8/1/81: Post-MTV Prog

Steve Wyzard wrote: Jared wrote: what do you think of Mike's Taurus II 24:45 (Side 1) and Orabidoo 13:03 (Side 2)? No, Incantations it certainly ain't, but it's both a brave and quality album to release in 1982, esp after Platinum and QE2? Don't forget Carl Palmer's pre-Asia guest appearance on "Mount Teidi"!

Depois do Fim was actually recorded in 1977

Hahaha! Wow. So someone let a recording sit on a shelf for whopping 6 years and released it after the music genre it represented had become completely fricking irrelevant. Great job, Som-Arte record label executives. Not!

Day/Month/Year is much better

I wouldn't say it's better. The reason one might believe in its superiority is because they're not American and simply used to that format.

Year/Month/Day is the best because chronological order is the same as alphabetical order.

There you go. That's the only logical way imho for the reason you brought up.

But anyway, the poll is stupid because it pushes a "1st world centric narrative. In poorer countries, such as the post Eastern Bloc ones or non-commonwealth states in general, incredible complex prog music was still recorded post August 1981! Examples:

Synkopy & Oldřich Veselý - Sluneční hodiny (~December 1981)
Anyone's Daughter - In Blau (1982)
RSC - s/t (1983)
Bacamarte - Depois do Fim (1983)
East - Hüség (1982)
Автограф - s/t (1986)

I'm excluding the unrelated 1st wave OG Neo-Prog movement in the UK obviously. ;)

Discipline of King Crimson followed by Signals of Rush..

Pink Floyd TFC.

richardh wrote: Of all the albums on the list , EL and Powell was the only attempt to bring prog back in it's original long song format.

Of all the albums on the list , EL and Powell was the only attempt to bring prog back in it's original long song format. Side One was for the headphones, side two was meant to crossover to the current audience with more 'radio friendly' tunes such as Touch and Go and Love Blind. They also do the classical thing on Mars. Cozy wanted to use electronic drums but the record company resisted it. Everything was going against the grain with this album and when the band toured the USA the audiences got smaller the further west they headed. Madison Square Gardens was probably the high point of the tour and eventually a live album came out of that show. It's much better than the poorly produced album which had way too much echo on the vocals. Sadly the line up didn't continue and as soon as Palmer was free of his commitments to Asia the original line reformed and announced a festival date in Germany. That soon fell through and it was maybe 5 years before they properly reformed. In the meantime Emerson and Palmer performed at an Atlantic record celebration bash as 'Emerson and Palmer' along with Robert Berry. There also followed the excrement that was 3 to the power of 3 with said same line up.

The truth is, Rush... but I'll give my vote to the Mike Oldfield, which is a great album

Jethro Tull - The Broadsword And The Beast

RRUUSSHH

Asia

Mr. Gabriel

Yes

The Tulls