Studio debuts and latest albums by pre-1990 bands

Pre-1990 in the title meaning that the first studio album was released before 1990, not that it broke up before 1990.

These are some long-lived bands with ten or more studio albums, and no "solo" names. All of these must have relesased a studio album in the 10s or up to qualify and must have released an album before the 90s began. All are included in PA "Prog" categories.

Art Zoyd - Symphonie pour le jour où brûleront les cités (1976) & Phase V (2018)*
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - s/t (1972) & Transiberiana (2019)
Camel - Camel (1973) & The Snow Goose (Re-recording) (2013)**
Caravan - Caravan (1968) & It’s None of Your Business (2021)
Dream Theater - When Dream and Day Unite (1989) & A View From the Top of the World (2021)
Faust - Faust (1971) & ,,Daumenbruch" (2022)***
Goblin - Profondo rosso (1975) & Fearless (37513 Zombie Ave.) (2018)****
Guru Guru - UFO (1970) & Rotate! (2018)*****
Gong - Magick Brother (1970) & The Universe Also Collapses (2019)
Hawkwind - Hawkwind (1970) & Somnia (2021)
IQ - Tales from the Lush Attic (1983) & Resistance (2019)
Jethro Tull - This Was (1968) & The Zealot Gene (2022)
Magma - Magma [Kobaïa] (1970) & Zëss - Le Jour Du Néant (2019)
Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear (1983) & An Hour Before It's Dark (2022)
Pendragon - The Jewel (1985) & Love Over Fear (2020)
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967) & The Endless River (2014)
Premiata Forneria Marconi [PFM] - Storia di un minuto (1972) & I Dreamed of Electric Sheep / Ho sognato pecore elettriche (2021)
Renaissance - Renaissance (1969) & Grandine Il Vento [aka: Symphony Of Light] (2013)
Rush - Rush (1974) & Clockwork Angels (2012)
Soft Machine - The Soft Machine (1968) & Hidden Details (2018)******
Swans - Filth (1983) & leaving meaning. (2019)
Tangerine Dream - Electronic Meditation (1970) & Raum (2022)
Univers Zéro - Univers Zéro [1313] (1977) & Phosphorescent Dreams (2014)
Van der Graaf Generator [VdGG] - The Aerosol Grey Machine (1969) & Do Not Disturb (2016)
Yes - Yes (1969) & The Quest (2021)

* Due to a comment, I changed Art Zoyd's latest studio album release from Armageddon - Opérette Pour Robots (2012) to Phase V which I will consider both as a boxset (spans five CDs) and as a studio albums release.
** I questioned whether I should include Camel as The Snow Goose is the only Camel studio album since 2002, and it is a re-recording. This is not the only hump in the road to making this poll.
*** While PA lists a later album from 2022 for Faust (Punkt), I did not include it because I see it listed as an archival release elsewhere.
**** PA does not list the Fearless Goblin album but lists two others that are later, both of which are under the name
Claudio Simonetti's Goblin. Fearless is the last studio album listed at other sites I checked, including the official site. The latest proper Goblin release listed at PA is Four of a Kind from 2015.
***** I re-ordered a bit and replaced Clannad's Clannad (1973) & Nádúr (2013) with the Guru Guru albums after a comment was left. I do like early Clannad and don't know the modern albums of either.
****** I had forgotten about Soft Machine's Hidden Details and it wasn't listed where I had primarily checked albums for initial research -- now added. Santana - Santana (1969) & Blessings and Miracles (2021) was removed for it despite how much that debut by Santana has meant to me.

Feel free to vote no matter how little you know from the list provided that you have heard both albums by the band you vote for, or have at least heard a fair amount of music from both the debut and that latest album listed. So please vote for a pair of albums you like by an act, can appreciate somewhat, know, respect the most out of those duos you know here, dislike the least.... :)

Also feel free to mention any other album duos (first and last) by a band (not artist) provided that the band released its first album before 1990, released at least one studio in the 2010's and/or 2020's, is included in a Prog category at PA, and has released at least ten studio albums during its career.

Apologies if I seem to have missed obvious ones and for any errors. I tried to cover many big names and went outside my tastes. If it was just about what I liked, then the list would be significantly different with various lesser known bands. There actually is not a lot here where I have heard both albums, at least in full.

Edited by Logan - July 05 2022 at 09:48

I rest the OP blurb before looking at the list, and was unsurprised to see the first two bands that had immediately sprung to my mind (VDGG and BSM) were there. I gave my vote to BSM, after a little thought.

^^ Not really important, but by "is included in a Prog category at PA", I meant to exclude the Prog related and Proto-Prog categories as those have been termed non-prog categories in my time at PA. I've actually had a problem with calling those non-Prog categories so all the more reason to be more descriptive.

As for Soft Machine, that is one that I had hoped to include but hadn't researched enough. I love the early albums and Third is one of my very favourite albums in PA. I looked it up on rateyourmusic, and it does not go beyond 1994's Rubber Riff for studio albums. I forgot about Hidden Details, which is in PA.   Often I find I have to cross-check more than one site, even in cases where I had know of an album, but forgot like with Soft Machine. I might edit that one in while losing another.

Edited by Logan - July 04 2022 at 10:01

Logan wrote: ^^ Not really important, but by "is included in a Prog category at PA", I meant to exclude the Prog related and Proto-Prog categories as those have been termed non-prog categories in my time at PA. I've actually had a problem with calling those non-Prog categories so all the more reason to be more descriptive. As for Soft Machine, that is one that I had hoped to include but hadn't researched enough. I love the early albums and Third is one of my very favourite albums in PA. I looked it up on rateyourmusic, and it does not go beyond 1994's Rubber Riff for studio albums. I forgot about Hidden Details, which is in PA.   Often I find I have to cross-check more than one site, even in cases where I had know of an album, but forgot like with Soft Machine. I might edit that one in while losing another.

Univers Zero is the only one for me.

PFM, Banco and Jethro Tull. I voted for PFM, but l like the other two almost the same.

Rush for me but I don't know most of the current albums by many of these bands.

VdGG

RRUUSSHH, Marillion, and IQ

Banco del Mutuo Soccorso for me. Transiberiana is a very good album and the debut is my favorite from them.