Redundant by this time in the thread, but I consider:
Remain in Light - Talking Heads
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - Brian Eno & David Byrne
Discipline - King Crimson
A kind of essential trifecta from 80-81.
Redundant by this time in the thread, but I consider:
Remain in Light - Talking Heads
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - Brian Eno & David Byrne
Discipline - King Crimson
A kind of essential trifecta from 80-81.
Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world.
Essential is a very subjective term. Essential for ME?!
1980
Abus Dangereux - Le Quatrieme Mouvement
Aviator Turbulence
Bill Bruford Gradually Going Tornado
Brand X Do they Hurt?
David Sancious Just as I thought
Den Za Den Den Za Den
Dixie Dregs Dregs of the Earth
Fermata Biela Planeta/Dunajska Legenda
Frank Zappa You Are What You Is
Gary Boyle Step Out
Gino Vannelli Nightwalker
Gunesh Ensemble Gunesh
Hands Palm Mystery
Harmonium En Tournée
Herbie Hancock Mr. Hands
Itoiz Ezekiel
Iman Camino del Aquila
Jean-Luc Ponty Civilized Evil
Jeff Beck There & Back
Jethro Tull A
Luboš Andršt Capricornus
Matrix Harvest
Max Webster Universal Juveniles
Serú Girán Bicicleta
Stanley Clarke Rocks, Pebbles and Sand
Tempano Atabal Yemal
The Muffins 185
Thomas Flinter Thomas Flinter
Zamla mammaz manna Familjesprickor
Stormy Six Macchina Maccheronica
Yes Drama
The Brecker Brothers Detente
1981
3pm Better Late Then Never
Al Di Meola Electric Rendezvous
Alan Gowen, Richard Sinclair, Trevor Tomkins & Phil Miller
Alphonse Mouzon By All Means
Billy Cobham Stratus
Cartoon Cartoon
Cozy Powell Tilt
Didier Lockwood, Jannick Top, Christian Vander, & Benoit Widemann Fusion
Dixie Dregs Unsung Heroes
Dün Eros
Eider Stellaire Eider Stellaire
Fermata Generation
However Sudden Dusk
Kaseke Sõnum
Keep DG 581
Kultivator Barndomens Stigar
Univers Zéro Ceux Du Dehors/Triomphe Des Mouches
Yellowjackets Yellowjackets
Admittedly, most of these were discovered well past the original release dates, and I compiled the list using the Proggnosis search by date of release feature "thanks internet"!
Babushka Del Supra Dupra: Electrique Mono Axe
Seems like 1980 was a great year! Peak or near-peak for Samla, Art Zoyd, Present, Dun, This Heat, Picchio Dal Pozzo Universe Zero, Stormy Six, Cartoon, Muffins on and on - thanks for all the reminders and some new things to explore - I'll think I'll go on a 1980 listening tear.
I think it was an interesting transitional time. I'm trying not to repeat. Here are some other great, interesting albums to me from those years:
- The Enid - Six Pieces
- Combo FH - Vecchi
- Hugh Hopper and Alan Gowen - Two Rainbows Daily
- L. Shankar - Who's to Know
- Steve Tibbets - Yr
- Mnemonists - Horde
- Art Bears - The World as it is Today
- Jon Hassell - Dream Theory in Malaya
- Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Music From/Penguin Cafe Orchestra
- Phillipe Cauvin - Climage (OK that might have been 82, but sue my I stuck it in because it's great and unique)
...and I'll throw in a favorite for fans tragically obscure jazz
- Lou Stein - Temple of the Gods
- and the fantastic masterpiece Alain Eckert Quartet - Alain Eckert Quartet!
That's crazy, there was tons of great stuff in 1980 and 1981. Allow me to copy and paste from my spreadsheet with no additional information.
Originally Posted by smcfee
WANTED: Sig-worthy quote.
