Your Favourite 1986 PA Ranked Album
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Topic: Your Favourite 1986 PA Ranked Album
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Subject: Your Favourite 1986 PA Ranked Album
Date Posted: November 05 2013 at 11:33
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It's 1986 and Prog Metal has officially landed with Queensryche in the top spot and albums by Fates Warning and Crimson Glory. We also have our 1st entry from the Tech/Extreme Prog Metal subgenre with Voivod. The Zeuhl subgenre places it's highest album so far with Shub Niggurath's masterpiece in 2nd place (H.P. Lovecraft would be smiling from his tomb on R'Lyeh or The Plateau of Leng or The World of Seven Suns or all of them at the same time). We also have what is the most improbable Grammy award winning prog album in history with Frank Zappa's "Jazz From Hell". One week before the award ceremony Zappa told a Cleveland newspaper "My nomination must have been an accident...I know they're fake [the Grammy's]...I find it difficult to believe that Whitney Houston is the answer to all of America's musical needs." We miss you Frank! Once again, these are the top 25 PA ranked albums with at least 40 ratings presented in order of their QWR scores highest to lowest. Vote for your favourite 1986 prog album! ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
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Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: November 05 2013 at 11:44
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Another ABSTAIN from me. Not familiar enough with any of these, not even the few I own. -------------  
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Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: November 05 2013 at 11:47
| Shub! |
Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: November 05 2013 at 12:13
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Gone to Earth - David Sylvian ------------- Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours |
Posted By: iamathousandapples
Date Posted: November 05 2013 at 12:15
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Rage for Order ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/thamazingbender" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: November 05 2013 at 12:36
| Rage for Order - Queensryche |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: November 05 2013 at 12:36
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So, followed by Invisible Touch and Gone to Earth. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: Libor10
Date Posted: November 05 2013 at 12:40
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Ummm, Gabriel's So.
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Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: November 05 2013 at 12:41
"Jazz From Hell" for me, though my fave 1986 album is the doom metal masterpiece "Epicus Doomicus Metalicus" by Candlemass  ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: November 05 2013 at 12:42
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Mr. Gabriel's "So".
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Posted By: apps79
Date Posted: November 05 2013 at 12:46
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Very poor year, I will go with Q'Ryche on this, excellent album. ------------- When the power of love overcomes the love of power,the world will know peace... listen to www.justincaseradio.com , the first ever Greek Progressive Rock radio |
Posted By: ScorchedFirth
Date Posted: November 05 2013 at 12:50
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Catastrophic lack of Marillion compared with adjacent years. I guess queensryche or crimson glory would be the next best thing.
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Posted By: the lighthouse keepe
Date Posted: November 05 2013 at 13:24
| From a list that reveals that 86 was a poor year for release i voted for So. |
Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: November 05 2013 at 13:28
Probably Peter Gabriel, haven't really heard many of the others  Still don't particularly like "So" but eh 
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: November 05 2013 at 14:15
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Shub over UZ. ------------- 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: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: November 05 2013 at 16:55
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First vote for Heatwave. Love that album ! Awaken The Guardian by Fates Warning a strong second place for me.The rest of my top five are : Miriodor-Rencontres Shub Niggurath-Les Mort Vont Vite Offering-Part 1&2 ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: November 05 2013 at 17:05
| none of these i like really much, but So is the one im most familiar with and i kinda like Sledgehammer (OBVIOUSLY< LIKE A DOUCHE), so i voted for that one |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: November 05 2013 at 17:30
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I haven't heard some of these but I am quite sure that none would compare with the magnificence of So. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: November 05 2013 at 18:54
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Heatwave!!! The whole album uzed(ha) to be on YT but not anymore; sux cuz I was gonna post it. One of the greatest prog albums by anyone form any sub in any year. So is a decent pop/rock album but it is 0% prog (even Invisible Touch is more proggy). ------------- Magma America Great Make Again |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: November 05 2013 at 19:38
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How is it possible that I didn't vote for Univers Zero? Because Shub's masterpiece is on the list!!!! ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: November 05 2013 at 20:08
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I've always liked TD's Green Desert a lot so that got my vote. After that, So by PG. I am probably the only one who considered Power by Kansas, but it comes third for me. ------------- 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: progmatic
Date Posted: November 05 2013 at 21:03
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Voted for David Sylvian "Gone to Earth" even though Peter Gabriel "So" probably should have got my vote. But everyone's voting for PG and DS is way underrated.
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Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: November 05 2013 at 21:47
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RfO
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: November 05 2013 at 22:51
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Talk Talk then Sylvian then Gabriel. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: November 05 2013 at 22:56
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So/And Close as This/Jazz from Hell ------------- |
Posted By: antonyus
Date Posted: November 06 2013 at 00:55
| Peter Hammill- Skin |
Posted By: Prog Sothoth
Date Posted: November 06 2013 at 04:59
| Shub by a wide margin. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 06 2013 at 11:47
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Still plenty of good stuff going on in '86 is you aren't too narrow in what you consider prog. I also see a few titles that I missed and may check out one day. Here's stuff in my collection that may or may not be officially prog here that aren't in the top ranks - Anderson, Laurie Home of the Brave Belew, Adrian Desire Caught By The Tail Budd, Harold Lovely Thunder Carlos, Wendy Beauty In the Beast Cluster & Brian Eno Old Land David + David Boomtown Eno, Brian Ambient 4/On Land Glass, Phillip Songs from Liquid Days Rhodes, Happy Rearmament Rypdal, Terje & The Chasers Blue Summers, Andy XYZ Synergy Metropolitan Suite Tibbetts, Steve Exploded View Torn, David Cloud About Mercury Wyatt, Robert Old Rottenhat XTC Skylarking ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: November 06 2013 at 17:13
 ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Slartibartfast wrote:Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: November 06 2013 at 20:04
Good to see somebody else appreciates Wendy Carlos' Beauty in the Beast. Fantastic album, absolutely brilliant.  ------------- 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: proggman
Date Posted: November 06 2013 at 20:33
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Queensrÿche Rage for Order ------------- 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: Svetonio
Date Posted: November 06 2013 at 20:53
| Jazz From Hell |
Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: November 06 2013 at 20:58
David & David - Boomtown......what a ripper  Voted Talk Talk, come on 86 was not so bad! ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: November 07 2013 at 07:05
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Invisible Touch. I like it even better than Gabriel's So
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Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: November 07 2013 at 09:44
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Since a few people like Shub Niggurath, here's another piece of fantastic Zehul that goes along perfectly with it. Only one short EP from 1986 |
Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: November 07 2013 at 15:14
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^Yeah, it's great. Too bad they never did anything else...AFAIK.
------------- Magma America Great Make Again |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: November 07 2013 at 19:05
Just read she was married to Lou Reed from 2008 until his passing last week...absolutely love "Smoke Rings"
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: November 08 2013 at 01:45
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Underwater Sunlight Song Of The Whale (both parts) is one of the best peices of music Tangerine Dream ever recorded..and features some lovely piano and guitar. Far removed from 'classic TD' but I love it.
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Posted By: schizoidman
Date Posted: November 08 2013 at 17:09
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Gabriel's So. ------------- Making the useless useful 24/7. |
Posted By: The Mystical
Date Posted: November 09 2013 at 00:53
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I'm a fan of the It Bites album. ------------- 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: Ruby900
Date Posted: November 09 2013 at 09:06
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So - just a great album. ------------- "I always say that it’s about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place". Rick Wakeman |