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    Posted: March 19 2022 at 05:15


While listening to my Rock albums from the '80s, I came to think about how many non-Prog

from that decade I was really fond of, and got the idea and wish for this thread.

So here it starts with my own albums as usually unranked:


Bauhaus  (UK)  -  In The Flat Field   (1980) 

Before  (DK)  -  A Wish of Life  (1982) 

Celtic Frost  (CH)  -  “Into The Pandemonium”  (1987)

Tracy Chapman  (USA)  -  Tracy Chapman  (1988)

Cowboy Junkies  (CAN)  -  Whites off Earth Now  (1986)

Lady Pank  (PL)  -  Lady Pank   (1983)

Maanam  (PL)  -  Nocny Patrol   (1984)

Mercyful Fate  (DK)  -  Melissa   (1983) 

Metallica  (USA)  -  Master Of Puppets   (1986)

Sinead O'Connor  (IRL)  -  The Lion and The Cobra  (1987)

Perfect  (PL)  -  Perfect   (1981)

L. Shankar  (Indien)  -  Song for everyone  (1985)

Siouxsie and The Banshees  (UK)  -  Juju  (1981)

Tanita Tikaram  (UK)  -  Ancient Heart  (1988)

U2  (IRL)   -  War    (1983)


some additional

Black Flag  (USA)  -  My War   (1983)

Dire Straits  (UK)  -  Love over Gold   (1982)

Mission of Burma  (USA)  -  VS.  (1982)

Sade  (UK)   -  Diamond Life  (1984)


And enjoy yourself! Tongue



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nice idea for a thread, I'll come up with a list a bit later. Tongue

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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

nice idea for  thread, I'll come up with a list a bit later. Tongue

I look forward to it, Cristi. Smile
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Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Album of the Year
XTC - Skylarking
They Might Be Giants - s/t
Wynton Marsalis  - Black Codes (From The Underground)
Dio - Holy Diver
The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
Stan Getz - Anniversary
Elvis Costello  - Trust
AC/DC - Back in Black
Joe Jackson - Beat Crazy
Woody Shaw - Lotus Flower
Sting - The Dream of the Blue Turtles
The Pretenders  - Learning to Crawl
The Cars - Heartbeat City
Branford Marsalis - Renaissance
Aerosmith  - Pump
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I'm glad to see you as the quick and first one here, Grumpy, and I can tell that I'm fond of this one, as well
Sting - The Dream of the Blue Turtles






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Easy peasy, lemon squeezy!

ABBA - Super Trouper (1980)
David Bowie - Let's Dance (1983)
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love (1985)
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms (1985)
Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night (1987)
The Human League - Dare (1981)
Michael Jackson - Thriller (1982)
Billy Joel - Glass Houses (1980)
Madonna - Like a Virgin (1984)
Pretenders - Pretenders II (1981)
Roxy Music - Avalon (1982)
Talk Talk - The Party's Over (1982)
Tears for Fears - The Seeds of Love (1989)
U2 - The Joshua Tree (1987)
Ultravox - Vienna (1980)
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:


Roxy Music - Avalon (1982)
Talk Talk - The Party's Over (1982)
Ummm..I think these are prog bands.

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Duran Duran - s/t (1981)
a-ha - Hunting High and Low (1985) & Scoundrel Days (1986)
Toto - Isolation (1984)
Europe - Out of This World (1988)
Phenomena - s/t (1985) 
The Fixx - Phantoms (1984)
Signal - Loud & Clear (1989)
Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time (1986)
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81, 82, 83, 84) (1982)
Living Colour - Vivid (1988)
Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses (1987)
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys I & II (1987-1988)
Warlord - Deliver Us (1983) & And The Cannons Of Destruction Have Begun (1984)

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Hmmm... off the top of my head...

