Your Top 10 Favourite Prog Albums of 1981

Sean Trane wrote: For ex, I see that you've played the game fully by rating (or refused to) rate) everything the database (unlike Zappathrusta). You're one of the rare to have done so.  But my average rating is less than 9 (second or third lowest on the project), wheras you're at 10.20.

Some excellent albums this year, which put it above other years in this relatively poor decade:

Fully revised and updated:-

Saperlipopette! wrote: Sean Trane wrote: Saperlipopette! wrote: Sean Trane wrote: I've never used the 15 (prefection doesn't exist) Prefection does actually exist:), and to me perfection is any artistic expression I engage in from start to finish/beginning to end - and love wholeheartedly. As an artist perfection does not exist, but as a listener, audience or spectator - it surely does (to me) there isn't any album that couldn't be bettered. For ex: the ultimate Caravan album (a 14 IMHO) still has the relatively poor Love To Love You. Yeah sure In the Land.... is a perfect example of a great album with one silly little track. But I don't think that's relevant for the perfection of say... Génération Sans Futur, Rock Bottom, You, First Utterance, Don Cherry/Brown Rice, Out to Lunch, Crossings, Trans Europa Express, Mark of the Mole, Third, Docteur Faust, Univers Zéro, Mirage, Phaedra mm... - none of which could or should be bettered (imo:). -but you do (and think) exactly as you please, of course

This suddenly showed up again. The more I think about it, the stronger I disagree (with Sean, not myself). To me not using the top rating for "the best" equals not using the lowest rating for an abomination of an album - because no matter how horrid, it could logically have sounded even worse.