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The 80s Weren't As Bad As You Thought |
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friso 
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Though honestly, who would trade the whole eighties againt just 1971 & 1972?
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I'm guitarist and songwriter for the prog-related band Mother Bass. Find us at http://www.motherbass.com. I also enter stages throughout the Netherlands performing my poetry.
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richardh
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Posted: December 24 2019 at 01:10 |
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^ I wouldn't trade it even for just one year from 1971-1975
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tamijo_II
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This is very typical internet: I'm taking time to make a list of +100 albums that i find interesting from the 80's, a very varied plate I think, with music to appeal to anyone's taste. You pick one album and PUKE on it. NB: It is not a trade, the 70's won't disappear if you listen to 80's music.
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Davesax1965
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Posted: December 24 2019 at 03:39 |
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"Hawkwind recorded 'Live Chronicles"
- no further questions, Your Honour. ;-) |
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: December 24 2019 at 03:40 |
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The 80s kicked arse!!!
Just a matter of where you decide to turn the flashlight. Sure point it towards MTV and the whole ‘music needs spurious stuff like specific clothes/dances/looks in order to be interesting ie sell’ and you get a mountain of goo..but dig around a little and you end up with a Babushka doll of sorts that never seems to end. Currently listening to some Dead Can Dance and am about to embark on a little goosebumps enducing rollercoaster ride called Xavier 
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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Raff
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So much this
 . Excellent choices BTW. Loving the music produced in the Seventies does not mean you cannot appreciate what came after, even if it sounded "different". Though I have been into music for as long as I can remember, I started getting serious about it in the early Eighties, and this has coloured my whole attitude towards this much-reviled decade. I'll have to disagree with Hugues' statement that if you like the Eighties, it means you were not there .Edited by Raff - December 24 2019 at 03:42 |
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Great suggestions!
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M27Barney
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Posted: December 24 2019 at 09:38 |
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Did somebody mention Thomas Dolby and good in the same sentence? That talentless t**t sums up the commercial 80s perfectly. And if band like Pallas had been given the opportunity that later bands had...then the atlantis suite would have beaten all else in the 80s...
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Posted: December 24 2019 at 09:58 |
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There are some great albums listed throughout this thread that show that prog never died completely, even in the 80s. I didn't see mention of Kayak's "Merlin" or Saga's "World Apart" which were also great albums.
Thanks to Logan for mentioning the often overlooked "Deceit" by This Heat.
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 Hmm. I'm stating to think that the 80s was worst than I thought. Thank god for Midnight Oil. Luv those guys. |
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The Dark Elf
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When one has to defend a premise like "the 80s weren't as bad as you thought", I would suggest that it was indeed that bad, and folks are left scrambling to provide a spade to shovel out of the sh*te.
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Posted: December 24 2019 at 13:56 |
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Madrigal.....1988
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Lewian
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Posted: December 24 2019 at 16:10 |
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Well, at least a certain Mr. Steve Hackett liked this one: |
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this turned out to be too much of a project for me at the moment but I couldn't stop! lots of good prog and non prog in the 1980s...here are some
