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Poll Question: Which is your favourite album?
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23 [28.75%]
1 [1.25%]
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3 [3.75%]
6 [7.50%]
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Actually a pretty strong year, given how prog (and rock in general) fell out of favor in late 70s.
So we have, obviously, a straight up great album by Rush, Permanent Waves.
But also a bunch of other interesting, 3 star (or even borderline 4) records: Hammill, Hackett, Bruford, Bush and Gabriel for soloists, Yes and Genesis had Drama and Duke, Jethro Tull's A was underrated somewhat...

I pick QE2 though, I think nobody has voted for it yet, but it's really solid, at times magnificent album. I wish it had a more exciting cover, it'd have at least 0.2 higher rating on the internet Wink
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I chose Asia Minor, but Eloy, Steve Hackett, Mike Oldfield, Sky and Alan Parsons are all great.
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Duke, then Hackett, Yes and Rush
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I really wanted to vote for either Drama, since it's not getting a lot of love, or even Duke, but Permanent Waves is without question the superior album.
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Actually, SBB is kind of big for a non-UK band. Wink
 
I doubt if SBB are well-known outside the progosphere and I've no idea what the initials stand for.

But this poll is for the progosphere! LOL

SBB = "Search, Break, Build" ~ which describes their approach to music-making.
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Genesis, followed by Yes, Rush, Peter Gabriel, Eloy, and Hawkwind.
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Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

Well, you know where my vote is going in 1981.  LOL
 
There's no rush. The 1981 prog poll is coming right up, with moving pictures too! Smile
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Well, you know where my vote is going in 1981.  LOL
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Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by GolfBoi GolfBoi wrote:

It's almost startling how one-sided the poll is. I'd expect PG3/Melt to be a far more popular pick. Going to go with Tangram myself; one of Tangerine Dream's gems in my book. 
 
There's a lot of Rush fans here. Wink
Sadly, there is not.  There are far more Rush haters on PA than fans.  
 
I've never come across any Rush haters here. I thought Rush fans here were only slightly behind Yes, Genesis, King Crimson & Pink Floyd fans. Smile
 
The Rush fans have certainly come out in force in this poll. I expect Rush will win the upcoming 1981 poll too. Smile


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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by GolfBoi GolfBoi wrote:

It's almost startling how one-sided the poll is. I'd expect PG3/Melt to be a far more popular pick. Going to go with Tangram myself; one of Tangerine Dream's gems in my book. 
 
There's a lot of Rush fans here. Wink
Sadly, there is not.  There are far more Rush haters on PA than fans.  
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Originally posted by GolfBoi GolfBoi wrote:

It's almost startling how one-sided the poll is. I'd expect PG3/Melt to be a far more popular pick. Going to go with Tangram myself; one of Tangerine Dream's gems in my book. 
 
There's a lot of Rush fans here. Wink
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Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Actually, SBB is kind of big for a non-UK band. Wink
 
I doubt if SBB are well-known outside the progosphere and I've no idea what the initials stand for.
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Actually, SBB is kind of big for a non-UK band. Wink
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^ Sorry, there just wasn't room to include every prog album from 1980, but in all fairness, the artists you listed aren't exactly household names, with the exception of Brian Eno. Smile
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Can't find myself willing to vote as, sadly, none of my TOP SIX albums for the year 1980 are included in this poll.





(In case you are at all curious, that list reads as follows:

1. FLAIRCK Gevecht met de engel
2. SBB Memento Z Banalnym Tryptikiem
3. HAROLD BUDD & BRIAN ENO Ambient 2:  The Plateaux of Mirror
4. LARAAJI (Produced by Brian Eno) Ambient 3: Day of Radiance
5. ITOIZ Ezekiel
6. IVORY Sad Cypress) 
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The Enid gets my vote. Drama could also have.
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FAR too many classics to narrow it down to one! The early 80s are going to be some tough polls for me.

Since nobody else will vote for Colours or Tangram, I could vote for either!
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Originally posted by FatherChristmas FatherChristmas wrote:

As shockingly surprising as it is, I voted for Duke.
I thought you might do, in just the same way as RushFan voted for Rush. Wink
 
After a long period of deliberation, I voted for The Enid in The End. Smile
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Quite a few good choices here. My vote went to ANT's PP&P II
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