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Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

^ Hey, nobody follows the rules on these threads! Look at all the non-prog listed here LOL

What is "prog"?
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Thule- Ultima Thule
David Sylvian- Secrets Of The Beehive
Gamalan- Gamalan
Thinking Plague- Moonsongs
When- Drowning But Learning
Art Zoyd- Berlin
Violeta De Outono- Violeta De Outono
David Torn- Cloud About Mercury
Phil Miller- Cutting It Both Ways
Marillion- Clutching At Straws
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Clutching at Straws - Marillion

Barren Dream - Mr. Sirius

Sand - Allan Holdsworth

The Power of Suggestion - Giraffe

Still Life (Talking) - Pat Metheny Group

Earthworks - Bill Bruford’s Earthworks

Secrets of the Beehive - David Sylvian

Violeta de Outono - Violeta de Outono

Wake Up in the Sun - Bernd Kistenmacher

A Momentary Lapse of Reason - Pink Floyd


The roughest year so far, for me. I may be stretching it a bit with David Sylvian.
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The best album of 1987 is The Bears debut. 


Others...
Pat Metheny Group - Still Life (Talking)
Phil Miller - Cutting Both Ways
Bill Bruford Earthworks - s/t
Chick Corea Elektric Band - Light Years
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Hmm

Outer Limits - Scene of Pale Blue
Rubaja, Bernardo (as Rubaja and Hernandez) - High Plateaux 
Strawbs - Don't Say Goodbye 
David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive 

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Clannad - Sirius
Sagrado Coracao da Terra-Flecha
Tangerine Dream - Tyger
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^ Hey, nobody follows the rules on these threads! Look at all the non-prog listed here LOL

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Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

I don't really do "favorites" lists. When i finally did make a list of my all time favorite artists on RYM it turned out to be over 500! I figured it would be helpful to list some albums that have been virtually forgotten. If it don't apply let it fly!
Ok, fine.

I couldn't do favorite lists as such myself. Like an "all inclusive" alltime thing, I mean. But I do find it easier to list ten albums from years I struggle to come up with ten great progressive albums in total.
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Originally posted by essexboyinwales essexboyinwales wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

IQ - Nomzamo
Marillion - Clutching At Straws
Tangerine Dream - Tyger

that's all the prog I can do and those are 3 star albums at best.

I'm with you on the IQ and Marillion, although they're both way more than 3 stars in my book!

AMLOR by Floyd is also a great album from this year (IMHO) but I'm struggling to come up with anything else.

Didn't get any of these until much later, as "that year, I was mostly listening to hair metal......"

My first gig that year though, Bryan Adams, and Into The Fire is still my favourite of hisClap
 



I wasn't gigging in those days. I seem to remember being vey fed up with life in general, and music was not helping very much. Apart from IQ I bought a few New Age albums and electronic albums and the latest by Maiden and that was it. I was very excited about the latest IQ album but then found it full of that horrible 'tinny' eighties production sound. Similarly felt let down by U2 and Suzanne Vega and could barely listen to what they were putting out as it was literally hurting my ears! 
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1. Geoff Downes - The Light Program
2. Mike Oldfield - Islands
3. Pink Floyd  - A Momentary Lapse of Reason
4. Patrick Moraz - Human Interface
5. Saga - Wildest Dreams
6. Rush - Hold your Fire
7. Roger Hodgson - Hai Hai
8. Alan Parsons Project - Gaudi
9. Wetton/Manzanera - Wetton/Manzanera
10. The Silencers - A Letter from St. Paul

I was surprised to see a few mentions for the first Robbie Robertson album, which I really like but did not think would find favor on this board. Of course, it also has Peter Gabriel guesting on the two best songs.
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

IQ - Nomzamo
Marillion - Clutching At Straws
Tangerine Dream - Tyger

that's all the prog I can do and those are 3 star albums at best.

I'm with you on the IQ and Marillion, although they're both way more than 3 stars in my book!

AMLOR by Floyd is also a great album from this year (IMHO) but I'm struggling to come up with anything else.

Didn't get any of these until much later, as "that year, I was mostly listening to hair metal......"

My first gig that year though, Bryan Adams, and Into The Fire is still my favourite of hisClap
 


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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

There was a lot more prog in the 80s than many realize. Much of it was weird avant-prog and neo-prog though.

In alphabetical order (only TRUE prog no related or non)
Yes indeed, but I know I'd find it a lot more intersting if you could exclusive list your 1987 prog favorites (like you are supposed to) rather than simply posting a list of every album you know about in alphabetical order. Post your 1987-quality list over sheer quantity.


I don't really do "favorites" lists. When i finally did make a list of my all time favorite artists on RYM it turned out to be over 500! I figured it would be helpful to list some albums that have been virtually forgotten. If it don't apply let it fly!

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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

The thread title says 10 prog albums, having non-prog in there is cheating, also (in theory) off topic.

Here I was wrecking my brain to come up with 10 worthy albums. I failed (there are three prog-related entries). Ouch



Great music is great music. If it's great, it must be refreshing and somehow "progress". The music I like just feels progressive--all of it.

I list more than ten to help other people consider albums they may have forgotten/overlooked--and to push boundaries (and buttons).
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

No, I'm not complaining about someone striving for completeness. But instead of posting these endless lists in theads not about that, think striving for completeness in alphabetial order-fans can make a topic about that for themselves. I find it interesting to learn about other members favorites for a specific year, as I might discover a potential new favorite for myself that way. I'm much less interested in how many titles a PA-member knows about from a specific year - in total.

If someone has seen/knows 500+ films from 1972 in total, I would be much more interested in this individuals favorites from that year rather than a list of every single movietitle in alphabetical order. But I suppose we are all different.

Fair enough, but in the context of a thread where lots of people complain that there wasn't enough for putting together a list of 10, a demonstration how much there actually was maybe makes some sense (chances are there are far longer lists in other years that I don't necessarily want to see posted in these threads either). Hell, I don't think it was a spectacularly bad year, but I'd have had serious problems to go beyond say 13 prog albums that I know and at least like a bit. In fact, if these threads started with a complete list, it would help me a lot, as (as mentioned before) the dating on my machine is unreliable, and looking up the "top prog albums" for that year on PA always misses some that I like.  



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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

There was a lot more prog in the 80s than many realize. Much of it was weird avant-prog and neo-prog though.

In alphabetical order (only TRUE prog no related or non)
Yes indeed, but I know I'd find it a lot more intersting if you could exclusive list your 1987 prog favorites (like you are supposed to) rather than simply posting a list of every album you know about in alphabetical order. Post your 1987-quality list over sheer quantity.

The highest entertainment factor would be if he/she posted both. No complaints about that list striving for completeness, I was curious what I had missed on mine (apparently nothing apart from maybe Dr. Nerve).
No, I'm not complaining about someone striving for completeness. But instead of posting these endless lists in theads not about that, think striving for completeness in alphabetial order-fans can make a topic about that for themselves. I find it interesting to learn about other members favorites for a specific year, as I might discover a potential new favorite for myself that way. I'm much less interested in how many titles a PA-member knows about from a specific year - in total.

If someone has seen/knows 500+ films from 1972 in total, I would be much more interested in this individuals favorites from that year rather than a list of every single movietitle in alphabetical order. But I suppose we are all different.
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IQ - Nomzamo
Marillion - Clutching At Straws
Tangerine Dream - Tyger

that's all the prog I can do and those are 3 star albums at best.

a rare ray of sunshine in a horrible year was Enya. Her debut album was released. That's easily my favourite of the year.

Enya - The Celts

I lifted this from Wiki (interesting stuff)

In 1985, producer Tony McAuley asked Enya to contribute a track for a six-part BBC television documentary series The Celts.[34] She had already written a Celtic-influenced song named "The March of the Celts", and submitted it to the project. Each episode was to feature a different composer at first, but director David Richardson liked her track so much, he had Enya score the entire series.[25][35] Enya recorded 72 minutes of music at Aigle Studio and the BBC studios in Wood Lane, London without recording to picture, though she was required to portray certain themes and ideas that the producers wanted. Unlike The Frog Prince, she worked with little interference which granted her freedom to establish her sound[17] that she would adopt throughout her future career, signified by layered vocals, keyboard-oriented music, and percussion with elements of Celtic, classical, church and folk music.[36]