prog Amenophis - s/t Angelo Branduardi - "Cercando L'Oro" Anyone's Daughter - all their early 1980s albums, with one simple called "Live" being perhaps the best Dan Ar Braz - Acoustic" Asia Minor - "Between Flesh and Divine" Blue Oyster Cult - "Fire of Unknown Origin" Camel - "Stationary Traveller" Clannad - "Fuaim", "Magical Ring", and "Macalla" Eloy - probably their 3 best were released in the early 1980s - "Colours", "Planets" and "Time to Turn" Flaming Bess "Tanz der Gotetter" was from 1979 and launched an impressive career, though that is their best Gordon Giltrap - "Live at Oxford" Steve Hackett - "Defector", "Cured" (!), "Highly Strung" Itoiz - "Ezekiel" Los Jaivas - "Alturas de Machu Picchu" Jon and Vangelis - "Friends of Mr Cairo" Kerrs Pink - "Mellom Oss" Kitaro - "In Person (Digital)" Moving Hearts - s/t and "Dark End of the Street" Novalis - "Augenblicke" Mike Oldfield - "QE2", "Five Miles out" and several amazing singles like "Crime of Passion" and "Pictures in the Dark" Sally Oldfield - "Celebration" Gavin O'Loghlen - "The Poet and the Priest" Osiris - s/t and "Myths and Legends" Outer Limits - "Misty Moon" and "Scene of Pale Blue" Alan Parsons - "Turn of a Friendly Card" Pablo El Enterrador - s/t Pentangle - "In the Round" Pererin - "Teithgan" Rebekka - "Phoenix" Renaissance - "Camera Camera" - it's very good really Rousseau - "Retreat" Rubaja and Hernandez - "High Plateaux" Sky - II and III Jimi Slevin - Freeflight Alan Stivell - "Terre des Vivants" Strawbs - "Don't say Goodbye" David Sylvian - "Secrets of the Beehive" Tangerine Dream - "Exit" and "Underwater Sunlight" Bob Theil - "So Far" Andreas Vollenweider - "Down to the Moon" non prog isn't as readily available but here are a few Dire Straits - "Making Movies" Fleetwood Mac - "Tango in the Night" Van Morrison - "Poetic Champions Compose" Runrig - "Recovery", "Heartland" and "Cutter and the Clan" Ultravox - "Vienna" and "Quartet" Lindisfarne - "Sleepless Nights" Ian Matthews - "Walking a Changing Line" Ferron - "Testimony" Juluka - "African Litany", "Scatterlings" and "Stand your Ground" Savuka - "Third World Child" China Crisis - "Working with Fire and Steel" and "Flaunt the Imperfection" Bruce Cockburn - "Stealing Fire" Chris de Burgh - "The Getaway" Orealis - "Celtic Music" Loreena McKennitt - "Parallel Dreams" Sarah McLachlan - "Touch" the Men they Couldn't Hang - "Waiting for Bonaparte" and "Silvertown" Pogues - "Rum Sodomy and the Lash" Christy Moore - hmm, take your pick Pete Morton - "Frivolous Love" Spirit of the West - "Tripping up the Stairs" Triffids - "Born Sandy Devotional" and "Calenture" RedGum - "Caught in the Act" and "Frontline" Red Box - "Circle and the Square" Aha - "Hunting High and Low" Edited by kenethlevine - December 25 2019 at 07:46 |
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Mortte
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Posted: December 24 2019 at 23:00 |
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I have listen some Art Zoyd (I believe it was their debut from 1976) and didn´t like it much. So I think I will try This Heat.
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Lewian
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The Camberwell Now album The Ghost Trade I mentioned earlier is actually Charles Hayward and Trefor Goronwy of This Heat. I do like This Heat a lot but I'd rate The Ghost Trade even higher, so if you like This Heat, you may like that one, too.
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AFAIC the 80's pretty much did suck musically, at least that was my opinion when it was going on, and I was still in my teens or early 20's, so too young to be jaded. There was good music around, but pretty much all of it was underground or at very least alternative. That isn't always the case. I'd really enjoyed late 70's new wave, but it had all turned to New romantic trash by about 81. And I can't help feeling that 80's music was infected by a post-punk cynicism and irony that got very wearing. I'm not sure exactly when that wore off, but it eventually did to a large extent. I also think of that time as the end of the British era. For me British bands had dominated music from the Beatles through to punk and new wave, but they lost the plot in the early 80's and never came to dominate again, despite the Brit-Pop bubble of the mid 90's. The bands who came along and snatched the crown back were American. The year I tend to think of this happening is 1983, when, for instance, REM and Violent Femmes released their debut albums. I remember that as being the first time in my young life that I'd found myself mostly looking to American bands (though as the decade went on, I'd say Australia produced more of my favourite bands per head of population than anyone else. None of them were prog, though.) Well, not unless The Church count. Edited by Braka1 - December 25 2019 at 03:20 |
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Believe me Pope Paul, my toes are clean |
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