Post-1970's Prog: The Year 1986
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Topic: Post-1970's Prog: The Year 1986
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Subject: Post-1970's Prog: The Year 1986
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 00:24
 1986: Tony Banks - Soundtracks - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lNscFCqSo3M9Le7uW5g_xIAafK0_M07Hg" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lNscFCqSo3M9Le7uW5g_xIAafK0_M07Hg  1986: Coda - Sounds of Passion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gXYs3I6FqA" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gXYs3I6FqA  1986: ELO - Balance of Power - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nNXvaTc2yHbSCPGYoPigCsPCWfTDlDBZE" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nNXvaTc2yHbSCPGYoPigCsPCWfTDlDBZE 1986: Emerson, Lake & Powell - Emerson, Lake & Powell - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtKb2sKbN9e7RqzfFtnb3k0" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtKb2sKbN9e7RqzfFtnb3k0 1986: The Enid - Salome - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nQVwn91QbwizunsvtnP3OkQcmzdGUx0e4" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nQVwn91QbwizunsvtnP3OkQcmzdGUx0e4 1986: Peter Gabriel - So - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEZ0AbdT4Z2g-vhT8LX6j1wh" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdktF-lL0yEZ0AbdT4Z2g-vhT8LX6j1wh 1986: Genesis - Invisible Touch - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LueLtgXMm4tJJVvTRrDpy6E" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LueLtgXMm4tJJVvTRrDpy6E 1986: Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Breakthrough - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlF2k95ERpI" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlF2k95ERpI 1986: GTR - GTR - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJY8mUzYsew&t=1715s" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJY8mUzYsew&t=1715s 1986: High Tide - Interesting Times - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRYkAIs2BbQ&t=1557s" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRYkAIs2BbQ&t=1557s 1986: Allan Holdsworth - Atavachron - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXSd-WyrtfA&t=800s" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXSd-WyrtfA&t=800s 1986: Horizont - Summer in Town - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G345jq3ZMPM" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G345jq3ZMPM 1986: IQ - Living Proof - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpKkM-l3KbkkX3MaX826I_kS" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpKkM-l3KbkkX3MaX826I_kS 1986: It Bites - The Big Lad in the Windmill - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nAQIgN9WpJy9cw_ewQalo6TlsXx5W5qAI" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nAQIgN9WpJy9cw_ewQalo6TlsXx5W5qAI 1986: The Moody Blues - The Other Side of Life - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ksCHCM9bR39bOWvK1Mj9XKs5VjqKLiP8w" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ksCHCM9bR39bOWvK1Mj9XKs5VjqKLiP8w 1986: Outer Limits - A Boy Playing the Magical Bugle Horn - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsAOf79Qd50&t=1023s" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsAOf79Qd50&t=1023s 1986: Pageant - La Mosaique de la Reverie - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k--kLKn03ZWGHQ49EpvOTECGhs7rI0Em4" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k--kLKn03ZWGHQ49EpvOTECGhs7rI0Em4 1986: Pallas - The Wedge - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpL1SOxFO_kYLBoAxRvhls0s" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpL1SOxFO_kYLBoAxRvhls0s 1986: Anthony Phillips - Private Parts & Pieces VI: Ivory Moon - 1986: Klaus Schulze - Dreams - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBy5IiXN2IA&t=2687s" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBy5IiXN2IA&t=2687s 1986: Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_koE4rtsIJ002pzrNOUIjuhnft_Aun9pkY" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_koE4rtsIJ002pzrNOUIjuhnft_Aun9pkY 1986: Tangerine Dream - Underwater Sunlight - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ltJyvHBGmdFOcB5oZfaYZ8ao0uu3YDwiM" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ltJyvHBGmdFOcB5oZfaYZ8ao0uu3YDwiM 1986: Twelfth Night - Twelfth Night XII - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mxK-jT0WTE6EvHNQfw4gRvlHZZxATMT1s" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mxK-jT0WTE6EvHNQfw4gRvlHZZxATMT1s 1986: Vangelis & Irene Papas - Rapsodies - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LuXW5zSOIja28Ew_so8i8Yk" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LuXW5zSOIja28Ew_so8i8Yk 1986: Rick Wakeman - Country Airs - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lt1lud8m6DliXamRKSi2K-M" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lt1lud8m6DliXamRKSi2K-M |
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 00:57
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PG followed by Talk Talk. ------------- 
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 01:27
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Talk Talk > Gong Personal Choices Shub Niggurath - Les Morts Vont Vite Camberwell Now - The Ghost Trade Univers Zero - Heatwave News From Babel - Letters From Home Actually more representative of the PA Top 10 for '86 with 4 of 10 in my selection including #1, #3 & #4 ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 01:36
I've only included the albums I know and like in the poll. I'll leave the Avant Prog albums in the capable hands of you and Drew.
