Your Favourite 1987 PA Ranked Album
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Topic: Your Favourite 1987 PA Ranked Album
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Subject: Your Favourite 1987 PA Ranked Album
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 12:07
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It's 1987 and personnel changes are the order of the day. Marillion holds the top slot with the last album they would record with Fish, IQ showcases a new sound without Peter Nichols and Pink Floyd returns to our poll with the Roger Waters-less Momentary Lapse. The biggest musical event of 1987 was the prog world (and the music world in general) experiencing shock over the Grammy awards where Jethro Tull's "Crest of a Knave" won the heavy metal award over highly favoured Metallica and Jane's Addiction. Was it a mistake? Was it a joke? Was a judge a closet Tull fan? Maybe all of the above! Years later Ian Anderson explained the real reason Tull won the heavy metal category, "The flute is a heavy, metal instrument"  Once again, these are the top 25 PA ranked albums with at least 30 ratings presented in order of their QWR scores highest to lowest (30 ratings is the lowest I've had to go to fill this poll series with entries...1987 is truly scraping the bottom of the barrel). Vote for your favourite 1987 prog album! ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
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Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 12:10
Hmm, quite difficult. There's not really anything there that catches my eye, but I'd probably go for "Hold Your Fire" 
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Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 12:12
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David Sylvian ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: Prog Sothoth
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 12:13
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Hmmm, Voivod, DCD or Death...
I'll go with Dead Can Dance this time. Such a vast eerie release.
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Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 12:14
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Clutching at Straws for me. I have to say that Crest of a Knave winning a heavy metal award is unbelievable as it's not heavy metal, nor is it very good, though there are a few good tracks. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: ScorchedFirth
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 12:40
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Got to go with fish's epic swan song
------------- breathing, eating, defecating, screwing, drinking, spewing, sleeping... 
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Posted By: Gallifrey
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 12:53
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Clutching At Straws. Album of the century in my opinion. ------------- http://thedarkthird.bandcamp.com/ |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 13:08
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Hold Your Fire - it grew on me slowly but it's one of my favorite Rush albums nowadays. Clutching at Straws, Crest of a Knave, and the David Sylvian album are all quite nice too. As is the Floyd. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 13:11
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What people seem to "forget" about the Tull Grammy is that it was for "Best Hard Rock / Metal Performance". Not that they should have won it, but it wasn't saying that Tull was metal. I like the album, but vote here for CaS. ------------- -- Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth. |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 13:14
| Nomzamo |
Posted By: bloodnarfer
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 13:14
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ramza1316" rel="nofollow - www.last.fm/user/ramza1316 https://open.spotify.com/user/1211221845" rel="nofollow - https://open.spotify.com/user/1211221845 |
Prog Sothoth wrote:Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 13:15
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Hall of the Mountain King - Savatage Hold Your Fire - Rush Crest of a Knave - Jethro Tull |
Posted By: The Mystical
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 13:20
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Momentary Lapse of Reason and Big Generator. ------------- I am currently digging: Hawkwind, Rare Bird, Gong, Tangerine Dream, Khan, Iron Butterfly, and all things canterbury and hard-psych. I also love jazz! Please drop me a message with album suggestions. |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 13:22
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Radio Kaos. ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 13:43
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Clutching at Straws +1
------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 13:55
Narrowed it down to "Crest of a Knave", "Momentary Lapse", or "Clutching". Went with "Crest" as out of those 3 it was the one I played the most...I really like how Martin Barre reinvented himself on that album trading his traditional rock/blues approach for some whammy bar heavy soloing..though I hate voting for an album with the horrible lyric "She wouldn't make love but she could make good sandwiches"...really Ian, really?  ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 14:15
Secrets of the Beehive |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 14:24
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 14:27
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Tangerine Dream - Tyger still some life left in them. London is a great track (yes really) and the reissue has the excellent bonus track 21st Century Common Man. I don't believe that the dalliance with a classically trained female singer was totally wasted as they much later returned this 'idea' with one of my favourite TD albums Purgatorio about 10 years ago..
