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Poll Question: Which of these is your favorite?
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Eskaton's 4 Visions is the one that I can be most confident would make my top 25. I adore that album. It was the first Zeuhl album that I loved, and I still like to return to it regularly. I'm also voting for Kate Bush's The Dreaming which I've appreciated more and more over time. And I'm also voting for the Cure's Disintegration. It's been a while since I last listened to it in full, I have it on cassette, but I used to really love that album and feel like listening to it again. I played it so much back in the day, but right now I'm going to put on another 80s album that I haven't listened to in a long while, Bauhaus In the Flat Field, and then some of my usual Art Zoyd fare. I really love the 80s. I also like Cocteau Twins, but I've never heard Treasure in full. That I will soon rectify.
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Great list.

Voted The Cure, KC, The Police and PG.
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Originally posted by Mortte Mortte wrote:

  I like quite much Japan three eighties albums, but haven´t heard any Sylvian solos. Should I?

Not that I know your taste very well, but yes you should, definitely! Brilliant Trees is absolutely wonderful. Secrets of the Beehive is about as good, and the two in between are not bad either. Later he becomes very experimental and sometimes atonal and structureless. I love much of his later stuff as well (how much more do I treasure those who start in pop music and then, more mature, go into adventurous territory than those who take the other direction), although surely it isn't everyone's cup of tea. Speaking of Japan, Rain Tree Crow and Mick Karn's solo work are also not to be ignored! 
Ok, thanx, I will listen it tomorrow!
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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Voted for King Crimson, Steve Tibbets & Eskaton on this list.

It was a great decade for Avant, I also have

Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
This Heat - Deceit
Univers Zero - Ceux De Dehors
Cardiacs - A Little Man ...
Zamla Mammaz Manna - Familjesprickor
Shub Niggurath - Les Mort Vont Vite
Thinking Plague - In This Life
Art Zoyd - Pase IV

You stuck with the hard-core prog, I went after the "prog lite," jazz, and classical. 

All of the albums you list here from the Avant world I've only gotten to know since I joined PA in 2008. Many have impressed and climbed into favor, I just don't think I'll ever be as much of fan of the Avant-RIO world as I am of "Prog Lite." 

Your list of options are excellent, loads of good music there.
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These are probably my favourite albums from the 80's (international):

The Clash: Sandinista and Combat Rock
Talking Heads: Remain in Light
The Police: Zenyatta Mondatta and Synchronicity
David Bowie: Scary Monsters
David Byrne and Brian Eno: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
R.E.M.: Murmur and Document
Paul Simon: Graceland
U2: The Joshua Tree
Sting: Nothing Like the Sun
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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

To my mind and ears (and soul) Ghost in the Machine is the band's only album that nears the realm of progressive rock. It was, in my opinion, Andy Summers' album. Note his concurrent work with Robert Fripp (I Advance Masked) All those sustained MIDI-guitar chords, etc. Even the lyrical content is more sci-fi /  supernatural / spiritual than their other stuff (which I was really into at the time).


I won't disagree with that, but the Police are not really a prog band anyway. Ghost probably stands as their most experimental album overall, but there are other cases too where a band's most experimental album isn't necessarily one of their best. This is f.e. the case with Their Satanic Majesties Request (which I actually enjoy despite the harsh criticism of it, but it is by no means one of the Stones' greatest albums).
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Voted for King Crimson, Steve Tibbets & Eskaton on this list.

It was a great decade for Avant, I also have

Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
This Heat - Deceit
Univers Zero - Ceux De Dehors
Cardiacs - A Little Man ...
Zamla Mammaz Manna - Familjesprickor
Shub Niggurath - Les Mort Vont Vite
Thinking Plague - In This Life
Art Zoyd - Pase IV

You stuck with the hard-core prog, I went after the "prog lite," jazz, and classical. 

All of the albums you list here from the Avant world I've only gotten to know since I joined PA in 2008. Many have impressed and climbed into favor, I just don't think I'll ever be as much of fan of the Avant-RIO world as I am of "Prog Lite." 
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

man...  trying to come up with a list of favorite albums from that decade.. impossible man.. even a top 5 is rough.

Nice list Drew.. you were close on one one of top 5's so I'll shoot it a vote


Talking Heads - Remain in Light... what better album to usher in the 80's..  and for many in the know.. it was considered the single best album of the 80's - and I won't argue with those "in the know" 

Def Leppard - HIgh and Dry..  back when they rocked.. and good god almighty this album ruled... Agreed: the band could rock--had a great sound palette, though I liked Pyromania best  this was one of the favorite put on before heading out on a night of sacking and pillaging... I know: there's video footage of you in the Catholic University women's dorm...

