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Points: 12818 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 23 2004 at 07:48
Originally posted by greenback greenback wrote:

But my tastes always have been eclectic: I also enjoyed:

Mark Isham,  Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays

 

Did you discover that great bit of ECM-released, jazz rock from David Torn with Mark Isham and the then Krimson rhythm section, Cloud About Mercury - Bruford acted as host for a return match ~10 years later with BLUE?
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Points: 282 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 23 2004 at 09:04

 Yeap there was some good stuff:

GENESIS - Abacab.

TOTO - Toto IV.

DIRE STRAITS - Making Movies.

ALAN PARSON PROJECT - Eye in the sky.

PINK FLOYD - The final cut.(their last one with ROGER WATERS on keyboards,you oughta listen to this one).



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Points: 4888 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 23 2004 at 09:25

 

Some good 80s stuff: the great neoprog albums such as IQ's Lush Attic and The Wake, Fish-era Marillion, Geoff Mann-era Twelfth Night, Pallas's 'Sentinel'.

Also, the birth of metal prog in the last 80s (Fates Warning, Dream Theater's debut album).

On the avantgarde side of prog, Continental bands such as Art Zoyd and Univers Zero, and Scandinavian such as Von Zamla did some amazing, weird stuff, while in the early 80s Tangerine Dream managed to incorporate digital synths into their (still) well accomplished compositions.

Last, but not least, the Japanese prog gave birth to great bands such as the Canteruryesque Ain Soph, the Camelesque Bellaphon, the RtF-esque Kenso, and the Crimsonian Bi Kyo Ran.

Not that bad, actually... Regards. 
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Points: 310 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 23 2004 at 12:09

I remember when, in 1981 (I was 19 y.o.), Rick Wakeman came to my country. I was in the college, trying to invite any girl to go to the show with me, but all they were in love with Air Supply  . The same thing happened when Yes came. Meanwhile, I visited all record shops looking for any '70s album to discover (knowing only the traditional bands), and always listening to the same music (my Genesis, Yes, ELP, etc LPs). So, during '80s, I kept my love to prog and was impossible to understand why people heard Madonna, Police, etc. Some day I discovered Marillion, and it was a little light in the darkness. But today -many times- I have the same lonelyness feeling when somebody (everybody) tells me "Prog? What is it???".       

 
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Points: 6898 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 23 2004 at 12:12

The only new band I was interested in was Marillion. Ijust kept collecting and listening to 60`s and 70`s stuff. The second hand record shops were full of cheap prog.
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Points: 3300 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 23 2004 at 16:24
Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

[QUOTE=greenback]

Did you discover that great bit of ECM-released, jazz rock from David Torn with Mark Isham and the then Krimson rhythm section, Cloud About Mercury - Bruford acted as host for a return match ~10 years later with BLUE?

I find cloud about mercury rather ordinary; I prefer david Torn with Mark Isham, Patrick O'hearn on Mark Isham's Castalia, or with David Sylvian on Secret of the beehive: I like when Torn's ethereal guitar merges with Isham's keyboards.
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