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    Posted: July 28 2021 at 10:17
The long-anticipated continuation! I may find myself hard-pressed to find 10 prog albums I like from every single year from here on out, but this particular year thankfully posed no challenge for me:

1. Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 3 (Melt)
2. Bruford - Gradually Going Tornado
3. Herbie Hancock - Mr. Hands
4. Brand X - Do They Hurt?
5. Genesis - Duke
6. Zamla Mammaz Manna - Familjesprickor
7. Aksak Maboul - Un Peu De L'Âme Des Bandits
8. Yes - Drama
9. Present - Triskaïdékaphobie
10. Robert Fripp - God Save The Queen / Under Heavy Manners

Honourable mentions in no specific order:
* Cardiac Arrest - The Obvious Identity
* Decibel - El Poeta Del Ruido
* Den Za Den - Den Za Den
* Gentle Giant - Civilian
* Rascal Reporters - We're God
* Steve Hackett - Defector
* Tony Williams - Play Or Die

What are your favourite prog albums from the first twelve months of the genre's most controversial decade?


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Eskaton - 4 Visions
Zamla Mammaz Manna - Familjesprickor
Art Zoyd - Generation Sans Futur
Present - Triskaidekaphobie
Steve Reich - Octet / Music for a Large Ensemble / Violin Phase
Sky - Sky II
XTC - Black Sea
Abus Dangereux - Le Quatrieme Mouvement
Fred Frith - Gravity
Serge Bringolf - Strave

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Eskaton - Ardeur
Hawkwind - Levitation
Julverne - A Neuf
Master Cylinder - Elsewhere
Picchio Dal Pozzo - Abbiamo Tutti I Suoi Problemi
This Heat - This Heat
Steve Tibbetts - Yr


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A weak year for me, but OK.

1. Yes - Drama
2. Rush - Permanent Waves
3. Genesis - Duke
4. Noa - Noa
5. Picchio dal Pozzo - Abbiamo tutti i suoi problemi
6. David Bowie - Scary Monsters
7. Mark Shreeve - Embryo
8. Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel [Melt]
9. Asia Minor - Between Flesh and Divine
10. Chac Mool - Nadie en especial

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Eloy - Colours
Hawkwind - Levitation
Trilogy - Here It Is
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
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No special order.....

Rush-Waves
Steely dan-Gaucho
Eloy-Colours
Yes-Drama
Ain Soph-Story of...
Capt Beefheart-Doc At The...
Peter Gabriel-Melt (3)
Bruford-Tornado
Hawkwind-Levitation
Kate Bush- Never ...
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Rush - Permanent Waves
Tangerine Dream - Tangram
Yes - Drama
The Enid - Six Pieces
Eloy - Colours
Sky - Sky 2
Steve Hackett - Defector
Genesis - Duke
Keith Emerson - Inferno
Kate Bush - Never Forever
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Eskaton - 4 Visions
That's a 1981 release.


Art Zoyd - Génération sans futur
The Residents - Commercial Album
Rahmann - Rahmann
The John Renbourn Group - The Enchanted Garden
Noa - Noa
Between - Stille über der Zeit: Silence Beyond Time
Peter Hammill - A Black Box
Abus dangereux - Le quatrième mouvement
Art Fleury - I luoghi del potere
Eskaton - Ardeur

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Nice that this series goes on!

Kate Bush - Never For Ever
Tangerine Dream - Tangram
Kraan - Tournee
Eloy - Colours
Sky - Sky 2
Art Zoyd - Generation Sans Futur
Zamla Mammaz Manna - Familjesprickor
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Fred Frith - Gravity
Anyone's Daughter - Anyone's Daughter


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1. Genesis - Duke
2. Rush - Permanent Waves
3. Dixie Dregs - Dregs of the Earth
4. Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
5. Steely Dan - Gaucho
6. Joe Jackson - Beat Crazy
7. Gentle Giant - Civilian
8. The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
9. Jethro Tull - A
10. Utopia - Adventures in Utopia
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Peter Gabriel - 3 (Melt)
Jethro Tull - A
Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
John Martyn - Grace and Danger
Alan Parsons Project - Turn of a Friendly Card
Weather Report - Night Passage
Rush - Permanent Waves
Robert Fripp - God Save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners
The Enid - Six Pieces
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Eskaton - 4 Visions

That's a 1981 release.



Move the other Eskaton up a spot, Gnosis has it as 1980 incorrectly
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12           Art Zoyd              Generation Sans Futur          
12           Harmonium       En Tournee    
12           Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush             What's Next  
12           Itoiz       Ezekiel 
11           Abus Dangereux             Le Quatrieme Mouvement   
11           Art Zoyd              Symphonie Pour Le Jour Ou Bruleront Les Cités (1980 re-recording)   
11           Asia Minor          Between Flesh and Divine         
11           Beausoleil, Bobby           Lucifer Rising
11           Maneige             Montreal 6AM
11           Present               Triskaidekaphobie   
11           Santana, Devadip Carlos              The Swing of Delight      
11           Slick, Grace        Dreams       
11           Syncope              Syncope

others        
11           Black Sabbath   Heaven and Hell           
11           Clapton, Eric      Just One Night
11           Emeraude          Geoffroy    
11           Enbor    Katebegiak 
11           Riley, Terry         Shri Camel   
11           Iron Maiden              Iron Maiden  
11           Talking Heads    Remain In Light    


bubbling under:

