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Psychedelic Paul 
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 Topic: Your 10 Favourite Prog Albums of 1979Posted: July 12 2021 at 08:01 |
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This was a really tough year to find ten 5-star albums for, but with a little help from PA's top albums list for this year, I found a few more outstanding albums to complete my Top 10.
 Jean Pierre Alarcen - Tableau No. 1 Anyone's Daughter - Adonis Asia Minor - Crossing the Line Tony Banks - A Curious Feeling Eloy - Silent Cries & Mighty Echoes The Enid - Touch Me Flame Dream - Elements Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Downwind Mike Oldfield - Exposed U.K - Night After Night |
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Posted: July 12 2021 at 08:30 |
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Univers Zero - Heresie (the darkest album ever released)
Art Zoyd - Music Pour L'Odyssee Aksak Maboul - Un Peu de l'Ame des Bandits Art Bears - Winter Songs Philip Glass - Einstein On The Beach Heldon - Stand By Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure Laurent Thibault - Mais on ne Peut pas Rever Tout le Temps Vortex - Les Cycles De Thanatos Bill Bruford - One of a Kind
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Posted: July 12 2021 at 10:36 |
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Bruford-One of a ...
Eloy-Silent Cries.. UK-Danger.. Metheny- American garage Tull-Stormwatch Asia Minor-Crossing ... Atlas- Bla Vardag Floyd-Wall Univers Zero-Heresie Fripp-Exposure ---------------- Not considered prog that year but I enjoyed Wire-154 Joy Division-Unknown Pleasures |
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Psychedelic Paul
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I listened to Eloy's Silent Cries album for the first time today. It's a Mighty fine album and I'm now looking forward to checking out Eloy's entire discography on my Krautrock blog.
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Posted: July 12 2021 at 12:15 |
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A definite fall in number of quality LPs.
1. RICKIE LEE JONES Rickie Lee Jones 2. FREDDIE HUBBARD The Love Connection 3. LAURENT THIBAULT Mais on peut pas rêver tout le temps 4. STEVE HACKETT Spectral Mornings 5. TOTO Hydra 6. BRUFORD One of A Kind 7. TANGERINE DREAM Force Majeure 8. ANYONE'S DAUGHTER Adonis 9. CRUSADERS Street Life 10. JOE SAMPLE Carmel 11. PAT METHENY New Chautauqua 12. PINK FLOYD The Wall 13. ANDRE FERTIER's CLIVAGE Mixtus Orbis 14. HERB ALBERT Rise 15. ANTHONY PHILLIPS Sides 16. HENRY COW Western Culture 17. PEKKA POHJOLA Visitation 18. FRANK ZAPPA Joe's Garage, Parts 1, II & III19. ROBERT FRIPP Exposure 20. UNIVERS ZERO Hérésie |
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Posted: July 12 2021 at 12:44 |
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The year of the Basques
12 Breche Carapace et chair tendre bubbling under 11 Maneige Composite
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Posted: July 12 2021 at 13:59 |
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Pink Floyd - The Wall Jethro Tull - Stormwatch (criminally underrated)Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage, Act I Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage, Act II & III Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure Supertramp - Breakfast in America U.K. - Danger Money Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush - Tales of the Unexpected Peter Green - In the Skies Joni Mitchell - Mingus
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Posted: July 12 2021 at 14:26 |
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I think the first 10 are all good...my favorites being Ocean and Silent Cries...I also have Visionary from 2009...found it used for $5 on cd ...not bad. |
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1. Emmanuel Booz - Dans quel état j'erre
2. Henry Cow - Western Culture 3. Anyone's Daughter - Adonis 4. U.K. - Danger Money 5. Mezquita - Recuerdos de mi tierra 6. Bruford - One of a Kind 7. Eloy - Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes 8. Art Bears - Winter Songs 9. This Heat - This Heat 10. Modrý Efekt - Svět hledačů Honorable mentions: Pancake - No Illusions Jacques Tom Rivest - Jacques Tom Rivest Asia Minor - Crossing the Line Ivory - Sad Cypress Tony Banks - A Curious Feeling Atlas - Blå Vardag Talking Heads - Fear of Music Supertramp - Breakfast in America Sfinx - Zalmoxe Robert Fripp - Exposure
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1. Henry Cow - Western Culture 2. Brand X - Product 3. Tony Banks - A Curious Feeling 4. Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings 5. Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Downwind 6. U.K. - Danger Money 7. Soft Heap - Soft Heap 8. Steve Hillage - Rainbow Dome Musick 9. Bruford - One Of A Kind 10. Mike Oldfield - Platinum
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Posted: July 12 2021 at 16:48 |
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Holger Czukay - Movies Univers Zero - Heresie Novalis - Flossenengel Edgar Froese - Stuntman Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Downwind (I like the Live album even more but skip live albums to keep This Heat on the list) Anyone's Daughter - Adonis Art Zoyd - Musique Pour l'Odyssee Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings Jethro Tull - Stormwatch This Heat - This Heat
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Posted: July 13 2021 at 00:34 |
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The Year of the Downfall. Too few to mention. UK - Danger Money stands out. Eloy - Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes and Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings are certainly worth a mention. If there are any more, I have not heard them yet*.
