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Poll Question: It should be at par with classics from progressive rock's golden era
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    Posted: September 27 2006 at 09:24
the principles are:
 
- I determined the '80's as the time span between '81 and '89... '80 was not an awful year of prog, at all...
 
- I picked up a handful of albums among my favorites. I can change the titles according to recommendations. if your fave album is not on the list, don't click "other" at once! Suggest it; enough number of suggestions can help an album make into the list! (I will replace them with non-voted ones, as I will do in my 1976 albums poll: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=29013
 
- Supertramp is at the top of the list, because I was inspired by their Brother Where You Bound album (Famous Last Words made into the list just for the sake of convenience...)
 
- the utmost condition is that you really should believe your suggestion "matches up" with the classic albums of the golden era. IMHO IQ's Wake, Supertramp's Brother and Jon Lord's Before I Forget albums have such characteristics... the rest is up to you.
 
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edited Sep. 28 2006 - 09:57 EST +2:
I had to replace Peter Gabriel's Us with So, because the former was actually released in the '90's... sorry for the confusion!Confused


Edited by Bilek - September 28 2006 at 02:58
Listen to Turkish psych/prog; you won't regret:
Baris Manco,Erkin Koray,Cem Karaca,Mogollar,3 Hürel,Selda,Edip Akbayram,Fikret Kizilok,Ersen (and Dadaslar) (but stick with the '70's, and 'early 80's!)
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None really match up
 
A few come close , Moving Pictures, Brother Where You Bound and Scrpit for A Jester's Tears.
 
But you forgot to mentiopn Univers Zero's Uzed (86) and a few lesser known RIO gems.
 
 
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Moving Pictures, Discipline, Script, and Fugazi.Thumbs Up
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Univers Zero - Ceux de dehors is one example, and maybe Discipline
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

 
But you forgot to mention Univers Zero's Uzed (86) and a few lesser known RIO gems.
 
 
of course I did; I have no idea of those albums Wink
my mp3 dealer was supposed to bring some; but he didn'tCry how could I get them?!?!? (this is not a question!)
 
if more people mentiones a particular album; I will include it in place of a non-voted item.
 
BTW, you may be right none matching up; but "coming close" as you mentioned is enoughLOL in this case, please pick the one that comes closest!!!
Listen to Turkish psych/prog; you won't regret:
Baris Manco,Erkin Koray,Cem Karaca,Mogollar,3 Hürel,Selda,Edip Akbayram,Fikret Kizilok,Ersen (and Dadaslar) (but stick with the '70's, and 'early 80's!)
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Rush - "Moving pictures" the best by far from your list

Some forgotten very good prog albums of the 80's:
 
Yes - "Drama"

Queensryche "Operation mincdrime"

Pink Floyd - "The final cut"
 
Roger Waters - "The pros and coons
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'Moving Pictures'.  In my opinion, the quintessential 80's prog album.  Rush proved in the 80's that they were the most 'apt at adaptation'. 
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From that list: Supertramp - Brother Where You Bound
 
 
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ok, moving pictures, but IMHO, signals is better, because is the transitional album.
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Originally posted by misiu misiu wrote:

Rush - "Moving pictures" the best by far from your list

Some forgotten very good prog albums of the 80's:
 
Yes - "Drama"

Queensryche "Operation mincdrime"

Pink Floyd - "The final cut"
 
Roger Waters - "The pros and coons
 
I'll take your suggestions into account.
as for Yes - Drama; it's not really an '80's album: most albums released this year aren't. It was just an extension of '70's; it's a prominent year because Yes disbanded then, and the next year King Crimson reformed... hence my starting point.
 I mentioned this in my original post; take pains to look above LOL
I don't think I will ever include Final Cut either; unless there are a million claims from Floydians!


Edited by Bilek - September 27 2006 at 10:23
Listen to Turkish psych/prog; you won't regret:
Baris Manco,Erkin Koray,Cem Karaca,Mogollar,3 Hürel,Selda,Edip Akbayram,Fikret Kizilok,Ersen (and Dadaslar) (but stick with the '70's, and 'early 80's!)
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Rush - Moving Pictures
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From what I know about the 80's (and I don't know much about it) I would name two Peter Hammill's albums -- Sitting Targets (1981) and Patience (1983), but I'm a bit subjective with all that is related to Hammill.
 
As for King Crimson -- Discipline is THE album for me. And I would replace Beat by Three of a Perfect Pair...
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Points: 7910 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2006 at 12:11
I could've easily went with Moving Pictures, but opted for Misplaced Childhood.

Peter Gabriel's Us was included; however, didn't that come out in the 90's? I wonder if you meant to put So instead.

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All the Marillion ones.

But I'd also include Nude, by far the best of Camel's output from 1977 to 1998 and a masterpiece.
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where are the Yes releases?
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

 
But you forgot to mention Univers Zero's Uzed (86) and a few lesser known RIO gems.
 
 


Agreed. Uzed is amazing.
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Matches-up, do you mean quality-wise, or stylistically, or that it has a 70's counterpartishish?  Ah, hehe, disregard, I just read the poll question.. You clearly stated on a par with 70's classics.  I'll leave it in even though I caught my error immediately (i.e. long before posting).

A favourite 80's album is the Brazilian album from 1983 -- Bacamarte's Depois do Fim.  It's akin to albums in the 70's Italian Prog tradition -- is reminiscent of PFM -- yet innovative as prog should be, and, of course they put a Brazilian spin on things (besides that it's being sung in Portuguese).

Another favourite 80's album is from Hecenia; that being Legendes.  A too obscure band, I feel.

Miriodor's debut, Recontres, is excellent, I feel.

Alan Holdsworth's Metal Fatigue is very good.

Art Zoyd's La Marrage du Ciel et de L'enfer is kind of weird and wonderful.  Highly recommended for adventurous Progheads as  all Progheads should be.

Then there's Univers Zero... Ceux du Dehors is excellent, and better yet, Uzed.

It's a shame that The Enid's Six Pieces came out in 1980, since that would be worthy of inclusion.  A classic.

Anyway, that's enough for now... A lot of great Prog came out in the 80's that I feel rivals the best of the 70's stuff.

Edited for major typos.


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Moving Pictures is as good as most of Rush's earlier work.
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Moving Pictures,Discipline,Piece of Mind by Iron Maiden Tongue
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