best 80s PROG ALBUM

Velvetclown wrote: SCRIPT FOR A JESTER'S TEAR

I concur!

sticking with the best, no Anti-prog!

thanks for your honesty Certified!

whats your opionion of some of these recordings.

Holger Czukay - On the Way to the Peak of Normal     
Gandalf - Magic Theater     
Bernard Xolotl - Last Wave     
Klaus Schonning - Lorian Arabesque     
Johannes Schmoelling - Wuivend Reit     
Airto Moreira - The Other Side of This     
Michael Shrieve - The Big Picture

PROG METALHEADS need not inquire.     

Edited by DallasBryan

well I can't believe you havent included some of the most important ones.

You left out tons.

But out of those, I picked pete.

Fishy wrote: my fav's from the 80's : - Peter Gabriel - security (not really prog but marvellous anyway) - iQ - The Wake (I used to be amazed by this one) - Twelfth Night - Fact and fiction or collector's item (underrated album) - yes 90125 (the one you did mention) - Rush - Grace under pressure (hard to choose from all their greatest albums they released in the 80's) - Tears for fears - sowing the seeds (it's not really prog but a nice combination of pop, prog and psychedelic)  - Marillion - Script (the Nursery Cryme of the eighties) - Peter Hammill - Patience (Hammill was still in top form during this era) - The Chursh - starfish (not prog at all but great anyway - i discovered this in the 90's) - Pallas - sentinel (It used to be a great album then - maybe because of the lack of other prog) - Simple Minds - street fighting years (their only album which contains some prog sounds) - Propaganda - a secret wish (the most original - mixture of pop, wave, electro and prog) and...that's about all folks

Good to see that someone noticed Tears for Fears and Simple Minds had their moments. I thought they were both good pop/rock acts, strong on melody and the latter in particular were excellent live. If you ever saw them, or have heard 'Live in the city of light' you'll know what I mean.

As for Pallas?? They seem cotraversial around here. I bought 'The Sentinal' when it came out and loved it to bits for a about a year, then had to concede that Marillion and IQ were so much better. Still good to see an album with a cover like that, released in 1984

Marillion - Clutching At Straws a criminally underated album.

IQ - Tales From The Lush Attic their best until 'Dark Matter'.

Pallas - Arrive Alive (keep thinking those nice thoughts Jim Garten).

Pendragon - Fly High, Fall Far, ok so its a mini-album but 4 cracking songs.

Twelfth Night - Fact And Fiction, don't get me started on Geoff Manns lyrics, but to even things up Live At The Target runs it a close second.

Rush - Moving Pictures or Grace Under Pressure take your pick.

Dream Theater - When Dream And Day Unite squeezing in at the arse end of the 80's should be included for the track 'Only A Matter Of Time' listen to the keyboards build at the end and see if you can keep the hairs on the back of your neck from standing up.

Certif1ed wrote: Nowadays Robbie Williams fills stadiums. They arent on radio, because the old bands are better, on and on and on. That is not true - if it were, how come so many new bands like the rappers and boy bands get played? And how come Marillion still hit the charts?

 

I think the problem is that there wasn't any cheap and so atrocious pop-music in 60s and 70s. All the terms like "quality", "good", "bad", "simple", etc. are comparative. So till the latest 70s show-business still didn't make the "industry" (in a bad sense) of Music so tight. And the masses of people couldn't compare really good music with bad, because no-one produced the really bad music (like cheap pop kinda britney spears or michael jackson or different raps-schmaps...).

We know that masses (not the Fans of music as we are) prefer the simplest and the most primitive music, touching for the common human reflexes (by rhythms, sounds or lyrics), the sexual one, for example... The real Art is much higher than all this crap!

None of the mentioned ones.

My favorite 80's releases are:

• Marillion - Script for a jester's tear
• Marillion - Fugazi
• Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
• Marillion - Clutching at straws
• IQ - Tales from the lush attic
• IQ - The wake