With most every group I collected back in the day there came a point where I lost interest and stopped. Has this happened to you and if so, what was that point?
Here's mine:
Kansas - Audiovisions
Yes - Drama
King Crimson - Discipline
Rush - Moving Pictures
Styx - Paradise Theater
Gentle Giant - Missing Piece
Pink Floyd - Animals
Rick Wakeman - Rhapsodies
Dream Theater - Train of Thought
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ELP - Works Volume 2
Kansas - Monolith
Genesis - And then there were three
Yes - Drama
Caravan - Blind Dog at St. Dunstans
Camel - Nude
There may have been single cuts after those that I found interesting , but for the most part those were the end of the trail.
There are more that I came back to after abandoning for 10 years or so, tastes change over the years.
mark
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Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
Yes - Fly From Here
Genesis - Calling All Stations
King Crimson - The Power To Believe
Camel - A Wink & A Nod
Gentle Giant - Civilian
ELP - In The Hot Seat
I don't feel any of these bands put out anything worthwhile afterwards.
"Henry Cow always wanted to push itself, so sometimes we would write music that we couldn't actually play – I found that very encouraging." - Lindsay Cooper, 1998
"I have nothing to do with Endless River. Phew! This is not rocket science people, get a grip." - Roger Waters, 2014
"I'm a collector. And I've always just seemed to collect personalities." - David Bowie, 1973
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Crimson - The ConstruKction Of Light
Tull - A
Floyd - DB
Yes - Open Your Eyes
ELP - Works Vol. 2
Genesis - Calling All Stations
PF and Genesis are two of the few groups where I actually owned all of their studio albums.
does the question require that we bought/owned all the artists albums up through that last one? the reason i ask is because with Yes, i bought 90125, Magnification and OYE but not all before or in between.
Kansas - PoKR
Rush - S&A
Gentle Giant - Missing Piece (bought the box set with Playing the Fool, Civilian, GfaD years afterwards)
Tull - A
Genesis - Duke
Renaissance - Camera Camera
Camel - The Single Factor
"She said you are the air I breathe
The life I love, the dream I weave."
Unevensong - Camel
At the time of release:
KC - A Young Person's Guide to King Crimson
Yes - Relayer
Robert Wyatt - Ruth is Stranger Than Richard
VdGG - World Record
Procol Harum - Broken Barricades
Hammill - Nadir's Big Chance
JT - LitP
Soft Machine - Bundles
The Who - Tommy
Strawbs - Ghosts
GG - Interview
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Genesis - TotT
Caravan - ... & the New Symphonia
Roxy Music - Siren
Traffic - Low Spark....
Groundhogs - Hogwash
Henry Cow - Concerts
Magma - Live/Hhai
Kevin Ayers - ....Dr. Dream
ELP - Pictures....
FZ - Grand Wazoo
LZ - IV
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I never listened to Kansas too much - have one or two early CDs. I have never heard a note of Dream Theater. Yes - I like one song on Talk but nothing much after Drama. Eric, if you've not tried out Power to Believe by KC - run. Rick Wakeman - have lots but like very little. Rush - MP too. Styx - earlier than Paradise Theater. Gentle Giant - Interview. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here but like some of the later stuff.Originally Posted by Just Eric
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Other than a live album recorded before FFH, Yes hasn't put out anything. So, how can they have put out something worthwhile after FFH?
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Pink Floyd - Animals
King Crimson - Power To Believe
Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses
Yes - Going For The One
Genesis - The Lamb...
Caravan - For Girls...
Ian
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I blame Wynton, what was the question?
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Pink Floyd - Saucerful of Secrets
King Crimson - Live at the Marquee, 1971
Tull - Around the World, Live
Yes - Relayer
Genesis - Live
Caravan - For Girls ...
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For me, it's a less a matter of "I'm not spending anymore money on this drivel" and more a matter of "I don't have the money to buy everything that interests me". So, for instance, the reason I don't have Fly From Here isn't that I didn't like Magnification (though I was surely disappointed in a couple of it's predecessors) but more than I just couldn't afford to buy it when it came out.
Similarly, the reason I don't have any Genesis albums post-Abacab is just never got around to buying them.
With ELP, though, after awhile, I just heard so much talk of how terrible the reunion albums were, I just eventually stopped worrying about it.
The only Pink Floyd albums I've never owned are More, Atom Heart Mother, Obscured By Clouds, and Delicate Sound Of Thunder. I have all the others on either LP and/or CD (believe it or not, Pulse is one of the ones I have on LP!).
Now there are a few bands where I bought a given album, and thought "I'm not sure I'm going to go any further with these guys". With Caravan, that album was Blind Dog At St. Dunstan's. Great album cover, but I remember thinking the songwriting was way too MOR. I believe I subsequently read that was the period where they were actively trying to "crack America", so maybe that had something to do with it. But I never picked up any of the albums after that. I think I heard there was an eventual return to form, as it were, but again I haven't heard the records.
Same thing with Camel. I think the last Camel album I have is I Can See Your House From Here. I thought Eye Of The Storm was an amazing instrumental (given it's origins, how could it not be?), but I recall the rest of the album was...let's say less impressive. And somehow or another, I just never got around to getting anything subsequent to that one.
