Your worst purchase in music
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Topic: Your worst purchase in music
Posted By: felixxx
Subject: Your worst purchase in music
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 13:53
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I want to know which prog album gave you the worst disapointment after you bought it and listened to it! Mine was Spock's beard - The kindness of strangers. All the reviews in magazines were talking for a great band and the continuators of the prog scene of 70's but when i bought it and listened to it i really felt sorry for the money i gave  |
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 13:59
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Mine was Kieth Christmas....Storie From the Human Zoo or do you mean Prog? If so probably VDGG's H to He ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: raindance
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 14:00
I remember it was a Groundhogs album, 'Thank Christ For The Bomb' I think. I felt sick listening to it
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Posted By: beterdedthnred4
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 14:09
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Dream Theater-Train of Thought Different thoughts running through my mind included: -Where the hell are the keyboards? -Where the hell is the melody? -Did a 9 year old write the instro to this instrumental, and why does it suck? When I bought Octavarium, I just took Train of Thought out of the shelf and put the new one in its place. |
Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 14:11
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Kansas - Extended Versions (it was liek 5 years ago) awful buy ------------- 
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Posted By: bertburt
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 14:13
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Phish - The Siket Disc. Abyssmal. I'm quite mild-mannered by nature, but I had an unquenchable urge to hop in the car, drive to Vermont, and beat every band member with a 5-iron....at least their subsequent wails of pain at my hands would sound better than this roadkill....
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Posted By: penguindf12
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 14:27
The worst stuff in life is free.
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Posted By: felixxx
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 14:29
Yes but LOVE is also free |
penguindf12 wrote:Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 14:32
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Several 80's hits collections when i was 9 years old Haven't purchased bad prog albums yet (luckily) ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 14:37
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Love isn't free. I mean you have to buy dinner, take her to the movies, then when love progresses to commitment you have to support her and the kids, and when love ends there comes alimony. Love is in no way free. Oops, I'm showing my misogynistic side again. Anyway, worst music purchase ever would have to be ELP's In the Hot Seat - I mean what were those guys thinking. The album sounded more like In the Crapper. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: bluetailfly
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 14:38
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Emerson, Lake & Powell, what a disappointment ------------- "The red polygon's only desire / is to get to the blue triangle." |
Posted By: Tony Fisher
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 14:50
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A Nice Pair by Pink Floyd. Not only the truly awful Piper at the Gates of Dawn but the almost equally bad Saucerful of Secrets. And I'd hoped it would be as good as Meddle/ Obscured by Clouds. No chance. Tales from Topographic Oceans is a very close second. |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 14:52
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Interestingly Felixxx, that is the only album I have ever purchased, didn't like, swapped, relistened to several years later and realised what a ninny I had been. Personally speaking, my last disappointing purchase was Ayreon's Universal Migrator... rave reviews, but not my thing at all.. ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 14:54
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I bought two Evergrey Albums- good at first- then sucky- and Yes- Close to the Edge- waste of money |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 14:56
If you have a protective bunker or shelter I suggest you go inside, quickly. |
Posted By: Grimm
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 14:57
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Tormato, by Yes. I felt embarrased for the band, having made this horrible and very un-Yes-like album. ------------- Arguing with anonymous strangers on the internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be or seem to be self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time. |
Posted By: felixxx
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 14:57
Love isn't only a love affair that has as a result a bunch of kids and some unpaid bills! Love is also mother-son, human-nature, etc !Money on the other hand is involved in everything nowdays that's why simple things are turned into complicated! I like your misogynistic side, i have one to  |
Posted By: symphomaniac
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 15:00
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Without a doubt Colosseum Anthology. But then again I've bought loads of crap...thank god for ebay! |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 15:01
Ditto. I heard Valentyne Suite on a compilation, decided to shell out ten quid for two discs of Colosseum magic, only to discover that it was all relentless jamming nonsense. Blergh. |
Posted By: Johnny-The-Fox
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 15:04
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Pavlov´s Dog - Pampered Menial Beautiful music, but this voice... |
. Only take this one out to have a laugh ("...Ju-u-u-liii-a-a-a-a..." Posted By: Gentle Ronnie
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 15:09
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Stevenmarque - Mad Love ------------- 
