As I'm working on my timeline, I'm find that 1980 and 1981 were for the most part some pretty lean years for progressive rock. There certainly were some classic, if not ground-breaking (Discipline, Peter Gabriel) albums, but the pickings appear to be slim for the generation of progressive musicians.
Care to offer your essential "progressive" albums from 1980 and 1981? thanks!
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Zamla Mammaz Manna - Familjesprickor
Art Zoyd - Generation sans futur
Univers Zero - Ceux de Dehors
Eskaton - 4 Visions
Captain Beefheart - Doc At The Radar Station
Kultivator - Barndomens Stigar
Dun - Eros
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Lean years for sure. The only essential album I can think of is Alturas de Machu Pichu by Los Jaivas.
Terpandre - s/t (1981)
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Yes-Drama
Rush- Permanent Waves
Metal: Black Sabbath, Tygers of Pan Tang, MSG, Iron Maiden....
Picchio dal Pozzo - Addiamo Tutti Suoi Problemi (1980)
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These plus:Originally Posted by Steve983
Camel- Nude
Peter Gabriel - 3(melt)
Genesis- Duke
Jon Anderson- Song of Seven
Alan Parson's Project- The turn of a friendly card
Gentle Giant- Civilian
Kansas- Audio Visions
KC's "discipline was already mentioned but it's a good one.
Ok, maybe these aren't all essential but they were probably the most mainstream prog(or related) albums at the time.
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Good years for Zappa (in my opinion at least) with the Joe's Garage Act 2, Tinseltown Rebellion, You Are What You Is and Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar releases.
I believe Fred Frith's Gravity and Speechless came out those years.
Residents Commercial Album
Also Jethro Tull's controversial "A" (which I find not one of their best, but worth hearing once at least).
AGNUS -Pinturas y expressiones
AIN SOPH -A story of mysterious forest
ANYONE'S DAUGHTER -Piktor's verwandlungen
ART BEARS -The world as it is today
ART ZOYD -Phase IV
COSMIC DEBRIS -3.7 K
DUN - Eros
F.G. EXPERIMENTAL LABORATORY -Hope
FUTURO ANTICO -Futuro antico
GINGA RALE BAND -Wir bedauern…
GUNESH ENSEMBLE -Gunesh
IMAN CALIFATO INDEPENDIENTE -Camino del aguila
KULTIVATOR -Bardomens stigar
LANGUIRAND, Pascal -Minos: de harmonia universalia
MELODIC ENERGY COMMISSION -Migration of the snails
MUFFINS -185
MYRBEIN -Myronas krig
NEKROPOLIS -Musik aus dem schattenreich
PENGUIN CAFÉ ORCHESTRA -Penguin café orchestra
PERERIN -Haul ar yr eira
PETE AND ROYCE -Suffering of tomorrow
PICCHIO DAL POZZO -Abbiamo tutti I suoi problemi
PLASTIC PEOPLE OF THE UNIVERSE -Leading horses
PYTHAGORAS -After the silence
RESIDENTS -Mark of the mole
RUSH -Permanant waves
SAMLA MAMMAS MANNA -Familespickor
SEPI KUU -Rannan usvassa
SKORNIK, Guy -Ils viennent du futur!
SPACEBOX -Spacebox
TERPANDRE -Terpandre
TIBBETTS, Steve -Yr
TORGUE, Henri -Le prince apatride
UN DRAME MUSICAL INSTANTANE -Rideau!
UNIVERS ZERO -Ceux du dehors
WURTEMBERG -Rock fantasia opus 9
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Those plus
Present - Triskaidekaphobie
Eider Stellaire - s/t
Steve Tibbetts - Yr
Rahmann - s/t
King Crimson - Discipline
Fred Frith - Gravity
Patrick Gauthier - Bebe Godzilla
The Muffins - 185
Ian
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Maybe lean years for prog, but the career-pinnacle for many new wave, synth, new romantic, goth and post-punk bands.
Yes.
And - off the top of my head
Bird songs Of The Mesozoic's 1st EP
Massacre - Killing Time
Aksak Maboul- Un Peu
The Muffins -<185>
However - Sudden Dusk
This Heat - Deceit
The Work - Slow Crimes
It was only lean times if you were only interested in old school prog. There was a ton of great stuff happening on the fringes...
Steve F.
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Jon & Vangelis - Short Stories
I had to check, but it just makes your time window, having been released in January 1980.
I think they are both decent years when you consider music outside symphonic rock and outside of UK/US/English countries, but yes - you have to dig deeper.
