How ironic that the first year that sees us escape from what is supposedly the most accursed decade in the history of progressive rock happens to be the first year for which I am unable to list 10 prog albums I like .

1. Ozric Tentacles - Erpland

2. Mr. Sirius - Dirge

3. Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Ecophony Gaia

4. Naked City - Naked City

5. U Totem - U Totem

6. Third Ear Band - Magic Music

7. Happy The Man - Beginnings

8. Eric Woolfson - Freudiana

9. After Crying - Overground Music

Your determination to go on with these polls is all the more admirable.

 Other then that I can't think of much.

Hawkwind - Space Bandits

Iona - Iona 

Janus - Out of Time

Sally Oldfield - Natasha 

Prefab Sprout - Jordan: The Comeback

Utopian Fields - White Pigeon, You Clean

Rick Wakeman - Phantom Power

Roger Waters - The Wall: Live in Berlin

I quite like all of these

Dead Can Dance - Aion
Rabih Abou-Khalil - Roots & Sprouts
A Gethsémani - Ottoman Violine
Igor Len - Здесь
Nimal - Voix de surface

Vigil In A Wilderness Of Mirrors - Fish

Faith Hope Love - King's X

That's it....

Not on any list ... sadly enough ... 

Peter Hammill -- Out of Water with a couple of fabulous pieces in it.

Seems weird to me not seeing PH mentioned in these polls, which makes me think that folks have not heard a lot of that material, which is excellent. "A Way Out" is totally fantastic and deserving of a play ... but sadly some folks want idiot proof lyrics and stories that don't mean anything to be able to catch the far out way that this piece concludes both the album and the piece itself. I wonder if we "get it", or not.

And no, I will never EVER miss a chance to say the words! 

Sieges Even - Steps

I'll fill in as i remember more albums 

Ha, in recent weeks I catalogued my music collection (long live the barcode scanner!, well for those things with a barcode...), so I can now participate much easier in this kind of threads.

So, a couple of my 1990 favourites (I even got to 10!):

- Flairck - Alive

- Ozric Tentacles - Erpland

- Arrakeen - Patchwork

- Fish - Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors
- Dead Can Dance - Aion
- Versailles - La cathédrale du temps*
- Queensryche - Empire

- The Penguin Café Orchestra - "Still Life" at the Penguin Café

- Geoff Mann - Loud Symbols

- Jan Akkerman - The Noise of Art

Non-prog:

- Depeche Mode - Violator

- Sinéad O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

...

* On PA the release date is 1991, on Discogs (where my database is retrieving data from) it's 1990... This maybe allows me to mention them again next year...

In no order

Ezra Winston - Ancient Afternoons

Psychotic Waltz - A Social Grace

After Crying - Overground Music

Queensrÿche - Empire

King`s X - Faith Hope Love

Collage - Basnie

Fish - Vigil In A Wilderness Of Mirrors

Ride - Nowhere

Bjork - Gling gló

Anthony Phillips - Slow Dance

Honorable mentions:

Mr. Sirius - Dirge

Nocturnus - The Key

Living Colour - Time`s Up

Pale Saints - The comforts Of Madness

Sieges Even - Steps

12           Nimal      Voix De Surface                   

11           Clearlight               Clearlight Symphony II       

11           Dead Can Dance  Aion       

11           Madredeus           Existir                    

10           Devil Doll               Eliogabalus

10           Epidermis              Feel Me                

10           Fish         Vigil In a Wilderness of Mirrors                       

10           Hatfield and The North       Live 1990 (aka Access All Areas)      

10           High Tide               Ancient Gates                      

10           Justine    Suite                      

10           Khan, Steve           Public Access                       

10           Mingus, Charles   Epitaph  

10           Noir Désir              Du Ciment Sous Les Plaines              

10           Outback                 Baka                       

10           Vander, Christian / Offering              Offering part 3 / part 4                      

10           White Noise          IV - Inferno                           

09           Catherine, Philip  Oscar     

09           Corea, Chick / Elektric Band              Inside Out                             

09           Ensemble Raye, L'               Meme en Hiver, Comme un Pinson dans l'Eau                             

09           Forever Einstein   Artificial Horizon                 

09           Galie       III

09           Harper, Roy           Once     

09           Scott Henderson and Tribal Tech    Nomad  

09           Heroes del Silencio              Senderos de Traición                         

09           Litfiba     El Diablo

09           Ozric Tentacles     Erpland                 

09           Schell, Daniel & Karo           The Secret Of Bwich                                           

09           Temiz, Okay          Misket                   

09           Third Ear Band      Live Ghosts                           

09           Henry Threadgill / Very Very Circus Spirit of Nuff...Nuff             

09           Thule      Natt                        

09                Neil Young & Crazy Horse Ragged Glory

nice to see Living Colour mentioned here, great band, i'm gonna add them to my list as well. 

I'm going to add Prefab Sprout's album to my list too, at the risk of being criticised by Cristi for adding a non-prog band to my list. 

I'm sure Ezra Winston's Ancient Afternoons is well-worth a listen too if it's anywhere near as good as Myth of the Chrysavides. 

don't play the victim, you make it look like I'm constantly picking on you, which is not true. 

Not at all! I enjoy our little tete-a-tetes, even if no one else does. 

Fred Frith - Step Across the Border

Dead Can Dance - Aion

Ozric Tentacles - Erpland

Art Zoyd/J. A. Deane/J. Greinke

Legendary Pink Dots - Crushed Velvet Apocalypse

Naked City - Naked City

Clearlight - Symphony II

Peter Hammill - Out of Water (yes mosh I occasionally list Hammill!)