The Fixx - Shuttered Room
The Fixx - Reach the Beach
Billy Joel - The Nylon Curtain
Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of Wireless
Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth
Pete Townshend - White City
Men at Work - Business As Usual

I'm tempted to list the Talking Heads and even something like Tony Banks' The Fugitive or ELO's Time, but these are already on PA.
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses (1987)

Good choice. I forgot about this one. I had this on vinyl when it came out.
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Easy peasy, lemon squeezy!
..........

It surely is! 

while I might have learned something new. Big smile


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Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Roxy Music - Avalon (1982)
Talk Talk - The Party's Over (1982)
Ummm..I think these are prog bands.

As I see it, Roxy Music is Glam Rock, or at best, Art Rock. Star
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while Avalon is something else.


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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Roxy Music - Avalon (1982)
Talk Talk - The Party's Over (1982)
Ummm..I think these are prog bands.

As I see it, Roxy Music is Glam Rock, or at best, Art Rock. Star

Both bands are on PA. 
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Roxy Music - Avalon (1982)
Talk Talk - The Party's Over (1982)
Ummm..I think these are prog bands.
As I see it, Roxy Music is Glam Rock, or at best, Art Rock. Star
Both bands are on PA. 

So are other non-Prog. Big smile


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I always thought these bands were the heirs of prog:
Cocteau Twins, everything
Everything But the Girl Eden, s/t debut, Idlewild
XTC, everything
The Fixx Reach the Beach
Tears for Fears, all three
Bruce Cockburn, everything
The Cure, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me and Disintegration
Love and Money Strange Kind of Love
Aztec Camera High Land, Hard Rain
Prefab Sprout Swoon, Steve McQueen, From Langley Park to Memphis
The Dream Academy s/t debut
Swing Out Sister It's Better to Travel, Kaleidoscope World 
Simply Red Picture Book, A New Flame
Jane Siberry, everything
Sade's three
Michael Jackson Thriller
Roxy Music Avalon
Danny Wilson Meet Danny Wilson



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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Roxy Music - Avalon (1982)
Talk Talk - The Party's Over (1982)
Ummm..I think these are prog bands.
As I see it, Roxy Music is Glam Rock, or at best, Art Rock. Star
Both bands are on PA. 

So are other non-Prog. 

I was explaining the objection above.
I don't want to open no Pandora's box. Smile 
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Roxy Music - Avalon (1982)
Talk Talk - The Party's Over (1982)
Ummm..I think these are prog bands.

As I see it, Roxy Music is Glam Rock, or at best, Art Rock. Star

Both bands are on PA. 
Yes I know, but I don't generally think of those artists as prog. Smile
 
Kate Bush (Art Pop)
Roxy Music (Glam Rock)
Talk Talk (Synth Pop) 
 
 
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In no particular order....

Peter Gabriel - Melt

U2 - War

Prince - Purple Rain

Talking Heads - Remain in Light

Paul Simon - Graceland

R.E.M. - Document

Peter Gabriel - So

Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman

The Police - Synchronicity

The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God

Neil Young - Freedom

The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues

Robbie Robertson - Robbie Robertson

Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Los Lobos - How Will the Wolf Survive?

Pixies - Doolittle

Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones

Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking

Dire Straits - Love Over Gold

Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Talk Talk (Synth Pop) 

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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Roxy Music - Avalon (1982)
Talk Talk - The Party's Over (1982)
Ummm..I think these are prog bands.

As I see it, Roxy Music is Glam Rock, or at best, Art Rock. Star

Both bands are on PA. 
Yes I know, but I don't generally think of those artists as prog. Smile
 
Kate Bush (Art Pop)
Roxy Music (Glam Rock)
Talk Talk (Synth Pop) 
 
 

I don't listen much to Kate Bush, but I still think she belongs to PA, I understand why she got added to PA. You say you love her music and yet question her being on PA? Talk about weird... Stern SmileLOL

Roxy Music is more than glam rock, always was, so again, I see no controversy of them being on PA. I think they were under "art-rock" before art-rock got divided into crossover and eclectic. Got no problem with RM being under crossover prog here on PA. 

Talk Talk are on PA because of their last two albums. Again, no controversy here. 
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