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Poll Question: Which band had the most disappointing 1980s albums?
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If we limit the possibilities to only STUDIO albums released in the years from 1980 to 1989, which of these established (not new) bands had the most disappointing releases? I chose 7 bands that released at least 3 (and as many as 6) studio albums in that decade. If you have another artist you'd like to nominate, please let us know. (FYI: Pink Floyd only released 2 albums, and ELP only released 1 album during those years, which I didn't feel was a strong enough sample size.)
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King Crimson as there is nothing I like from that decade by them (and honestly it should have been called The BBF Project or something like that). 
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Other - GTR
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Genesis for Many Too Many pop songs in the 1980's. Confused
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almost reluctantly, I'm going to have to vote for KC... it is ironic that more than most, they attempted to keep the Prog element alive in their music and Discipline in particular really is quite original. It's just that of all the above, I struggle to sit through a whole album by them from that era, they do very little for me... and I actually really like Thrak, so go figure...

A shame you've included Supertramp; there are some lovely songs on Famous Last Words and as I've said before, 'Brother... ' is one of the finest 80's albums released by a predominantly 70's band.

The music of Vangelis and TD held up well in the 80's, but their music was in part made for the decade. I also like 80's Eloy, though I expect I'll be in the minority in saying that!  LOL
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Moody Blues
I don't like anything they did after their old classic albums (1966-1972). 

At least with KC I can respect what they did in the 80s (my least favorite period of theirs). 
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I went for Genesis (2 awful and one just bad s/t albums), but I should've said Moody Blues, because all five (or 6) albums are atrocious.

I sort of disagree that Supertramp is in the list, because they made a slightly sub-par album (FLW) , one stupendous album (Brother) and one awful (FaaB), but if you add Hodgson's two albums, this makes another VG album (Storm) and one bad one (Haļ 2). So they might be the best-faring until 85 (with Crimson - by then disbanded), but after that, they s(t)unk. 

Rush is only saved by Moving Pictures... the rest is downright bad to awful

Tull's out put was also rather poor (IMHO), as Crest was the only OK album; but UW is pure crap and the previous two were 





Edited by Sean Trane - 3 hours 20 minutes ago at 03:38
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The 80s were a terrible time for prog.  Even the neo-prog movement had fizzled out by the mid-80s but sticking to the list, I stopped buying Genesis in the 80s,  I thought 90125 was OK (but it has not aged well) and as for the rest...(ELPowell was decent).  Only Tull weathered the 80s well.  For me personally, the appearance of Steve Hillage with The Orb in Brixton meant the 80s were finally over...
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Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

A shame you've included Supertramp; there are some lovely songs on Famous Last Words and as I've said before, 'Brother... ' is one of the finest 80's albums released by a predominantly 70's band. >>> ClapClap You can add Hodgson Eye Of The Storm in there as well. 

The music of Vangelis and TD held up well in the 80's, but their music was in part made for the decade. I also like 80's Eloy, though I expect I'll be in the minority in saying that!  LOL

I think the 80's held up somewhat OK until 84, but really started to sink in the second half.

Even Tangerine Dream, though weaker after Franke & Baumann left, they managed to remain somewhat interesting (the Schmoelling years) until 85 or so.
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:


I think the 80's held up somewhat OK until 84, but really started to sink in the second half.

Even Tangerine Dream, though weaker after Franke & Baumann left, they managed to remain somewhat interesting (the Schmoelling years) until 85 or so.

Agreed... Live Miles (1987) and Franke's departure is my cut off... 
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