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 15:20
You may not like it, but I can't agree that it's un-Yes-like... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: artsagile
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 15:23
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Arg, "Love Beach" by E.L.P Algernon |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 15:25
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Gilles Zeitschiff. A really pathetic Krautrock album. When I heard the line "Tim (they mean Timothy Leary) bleibt in der Schweiz. Tim bleibt bei uns", "Tim stays in Switzerland. Tim stays with us", I nearly fell off my chair laughing. I couldn't help thinking: "And you, girl, took a little too much acid. It blew out your brain". -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: nousommedusolei
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 15:27
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Camel-The Snow Goose There's something about that album that I just can't stand. Not a fan of those guys. ------------- I don't believe in demons I don't believe in devils I only believe in you |
Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 15:45
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For prog, I have to say that 'Love Beach', 'Tormato' and Rick Wakeman's 'Rhapsodies' must be prime contenders; I also didn't like 'Unfold The Future' at all either, and 'Are You Sitting Comfortably' almost turned me off IQ right away; thank goodness it didn't, else I'd never have heard 'Widow's Peak'. Uriah Heep's 'Equator' was dire as well; especially crushing as Heep are one of my favourite bands. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 15:49
I never bought "Love Beach". When I saw the cover I thought "Why should I buy an album made by three gigolos"? ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: eugene
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 15:55
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Latest LaBrie's solo "Elements of persuasion" and two latest Garden Wall's "Forget the colors" and "Towards the silence". In all three of them you can see sort of change of musical direction in artists' career - from wonderful progressive music to completely unlistenable rubbish. Also latest albums by spock's beard and arena left me very disappointed indeed. The most upsetting thing is when you eager to get something, and when you finally get it - it turns out to be a complete crap. ------------- carefulwiththataxe |
Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 16:03
| I would't call it the worst, but it was definitly my biggest disapointment: Close to the Edge. It is also the album in my prog collection that gets least airplay. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 16:05
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Some people have jester's license with me. If, for example, I don't like a Peter Hammill album at first, I am quite sure it must be me; that guy never sold out nor will he ever. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 16:07
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are you a yes fan and don't like that album, or don't like Yes at all. -------------
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Posted By: bluetailfly
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 16:15
A Yes fan who doesn't like "Close to the Edge"??? Wow, I can't get my mind around that one. ------------- "The red polygon's only desire / is to get to the blue triangle." |
Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 16:19
not necessarily. -------------
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Posted By: dalt99
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 16:23
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Soft Machine - "Third". I had HIGH hopes for it with all the rave reviews for it as one of the best ever Canterbury albums and it just doesn't do anything for me. I think Egg, Caravan and even Hatfield and the North's most popular ablums are much better. ------------- Best of 2006 that I've heard: PFM-Stati Di Immaginazione Zenit-Surrender (Best "unknown" album) Oaksenham - Conquest of Pacific 2007: Phideaux - Doomsday Afternoon La Torre Del Alchimista - Neo |
Posted By: bluetailfly
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 16:23
Well, I suppose it's theoretically possible, as you point out, but I don't believe many live human beings would actually have that experience. ------------- "The red polygon's only desire / is to get to the blue triangle." |
Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 16:23
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I am not a Yes fan. I like some of their stuff, but it's very hard for me to be pleased by Jon Anderson's voice. CTTE was the first album of theirs I heard, apart from other random songs.
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Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 16:28
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same for me - it is one of my least favorites softs albums as well -------------
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Posted By: dalt99
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 16:34
Yah ------------- Best of 2006 that I've heard: PFM-Stati Di Immaginazione Zenit-Surrender (Best "unknown" album) Oaksenham - Conquest of Pacific 2007: Phideaux - Doomsday Afternoon La Torre Del Alchimista - Neo |
Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 16:42
yea my faves by them are (chronologically)
of course Bundles and Softs is a completly different band -------------
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Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 16:42
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Actually, I like Third, but it is definitely an acquired taste. And it goes down much better after a beer or 12. The first few times I heard it I hated it. I just couldn't get into it. I didn't listen to it for years after that, but awhile back I picked it up again and gave it a few more listens, and really go into after that. Again, the beer helped. Definitely not an album to listen to stone cold sober. It could send one into an epileptic seizure. As for Yes fans who don't like CTTE, I do actually know a few. Although their tastes run more toward the Rabin Yes West version. I actually like all of their albums to some degree or another, and can even find gems on such maligned albums as Union and Tormato.
