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1. JONN SERRIE Tingri
2. AFTER CRYING Overground Music
3. DEAD CAN DANCE Aion
4. COLLAGE Basnie
5. GEORGE MICHAEL Listen Without Prejudice, Vol. 1
6. OTTMAR LIEBERT Nouveau Flamenco
7. ENIGMA MCMXC a.D.
8. KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION Strange Free World 
9. HAPPY MONDAYS Pills, Thrills and Bellyaches
10. MR. SIRIUS Dirge

11. THE SUNDAYS Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
12. LUSH Gala
13. ASTURIAS Brilliant Streams
14. MY BLOODY VALENTINE Glider
15. OZRIC TENTACLES Erpland
16. TOAD THE WET SPROCKET Pale
17. TRASHCAN SINATRAS Cake
18. ANTHONY PHILLIPS Slow Dance
19. KALABAN Don't Panic
20. SOLARIS Solaris 1990
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by Progmind Progmind wrote:



Ezra Winston - Ancient Afternoons

Prefab Sprout - Jordan: the Comeback

I'm going to add Prefab Sprout's album to my list too, at the risk of being criticised by Cristi for adding a non-prog band to my list. Wink

I'm sure Ezra Winston's Ancient Afternoons is well-worth a listen too if it's anywhere near as good as Myth of the Chrysavides. Thumbs Up

Hi Psychedelic Paul!! i strongly recommend you that album of Ezra Winston
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by Progmind Progmind wrote:

In no order

Ezra Winston - Ancient Afternoons
Psychotic Waltz - A Social Grace
After Crying - Overground Music
Queensr˙che - Empire
King`s X - Faith Hope Love
Collage - Basnie
Fish - Vigil In A Wilderness Of Mirrors
Ride - Nowhere
Bjork - Gling gló
Anthony Phillips - Slow Dance

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Mr. Sirius - Dirge
Nocturnus - The Key
Living Colour - Time`s Up
Pale Saints - The comforts Of Madness
Sieges Even - Steps
Prefab Sprout - Jordan: the Comeback

nice to see Living Colour mentioned here, great band, i'm gonna add them to my list as well. EmbarrassedTongue

Living colour its great!!, amazing band to see live
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Hi BrufordFreak!!

Saw your list and i forget to add Lush and MBV, LOVE sHOEGAZE
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Originally posted by Progmind Progmind wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by Progmind Progmind wrote:



Ezra Winston - Ancient Afternoons

Prefab Sprout - Jordan: the Comeback

I'm going to add Prefab Sprout's album to my list too, at the risk of being criticised by Cristi for adding a non-prog band to my list. Wink

I'm sure Ezra Winston's Ancient Afternoons is well-worth a listen too if it's anywhere near as good as Myth of the Chrysavides. Thumbs Up

Hi Psychedelic Paul!! i strongly recommend you that album of Ezra Winston
Thanks! I'll have a listen to Ezra Winston's tunes sometime soon on a contemporary afternoon. Smile
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Originally posted by Mirakaze Mirakaze wrote:

How ironic that the first year that sees us escape from what is supposedly the most accursed decade in the history of progressive rock happens to be the first year for which I am unable to list 10 prog albums I like Cry.

1. Ozric Tentacles - Erpland
2. Mr. Sirius - Dirge
3. Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Ecophony Gaia
4. Naked City - Naked City
5. U Totem - U Totem
6. Third Ear Band - Magic Music
7. Happy The Man - Beginnings
8. Eric Woolfson - Freudiana

Your determination to go on with these polls is all the more admirable. Clap


Really, my biggest motivation for keeping this series of polls going is that I'm curious to know about other people's tastes; I've already discovered a lot of cool new things thanks to it, and hopefully other people's recommendations in this thread will help me avoid embarrassments like this in the future LOL
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U Totem - U Totem
Naked City - Naked City
Mr. Sirius - Dirge
Art Zoyd / J.A. Deane / J. Greinke
Clearlight - Symphony II
Dead Can Dance - Aion
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Ecophony Gaia
Offering - Offering Part III / Part IV
Devil Doll - Eliogabalus
Ozric Tentacles - Erpland
Albert Marcoeur - Ma vie avec elles

Oops, that's eleven.

