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fudgenuts64 
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Posted: September 26 2015 at 11:46 |
I'm having a difficult time figuring out whether I want to do a 77 vs 78 poll. I feel it would easily slide into 77 votes, but I felt 79 vs 80 could be a really fair fight. Let's go over some of the highlights again
1980: Some highlights from both decades, but judge your response on your own favorites I missed as well. Very tough decision but going with 1979 this time around.
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Manuel
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Posted: September 26 2015 at 12:26 |
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1979 for me.
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Pastmaster
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Posted: September 26 2015 at 13:37 |
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Posted: September 26 2015 at 13:44 |
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1979 has Danger Money (in my top10) and Silent Cries, 1980 has the rest.
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Posted: September 26 2015 at 13:57 |
Can I say 1980 because that's the year I met my husband? If not, can I say 1980 because that's the year we saw The Wall together (at Earl's Court)?
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SteveG
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Posted: September 26 2015 at 14:02 |
Grumpy old man warning! Prog was dead by 1980. 
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emigre80
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Posted: September 26 2015 at 14:10 |
 SteveG wrote:
Grumpy old man warning! Prog was dead by 1980. |
Some of us might have enjoyed the year anyway.... Can we not say "dead"? Perhaps "somewhat less robust" instead?
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SteveG
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Posted: September 26 2015 at 14:11 |
^Ok, I'll go with that! 
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emigre80
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Posted: September 26 2015 at 14:14 |
SteveG wrote:
^Ok, I'll go with that! |
It's just that "prog was dead by 1980" makes me feel so old. 
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Posted: September 26 2015 at 14:15 |
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^To be honest Terri, I was running around Europe with a band that Spinal Tap must have been based on, doing live sound engineering, so I really didn't notice the prog trends until the late eighties.
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Posted: September 26 2015 at 14:18 |
Well, I remember the 1970s clearly enough, but since I was never aware of musical categories, didn't pay any attention to what was dead and what was alive. If I liked it I listened to it, so trends kind of went over my head. Which is good in a way, because nothing dies as long as you go on enjoying it. However, sounds like you had a great big pile of fun during those years ("running around Europe with a band that Spinal Tap must have been based on"). Someday I'd like to hear all the stories.
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Posted: September 26 2015 at 14:24 |
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^Sometimes it was fun and sometimes is wasn't like going through some foreign countries' customs and immigration and worrying about someone in your crew having something illegal on their person, because they would bust everyone until things got sorted out.
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Posted: September 26 2015 at 14:34 |
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in retrospect most things are sometimes fun and sometimes not. I'd still like to hear the stories.
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Posted: September 26 2015 at 14:42 |
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SteveG
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Posted: September 26 2015 at 14:42 |
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^ I guess it depends on what side of the fence you were on. As the chief sound tech, it was my job to make sure that the musicians not only sounded the best that they could, but to also ensure that nobody was electrocuted on stage because instruments and mics in that era were directly wired to preamps or amps with a lot of heavy voltage behind them. I had to take my job very seriously while others thought it was all a big party at times.
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Posted: September 26 2015 at 15:32 |
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1980. Like that year's music a fair pace better than '79's music in general.
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Posted: September 26 2015 at 15:41 |
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1979, man, it had Passport-Garden Of Eden.
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Posted: September 26 2015 at 15:50 |
emigre80 wrote:
SteveG wrote:
Grumpy old man warning! Prog was dead by 1980. |
Some of us might have enjoyed the year anyway.... Can we not say "dead"? Perhaps "somewhat less robust" instead? |
Exactly. If prog was dead by '80, it would not be alive today. But the period from 1979 to the mid-eighties (or maybe somewhat later) were relatively barren years for prog.
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Posted: September 26 2015 at 16:39 |
Lemme see...
1979: Clivage - Mixtus Orbis Heldon - Stand by Henry Cow - Western Culture Univers Zero - Heresie Vortex - Les Cycles De Thanatos Floyd - The Wall Carnascialia - s/t Arachnoid - s/t Pekka Pohjola - Visitation Didier Bocquet - Voyage Cérébral Art Bears - Winter Songs Art Zoyd - Musique Pour L'Odyssée Laurent Thibault - Mais On Ne Peut Pas Rêver Tout Le Temps Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats Günther Schickert - Überfällig Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure Embryo - Embryo's Reise Kha-Ym - 10 "GMT
1980: Herbert F Bairy - Traumspiel Nya Ljudbolaget - s/t SBB - Memento Z... Itoiz - Ezekiel Bobby Beausoleil - Lucifer Rising Throbbing Gristle - Heathen Harald Grosskopf - Synthesist Picchio dal Pozzo - Abbiamo Tutti... Spinetta Jade - Alma de Diamante Abus Dangereux - Le Quatrieme Movement Aksak Maboul - Un Peu De L'Âme Des Bandits Jon Hassel w/ Brian Eno - Fourth World Vol 1: Possible Musics Zamla Mammaz Manna - Familjesprickor Rahmann - s/t Art Bears - The World As It Is Today Pekka Pohjola - Kätkävaaran Lohikäärme Art Zoyd - Générations Sans Futur Genesis - Duke
It's a.................................................
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Posted: September 26 2015 at 17:30 |
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Spectral Mornings over Defector by a hair.
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