just 2 years eh? well here is a partial list of the ones I consider classics:
Talking Heads Remain In Light
Clash, The Sandinista
Eskaton 4 Visions
Fusion (Lockwood, Top, Vander, Widemann) Fusion
Iman Califato Independiente Camino del Aguila
King Crimson Discipline
Terpandre Terpandre
Ade, King Sunny Juju Music
Bush, Kate Never for Ever
Byrne, David & Brian Eno My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Dün Eros
Eider Stellaire Eider Stellaire (K001)
Firyuza Firyuza
Flying Lizards, The Fourth Wall
Fusion (Lockwood, Top, Vander, Widemann) Paris 80
Gong, Pierre Moerlen's Leave it Open
Gowen, Miller, Sinclair, Tomkins Before a Word is Said
Jaivas, Los Alturas de Machu Picchu
Lee, John / Gerry Brown / E. Albers / D. Thompson Brothers
Pohjola, Pekka Kätkävaaran Lohikäärme
Santana, Devadip Carlos The Swing of Delight
Subramaniam, L. Blossom
Camel Nude
Cartoon Cartoon
Davis, Miles The Man with the Horn
Defunkt Defunkt
Dixie Dregs Dregs of the Earth
Eskaton Ardeur
Gauthier, Patrick Bebe Godzilla
Gunesh Ensemble Gunesh
Massacre Killing Time
Mink, Ben Foreign Exchange
Nobilis Factum Nobilis Factum
Police, The Zenyatta Mondatta
Police, The Ghost in the Machine
Ragnarök Fjärilar I Magen
Rahmann Rahmann
Ramm, Ken Dragon
Rypdal / Vitous / DeJohnette To Be Continued
Sky Sky II
Subramaniam, L. Fantasy Without Limits
Temiz, Okay Drummer of Two Worlds
United Jazz + Rock Ensemble The Break Even Point
Watkins, Kit Labyrinth
Zamla Mammaz Manna Familjesprickor
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Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
From Smak's Rock cirkus (1980) and Zašto ne volim sneg (1981) :
Yep, these ones as well could easily be on my list, on a second thought
What you wrote was something akin to "the only prog releases from these two years that interest me are [...]", and this apparent logic prompted a question as to whether you've heard ALL the 'prog releases' from those two years in order for you to discern that the rest of them for whatever reason don't interest you. Or have you perhaps just decided that all those other names and releases don't 'interest you' without even knowing what they're all about?
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
No. I'm pointing to a complete breach in a statement's logic. This is a discussion forum about music. If your or anybody else's answer to "releases in 1980-81" is that there weren't any, while others demonstrate beyond reproach that yes indeed there absolutely were, then one part is essentially wrong or at least flawed or ignorant. "Discussion" consequently stops *there*.
And don't go accusing other contributors in here of being quarrelsome - not you.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
The reason why some thinks the eighties were a thin cupper, is because they are looking for the same types of (symphonic) prog that filled the seventies.
The eighties offered lots of new types of amazingly innovative directions.
If you dont like it - your loss.
Saga - Silent Knight (someone mentioned Worlds Apart but I didn't see this one listed)
And I'll be the fifth or so person to say Zappa's You Are What You Is.
From Spendido Hotel LP (1980) by Al Di Meola (feat. Chick Corea)
That's pretty much it!
Yes and yes. And not the one with Jon in it.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
+1
The 80s is by far and away my favourite decade for all kinds of new and interesting music from metal to hard rock to new wave to synth to goth to post-punk to electronica to neo to indie to dance to techno to soft pop and straight up rock n roll. The 80s had so much to offer.
There was no US release of this title until the 90s when it was issued for the first time on CD by me. In its original vinyl version, there was only 1 (UK) or perhaps 2 (possibly the band did a small run in Belgium) different, simultaneous European pressings.
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
My oh my, reading these lists...Y'all sure cast a wide net with your "Prog."
Which is all very good and true, but what he was pointing to specifically was progressive rock from that decade - in other words progressive rock which had moved 'progressively' beyond the 70s, since we were now in the 80s. I somehow got the very faint impression that this was what the OP was after.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
You not heard da Bronski Beat?
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
And funny how "essential" seems to mean different things to different folk, don't it?
Think of a book as a vase, and a movie as the stained-glass window that the filmmaker has made out of the pieces after he’s smashed it with a hammer.
-- Russell Banks (paraphrased)
And the LP had such a great cover !
http://universzero.dk/popup/ceuxpop.htm
Yep. Strawberry Bricks was looking for suggestions for a book he's working on, if I understood correctly.
He's probably beating his head on the monitor right about now.
I agree, hence my thread, which covers a lot of the bands that some proggers consider prog, for example, Mike Oldfield, Jarre, Squeeze, Kate Bush, OMD, Cardiacs, XTC, Vangelis and so on.
I also notice people listing Hawkwind and Talking Heads albums as essential prog!
Going by some of the submissions here, would it then be a fair assessment to say that this thread, like so many others before it, once again proves that prog beyond the realms of the classic prog rock of 69-74 (..70-76...whatever..YMMV), simply does not exist as a contained and identifiable musical style?
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