Your Top 10 Favourite Prog Albums of 1984
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Topic: Your Top 10 Favourite Prog Albums of 1984
Posted By: Mirakaze
Subject: Your Top 10 Favourite Prog Albums of 1984
Date Posted: August 20 2021 at 14:23
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Alright, I think a lot of us were just barely scraping by in the 1983 thread, but this year looks much better, what with a new generation of RIO bands rising up and some older artists finding their way around in the new decade. I even have honourable mentions again, would you look at that?  1. Rascal Reporters - Ridin' On A Bummer 2. King Crimson - Three Of A Perfect Pair 3. Cardiacs - The Seaside 4. Frank Zappa - Them Or Us 5. Talk Talk - It's My Life 6. Jean Michel Jarre - Zoolook 7. Thinking Plague - ... A Thinking Plague 8. Frank Zappa - The Perfect Stranger 9. Camel - Stationary Traveller 10. Rush - Grace Under Pressure Honourable mentions: - French TV - French TV - Univers Zero - Uzed
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: August 20 2021 at 14:56
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Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance (it's darkwave, but I love it) Ananda Shankar and His Orchestra - 2001 Univers Zéro - Uzed After Dinner - After Dinner (alt. Glass Tube) The Residents - Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats? Camel - Stationary Traveller Yog Sothoth - Yog Sothoth Het - Let's Het Gunther Olesch - Sternenmusik Гунеш (Gunesh) - Вижу Землю also the Dead Can Dance - Garden of the Arcane Delights EP is a beauty (and I've always owned it as a bonus on their debut album).
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: August 20 2021 at 16:09
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Spinal Tap - This is Spinal Tap David Gilmour - About Face REM - Reckoning Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldn't Stand the Weather The Waterboys - A Pagan Place Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense Nanci Griffith - Once In a Very Blue Moon Prince - Purple Rain And...that's it. That's all I got. Absolutely dreadful year in music, even more so because 1983 was so bad. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: August 20 2021 at 17:15
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I thought I have loads of stuff from the eighties, but most of it is indeed not prog, so this year wasn't as easy as I had expected. I was ready to list Under Wraps, which probably is my number 13 or 14 this year, yeah, I know what you think, but it's not that bad really. (After some additions I was reminded of in the meantime, it has lost a few ranks more.) David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense Univers Zero - Uzed Mr and Mrs Smith and Mr Drake - s/t Tim Berne & Bill Frisell - Theoretically Camel - Stationary Traveller Frank Zappa - A Perfect Stranger Holger Czukay - Der Osten ist Rot Residents - Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats (I decided to kick Talk Talk out for Smith, Smith and Drake; not that it can't compete with the last few on the list, but it is too unprog, despite being listed here. Earlier I also had Dead Can Dance and Thinking Plague on the list but they got pushed out, too. As with Talk Talk, their better albums come later anyway.)
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Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: August 20 2021 at 17:43
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wow what a drop off from 1983, which was already a big drop off from 1982 I can only find one 4/5 star album from this year... Camel-Stationary Traveller honorable mentions: Clannad - Legend Jade Warrior - Horizen Mugen- Sinfonia Della Luna La Nuova Era - s/t Mike Oldfield - Discovery Andreas Vollenweider - White Winds |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: August 20 2021 at 20:16
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Univers Zero - Uzed Mr & Mrs Smith & Mr Drake - s/t Budd & Eno - The Pearl Nazca - s/t Tangerine Dream - Poland Thinking Plague - s/t Iron Maiden - Powerslave Steve Roach - Structures Of Silence Flairck - Bal Masque Mike Oldfield - Discovery ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: August 21 2021 at 01:52
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Another year with little to offer. Marillion's Fugazi and David Gilmour's About Face are the highlights here. John Cale's Caribbean Sunset has some fine tracks, but is hardly half as good as its predecessor. Grace under Pressure would make it to my top 10 of this year by the grace of a lack of pressure. ------------- 
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Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: August 21 2021 at 02:46
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Giving you a top 5: Marillion - 'Fugazi' Roger Waters - 'The Pros and Cons' Deep Purple - 'Perfect Strangers King Crimson - 'Three of a Perfect Pair' Pallas - 'The Sentinel' (In no particular order, of course)
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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: August 21 2021 at 03:28
That one was 84? I should add it then! Laaaa-la-la-la-la-la-la-laaa La-la-laaa La-la-laaa!
