Prog in the 1980's: The Year 1983 |
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DarkTower
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Marillion
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kenethlevine
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Possibly my faves from 1983 are two albums not in the poll - Pablo El Enterrador and Amenophis, both their debuts, s/t
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rushfan4
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Had to give this one some thought...went with Frontiers from Journey.
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Jaketejas
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update below
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Jaketejas
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Some good choices here. There sure don't make 'em like they used to! I'm trying to dig back into my memory. Asia had a top-10 hit with Don't Cry. Journey had another great full-length album (and some funny choreography with Separate Ways on MTV). Sky was about to say goodbye to John Williams (whaaaa! ). Marillion was ramping up and heading towards their most selling album. (Sorry, though ... I have not been able to get into that particular Pink Floyd album ... I tried ...). Styx tried to do something extremely outlandishly progressive by going out onto arenas with some kind of theatrical robot musical, which eventually caused lots of booing and the band to implode. Saga was at full steam, but about to head into declining popularity ... as was ELO. Holdsworth was going full bore with his OUTSTANDING collaboration with Paul Williams (strange ... my two favorite albums are just before and just after Road Games). And, while Steve Howe was doing some Indiana Jones videos with Asia (isn't he the one who was pushed off the mountain?), Yes received a new fuel-injection system with Trevor Rabin, launching them back onto every radio station. And, that my friends, is my re-cap of 1983.
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Psychedelic Paul
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Amenophis is one of the albums I had to drop from the poll, simply because I didn't have room for it, having used up all 25 available poll slots.
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someone_else
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IQ followed by Floyd and Yes.
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progaardvark
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Marillion, followed by Bacamarte, IQ, Genesis, and ELO.
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Cristi
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but you had a slot for Bad Religion or Styx
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tempest_77
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It's not even close. Script For a Jester's Tear. One of the strongest prog albums of the 80s, probably third behind Misplaced Childhood and Moving Pictures imo.
As for everyone asking about Bad Religion: it may be an odd inclusion, but their 1983 album was in fact, if not fully prog, a prog-influenced album, with lots of organ and piano and even a 7-minute, four-part suite.
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verslibre
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I do!
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Other: Eddie Jobson – Zinc/The Green Album.
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Mirakaze
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Hm, none of these particularly jump out at me. I voted for Crises because of its nostalgic value to me (even though nowadays I think it's a bit flawed)
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Psychedelic Paul
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I know nothing about Bad Religion or Amenophis but I do know about Styx. Maybe you'd like to do a 1980's prog poll with all of the albums I had to leave out.
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Manuel
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Steve Hackett gets my vote. Two albums in one year, including his first full classical guitar offering.
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Cristi
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why are you making polls with artists and albums you know nothing about I will never understand. Bad Religion is more or less a punk rock band. Styx's Kilroy is one of the worst albums of 1983, it killed the band's existence for quite a while. At least Amenophis was an attempt at symphonic prog. |
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Strange, to me it's the strongest of the Fish albums. I'd have it in my top five Marillion albums.
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Psychedelic Paul
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There's no rule that stipulates a pollster has to have listened to every album in their poll, and in the case of Bad Religion, it was clearly a mistake to include them.
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Cristi
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I never said or implied you've broken any rule creating this poll. Just that I don't understand, or even better said, makes no sense to me why anyone would create a poll with albums & artists they know nothing about. I would never do such a thing, I don't see the point. That's all.
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Psychedelic Paul
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^ If it makes you feel any happier, I've replaced Bad Religion in the poll with Amenophis' debut album, even though it's a little too late now to pick up any votes.
And on the subject of featuring albums in my polls that I know nothing about, there are still literally hundreds and thousands of great albums out there in the progosphere that I haven't got around to listening to yet. The only albums I've actually listened to in this particular poll are by these artists:- ELO; Genesis; Steve Hackett; Mike Oldfield; Pink Floyd; Robert Plant; Tangerine Dream; and Yes. I've never heard Marillion's Script for a Jester's Tear before, but it would be rather selfish of me to leave the album out of the poll simply because I've never listened to it, especially considering it's currently leading the poll.
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