10           Ballard, Russ      Barnett Dogs    
10           Ballard, Russ      Into the Fire       
10           Black Sabbath   Live at Last         
10           Blue Motion      Blue Motion      
10           Catherine, Philip     Bebel        
10           Gallagher, Rory Stagestruck     
10           Goddo  Best Seat in the House (live) 

10           Pererin  Haur Ar Yr Eira 
10           Picchio Dal Pozzo             Abbiamo Tutti I Suoi Problemi      
10           Ragnarök            Fjärilar I Magen   
10           Tibbetts, Steve Yr  
10             Travers, Pat       Crash and Burn


 

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Eskaton - 4 Visions
That's a 1981 release.
Move the other Eskaton up a spot, Gnosis has it as 1980 incorrectly


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1. Yes - Drama
2. Captain Beefheart - Doc at The Radar Station
3. Eloy - Colours
4. Genesis - Duke
5. Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 3
6. Rush - Permanent Waves
7. Asia Minor - Between Flesh and Divine
8. Hawkwind - Levitation
9. ...
10. ....

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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Kate Bush - Never For Ever
I suppose I love that album more than most of my chosen 10 favorites - but I just don't think of it within a prog context.
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Definitely not all prog albums but more than I suspected:
1. U2 Boy
2. BRIAN ENO with Harold Budd Ambient Two: Plateaux of Mirror
3. TALKING HEADS Remain in Light
4. LARAAJI Ambient 3: Day of Radiance
5. GEORGE WINSTON Autumn
6. FLAIRCK Gevecht met de Engel
7. STEELY DAN Gaucho
8. BUGGLES The Age of Plastic
9. AC/DC Back in Black
10. STEVE TIBBETTS Yr

11. CONVENTUM Le bureau central des utopies
12. KATE BUSH Never For Ever
13. PETER GABRIEL Peter Gabriel ("Melt")
14. BRIAN ENO & JON HASSELL Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics
15. GENESIS Duke
16. IVORY Sad Cypress
17. PAT BENETAR Crimes of Passion
18. THE POLICE Zenyattà Mondatta
19. ANTHONY PHILLIPS Private Parts & Pieces II: Back to the Pavillion
20. YES Drama

21. PERERIN Haul Ar Yr Eira
22. YELLO Solid Pleasure
23. XTC Black Sea
24. HAROLD GROSSKOPF Synthesist
25. AL DI MEOLA Splendido Hotel
26. BARBRA STREISAND Guilty
27. MIKE RUTHERFORD Smallcreep's Day
28. DAVID BOWIE Scary Monsters
29. PETE TOWNSEND Empty Glass
30. BLUE ÖYSTER CULT Cultösaurus Erectus

Still, a pretty good year for music!



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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Kate Bush - Never For Ever
I suppose I love that album more than most of my chosen 10 favorites - but I just don't think of it within a prog context.

I actually have no idea what prog really is, so I'm very formalist on this: Is on PA > I will list it; is not on PA > I won't list it, unless it's Irmin Schmidt who should be on PA.
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1. XTC - Black Sea
2. Yes - Drama
3. Genesis - Duke
4. Rush - Permanent Waves
5. Talking Heads - Remain In Light
6. David Bowie - Scary Monsters
7. Alan Parsons Project - Turn Of A Friendly Card
8. Jethro Tull - A
9. Gentle Giant - Civilian
10. Peter Gabriel - Melt
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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Peter Gabriel - 3 (Melt)
Jethro Tull - A
Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
John Martyn - Grace and Danger
Alan Parsons Project - Turn of a Friendly Card
Weather Report - Night Passage
Rush - Permanent Waves
Robert Fripp - God Save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners
The Enid - Six Pieces
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Peter Gabriel - 3 (Melt)
Jethro Tull - A
Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
John Martyn - Grace and Danger
Alan Parsons Project - Turn of a Friendly Card
Weather Report - Night Passage
Rush - Permanent Waves
Robert Fripp - God Save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners
The Enid - Six Pieces
Stevie Wonder is prog?
The album itself, and many of Stevie's albums from the 70s were very progressive, synthesizing many different genres and styles. Besides, 1980 was a point in time where many alleged prog rock bands were regurgitating the same old crap. Regurgitating the same old crap is not progressive.
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pretty good year...I notice in culling this list that 1982 was surprisingly good as well.  In alpha order

Anyone's Daughter - s/t
Asia Minor - Between Flesh and Divine
Dave Cousins (with Brian Willoughby) - Old School Songs
Eloy - Colours
Steve Hackett - Defector
Itoiz - Ezekiel
Kitaro - In Person (Live)
Novalis - Augenblicke
Mike Oldfield - QE2
Sally Oldfield - Celebration
Alan Parsons Project - Turn of a Friendly Card
Pererin - Haul ar y Eira
Sky - Sky 2




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1) Mike Rutherford - Smallcreep's Day
2) Yes - Drama
3) Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Chance
4) Genesis - Duke
5) Saga - Silent Knight
6) Rush - Permanent Waves
7) Peter Gabriel - III (Melt)
8) Steve Hackett - Defector
9) FM - City of Fear
10) U2 - Boy - not prog but a true masterpiece I will never grow tired of listening to!
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