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Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 01:42
| Tangerine Dream over Vangelis and EL&Powell. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 03:29
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Breakthrough ------------- 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: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 04:01
| The rhapsodic delights of Rapsodies! |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 04:15
| I shall cast the lone vote for Allan. His synthaxe album. Experimental, unique, pushing the boundaries of music. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 04:17
| Allan Holdsworth - Atavachron |
Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 04:19
| ELPowell - great comeback album and the best of the 'big six' 80s output. |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 05:03
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Pallas, just... ------------- 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 |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 05:51
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Gabriel's masterpiece, but The Wedge is also excellent. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 06:21
| Anthony Phillips and Peter Gabriel, I like them quite the same. |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 06:54
| I think I have only heard about one-fourth of these in full at best. Of those, Talk Talk got my vote. Peter Gabriel would be second. |
Posted By: TerLJack
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 07:36
This.
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Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 08:29
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"So" from this list. Hackett's "Genesis Revisited" as an "other". ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 08:59
Steve Hackett's Genesis Revisited album was released ten years later in 1996.
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Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 09:47
Damn these old eyes (and memory)! Thanks for the reality-check :-) ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 10:24
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I voted for the clear leader here, Peter Gabriel. This was the year Genesis took over. They, PG, Steve Hackett with GTR, Rutherford with Mike + the Mechanics, and Phil Collins all hit the U.S. top ten in the same week (or at least over a two week span). ------------- 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: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 10:43
I had a feeling Peter Gabriel would win this poll - and So it proved. I doubt if my favourite albums will win any of these year-by-year prog polls, but I Don't Give Up hoping. |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 10:49
| It Bites for me |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 11:24
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Tangerine Dream's Underwater Sunlight, easily. Runners-up: Pageant and Emerson, Lake & Powell. The Quicksilver half of Tony Banks' Soundtracks is very good, too. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 14:09
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From this selection: Emerson, Lake, and Powell > Pallas > GTR > Twelfth Night.
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 14:25
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Where is Breaking Barriers by Tribute? :( Anyway, I don't know a lot of these but I'll think about it anyway.
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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 14:42
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Talk Talk head and shoulders. |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 15:22
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PG > ELPowell ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 15:43
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Talk Talk, followed by Peter Gabriel. ------------- 
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 17:18
I'm the reverse... I know most of these albums, but I don't know Breaking Barriers by Tribute.
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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 18:14
You may like it.