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Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 21 2021 at 04:04
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1. Iron Maiden - Powerslave 2. Marillion - Fugazi 3. Eloy - Metromania4. Al Stewart - Russians and Americans
5. Tangerine Dream - Poland 6. Roger Hodgson - Eye Of The Storm 7. Rush - Grace Under Pressure 8. Simple Minds - Sparkle In The Rain 9. Vangelis - Soil Festivities X. Tomita - Dawn Chorus |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: August 21 2021 at 09:24
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1. Solaris - Marsbéli krónikák 2. Het - Let's Het 3. Scott Walker - Climate of Hunter 4. Rush - Grace Under Pressure 5. Zaragon - No Return 6. Marillion - Fugazi 7. East - Az áldozat (Szodoma) 8. Roger Hodgson - In the Eye of the Storm 9. King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair 10. David Gilmour - About Face Honorable mentions: Eloy - Metromania Osiris - Myths & Legends Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers Steve Hackett - Till We Have Faces Planet P Project - Pink World ------------- ---------- 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: richardh
Date Posted: August 22 2021 at 03:43
| ^ forgot about that Roger Hodgson album , would have included it in my list otherwise at No6. |
Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: August 23 2021 at 11:02
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1984 was a very strange year! None of the albums below are perfect, but here's how they rank: 1) Pallas - The Sentinel 2) Roger Hodgson - In the Eye of the Storm 3) Steve Hackett - Till We Have Faces 4) Keats - Keats 5) Simple Minds - Sparkle in the Rain 6) Mike Oldfield - Discovery 7) Anthony Phillips - A Catch at the Tables 8) Dire Straits - Alchemy 9) Rush - Grace Under Pressure 10) The Blue Nile - A Walk Across the Rooftops
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Posted By: tribalfusions
Date Posted: August 23 2021 at 12:01
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I don't really like doing top 10 but here's a list of what I found interesting from 1984 by country with a few different styles included as it was obviously not a great year for prog per se: SPAIN: Vainica Doble- Taquicardia Asfalto- Cronophobia GERMANY: Scorpions- Love at First Sting Sirius- The Three Bushes JAPAN: Kazumi Watanabe- Mobo II Gerard- Gerard Mugen- Sinfonia della Luna ARGENTINA: Pedro Aznar- Contemplación Charly García- Piano Bar Spinetta Jade- Madre en ańos luz CANADA: Rush- Grace Under Pressure UZEB- You Be Easy Kenny Wheeler- Double, Double You SWEDEN: Yngwie J. Malmsteen- Rising Force Europe- Wings of Tomorrow The Foundation- Departure ITALY: Matia Bazar- Aristocratica Pino Daniele- Musicante Hocculta- Warning Games UNITED KINGDOM: Mahavishnu- Mahavishnu
Deep Purple- Perfect Strangers King Crimson-Three of a Perfect Pair David Gilmour- About Face Roger Waters- The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking Steve Hackett- Till We Have Faces Camel- Stationary Traveller Whitesnake- Slide It In Iron Maiden- Powerslave Marillion- Fugazi Pallas- The Sentinel Twelfth Night - Art and Illusion Solstice- Silent Dance Joe Jackson- Body and Soul XTC- The Big Express Difford & Tilbrook- Difford & Tilbrook Level 42- True Colours David Sylvian- Brilliant Trees UNITED STATES: Pat Metheny Group- First Circle Steve Morse Band- The Introduction Bill Connors- Step It Pat Metheny- Rejoicing John Abercrombie- Night John Abercrombie & John Scofield- Solar John Scofield- Electric Outlet Steps Ahead- Modern Times Weather Report- Domino Theory Miles Davis- Decoy Bill Evans- Living in the Crest of a Wave Vital Information- Orion Chick Corea- Children's Songs Richie Beirach- Continuum Paul Motian- The Story of Maryam Dio- The Last in Line Steve Vai- Flexible A Thinking Plague- A Thinking Plague Stevie Ray Vaughan- Couldn't Stand the Weather |
Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: August 23 2021 at 12:14
