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    Posted: September 01 2021 at 11:46
Well, one thing I've learned in the past weeks is that my favourite prog albums of the 80s tend to be concentrated in the even-numbered years rather than the odd-numbered ones. Given the circumstances, 1986 is another damned fine year for the genre, methinks.

1. Thinking Plague - Moonsongs
2. Genesis - Invisible Touch (I regret nothing)
3. Univers Zero - Heatwave
4. Frank Zappa - Jazz From Hell
5. The Chick Corea Elektric Band - The Chick Corea Elektric Band
6. Adrian Belew - Desire Caught By The Tail
7. Harold Budd, Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie & Simon Raymonde - The Moon And The Melodies
8. Katra Turana - Kimera
9. Talk Talk - The Colour Of Spring
10. Motor Totemist Guild - Contact With Veils

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- Allan Holdsworth - Atavachron
- Ozric Tentacles - There Is Nothing
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Shub Niggurath - Les Morts Vont Vite
Univers Zero - Heatwave
Nazca - Estacion de Sombra
Thinking Plague - Moonsongs
News From Babel - Letters Home
Steve Reich - Sextet / 6 Marimbas
Steve Roach - Empetus
Miriodor - Rencontres
Altais - s/t



Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - September 01 2021 at 13:37
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Strange list but genuine progressive rock was nowhere near the mainstream in the mid-eighties (Talk Talk isn't really progressive just yet, but its lovely art pop)

Wendy Carlos - Beauty in the Beast
Tangerine Dream - Green Desert (recorded sometime in the mid-70's)
Univers Zéro - Heatwave
Shub-Niggurath - Les Morts Vont Vite
Jac Berrocal - Hotel Hotel
Talk Talk - The Colour Of Spring
Thinking Plague - Moonsongs
Lindsay Cooper - Music for Other Occasions
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Altais - s/t
Ah I just removed them as its just a 14 minute long EP - actually first released as a #7. But very close to the best progressive 14 minutes of 1986.
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Altais - s/t
Ah I just removed them as its just a 14 minute long EP - actually first released as a #7. But very close to the best progressive 14 minutes of 1986.

I was getting desperate by that stage, do Robert Cray or Slayer count?

I see Thinking Plague - Moonsongs listed as 86 & 87 in various places, if it's 86 it certainly makes my list


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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

I see Thinking Plague - Moonsongs listed as 86 & 87 in various places, if it's 86 it certainly makes my list
It's 1987 for the LP release, but its was released first on cassette in 1986.
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Another year that I am unable to fill up 10 slots:

1. The Camberwell Now - The Ghost Trade
2. Pageant - La mosaïque de la rêverie
3. Emerson, Lake & Powell - Emerson, Lake & Powell
4. Miriodor - Rencontres
5. Ain Soph - Hat and Field
6. Peter Gabriel - So
7. Pallas - The Wedge
8. Genesis - Invisible Touch (if you replace a couple of the pop hits with the B sides)
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Fates Warning - Awaken The Guardian
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Talk Talk - The Colour Of Spring 
Queensryche - Rage For Order 
Peter Gabriel - So
Emerson, Lake & Powell = s/t
Kansas - Power
The Elektric Band - s/t
Joe Satriani - Not of This Earth
Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
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XTC - Skylarking
Kontrast - Kontrast
Talk Talk - The Colour Of Spring
The Church - Heyday
Shub-Niggurath - Les Morts Vont Vite
The Chameleons - Strange Times
NEO Museum - volume 1
David Sylvian - Gone To Earth
Cocteau Twins - Victorialand
Univers Zero - Heatwave

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Thinking Plague - Moonsongs
Megadeth - Peace Sells....
Camberwell Now -The Ghost Trade
Queenrysche - Rage For Order
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Miriodor - Rencontres
Metallica -Master Of Puppets
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1. DAVID SYLVIAN Gone to Earth
2. THE MOON AND THE MELODIES The Moon and the Melodies
3. ASTOR PIAZZOLLA Tango: Zero Hour
4. COCTEAU TWINS Victorialand
5. XTC Skylarking
6. ROSIE VELA Zazu
7. PETER GABRIEL So
9. PET SHOP BOYS Please
10. THE BEASTIE BOYS Licensed to Ill

11. TALK TALK The Colour of Spring
12. CLAN OF XYMOX Medusa
13. CLAIRE HAMMILL Voices
14. IT'S IMMATERIAL Life's Hard and Then You Die
15. THIS MORTAL COIL Filigree and Shadow
16. CHRIS REA On The Beach
17. HERBIE HANCOCK & Others 'Round Midnight Movie Soundtrack
18. UNIVERS ZERO Heatwave
19. THE LOVER SPEAKS The Lover Speaks
20. AIN SOPH Hat and Field
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Camberwell Now - The Ghost Trade (very nice to see this one on another top spot)
Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring
Univers Zero - Heatwave
David Sylvian - Gone to Earth
Mick Karn - Dreams of Reason Produce Monsters
Legendary Pink Dots - Island of Jewels
News From Babel - Letters Home
Gestalt et Jive - s/t
Frank Zappa - Jazz from Hell
Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Breakthrough

The Astor Piazzolla album is brutally good and can even compete with Camberwell Now and the Talk Talk album (that's three top 20 of all time candidates in this year), as is Jorge Reyes - Comala, but these don't qualify according to my "prog is PA plus Irmin Schmidt plus Mick Karn" rule.   