Eno & Cale - Wrong Way Up

Mike Oldfield - Amarok

I forgot David Byrne - Rei Momo in 1989, or rather didn't know he is listed on PA. Quite enjoyable album. In 1989 it was around rank 8-12 so I didn't fill it in there, but surely it would've been top 10 in 1990.

2. Už Jsme Doma - Uprostřed Slov (In the Middle of Words)

3. Ozric Tentacles - Erpland

4. Mastermind - Volume One

5. Social Tension - It Remainds Me of Those Days

6. U Totem - U Totem

7. Mr. Sirius - Dirge

8. Minimum Vital - Sarabandes

9. Solaris - 1990

10. Fish - Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors

Honorable mentions:

Tiemko - Océan

Kalaban - Don't Panic

Ruins - Stonehenge

Clearlight - Clearlight Symphony II

Malibran - The Wood of Tales

Fields of the Nephilim - Elizium (my one non-PA entry)

Still haven't had a chance to listen to the Naked City debut. I imagine that would be somewhere in this list.

Hi Psychedelic Paul!! i strongly recommend you that album of Ezra Winston

Living colour its great!!, amazing band to see live

Saw your list and i forget to add Lush and MBV, LOVE sHOEGAZE

Thanks! I'll have a listen to Ezra Winston's tunes sometime soon on a contemporary afternoon. 

Really, my biggest motivation for keeping this series of polls going is that I'm curious to know about other people's tastes; I've already discovered a lot of cool new things thanks to it, and hopefully other people's recommendations in this thread will help me avoid embarrassments like this in the future

U Totem - U Totem

Naked City - Naked City

Mr. Sirius - Dirge

Art Zoyd / J.A. Deane / J. Greinke

Clearlight - Symphony II

Dead Can Dance - Aion

Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Ecophony Gaia

Offering - Offering Part III / Part IV

Devil Doll - Eliogabalus

Ozric Tentacles - Erpland

Albert Marcoeur - Ma vie avec elles

Oops, that's eleven.

Non-Prog bonus: Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks

1. Anthony Phillips - Slow Dance

2. Mike Oldfield - Amarok

3. Vangelis - The City

4. Andy Summers - Charming Snakes

5. Eric Woolfson - Freudiana

6. Barclay James Harvest - Welcome to the Show

7. Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom

8. Asia - Then and Now  

Thule- Natt

U Totem- U Totem

Offering- III/IV
Ur Kaos- A Terrible Beauty is Born

Sun Dial- Other Way Out

The Darkside- All That Noise

Yeah, me too. I'm like "1990"?  Uh....umm.....  But now I can cheat at look at other entries above, so:

Fish - Vigil In A Wilderness Of Mirrors

Mike Oldfield - Amarok

can't find anything else remotely interesting

Hi,

And strangely enough, of all of his albums, this one is the one that gets heard the most by me! It is a fun listen, and totally far out and interesting, and its "attention span" is much wider than most of his material, that sometimes repeats way too much! 

In general, I don't like to discuss each and every year in music. Both TD and KS were not dead, and they still produced marvelous material that is being ignored, not to mention PH and then a wee bit later VdGG. But at the time, there were also many great things coming up that few people were listening to, and too many of the material listed fits more into a popular vote than it does into a serious program and idea about progressive music and some folks that continued the shift and never left! 

While I like DCD, in many ways, they were too much of the New Age thing for me, and it had a bit too much plastic in it for my tastes. I much preferred the stuff Lisa did with KS later, which gave you a better idea of what she could add to the band DCD, but was never to be even considered because it was not something within the popular vein to sell their records by almost sounding exactly the same as before!

I thought of this, but it's a compilation that includes only two new songs. 

Four new songs actually: "Days Like These", "Prayin' 4 a Miracle", "Am I in Love?", and "Summer Can't Last Too Long". There's a different guitarist on all four, none of them Steve Howe!

you're right, my bad, 4 new songs. 

Steve Howe left after Alpha, their second album. That's like 83-84. 

Asturias - Brilliant Streams

Dead Can Dance - Aion

Harnakis - Numb Eyes, the Soul Revelation

Morrigan - Rides Out

Quaterna Requiem - Velha Gravura

Tri Yann - Belle et Rebelle

the following are honorable mentions:

Dan Ar Braz - Songs

Collage - Basnie

Osiris - Reflections

Red Jasper - Sting in the Tale

End of list...

the group reformed after close to 20 years of silence but their lead singer Davey Dodds didn't come back...flooring was surely more lucrative!  The two albums after the one I mentioned are their best and will deserve better than honorable mentions in those years

I need to check this one out; I know some of their later stuff and it's great indeed.

Not me 

I think I have at least one of those albums lying around somewhere. I haven't paid them enough attention admittedly but will try and dig whatever I have out later (I'm not very organised!).

cool..  Midsummer Night's Dream is excellent, Winter's Tale is almost as good.  Considering the time period, they don't get enough credit for playing even a small part in the prog revival.  But you gotta like your prog folk to get into them

I have Mares Nest listed as 1992 (the DVD, the album even 1995) and the Cassiber album as 1988. I'm not saying you're wrong, I just don't know better than what PA says. (Ah, it seems Mares Nest was recorded in 1990.)

Maybe for prog but what was coming out of Seattle around '90 and what would come out in the next few years was anything but bad.

maybe lesser? 

Edit:

Then, I saw in the thread that you thought about it , as well.

Edit 2:

And then I saw, you could write a lot - you're still suprising me, and I guess you can keep on doing that.