Neo Prog Britannia: 1987
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Topic: Neo Prog Britannia: 1987
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Subject: Neo Prog Britannia: 1987
Date Posted: September 25 2023 at 03:51
Classic British Neo Prog from 1982 to 2022. 1987: Haze - Stoat & Bottle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPt1ITVExM0" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPt1ITVExM0  1987: IQ - Nomzamo - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpIBzGs044oorog2gXGfiXoi" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpIBzGs044oorog2gXGfiXoi 1987: Marillion - Clutching at Straws - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEZSj97j2ofIKq5xlVB5BKBp" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEZSj97j2ofIKq5xlVB5BKBp 1987: Multi-Story - Through Your Eyes - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ncL9BtZvEr4Zl4LcHzOpe3SX4PIwGclN0" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ncL9BtZvEr4Zl4LcHzOpe3SX4PIwGclN0 |
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Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: September 25 2023 at 04:20
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Marillion - Clutching At Straws IQ - Nomzamo Multi-Story - Through Your Eyes
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 25 2023 at 04:42
| Marillion |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 25 2023 at 04:52
| Multi-Story - a band that appeals to me on so many levels. |
Posted By: VianaProghead
Date Posted: September 25 2023 at 05:32
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Marillion - Clutching at Straws. ------------- "PROG IS MY FERRARI". Jem Godfrey (Frost*) |
Posted By: Starjet
Date Posted: September 25 2023 at 05:57
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Went for IQ just ahead of Marillion due to the fact that I listen to Nomzamo much more frequently than Clutching At Straws, even though the latter is very dear to me. Nomzamo is criticized for being poppy / un-proggy compared to Peter Nicholls' output. However, I tend to find Peter Nicholls' vocal melodies to be rather repetitive (although the instrumental music is not at all), whereas Paul Menel's vocal melodies are more varied. Overall, to my ears, Nomzamo is a melodic, pleasurable, memorable, underrated listen. |
Posted By: Starjet
Date Posted: September 25 2023 at 06:00
Just got it...
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Psychedelic Paul wrote:Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: September 25 2023 at 06:20
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Marillion. I have a map of a rocking chair cushion. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: September 25 2023 at 07:11
| Neo prog Britannia was really over by now. I used to see Haze a lot in Nottingham but they never got the wider break they deserved. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 25 2023 at 09:13
All over by 1987? We still have another 35 years of Neo Prog polls to come.
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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: September 25 2023 at 09:54
If you can get into your TARDIS, you can go 80 years into the future and then come back and give us 115 years of polls. That would be neat. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: September 25 2023 at 10:46
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The beginning of the 'death' years for prog (87-91) Voted Marillion because it's a prog album so well done to them lol
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 25 2023 at 10:50
But we would not know any of the albums from the future  People would only complain: '"Neo-prog still exists in 2103?!"
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 25 2023 at 11:11
This is beginning to sound like the plot for a Schwarzenegger movie.
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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: September 25 2023 at 15:46
Oh yeah, whoops!  By then it will probably be called neo-neo-neo-neo-neo-neo-neo-neo-prog. I think you can, like, fit a whole planet in a TARDIS or something, so maybe we should all hop along for the ride. I'm going to bring my couch and a colander. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: September 26 2023 at 05:27
| I still contend Neo-Prog Britannia had peaked by 1985 with the 'Fire in Harmony' compilation. It was centred on the Marquee club in London but other symbolic events were the presence of neo-prog at the Reading Festival in 1983 and Solstice on the front cover of 'Sounds'. |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: September 26 2023 at 11:18
Lovely to read this. My first IQ album and still love it. Another vote for it, although CAS is also brilliant….. ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 26 2023 at 11:31
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^ For one moment there, I thought you were saying Calling All Stations is also brilliant.
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: September 26 2023 at 21:32
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Nomzamo is just very bitty and suffers from that horrible plastic 80's production. Its not terrible but the main trouble for me is that the previous album is The Wake. I still worship that album and for me its only really surpassed by Ever in the IQ canon (IMO)
BTW - Menel is a great 'pop' artist and writes superb lyrics. I enjoyed his recentish solo album and enjoy Are You Sitting Comfortably but its still near bottom of the IQ chart for me. Fantastic band that didnt put any turds out.
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Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: September 27 2023 at 03:36
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Voted Marillion nevertheless the Iq is not that bad |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: September 27 2023 at 04:52
The Menel albums were my first so I had nothing to compare to - it took me ages to appreciate Peter Nicholls’ voice when I finally got Subterranea in 1997…. ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: September 27 2023 at 07:25
Nicholls has been described as 'whiny' which I get. I think he sounded best on that and also especially The Seventh House
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