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Poll Question: Which is your favourite album?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
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2 [2.50%]
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8 [10.00%]
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3 [3.75%]
23 [28.75%]
1 [1.25%]
1 [1.25%]
3 [3.75%]
6 [7.50%]
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True. It was the year of Duke, Drama, Permanent Waves, Zenyatta Mondatta, Making Movies, Tusk, Melt... I could go on. All begun perfectly with Another Brick in the Wall, first number one of the year.

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Had to be Doc at the Radar Station - just one of my favourite albums - though if I were limiting it more strictly to prog, I'd probably have gone with the crowd on Moving Pictures.

I must say 1980 is a much stronger field than 81, 82 or 83.

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Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Still some pretty decent ones in this list, but Rush leaves them far behind.

Yup.....nuff said
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:


My personal list would be

Eskaton - 4 Visions
Present - Triskaidekaphobie 
Zamla Mammaz Manna - Familjesprickor  
Art Zoyd - Generation Sans Futur

I don't know Present but the other three are awesome. Not quite Never For Ever-like awesome, but still... Tongue 
PS: Good to see some love for Sky!
Agree om those 4, especially for Art Zoyd. In their absence, I give Jon Anderson the first vote. Not a masterpiece, but his best after Olias. It doesn't deserve a 0.
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Can't say I'm a huge Rush fan but chose Waves...always liked that one ...not sure why.   ;)
Some other gems on that list....Asia Minor, Beefheart, Bush, Gabriel, etc.
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Originally posted by Earl of Mar Earl of Mar wrote:

Rush, by a mile.
 
Rush have permanently waved goodbye to all of the other contenders in this poll. Smile
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

It came down to a toss-up between Permanent Waves and PG (sorry Kate). I went for PG in the end.
Kate Bush would be doing really well in these 1980's polls if there weren't so many other artists to choose from. Smile 
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It came down to a toss-up between Permanent Waves and PG (sorry Kate). I went for PG in the end.
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I much prefer Eloy to Nektar, and Colours is a wonderful album
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Originally posted by Meltdowner Meltdowner wrote:

If you like Nektar you'll probably like them as well. Make sure you'll listen to them with a nice low frequency response, Klaus-Peter Matziol's bass playing is a big part of their sound Thumbs Up
Okay, will do. I have a high frequency of Mike Oldfield albums to listen to first though. Wink
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If you like Nektar you'll probably like them as well. Make sure you'll listen to them with a nice low frequency response, Klaus-Peter Matziol's bass playing is a big part of their sound Thumbs Up
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Originally posted by Meltdowner Meltdowner wrote:

^ What are you waiting for then? Wink "Colours" is the album I've been returning to more often, despite not being one of the most Prog. Every song is fantastic and I love the production. In fact, I mixed drums for the first time this year and I used this album as a sonic reference Thumbs Up
 
Thanks for the tip. I'll make a start on listening to Eloy's albums just as soon as I've finished listening to all of Mike Oldfield's albums. I have a feeling I'm going to like Eloy a lot if they're anything like Nektar. Maybe I'll even get around to writing an Eloy tribute thread, just like I did with Nektar recently. Smile
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On second thought, I voted for Eloy LOL
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^ What are you waiting for then? Wink "Colours" is the album I've been returning to more often, despite not being one of the most Prog. Every song is fantastic and I love the production. In fact, I mixed drums for the first time this year and I used this album as a sonic reference Thumbs Up
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Originally posted by Meltdowner Meltdowner wrote:

I can't choose between Eloy and Tangerine Dream Confused
I'd choose Tangerine Dream, but only because I haven't heard any albums by Eloy. Smile
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I can't choose between Eloy and Tangerine Dream Confused
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Originally posted by Frenetic Zetetic Frenetic Zetetic wrote:

Drama.
 
Drama is currently in third place with four votes. I wonder if the album would have done any better if I'd placed it at the top of the poll instead. Smile
 
Although on second thoughts, being at the top of the poll doesn't seem to have done Jon Anderson any good. Tongue


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Drama.

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Originally posted by Awesoreno Awesoreno wrote:

Too many I haven't heard (YET) to decide, but also too many good ones to decide anyway. Also, doesn't SBB also stand for Silesian Blues Band? They are also listed third on the 1980 rankings list. Makes the list less Anglo-American-centric (despite the Canadians' lead).

It is. Although later on they settled on "Szukaj, Burz, Buduj" – "Search, Break, Build"
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Too many I haven't heard (YET) to decide, but also too many good ones to decide anyway. Also, doesn't SBB also stand for Silesian Blues Band? They are also listed third on the 1980 rankings list. Makes the list less Anglo-American-centric (despite the Canadians' lead).
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