prog 80s

Having witnessed the "arid " progressive 80s when very little prog was going on anywhere, the main artists that supplied any kind of vibe was Ultravox, Japan, The Fixx, Icehouse, Depeche Mode and Magazine. But there were also some lesser known others that did blink in another proggier direction: the Durutti Column, Simple Minds, ABC, Babble, This Mortal Coil  and New Musik. I have a large selection but I want to leave some for you all to suggest. Who rang your prog bell back when all was pretty silent?

Wall of Voodoo!

Cocteau Twins, Kronos Quartet, Rova, U2, Philp Glass, Jean-Michel Jarre, Iron Maiden

 

Well, Jammun, diaper days are over (I had 5 , so I wiped a lot of it!) and I strongly suggest to get Ridgway's The Big Heat , you can get it on Amazon for a few peanuts!

Spaghetti length wouldn't you say?

some bands and artists that made good stuff in the 80s are

Rush
Iron Maiden
Miles Davis
John Scofield
Joe Zawinul
Metallica
Megadeth

Alphabetically....

Edited by Dean - August 17 2008 at 05:14

The '80's as a prog wasteland is just silly.
Here's what I have, officially prog or just prog to me:
Anderson, Jon    Song of Seven    1980
Beefheart, Captain and the Magic Band    Doc at the Radar Station    1980
Blues Brothers, The    Original Soundtrack Recording    1980
Bowie, David    Scary Monsters    1980
Brand X    Do They Hurt?    1980
Budd, Harold / Brian Eno    Ambient 2/The Platform of Mirror    1980
Bush, Kate    Never for Ever    1980
Di Meola, Al    Spendido Hotel    1980
Di Meola, Al/John McLaughlin/Paco de Lucia    Friday Night In San Francisco    1980
Dixie Dregs    Dregs of the Earth    1980
Eno, Brian-David Byrne    My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (Remaster)    1980
Frith, Fred    Speechless    1980
Gabriel, Peter    III    1980
Genesis    Duke    1980
Gentle Giant    Civilian    1980
Hackett, Steve    Defector (Remaster)    1980
Hall, Daryl    Sacred Songs    1980
Hampton, Co. Bruce and The Late Bronze Age    Outside Looking Out    1980
Jackson, Joe Band    Beat Crazy    1980
Jethro Tull    A + Slipstream    1980
Johnson, David Earle with Jan Hammer    Hip Address    1980
Laraaji    Ambient 3/Day of Radience    1980
League of Gentlemen, The    Thrang Thrang Gozinbulx    1980
Metheny, Pat & Lyle Mays    As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls    1980
Muffins, The    <185>    1980
Oldfield, Mike    QE2    1980
Pere Ubu    Art of Walking, The    1980
Police, The    Zenyatta Mondatta    1980
Psychedelic Furs, The    Psychedelic Furs, The    1980
Roxy Music    Flesh & Blood    1980
Rutherford, Mike    Smallcreep's Day    1980
Steely Dan    Citizen Steely Dan: 1972 -1980 Disc 4    1980
Synergy    Computer Experiments (Volume 1)    1980
Talking Heads    Remain In Light (Remaster)    1980
Tibbetts, Steve    Yr    1980
Weather Report    Night Passage    1980
XTC    Black Sea    1980
Yes    Drama    1980
Akkerman, Jan    Pleasure Point    1981
Anderson, Jon and Vangelis    Friends of Mr. Cairo, The    1981
Bruninghaus, Rainer    Freigeweht    1981
Budd, Harold    Serpent (In Quicksilver/Abandoned Cities, The    1981
Byrne, David    Complete Score from "The Catherine Wheel", The    1981
Corea, Chick Miroslav Vitous Roy Haynes    Trio Music    1981
Dregs, The    Unsung Heroes    1981
Genesis    Abacab    1981
Gismonti, Egberto    Works    1981
Hackett, Steve    Cured    1981
Harrison, Jerry    Red and the Black, The    1981
Hassell, Jon    Fourth World Volume Two: Dream Theory In Malaya    1981
Hedges, Michael    Breakfast in the Field    1981
Hine, Rupert    Immunity    1981
Jackson, Joe    joe jackson's jumpin' jive    1981
Kayak    Merlin    1981
King Crimson    Discipline    1981
