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    Posted: July 21 2021 at 08:35
Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Originally posted by Olape Olape wrote:

Lift - Meeresfahrt
Eloy - Live
Mona Lisa - Avant Qu'il Ne Soit Trop Tard
Iman - Califato Independiente
Novalis - Vielleicht Bist Du Ein Clown?
Bubu - Anabelas
Rush - Hemispheres 
Kraftwerk - The man machine
Grobschnitt - Solar Music Live
Kate Bush - The kick inside

Now this is a surprising list! I'd have thought I may be the only one here who knows that Lift album (it has some good stuff but I wouldn't have put it up there, anyway it's nice to see it mentioned). Some more great stuff that didn't make my list but surely would have without my absolute determination to cut at 10, such as Kate Bush, Eloy, Bubu, Grobschnitt - and some stuff I don't know myself (Iman, Mona Lisa) that I may check just based on the fact that it appears on this big fun list.

...actually I edited my list to put Bubu in, which in my system has the wrong year associated with it.

Thanks Lewian! The Lift album has a special place in my heart with the Meeresfahrt suite and Tagesreise as highlights. 1978 was a good year for music in both Germanys. 
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1. Cathedral Stained Glass Stories
2. Bubu Anabelas  
3. UK s/t
4. Dixie Dregs What If
5. Happy The Man Crafty Hands
6. Styx Pieces Of Eight
7. National Health Of Queues And Cans
8. Steve Hackett Please Don't Touch
9. Jethro Tull Heavy Horses
10. Rush Hemispheres

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Originally posted by Olape Olape wrote:

Lift - Meeresfahrt
Eloy - Live
Mona Lisa - Avant Qu'il Ne Soit Trop Tard
Iman - Califato Independiente
Novalis - Vielleicht Bist Du Ein Clown?
Bubu - Anabelas
Rush - Hemispheres 
Kraftwerk - The man machine
Grobschnitt - Solar Music Live
Kate Bush - The kick inside

Now this is a surprising list! I'd have thought I may be the only one here who knows that Lift album (it has some good stuff but I wouldn't have put it up there, anyway it's nice to see it mentioned). Some more great stuff that didn't make my list but surely would have without my absolute determination to cut at 10, such as Kate Bush, Eloy, Bubu, Grobschnitt - and some stuff I don't know myself (Iman, Mona Lisa) that I may check just based on the fact that it appears on this big fun list.

...actually I edited my list to put Bubu in, which in my system has the wrong year associated with it.


Edited by Lewian - July 20 2021 at 03:31
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

^ That's probably the first vote for Andrew Lloyd Webber in any PA poll. Tongue

probably true Smile

the album featured the entire line up of Colosseum II (Jon Hiseman , Gary Moore , John Mole and Don Airey) plus Julian Lloyd Webber (Cello) , Rod Argent and Barbara Thompson (Sax) . Some strong prog credentials there!
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Lift - Meeresfahrt
Eloy - Live
Mona Lisa - Avant Qu'il Ne Soit Trop Tard
Iman - Califato Independiente
Novalis - Vielleicht Bist Du Ein Clown?
Bubu - Anabelas
Rush - Hemispheres 
Kraftwerk - The man machine
Grobschnitt - Solar Music Live
Kate Bush - The kick inside
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1. UK - s/t
2. Bill Bruford - Feels Good To Me
3. Renaissance - A Song For All Seasons
4. Peter Gabriel - PG 2
5. Frank Zappa - Studio Tan
6. Steve Hackett - Please Don't Touch
7. Dixie Dregs - What If
8. National Health - s/t
9. Rush - Hemispheres
10. Genesis - And Then There Were Three
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:


Kraftwerk - Die Mensch-Maschine
 

Happy to see you back. I needed somebody else than me to list that one.
Nice to be remembered. And that's truly a perfect masterpiece of an album (They have quite I think)
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:


Kraftwerk - Die Mensch-Maschine
 

Happy to see you back. I needed somebody else than me to list that one.
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Nice year for music, although not so much for "classic prog"

The Residents - Duck Stab / Buster & Glen
National Health - National Health
Kraftwerk - Die Mensch-Maschine
Popol Vuh - Nosferatu (On the Way to a Little Way)
Klaus Schulze - "X"
Ex Vitae - Mandarine
Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses
Haruomi Hosono - Cochin Moon
Popol Vuh - Nosferatu: Brüder des Schattens - Söhne des Lichts
Magma - Attahk
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1978: The year of Robert Stigwood's Sgt.Pepper movie, the original Battlestar Galactica, Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park, and the Star Wars Holiday Special! For those of you who weren't there, it really was THAT kind of year.

