25 of my favourite releases from 1981

Present, This Heat, Art Bears, and Kultivator. Another day of waking up to paper towels and soluble pectin.

1981 - weird times.  Then, I wasn't aware of the RIO releases (UZ, Present) and instead I was off to see Hawkwind and Camel.  We were hoping for a return to form for our 70s heroes that never came.

Very nice find, I wasn't aware Holger and Jaki had done some work with Eurythmics.

Edited by Lewian - March 08 2025 at 11:23

Eider Stellaire I with Retrospektïw III close behind.

^ Thanks. I have and like Serge Bringolf's Vision and the Alain Eckert Quartet, so if those are eligible for the years, then those should be listed as faves of mine.

^^ I will double-check then I can change The Muffins release date and I too knew The Present as 1980. Yep, it's 80. I will change both dates at awesomeprog.

Logan wrote: ^ This I think is begging for an AwesomeProg list.

I'm showing Present as 1980 but I'm post it anyway. Muffins - <185> is listed as 1980 on AP though it is 1981 and would be in my top ten if I could list it there.

1. Univers Zéro - Ceux Du Dehors [BC] [SPO]
2. Eskaton - 4 Visions
3. Present - Triskaidekaphobie [BC]
4. Art Zoyd - Symphonie pour le jour où brûleront les cités [AP Prog] [SPO]
5. This Heat - Deceit [BC] [SPO]
6. Glenn Branca - The Ascension [AP]
7. Dün - Eros [SPO]
8. Art Bears - The World As It Is Today
9. King Crimson - Discipline [SPO]
10. Kultivator - Barndomens Stigar [BC] [SPO]
11. Patrick Gauthier - Bébé Godzilla
12. Magma - Retrospektïw I-II (disc 1)
13. Siouxsie and The Banshees - Juju [AP Prog] [SPO]
14. Eider Stellaire - Eider Stellaire I
15. Motörhead - No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith [AP Non-Prog]
16. Black Sabbath - Mob Rules [SPO]
17. Iron Maiden - Killers [SPO]
18. Nick Mason - Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports [SPO]
19. Massacre - Killing Time
20. Fred Frith - Speechless
21. Serge Bringolf - Vision
22. Saxon - Denim And Leather [AP Non-Prog]
23. Rush - Moving Pictures [SPO]

Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - March 07 2025 at 20:37

^ This I think is begging for an AwesomeProg list.

Bauhaus - Mask, my own personal favourite of theirs

^ Das Boot is quite special to me (pronounced more like the English "boat" for any who might not know). While it would not be until years later that I heard the soundtrack on its own, I saw the movie release of Das Boot in the cinema and adored it. I have since seen fuller/ longer versions. It was the first film I saw in the theatre with subtitles, and for considerable years non-English subtitled films were my preference. Non-English language releases are still a major part of my diet when it comes to film and TV. My wife and I have been trying to train ourselves recently to watch TV without subtitles or captions.

Anyway, I think Doldinger came out with a wonderful soundtrack for it. I do love that time for much soundtrack music, including things like Vangelis, Giorgio Moroder, John Carpenter... SCTV did a parody of Dad Boot that was not aboot (as some rather pronounce "about" in Canada) a U-boat, called Das Boobs. One might find it on the boob tube.

EDIT: I did find your joke funny, by the way, in case this post comes across as a too serious response on the whole.

Edited by Logan - March 07 2025 at 15:03

^ Nice.

^^ It is a fabulous year, thanks for such efforts. I love Eurythmics but have not listened to full albums (maybe one full one in the 80s in the car travelling from Whistler to Vancouver, memories, sweet vague memories). And I hope to give that Okay Temiz album a listen at some time. I don't recall hearing more than his Oriental Wind before, which is terrific. I do plan to spin Discipline again. I don't actually own the album and not have given it as much of a chance as I probably should -- one or two full spins, and sometimes I have to be in the right mind and headspace, lacking distractions. I sometimes to have listen at the right time, and in the right part of my music journey. Not an album I would say I disliked when I tried it, but not one that really resonated with me either.