Recommend me some 80s prog

^ I guess not :)

Some great albums are

QUEENSRŸCHE
1) Operation Mindcrime
2) The warning
3) Rage for Order

Genesis
1) Duke

Rush
1) Grace Under Pressure
2) Signals
Pink Floyd
1) A Momentary Lapse of Reason


Have fun my friend!

Oh sorry about that. Didn't see or read that, but I have some others you might dig.
1) The Cure. " Disintegration" 1989. This really may be of the best electronic pop/rock albums on the planet next to DUKE of course. Give this a spin. You won't be sorry and you'll have a much different opinion of The Cure all together. It is a classic.

Another good one is the entire BLADERUNNER soundtrack by VANGELIS. This album more strictly envolves the clever use of Syth fused with some jazz/rock on some songs of course, but more or less it is an electronic album with a strong progressive side. Really great for 1982

Anyway. Hope this helps

progbethyname wrote: Oh sorry about that. Didn't see or read that, but I have some others you might dig. 1) The Cure. " Disintegration" 1989. This really may be of the best electronic pop/rock albums on the planet next to DUKE of course. Give this a spin. You won't be sorry and you'll have a much different opinion of The Cure all together. It is a classic. Another good one is the entire BLADERUNNER soundtrack by VANGELIS. This album more strictly envolves the clever use of Syth fused with some jazz/rock on some songs of course, but more or less it is an electronic album with a strong progressive side. Really great for 1982 Anyway. Hope this helps

richardh wrote: progbethyname wrote: Oh sorry about that. Didn't see or read that, but I have some others you might dig. 1) The Cure. " Disintegration" 1989. This really may be of the best electronic pop/rock albums on the planet next to DUKE of course. Give this a spin. You won't be sorry and you'll have a much different opinion of The Cure all together. It is a classic. Another good one is the entire BLADERUNNER soundtrack by VANGELIS. This album more strictly envolves the clever use of Syth fused with some jazz/rock on some songs of course, but more or less it is an electronic album with a strong progressive side. Really great for 1982 Anyway. Hope this helps On the subject of Vangelis eighties releases I would add Mask and Direct.The former is an electronic prog masterpieice imo while Direct is a very nice balanced collection of peices and somewhat overlooked I feel.

I agree!! I love direct!! How great is Rotations logic. Amazing stuff for sure

I agree. The first four albums by Marillion are thier best. Basically the Fish years 1982-1988. Anyway. Great recommendation

Some prog bands were very disappointing when they added a pop element to their sound. I feel that Genesis wasn't all bad when they made that major transition. Duke, Genesis(1983), and ABACAB are pretty decent albums I think. ABACAB is really pushing it for me with the amount of pop that is laced in the music.