Non-Prog bonus: Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks
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Four masterpieces, four "really good" albums:

1. Anthony Phillips - Slow Dance
2. Mike Oldfield - Amarok
3. Vangelis - The City
4. Andy Summers - Charming Snakes
5. Eric Woolfson - Freudiana
6. Barclay James Harvest - Welcome to the Show
7. Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom
8. Asia - Then and Now  


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Tough year for sure. In no particular order some I have written down.
Ozric Tentacles- Erpland
Thule- Natt
U Totem- U Totem
Offering- III/IV
Ur Kaos- A Terrible Beauty is Born
Sun Dial- Other Way Out
The Darkside- All That Noise
"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"

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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

I don't think I can name 10 prog and prog-related albums for 1990. 
Yeah, me too. I'm like "1990"?  Uh....umm.....  But now I can cheat at look at other entries above, so:

Fish - Vigil In A Wilderness Of Mirrors
Mike Oldfield - Amarok
Ozric Tentacles - Erpland

And NO to Curved Air - Lovechild! That was recorded in 1973.


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Mike Oldfield - Amarok

can't find anything else remotely interesting

music was in a bad place but at least Oldfield sticking two fingers up to Richard Branson provided some relief!
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Mike Oldfield - Amarok

can't find anything else remotely interesting

music was in a bad place but at least Oldfield sticking two fingers up to Richard Branson provided some relief!

Hi,

And strangely enough, of all of his albums, this one is the one that gets heard the most by me! It is a fun listen, and totally far out and interesting, and its "attention span" is much wider than most of his material, that sometimes repeats way too much! Star

In general, I don't like to discuss each and every year in music. Both TD and KS were not dead, and they still produced marvelous material that is being ignored, not to mention PH and then a wee bit later VdGG. But at the time, there were also many great things coming up that few people were listening to, and too many of the material listed fits more into a popular vote than it does into a serious program and idea about progressive music and some folks that continued the shift and never left! 

While I like DCD, in many ways, they were too much of the New Age thing for me, and it had a bit too much plastic in it for my tastes. I much preferred the stuff Lisa did with KS later, which gave you a better idea of what she could add to the band DCD, but was never to be even considered because it was not something within the popular vein to sell their records by almost sounding exactly the same as before!


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Originally posted by Steve Wyzard Steve Wyzard wrote:

7. Asia - Then and Now  

I thought of this, but it's a compilation that includes only two new songs. 
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

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7. Asia - Then and Now  

I thought of this, but it's a compilation that includes only two new songs. 

Four new songs actually: "Days Like These", "Prayin' 4 a Miracle", "Am I in Love?", and "Summer Can't Last Too Long". There's a different guitarist on all four, none of them Steve Howe!


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Originally posted by Steve Wyzard Steve Wyzard wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by Steve Wyzard Steve Wyzard wrote:

7. Asia - Then and Now  

I thought of this, but it's a compilation that includes only two new songs. 

Four new songs actually: "Days Like These", "Prayin' 4 a Miracle", "Am I in Love?", and "Summer Can't Last Too Long". There's a different guitarist on all four, none of them Steve Howe!

you're right, my bad, 4 new songs. 
Steve Howe left after Alpha, their second album. That's like 83-84. 
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alphabetically:

Asturias - Brilliant Streams
Dead Can Dance - Aion
Harnakis - Numb Eyes, the Soul Revelation
Morrigan - Rides Out
Quaterna Requiem - Velha Gravura
Tri Yann - Belle et Rebelle

the following are honorable mentions:

Dan Ar Braz - Songs
Collage - Basnie
Osiris - Reflections
Red Jasper - Sting in the Tale
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^ I actually met the guy who was lead singer in Red Jasper about 20 years ago. At the time he was running a flooring company in Swindon!
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1. Ozric Tentacles - Erpland
End of list...
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Can't believe all you all are overlooking AFTER CRYING's amazing Overground Music! Have you never heard it? If you haven't heard After Crying, I strongly recommend that you do so. As proggy as the 1990s ever got!
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

^ I actually met the guy who was lead singer in Red Jasper about 20 years ago. At the time he was running a flooring company in Swindon!

the group reformed after close to 20 years of silence but their lead singer Davey Dodds didn't come back...flooring was surely more lucrative!  The two albums after the one I mentioned are their best and will deserve better than honorable mentions in those years
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