Say something nice about an album you didn't like
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Topic: Say something nice about an album you didn't like
Posted By: TheGazzardian
Subject: Say something nice about an album you didn't like
Date Posted: March 28 2010 at 23:34
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We all come across albums that we would rate lowly, that rub us the wrong way, etc. etc. It's easy to start complaining about these albums and get all upset that you wasted your time listening to them. But I say, who needs negativity in their life. So in an effort to spread around a positive spirit, I challenge you to say something nice about an album that you didn't like very much. I'll start - The Flower Kings: Rainmaker somehow rubbed me the wrong way and I avoided them for months after hearing it. BUT, "Serious Dreamers" may be one of the catchiest prog songs I've heard and every once in a while, I almost spin the album just to hear that song. Sword of God isn't too bad either.
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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: March 28 2010 at 23:42
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Great idea for a thread! I'll go with Dream Theater's Images and Words. While the style of music is not really my cup of tea, the musicians are all top notch players. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Pilkenton
Date Posted: March 28 2010 at 23:43
| I can't stand "Dark Side of the Moon", but listening to it on 8-track in the back seat of my friends car made me a life-long progressive rock fanatic. |
Posted By: ProgressiveAttic
Date Posted: March 28 2010 at 23:59
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I find Marillion's Misplaced Childhood incredibly boring.... but the musicianship and performance are flawless (that's why I gave it 2 stars instead of 1) ------------- Michael's Sonic Kaleidoscope Mondays 5:00pm EST(re-runs Thursdays 3:00pm) @ Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio(http://www.deliciousagony.com) 
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: March 29 2010 at 00:44
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Love Beach by ELP takes less time to finish than coronary artery bypass surgery
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: March 29 2010 at 00:45
Anathema's A Fine Day To Exit has one or two tracks which don't suck.  ------------- 
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 29 2010 at 15:03
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ExittheLemming wrote:Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: March 29 2010 at 15:07
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^The cover of Tales from Topographic Oceans is even cooler. Beautiful artwork. ------------- 
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: March 29 2010 at 15:24
Trout Mask Replica is interesting music. 
------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: March 29 2010 at 15:28
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Pictures at an Exhibition has a great cover art and has some really out-of-it's-time moog live playing. |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: March 29 2010 at 15:30
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Still the Waters smells nice.
------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: March 29 2010 at 15:32
Epignosis on the other hand smells like two-day old beer farts.  ------------- 
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Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: March 29 2010 at 15:34
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Henry VIII didn't get married enough times to make a double album! ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: March 29 2010 at 15:41
You been talking to my wife???  ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: March 29 2010 at 16:26
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Up the Downstaire is nicely packaged plus comes with the great Staircase Infinities. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: March 29 2010 at 17:20
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The Bedlam In Goliath has some nice umm.... well.... Sorry... I got nuthin'. ------------- 
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Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: March 29 2010 at 17:21
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Alright, seriously, The Bedlam In Goliath has a few tolerable moments. But when I say "moments", I really mean "seconds"  -------------
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Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: March 29 2010 at 17:29
 I had understand already. No need to precise ------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers, Un marin mort, Il dormira - Paul Éluard |
Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: March 29 2010 at 17:32
I didn't think it was that bad. |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: March 29 2010 at 17:37
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Yes album CTTE....I just can't get it. Its not that I hate it, I mean I have listened to it maybe 10 times....but tried to listen to it probably 50 times before I get bored and turn it off.
I enjoy Yes very much and the technical prowess and compostion certainly is there from the band...
(please forgive me oh Keepers of the Pearly Prog Gates...  )-------------   
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: March 29 2010 at 17:55
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haha.. yeah I can play this... DT (go ahead.. insert any album) them boys sure can play.... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: March 30 2010 at 05:11
| Yes's Union album has a nice cover. |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: March 31 2010 at 10:28
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Coda from ConstruKction of Light - an oasis in a desert of creativity.
