70's giants in the 80's

King Crimson kept making new and original music, and the 80s is my favorite King Crimson anyways, so they win.

Hmm. Either KC or Genesis.
Discipline is one of the best albums of all time, and TOAPP is good. Beat has some solid tacks.
Duke and Abacab were pretty good, Genesis is possibly my favorite pop album of all time, and Invisible Touch is pretty lackluster.

uhhhhh, no vote

Genesis! (and i also love 90125, i can't deny...)

KC easily.

geneyesontle wrote: Why did you not include Rush. They are 70's giants. But they had done great stuff from the 80's. But I voted for KC.

I think it's because Rush would easily dominate this poll.

My vote goes to Genesis. For people who've listened to the 80's albums WITHOUT comparing them to other Genesis albums, they're fantastic.

Although Yes started this decade with Drama which is my one of my favorites by the band, the rest wasn't good. Genesis weren't able to hold my slightest interest and Jethro Tull weren't bad at all actually. But like it's already been said KC kept making original, new and exciting music.

I like albums from the 80's by all these bands, but KC definantly was the stronger of all of them during the 80's. I haven't heard anything from Tull from the 80's so I guess what I just said isn't true, but still.

People like what I said enough to use it as their own words, yay! 

That being said, Discipline has been one of my favorite albums ever since I first heard it.  I feel like expanding a bit right now.  I don't know what it is about the album, exactly, that makes me love it so.  The first exposure to music from the album wasn't even the original tracks, actually.  On one of the volumes of Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade's live albums, they cover Thela Hun Ginjeet.  I heard the track there, and was intrigued by the melody, rhythm, just about everything about the track.  So I decided to check out this weird band who I'd never heard of at that point in time, King Crimson.  I checked out Discipline first, since it was the first I heard anything from.  Pretty instantly, I was intrigued by the music within.  From the opening bits of Elephant Talk to the closing bits of the title track, I'd say I was pretty well entranced.  I listened over and over again, absorbing the interlocking rhythmic patterns, Belew's sometimes unruly guitar and vocals, and the truly beastly rhythm section laid down by Levin and Bruford.  Everything about the album just caught my fancy, so I decided to check out more of their releases.  First I moved backwards, as a random gesture.  I went from Discipline to In the Court... and needless to say, it was somewhat of a jarring transition.  The music in In the Court... was still intriguing and fun, but I couldn't help but realize what a big difference there was in the sound.  Still, I decided to check out more from the 70s.  I next grabbed up In the Wake of Poseidon.  Since the first listening of that one, I've always preferred it, but that's besides the point.  I continued through the 70s, then skipped the other two 80s albums, and moved to the Thrak/ConstruKction of Light/Power to Believe Crimson.  I didn't hear anything I disliked very much in any of it (if anything, some of the earlier albums didn't strike my fancy as much), so for a good long while King Crimson was my favorite group, and it was all started with Discipline.  Discipline also led me to discover Talking Heads, specifically Remain in Light, another of my favorites.  It also led me to check out other bands of the so-called "progressive rock" genre (whether or not progressive rock should be a genre in and of itself is another debate) leading to the discovery of my absolute favorite music of all time (such as Can's Tago Mago). 

Basically, DIscipline was my gateway drug into prog, and still to this day remains one of my favorites. 

BarryGlibb wrote: Genesis? Now c'mon. You cannot be serious (Apologies John McEnroe) you 4 who have so far voted for them. KC did not compromise. Genesis almost completely copped out.

I reall like Duke and Invisble Touch. There is nothing wrong with these albums.

KC.