Here are some of my faves, 'essential' is in the ear of the beholder.
1980
1. Cai - Noche Abierta
2. Eskaton - 4 Visions
3. Embryo - Embryo's Reise
4. Rush - Permanent Waves
5. Present - Triskaidekaphobie
6. Yes - Drama
7. Gunesh Ensemble - Gunesh
8. Art Zoyd - Generation Sans Futur
9. Enbor - Katebegiak
10. Flairck - Gevecht Met de Engel
Edit - Forgot this one... Abus Dangereux - Le Quatriéme Mouvement
1981
1. Rush - Moving Pictures
2. Eider Stellaire - s/t
3. Univers Zero - Ceus Du Dehors
4. Dun - Eros
5. King Crimson - Discipline
6. Kultivator - Barndomens Stigar
7. Eloy - Planets
8. Alain Eckert Quartet - s/t
9. Terpandre - s/t
10. Flame Dream - Out in the Dark
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WANTED: Sig-worthy quote.
The only necessary prog albums of any interest to me released in 80 and 81 are:
APP - The Turn of a Friendly Card
Genesis - Duke
Genesis - Abacab
Magnum - Marauder
MO - QE2
Rush - PW
Rush - Exit...Stage Left
Yes Drama
^^ You realise, of course, that "Rush - PW" can be understood in two different ways?
Greetings,
Some excellent offerings from those years (IMO)....
1980:
KATE BUSH - Never for Ever
PEKKA POHJOLA - Kätkävaaran Lohikäärme
RUSH - Permanent Waves
STERN MEISSEN - Reise zum Mittelpunkt des Menschen
STEVE TIBBETS - Yr
ZAMLA MAMMAZ MANNA - Familjesprickor
1981:
PATRICK GAUTHIER - Bébé Godzilla
HOWEVER - Sudden Dusk
RUSH - Moving Pictures
SAGA - Worlds Apart
KIT WATKINS - Labyrinth
Cheers,
Alan
No...do tell?
Not when referring to 1980.
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Peter Hammill was in the midst of a "purple patch" around this time.
A Black Box was released in 1980, followed by Sitting Targets in 1981, two pivotal albums in a run of six consistently outstanding lps.
Six? I'm trying to guess which run of six you are referring to. If we're counting up to and including Sitting Targets, I'd have to say it's a run of nine, personally (although I'd take it further as I love the K Group stuff too). Just curious!
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Not mentioned yet
Rypdal: Descendre
Bernard Szajner: Some deaths take forever
Stormy Six: Macchina Maccheronica
Kraan: Tourne
Žursaflokkurinn: Į hljómleikum
Dixie Dregs: Dregs of the earth & Unsong Heroes
Japan: Tin drum
Magma: Retrospective 1 & 2
Material: Memory Serves
YMO: Technodelic
Zappa: Shut up'n Play Yer Guitar
Eno/Budd: The plateau of mirror
Frith: Gravity
No, they were certainly not for the most part that. And many of the ones listed by Ian, Cozy, Spyros and Steve here were not only more interesting from a 'progressive' viewpoint than the two you mentioned, they went far beyond most of what had been made during the 70s.
I'll add to that
1980: Debile Menthol (debut MC), Rahmann, Abus Dangereux (Le Quatriéme Mouvement), Art Bears (The World As It Is Today), Stern Meissen (Reise...), The Lounge Lizards (debut), Jean-Philippe Goude (Drones), Tako (U Vreci za Spavanje), Combo FH (Veci), Arrigo Barnabé (Clara Crocodilo), Arsenal (Dangerous Game), Family Fodder (Monkey Banana Kitchen), Gunesh Ensemble (Gunesh), Serge Bringolf (Strave), Wurtemberg (Rock Fantasia Op.9), Seru Giran (Bicicleta), Modry Éfekt (33), Master Cylinder (Elsewhere), Asia Minor (Between Flesh & Divine), Spinetta Jade (Alma de Diamante).
1981: However (Sudden Dusk), Noėtra (Neuf Songes), Bise de Buse (Joue sa Musique), Alain Eckert Quartet (Alain Eckert Quartet), Magdalena (Lanea Sartzen), Cartoon (Cartoon), East (Jatekok), Gowen/Miller/Sinclair/Tomkins (Before a Word Is Said), Wha Ha Ha (Shinotukiwa Betsu), Serge Bringolf (Visions), Synkopy (Slunecni Hodiny).
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"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
Well yeah, most definitely obviously absolutely "lean years for sure", and let's not read the rest of the thread here.
"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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