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This is the first year it starts getting really tough to find decent material even remotely rock-oriented. I'm really stretching here:

1. Three - To the Power of Three
2. Billy Currie with Steve Howe - Transportation
3. Andy Summers - Mysterious Barricades
4. Steve Hackett - Momentum
5. Enya - Watermark
6. Mike and the Mechanics - The Living Years
7. Moody Blues - Sur la mer
8. Robert Plant - Now and Zen
9. Thomas Dolby - Aliens ate my Buick
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alphabetically-most of these I don't even consider to be great but they are all I've got

Amenophis - You and I
Asturias-Circle in the Forest
Pete Bardens - Speed of Light
Dead Can Dance-Serpent's Egg
Eloy-Ra
Nuova Era-L'ultimo viaggio
Andreas Vollenweider - Dancing with the Lion



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Once Around the World - It Bites

The View From Here - Giraffe

Operation: Mindcrime - Queensrÿche

Baroque in the Future - Déjà Vu

Comedy of Errors - Comedy of Errors

God in Three Persons - The Residents

Circle in the Forest - Asturias

Still Dream - Edhels

Momentum - Steve Hackett

Guitar - Frank Zappa

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Originally posted by Steve Wyzard Steve Wyzard wrote:

This is the first year it starts getting really tough to find decent material even remotely rock-oriented. I'm really stretching here:

1. Three - To the Power of Three
2. Billy Currie with Steve Howe - Transportation
3. Andy Summers - Mysterious Barricades
4. Steve Hackett - Momentum
5. Enya - Watermark
6. Mike and the Mechanics - The Living Years
7. Moody Blues - Sur la mer
8. Robert Plant - Now and Zen
9. Thomas Dolby - Aliens ate my Buick


I just remembered: 

10. Tom Cochrane/Red Rider - Victory Day
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Originally posted by mathman0806 mathman0806 wrote:

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Well apparently they were the next Pink Floyd


Funny that these were said because hearing Boy played, start to finish, on a radio station in East Lansing, Michigan in 1981 was an event that I'll never forget. I don't remember the station's name (WLAV? maybe?), but they'd play "new releases" at midnight on Friday or Saturday nights. I just happened to be visiting friends at MSU, spent the night, and we listened to the show. I remember being transfixed--with the exact words forming in my brain being articulated to my friends: "This is the new Pink Floyd".

Even funnier thing: I had just returned from a semester abroad in East Anglia (UK) where I was enrapt with the "pop hits" of the day--which included "I Will Follow" and "Out of Control" (along with "Generals and Majors" and various other tight, light, perky songs from the Summer/Autumn of 1980) and yet these "pop" hits sounded so different in the flow of Boy's seemless progression through a young boy's life.

Another aside: I got to see them live on their October tour in the Fall of '81 at a small dance bar in EL called Dooley's. The band did every song from both albums and "Gloria" twice (as its encore)-because that's all the material they had at the time. Little Bono walked around among the audience with his microphone singing songs while shaking hands with audience members. Very intimate and heart-felt show. 

I kind of lost my enthusiasm after October, though there have been great songs ("New Year's Day", "Two Hearts Beat as One", "Boomerang", "Unforgettable Fire", "Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking for", "Bullet the Blue Sky") and concerts that were awesome.
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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

Originally posted by mathman0806 mathman0806 wrote:

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Well apparently they were the next Pink Floyd


Funny that these were said because hearing Boy played, start to finish, on a radio station in East Lansing, Michigan in 1981 was an event that I'll never forget. I don't remember the station's name (WLAV? maybe?), but they'd play "new releases" at midnight on Friday or Saturday nights. I just happened to be visiting friends at MSU, spent the night, and we listened to the show. I remember being transfixed--with the exact words forming in my brain being articulated to my friends: "This is the new Pink Floyd".

Even funnier thing: I had just returned from a semester abroad in East Anglia (UK) where I was enrapt with the "pop hits" of the day--which included "I Will Follow" and "Out of Control" (along with "Generals and Majors" and various other tight, light, perky songs from the Summer/Autumn of 1980) and yet these "pop" hits sounded so different in the flow of Boy's seemless progression through a young boy's life.

Another aside: I got to see them live on their October tour in the Fall of '81 at a small dance bar in EL called Dooley's. The band did every song from both albums and "Gloria" twice (as its encore)-because that's all the material they had at the time. Little Bono walked around among the audience with his microphone singing songs while shaking hands with audience members. Very intimate and heart-felt show. 

I kind of lost my enthusiasm after October, though there have been great songs ("New Year's Day", "Two Hearts Beat as One", "Boomerang", "Unforgettable Fire", "Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking for", "Bullet the Blue Sky") and concerts that were awesome.


Thanks for sharing that Drew.
I didn't even hear of U2 until 1983 with New Years Day being playing on the radio. It was out of character for me to buy that album but I did along with the Tears For Fears album that was out at the time with Pale Shelter on it. I was in my early twenties with not a lot of cash for music and in College so again I took a chance based on an incredible song. "War and "Joshua Tree" are my favs. Those albums take me back in time.
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And while I'm here:
Iron Maiden- Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
Dark- Tamna Voda
Wulf Zednik- Danze Of The Cozmic Warriorz
Cardiacs- A Little Man And A House And A Whole World Window
When- Death In The Blue Lake
Fates Warning- No Exit
Talk Talk-Spirit Of Eden
Faust- The Last LP
Nuova Era- l'Ultimo Viaggio
Queensryche- Operation Mindcrime
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