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: March 31 2010 at 10:30
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Barrett. At least the songs weren't too long and I can kinda bare it. Opel on the other hand... ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: March 31 2010 at 10:53
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Home has a very cool opening. |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: March 31 2010 at 10:57
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f Jaculas horrible In Cauda Semper Stat Venenum actually was recorded in 1969, whey were very early on it with that ugly 90's guitarsound of theirs.
------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: March 31 2010 at 11:07
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Toby Driver is very talented despite Blue Lambency being a snoozefest of navelgazing. ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: AbrahamSapien
Date Posted: March 31 2010 at 11:18
Close to the Edge is one of the most popular prog rock albums on PA.
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Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: March 31 2010 at 12:03
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ELP's In The Hot Seat makes a sturdy and shiny beer coaster. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: March 31 2010 at 12:05
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I learned of the existence of the word topographic from Yes. -------------
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Posted By: Bitterblogger
Date Posted: April 01 2010 at 15:23
| Re Jon Anderson's "The More You Know": how sweet that he got to make a pop album with his wife, who sings better than many other rock music spouses. |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: April 01 2010 at 15:29
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Images And Words is a very good prog-metal album.
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Posted By: StrangerByTheMinute
Date Posted: April 01 2010 at 20:12
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The Hazards of Love has nice female vocals
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Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: April 01 2010 at 20:17
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The Problem of Pain, Part One by Torman Maxt is available for free from their website.
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Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: April 01 2010 at 20:19
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Triumph's 'Just a Game' - at least it's their shortest album Can't come up with anything for the rest of their discography though.... ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: April 01 2010 at 20:21
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Godspeed You Black Emperor appear to have invested a lot of thought into their album concepts, which is admirable. (the execution, however...)
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Posted By: RoyFairbank
Date Posted: April 01 2010 at 20:31
| As for all the bad albums out there, at least I don't have to listen to them |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 01 2010 at 20:35
hahhahhaa... you are FAR too modest.... if you really want to know what Bob thinks of the album... and read one of the truly great reviews here at PA's... http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=131463 - http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=131463 ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 01 2010 at 20:37
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hahhaha.... god that is classic.... wonder what such a genius could do with a DT album ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: April 01 2010 at 20:47
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DT Six Degrees. At least I didn't have to listen to it twice! ------------- Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon. |
Posted By: Green Shield Stamp
Date Posted: April 02 2010 at 15:44
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Magnum Opus is OK on 'Lefoverture' by Kansas ------------- Haiku Writing a poem With seventeen syllables Is very diffic.... |
Posted By: Dominic
Date Posted: April 02 2010 at 23:19
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Darnit people! I see alot of you aren't playing fair; making backhanded and veiled insults! Anyways... Well, Porcupine Tree/The Steve Wilson Band has a really sweet/admirable acoustic guitar track on "Fear of a Blank Planet" Wasn't that hard! ------------- 
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Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: April 03 2010 at 00:37
| I love the arrangements on Lazarus on the otherwise dead-winged album. |
Posted By: Tengent
Date Posted: April 03 2010 at 10:46
| Vemod - Anekdoten was a good King Crimson cover album. |
Posted By: Tursake
Date Posted: April 03 2010 at 10:54
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I like the title track on Signify
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Posted By: javier0889
Date Posted: April 03 2010 at 15:24
| Time Flies is kinda nice, although it's a rip off of Dogs. |
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: April 03 2010 at 15:35
I like the Philip Catherine and Eef Albers guitar playing on Focus Con Proby but what was wrong with Van Leer's head when he got PJ Proby to sing on the album and then named it after him. ------------- |
Posted By: Megalotis
Date Posted: April 04 2010 at 00:02
Birds of Fire sounds innovative.  ------------- "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." --Thomas Jefferson |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: April 04 2010 at 00:12
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Scarsick has excellent production.
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Posted By: m2thek
Date Posted: April 04 2010 at 01:03
| The title track on Octavarium is quite good. |
Posted By: peart_lee_lifeson
Date Posted: April 10 2010 at 23:00
| I just recently listened to Coheed and Cambria's IV album. I might not want to listen to this album ever again, due to most of the vocals just plain annoying the hell out of me. I must say though the instrumental parts are enjoyable throughout. It's nothing groundbreaking, but this album is well written. |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: April 10 2010 at 23:11
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Re-Works by ELP, just reading the songlist I knew I shouldn't by the album.
Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: Tarquin Underspoon
Date Posted: April 11 2010 at 00:25
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When Systematic Chaos came out, Dream Theater toured it and provided an opportunity for me to see them for the first time. ------------- "WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!" -The Great Gig in the Sky |
Posted By: catfood03
Date Posted: April 11 2010 at 07:52
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David Bowie's Young Americans... I like artists who take risks. |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: April 11 2010 at 08:25
 Jethro Tull's "Under Wraps" makes the Tull section in my collectiona little bit bigger
Another good thing about it is that the CD does not spontaneously play itself.  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: catfood03
Date Posted: April 11 2010 at 08:40
"Welcome Home" helped make a kick-ass trailer for the movie "9" last year |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: April 11 2010 at 08:46
 If I ever surprized a thief in my house, I could throw Haggard's "Awakening the Centuries" at his head.
The light reflecting off the CD's shiny, pristine surface might momentarily blind him
 , while I grab a more substantial weapon..... Alternately, I could have it on repeat play when no one's home -- the scary growling "vocals" would likely deter all but the bravest thieves from entering such an apparently demonic domain....
It might curdle the milk in the fridge, drive the poor dog insane and kill all the house plants, though.  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: April 11 2010 at 09:24
this became a negative thread 12 posts ago - everyone taking it upon themselves to flame bands such as DT....... or Yes
anyway my rant is 'St Anger' - well it opened the door for one of the best rock docos in history
that was difficult...... ------------- 
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Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: April 11 2010 at 10:37
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While I have no problem with people who flame DT, I'll get this thread going again with a positive comment about one of the worst albums ever made.
I picked up Rick Wakeman's Rock and Roll Prophet REALLY cheap! ------------- 
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 11 2010 at 10:43
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The Flower Kings - Space Revolver.. it looks great on my coffee table with a cold Newcastle sitting on top of it ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: The Monodrone
Date Posted: May 07 2010 at 22:16
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Second Life Syndrome had some okay moments.. particularly "After" and just the general background atmosphere wasn't terrible. Just didn't get into this album like a lot of other people did. -------------  
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Posted By: Stonebolt
Date Posted: May 07 2010 at 22:35
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Pretty Much Anything By Emerson Lake and Palmer - Good Drummer. From the Beginning and Lucky Man are the only two ELP songs I like, and even though I like them, I'm gonna guess Lucky Man is the most unoriginal prog song ever composed. But at least Palmer has chops.
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: May 07 2010 at 22:39
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I didn´t cut myself in any serious way when handling it. That´s about the nicest thing I can say about "Metal Machine Music" Pretty much sounds like the raping of several electrified seagulls recorded in an elongated hollow trash bin with an obese - out of breath type of dude huffing and puffing like a satanic marathon runner. |
Posted By: Bitterblogger
Date Posted: May 10 2010 at 14:05
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Posted By: Falx
Date Posted: May 10 2010 at 19:36
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"Selling England by the Pound" by Genesis, the LP cover looks lovely in my collection =F= ------------- "You must go beyond the limit of the limit of your limits!" - Mr. Doctor "It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: May 10 2010 at 20:13
Bahhh ... if that's the case, I would have a lifesized poster of the following on my wall!
Capability Brown - Voice
Quatermass
Flash (the first album -- even though the music is not half as good looking as the cover itself!)
A Nice Pair
Amon Duul 2 - Wolf City
As for saying something nice about ... I can't really think of anything that I don't like ... I just don't listen to it, and I would say some of the over hyped 70's bands are usually the case. Not the proggy ones we mention but some of the others that got enough PR to make themselves bigger, and I never really thought that they were any better than a pop music band. ... that's my fun category for Rush!
------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Falx
Date Posted: May 11 2010 at 02:24
Me too! I love Wolf City.  ------------- "You must go beyond the limit of the limit of your limits!" - Mr. Doctor "It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |