Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Comparing ProgArchives' Top Albums from the 80s & 90s

Here are the Top Albums from the "Middle Decades" of the prog era, the 1980s and 1990s, according to the ratings system of the world's foremost database for progressive rock music, ProgArchives.com:


The 80s & 90s:
1. Rush – Moving Pictures
2. Änglagård -  Hybris
3. Opeth – Still Life
4. Dream Theater – Metropolis Part 2 – Scenes from a Memory
5. Dream Theater – Images and Words
6. Rush – Permanent Waves
7. Bacamarte – Depois Do Fim
8. Marillion – Misplaced Childhood
9. Marillion – Script for a Jester’s Tear
10. Queensrÿche – Operation: Mindcrime
11. Univers Zero - Uzed
12. Dün – Eros
13. Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel 3 (aka “Melt”)
14. SBB – Memento Z Banalnym Tryptykiem
15. Edge of Sanity - Crimson
16. Death - Symbolic
17. Discipline – Unfolded Like Staircase
18. Voivod - Nothingface
19. Cardiacs – Sing to God
20. Eskaton – 4 Visions
21. Solaris – Marsbéli Krónikák (Martian Chronicles)
22. Gorguts – Obscura
23. Thinking Plague – In Extremis
24. Marillion – Clutching at Straws
25. Death – The Sound of Perseverance
26. Cynic - Focus
27. Los Jaivas – Alturas de Machu Picchu
28. Atheist – Unquestionable Presence
29. Cardiacs – A Little Man and A House and The Whole World Window
30. Dream Theater – Awake


My own prog-exclusive list for the same period would look something like this:

1. FLAIRCK Gevecht Met De Engel (1980)
2. ESKATON 4 Visions (1981)
3. MR. SIRIUS Barren Dreams (1987)
4. PAT METHENY Secret Story (1992)
5. SIGUR RÓS Ágætus Byrjun (1999)
6. HÖYRY-KONE Huono Parturi (1997)
7. AFTER CRYING Overground Music (1990)
8. PAT METHENY & LYLE MAYS As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (1981)
9. SBB Memento z banalnym triptykiem (1980)
10. KING CRIMSON Discipline (1981)
11. UNIVERS ZERO Ceux du dehors (1981)
12. UNIVERS ZERO Uzed (1984)
13. KATE BUSH The Dreaming (1982)
14. THE PAT METHENY GROUP Still Life (Talking) (1987)
15. DAVID SYLVIAN Gone to Earth (1986)
16. PÄR LINDH PROJECT Mundus Incompertus (1997)
17. AFTER CRYING Megalázottak é Megszomorítottak (1992)
18. OZRIC TENTACLES Jurassic Shift (1993)
19. GALADRIEL Muttered Promises from an Ageless Pond (1988)
20. SOLARIS Marsibéli Krónikák (1984)
21. PAZZO FANFANO DI MUSICA Pazzo Fanfano di Musica (1989)
22. KINGSTON WALL III - Trilogy (1994)
23. DISCIPLINE Unfolded Like Staircase (1997)
24. PORCUPINE TREE Sky Moves Sideways (1995)
25. LANDBERK Indian Summer (1996)
26. COLLAGE Moonshine (1994)
27. ÄNGLAGÅRD Epilog (1994)
28. ECHOLYN Suffocating the Bloom (1992)
29. SOLSTICE Silent Dance (1984)
30. THE FLOWER KINGS Flower Power (1999)

Honorable Mentions:

IN THE WOODS Omnio (1997)
KATE BUSH The Sensual World (1989)
AFTER CRYING Föld És Ég
(THE CURE Disintegration)
(THE MOON AND THE MELODIES The Moon and the Melodies)
AFTER CRYING De Profundis
DEAD CAN DANCE Aion
DAVID SYLVIAN Brilliant Trees
ANTHONY PHILLIPS 1984
BARK PSYCHOSIS Hex
LANDBERK One Man Tells Another
JANE SIBERRY The Walking
FATES WARNING A Pleasant Shade of Grey
ART ZOYD Häxan
ÄNGLAGÅRD Hybris
KATE BUSH Hounds of Love
UNIVERS ZERO Ceux de dehors
SHUB-NIGGURATH Les mortes sont vites
LOS JAIVAS Alturas de Machu Picchu
STEVE TIBBETTS Yr
CONVENTUM Le bureau central des utopies
ASIA MINOR Between Flesh and Divine
ANDREAS VOLLENWEIDER Behind the Gardens - Behind the Wall - Under the Tree...
JEAN-LUC PONTY Individual Choice
DAVID SYLVIAN Secrets from the Beehive
PROPAGANDA A Secret Wish

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