Your fave Rock albums IN the &#039;80s, and still ok?

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Posted: September 26 2024 at 16:57

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Still, I consider Metal to be a part of Rock genre if broadly defined, and as far as I've seen it, it's rather common to do it. Star

But I think that I better call it "Rock as meta-genre" or maybe even "Rock as umbrella", my friends. Star

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Posted: September 26 2024 at 17:28

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The title track from "Melissa"
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That track sounds like rock and metal (heavy metal) to these ears, but again I am no expert.

Yes, but it's also the most Rock-like (strictly defined) track on this album, while the 11-minutes "Satan's Fall" is like proto-Prog Metal to my ears, but again I'm no expert in Prog Metal, either.

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Posted: September 27 2024 at 03:24

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David_D wrote:

Still, I consider Metal to be a part of Rock genre if broadly defined, and as far as I've seen it, it's rather common to do it. Star

But I think that I better call it "Rock as meta-genre" or maybe even "Rock as umbrella", my friends. Star

No, rock is not a 'meta" genre or 'umbrella". I can agree prog is "meta", rock is not. I don't see how. Ermm

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Posted: September 27 2024 at 03:39

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In its early days, metal was part of rock but it has evolved since then and is its own thing now.

I actually agree. But that doesn't mean metal can't be seamlessly blended with rock anymore. It absolutely can, the same way blues, country, jazz et al. can be blended with rock.

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Posted: September 27 2024 at 03:47

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cristi wrote:

In its early days, metal was part of rock but it has evolved since then and is its own thing now.

I actually agree. But that doesn't mean metal can't be seamlessly blended with rock anymore. It absolutely can, the same way blues, country, jazz et al. can be blended with rock.

You are right, you can blend metal with all sort of other influences, it's still metal, it is not watered down, but possibly some new creative metal sound. There was a black metal band that incorporated banjos in their sound. LOL

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Posted: September 27 2024 at 06:48

I got initiated to prog (and music passion) in the second half of 1979. By the end of 1989 I was 23 and had the most intense decade of music discovery behind me. I basically discovered all prog classics and much more during the eighties. In fact my tastes haven't changed that much, most of the stuff I found great back then I still love. Maybe there's a bit of change (Eloy was my favourite band through more than half of the eighties) but not that much (I still appreciate some of their work).

A few years ago I did this list of my 200-250 favourite albums of all time. This may need some updating, but anyway, out of the top 20 there are 13 that I got to know and already loved in the eighties. Out of these just four are not from the eighties (one of which is the Stravinsky piece), so I was very much into the music of the time, and 8 are PA listed (5 of which are from the 80s).

Edit: OK, I kick out Piazzolla and Stravinsky as they are really not rock, which leaves me with 11, several of which can have their rock credentials questioned as well.

Holger Czukay - Movies

King Crimson - Discipline

Comsat Angels - Sleep No More

Kate Bush - The Dreaming

Camberwell Now - The Ghost Trade

Brian Eno and David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

Manfred Mann"s Earthband - Nightingales and Bombers

Can - Soon over Babaluma

Diethelm & Famulari - Valleys in my Head

David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees

Startled Insects - Curse of the Pheromones

Despite not having an album in the top 20 that I already knew back then, I also discovered my "personal Big 5" members Art Zoyd, Talk Talk, and Cardiacs in the 80s. I actually have Talk Talk's 1991 album Laughing Stock on the list, but their 80s albums Colour of Spring and Spirit of Eden are pretty much as good. I also got into The Cure, Joe Jackson, Sting, Thomas Dolby, Suzanne Vega, Fehlfarben, Spliff, Joachim Witt, Einstuerzende Neubauten, all of which I adore to this day.

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Posted: September 27 2024 at 07:33

Very very nice post, Lewian. Thumbs Up

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Posted: September 29 2024 at 04:30

Now when it's very clear that I'm talking here about Rock broadly defined, it should be no problem with including in my list Bazaar Live. It's a World Fusion double album with a lot of rather rockish organ playing, and is thus another example of that I in the '80s also could like much and listened to other music than mainstream Rock and the some much Pop-influenced. It's also a Danish album, I find to be a good achievement when see it in an international perspective.

Here's the first and one of the longest tracks, "Forvandlingskuglen" ("The Ball of Metamorphosis"):

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Posted: September 30 2024 at 06:11

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Maybe there's a bit of change (Eloy was my favourite band through more than half of the eighties) but not that much (I still appreciate some of their work).

When talking about Eloy, I've been thinking about the song "Up and Down" on the album Inside (1973). It seems to me being about political matters, what do you think?

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Posted: September 30 2024 at 16:16

David_D wrote:

Lewian wrote:

Maybe there's a bit of change (Eloy was my favourite band through more than half of the eighties) but not that much (I still appreciate some of their work).

When talking about Eloy, I've been thinking about the song "Up and Down" on the album Inside (1973). It seems to me being about political matters, what do you think?

I can't comment on this as I'm mostly not very interested in lyrics. Also I got the Eloy albums pretty early in my life (as far as they were already out) when my English wasn't yet up for this. I consciously listened to their 80s lyrics (not so keen on the Dawn to Silent Cries era lyrics-wise, neither Power...), but have never revisted Inside or Floating with attention to the lyrics.

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