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In no particular order Cardiacs - The Seaside Mr. & Mrs. Smith % Mr. Drake - Mr. & Mrs. Smith & Mr. Drake Univers Zero - UzedFrench TV - French TV Hiatus - Avent-Demain The Blue Nile - A Walk Across the Rooftops Spacebox - Kick Up David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees Yog Sothoth - Yog Sothoth Twelfth Night - Live & Let Live Honorable mentions: Cocteau Twins - Treasure Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain The Rain Parade - Explosions In The Glass Palace Metallica - Ride The Lightning XTC - The Big Express Rascal Reporters - Ridin´On A Bummer Talk Talk - It{s My Life Voivod - War & Pain Moira - Moira
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 30 2021 at 04:26
It wasn't easy to scrape together ten favourite prog albums from 1984, but I got there in the end.  Abel Ganz - Gratuitous Flash Camel - Stationary Traveller Eloy - Metromania The Enid - In the Region of the Summer Stars (Re-recording) David Gilmour - About Face Jade Warrior - Horizen Pallas - The Sentinel Vangelis - Soil Festivities Rick Wakeman, Jeff Wayne & Kevin Peak - Beyond the Planets Roger Waters - The Pros & Cons of Hitch-Hiking
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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: August 30 2021 at 05:19
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1984 1. DAVID SYLVIAN Brilliant Trees 2. COCTEAU TWINS Treasure 3. EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL Everything But the Girl 4. EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL Eden 5. NEWCLEUS Jam on Revenge 6. RYUICHI SAKAMOTO Ongaku Zukan (Illustrated Music Encyclopedia) 7. FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD Welcome to the Pleasuredome 8. BRUCE COCKBURN Stealing Fire 9. JANE SIBERRY No Borders Here 10. PRINCE Purple Rain 11. THE STYLE COUNCIL Café bleu 12. HOWARD JONES Human's Lib 13. CHANGE Change of Heart 14. LAURIE ANDERSON Mister Heartbreak 15. DAVID GILMOUR About Face 16. M + M Mystery Walk 17. XTC The Big Express 18. U2 Unforgettable Fire 19. SOLARIS Marsbéli Krónikák (Martian Chronicles) 20. NEVILLE MARRINER AND THE ACADEMY OF ST. MARTIN IN THE FIELDS Amadeus (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 21. SADE Diamond Life 22. DAVID & STEVE GORDON Peaceful Evening 23. CAMEO She's Strange 24. WHODINI Escape 25. SOLSTICE Silent Dance 26. AMBITOUS LOVERS Envy 27. PAT METHENY GROUP First Circle 28. KING CRIMSON Three of a Perfect Pair 29. RUN-D.M.C. Run-D.M.C. 30. JOE JACKSON Body and Soul Honorable Mentions: ART OF NOISE Who's Afraid of The Art of Noise? THE SMITHS The Smiths STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN AND DOUBLE TROUBLE Couldn't Stand the Weather MICHAEL HEDGES Aerial Boundaries MANUEL GÖTTSCHING E2-E4 AL JARREAU High Crime DON HENLEY Building the Perfect Beast NENA 99 Luftballons THE CARS Heartbeat City SIMPLE MINDS Sparkle in the Rain CLANNAD Legend ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 30 2021 at 06:04
Another one I'd forgotten about. I did have it on some format at one time but no idea what happened to it.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 13 2021 at 04:41
I had to *baldly* go beyond the Solar System to explore the outer reaches of Rick Wakeman's long discography to find that particular album.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 16 2021 at 01:18
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Marillion - Fugazi Rush - Grace Under Pressure Camel - Stationary Traveller Eloy - Metromania Fates Warning - Night on Bröcken Twelfth Night - Art And Illusion Pallas - The Sentinel Talk Talk - It's My Life David Gilmour - About Face Sfinx - Sfinx (aka Albumul Albastru/the blue album)
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Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: November 09 2021 at 03:25
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E2-E4 - Manuel Göttsching Three of a Perfect Pair - King Crimson Stationary Traveller - Camel In the Eye of the Storm - Roger Hodgson The Sentinel - Pallas Grace Under Pressure - Rush Fugazi - Marillion Marsbéli krónikák - Solaris No Reasons Given - NRG Silent Dance - Solstice |