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    Posted: May 26 2005 at 07:27
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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Er... Marillion? Rush? Anyone?
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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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Originally posted by Kotro

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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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...

Well, you had already quoted Queensr˙che... I have no words to describe "Operation: Mindcrime" .

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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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Marillion, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, David Sylvian, Queensryche....

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One of the very few 80's good jazzrock/prog album:

Steve Tibbetts/Yr (1980)

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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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Originally posted by Blacksword

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

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!Stern Smile

 

 

 

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Looks like it was a pretty good decade to me..
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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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Greenback : King Crimson - Red is from 1975! But anyway, their 80's albums are decent.
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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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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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...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:

  1. 70's
  2. 60's
  3. 80's
  4. 90's
  5. 00's



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Originally posted by erlenst

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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Post Options Post Options   Quote The Hemulen Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 26 2005 at 12:29
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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Originally posted by Mategra

Originally posted by erlenst

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.

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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YES had decent albums for that 80s era though.  :)

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