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1 News From Babel - Letters Home
2 Univers Zero - Heatwave
3 Gabriel, Peter - So
4 Miriodor - Rencontres
5 Plastic People of the Universe - Pulnocni Mys (Midnight Mouse)
6 Vander Offering - Offering
7 Tangerine Dream - Green Desert

 Bubbling under:
Shub-Niggurath - Les Morts Vont Vite
Chick Corea & Elektric Band - Elektric Band
Julverne - Ne Parlons Pas De Malheur
Emerson, Lake & Powell - ELPowell  if it's from 86 (I thought it was 85)


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Another crappy year of 80s music....

Steve Earle - Guitar Town
Peter Gabriel - So
Crowded House - s/t debut
REM - Life's Rich Pageant
Paul Simon - Graceland
Fairport Convention - Expletive Delighted!
Kate Bush - The Whole Story
Violent Femmes - Blind Leading the Naked
The Smithereens - Especially for You
Philip Glass - Songs for Liquid Days
Nanci Griffith - The Last of the True Believers


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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

The Astor Piazzolla album is brutally good and can even compete with Camberwell Now and the Talk Talk album (that's three top 20 of all time candidates in this year), as is Jorge Reyes - Comala, but these don't qualify according to my "prog is PA plus Irmin Schmidt plus Mick Karn" rule.   


I use this same rule, with the added provision that I'll include artists whose submission to the archives is still under consideration, or artists who I'm planning to nominate for inclusion eventually. Hence why The Colour Of Spring and The Moon And The Melodies make my list but not Beauty In The Beast which would otherwise certainly be a contender for the top spot.
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Originally posted by Mirakaze Mirakaze wrote:

Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

The Astor Piazzolla album is brutally good and can even compete with Camberwell Now and the Talk Talk album (that's three top 20 of all time candidates in this year), as is Jorge Reyes - Comala, but these don't qualify according to my "prog is PA plus Irmin Schmidt plus Mick Karn" rule.   


I use this same rule, with the added provision that I'll include artists whose submission to the archives is still under consideration, or artists who I'm planning to nominate for inclusion eventually. Hence why The Colour Of Spring and The Moon And The Melodies make my list but not Beauty In The Beast which would otherwise certainly be a contender for the top spot.
I go by my own rules:) so I won't include albums I feel have no place on these lists (mostly a lot of new wave stuff and 70's progbands that went mainstream in the 80's), although represented on PA, but I'll include anything I feel have a place here - such as Beauty in the Beast
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the start of the really sucky years for prog lasting until about 92

anyway my not very proggy selection

1. Tangerine Dream - Underwater Sunlight
2. Stephen Caudel - Wine Dark Sea
3. Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
4. Vangelis & Irene Papas - Rapsodies
5. Emerson, Lake and Powell - s/t
6. Boston - Third Stage (they spent 6 years making it so must be a prog album lol)
7. Public Image Limited - Album
8. Kate Bush - The Whole Story (it does have a new track Experiment IV which is great)
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1. ELP - Emerson, Lake, and Powell
2. Alan Parsons Project - Stereotomy
3. Pallas - The Wedge
4. GTR - GTR
5. Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Criminal Tango
6. Twelfth Night - XII
7. Eric Johnson - Tones
8. The Firm - Mean Business
9. Boston - Third Stage
10. Genesis - Invisible Touch
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Not a good year for prog albums. Stern Smile

Eric Clapton - August
Emerson, Lake & Powell - Emerson, Lake & Powell
The Enid - Liverpool Live
Philip Glass - Songs for Liquid Days
Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Breakthrough
Hawkwind - Chaos: Live at Guild Hall, Preston
Chris Rea - On the Beach
The Sweet - Live at the Marquee Club, London
Tangerine Dream - Underwater Sunlight
Vangelis & Irene Papas - Rhapsodies
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Never heard (of) Camberwell Now, but I'm really digging the Ghost Trade album!
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Les Morts Vont Vite - Shub-Niggurath

Atavachron - Allan Holdsworth

Suction 8 - Edge

Sounds of Passion - Coda

The Big Lad in the Windmill - It Bites

Awaken the Guardian - Fates Warning

Palimpseste - Anamorphose

Alienation - YBO2

Emerson, Lake & Powell - Emerson, Lake & Powell

Underwater Sunlight - Tangerine Dream

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