Favourite Prog Albums Year by Year: 1980-1989

1980: Rush - Permanent Waves

1980 Yes Drama

Edited by Lewian - May 17 2021 at 16:22

1980 - Hawkwind - Levitation

Steve Wyzard wrote: 1980 Mike Rutherford: Smallcreep's Day 1981 Saga: Worlds Apart 1982 Asia: Asia 1983 Yes: 90125 1984 Roger Hodgson: In the Eye of the Storm 1985 Rush: Power Windows 1986 ELP: Emerson, Lake, and Powell 1987 Geoff Downes: The Light Program 1988 Three: To the Power of Three 1989 Saga: The Beginner's Guide to Throwing Shapes

1980  Permanent Waves  Rush
1981  Moving Pictures. Rush
1982  Eye In The Sky  Alan Parsons Project
1983  Tales From The Lush Attic  IQ
1984  Powerslave  Iron Maiden
1985  Misplaced Childhood  Marillion
1986  Invisible Touch  Genesis
1987  Nomzamo  IQ
1988  Once Around The World  It Bites
1989  Gretchen Goes To Nebraska  King's X

1980 Yes - Drama

^ I love most in your list, and most of that could have made mine as easily as my selections (well we have two in common anyway).

I think I was planning to go with In This Life rather than Cardiacs at first, but I have some Cardiacs loyalty. I love 80s Thinking Plague. Various of my choices are not my favourite album by the act, but it also was about representation in a much longer list covering almost 120 albums over almost 60 years and because another band had an album I wanted in that year. For the very great Dead can Dance, I would loved to go with Spleen and Ideal in my list but I wanted to mention Kate Bush.

I'm just coping and re-shaping the choices I made in a General Music Discussions topic where I asked people to start at 2023 and work your way down the years while doping one album in PA and one not in PA for every year. I did down to 1965 and then started on a second list of duos.

These were my two sets for the 1980s (I love this decade which some are dismissive of):

In PA:

1980: Art Zoyd - Génération sans futur
1981: Eskaton - 4 Visions
1982: Laurie Anderson - Big Science
1983: Art Zoyd - Les espaces inquiets
1984: Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance
1985: Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
1986: Camberwell Now - The Ghost Trade
1987: Swans - Children of God
1988: Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Symphonic Suite AKIRA
1989: Cardiacs - On Land and in the Sea

Not in PA:

1980: Douji Morita - Un, deux, trois
1981: Phew - Phew
1982: Yasuaki Shimizu - Kakashi
1983: Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels
1984: Cocteau Twins - Treasure
1985: Tuxedomoon - Holy Wars
1986: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Your Funeral ... My Trial
1987: The Lounge Lizards - No Pain for Cakes
1988: Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll
1989: The Cure - Disintegration

The astute reader might surmise from the above list that I really like Cocteau Twins (and Art Zoyd from the one before) and would be right. My lists would be rather different today even though that is not a very old topic that I pulled this from. Often I do like to try to do one per artist but harder still when it's about many decades of music.