Your Top 10 Favourite Prog Albums of 1990

Maybe for prog but what was coming out of Seattle around '90 and what would come out in the next few years was anything but bad.

I think I have at least one of those albums lying around somewhere. I haven't paid them enough attention admittedly but will try and dig whatever I have out later (I'm not very organised!).

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

End of list...

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

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!

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! 

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!