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    Best Prog artist with debut album from 1980-1984

    Personal best of course since there is no "best" in art

    most Prog fans will readily acknowledge that the early 80s was a terrible time for new artists in the style, but I have been going through my LPs from A-Z and doing digital remasters of them and I came across a very good band from Hungary when I got to E

    East had two great albums to start with before making a dreadful 3rd album followed by their best in their 4th album. Really good music on the first 2 despite the poor vocalist. The albums are boosted by truly excellent production to go along with the texturally varied Symph style Prog within. I'm loving this stuff!

    so... which is your fav artist who had their debut album in the early 80s?
    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?

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    Well, for me....Marillion, by a long shot.

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    Marillion
    IQ (didn't discover til late 90's)
    Thinking Plague (didn't discover til late 90's)
    Cardiacs (just starting to delve into them a bit)


    Other less Proggy fav's with 80-84 debuts:
    U2
    R.E.M.
    The Church
    Prefab Sprout

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    DEBILE MENTHOL - Emile Au Jardin Patrologique (1982)
    ORTHOTONICS - Luminous Bipeds (1986; although their debut album came in 1984)
    EIDER STELLAIRE - Eider Stellaire (1981)
    DUN - Eros (1980)
    CARDIACS - A Little Man and a House (1988; their debut was from '81)
    ZUT UN FEU ROUGE - Who's Afreud? (1983)
    IN SPE - In Spe (1983)
    MCH BAND - Es Reut Mich F (1990; they had their LP debut in 1982)
    NEWS FROM BABEL - Sirens and Silences/Work Resumed on the Tower (1984)
    PRESENT - Le Poison Qui Rend Fou (1985; their debut was from '81)



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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

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    Christ, I forgot about *THE* best progressive band to debut during those years, namely Thinking Plague



    And (PLEASE someone, reissue this - if only for those 250 copies that'll sell...):


    Not to mention:
    "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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    A couple more I discovered and liked in the late 90's, but don't listen to too often anymore:

    Isildurs Bane
    Kerrs Pink

    Need to revisit both...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gerhard View Post
    A couple more I discovered and liked in the late 90's, but don't listen to too often anymore:

    Isildurs Bane
    Kerrs Pink

    Need to revisit both...
    Isildur's MIND Vol. 1 from '96 is a seminal late 90s progressive album, IMO. And Kerrs Pink were at a zenith with Mellom Oss, a minor Norwegian classic from the early 80s (with that peculiar merger of folky new wave and easy-going symphonic pop/rock).
    "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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    IQ for me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gerhard View Post
    Thinking Plague (didn't discover til late 90's)
    Cardiacs (just starting to delve into them a bit)
    Yup

    Quote Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor View Post
    EIDER STELLAIRE - Eider Stellaire (1981)
    DUN - Eros (1980)
    CARDIACS - A Little Man and a House (1988; their debut was from '81)
    NEWS FROM BABEL - Sirens and Silences/Work Resumed on the Tower (1984)
    PRESENT - Le Poison Qui Rend Fou (1985; their debut was from '81)
    Yup

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    Yup

    Quote Originally Posted by mogrooves View Post
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    Eskaton - 4 Visions (debut 1980)
    Kultivator - Barndomens Stigar
    Bacamarte - Depois Do Fim
    Serge Bringolf - Strave
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    Queensryche- The Warning

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    Indio, Big Harvest. thought he was going to be the next Gabriel. Never heard from him after this brilliant debut. Eddie Vedder did a nothing cover of Hard Sun for the Into the wild movie.

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    Nice list Scrotum!
    Was unaware of The Orthotonics.
    Sounds cool, like a Fred Frith record from that era.
    no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone

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    Quote Originally Posted by mitchgx View Post
    Well, for me....Marillion, by a long shot.
    Absolutely.
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    Thinking Plague by a mile.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gerhard View Post
    A couple more I discovered and liked in the late 90's, but don't listen to too often anymore:

    Isildurs Bane
    Kerrs Pink

    Need to revisit both...
    Kerrs Pink has a new album out which is excellent.

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    No mention of Kenso till now? For shame!

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    KENSO! yes... I had forgotten

    but these East albums are really good!

    others I hadn't remembered being so early in the 80s (besides the ones already mentioned by others):
    Iconoclasta
    Solaris
    Abus Dangereux
    Tribute
    Gunesh Ensemble
    Nazca
    Nobilis Factum
    Quantum
    Red
    Stretch
    Arsenal
    The Fents
    Cheiro de Vida
    Kaseke
    Moira
    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?

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    There's always the Steve Morse Band - their first album came out in 1982....

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    Metallica, the band that started my journey to prog!

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    Diificult to pick just one (as usual)

    Steve Tippets YR 80
    Massacre - killing time 80
    Gauthier, Patrick Bebe Godzilla 80
    Thinking Plague - A thinking plague 84
    Lockwood, Vander,Wiedeman,Topp - Fusion 81
    Cassiber man or monkey 82
    Prat, JeanPaul - Masal 82
    Whahaha 83
    Lifetones 83
    Material - Temporary Music 81 - or memory serves
    Richard, Ferdinand en avant 83
    Jauniaux, Catherine fluvial 83
    Sylvian, David Brillant trees 84
    Dissidenten Germanistan 81
    News from Babel 84
    K.Ü.K.L. The eye 84
    Five Uu's Bel Marduk & Tiamat 85

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zeuhlmate View Post
    Massacre - killing time 80
    Gauthier, Patrick Bebe Godzilla 80
    Thinking Plague - A thinking plague 84
    Lockwood, Vander,Wiedeman,Topp - Fusion 81
    Cassiber man or monkey 82
    Prat, JeanPaul - Masal 82
    Whahaha 83
    Material - memory serves
    Richard, Ferdinand en avant 83
    Jauniaux, Catherine fluvial 83
    Dissidenten Germanistan 81
    News from Babel 84
    Five Uu's Bel Marduk & Tiamat 85
    Yesyesyesyesyes.

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    Last edited by Scrotum Scissor; 11-22-2013 at 11:44 AM.
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