Your Top 10 Favourite Prog Albums of 1981
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Topic: Your Top 10 Favourite Prog Albums of 1981
Posted By: Mirakaze
Subject: Your Top 10 Favourite Prog Albums of 1981
Date Posted: August 02 2021 at 12:28
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We're back, and the eighties rage on. What are your prog rock favourites from 1981? 1. King Crimson - Discipline 2. Wha-Ha-Ha - Shinutokiwa Betsu 3. Master Cylinder - Elsewhere 4. Camel - Nude 5. Robert Fripp - Let The Power Fall 6. Jaco Pastorius - Word Of Mouth 7. Electric Light Orchestra - Time 8. The League Of Gentlemen - The League Of Gentlemen 9. Univers Zero - Ceux Du Dehors 10. Alan Gowen, Phil Miller, Richard Sinclair & Trevor Tomkins - Before A Word Is Said Honourable mentions (sorry if this counts as cheating but it feels unfair if I leave these out): - Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin & Paco De Lucía - Friday Night In San Francisco - Cardiacs - Toy World - Debile Menthol - Emile Au Jardin Patrologique - Genesis - Abacab - Kultivator - Barndomens Stigar - Rush - Moving Pictures - The Muffins - 185 ------------- https://mirasnelder.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow - Freelance composer, accepting commissions | https://mirasnelder.bandcamp.com/album/altered-acuity" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp page |
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: August 02 2021 at 12:43
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One of the greatest years in music history. I simply need sixteen: ELO - Time Kraftwerk - Computerwelt Dün - Eros Fabio Frizzi - L'aldilŕ / The Beyond Eskaton - 4 Visions Okay Temiz - Zikir Eider stellaire - Eider Stellaire Kultivator - Barndomens Stigar Univers Zero - Ceux Du Dehors Art Zoyd - Symphonie pour le jour oů brűleront les cités Magma - Rétrospective Vol. 1 & 2 Nekropolis - Musik aus dem Schattenreich
Nya Ljudbolaget - Nya Ljudbolaget Wha-Ha-Ha - Shinutokiwa Betsu A la Ping Pong - Phase II - Go Go Pongs |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: August 02 2021 at 12:53
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The greatest album ever released Univers Zero - Ceux Du Dehors and Eskaton - 4 Visions This Heat - Deceit Dun - Eros King Crimson - Discipline Massacre - Killing Time Eider Stellaire - s/t Patrick Gauthier - Bebe Godzilla Kultivator - Barndomens Stigar The Muffins - 185 Fela Kuti - Original Sufferhead Magma - Retrospektiv I & II Rush - Moving Pictures
------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: August 02 2021 at 13:11
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1. RICKIE LEE JONES Pirates 2. KING CRIMSON Discipline 3. JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL, ALEXANDRE LAGOYA, and MICHEL LEGRAND Pastorales de Noël 4. ANTHONY PHILLIPS 1984 5. ANDREAS VOLLENWEIDER Behind the Gardens - Behind the Wall - Under the Tree... 6. ESKATON 4 Visions 7. PAT METHENY & LYLE MAYS As Falls Witchita, So Falls Wichita Falls 8. BRIAN ENO & JON HASSELL Fourth World Possible Musics, Volume Two: Dream Theory in Malaya 9. U2 October 10. TOM TOM CLUB Tom Tom Club 11. THE POLICE Ghost in the Machine 12. JOHN MCLAUGHLIN Belo Horizonte 13. TANGERINE DREAM Thief OST 14. BRUCE COCKBURN Inner City Front 15. LOS JAIVAS Alturas de Machu Picchu 16. SBB Memento z banalnym triptykiem 17. GENESIS ABACAB 18. CAMEL Nude 19. VAN HALEN Fair Warning 20. AL JARREAU Breakin' Away Honorable Mentions: PHIL COLLINS Face Value STEVIE NICKS Bella Donna BUDDY GUY Stone Crazy! EIDER STELLAIRE I SANTANA Zeebop! THE TUBES The Completion Backwards Principle STEVE HACKETT Cured JOAN ARMATRADING Walk Under Ladders MATERIAL Memory Serves ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: August 02 2021 at 13:41
A forgotten treasure - at least i forgot it.
