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    1985 - Looking back with Xtc...

    20-50 Plays
    Tears for Fears - Songs From the Big Chair
    Gabriel, Peter - Birdy
    Jeff Berlin & Vox Humana - Champion

    10-20 Plays
    Dukes Of Stratosphear - 25 O' Clock
    Van der Graaf Generator - Time Vaults
    Rush - Power Windows
    Roy Harper & Jimmy Page - Whatever Happened to Jugula?
    Robert Cray Band - False Accusations
    Ponty, Jean-Luc - Fables
    Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
    Holdsworth, Allan - Metal Fatigue
    Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
    Beck, Jeff - Flash
    Walsh, Joe - The Confessor
    Simple Minds - Once Upon a Time
    Weather Report - This is This
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    Supertramp Brother Where You Bound
    Cult, The Love
    Harper, Roy Jugula
    Hellebore Il y a des Jours
    Kontrast Volume I & II
    Present Le Poison Qui Rend Fou
    Dire Straits Brothers in Arms
    Etron Fou Leloublan Face Aux Elements Dechaines
    Wondeur Brass Ravir
    my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.

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    Ok, guys, I've got most of these from a list of roughly 300 top rated albums per year from Gnosis. I could include albums that I've heard twice but I couldn't say that I would listen to these over and over in the future. Only when I see that you've played it above 20 times then I might be interested in taking your advice, even if the album was nestling next to Cookie Monster albums with 500+ plays.

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    I've had all these for ages and can still listen to 'em.

    Dave Holland-Seeds Of Time
    Al Di Meola-Cielo e Terra
    Stanley Jordan-Magic Touch
    Joe Henderson-State Of The Tenor
    Tribal Tech-Spears
    Mark O'Connor-Meaning Of
    Bass Desires-s/t

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    Albums I've had a long time that still are music to my ears:

    Love-Forever Changes
    " - Debut s/t
    Left Banke - Renee/Ballerina
    Laura Nyro - The First Songs
    Quicksilver MS - Debut s/t
    Pretty Things - SF Sorrow
    Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
    Can't Buy A Thrill - Steely Dan
    Royal Scam - "
    Quadrophenia _ Who
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    Those weren't released in '85, Geezer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Reid View Post
    Those weren't released in '85, Geezer.
    Misread the o/p. My bad.
    "My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"

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    Quote Originally Posted by progeezer View Post
    Misread the o/p. My bad.
    An extremely mighty list nonetheless. With those, Bringing It All Back Home, and a few others, I for one, could cash it in happily.

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    White City from Pete Townshend, The Wake by IQ.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JIF View Post
    White City from Pete Townshend, The Wake by IQ.
    Both were OK at/for the time/s, but I haven't listened to either in well-over two decades
    my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.

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    Not my favorite of years, but these I like:

    prefab sprout - two wheels good
    kate bush - hounds of love
    the dream academy
    dukes of stratosphear - 25 o'clock
    microdisney - the clock comes down the stairs
    the smiths - meat is murder
    its immaterial - life's hard, then you die

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    Husker Du - New Day Rising

    Present - Le poison qui rend fou
    Rush - Power Windows
    Allan Holdsworth - Metal Fatigue
    Husker Du - Flip Your Wig

    Mekons - Fear and Whiskey
    The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
    The Cure - Head on the Door
    Meat Puppets - Up On the Sun
    Talking Heads - Little Creatures

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    1985 is much better year than 1986...just 4 albums on the top of my list from that year

    Gorizont Summer In Town
    Ka-Spel, Edward Eyes! China Doll
    In Spe Typewriter Concerto in D (aka Girl on Beach)
    Kenso Music From Five Unknown Musicians

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    Mine that have 20+ listens and are still in rotation are

    Present - Le Poison Qui Rend Fou
    Shub Niggurath - s/t
    Dead Can Dance - Spleen & Ideal
    Suzanne Vega - s/t
    Supertramp - Brother Where you Bound?
    Nazca - s/t
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    Quote Originally Posted by Facelift View Post
    Present - Le poison qui rend fou
    One of the five best progressive rock (no quotation marks this time) albums released during the 80s, IMHO - and at least 150+ plays at least here at casa mia.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Progmatic View Post
    Gorizont Summer In Town
    In Spe Typewriter Concerto in D (aka Girl on Beach)
    The Horizont/Gorizont album is wonderful, absolutely wonderful - now there was a band who actually radicalized and thereby renewed "symph" progressive during the 80s, unlike others. But In Spe's Girl on Beach wasn't released until '87; presumably you're thinkin of their far superior (IMO) debut s/t?
    "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

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