Oldfield, Mike    Consequences of Indecisions, The    1981
Pastorius, Jaco    Word of Mouth    1981
Phillips, Anthony    Private Parts & Pieces III    1981
Police, The    Ghost In The Machine    1981
Psychedelic Furs, The    Talk Talk Talk    1981
Sky    Sky 2    1981
Sky    Sky 3    1981
Soft Machine    Land of Cockayne    1981
Synergy    Audion    1981
Tibbetts, Steve    Northern Song    1981
Wakeman, Rick    1984    1981
Zappa, Frank    Tinseltown Rebellion    1981
Zappa, Frank    You Are What You Is    1981
Belew, Adrian    Lone Rhino    1982
Bush, Kate    Dreaming, The    1982
Dimeola, Al    Electric Rendezvous    1982
Dixie Dregs, the    Industry Standard    1982
Free Flight    Jazz/Classical Union, The    1982
Gabriel, Peter    Security    1982
Glass, Phillip    Glassworks    1982
Hampton, Co. Bruce and The Late Bronze Age    Isles of Langerhan    1982
Jackson, Joe    Night and Day (Deluxe Edition)    1982
King Crimson    Beat    1982
Led Zeppelin    Coda    1982
Manzanera, Phil    Primititve Guitars    1982
Metheny Group, Pat    Offramp    1982
Metheny, Pat Group    Travels    1982
Oldfield, Mike    Five Miles Out    1982
Ponty, Jean-Luc    Mystical Adventures    1982
Psychedelic Furs, The    Forever Now    1982
Residents, The    Tunes of Two Cities, The/Big Bubble, The    1982
Roxy Music    Avalon    1982
Shadowfax    Shadowfax    1982
Sky    Sky 4 Forthcoming    1982
Summers, Andy-Robert Fripp    I Advanced Masked    1982
Synergy    Jupiter Menace, The    1982
Talking Heads    The Name of This Band is Talking Heads    1982
Various    An Evening With Windham Hill Live    1982
Wyatt, Robert    Nothing Can Stop Us    1982
XTC    English Settlement (Remaster)    1982
Belew, Adrian    Twang Bar King    1983
Brunninghaus, Rainer    Continuum    1983
Cocteau Twins    Head Over Heels    1983
Coryell, Larry/Igor Stravinsky    Le Sacre Du Printemps    1983
De Grassi, Alex    Southern Exposure    1983
Di Meola, Al    Scenario    1983
Eno, Brian    Apollo Atmospheres & Soundtracks    1983
Eno, Brian    More Music For Films    1983
Frith, Fred    Cheap At Half the Price    1983
Hine, Rupert    Wildest Wish To Fly    1983
Holdsworth, Allan    Road Games    1983
Isham, Mark    Vapor Drawings    1983
Jobson, Eddie/Zinc    The Green Album, The    1983
Marillion    Script For A Jester's Tear (Remaster)    1983
Moraz - Buford    Music For Piano and Drums    1983
Oldfield, Mike    Crisis    1983
Oregon    Oregon    1983
Police, The    Synchronicity    1983
Ponty, Jean-Luc    Individual Choice    1983
Shadowfax    Shadowdance    1983
Sky    Sky Five Live    1983
Talking Heads    Speaking In Tongues    1983
Tears for Fears    Hurting, The    1983
Tibbetts, Steve    Safe Journey    1983
Vangelis    Antarctica - The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack    1983
Yamashta, Stomu    Sea & Sky    1983
Abercrombie, John    Night    1984
Akkerman, Jan    From the Basement    1984
Anderson, Laurie    Mister Heartbreak    1984
Anderson, Laurie    United States Live (Disc Four)    1984
Anderson, Laurie    United States Live (Disc One)    1984
Anderson, Laurie    United States Live (Disc Three)    1984
Anderson, Laurie    United States Live (Disc Two)    1984
Bolling, Claude Trio    Jazz a la Francaise    1984
Budd, Harold/Brian Eno with Daniel Lanois    Pearl, The    1984
Carlos, Wendy    Digital Moonscapes    1984
Corea, Chick    Children's Songs    1984
Eno, Brian    Thursday Afternoon    1984
Eurythmics    1984 for the love of big brother    1984
Free Flight    Beyond the Clouds    1984
Hackett, Steve    Till We Have Faces    1984
Hedges, Michael    Aerial Boundaries    1984
Jackson, Joe    Body and Soul    1984
