The 80s..the worst era for prog.

Noak wrote: Cardiacs-A Little Man And A House And The Whole World Window (one of the greatest albums ever at that) Aksak Maboul-Un peu de l'âme des bandits Etron Fou Leloublan-En public aux  Etats-Unis d'Amérique Samla Mammas Manna-Familjesprickor Art Bears-The World As It Is Today Dün-Eros Kräldjursanstalten-Voodoo Boogie Nya Ljudbolaget-Nya Ljudbolaget Wha Ha Ha-Shinutowika Betsu Von Zamla-Zamlaranamma Guernica released all three of their albums in the 80's, even though I'm a bit sceptical as to calling them ''Prog''. The Residents & Renaldo and the Loaf-Title in Limbo Univers Zero-UZED Present-Le poison qui rend fou Shub-Niggurath-Le morts von vite No Secrets in the Family-In a Certain Light We All Appear Green Non Credo-Reluctant Hosts Frank Zappa-You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 1 & 2 There's probably more great stuff from the 80's, but this is what I can think of now.

Great list. I have almost all of those.  Art Zoyd, is, for my tastes a big omission of course from your list.  News from Babel is another (very recommended).

4.45 | 9 ratings Sirens And Silences/Work Resumed On The Tower
1983 4.33 | 5 ratings Letters Home
1986

I have the compilation album.




Edited by Logan - March 05 2011 at 13:18

I love 80's music

80's was worst era for music generally. Thin, plastic sounds. That was like transition phase to exciting seventies to kick-ass nineties. Without Marillion, Toto, Queensryche, Rush and maybe King Crimson that would been total disaster.

2000-2010 has been a little disappointing too. Yes, wonderful albums and bands but not so excinting and innovative comparing to seventies. Too much safe and calculated stuff, and the quantity of copycats.... phew. Hundred different Dream Theater-wannabies, tons of melodic death metal bands that sounds all the same. Huge guitar walls but poor riffs.

Thank god there's some pearls in the river always!

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I was put in mind of this kind of topic due to a post in a poll-thread which had an Asia track as an option -- certain temporal limitation considerations commonly are not that important to me when it comes to topics or music.  While I agree with Dean's point, and think that using dates are too arbitrary, as ludicrous as Walter's cut-off line for worthy music, there are aesthetics, and music movements, that are rooted in the 80s, or late 70's to 80's (the music/ bands I often like from that period were producing albums from the late 70s on.  I like the austere, technological aspect of much music from the time.  I don't like other aesthetics that were dominant in much music in the 80s -- stuff that is all too often really cheesy to my ears.  Art Zoyd, yes, love it, a lot of other music, no.


Edited by Logan - March 05 2011 at 12:06

I can't believe how many folks say that Discipline-era KC was "okay"!  That was FANTASTIC stuff!   

the 80' were o.k, there was some cringe worthy synths around and some over the top production but the ratio of crap to good was similar to most decades it just had less masterpieces Plenty of solid efforts though:

Edited by topographicbroadways - March 05 2011 at 11:51

Hiwatter wrote: 80s were by far the worst music era. I hate 98% of 80s, slick production, all digital synths, guitar playing, no originality, atmosphere.

Edited by boo boo - March 05 2011 at 11:44

 I've never really got this "decades" thing - that's a purely abstract construct, an accidental alignment of dates on a calendar set 429 years ago by Pope Greg the 13th. Decades just reflect the fact that we count in base-10. Nothing, especially music, transitions at the beginning of each decade, nothing, especially music, has a life-span of exactly ten years. If musical fads are cyclic (and some are, some aren't) then they are very unlikely to be on a ten year cycle.

Using the prog term to include the various categories at PA, then, according to my collection, the 90's is the worst decade.  I belive that RIO/ Avant was flourishing in the 80s, which makes it a very strong decade for my tastes.  And there's something about a particular cold aesthetic that I was hearing in the 80s that appeals to me.  Though I could think of many albums I love from the 80s. Art Zoyd is a particular fave band of mine from the time (also love Art Zoyd's 70's albums). In the 80s I didn't know Art Zoyd, but back then I really liked Kraftwerk's Computer World (a pretty good example of the colder music I enjoyed at the time and continues to appeal).  There's too much, I thought, great 80's experimental music that I've forgotten that I would hear thanks to a university radio station program which played really interesting to me music.

The 90's was something of a musical wasteland to me in the 90's, but then "arthouse" film was my passion during that decade.