Tears for Fears - Song From the Big Chair..   the debut was good Drew.. but this was their masterpiece no doubt and one of the best albums of the decade. A lot of these albums were debuts or the first album's I'd heard by these bands. I seem to be bowled over by first impressions; from then on it's hard for me to like a band's other efforts cuz those first impressions are so powerful and standard-bearing. 

can't have a top 5 80's album list.. or a top 3 IMO without this gem Songs  was more polished and commercial, The Hurting just was so raw and refreshing. Plus it has "Start of the Breakdown"--one of my favorite "air drumming" adrenaline pumpers of all-time.

Talk Talk - Sprit of Eden.. .while everyone else was playing musical checkers.. even if much was high quality.. this was chess to everyone's checkers..  so ahead of everyone else.. it took the genre it inspired another decade to form up. While I LOVE the ultra-cool Steely Dan look and sound of "Life's What You Make It" the rest of the band's output makes me think they were just Joe Jackson wannabees (I was a big Joe Jackson fan--loved his experimentalism and emotion). 

and if Remain in Light was the perfect album to usher out the 70's and bring in the 80's this one was the perfect exit to the joy and general happiness that was the 80's and into the much darker 90's

Jane's Addiction - Nothing Shocking.. again.. years ahead of were everyone else would be going. This is one I don't know -- but will definitely check out as I've never heard a Jane's Addiction song that I didn't love. (Though, again, it is my opinion that LA Psych rock band WIG [West Indian Girl] took their sound and one-upped them.) 


Thanks, Micky! 
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Originally posted by The Anders The Anders wrote:

I do like Ghost In the Machine, but my favourite Police albums are Zenyatta Mondatta and Synchronicity. Ghost has some really great tracks (its hit singles first and foremost, as well as "Rehumanise Yourself" and "Secret Journey"), but overall I think it is rather inconsistent. Synchronicity, in comparison, is a much more cohesive journey in my view, and it probably represents Sting's peak as a songwriter (the only track I struggle to appreciate is Andy Summers' "Mother").

To my mind and ears (and soul) Ghost in the Machine is the band's only album that nears the realm of progressive rock. It was, in my opinion, Andy Summers' album. Note his concurrent work with Robert Fripp (I Advance Masked) All those sustained MIDI-guitar chords, etc. Even the lyrical content is more sci-fi /  supernatural / spiritual than their other stuff (which I was really into at the time).

I think I own everything The Police and Sting did up to about 1994 and Ghost remains the only one I go back to.
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Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

I don’t know most of these (bar the Prog titles) - but - someone here likes Swing Out Sister ??
I had the hots for Corrine D in the 80’s. It’s better to travel - very good album. Communion was my fave song, though I haven’t listened to this for over 20 years.
Oh, Eskaton is my pick from those I’m familiar with.


I can never hear "Surrender" enough times--especially the "Stuff Gun Mix"! Corrine's laughs! The trumpet! The beats!
‘Stuff Gun Mix’ I recall that version - something about a lucidious vacuum cleaner mouth haha ?? I may be digging this one out coz it’s been a long time.
My 80’s picks, outside of Prog, are Sade, Kajagoogoo, Haircut One Hundred, Japan and a handful of Thrash bands.

Merde! Pelican West is one that should be on that list--somewhere near the top as it currently sits at #26 on my list of 600 ALL-TIME FAVORITE ALBUMS! Damn!
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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Many good ones there...
Cocteau twins (Treasure is my favorite Cocteau lp)
Bush
Crimson
XTC (one of my favorite non prog bands) 
Metheny (been rediscovering his music and buying all the original early vinyl)
Police
Gabriel

What XTC isn't prog?!?!?!? (I honestly thought all of these albums and bands were carrying the progressive rock torch!)
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Solaris, The Cure and King Crimson.

From that period, I prefer listening to hard-rock/heavy-metal albums. 


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multiple votes allowed?
ok, Simple Minds and The Fixx then. 
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Voted for King Crimson, Steve Tibbets & Eskaton on this list.

It was a great decade for Avant, I also have

Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
This Heat - Deceit
Univers Zero - Ceux De Dehors
Cardiacs - A Little Man ...
Zamla Mammaz Manna - Familjesprickor
Shub Niggurath - Les Mort Vont Vite
Thinking Plague - In This Life
Art Zoyd - Pase IV

Most of these bands were off the radar in the UK during the 80s, despite the inaugural RIO festival in 78.  I only became aware of many of these albums decades later.  However, I first saw the Cardiacs at Stonehenge in 84...
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Voted for King Crimson, Steve Tibbets & Eskaton on this list.