In March 1987, two months before The Celts aired, a 40-minute selection of Enya's score was released as her debut solo album, Enya, by BBC Records in the United Kingdom[20] and by Atlantic Records in the United States. The latter promoted it with a new-age imprint on the packaging, which Nicky later thought was "a cowardly thing for them to do".[37] The album gained enough public attention to reach number 8 on the Irish Albums Chart and number 69 on the UK Albums Chart.[38] "I Want Tomorrow" was released as Enya's first single.[20] "Boadicea" was sampled by The Fugees on their 1996 song "Ready or Not"; the group neither sought permission nor gave credit, and Enya took legal action. The group subsequently gave her credit and paid a fee worth around $3 million. Later in 1987, Enya appeared on Sinéad O'Connor's debut album The Lion and the Cobra, reciting Psalm 91 in Irish on "Never Get Old".[39]



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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

There was a lot more prog in the 80s than many realize. Much of it was weird avant-prog and neo-prog though.

In alphabetical order (only TRUE prog no related or non)
Yes indeed, but I know I'd find it a lot more intersting if you could exclusive list your 1987 prog favorites (like you are supposed to) rather than simply posting a list of every album you know about in alphabetical order. Post your 1987-quality list over sheer quantity.

The highest entertainment factor would be if he/she posted both. No complaints about that list striving for completeness, I was curious what I had missed on mine (apparently nothing apart from maybe Dr. Nerve).
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Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

There was a lot more prog in the 80s than many realize. Much of it was weird avant-prog and neo-prog though.

In alphabetical order (only TRUE prog no related or non)
Yes indeed, but I know I'd find it a lot more intersting if you could exclusive list your 1987 prog favorites (like you are supposed to) rather than simply posting a list of every album you know about in alphabetical order. Post your 1987-quality list over sheer quantity.
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There was a lot more prog in the 80s than many realize. Much of it was weird avant-prog and neo-prog though.

In alphabetical order (only TRUE prog no related or non)

ACID RAIN - We Were All Very Worried
ALAN HOLDSWORTH - Sand
ART ZOYD - Berlin
BELLAPHON - Firefly
CELALALTE CUVINTE - Celelalte Cuvinte
CHIC COREA ELEKTRIC BAND - Light Years
DARK QUARTERER - Dark Quarterer
DAVID TORN - Cloud About Mercury
DEAD CAN DANCE - Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun
DOCTOR NERVE - Armed Observation
EIDER STELLAIRE - III
ELIXIR - Sabbat
FULANO - Fulano
GAMALON - Gamalon
HERMETO PASCOAL & GRUPO - Só não toca quem não quer
ICONOCLASTA - Soliloquio
JETHRO TULL - Crest of a Knave
KALAHARI SURFERS - Sleep Armed
LHO - Vendeltid
LOW FLYING AIRCRAFT - Low Flying Aircraft
MARILLION - Clutching At Straws
MICHEL ALTMAYER - Troll Vol 2
MINIMUM VITAL - Les Saisons Marines
MR SIRIUS - Barren Dream
NIMAL - Nimal
OUTER LIMITS - The Scene of Pale Blue
PAT METHENY GROUP - Still Life
PHIL MILLER - Cutting Both Ways
PIP PYLE'S EQUIP'OUT - self titled
PLASTIC PEOPLE OF THE UNIVERSE - Midnight Mouse
PLAYERS - Players
QUATEBRIGA - The Choice Of A New Generation
RUINS - Ruins II
RUSH - Hold Your Fire (does have a bit of prog)
SONNY SHARROCK BAND - Seize The Rainbow
STROMBOLI - Stromboli
SWANS - Children Of God
THULE - Thule
TRIBAL TECH - Dr Hee
UR KAOS - Ur Kaos
VERMILION SANDS - Water Blue
VOIVOD - Killing Technology
WHEN - Drowning But Learning

Now that i'm reading everyone's list i noticed i missed a few from French TV, Legendary Pink Dots etc.
Oh well!!!


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In no particular order

Rick Astley - Whenever You Need Somebody (Never gonna Give You Up!!!)
Cardiacs - Big Ship
Marillion - Clutching At  Straws
Voivod - Killing Technology
The Dukes Of Stratosphear - Psonic Psunspot
Barren Dream - Mr Sirius
Nimal - Nimal
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Signs Of life
French TV - After A Lenghty Silence
Eider Stellaire - III
Ur Kaus - Ur Kaus
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Dead Can Dance - Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun
Dr Nerve - Armed Observation
David Torn - Cloud About Mercury
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Signs Of Life
David Sylvian - Secrets Of The Beehive


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