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Mirakaze wrote:Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: August 02 2021 at 13:54
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King Crimson - Discipline Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts Robert Fripp & The League of Gentlemen Japan - Tin Drum Renaissance - Camera Camera Eskaton - 4 VisionsUnivers Zero - Ceux du Dehors Dün - Eros Holger Czukay - On the Way to the Peak of Normal
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 02 2021 at 14:12
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12 Dün Eros
bubbling under: ------------- 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 |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: August 02 2021 at 14:41
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Damn Hugues you're a tough grader! ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: August 02 2021 at 15:54
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1. Rush - Moving Pictures 2. King Crimson - Discipline 3. Eskaton - 4 Visions 4. This Heat - Deceit 5. Eloy - Planets 6. Genesis - Abacab 7. Dün - Eros 8. East - Játékok 9. Kultivator - Barndomens Stigar 10. Electric Light Orchestra - Time Honorable mentions: Art Bears - The World As It Is Today Lethe - Lethe Anyone's Daughter - Piktors Verwandlungen Camel - Nude Osiris - Osiris Saga - Worlds Apart ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: August 02 2021 at 17:57
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Another fine year: alphabetically Asturcon - s/t Blue Oyster Cult - Fire of Unknown Origin Dan Ar Braz - Acoustic Eloy - Planets Gordon Giltrap - Live at Oxford (I normally don't include live albums but this is THE album to get by him) Steve Hackett - Cured Jon and Vangelis - Friends of Mr Cairo Kerrs Pink - Mellom Oss Los Jaivas - Alturas de Machu Picchu Magdalena - Lanean Sartzen Pat Metheny - As Falls Wichita, so falls Wichita Falls Moving Hearts - s/t Osiris - s/t Pererin - Teithgan Renaissance - Camera Camera Sedmina - Dejanje Tangerine Dream - Exit |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: August 02 2021 at 17:58
and he missed Pererin's second album
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 03 2021 at 03:07
Ian knows where those grades are coming from (the 14 to 10 grades) and in some ways, he's right: I am a tough rater.   For the second Pererin, I rated it 9, but I'll check it out again to see if I should reconsider. I've
never used the 15 (prefection doesn't exist) and out of the 7400 albums
rated, I've used the 14 grade only 14 times and grade 13 only 100
times. Grade 12, I used it 370 times and grade 11 some 870 times. Just
like here in PA, I start rating there from the middle value (here it
should be 2.5, but I default at 2 or 3 *) and over there the bulk of my
ratings are 10, 9 & 8 (a lot of 7 & 11 as well) over there. 6400
of 7400 ratings are between 11 and 7... and I think it should be lower,
but I can't be bothered rating artistes I don't like much unless they
come in the updates. ========== It's all there in the stats section, Ian. You can check anyone's stats in the project. 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. ------------- 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 |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: August 03 2021 at 03:22
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: August 03 2021 at 05:06
On Gnosis 13 is a classic, 12 a borderline classic and 11 excellent. I have a tough time looking at that list and none being classics.  ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 03 2021 at 05:23
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OK, there is a Gnosis mistake on the first and second Pererin
albums (80 & 81 respectively) and noted there as 79 & 81. (just like there is one for Eskaton's 4 Vision) This means the Pererin debut did not appear on my 79 (too many excellent albums for a short list) or 80 list. I now corrected and Haul Ar Yr Eira is the 80 list - which has a smaller list. Will listen to Teithgan ASAP, to see if it deserves inclusion on the 81 list. EDIT: just updated the list 
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.
I have no problem extending the "classic" tag to album that I grade as 11 .