Jones, Percy    Propeller Music    1984
King Crimson    Absent Lovers    1984
King Crimson    Three of a Perfect Pair    1984
L. Subramanium/Stephane Grappelli    Conversations    1984
Marillion    Fugazi    1984
Oldfield, Mike    Killing Fields, The Original Film Soundtrack    1984
Ponty, Jean-Luc    Open Mind    1984
Psychedelic Furs, The    Mirror Moves    1984
Shadowfax    Dreams of Children, The    1984
Skeleton Crew    Learn To Talk/The Country of Blinds    1984
Sky    Squared    1984
Summers, Andy-Robert Fripp    Bewitched    1984
Tomita, Isao    Live at Linz, 1984 - The Mind of the Universe    1984
Toto    Dune Sountrack    1984
XTC    Big Express, The    1984
Zappa, Frank    Thing-Fish    1984
Brook, Michael with Brian Eno & Daniel Lanois    Hybrid    1985
Bush, Kate    Hounds of Love + 6 Bonus Tracks    1985
Di Meola, Al    Cielo e Terra    1985
Eno, Roger    Voices    1985
Gabriel, Peter    Music by from the film Birdy    1985
Goodman, Jerry    On the Future of Aviation    1985
Holdsworth, Allan    i.o.u.    1985
Holdsworth, Allan    Metal Fatigue    1985
Jobson, Eddie    Theme of Secrets    1985
Johnson, Eric    Tones    1985
Marillion    Misplaced Childhood    1985
Mitchell, Joni    Dog Eat Dog    1985
New Order    Low Life    1985
Ponty, Jean-Luc    Fables    1985
Public Image Ltd.    Compact Disc    1985
Reich, Steve    Desert Music, The    1985
Stewart, Dave/Barbara Gaskin    Up From the Dark    1985
Sting    Dream of the Blue Turtles, The    1985
Talking Heads    Little Creatures    1985
Tears for Fears    Songs From The Big Chair    1985
Wyatt, Robert    mid-eighties    1985
Anderson, Laurie    Home of the Brave    1986
Belew, Adrian    Desire Caught By The Tail    1986
Budd, Harold    Lovely Thunder    1986
Budd, Harold, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie, Elizabeth Fraser    Moon and the Melodies, The    1986
Carlos, Wendy    Beauty In the Beast    1986
Cluster & Brian Eno    Old Land    1986
David + David    Boomtown    1986
Eno, Brian    Ambient 4/On Land    1986
Gabriel, Peter    So    1986
Glass, Phillip    Songs from Liquid Days    1986
Goodman, Jerry    Ariel    1986
Jackson, Joe    Big World    1986
Jackson, Joe    Live 1980/86    1986
Lloyd Webber, Andrew and Julian    Variations and Aurora    1986
Montrose, Ronnie    Territory    1986
Rypdal, Terje & The Chasers    Blue    1986
Simon, Paul    Graceland    1986
Summers, Andy    XYZ    1986
Synergy    Metropolitan Suite    1986
Tangerine Dream    Canyon Dreams    1986
Tangerine Dream    Underwater Sunlight    1986
Tibbetts, Steve    Exploded View    1986
Torn, David    Cloud About Mercury    1986
Wyatt, Robert    Old Rottenhat    1986
XTC    Skylarking    1986
Akkerman, Jan    Heartware    1987
Bears,The    Bears,The    1987
Bears,The    Rise and Shine    1987
Bensusan, Pierre    Spices    1987
Bowie, David    Never Let Me Down    1987
Budd, Harold    White Arcades, The    1987
Corea Chick Electric Band    Light Years    1987
Djam Karet    Ritual Continues, The    1987
Dukes of Stratosphear, The    Chips from the Chocolate Fireball    1987
Eno, Roger    Between Tides    1987
Ferry, Bryan    Bete Noire    1987
Frech Frith Kaiser Thompson    Live, Love, Larf & Loaf    1987
Frith, Fred    Technology of Tears, The    1987
Goodman, Jerry    It's Alive    1987
Hampton, Col. Bruce    Arkansas    1987
Hassell, Jon    Surgeon of the Nightsky Resores Dead Things ..., The    1987
Hedges, Michael    Live on the Double Planet    1987
Holdsworth, Allan    Sand    1987
Isham, Mark/Arte Lande    We Begin    1987
Jethro Tull    Crest of a Knave    1987
Metheny, Pat Group    STILL life (talking)    1987
New Percussion Group of Amsterdam    Go Between    1987