------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Cluster One
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 16:47
Hehe, to each their own to be sure, but you have to ask yourself why your on this site if two of the greats of prog don't appeal to you mate? Insulting FLOYD AND YES in the same post. Surely, that has to merit 50 lashes!  ------------- Marmalade...I like marmalade. |
Posted By: Cinema
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 16:50
I can't get my mind around it either. It's kind of like trying to comprehend infinity. CTTE is certainly one of the most adored, innovative. and recognized albums in the progressive genre. |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 16:59
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Transatlantic - SMPTe or what ever its called... Utter drivel !
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Posted By: goose
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 17:08
| I love Third way beyond Vol. 1/2. (1 & 2, not half). |
Posted By: BleedingGum
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 17:38
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Nightwish: Over the Hills and Far Away. What a sh*tty music they have. I was so disappointed and almost about to hang myself. ../Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=6867" title="Nightwish Over The Hills And Far Away album reviews, Mp3 and track listing -
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Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 17:53
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At The Gates- The Red in the Sky is ours |
Posted By: Hammill
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 18:07
i think is a great alnum, equal to the slaughter of the soul  ------------- 
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Posted By: Losendos
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 18:11
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My most disappointing purchase was Tales from Topographic ocean. I got Relayer and Close to the Edge before it and as some of you may have seen I rate "The Gates of Delirium " as the greatest track ever recorded. I had heard that TFTO went to number one. I was expecting 4 Gates or CTTE type tracks I listened for months and other than a few parts of the first and third sides could not derive barely any satisfaction. It may not be the worst album in the prog archives but the gap between what I was expecting and what was received was so vast I can never forget it. ------------- How wonderful to be so profound |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 18:12
Ugh you have to be kidding me, the production is of that equal to that in Norwegian Black Metal |
Posted By: abyssyinfinity
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 18:23
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When it happens, I re-sell on Ebay or to my used cd's pusher...
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Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 18:27
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I used it as a mug holder |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 18:28
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Mine: Gerard - The Pendulum Can't figure out why people like this. |
Posted By: marktheshark
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 18:31
I have to admit I loved The Yes Album, ok with Fragile and CTTE took a few listens to get used to that one. It really wasn't 'til after Relayer came out that I went back to that one to fully appreciate it. NJ, collaborator now, huh? Congrags! Manni, you want to show us the hickeys on your butt for this? JUST KIDDING! It is Friday, thank God!
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Posted By: dalt99
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 18:31
I agree somewhat but I think the two longest songs have some good moments. I had to prepare myself for some very pop-styled prog before I liked them though. Don't listen to GG first then SMPTe LOL ------------- Best of 2006 that I've heard: PFM-Stati Di Immaginazione Zenit-Surrender (Best "unknown" album) Oaksenham - Conquest of Pacific 2007: Phideaux - Doomsday Afternoon La Torre Del Alchimista - Neo |
Posted By: AfanSpur
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 18:37
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Deadwing by Porcupine Tree I have played it the requisite 5 times and while it is not utter drivel i can't see it sliding into the cd cartridge much more. What an uninspired piece of work lacking melody or any discernable features that mark it as prog album. Sheer Humdrum. Oh well In Absentia was a bit better. ------------- 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: Swinton MCR
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 18:58
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Who are these people ? Close to the edge - Worst Prog purchased, Tales from Topographic Oceans..... Hmmmmm Like I have pointed out - TFTO is a definative work that grows on you - I first heard in in 1980 and I was disappointed - But it has grown on me more and more over the past 20 - years, Perhaps the two Godspeed You Black Emperor CD's I bought will grow on me in the next 20 years (If I get the courage to play them again) - If not then you have my two worst purchases... Tony - I bought SMPTE off ebay today and I like it !!!! ------------- Play me my song, here it comes again |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 19:17
I love SMPTE also! Takes all sorts I guess. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: felona
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 19:44
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DREAM THEATER ... SCENES FROM MEMORY & IMAGES & WORDS ------------- I was never really sure what I was waiting for. When the moment came I was looking away ...... The Church "After Everything Now This" |
Posted By: felona
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 19:46
i THINK HE WAS JOKING ...
