Your top 15 progressive music albums IN the '70s? |
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Lewian
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Prog hit me in 1979, probably even late 1979, and I think when 1980 started I really only had heard the Manfred Mann's Earth Band albums from Nightingales and Bombers through to Angel Station and a sampler of older material that apparently isn't listed on PA. Pink Floyd should be there with Relics, Wish You Were Here, the first two albums, and The Wall (maybe not quite all of these, but if I remember correctly, I bought Animals on a flea market early 1980 and I think I knew these before or at least most of them). Then there were Trilogy and Welcome Back by ELP, Aqualung by Jethro Tull and Novalis' second album; those I knew from my father's collection, and I loved what I knew from Kate Bush's first album although that isn't really prog. Even earlier I had a Beatles phase so I could also list most of their albums, but by 1979 I had distanced myself from them (not proud of that). I remember it was early 1980 I started to properly explore music.
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David_D
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Thanks, Lewian.
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quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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I was 15 in '79 so not a whole lot here maybe
Supertramp - Crime Of The Century Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells Jeff Wayne - War Of The Worlds ELO - Out Of The Blue Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - September 07 2024 at 12:19 |
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David_D
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Well, quite similar to my progressive acquaintances at the age 15. |
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Cristi
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Not Jeff Lynn, but Jeff Wayne.
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Logan
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"Whoa, take 'er easy there, Pilgrim."
Wasn't Jeff Wayne a star of Westerns? Or maybe I'm thinking of Clint Wayne. Seriously speaking, since ELO was mentioned, right after, and that has Jeff Lynne, it is for me a very understandable mistake. That kind of transposition happens to me commonly. I have two things in mind and they get jumbled together. I am aware of the error when I look back on it, but it's just the wires getting crossed. It's a very common occurrence in people. Edited by Logan - September 07 2024 at 12:25 |
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Two tracks per many of my fave acts: A Youtube Playlist
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Psychedelic Paul
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Do Ya think it could have been Jeff Lynne's New War of the World Records? Edited by Psychedelic Paul - September 07 2024 at 12:39 |
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Logan
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^ Another way the wires could get crossed. That reminds me, I had meant to mention ELO way back on page two of this thread -- ah, the memories, that takes me back to yesterday. Now I'm feeling nostalgic for yesterday, when all my troubles seemed so far away. My older brother, as usual, bought that A New World Record album and I remember hearing it when wee (not when weeing). He also had bought a Simon Says game and the cover had reminded me of that. ELO was one of the first pop/rock bands I remember getting into as a weeing lad.
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David_D
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A bit late, but I think that I got your point now, meaning, you're one of the old boys, this thread is intended for, so in that way you've followed my OP. |
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Logan
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I was one of the young boys in the 70s, and do recall being introduced to and liking music in the late 70s, so thought that would count from my reading of the OP. If not, kindly disregard. :)
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David_D
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I got ELO's Face the Music (1975) about a year after it's release, but it didn't really hit and today, I don't find it to be particularly progressive.
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Sean Trane
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Read it
carefully, without your default negative prejudice. I used
those terms in a stirctly descriptive manner. I mean, IMHO the generation gaps
aren't even as drastics as people lead themselves to believe. I know a lot of
boomers (born 1946-1964) and Jonesers (~1958-1963 more/less) who are friendly
and easy going people. The constant culture wars really shape
cross-generational relations in a negative way. It's a bit of a bummer.
YOU don't
understand. I have no problems with the use of Baby-Boomers (the terms Jared
used) , but the use of the "boomer" diminutive term (that YOU used) is
generally meant/used to be negative. I had to look up "Jonesers", because I'd never heard of that bogus concept (gen X is another bogus as well, and so are all the next inventions like Gen Z and now Gen Alpha). In some
ways, yes, I do think that those who were late-teens and in early their early
20's during the late 60's and early 70's are fairly different than the
baby-boomers. They participated to summer of
love, civil rights movement fights, Mai 68 in Paris,West German rebellions, etc... Early BB rebels were few and generally
called Beatnicks, while later BB were more numerous and became Hippies. In either case, the younger dudes mocking the older generations should really shut up and be respectfull for the fight and price paid in their fight to change the world (at least the western hemisphere), because they would've really resented the established order prior to 67 to be still in application today. =================================
As for your complaint of PA in PE:
For some
time now, PA simply doesn't feel like a community anymore. There are many
active users but they all do their own thing, debate over which band is better
(using polls or not) and rarely showing any real human social skills. The way
discussions on PA go rn doesn't make me ever want to hang out with any of those
users. I dunno. Maybe it's the generational gap? The userbase give me an
impression of masked-up anonymous figures wearing business suits. PA just feels
really formal and cold. If you feel really that way.... Nobody’s holding you back…. And Don’t let the door hit you in the back on the way out |
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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the PE quote is not relevant anymore and I don't stand by it now. Also, "no personal attacks" is still a rule here. Just saying.
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David_D
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You're saying here that the period from the late '60s to early '70s was particularly constructive, but I'd extend that to late '70s, as there was a lot of good political fighting in the rest of the '70s. |
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I must confess, I'm not a fan of the terms either; they are lazy, stereo-typical labels which tend to artificially divide generations, rather than bring them together... I suppose I used it, because of all the demarcations, 1965 is the DOB year most commonly given for the cut off between Baby-Boomers and Gen X. This seemed to fall perfectly when describing who could take part in David's thread, because someone born in 1965 would have been 14 in 1979 and therefore just old enough to have formulated a rudimentary Prog collection, whereas any Gen Xers (like me) would have found that very difficult. My apologies to anyone offended by the labelling...
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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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David_D
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About Hrychu's criticism, it's a rather hard one, but I don't think that it's a bad idea to discuss the subject...and yes, without personal attacks. Edited by David_D - September 08 2024 at 08:31 |
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Hrychu
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I used the term "boomer" as a simple abbreviation of "baby boomer". Believe it or not, a lot of people use it in such context online. Also, the generation labels are not strict or scientific nor are they meant to judge people. They're meant to simplify certain generational traits in order to find common grounds between people who grew up during similar time frames. ;)
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^As a boomer, the word does not offend me.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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I find it interesting how so many here discovered prog in the late 70s just as prog was supposedly dying out. Maybe some of you were thinking "hey, this is stuff is cool. Hey wait, it's not popular now? You mean I have to listen to punk and new wave instead?"
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Also, these generation labels go back to the people born during the late 19th century: Generation Alpha - early 2010s to the mid-2020s (currently no consensus) |
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