I forget what the last Gentle Giant album I have is, I think it might be the live album, Playing The Fool. What came after that one?
I do have every King Crimson studio album, and at least for awhile, I had most of the live albums. I don't have any of the recent ultra deluxe retirement fund reissues with the bonus tracks and all the rest of it.
But if I had unlimited resources, I'd probably have kept buying Tull albums (last one I have is Crest Of Knave), Genesis albums, etc.
ELP- Love Beach
I'm not lazy. I just work so fast I'm always done.
Either that last one by KCrimson (can't recall the name) or A Nod and a Wink by Camel. Both are OK, but I honestly couldn't do much more "big 5/6/7" now - these are over and done with, IMO. Just the way I see it.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
I assume that these are the last albums you bought by the band rather than the point in their sequential discography that you stopped getting any more. Maybe I misunderstood the original post, I was assuming it was the latter rather than the former.
Ian
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
Genesis- Invisible Touch
Yes - 90125
Camel - The Single Factor
ELP - Works 2
I haven't stopped buying PF or JT albums so if they release another album I'll buy that too.
Camel - Dust And Dreams
Dream Theater - never, nothing, ever.
ELP - Black Moon
Genesis - We Can't Dance
Gentle Giant - never really stopped….
Hawkwind - Levitation, but picked it back up in the late 90s
Jethro Tull - Rock Island
Kansas - Monolith?
King Crimson - THrak or so
Moody Blues - Long Distance Voyager
Pink Floyd - Momentary Lapse
Rush - Grace Under Pressure
Styx - Grand Illusion (which I shoplifted)
Yes - Magnification
Mind you, since that time, I've gone and purchased albums to "fill in the blanks" in my collection.
"Always ready with the ray of sunshine"
The ones I still own
Camel-Moonmadness
Caravan-For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night
Emerson, Lake and Palmer-Love Beach
Genesis-And Then There Were Three
Gentle Giant-The Missing Piece
Jethro Tull-Songs From the Wood
King Crimson-Discipline
Magma-Félicité Thösz
Mahavishnu Orchestra-Visions of the Emerald Beyond
Pink Floyd-The Final Cut
Van der Graaf Generator-A Grounding in Numbers
Yes-The Ladder
Camel-Moonmadness was the last good one
Genesis-Invisible Touch was the bad one that made me stop
Gentle Giant-The Missing Piece had a few decent songs but that was about it
King Crimson-Thraak killed it for me but the Power To Believe brought me back
Pink Floyd-Even the later ones were worth listening to
ELP - Works left me cold
Tull - A was about it
Renaissance - A Song for All Seasons was the last decent one
Yes - Tormato left me gasping for the good old days
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I see many Yes end with Tormato and Going For the One and I think I would've been in that boat if the line-up hadn't changed for Drama. The buzz around Drama was enough to pull me back, but the hit single from 90125 was enough to warn me off of that one.
With KC I liked Discipline and saw that tour twice, but nothing beyond grabbed me and by the time Power to Believe came around my tastes had changed.
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ELP: *shudder* In The Hot Seat *shudder*
Yes: Magnification
King Crimson: not counting the 4,872,971 reissues/live albums, TPTB
Genesis: Wind and Wuthering
Gentle Giant: Civilian
Pink Floyd: The Division Bell
...or you could love
Yes: Yes - Drama + ABWH. I've owned most post Drama albums, but liquidated all of them.
Genesis: Trespass - W&W. Again, I've owned most of ther albums past W&W, but ultimately none have kept my interest; though there are songs on most of them I like and sometimes I miss Duke a bit. Never been a fan of From Genesis to Revelation.
ELP: S/T - Works Volume II + ELPowell.
Jethro Tull: Stand Up - A + Crest of a Knave and TAAB2. Owned everything, except .Com, but just cannot get into any post A albums save Crest, which oddly is among my favorites.
KC: ItCotCK - Power to Believe, except for Islands, Beat, and ToaPP, which I just don't enjoy.
GG: Own all of them, but really don't like GfaD and am not that fond of the debut or Missing Piece. Civilian I like, but it's not really a proper "GG" album, imo.
Pink Floyd: Not a big fan, I only own Dark Side - The Wall, my favorite being Animals.
Camel: S/T - Raindances. I've owned most of the others but nothing after that has really excited, Nude perhaps being the closest.
Kansas: S/T - PoKR. After that, meh.
Rush: 2112 - Signals. Before and after that, meh.
Renaissance: Prologue - Scheherazade. I owned Novella and Azure d'Or, but they didn't do it for me, so I ditched them.
Bill
There are great tunes on both Audiovisions and Monlith, but each are lacking as a complete package.Sputnki said:
Kansas: S/T - PoKR. After that, meh.
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Of the 'Big' bands that I actually followed, I have most everything up to & including recent releases like Fly From Here (Yes) and TAAB2 (Jethrian Andertull). Not that I expect output comparable to their classic heydays, but it can still be enjoyable to visit with old friends like that, from time to time.
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