into Frances, the first half a dozen times i thought....rip off, so hang on in there ------------- There stands Olias to outward to build a ship Holding within all we hope to retain The frame will be so built to challenge the universe Clasped with the skins of the fish of the plain |
Posted By: eugene
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 07:44
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Now I see that I am not alone with this. IMO Discipline is the worst album ever made by KC. OK it's among three weakest works by them (the other two are Perfect pair and Beat), but this is the one which I do not like one single track from. And I never heard anyone else to share my negative feelings about it. ------------- carefulwiththataxe |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 08:15
I call them "Barclay James Harmless". -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Gog/Magog
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 08:29
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"Out of Water" by Peter Hammill, seems to have only one redeeming song "A Way Out" the rest I just can't get on with, and yes I love Hammill as you can tell from the nick, but really it is the most...disappointed i've been with a CD - of course there are a million worse albums out there y'know. |
Posted By: Rorro
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 08:54
| Misplaced Chilhood definetly, i don't say it is bad, but i didn't like it at all. and i've listened to it 8 times in a month. |
Posted By: Norm Cash
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 09:03
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"We did it....you and me! Put him right under the table!" |
Posted By: Norm Cash
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 09:18
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Oops!!! Got my Mull Historical Society albums mixed up. I meant to include "This Is Hope" on my list above, not "Us". D'oh!
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"We did it....you and me! Put him right under the table!" |
Posted By: Karn Evil 9
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 10:06
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Well I've been lucky for the most part with not buying crap albums. Thank god for free MP3's I have to say the most dissapointing purchase was Asia(self titled) so boring and popish. I cant believe that some of the best prog musicians of the 70's come together to make that. Other than that, I bought One Size fits all by Zappa, and then lost it, and bought it again because i liked it so much, and the same day I rebought it, the old copy showed up again. ------------- Watch out where the huskies go,dont you eat that yellow snow |
Posted By: MegaMoog
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 10:14
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Tubular bells (Mike Oldfield) the worst album I ever spent money on, I
call it Tubular Blows or Tubular Balls, and sometime Just Pure
Shat. I would rather listin to no music than that album
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 10:50
I didn't know that. That would have been interesting, those acoustic sets. About GTR itself, there are a few tracks on the album which are okay, it's just that it could have been so much more, and there are some really irritating tracks on the album. Too much air, too little substance. I think the two Steve's weren't communicating very well. It's a sign that they did their acoustic sets apart, and not together, I think. |
Posted By: XTChuck
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 11:15
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My worst purchase was in 1983 and titled "The Final Cut". I was never so disappointed in a recording in my life.......
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Posted By: Big Ears
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 11:28
| Yes Tormato because it followed a good album, Parallel Lines, but is over-produced. |
Posted By: Norm Cash
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 11:30
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Wow! I just noticed that the above post was my 100th, and I've been promoted to the rank of Senior Member!! w00t! Hmmmm.....isn't that just another way of saying I'm an old pr*ck? -------------
"We did it....you and me! Put him right under the table!" |
Posted By: Witchwoodhermit
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 17:53
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Although it pains me to say it,Jethro Tull's Passion Play has to hit the top of the list. I'm a huge Tull fan,but when I bought this disc (about ten years ago) I felt nothing less than ripped off. In subseqent years I've tried again and again to listen to this waste of space, but I just don't get it! Any honest Tull fan will admit that Thick as a Brick has it's dull moments,on side 2 mostly. Passion Play is a full albums worth of that same lack of inspiration. Progressive rock has been given a black eye, in rock history, because of it's over indulgence and wastefull musicianship. Jethro Tull's Passion Play is the hallmark for this black eye. ------------- Here I'm shadowed by a dragon fig tree's fan ringed by ants and musing over man. |
Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 18:04
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Blasphemy!
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Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 18:08
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I personally have never been dissatified with a purchase. I research albums a whole lot before I buy them and try to listen to samples and people who have similar taste as me. Then I search for the best deal and make my purchase. -------------
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Posted By: Prog1611
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 18:12
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My cousin Mark's worst purchase he sold to me for a price he laughingly boasted as being all that it was worth. The price? 10 cents!! The album? Gentle Giant's Octopus which, thirty years later, to this day remains as one of my favorites. The moral to the story? One man's trash is another man's treasure. I just recently found early classic Pentangle in a garage sale bin marked as free, take as many as you like!! ------------- Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare if thou hast understanding? |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 18:20
Indeed, they're both masterpieces. For me:
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Posted By: Zac M
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 18:27
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Really, I bought a Peter Cetera album for a quarter and it's realy bad,
probably the worst album in my collection...it has maybe one catchy
good song that's all....the rest is bland, boring, blah! The duets are
miserable and one song has an awful Kenny G sounding sax part. The
cover the Chicago song "Happy Man" is soooooooo terrible, possibly the
worst song on the album. ------------- "Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression." -Merleau-Ponty |
Posted By: eugene
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 19:08
Yeah, above list is full of crap. I just wonder why on earth someone would go and buy any of it, is it for broadening the horisons, or just out of boredom??? ------------- carefulwiththataxe |
Posted By: Rising Force
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 19:08
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IMO: Queensryche - Empire (to believe this is their follow up to Mindcrime!) Dio - Dream Evil (ehh... has it's moments... but Sunset Superman? wtf?) Metallica - Reload (ugh... well it was the first rock CD of my own at least) Iron Maiden - No Prayer for the Dying (horrible compared to their seven previous studio albums.. the worst Maiden album, but still has some alright songs) Yngwie Malmsteen - Facing the Animal (terrible) Iced Earth - (pure cheese.... the Gettysburg disc rocks though.. better than the main disc itself) Santana - Supernatural (ok, I haven't listened to it much... but Rob Thomas? Wyclef? Not my taste) Metallica - S&M (the orchestra is good in some songs, but ruins other songs) Iron Maiden - Death on the Road (got it just for the songs from Dance of Death... but far from amazing performance... Bruce sounds weak... hardly worth the $20) Ozzy Osbourne - No Rest for the Wicked (worth about a penny... at least I got it for free just like most of my other Ozzy albums) Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears (don't really like this album either) Eric Sardinas - Black Pearls (got it just to get it signed by him... not a bad album, but sounded much better live) That's about it. |
Posted By: ChadFromCanada
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 19:09
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I'm not sure about bad CDs, but I've a few bad LPs. Mostly generic Hawaiian ones that have their obligatory version of Aloha Oe. I have a couple I haven't listened to yet but I'm assuming they suck. Probably the 400 years of music one, horrible quality sound, boring, hardly any instrumentation. They tried to reproduce ancient greek music, german choral music, Dutch music from the 1600s, etc. It's all really bad. |
Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 19:27
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I luckily got a burned copy. Part one had it's moments, but part two was just.....for a lack of a better word......boring. -------------
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 20:46
to MegaMoog...... hahahahto Wizard... taste and preference is a funny thing isn't it. I have a classic masterpiece of prog that hits me the same way.. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. I really like all the Genesis albums.. but for some reason, that one puts me to sleep. I'm about due for another listen, it's been awhile, for like any good prog fan.. you can diss an album, but you never give up on one. It's a classic for a reason. Maybe someday it'll hit me why.... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |