Your Top 10 Favourite Prog Albums of 1988
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Topic: Your Top 10 Favourite Prog Albums of 1988
Posted By: Mirakaze
Subject: Your Top 10 Favourite Prog Albums of 1988
Date Posted: September 17 2021 at 02:33
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A strange year, really. A couple of releases that I really love, but still just barely enough albums that I would call good enough to fit in a top 10 list like this. 1. Rascal Reporters - Happy Accidents 2. Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Symphonic Suite Akira 3. Cardiacs - A Little Man And A House And The Whole World Window 4. Fred Frith - The Technology Of Tears (And Other Music For Dance And Theatre) 5. Ruins - Ruins III 6. Frank Zappa - Guitar 7. Vangelis - Direct 8. Nels Cline - Angelica 9. Ozric Tentacles - Sliding Gliding Worlds 10. Mr. Bungle - Goddammit I Love America! ------------- 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: September 17 2021 at 02:54
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Getting a little harder for each year, but I love/like these Non Credo - Reluctant Hosts Metallica - ...And Justice for AllTalk Talk - Spirit of Eden Dead Can Dance - The Serpent's Egg Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Symphonic Suite Akira Rabih Abou-Khalil - NafasSteve Roach - Dreamtime Return Voivod - Dimension Hatröss Daniel Schell & Karo - If Windows They Have Vasilisk - Mkwaju |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: September 17 2021 at 03:36
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Yeah, just about scraped to 10... Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden Cardiacs - Live Cardiacs - A Little Man And A House And The Whole World Window Dead Can Dance - The Serpent's Egg Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Second Wind Asmus Tietchens - Aus Freude am Elend David Sylvian and Holger Czukay - Plight and Premonition Legendary Pink Dots - Any Day Now Penguin Cafe Orchestra - When In Rome Peter Hammill - In A Foreign Town
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 17 2021 at 04:38
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Barclay James Harvest - Glasnost Peter Bardens - Speed of LightDead Can Dance - The Serpent's Egg Eloy - Ra The Enid - The Seed and the Sower Hawkwind - The Xenon Codex Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound of Thunder Vangelis - Direct Rick Wakeman - The Word & the Gospels Ezra Winston - Myth of the Chrysavides |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: September 17 2021 at 05:51
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Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden Cardiacs - A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window 5uu's with Motor Totemist Guild - Elements Dead Can Dance - The Serpent's Egg Frank W. Fromy - Quatre Axes Mutants Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son Piero Milesi - The Nuclear Observatory of Mr. Nanof Cheer-Accident - Sever Roots, Tree Dies Harold Budd - The White Arcades Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 17 2021 at 06:14
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Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Symphonic Suite AKIRA Cardiacs - A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window Dead Can Dance - The Serpent's Egg Non Credo - Reluctant Hosts Paul Roland with the Windham Hill Wind & String Ensemble - Happy Families Rascal Reporters - Happy Accidents Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden Motor Totemist Guild - Shapuno Zoo The Legendary Pink Dots - Any Day Now Zoviet France - Shouting At the Ground Non -Prog bonus: Michael Nyman - Drowning by Numbers ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: September 17 2021 at 06:15
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Not all prog, but, to me, all progressive (and great music): 1988 1. EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL Idlewild 2. LOVE AND MONEY Strange Kind of Love 3. BRUCE COCKBURN Big Circumstance 4. COCTEAU TWINS Blue Bell Knoll 5. SADE Stronger Than Pride 6. LES NEGRESSES VERTES Mlah! 7. THE STYLE COUNCIL Confessions of a Pop Group 8. GALADRIEL Muttered Promises from an Ageless Pond 9. WIM MERTENS Whisper Me 10. JANE SIBERRY The Walking 11. BOBBY BROWN Don't Be Cruel 12. OFRA HAZA Shaday 13. TALK TALK Spirit of Eden 14. CARDIACS A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window 15. SUGARCUBES Life's Too Good 16. PREFAB SPROUT From Langley Park to Memphis 17. GIPSY KINGS Gipsy Kings 18. FRANK ZAPPA You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 2 19. JOHNNY HATES JAZZ Turn Back the Clock 20. DEAD CAN DANCE The Serpent's Egg Honorable Mentions: THOMAS DOLBY Aliens Ate My Buick MIDAS Beyond the Clear Air THE STONE ROSES The Stone Roses TONI CHILDS Union HOTHOUSE FLOWERS People JULIA FORDHAM Julia Fordham ASTURIAS Circle in the Forest ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: September 17 2021 at 08:04
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1. 3 - To the Power of Three 2. Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll 3. Cardiacs - A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window 4. Frank Zappa - Broadway the Hard Way 5. Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound of Thunder 6. Pierre Moerlen's Gong -Second Wind 7. Style Council - Confessions of a Pop Group (criticised by the music press at the time for recalling prog) 8. er, struggling now - we didn't know it then but The Orb's first release was a year away which re-energised UK prog.
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: September 17 2021 at 08:48
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Little year again - back then I only bought U2, but heard a few times G&R, Dylan/Dead, Neil and DCD. I did see Powaqaatsi in the movie theatres, though. 11 5uu's
with Motor Totemist Guild Elements 11 Talk Talk Spirit of Eden 10 Last Exit Iron Path 10 Scofield, John Loud Jazz 10 U2 Rattle and Hum Bubbling under: 09 Young, Neil This Notes for You Can 1988 09 Corea"s Elektric Band Eye of the Beholder 09 Dead Can Dance The Serpent's Egg 09 Dylan & Grateful Dead Dylan & The Dead 09 Glass, Philip Powaqqatsi 09 Guns N' Roses Lies 09 Litfiba Litfiba 3 09 Living Colour Vivid 09 Mingus Dynasty Sound 09 Santana Blues For Salvador 09 Seguin, Richard Journee D'Amerique 09 Soft Heap A Veritable Centaur 09 Threadgill, Henry Rag, Bush and All 09 Zazou / Bikaye Guilty ------------- 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: Lewian
Date Posted: September 17 2021 at 08:51
Will somebody finally propose U2 for inclusion on PA?  |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: September 17 2021 at 10:18
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Well apparently they were the next Pink Floyd ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: September 17 2021 at 10:52
Hey this is pretty awesome! Looking at the line-up it's no wonder it reminded me of Arcana - Arc of the Testimony
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BrufordFreak wrote:Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: September 17 2021 at 11:12
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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: September 17 2021 at 13:40
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Weak year for me... 2. Marillion - B'Sides Themselves 3. Deja-Vu - Baroque in the Future 4. It Bites - Once Around the World 5. Vangelis - Direct 6. Queensr˙che - Operation: Mindcrime 7. Hawkwind - The Xenon Codex Could make it to 9 if I included the Marillion and Pink Floyd live albums. I hesitate to put Eloy's Ra at 10. ------------- ---------- 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: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: September 17 2021 at 15:31
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My 1988 (not only prog): 1) Talk Talk: Spirit of Eden 2) Nick Cave: Tender Prey 3) CCCP Fedeli alla Linea: Compagni, cittadini, fratelli, partigiani /Ortodossia II 4) Tracy Chapman 5) U2: Rattle and Hum 6) Sting: Nothing Like The Sun 7) REM: Green 8) The Mission: Children 9) Noiseworks: Touch 10) The Housemartins: Now That's What I Called Quite Good 11) John Hiatt: Slow Turning 12) A-ha: Stay on These Roads 13) Franco Battiato: Fisiognomica 14) Paolo Conte: live 15) The Smiths: Rank (Live) 16) Gypsy Kings 17) Prefab Sprout: From Langely 18) Style Council: Confessions 19) Pink Floyd: Delicate Sound of Thunder live 20) Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man ------------- Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 18 2021 at 09:11
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Talk Talk: Spirit of Eden Marillion - The Thieving Magpie (live) Fates Warning - No Exit Abel Ganz - The Dangers of Strangers Queensryche - Operation:Mindcrime Voivod - Dimension Hatröss Sieges Even - Life Cycle Crimson Glory - Transcendence Marillion - B' Sides Themselves 3 - To the Power of Three |
Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: September 18 2021 at 09:30
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Talk talk - Spirit Of Eden Cardiacs - A Little Man And A House And The Whole World Window The Church - Starfish Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime Ezra winston - Myth Of the Chrysavides Fates Warning - No Exit Mekong Delta - The Music Of Erich Zann Voivod - Dimension Hatross Stump - A fierce Pancake Miriodor - Miriodor Honorable Mentions: My Bloody Valentine - Isn´t Anything The Lilac Time - The Lilac Time Metallica - And Justice For All Prefab sprout - From Memphis To Longley Park Coroner - Punishment for Decandence Friends - Lets Get Away From It All The Railway Children - Recurrence They Might Be Giants - Lincoln Sieges Even - Life Cycle |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: September 18 2021 at 11:46
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I've literally given up digging for prog albums. For 1988, here are my favorite albums of any genre.... The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues Van Morrison & The Chieftains - Irish Hearthbeat Tracy Chapman - s/t Debut Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man Robert Plant - Now and Zen The Pixies - Surfer Rosa Jethro Tull - 20 Years of Jethro Tull Michelle Shocked - Short, Sharp, Shocked Enya - Watermark Gipsy Kings - s/t Debut ------------- ...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: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: September 18 2021 at 12:03
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: September 20 2021 at 04:16
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Vangelis - Direct Al Stewart - The Last Days Of The Century Enya - Watermark Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of A Seventh Son Stephen Caudel - Bow Of Burning Gold Tangerine Dream - Optical Race Jean Michel Jarre - Revolutions 3 - To The Power of Three Keith Emerson - The Christmas Album Eloy - Ra that was a struggle , I only like the first 5 albums , the rest if filler . Eloy - Ra might be one of the worst prog albums ever released!
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Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: September 20 2021 at 10:30
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This is the first year it starts getting really tough to find decent material even remotely rock-oriented. I'm really stretching here: 1. Three - To the Power of Three 2. Billy Currie with Steve Howe - Transportation 3. Andy Summers - Mysterious Barricades 4. Steve Hackett - Momentum 5. Enya - Watermark 6. Mike and the Mechanics - The Living Years 7. Moody Blues - Sur la mer 8. Robert Plant - Now and Zen 9. Thomas Dolby - Aliens ate my Buick |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: September 20 2021 at 11:35
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alphabetically-most of these I don't even consider to be great but they are all I've got Amenophis - You and I Asturias-Circle in the Forest Pete Bardens - Speed of Light Dead Can Dance-Serpent's Egg Eloy-Ra Nuova Era-L'ultimo viaggio Andreas Vollenweider - Dancing with the Lion |
Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: November 09 2021 at 01:59
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Once Around the World - It Bites The View From Here - Giraffe Operation: Mindcrime - Queensr˙che Baroque in the Future - Déją Vu Comedy of Errors - Comedy of Errors God in Three Persons - The Residents Circle in the Forest - Asturias Still Dream - Edhels Momentum - Steve Hackett Guitar - Frank Zappa |
Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: April 26 2022 at 10:14
I just remembered: 10. Tom Cochrane/Red Rider - Victory Day
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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: April 26 2022 at 14:57
Funny that these were said because hearing Boy played, start to finish, on a radio station in East Lansing, Michigan in 1981 was an event that I'll never forget. I don't remember the station's name (WLAV? maybe?), but they'd play "new releases" at midnight on Friday or Saturday nights. I just happened to be visiting friends at MSU, spent the night, and we listened to the show. I remember being transfixed--with the exact words forming in my brain being articulated to my friends: "This is the new Pink Floyd". Even funnier thing: I had just returned from a semester abroad in East Anglia (UK) where I was enrapt with the "pop hits" of the day--which included "I Will Follow" and "Out of Control" (along with "Generals and Majors" and various other tight, light, perky songs from the Summer/Autumn of 1980) and yet these "pop" hits sounded so different in the flow of Boy's seemless progression through a young boy's life. Another aside: I got to see them live on their October tour in the Fall of '81 at a small dance bar in EL called Dooley's. The band did every song from both albums and "Gloria" twice (as its encore)-because that's all the material they had at the time. Little Bono walked around among the audience with his microphone singing songs while shaking hands with audience members. Very intimate and heart-felt show. I kind of lost my enthusiasm after October, though there have been great songs ("New Year's Day", "Two Hearts Beat as One", "Boomerang", "Unforgettable Fire", "Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking for", "Bullet the Blue Sky") and concerts that were awesome. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: April 26 2022 at 18:08
Thanks for sharing that Drew. I didn't even hear of U2 until 1983 with New Years Day being playing on the radio. It was out of character for me to buy that album but I did along with the Tears For Fears album that was out at the time with Pale Shelter on it. I was in my early twenties with not a lot of cash for music and in College so again I took a chance based on an incredible song. "War and "Joshua Tree" are my favs. Those albums take me back in time. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: April 26 2022 at 18:32
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And while I'm here: Iron Maiden- Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son Dark- Tamna Voda Wulf Zednik- Danze Of The Cozmic Warriorz Cardiacs- A Little Man And A House And A Whole World Window When- Death In The Blue Lake Fates Warning- No Exit Talk Talk-Spirit Of Eden Faust- The Last LP Nuova Era- l'Ultimo Viaggio Queensryche- Operation Mindcrime ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |