25 of my favourite releases from 1981

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   Great list(s)! I voted for five. My own list looks like this:
1. RICKIE LEE JONES Pirates
2. KING CRIMSON Discipline
3. JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL, ALEXANDRE LAGOYA, and MICHEL LEGRAND Pastorales de Noël
4. ANTHONY PHILLIPS 1984
5. ANDREAS VOLLENWEIDER Behind the Gardens - Behind the Wall - Under the Tree...
6. ESKATON 4 Visions
7. PAT METHENY & LYLE MAYS As Falls Witchita, So Falls Wichita Falls
8. BRIAN ENO & JON HASSELL Fourth World Possible Musics, Volume Two: Dream Theory in Malaya
9. U2 October
10. TOM TOM CLUB Tom Tom Club

11. THE POLICE Ghost in the Machine
12. JOHN MCLAUGHLIN Belo Horizonte
13. JOHN MARTYN Glorious Fool
14. TANGERINE DREAM Thief OST
15. BRUCE COCKBURN Inner City Front
16. LOS JAIVAS Alturas de Machu Picchu
17. SBB Memento z banalnym triptykiem
18. GENESIS ABACAB
19. CAMEL Nude
20. VAN HALEN Fair Warning

Those entries emboldened represent albums in the PA database.

Poll Question: Vote for up to five (or more) of my favourites in the poll if you can.
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
1. Siouxsie and The Banshees - Juju	1	[1.54%]
2. Glenn Branca - The Ascension	1	[1.54%]
3. Eskaton - 4 Visions	7	[10.77%]
4. Dün - Eros	3	[4.62%]
5. Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Penguin Cafe Orchestra	3	[4.62%]
6. Magma - Retrospektïw I-II	4	[6.15%]
7. Fabio Frizzi - L'aldilà	2	[3.08%]
8. Univers Zéro - Ceux du Dehors	5	[7.69%]
9. This Heat - Deceit	4	[6.15%]
10. Wha-Ha-Ha - Shinutokiwa Betsu	1	[1.54%]
11. Art Zoyd - Symphonie pour le jour où brûleront les cités	3	[4.62%]
12. Tuxedomoon - Desire	4	[6.15%]
13. Eider Stellaire - Eider Stellaire I	3	[4.62%]
14. Present - Triskaidekaphobie	4	[6.15%]
15. Kraftwerk - Computer World (Computerwelt)	9	[13.85%]
16. Kultivator - Barndomens Stigar	3	[4.62%]
17. The Residents - Mark of the Mole	2	[3.08%]
18. Bauhaus - Mask	2	[3.08%]
19. Phew - Phew	0	[0.00%]
20. Art Bears - The World as It Is Today	1	[1.54%]
21. Myrbein - Myrornas Krig	0	[0.00%]
22. Klaus Doldinger - Das Boot	1	[1.54%]
23. Patrick Gauthier - Bébé Godzilla	1	[1.54%]
24. Codona - Codona 2	1	[1.54%]
25. Magma - Retrospektïw III	0	[0.00%]
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BrufordFreak Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 25 2008 Location: Wisconsin Status: Offline Points: 8462	Post Options Post Reply Quote BrufordFreak Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: March 08 2025 at 13:20
	Great list(s)! I voted for five. My own list looks like this: 1. RICKIE LEE JONES Pirates 2. KING CRIMSON Discipline 3. JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL, ALEXANDRE LAGOYA, and MICHEL LEGRAND Pastorales de Noël 4. ANTHONY PHILLIPS 1984 5. ANDREAS VOLLENWEIDER Behind the Gardens - Behind the Wall - Under the Tree... 6. ESKATON 4 Visions 7. PAT METHENY & LYLE MAYS As Falls Witchita, So Falls Wichita Falls 8. BRIAN ENO & JON HASSELL Fourth World Possible Musics, Volume Two: Dream Theory in Malaya 9. U2 October 10. TOM TOM CLUB Tom Tom Club 11. THE POLICE Ghost in the Machine 12. JOHN MCLAUGHLIN Belo Horizonte 13. JOHN MARTYN Glorious Fool *14. TANGERINE DREAM Thief* OST** 15. BRUCE COCKBURN Inner City Front 16. LOS JAIVAS Alturas de Machu Picchu 17. SBB Memento z banalnym triptykiem 18. GENESIS ABACAB 19. CAMEL Nude 20. VAN HALEN Fair Warning Those entries emboldened represent albums in the PA database.
	Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/

Rick1 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: April 14 2020 Location: Loughborough UK Status: Offline Points: 2999	Post Options Post Reply Quote Rick1 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10 hours 15 minutes ago at 03:26
	1981 - weird times. Then, I wasn't aware of the RIO releases (UZ, Present) and instead I was off to see Hawkwind and Camel. We were hoping for a return to form for our 70s heroes that never came.

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	^^ I have the Los Jaivas, SBB and Camel albums in my collection somewhere. Very nice, no shortage of music, although it has been quite few years since I spun them. ^ I was a youngster in 1981, and don't recall what I was listening to then. I was not aware of RIO until I found this site, although I did hear Henry Cow on university radio in the late 80s, and that radio station (the University of British Columbia's CiTR) did expose me to various avant-prog and experimental post-punk bands. The internet is what led to me discovering the vast majority of the music I am into, although hearing music before I was on the web primed me for that appreciation later in life. And late night music videos on an alternative program in the 80s also exposed to some weird and wonderful stuff. I found that I appreciated the quirky early on. And that is what got me into art pop such as Laurie Anderson and Kate Bush at first.