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Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 18:14
Have to agree TD all the way. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: July 25 2022 at 21:00
| Talk Talk followed by Ant |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: July 26 2022 at 01:02
I would have voted for Shub-Niggurath too. Some of the worst album of that year are listed (i.e. GTR) My vote goes to Vangelis. I actually purchased the original vinyl during a journey in Greece together with Odes. ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 26 2022 at 07:22
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A preview of who's coming up in tomorrow's poll for 1987:- Peter Bardens Chris Hinze Combination Dead Can Dance Deep Purple Geoff Downes Bill Bruford's Earthworks Allan Holdsworth IQ Jethro Tull Manfred Mann's Earth Band Marillion Mr. Sirius Mike Oldfield Outer Limits Alan Parsons Project Pat Metheny Group Anthony Phillips Pink Floyd Rush Saga Supertramp Tangerine Dream Rick Wakeman Roger Waters YES
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Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: July 26 2022 at 07:43
| ^ Just like the old Alan Freeman show - he would name the bands at the start to get you hooked but would not say what he would be playing by them, not 'arf! |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 26 2022 at 08:17
I'm guessing any fans of those 25 artists listed above will know which albums are coming up in tomorrow's poll, seeing as they're all albums released in 1987. Alright? Not 'arf! |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: July 26 2022 at 08:17
Are you saying that Paul and Cristi are Smashey and Nicey in disguise?
 ------------- 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 |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: July 26 2022 at 08:22
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 26 2022 at 08:39
Smashey and Nicey's poptastic FAB FM chart rundown...... 10. Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares to You 9. U2 - Nothing Compares to Sinead O'Connor 8. P.M. Tension - Time of the Month 7. DJ Jazzy JFK featuring KLF, KLM, EMF, MFI, EMI & London W14 3WW 6. Cliff Richard - God is Nice (and so are little children) 5. Guns 'n' Roses - The Devil is Nice (and so are little children) 4. Dannii Minogue - I Should Be My Sister 3. Kylie Minogue - I Should Be Madonna 2. Sonya - I Should Be Put Down 1. Bachman Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet! |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 26 2022 at 18:18
You're off the hook Paul. Tribute didn't release an album that year. Deyss did though but maybe that's a good thing they aren't on the list.  Also, I'm guessing that IQ is Nomzamo. Not one of their best probably but not too bad either. It should be interesting. I think I already know what I'll vote for though. ;) |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 26 2022 at 23:53
You're right. I doubt if Nomzamo will pick up many votes, but I've been wrong before.
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Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: July 27 2022 at 02:28
Me too :) Talk Talk and PG would be second and third. ELO probably fourth... ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 27 2022 at 13:11
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Number of albums I'd listened to in the poll before 2010 = 3 (ELO; MB; TD) Number of albums I've listened to in the poll now = 24 (all except Pageant) Number of CD albums I currently own in the poll = None Voted for..... Vangelis & Irene Papas
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: April 29 2023 at 05:02
You were right! I do like it.  1986: Tribute - Breaking Barriers - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m1uI6n8o8Du19lXnGdPP824v281gGhjiM" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m1uI6n8o8Du19lXnGdPP824v281gGhjiM |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: April 29 2023 at 05:18
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Shub-Niggurath- "Les Morts Vont Vite" would be my favorite 1986 album. I'm a fan of everything Lovecraft. I own seven albums in the poll.
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Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: May 04 2023 at 04:28
| ^ I would agree with that but I heard it many years later. I went with ELPowell's creditable 'return' album. I didn't really miss Palmer as I felt that Asia had taken something out of him - don't know what. Even his work on 'Love Beach' surpasses anything he did with that lot. |
Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: May 04 2023 at 16:12
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Pallas, The Wedge, because I love that album! ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 15 2023 at 11:14
Who would've guessed that two non-prog albums would go on to top the poll? Not me, that's for sure. 
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Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: October 15 2023 at 11:20
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Talk Talk - The Colour Of Spring Emerson Lake & Powell - Emerson Lake & Powell Pallas - The Wedge Peter Gabriel - So
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Posted By: Hector Enrique
Date Posted: October 15 2023 at 11:23
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Peter Gabriel - So. Light years away is Phil Collins (sorry, Genesis...) with "Invisible Touch". ------------- Héctor Enrique |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: October 16 2023 at 09:19
| one of Tangerine Dreams really fine 80s albums |
Posted By: O666
Date Posted: October 16 2023 at 11:16
| Peter Gabriel masterpiece SO.... |