Oldfield, Mike    Islands    1987
Phillips, Anthony    Slow Waves, Soft Stars    1987
Ponty, Jean-Luc    Gift of Time, The    1987
Psychedelic Furs, The    Midnight To Midnight    1987
Sting    …Nothing Like The Sun    1987
Summers, Andy    Mysterious Barricades    1987
Sylvian, David    Secrets of the Beehive    1987
Tangerine Dream    Tyger    1987
Van Tieghem, David    Safety In Numbers    1987
XTC    Mummer    1987
Childs, Toni    Union    1988
Dixie Dregs    Off the Record    1988
Eno, Brian-Et. Al.    Music for Films III    1988
Enya    Watermark    1988
Frith, Fred    Guitar Solos    1988
Frith, Fred    Top of His Head, The    1988
Harrison, Jerry    Casual Gods    1988
Holdsworth, Allan/ Gordon Beck    With a Heart in My Song    1988
Isham, Mark    Grand Parade, The    1988
Jackson, Joe    Blaze of Glory    1988
Jethro Tull    20 Years of J.T.: Flawed Gems and the Other Sides of Tull    1988
Jethro Tull    20 Years of J.T.: The Essential Tull    1988
Jethro Tull    20 Years of J.T.: The Radio Archives and Rare Tracks    1988
Kaiser, Henry    Those Who Know History Are Doomed To Repeat It    1988
Kansas    In the Spirit of Things    1988
Lavitz, T and the Bad Habitz    Lavitz, T and the Bad Habitz    1988
Marillion    B'Sides Themselves    1988
Mays, Lyle    Street Deams    1988
Mitchell, Joni    Chalk Mark In a Rainstorm    1988
Mitchell, Joni    Taming the Tiger    1988
Nine Inch Nails    Pretty Hate Machine    1988
Passport    Infinity Machine    1988
Passport    Talk Back    1988
Pere Ubu    Cloudland    1988
Projekct Two    Space Groove    1988
Reich, Steve w/ Kronos Quartet & Pat Metheny    Different Trains & Electric Counterpoint    1988
Rypday, Terje    Singles Collection, The    1988
Talking Heads    "Naked"    1988
Tangerine Dream    Optical Race    1988
Tibbetts, Steve    Big Map Idea    1988
Vangelis    Direct    1988
Zappa, Frank    Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life, The    1988
Zappa, Frank    Broadway the Hardway    1988
Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe    Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe    1989
Anderson, Laurie    Strange Angels    1989
Badalamenti, Angelo    Soundtrack from Twin Peaks    1989
Beck, Jeff with Terry Bozzio and Tony Hymas    Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop    1989
Belew, Adrian    Mr. Music Head    1989
Blegvad, Peter    downtime    1989
Budd, Harold    Agua    1989
Burton, Gary    Reunion    1989
Bush, Kate    Sensual World, The    1989
Davis, Miles    Amandla    1989
Djam Karet    Reflections from the Firepool    1989
Finn, Tim    Tim Fin    1989
Frith, Fred    Allies    1989
Glass, Philip    1000 Airplanes on the Roof    1989
Holdsworth, Allan    Secrets    1989
Howard, Hayward, Frith, Laswell    Meridiem    1989
Isham, Mark    Tibet    1989
Jethro Tull    Rock Island    1989
Johnson, Eric    Ah Via Musicom    1989
Manzanera, Phil & Andy Mackay    Up In Smoke    1989
McLachlan, Sarah    Touch    1989
Metheny, Pat with Dave Holland & Roy Haynes    question and answer    1989
Morse, Steve    High Tension Wires    1989
Nirvana    "Bleach"    1989
no-man    speak    1989
Oldfield, Mike    Earth Moving    1989
Ozric Tentacles    Pungent Effulgent    1989
Phillips, Anthony    Slow Dance    1989
Ponty, Jean Luc    Storytelling    1989
Primus    Frizzle Fry    1989
Psychedelic Furs, The    Book of Days    1989
Roach, Steve/Braheney,Kevin/Stearns,Michael    Desert Solitaire    1989
Summers, Andy    Golden Wire, The    1989
Tangerine Dream    Lily On the Beach    1989
Tuck & Patti    Love Warriors    1989
XTC    Oranges & Lemons    1989

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