edit ... I have to confess I didn't like CTTE at first either but when I "got it" it completely changed my way of listening to ANY music ------------- I was never really sure what I was waiting for. When the moment came I was looking away ...... The Church "After Everything Now This" |
Posted By: Fragile
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 19:53
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Posted By: Fragile
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 19:56
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Posted By: Syntharachnid
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 20:39
If you have two, go inside them both. ------------- 
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 20:45
even that wont save you thats one of the greatest prog albums of all time ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 20:57
if yes close to the edge was a waste of money for you , I belive you should stop listening prog music for several reasons: 1) yes is one of originator of progressive rock music 2) close to the edge is one of the best progressive rock albums ever made. 3) almost every progressive bands of today are influence by yes 4) yes was the first supergroup: best drummer, best bass player, best guitar player, best prog rock keyboard player( rick wakeman) and the best prog lyricist and the most melodic in prog and rock histoy, by rock critics and fans alla round the world.
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Posted By: Fragile
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 20:59
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The educated consensus here (Drew) is that you are obviously cuckoos |
Posted By: Paulieg
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 21:00
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I have several. Most definitely Spock's Beard tops the list with " I Feel Euphoria." Next would be Arena's latest "Pepper's Ghost." I was pretty disappointed with The Flower Kings "Stardust We Are," also. I guess the biggest reason I was so dissappointed with Spock's Beard and The Flower Kings was I read such glowing reviews. I really don't see what all the fuss is about. I was looking forward to Arena's "Pepper's Ghost" because I enjoyed "Contagion" and "The Visitor." I don't like "Pepper's Ghost much at all. I can't leave out Marillion. Like Spock's Beard I had read glowing reviews so I took a chance and purchased two of theirs, being "Misplaced Childhood" and "Clutching at Straws." Not my cup of tea. I guess you could say I'm not into the neoprog scene. The good news is I've purchased alot more albums I enjoy than dislike, many from the good reviews I've read here.
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Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 21:09
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Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior.....anybody want to buy a copy for $5? Love the early stuff from CCorea and RTF, the line-up from the first two LPs is, to me, the peak of jazz-fusion. Romantic Warrior seems to be striving for an audience.....their first LP on Columbia Records.....no super sales success with previous RTF LPs (they sold, but not nearly in the numbers that Gentle Giant or even Camel records sold)......I think Chick had a plan to conquer Progdom and plunder its riches.....sneak in screeching Howe a la Relayer guitars and Squiresque bass mixed with annoying fever pitch Wakeman-like synth/keys solos AND PLAY IT ALL FAST....faster than McLaughlin on an amphetamine binge.....blah! Super disappointing. ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 21:31
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the wost of the them all ??
i think ELP love beach!!!!!!!!!!!!! just like yes when they good they are good,b ut boy when they are bad they are bad!!!! yes big generator,talk,union those albums are really basura...... black moon the piano solo songs by keith are ok but the rest is boring. Area live this album is a totaly waste of money only for hard core fans!!! beware what hurt the most is that i paid $ 30.00 dolars for it. david gilmour about a face . i am a hard core floyd fan i to be honest this albums is really a waiste of money i only listen to it twice and that was anought. i think waters solo stuff is much better. yes tomato is almost a waste of money . it is super boring "don''t kill the whale save the whole album. porcupine tree on the sunday of live is almost a waste of money radioactive toy save the dime. utopia live the 80's live one not the 1975 one that was pure gold. but their later live stuff and is no vhs is pure garbage the sound quality is gross and the packaging tells what to spect so that is enough it might be more i just can't remember right now [:^
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Posted By: kirklott
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 21:34
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Anything dark from Sweden, and anything in the Italian language. Sorry, maybe I have bad taste, but I don't do dark Scandinavian, and Italian singing is for opera not prog. ------------- "Progressive rock is the key to the continuance of human evolution." - Charles Darwin |
Posted By: kirklott
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 21:36
Drew is henceforth banned from my home, public places, and all of Planet Earth. Solitary confinement for Drew! ------------- "Progressive rock is the key to the continuance of human evolution." - Charles Darwin |
Posted By: decypher
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 22:11
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cool, yes fans react as silly as dream theater fans. on topic: 1. kansas - I don't even remember the name of the cd..., 2.) blind guardian - imaginations from the other side - german metal at it's best (=worst), 3.) friedmanbeckerhowekotzentafolla - I had this bad hairguitarphase in the 80's. yours, (megadethandjagpanzerweren'tbadthough) |
Posted By: felona
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 22:16
oh dear, oh dear oh dear oh dear ... banished from the universe ...
------------- I was never really sure what I was waiting for. When the moment came I was looking away ...... The Church "After Everything Now This" |
Posted By: kirklott
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 22:32
Felona, we had become so good friends during our Chocolate Kings correspondence. Can we bridge our differences? Can we embrace that inner light of universal humanity? ------------- "Progressive rock is the key to the continuance of human evolution." - Charles Darwin |
Posted By: felona
Date Posted: June 24 2005 at 22:40
------------- I was never really sure what I was waiting for. When the moment came I was looking away ...... The Church "After Everything Now This" |
of course, dear kirklott ... and even good friends have to differ occasionally... Posted By: moncholo
Date Posted: June 25 2005 at 01:23
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Papa Roach, from my nü metal days
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Posted By: razifa
Date Posted: June 25 2005 at 03:09
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In my case, I have some really bad purchases to tell but only one of those were a prog basn: "La gare de Troyes" of "Ange" A simple terrible 80's recording, dull riffs, insipid music, no elaboration at all. But the other no-prog awful purchases were: -"Nightmare's End" (Never listen to it) -An EP of "Warlord" -"Carnival Bizarre" Cathedral ------------- ********** **razifa** ********** |
Posted By: Guillermo
Date Posted: June 25 2005 at 03:11
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-Premiata Forneria Marconi: "Performance". I have played this CD less than 10 times since I bought it 5 years ago. -Marillion: "Holidays in Eden".I have played this CD less than 10 times since I bought it 13 years ago. -YES :"Union". A disappointment to hear ABWH tracks. Howe, Wakeman and Bruford are almost absent, replaced by session musicians. The only good songs are the "YES-with-Rabin" songs. -Peter Gabriel: "US". I gave it as a gift to one of my brothers after listening to it less than 5 times. He likes this album. -Tangerine Dream: "Cyclone".I gave it as a gift to one of my brothers after listening to it less than 5 times. He likes this album. ------------- Avatar: Photo of Solar Eclipse, Mexico City, July 1991. A great experience to see. Maybe once in a lifetime. |
Posted By: T0|2|\|4|)0
Date Posted: June 25 2005 at 03:42
| Karnataka - Delicate Flame of Desire - I don't know how anyone would consider this crap to be prog. |
Posted By: Tony Fisher
Date Posted: June 25 2005 at 04:23
Er, I have 14 Floyd albums and 9 Yes albums, most of which I like very much. Even great bands can make some real duds from time to time and these are exactly that IN MY OPINION. And that's what it comes down to. Too many people regard opinion (ie theirs) as fact. Personally, I would waste (extremely painfully and slowly) anyone who includes the Snow Goose in this category, but hey, it's only an opinion. |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: June 25 2005 at 09:59
In total, that makes a Swinton, a Dog and a Fandango... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Litl
Date Posted: June 25 2005 at 12:02
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Thieves Kitchen: 'Sheboleth'. Gives thundering unendurable boredom a whole new lease on life. (Of course someone was going to mention Close To The Edge. Just to be weird. I recommend the above to them.) |
Posted By: FishyMonkey
Date Posted: June 25 2005 at 12:25
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Korn, Eminem, Will Smith, from my retarded six year old youth. Cry for my ruined youth, people.
