what's more progressive?

Doesn’t seem that way at all from the OP, or even the poll question. 🤔

OP wrote:  Which of these two 1985 records do you find to be more progressive, however it is you define that term? For me it's Rush. Though the songs don't have the stylistic hallmarks of the classic 70s prog records, they fuse together 80s synth pop and new wave aesthetics with a hard rock backbone and a prog sophistication in a way that I'm not sure many other bands (if any other bands) were doing at the time. Maybe Saga? Misplaced Childhood, on the other hand, seems to me to dig its heels into a midpoint between mid-70s Genesis and Pink Floyd and ride that wave as far as it will go with some mildly updated production. Still a great album, but not very progressive to me.

So I wasn't talking about which one furthered it's respective band's progression more, but that is definitely a cool way to look at it! I've never heard any of the rest of Marillion's catalogue, so it would be interesting to me to hear whether people think Misplaced Childhood was a big leap forward breaking a lot of new ground for them or not. I think Power Windows was a step or two beyond the next logical step after Grace Under Pressure for Rush, though not as explosive a step as Fly By Night after Rush, or Permanent Waves after Hemispheres.

What I meant as best I can describe it is which album better fits your own personal definition of the term "progressive," whether that definition has to do with a particular style of composition and playing, or whether it has more to do with pushing the envelope forward, or even if that means the album has more progressive politics! Whatever your definition is, that's what I'm hoping to find out with this thread, and I thought these two albums from 1985 were a pretty good gauge of what side of the spectrum of definitions one leans more towards.