Bowie, David    Scary Monsters    1980
Brand X    Do They Hurt?    1980
Budd, Harold / Brian Eno    Ambient 2/The Platform of Mirror    1980
Bush, Kate    Never for Ever    1980
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band    Doc at the Radar Station    1980
Di Meola, Al    Spendido Hotel    1980
Di Meola, Al/John McLaughlin/Paco de Lucia    Friday Night In San Francisco    1980
Dixie Dregs    Dregs of the Earth    1980
Eno, Brian-David Byrne    My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (Remaster)    1980
Frith, Fred    Speechless    1980
Gabriel, Peter    III    1980
Hackett, Steve    Defector (Remaster)    1980
Hall, Daryl    Sacred Songs    1980
Hampton, Co. Bruce and The Late Bronze Age    Outside Looking Out    1980
Hof, Jasper Van't    Live In Montreaux    1980
Jethro Tull    A + Slipstream    1980
Johnson, David Earle with Jan Hammer    Hip Address    1980
Laraaji    Ambient 3/Day of Radience    1980
League of Gentlemen, The    Thrang Thrang Gozinbulx    1980
Metheny, Pat & Lyle Mays    As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls    1980
Muffins, The    <185>    1980
Talking Heads    Remain In Light (Remaster)    1980
Tibbetts, Steve    Yr    1980
Weather Report    Night Passage    1980
XTC    Black Sea    1980
Bruninghaus, Rainer    Freigeweht    1981
Budd, Harold    Serpent (In Quicksilver/Abandoned Cities, The    1981
Byrne, David    Complete Score from ""The Catherine Wheel"", The    1981
Corea, Chick Miroslav Vitous Roy Haynes    Trio Music    1981
Dregs, The    Unsung Heroes    1981
Harrison, Jerry    Red and the Black, The    1981
Hedges, Michael    Breakfast in the Field    1981
Hine, Rupert    Immunity    1981
Jackson, Joe    joe jackson's jumpin' jive    1981
King Crimson    Discipline    1981
Pastorius, Jaco    Word of Mouth    1981
Phillips, Anthony    Private Parts & Pieces III    1981
Police, The    Ghost In The Machine    1981
Psychedelic Furs, The    Talk Talk Talk    1981
Sky    Sky 2    1981
Sky    Sky 3    1981
Soft Machine    Land of Cockayne    1981
Synergy    Audion    1981
Zappa, Frank    You Are What You Is    1981
Belew, Adrian    Lone Rhino    1982
Bush, Kate    Dreaming, The    1982
Dimeola, Al    Electric Rendezvous    1982
Gabriel, Peter    Security    1982
Glass, Phillip    Glassworks    1982
Hampton, Co. Bruce and The Late Bronze Age    Isles of Langerhan    1982
Jackson, Joe    Night and Day (Deluxe Edition)    1982
King Crimson    Beat    1982
Manzanera, Phil    Primititve Guitars    1982
Metheny Group, Pat    Offramp    1982
Oldfield, Mike    Five Miles Out    1982
Ponty, Jean-Luc    Mystical Adventures    1982
Psychedelic Furs, The    Forever Now    1982
Roxy Music    Avalon    1982
Summers, Andy-Robert Fripp    I Advanced Masked    1982
Talking Heads    The Name of This Band is Talking Heads    1982
XTC    English Settlement (Remaster)    1982
Belew, Adrian    Twang Bar King    1983
Eno, Brian    Apollo Atmospheres & Soundtracks    1983
Eno, Brian    More Music For Films    1983
Frith, Fred    Cheap At Half the Price    1983
Hine, Rupert    Wildest Wish To Fly    1983
Isham, Mark    Vapor Drawings    1983
Jobson, Eddie/Zinc    The Green Album, The    1983
Marillion    Script For A Jester's Tear (Remaster)    1983
Moraz - Buford    Music For Piano and Drums    1983
Oldfield, Mike    Crisis    1983
Oregon    Oregon    1983
Police, The    Synchronicity    1983
Jackson, Joe    Body and Soul    1984
L. Subramanium/Stephane Grappelli    Conversations    1984
Skeleton Crew    Learn To Talk/The Country of Blinds    1984
Sky    Squared    1984
Summers, Andy-Robert Fripp    Bewitched    1984
Bush, Kate    Hounds of Love + 6 Bonus Tracks    1985
Holdsworth, Allan    i.o.u.    1985
Holdsworth, Allan    Metal Fatigue    1985
Jobson, Eddie    Theme of Secrets    1985
Reich, Steve    Desert Music, The    1985
Sky    Cadmium/Great Balloon Race Excerpts    1985
Sting    Dream of the Blue Turtles, The    1985
Tears for Fears    Songs From The Big Chair    1985
Anderson, Laurie    Home of the Brave    1986
Budd, Harold    Lovely Thunder    1986
Budd, Harold, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie, Elizabeth Fraser    Moon and the Melodies, The    1986
Carlos, Wendy    Beauty In the Beast    1986
Cluster & Brian Eno    Old Land    1986
David + David    Boomtown    1986
Eno, Brian    Ambient 4/On Land    1986
Gabriel, Peter    So    1986
Glass, Phillip    Songs from Liquid Days    1986
Jackson, Joe    Big World    1986
Jackson, Joe    Live 1980/86    1986
Kansas    Power    1986
Lloyd Webber, Andrew and Julian    Variations and Aurora    1986
Montrose, Ronnie    Territory    1986
Torn, David    Cloud About Mercury    1986
Wyatt, Robert    Old Rottenhat    1986
XTC    Skylarking    1986
Zappa, Frank    Jazz From Hell    1986
Akkerman, Jan    Heartware    1987
Bears,The    Bears,The    1987
Bears,The    Rise and Shine    1987
Bensusan, Pierre    Spices    1987
Budd, Harold    White Arcades, The    1987
Ferry, Bryan    Bete Noire    1987
Frech Frith Kaiser Thompson    Live, Love, Larf & Loaf    1987
Frith, Fred    Technology of Tears, The    1987
Hampton, Col. Bruce    Arkansas    1987
Hassell, Jon    Surgeon of the Nightsky Restores Dead Things ..., The    1987
Van Tieghem, David    Safety In Numbers    1987
XTC    Mummer    1987
Jackson, Joe    Blaze of Glory    1988
Kaiser, Henry    Those Who Know History Are Doomed To Repeat It    1988
Pere Ubu    Cloudland    1988
Reich, Steve w/ Kronos Quartet & Pat Metheny    Different Trains & Electric Counterpoint    1988
Rypday, Terje    Singles Collection, The    1988
Vangelis    Direct    1988
Zappa, Frank    Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life, The    1988
Zappa, Frank    Broadway the Hardway    1988
Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe    Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe    1989
Anderson, Laurie    Strange Angels    1989
Badalamenti, Angelo    Soundtrack from Twin Peaks    1989
XTC    Oranges & Lemons    1989

Zoviet! I really like Metromania too, although I think the track `Nightriders' is a little throwaway and rubbish, but I love the rest! The cold drums give the album a kind of robotic/sci-fi sound - very appropriate anyway!

To be honest, I even rather like their later 80's album `Ra' - now THAT one gets a lot of hate!

Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - September 25 2012 at 01:02

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Zoviet! I really like Metromania too, although I think the track `Nightriders' is a little throwaway and rubbish, but I love the rest! The cold drums give the album a kind of robotic/sci-fi sound - very appropriate anyway! To be honest, I even rather like their later 80's album `Ra' - now THAT one gets a lot of hate!