It was a great decade for Avant, I also have

Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
This Heat - Deceit
Univers Zero - Ceux De Dehors
Cardiacs - A Little Man ...
Zamla Mammaz Manna - Familjesprickor
Shub Niggurath - Les Mort Vont Vite
Thinking Plague - In This Life
Art Zoyd - Pase IV
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

man...  trying to come up with a list of favorite albums from that decade.. impossible man.. even a top 5 is rough.

Nice list Drew.. you were close on one one of top 5's so I'll shoot it a vote


Talking Heads - Remain in Light... what better album to usher in the 80's..  and for many in the know.. it was considered the single best album of the 80's

Def Leppard - HIgh and Dry..  back when they rocked.. and good god almighty this album ruled... this was one of the favorite put on before heading out on a night of sacking and pillaging...

Tears for Fears - Song From the Big Chair..   the debut was good Drew.. but this was their masterpiece no doubt and one of the best albums of the decade.

can't have a top 5 80's album list.. or a top 3 IMO without this gem

Talk Talk - Sprit of Eden.. .while everyone else was playing musical checkers.. even if much was high quality.. this was chess to everyone's checkers..  so ahead of everyone else.. it took the genre it inspired another decade to form up

and if Remain in Light was the perfect album to usher out the 70's and bring in the 80's this one was the perfect exit to the joy and general happiness that was the 80's and into the much darker 90's

Jane's Addiction - Nothing Shocking.. again.. years ahead of were everyone else would be going.


That is one stunning list of albums (on top of the already great one that was originally given). So good that I've got to listen to the Jane's Addiction album that I don't know yet.
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If it wasn't for the King Crimson I wouldn't have voted for the Police album. Kate Bush is a really good album as well. And U2 Boy is just about their best album although maybe not as good as Joshua Tree.
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man...  trying to come up with a list of favorite albums from that decade.. impossible man.. even a top 5 is rough.

Nice list Drew.. you were close on one one of top 5's so I'll shoot it a vote


Talking Heads - Remain in Light... what better album to usher in the 80's..  and for many in the know.. it was considered the single best album of the 80's

Def Leppard - HIgh and Dry..  back when they rocked.. and good god almighty this album ruled... this was one of the favorite put on before heading out on a night of sacking and pillaging...

Tears for Fears - Song From the Big Chair..   the debut was good Drew.. but this was their masterpiece no doubt and one of the best albums of the decade.

can't have a top 5 80's album list.. or a top 3 IMO without this gem

Talk Talk - Sprit of Eden.. .while everyone else was playing musical checkers.. even if much was high quality.. this was chess to everyone's checkers..  so ahead of everyone else.. it took the genre it inspired another decade to form up

and if Remain in Light was the perfect album to usher out the 70's and bring in the 80's this one was the perfect exit to the joy and general happiness that was the 80's and into the much darker 90's

Jane's Addiction - Nothing Shocking.. again.. years ahead of were everyone else would be going.
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Voted for Prefab Sprout: Steve McQueen was a good album. Not the best on the list but... 


Eighties: Some of my fave album:

1) Springsteen  all the albums: The River/Nebraska/Born in the Usa/Tunnel of Love

2) John Hiatt Bring The Family /Slow Turning

3) U2 October /The Unforgettable Fire/ The Joshua Tree / Rattle and Hum

4) Simple Minds Empire and Dance /New Gold Dream /Street Fighting Years

5) Bryan Adams Reckless

6) Toto Toto IV /Isolation

7) Fabrizio De Andrè Creuza de Ma

8) CCCP Etica Etnica Epica Pathos

9) Peter Gabriel  IV

10) Yes 90125

11) Marillion Misplaced Childhood

12) The Smiths The Queen Is Dead

13) The Housemartins  London 0 - Hull 4

14) Prefab Sprout  Steve McQueen

15) Suzanne Vega I /Solitude Standing

16) Tracy Chapman I / Crossroads

17) REM: Life's Rich Pageant

18) Nick Cave: From Her to Eternity

19) Police: Synchronicity

20) Sting: The dream of the Blue Turtles / Nothing like the Sun

21) Noiseworks : Touch

22) The The : Dusk

23) King Crimson: Beat

24) Dire Straits: Making Movies /Brothers in Arms

25) Talk Talk: The Colour of Spring / Spirit Of Eden


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of these, Simple Minds, though if it was either of David Sylvian's subsequent 2 albums he would have won easily
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