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Poll Question: Who rose above 30 years ago?
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Nothing (mediocre) to see here. Crest is a brilliant production (best ever?) with fine material. KC is as brilliant as ever. Invisible Touch (especially when reconstituted is fine. Big Generator gets the vote as not only do I like the music as much as I dislike the cover (s) it gets a bad rep usually I feel for political purposes. Shoot High is too good to miss. I think I'll trust Squire's leadership here. ELPowell... kudos for keeping on and a good album. Pink Floyd had a pretty good album material wise. I must admit to a curiosity here. Apparently DG's first effort was rejected by EMI before Momentary Lapse was accepted. Wonder if that would make a good set of bonus material...

Fine music and very well crafted. Well done guys.
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Floyd, although the Tull album is good too.
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KC easily
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Kate Bush Hounds Of Love. Given these choices-Crimson.

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Tull. I actually like Crest of a Knave alot even though it's know always a favorite among Tull fans.

The thing about the 80's was everyone was trying to streamline what they were doing to be more commercially viable. Rush & Genesis probably adapted best to the 80's enjoying a good deal of success . Yes & Tull had moments with 90125 & Crest of a Knave.
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Originally posted by Hercules Hercules wrote:

Head and shoulders the best release from any of the old prog bands in the mid 80s was Stationary Traveller. I didn't really appreciate how good it was when released, but now I think it's stunning.

agreed. and I always liked it, from day 1
a totally successful reinventing of their sound while still respecting their fans
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Résultat de recherche dimages pour &quot;prefab swoon&quot;Résultat de recherche dimages pour &quot;prefab steve mcqueen&quot;
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Originally posted by Flight123 Flight123 wrote:

Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

THE BEST mid-80s album by the way is this:
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=12588

I might organise an alternative poll for 30 years gone - there's also the neo-prog brigade getting their act together then as well

Lots of great Neo bands emerged from the 80s and still producing albums.  One great band that stopped were Twelfth Night!..Cry
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^^ Steve McQueen is sheer brilliance, one of my favourite albums of the eighties.

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Hold Your Fire by Rush

but barring that as an option I threw mine in for Crimson. I always had a soft spot for that album.
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Points: 5111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 23 2017 at 10:58
Of the choices on offer, ToaPP. My first KC album as a teenager and I've remained fond of it.
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Points: 19630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 23 2017 at 15:10
Originally posted by uduwudu uduwudu wrote:

Nothing (mediocre) to see here. Crest is a brilliant production (best ever?) with fine material. KC is as brilliant as ever. Invisible Touch (especially when reconstituted is fine. Big Generator gets the vote as not only do I like the music as much as I dislike the cover (s) it gets a bad rep usually I feel for political purposes. Shoot High is too good to miss. I think I'll trust Squire's leadership here. ELPowell... kudos for keeping on and a good album. Pink Floyd had a pretty good album material wise. I must admit to a curiosity here. Apparently DG's first effort was rejected by EMI before Momentary Lapse was accepted. Wonder if that would make a good set of bonus material...

Fine music and very well crafted. Well done guys.


Clearly the worsts of the list are Generator & Touch... both really awful, but Lapse Of Reason equally sucks

Crest has really only Budapest and one other track, but otherwise, it's not good (but a serious improvement on Ubnder Wraps)... Some keep mentionning Tull sounding like Straits, but the opening and closing tracks sound like ZZ Top...

From this list, the one album that is  rather good is ELPowell (and I'm not much a fan of ELP in general)

One album missing from that list is Supertramp's Brother Where You Bound, which by a margin the best album from a 70's prog band.


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Three of a Perfect Pair.

"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021
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