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Poll Question: Which band had the most disappointing 1980s albums?
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10 [37.04%]
4 [14.81%]
2 [7.41%]
2 [7.41%]
1 [3.70%]
2 [7.41%]
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

King Crimson as there is nothing I like from that decade by them (and honestly it should have been called The BBF Project or something like that). 

You're right. I should have voted for King Crimson instead, bearing in mind "Poseidon" is the last KC album I can bear to listen to. Confused

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Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:


Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Rush is only saved by Moving Pictures... the rest is downright bad to awful


Stop. You really think Permanent Waves and Signals are bad albums!?

I could be wrong, but to me Waves is 79, right?Wink
Signals never did anything for me, except discouragement that Rush was not for me anymore (something that started creeping with Waves)
as for the other PW (Windows), it sucks, IMHO.
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

I could be wrong, but to me Waves is 79, right?Wink
Signals never did anything for me, except discouragement that Rush was not for me anymore (something that started creeping with Waves)
as for the other PW (Windows), it sucks, IMHO.

Signals is a very powerful album, not a dud in there... though I understand that it was the album which finished what Pictures had started; a move away from longer, more complex song-writing.

Power Windows picked up from where GUP started, with that harsher guitar sound... again, the song writing is strong, but by this stage they had become something quite different and I'd have been quite surprised if you said you like it..
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^ I listened to GUP recently expecting to hate it but surprisingly I couldn't find a weak track. Power Windows was a bit more ambitious but I would have liked more of that orchestral thing they did with Manhattan Project. Too much of that album is samey. Lyric wise it was tremendous though. Hold Your Fire and Presto is Rush just running out of steam. After too much touring they had were tired and needed a break. 7 albums and 7 major tours in one decade was way too much. Credit to them for the hard work though.
BTW FYI Sean Trane - Permanent Waves is 1980!
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You're all weird. At least Genesis had a knack for writing decent popsongs.

-and imo Rush nailed their Nev Wave style quite convincingly. I might even prefer them that way. King Crimson made one of the best albums of the decade with Discipline.

Jethro Tull however sucked big time as a 80’s Hard Rock band with an ill-fitted flute. Everything I once loved about them all vanished. The guitar sound itself ruins it for me. Blah. They get my vote.

While I like some of their earlier music, I don't care enough about the remaining bands to have an opinion - or feel disappointed.
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Jethro Tull however sucked big time as a 80’s Hard Rock band with an ill-fitted flute. Everything I once loved about them all vanished. The guitar sound itself ruins it for me. Blah. They get my vote.

I thought they were ok until Broadsword tbh... we've all taken turns to denigrate UW many times before... but after that, both their musical style and IA's vocal style morphed into a sort of Dire Straits cover band and I lost interest.
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

^ I listened to GUP recently expecting to hate it but surprisingly I couldn't find a weak track. 

No, it's a good album; same year and same sensibility as Eloy's Metromania tbh, but its understandable why committed proggers shied away from their hard edged guitar sound.
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

^ almost agree but Performance was a bit to AORish. Time To Turn is my favourite Eloy album , I can happily just listen to the wonderful bass of Klaus Peter Matziol let alone all the other great things on that album. Metromania was also excellent (plus Roger Dean artwork!).


The cover painting is by Rodney Matthews, another artist whose style I really enjoy.
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

I could be wrong, but to me Waves is 79, right?Wink


Released on 14/1/80 but recorded the previous summer. I'll let you slide on that one.


Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

as for the other PW (Windows), it sucks, IMHO.


Where's the mute func!?
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Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

^ almost agree but Performance was a bit to AORish. Time To Turn is my favourite Eloy album , I can happily just listen to the wonderful bass of Klaus Peter Matziol let alone all the other great things on that album. Metromania was also excellent (plus Roger Dean artwork!).


The cover painting is by Rodney Matthews, another artist whose style I really enjoy.

cheers, don't know where I got my 'information' but I like the cover anyways. 


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Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

Voted Other. My choice would be Banco del Mutuo Soccorso. PFM might be a second choice. 
True. 
Le Orme tried some pop music in the 80s as well, with appalling results. 
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Hi,

By 1980, I had already fallen out of the mainstream and was into the imports a lot more ... I never came back to any of them except KC until the 3 drummers thing, when I got to enjoy some of their stuff. I loved, and missed the Bruford years on KC ... some far out stuff there.

But France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Brittany and other places around the world were doing far better music all around, and worth the purchase, except on some card board copies of themselves as the list above.

BTW, Le Orme's "Smogmagica" is a fine album, even if it is a bit on the pop side of things, with some humor in it. Banco, I'm not sure it ever fit into the pop thing at all ... PFM, blew it when they started falling apart and thought Bernardo Lanzetti would save them, killing 2 bands in one shot. PFM had nice things with Bernardo, but it tanked big time with no "stories" any more, and now just "pop" songs and Aqua Fragile never recovered ... a great little band ... lost its spark, and its attempt at recreating itself, recently, is a sad reminder of what once was, and can no longer be.


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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Hi,
BTW, Le Orme's "Smogmagica" is a fine album, even if it is a bit on the pop side of things, with some humor in it. 

it's from 1975. 
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