------------- 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 |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: August 03 2021 at 09:55
-but you do (and think) exactly as you please, of course
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 03 2021 at 15:40
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1. Rush - Moving Pictures 2. Eloy - Planets 3. Tangerine Dream - Exit 4. Jean Michel Jarre - Magnetic Fields 5. Kayak - Merlin 6. Keith Emerson - Nighthawks 7. Jon and Vangelis - The Friends Of Mr Cairo 8. Iron Maiden - Killers 9. Genesis - Abacab 10. Greg Lake - s/t not a list that I'm very proud of lol (top 3 aside)
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Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: August 03 2021 at 17:01
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1 - Dűn - Eros 2 - Eider Stellaire - Eider Stellaire 3 - The Muffins - 185 4 - Kultivator - Barndomens Stigar 5 - However - Sudden Dusk 6 - Alain Eckert Quartet - Alain Eckert Quartet 7 - Myrbein - Myrornas Krig 8 - Cartoon - Cartoon 9 -Univers Zero - Ceux Du Dehors 10 - King Crimson - Discipline Honorable Mentions: Combo FH - Veci (Things) Patrick Gauthier - Baby Godzilla Fusion - Fusion Master Cylinder - Elsewhere |
Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: August 04 2021 at 09:52
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1. Saga - Worlds Apart (although it wasn't released in the US until Sept '82) 2. Genesis - Abacab 3. Moody Blues - Long Distance Voyager 4. Anthony Phillips - 1984 5. Barclay James Harvest - Turn of the Tide 6. Camel - Nude 7. The Police - Ghost in the Machine 8. Rush - Moving Pictures 9. Phil Collins - Face Value 10. Steve Hackett - Cured
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: August 04 2021 at 12:21
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Metheny and Mays--As Falls Wichita... Rush-Moving Pics Eloy-Planets Eskaton-4 Visions KC-Discipline Univers Zero-Ceux Du Dehors Camel-Nude Zappa-Yiou Are What.... Agamemnon-st BOC-Fire... ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 04 2021 at 12:52
I can only come up with seven 5-star prog albums so far for this year.  Burning Candle - Burning Candle Camel - Nude Eloy - Planets Osamu Kitajima - Dragon King Osiris - Osiris Real Eyes - Real Eyes Rick Wakeman - 1984
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: August 05 2021 at 08:53
I recently updated mine, my average is now 9.70, closer to the middle of the pack. I'll probably continue to tweak over the upcoming months. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: August 08 2021 at 16:01
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Not only prog... King Crimson - Discipline Congreso - Viaje por la cresta del mundo Triana - 5ş Aniversario ELO - Time Eloy - Planets Ultravox - Rage in Eden Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Architecture & Morality Panta Rhei - Die Fruehen Jahre Inti Illimani - Palimpsesto ------------- 
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: August 10 2021 at 02:30
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Some excellent albums this year, which put it above other years in this relatively poor decade: Rush - Moving Pictures Camel - The Snow Goose Saga - Worlds Apart Eider Stellaire I Dün - Eros Magma - Retrospektďw III ------------- 
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Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: November 10 2021 at 00:47
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Discipline - King Crimson Nude - Camel Planets - Eloy Barndomens Stigar - Kultivator Sudden Dusk - However Alturas de Machu Picchu - Los Jaivas Holding Pattern - Holding Pattern Worlds Apart - Saga Moving Pictures - Rush The League of Gentlemen - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: November 23 2022 at 03:39
Fully revised and updated:- 1981: Burning Candle - Burning Candle - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyshVW6EvPw" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyshVW6EvPw 1981: Camel - Nude - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu5XqFqMgGk" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu5XqFqMgGk 1981: Eloy - Planets - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bus65ovjOOg" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bus65ovjOOg  1981: Flame Dream - Out in the Dark - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52-YiwokMO0" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52-YiwokMO0 1981: Osamu Kitajima - Dragon King - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goRegJa8Nww" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goRegJa8Nww 1981: Osiris - Osiris - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXk3dAPEx9A" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXk3dAPEx9A 1981: Real Eyes - Real Eyes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_M4U69-HIs" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_M4U69-HIs 1981: Tangerine Dream - Thief (soundtrack) - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l3lEcCBqf3wyIdg9EMsnyJDEaFLzs_470" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l3lEcCBqf3wyIdg9EMsnyJDEaFLzs_470 1981: Vangelis - Chariots of Fire (soundtrack) - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LsjS0L1K0ZG6sOkFp6PSGOh" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LsjS0L1K0ZG6sOkFp6PSGOh 1981: Rick Wakeman - 1984 - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvgRcMpruBRAAEmmDCBfU9F" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvgRcMpruBRAAEmmDCBfU9F |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 23 2022 at 04:04
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Rush - Moving Pictures Camel - Nude Eloy - Planets Blue Oyster Cult - Fire of Unknown Origin Tangerine Dream - Thief Passport - Blue Tattoo Saga - Worlds Apart Gong - Leave It Open Kraftwerk - Computer World Spaces - Border Station |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: November 23 2022 at 04:53
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