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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Commonly people get more conservative and status quo, same-old, same-old, as they get older.


I think I'm in this category.... I seem to have receded into a Mike Oldfield / TD / Froese / Vangelis vortex of late, re-appearing for occasional doses of Camel or Floyd. I'm getting quite concerned as I've been stuck here for a little while now.
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Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Commonly people get more conservative and status quo, same-old, same-old, as they get older.


I think I'm in this category.... I seem to have receded into a Mike Oldfield / TD / Froese / Vangelis vortex of late, re-appearing for occasional doses of Camel or Floyd. I'm getting quite concerned as I've been stuck here for a little while now.


That's a vortex I'd happily be in. I so want to make a Zardoz reference... I'm at the nostalgia point of reliving childhood memories by turning on my streaming services and just wanting to watch TV shows or movies that I enjoyed as a child commonly (sci-fi stuff). I have to force myself out of it. At sometimes my poor brain has difficulty with new-to-me things, be it music, TV shows, films or concepts.
Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me.
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Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Jon & Vangelis - Short Stories



I'm pleased our Top 3 are identical, and I didn't see yours before posting.

Isn't Short Stories 1979??


I Hear You Now was released as a single in December 1979 and the album came out in January 1980. I think its an okay album (hence the B tier rating), they virtually chucked it out there with very little recording time and it shows. Their next album The Friends Of Mr Cairo was much better and I have argued that the track Horizon from their third album Private Collection is very akin to a post rock style that evolved much later in the decade. Its a pity that they stopped until later putting out that not very good 90's album which rounded off everything.
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1980-1981 are just so unique imo. Everything was changing while the progressive and experimental approach of the 1970's sort of made a comeback. I could easily have listed 30 more favorites:

Art Zoyd - Génération Sans Futur (Avant-Prog, Chamber Music, Modern Classical, RIO)
The Residents - Commercial Album (Art Pop, Avant Prog)
The John Renbourn Group - The Enchanted Garden (British Folk, Early Music)
Abus Dangereux - Le Quatrieme Mouvement (Jazz-Rock, Zeuhl, Canterbury Scene)
Barre Phillips - Journal Violone II (ECM Style Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Free Jazz)
Kartik Trivedi - Basanti: Indian Raga Music on Piano (Hindustani Classical Music)
Rahmann - Rahmann (Oriental Jazz, Zeuhl, Jazz Rock-Fusion)
New Life Trio - Visions of the Third Eye (Free Jazz, Spiritual Jazz, Jazz Fusion)
Yello - Solid Pleasure (Synth Pop, Experimental)
McCoy Tyner - Horizon (Spiritual Jazz, Modal Jazz, Jazz Fusion)
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Bobb Trimble - Iron Curtain Innocence (Psychedelic Folk)
Roxy Music - Flesh + Blood (Art Rock, New Wave)
Bobby Beausoleil - Lucifer Rising (Psychedelic Rock, Film Score)
Klaus Schulze - Dig It (Progressive Electronic)
Kate Bush - Never for Ever (Art Pop)
Joy Division - Closer (Post-Punk, Gothic Rock, Coldwave)
Noa - Noa (Avant Prog, Zeuhl)    
Blue Öyster Cult - Cultösaurus Erectus (Hard Rock, Heavy Prog)
Siouxsie and The Banshees - Kaleidoscope (Post-Punk, Gothic Rock)
Between - Stille über der Zeit: Silence Beyond Time (Oriental Jazz, Progressive Folk, New Age)   
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Jon & Vangelis - Short Stories



I'm pleased our Top 3 are identical, and I didn't see yours before posting.

Isn't Short Stories 1979??


I Hear You Now was released as a single in December 1979 and the album came out in January 1980. I think its an okay album (hence the B tier rating), they virtually chucked it out there with very little recording time and it shows. Their next album The Friends Of Mr Cairo was much better and I have argued that the track Horizon from their third album Private Collection is very akin to a post rock style that evolved much later in the decade. Its a pity that they stopped until later putting out that not very good 90's album which rounded off everything.


Agreed. Cairo and Collection are certainly a step up from the other two; these are the pair I presently own..
Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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