*Ok, The Wall is decent, but it can hardly keep up with the albums in the years of earlier top 10's.
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Posted: July 13 2021 at 09:59 |
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Hi,
Mike Oldfield - Exposed Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones Holger Czukay - Movies For sure ... and dig the drumming in the first 3 RLJ albums. It made her voice even better. Mike's album is probably one of the best live albums EVER done. Holger's album is fantastic and not only amusing but far out. Sadly, in a mail to me, later, he says he didn't like it, and I think he did way too much editing and fooling around, and it burned him out on it. There was less of it in the next album and even less from them on ... but I sure loved that one piece on a later album that I call the USC Marching Band on ACID. TD's album is not always liked by most TD fans, but it is a really good one, and progressive when compared to what they usually did.
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Posted: July 13 2021 at 17:11 |
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nice list but Itoiz album, which would surely be on my list, is from 1980
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Anyone's Daughter - Adonis
Avaric - s/t
Paul Brett - Interlife Camel - I can see your house... Flaming Bess -Tanz der Gotter Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings Haizea - Hontz Gaua Novalis - Flossenengel Mike Oldfield - Platinum Sally Oldfield - Easy Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure Passport - Garden of Eden |
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Posted: July 15 2021 at 11:31 |
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1979 - Definitely a drop-off in quality from the previous 2 years.
1) Supertramp - Breakfast in America 2) Anthony Phillips - Sides 3) UK - Danger Money 4) Mike Oldfield - Platinum 5) Steve Howe - The Steve Howe Album 6) Kansas - Monolith 7) FM - Surveillance 8) Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings 9) Led Zeppelin - In Through the Out Door 10) Fleetwood Mac - Tusk (OK, it's not prog, but it's an experimental masterpiece that I never get tired of listening to!)
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Univers Zéro - Hérésie Flamen Dialis - Symptome-Dei Embryo - Embryo's Reise Vortex - Les cycles de Thanatos Oriental Wind - Zikir Art Zoyd - Musique pour l'Odyssée Véronique Chalot - À l'entrée du temps clairKha-Ym - 10 ''GMT The Residents - Eskimo Zeit - Un giorno in una piazza del mediterraneo also |
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1. Robert Fripp - Exposure
2. Heldon - Stand By 3. Bill Bruford - One of a Kind 4. Eloy - Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes 5. UK - Danger Money 6. Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings 7. Anthony Phillips - Sides 8. Brand X - Product 9. Steve Howe - The Steve Howe Album 10. Talking Heads - Fear of Music |
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1979 was one of the best years in music history but that has precious little to do with Prog:
1. XTC Drums & Wires 2. The Clash London Calling 3. Gang Of Four Entertainment! 4. Joe Jackson Look Sharp 5. The Police Reggatta de Blanc 6. The Jam Setting Sons 7. Wire 154 8. Talking Heads Fear Of Music 9. Joy Division Unknown Pleasures 10. The Cure Three Imaginary Boys 11. The Cars Candy-O 12. David Bowie Lodger 13. Blondie Eat To The Beat 14. The Knack Get The Knack 15. Cheap Trick The Dream Police 16. Joe Jackson I'm The Man 17. Public Image, Ltd. Metal Box 18. Elvis Costello Armed Forces 19. Led Zeppelin In Through The Out Door 20. Tom Petty Damn The Torpedoes |
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