TOP 20 prog songs after 1980

1. King Crimson - Frame by frame

Pink Floyd - High Hopes

Mike Oldfield - Crises

Jethro Tull - Budapest

Yes - Into the Lens

Emerson Lake and Powell - Mars, the Bringer of War

Rush - Freewill

Zappa - Drowning Witch

Genesis - Home by the Sea/Second Home by the Sea

King Crimson - Elephant Talk

Rush - Digital Man

Yes - Tempus Fugit

Jethro Tull - Farm on the Freeway

Rush - The Camera Eye

Genesis - Fading Lights

Anderson Bruford Wakeman and Howe - Brother of Mine

Traffic - Far From Home

Pink Floyd - Sorrow

Supertramp - Don't Leave Me Now

Rush - Vital Signs

Zappa - Sinister Footwear II

Edited by XTChuck - November 24 2010 at 16:19

An old thread that deserves another chance...I limited it to 1 per band...in mostly chronological order beginning in 1980:

Metalmarsh89 wrote: I kept a 1per album limit, though a few per band. Also listed chronologically. Thela Hun Ginjeet King Crimson 1981 YYZ Rush 1981 The Analog Kid Rush 1982 Mr. Roboto Styx 1983 Perfect Strangers Deep Purple 1984 Sleepless King Crimson 1984 Learning To Live Dream Theater 1992 Cold Fire Rush 1993 High Hopes Pink Floyd 1994 A Change Of Seasons Dream Theater 1995 The Sky Moves Sideways Phase 1 Porcupine Tree 1995 Blind Faith Dream Theater 2002 Butterflies & Hurricanes Muse 2003 The Willing Well II: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness Coheed And Cambria 2005 Octavarium Dream Theater 2005 The Adventures Of Jabubu An Endless Sporadic 2008 Unnatural Selection Muse 2009 We Can Fly Yes 2011 Headlong Flight Rush 2012 Drive Home Steven Wilson 2013

  Heat In the Jungle is a joke.Shoot me f****** dead





Edited by ProgMetaller2112 - April 05 2013 at 01:20

kit-kat wrote: ProgMetaller2112 wrote:     Heat In the Jungle is a joke.Shoot me f****** dead   What are you talking about, that's one of the best songs on Discipline don't tell me you don't feel like dancing like a juggling monkey when that song is playing

I don't like the song, period!!

No particular order, one per band

Univers Zero - Dense
Eskaton - Ecoute
Kultivator - Grottekvarnen
Dun - Arrakis
Present - Rev De Fer
Thinking Plague - Lycanthrope
Magma - KA I
Miriodor - Avanti
Aranis - Ouverture
Cheer-Accident - Sun Dies
5UU's - Equus
Yugen - Becchime
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Sleep Is Wrong
Pikapika Teart - Shifting Sands Of Time
Mike Oldfield - Amarok
Tool - Ticks & Leeches
Guapo - 5 Suns
One Shot - Ewaz Vader
Vezhlivyj Otkaz - Дорожная / Road Song
Shub-Niggurath - Yog Sothoth

My first 20 in release order:

1.- The Voice (1981) – Moody Blues – Long Distance Voyager

2.- Mystical Adventures Suite (1981) – Jean-Luc Ponty - Mystical Adventures

3.- UFO (1983) – Bacamarte – Depois Do Fim

4.- Script For A Jester's Tear (1983) – Marillion - Script For A Jester's Tear

5.- Marsbéli Krónikák Suite (1984) – Solaris - Marsbéli Krónikák

6.- In Your Eyes (1986) – Peter Gabriel – So

7.- Mëkanïk Kömmandöh (1989) – Magma - Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh

8.- Vandringar I Vilsenhet (1992) – Änglagård – Hybris

9.- Come Talk To Me (1992) – Peter Gabriel – Us

10.- The Cathedral (1994) – Pär Lindh Project – Gothic Impressions

11.- Lo Spettro dell'Agonia sul Campo (1995) – Nuova Era – Il Passo del Soldato

12.- The King of the Castle (1996) – Pendragon - The Masquerade Overture

13.- Fury - The Daughter & The Simoon, After The Simoon (1996) – Ars Nova – The Goddess of Darkness