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Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: June 25 2005 at 15:24
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I still don't know why, but I had high hopes for Rhapsody's "Symphony of Enchanted Lands." |
Posted By: Rhayader
Date Posted: June 25 2005 at 15:32
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I don't think I own a prog album I don't like, but the one I've
listened to the least is probably Camel's The Snow Goose. Whenever I
listen to it, I feel I have to listen to the whole of it, and a lot of
the time I can't be bothered to. It is a good album, though. A lot of you might be surprised at that, since I own Big Generator, which I love, so shoot me ------------- "Sadder still to watch you die than never to have known it..." Rush - Losing It |
Posted By: kingofbizzare
Date Posted: June 25 2005 at 16:57
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Although I am a huge Yes fan (Relayer and TFTO are some of my favorite
albums) I just don't like Close to the Edge that much. It's decent, but
I hardley ever play it anymore. Jethro Tull's Too Old to Rock n Roll, Too Young to Die was a huge dissappointment for me. I thought well, Songs from the Wood is great and so is Minstrel in the Gallery, and this album came out right between them, so it must be good. I was wrong. Way too poppy for me (although I do like Pied Piper and Quizz Kid). Even though I had it on CD and didn't like it that much, I still traded a copy of Back in Black on vinyl to my friend for a copy of it on vinyl so I could complete my Tull vinyl collection. Pink Floyd is my favorite band, but I think I got a really bad deal when I payed 30 Euro for a copy of P-U-L-S-E in the Charles de Gaulle airport. Just a bad album in general. Eye in the Sky by Alan Parsons Project is not what I was expecting. My friends told me it was one of their best, but I really can't get into any of it (except for the two instrumental tracks). ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/kingofbizzare/?chartstyle=asimpleblue5"> 
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Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: June 25 2005 at 17:01
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Too many
------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: June 25 2005 at 17:14
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I'm currently advertising a couple of Magnitude 9 CDs on ebay... I wouldn't touch them if I were you! ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: WillieThePimp
Date Posted: June 26 2005 at 00:53
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The one and only Katatonia album I bought "Tonight's Decision" A CD from a band called Mind's I which was mistaken for a prog metal band listed here as Mind's Eye. (Lots of harmonica, not so metal) ------------- You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. ~Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket |
Posted By: undefinability
Date Posted: June 26 2005 at 01:09
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Worst progressive rock album, I'd have to say Shadowlands by Glass Hammer. ------------- "Don't listen to me." |
Posted By: Guillermo
Date Posted: June 26 2005 at 01:14
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I forgot to say that these albums also were a big disappointment when I bought them: Genesis: the "Genesis" album from 1983. Sounds like a "contractual obligation album". Their worst album, IMO. Genesis: "Calling All Stations". Only a bit better than the "Genesis" album. YES: "Tales from Topographic Oceans". Great cover design. But the best songs of this album are "The Revealing Science of God" and "The Remembering", IMO. "The Ancient" and "Ritual" have some good parts, but are mostly noisy. So, one good L.P. for the price of two. ------------- Avatar: Photo of Solar Eclipse, Mexico City, July 1991. A great experience to see. Maybe once in a lifetime. |
Posted By: Nipsey88
Date Posted: June 26 2005 at 01:18
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In prog terms, the most disappointing was Season's End by Marillion. I
bought it when it came out, and being the generally uninformed sort, I
had no idea they had switched vocalists. As I was a HUGE Fish fan, I
was just so crushed, I couldn't bring myself to listen to it for
months. Gradually, I got to the point where I thought it was OK, but
that initial disappointment was one of the biggest album let downs for
me. As far as non-prog, I was a huge Kiss fan when I was young, and I saved up my allowance for weeks so I could buy Dynasty when it came out. I got it home and was like, "What the hell is up with this disco album in my Kiss record sleeve?". Within a few months, all my Kiss posters came down and were replaced with Rush not a year or two later.  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Nipsey88/?chartstyle=myspace02" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Guillermo
