1982-1983

Since the newly expanded Strawberry Bricks book has chosen 1982 as its cut-off point, I'm wondering what changed between those two years 1982 and 1983.
Discuss, again.

Edited by Stool Man - July 13 2017 at 02:58

Progressive rock really died around '75. I really didn't hear anything tremendously innovative after that although there were a few good albums by some who refused to quit. Of course Marillion will come up on this thread but they really weren't doing anything new. I guess the author wanted to avoid any arguments over when prog really died.  If it wasn't over by 1975 then it was definitely ancient history by 1983. 

Kepler62 wrote: Progressive rock really died around '75. I really didn't hear anything tremendously innovative after that although there were a few good albums by some who refused to quit. Of course Marillion will come up on this thread but they really weren't doing anything new. I guess the author wanted to avoid any arguments over when prog really died.  If it wasn't over by 1975 then it was definitely ancient history by 1983.

Kepler62 wrote: Progressive rock really died around '75.

Fashion. Unlike what people like to think; just because a clock ticks from '79 - '80 or 99 to 00 (or more accurately here '00 to 01) does not mean too much social pop culture change. The changes have been decided but it takes time for the arbiters of society (fashion mags, ad agencies etc) to decide on what you should be doing to be a beautiful person.

1982 meant the height of new wave punk pop rock disco. 1983 means Madonna. It's all in the hairdos. Either '70s over-elaborate or punk short to Big hair, extensions, even more hairspray and shoulder pads. And even more so with women.

A thought that occurs is that 1983 is when Marillion hit the big time - though they were actively gigging in 1982 and put out Market Square Heroes then, it'd be Script For a Jester's Tear that really put them on the map. (Market Square Heroes floated about in the bottom reaches of the singles chart, Script hit number 7 in the album charts.) You could see 1983 as the point where a new generation of bands picked up the torch, and I suspect that to truly do the neo-prog scene justice would mean expanding the book even further.

Great! Another prog is dead thread! 

Stool Man wrote: Since the newly expanded Strawberry Bricks book has chosen 1982 as its cut-off point, I'm wondering what changed between those two years 1982 and 1983. Discuss, again.

I partially proof-read (facts, mostly) Charles' book and if he had asked me to do so, it's because I had asked him a few years back to extend his timeline to the 80's and beyond.

I was more hoping for him to expand into RIO, as opposed to neo-prog , as the 80's are the THE decade for both genres.  But he did tell me that he wasn't sufficiently knowledgeable in those genres and therefore not confident enough to go beyond 81