1) Anthony Phillips - Wise After The Event
2) UK - UK
3) Saga - Saga
4) Rush - Hemispheres
5) Steve Hackett - Please Don't Touch
6) Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Watch
7) Alan Parsons Project - Pyramid
8) Styx - Pieces of Eight
9) Genesis - And Then There Were Three
10) Yes - Tormato 
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  1. Hemispheres - Rush
  2. Song For All Seasons - Renaissance
  3. David Gilmore -  S/T
  4. UK - UK
  5. What If - Dixie Dregs
  6. Feels Good To Me - Bruford
  7. Tormato - Yes
  8. Casino - Al  DiMeola
  9. And Then There Were Three - Genesis
  10.  Bursting Out - Jethro Tull
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Rush Hemispheres
Jethro Tull Heavy Horses
Renaissance A song for all Seasons
Yes Tormato
Camel Breathless
Genesis ATTW3
Peter Gabriel 2
UK s/t
Steve Hackett Please dont touch
BOC Some Enchanted Evening.
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Bubu - Anabelas
National Health - National Health
Van der Graaf Generator - Vital
Art Bears - Hopes and Fears
Magma - Attahk
National Health - Of Queues and Cures
Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses
Area - 1978: Gli Dei Se Ne Vanno, Gli Arrabbiati Restano!
Camel - A Live Record
Frank Zappa - Zappa In New York
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1. NINA HAGEN BAND Nina Hagen Band
2. UK UK
3. HAROLD BUDD Pavillion of Dreams
4. FLAIRCK Variaties Op Een Dame
5. BABYLON Babylon
6. STEVE REICH Music for 18 Musicians
7. KLAUS SCHULZE X
8. MIKE OLDFIELD Incantations
9. GROBSCHNITT Solar Musik Live
10. CHICK COREA The Mad Hatter

11. JEAN-LUC PONTY Cosmic Messenger
12. ANNETTE PEACOCK X-Dreams
13. NATIONAL HEALTH Of Queues and Cures
14. ANTHONY PHILLIPS Private Parts & Pieces
15. PAUL WINTER CONSORT Common Ground
16. BRUFORD Feels Good to Me
17. REO SPEEDWAGON You Can't Tune a Fish, But You Can Tune a Piano
18. STEVE HACKETT Please Don't Touch
19. ANTHONY PHILLIPS Wise After the Event
20. ZYMA Thoughts

21. FERMÁTA Huascaran
22. EDEN Erwartung
23. NEUSCHWANSTEIN Battlement
24. RONNIE LAWS Flame
25. ANGE Guet-Apens
26. GÒTIC Escenes
27. TOTO Toto 
28. SBB Slovenian Girls
29. THE MUFFINS Manna/Mirage
30. CATHEDRAL Stained Glass Stories
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I actually have and like that album.
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^ That's probably the first vote for Andrew Lloyd Webber in any PA poll. Tongue
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Genesis - And Then There Were Three
UK - UK
Mike Oldfield - Incantations
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
Manfred Mann's Earthband - Watch
Yes - Tormato
Andrew Lloyd Webber - Variations
Rush - Hemispheres
Jean Michel Jarre - Equinox
Vangelis - Beabourg
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1. National Health - National Health
2. National Health - Of Queues And Cures
3. Brand X - Masques
4. The Muffins - Manna / Mirage
5. Bruford - Feels Good To Me
6. Genesis - ... And Then There Were Three...
7. Al Di Meola - Casino
8. Frank Zappa - Studio Tan
9. Jean-Luc Ponty - Cosmic Messenger
10. U.K. - U.K.

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- Area - 1978 Gli Dei Se Ne Vanno, Gli Arrabbiati Restano!
- Dixie Dregs - What If
- Gilgamesh - Another Fine Tune You've Got Me Into
- Steve Hillage - Green
- Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Expresso II
- Soft Head - Rogue Element
- Soft Machine - Alive & Well
- The Brecker Brothers - Heavy Metal Be-Bop
- Weather Report - Mr. Gone
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Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Watch
National Health - National Health
Camel - Breathless
Renaissance - A Song for All Seasons
Kraftwerk - Mensch-Maschine
Hoelderlin - Live Traumstadt
Novalis - Vielleicht bist du ein Clown?
Tangerine Dream - Cyclone
Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Expresso II


Edited by Lewian - August 02 2021 at 18:21
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just an amazing year
in alpha order

Dan Ar Braz - Allez Dire a la Ville
Barclay James Harvest - XII
Paul Brett - Interlife
Camel - Breathless
Carol of Harvest - s/t
Eden - Erwartung
Garolou- s/t
Illusion - s/t
Itoiz - s/t
Jade Warrior - Way of the Sun
Jane - Age of Madness
Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses
Minotaurus - Fly Away
Novalis - Veillicht...
Passport - Ataraxia
Pell Mell - Only a Star
Sally Oldfield - Water Bearer
Renaissance - A Song for all Seasons
Tangerine Dream - Cyclone
Jeff Wayne - War of the Worlds


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