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Lindsay Lohan 
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 Topic: The 80s..the worst era for prog.
Posted: May 26 2005 at 07:27 |
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I personally think that the 80s is the worst era of prog and does not got any really incredible fantastic albums. I think the 70s is the best era and all the succesfull bands in the 70s seemed to go a bit more to the commercial side of music and the synths sounds are horrible IMO. So i was just wondering if anybody knew any band that made their best prog album in the 80s. (Except for Queensryche)
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Kotro
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Posted: May 26 2005 at 07:30 |
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Er... Marillion? Rush? Anyone?
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Posted: May 26 2005 at 07:31 |
I dont think may would argue with you, that the 70's was the best time for prog 
There was a lot of crap around in the 80's anyway, but there was good prog rock..
Script for a jesters tear - Marillion
Fugazi - Marillion
Misplaced Childhood - Marillion
Clutching at Straws - Marillion
Moving Pictures - Rush
Signals - Rush
Grace under Pressure - Rush
Once aroubnd the world - It Bites
Never Forever - Kate Bush
The Dreaming - Kate Bush
Hounds of Love - Kate Bush
The Wake - IQ
Art & Illusion - Twelfth Night
Duke - Genesis
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Lindsay Lohan
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Posted: May 26 2005 at 07:32 |
 Kotro wrote:
Er... Marillion? Rush? Anyone? |
Nah i think rush best time was in the 70s and i don't fancy marillion that much but perhaps marillion was the best prog band in the 80s...
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Kotro
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Posted: May 26 2005 at 07:38 |
maidenrulez wrote:
Kotro wrote:
Er... Marillion? Rush? Anyone? |
Nah i think rush best time was in the 70s and i don't fancy marillion that much but perhaps marillion was the best prog band in the 80s...
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Well, you had already quoted Queensr˙che... I have no words to describe "Operation: Mindcrime"  .
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Posted: May 26 2005 at 09:09 |
Isildurs Bane. They released their first album in the early eighties. Genuine symphonic progressive, influenced by fusion and swedish instrumental music. After a while the fusion-part of their music got stronger, taking them even further away from commercial music.
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Dragon Phoenix
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Posted: May 26 2005 at 09:13 |
Marillion, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, David Sylvian, Queensryche....
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Posted: May 26 2005 at 09:20 |
One of the very few 80's good jazzrock/prog album: Steve Tibbetts/Yr (1980) 
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Posted: May 26 2005 at 09:25 |
I think the 70's were the best, then the eighties with Marillion, IQ, Pendragon, Twelfth Night, Pallas etc., then the nineties and then the naughties: a slow decline. There's more prog than ever before, but the quality is getting less and less with each decennium.
Sounds pretty negative, but there are still a lot of gems to discover. Flowers in the asphalt...
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Posted: May 26 2005 at 09:35 |
Blacksword wrote:
I dont think may would argue with you, that the 70's was the best time for prog
There was a lot of crap around in the 80's anyway, but there was good prog rock..
Script for a jesters tear - Marillion
Fugazi - Marillion
Misplaced Childhood - Marillion
Clutching at Straws - Marillion
Moving Pictures - Rush
Signals - Rush
Grace under Pressure - Rush
Once aroubnd the world - It Bites
Never Forever - Kate Bush
The Dreaming - Kate Bush
Hounds of Love - Kate Bush
The Wake - IQ
Art & Illusion - Twelfth Night
Duke - Genesis
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sure! should I add to this list:
tales from the lush attic - IQ
seasons end - marillion
power windows - rush
big lad & windmill - it bites
the jewell - pendragon
fly high fall far - pendragon
eloy - colours + planets + times to turn + performance + wings of vision
gandalf - journey to an imaginary land
steve hackett - defector
anthony phillips - 1984 + private parts 2, 3 & 4
jon & vangelis - short stories
mike oldfield - airborn + most of his 80's albums
alan parson - turn of a friendly card
rush - permanent waves
many saga albums
univers 0 - ceux du dehors
many tangerine dream albums
camel - nude , stationary + single factor
sally oldfield - water bearer + easy
jethro tull - a, broadsword & under wraps
ian anderson - walk into light
yes - drama & 90125 + ABWH
many UZEB albums
MANY Frank Zappa's albums: tinsel town, drowning witch, you are what you is and so on....
tons of vangelis albums
king crimson - red
the 3 first asia's
the first 4 Fixx's albums
magnum - storyteller
supertramp - breakfast + brother were you bound
pink floyd - final cut + momentary
eddie jobson - zinc + theme of secrets
now, i have to stop, because i have not finished soon!
NO, definitely the 80's were not a bad decade at all!
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Posted: May 26 2005 at 10:29 |
Looks like it was a pretty good decade to me.. 
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Posted: May 26 2005 at 10:40 |
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yeah... Turn of A Friendly Card, courtesy of Mr Parsons. What a good album that was. Did anyone mention Fact or Fiction by Twelfth Night?
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Posted: May 26 2005 at 10:42 |
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Greenback : King Crimson - Red is from 1975! But anyway, their 80's albums are decent.
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Posted: May 26 2005 at 11:03 |
The reincarnated Crimson....Discipline, Beat, and Three of a Perfect Pair.....not to mention Fripp's various projects, like the League..., and his advances in Frippertronics. Fripp and his crew (mainly Belew and Levin) helped keep the prog ship upright.
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Posted: May 26 2005 at 11:06 |
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Yes, mostly just crap. A few good ones but not many.
The 70's groups that continued to release albums were only shadows of
their past. Even the 90's was a lot better decade in progressive music.
The 80's certainly was the decade of neo-progressive but I fail to see
anything good (and progressive) in that genre. It almost destroyed prog.
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Posted: May 26 2005 at 11:57 |
...of course it was...isn't that everybodys opinion....!!!(?).....
...well, perhaps the 90's...and the 00's so far i awefull......I would rate:
- 70's
- 60's
- 80's
- 90's
- 00's
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Posted: May 26 2005 at 12:03 |
erlenst wrote:
Greenback : King Crimson - Red is from 1975! But anyway, their 80's albums are decent. |
I'm sure that Greenback means The Red King Crimson album "Discipline".
I would also add the Blue and the Yellow one.
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Posted: May 26 2005 at 12:29 |
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I would say that the 80's wasn't a devastating period, but it was a
slow one... especially for those of us who like or prog pop-free. I
just don't understand people who say our current decade is bad for prog
though - we're in the midst of a new progressive explosion, friends!
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Posted: May 26 2005 at 12:35 |
Mategra wrote:
erlenst wrote:
Greenback : King Crimson - Red is from 1975! But anyway, their 80's albums are decent. |
I'm sure that Greenback means The Red King Crimson album "Discipline".
I would also add the Blue and the Yellow one.
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oh yeah, sure! sorry if i wrote king crimson red: i had the red color in my head while writing the discipline album
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Posted: May 26 2005 at 12:35 |
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YES had decent albums for that 80s era though. :)
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