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 14:30
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Berlin. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 14:32
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Sign O The Times : Prince Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me: The Cure ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: proggman
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 14:48
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We're clutching at straws We're still drowning Clutching at straws
------------- When he rides, my fears subside. For darkness turns once more to light. Through the skies, his white horse flies. To find a land beyond the night. |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 14:54
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Pat Metheny takes it for me this time, with Ant's PP&P VII coming in second. I also think that Tull's Crest of a Knave and Rush's Hold Your Fire are fine albums. Clutching at Straws is my least favorite Fish-era Marillion release. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 15:08
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Crest of a Knave. A return to form, and their best post '70's studio album, along with Roots to Branches (not counting The Christmas Album), IMO. Honourable mentions to Hold Your Fire, Clutching at Straws and Killing Technology. -------------  
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Posted By: silverpot
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 15:09
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I love A Momentary Lapse of Reason so I voted for that one. |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 15:56
Very true. I think most people assume the category was "heavy metal" simply because they beat Metallica  ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: PabstRibbon
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 16:05
| Hold your Fire is quite an excellent album, 4 stars ! Here goes my vote |
Posted By: proggman
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 16:13
The flute is a heavy metal instrument! ------------- When he rides, my fears subside. For darkness turns once more to light. Through the skies, his white horse flies. To find a land beyond the night. |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 17:30
i don't even think it's hard rock, except perhaps the utterly gruesome Steel Monkey. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 17:35
That's my pick but only because my number one isn't listed. Oh my favourite is Thule-Ultima Thule. 3-Thinking Plague-Moonsongs 4-Art Zoyd-Berlin 5-Marillion-Clutching At Straws ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 18:19
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Dead Can Dance - David Sylvian - Thinking Plague ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 18:52
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Art Zoyd
Voivod
...the rest.
Even I will admit that 1987 had some slim pickings for prog. One of the best and most proggy songs of the year came from an unlikely source:
------------- Magma America Great Make Again |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 19:19
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Clutching at Straws, followed by Big Generator, MLoR, Gaudi and Crest of a Knave. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 19:21
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Honourable mention goes to Radio KAOS. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 19:24
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Yes' Big Generator and Rush's Hold Your Fire is more 'meh' to me, even though i haven't listened to both albums in their entirety yet. However, they are both my favorites from this weird, too poppy year, at #3 and #2, respectively. The #1 album from this year and the one that gets my vote, though, goes to Pink Floyd's "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" because that is the only album that's proggy in ways by one of the bands who invented this genre to begin with, so yeah. ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: iamathousandapples
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 20:30
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Clutching at Straws by a long shot, and then Scream Bloody Gore, Hold Your Fire, and A Momentary Lapse of Reason
I bought a copy of Big Generator for collector's purposes, but still haven't bothered to listen to it. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/thamazingbender" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 20:58
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Dead Can Dance......and that's my favorite by them. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: November 11 2013 at 23:20
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Imho this is THE best album from 1987:
I was very surprised when I noticed that the CLOUD ABOUT MERCURY is not on the list of 1987 PA ranked albums, as the masterpiece of progressive & space fusion as well.
So I voted for IQ's, because of this very song - piano / vocal version actually, what is simply amazing..
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: November 12 2013 at 01:46
| IQ's Nomzamo. That album has some spine chilling moments. |
Posted By: Neo-Romantic
Date Posted: November 12 2013 at 01:56
I totally did the same thing |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: November 12 2013 at 02:02
especially that love duet
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: November 12 2013 at 03:39
Um... well, I suppose, when you're in the mood, then, um...
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: November 12 2013 at 03:44
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A Momentary Lapse of Reason just above Clutching at Straws, Hold Your Fire and Nomzamo. ------------- 
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Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: November 12 2013 at 04:46
Excellent albums of course  ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: antonyus
Date Posted: November 12 2013 at 06:42
| Within the Realm of a Dying Sun |
Posted By: SentimentalMercenary
Date Posted: November 12 2013 at 09:28
Amen. One of the most underrated musical works in history.
------------- Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. - Karl Popper |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: November 12 2013 at 09:34
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Well it's between Marillion, Dead Can Dance and Art Zoyd. I am however having a really hard time choosing between the latter two. Hmmm I'll give the nod to Berlin today. Fantastic album that sounds as good today as it did back then. Well the same goes for DCD really - Clutching has a distinct 80s sheen to it. It's not that I don't like it though - I happen to love it. All I'm saying is that the two other albums don't fit in with the period - at least sound-wise. They could just as well have been produced last week. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: November 12 2013 at 12:56
Same thoughts here. Nothing very relevant. Probably no vote. ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: November 12 2013 at 13:18
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AMLoR/CaS/HYF ------------- |
Posted By: Roj
Date Posted: November 13 2013 at 03:13
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A dire year for prog and sums up how I drifted towards electronica as the most inspiring form of music in that era. Hold Your Fire gets the vote but it's only one of a handful of any merit if I'm being honest. |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: November 13 2013 at 11:42
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Crest of a Knave for me followed by Hold Your Fire & Momentary Lapse ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 14 2013 at 02:42
| Marillion's Clutching at Straws - easy choice |
Posted By: O666
Date Posted: November 14 2013 at 09:26
| 100% Clutching at Straws. |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: November 20 2013 at 22:18
| secrets of the beehive is one of my favorite albums ever |