Date Posted: June 26 2005 at 01:33
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I bought "Seasons End" after I listened in a FM Radio Station the song "Easter", which is great, IMO. So when I bought the album I knew that Fish wasn`t Marillion`s singer anymore. There are 2 songs from that album that I don`t like very much:"Berlin" and "The Space...". But it is a good album in comparison to "Holidays in Eden". One day I was curious to see KISS discography in the Internet. So I found a website : http://www.kissfaq.com/ - http://www.kissfaq.com/ I never have been a fan of them but I had curiosity about their long discography. I read there that in "Dynasty" the drummer in most tracks is Anton Fig, not Peter Criss, who had a that time some health problems and a car crash. In their next album "Unmasked" he doesn`t appear at all:he left the band. But his "Cat" make-up appears in the "comic" which is in the cover of the album. IMO, KISS is a very successful bussiness machine. There are some KISS albums from the 90s that were made only by Gene Simmons with a little help from Paul Stanley, and other albums done by Stanley with a little help from Simmons. ------------- Avatar: Photo of Solar Eclipse, Mexico City, July 1991. A great experience to see. Maybe once in a lifetime. |
Posted By: justin
Date Posted: June 26 2005 at 06:10
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star one-space metal...terrible albulm...sounds just too similar to his other work ------------- im not insane, im not insane... im just smarter then you |
Posted By: moonlapse
Date Posted: June 26 2005 at 09:17
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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
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Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: June 26 2005 at 10:14
| marillion - misplaced childhood and aina - days of rising doom |
Posted By: mickstafa
Date Posted: June 26 2005 at 10:42
| Rick Wakeman - The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table ../Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=4501" title=" Rick Wakeman The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table album reviews, Mp3 and track listing - |
Posted By: mickstafa
Date Posted: June 26 2005 at 10:44
| Oh, and Patrick Moraz - The Story of i. I have sorta gotten into a few tracks, but there are some really just cheesy melodies and lyrics. The music really isn't reflective of the interesting story Moraz tries to tell. |
Posted By: Drachen Theaker
Date Posted: June 26 2005 at 12:07
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Tormato by Yes springs instantly to mind - so uninspired after the brilliant Going for the One. A more obscure one is Rough Diamond - I bought their LP because it had Clem Clempson (ex-Colosseum) and David Byron (ex-Uriah Heep) on it, which seemed a pretty reliable pedigree. Little did I expect the thoroughly bland and unambitious 70s rock it contained. It's years since I heard it so I don't know if time has improved its appeal. ------------- "It's 1973, almost dinnertime and I'm 'aving 'oops!" - Gene Hunt |
Posted By: Dream Theater
Date Posted: June 26 2005 at 12:14
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Green Day - American Idiot
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Posted By: Teaflax
Date Posted: June 26 2005 at 12:18
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Indubitably, it was The Comfort of Strangers by Spock's Beard.
I had just moved to a new country, just gotten a job and was poor as dirt, but I needed some new music. After the many, many raves SB had gotten online, I figured it was a safe bet. These were positives from people who liked Gentle Giant, Yes, Genesis and VDGG, right? So, what could possibly go wrong?
I brought my portable CD player to work, and on my lunch hour, I ran expectantly to buy the album and popped it in as I headed to get some food.
While I was munching my Kung Pao Chicken, I was stunned. Floored. Oh. My. God.
This was the single most embarassing thing I had heard since The Shaggs (which at least had the virtue of being funny). It was like some kids who hade heard Prog descibed to them by someone but never actually heard it for themselves, meanwhile growing up on a diet of AOR and middle-of-the-road radio music. Like someone had taken all the clichés of why Prog sucks and shoved it into one album of bland Pop Rock.
Alright, it's probably not that horrendous, just kind of lame. But as a saved-for purchase when I was at my very poorest, and with all the hype surrounding it, it certainly was the greatest disappointment ever.
I remember trying to give it three or four more chances before trading it off for Future Sounds of London's Dead Cities. Classier and more interesting album, that.
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