14.- Canto IV … Limbo (1997) – Discipline – Unfolded Like Staircase

15.- The Divine Wings of Tragedy (1997) – Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy

16.- The Return Overture (1999) – Rick Wakeman – Return to the Centre of the Earth

17.- Communion and the Oracle (2000) – Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite

18.- Sleeping Beauty  (2001) – Miranda Sex Garden – Carnival of Souls

19.- Gradus ad Parnassum (2001) – Pär Lindh Project – Veni Vidi Vici

20.- Children of the Sun (2001) – Magenta – Revolutions

 

There are at least 20 more in the following years, this latest decade is very fertile.

Iván

The.Crimson.King wrote:   I know I'm probably the only Crimso fanatic that thinks this, but this song is a perfect example of why I wish RF had not called the reformed 1981 band King Crimson.  Adrian Belew took the band in such a new direction with his approach and vocals and lyrics that calling them KC instead of Discipline was way off the mark and kind of a disservice to the new band.  Nothing on the Discipline album reminds me of the King Crimson I loved in the 70's; however, naming the new band Discipline fits perfectly with songs like "Thela Hun Ginjeet" which were miles away from anything in the old Crimso canon.

The.Crimson.King wrote: kit-kat wrote:   Hmm. I can see why someone who doesn't like Discipline would say that but I can't say I agree, Crimson was always about change and about thinking forward, so keeping the band name makes sense in a way to me (half of the line-up stayed the same anyway) and I definitely don't think they did disservice to the band - quite the opposite, actually, Crimson managed to prove with this album that (unlike most prog giants in the 80s) they can adapt to the changes while also staying innovative and great, I couldn't imagine anyone else pulling off "prog new wave" so well. Of course, I also conider 70s Crimson the best but I still believe Discipline is a fantastic album (definitely in my top 5 Crimson) and "Thela Hun Ginjeet" is just a groovy and fun song. Do you feel the same way about their post-80s material? That's a great question and I've never really thought about it before.  I have to admit I don't feel that way about the 90's+ albums.  For some reason, those sound to me like a logical progression of where Crimso left off in the 70's.  Actually, if I take an objective look back at the 80's trilogy:   Discipline: Like AB sang, "I do think it's good"    though it's not one of my top 10 KC albums.  I really like Elephant Talk, Thela Hun Ginjeet, and Indiscipline. but don't care much for the rest.  I find the interweaving guitar parts tedious and I'd much rather hear Fripp solo than play arpeggios in 25/4.  Guess I wanted them to wail and not be disciplined!   Beat:  The only Crimso studio album I don't own.  I bought the "Live in Japan" 1984 video and the only "Beat" song that I love was "Sartori in Tangier", just couldn't get into the others and figured the live version of "Sartori" would kick@ss on the studio version so never bothered to buy it.  You know what though, I'm going to check out some of the Beat songs on youtube and see what I think in 2013.  Three of a Perfect Pair:  Now that I think about it, I love everything here except "Sleepless" (which I really hate).  So, I don't know what all this means, but I guess I have to limit my "calling the band KC was a mistake" point of view to Discipline.

First place is easy, but after that, no particular order:

Discipline: Rogue

Discipline: Crutches

Discipline: Before the Storm

Dream Theater: Erotomania

Dream Theater: Voices

Dream Theater: Space-Dye Vest

Dream Theater: Under a Glass Moon

Dream Theater: Learning to Live

King Crimson: Elektrik

Opeth: Blackwater Park

Opeth: Beneath the Mire

Opeth: Reverie/Harlequin Forest

Opeth: Isolation Years

Opeth: The Moor

Opeth: Moonlapse Vertigo

Opeth: White Cluster

Riverside: Second Life Syndrome

Riverside: Deprived

Riverside: Escalator Shrine

Steven Wilson: The Raven that Refused to Sing