Prog Lists: My 40 Favorite Albums from the 1980s

These are my 40 favorite prog-related albums of the 1980s: They're not all pure prog but all have contributed greatly to the forms and sounds that has became known as "progressive rock music."

1. COCTEAU TWINS Tiny Dynamine/Echoes on a Shallow Bay (1985)

2. THE FIXX Reach the Beach (1983)

3. DAVID SYLVIAN Brilliant Trees (1984)

4. THE CURE Disintegration (1989)

5. PAT METHENY GROUP Still Life (Talking) (1987)

6. COCTEAU TWINS Treasure (1984)

7. SIMPLE MINDS New Gold Dream: (81-82-83-84) (1982)

8. ESKATON 4 Visions (1981)

9. RYUICHI SAKAMOTO Ongaku Zukan (Illustrated Music Encyclopedia) (1984/6)

10. DAVID SYLVIAN Gone to Earth (1986)

11. TALKING HEADS Remain in Light (1980)

12. THE MOON AND THE MELODIES The Moon and the Melodies (1986)

13. FLAIRCK Gevecht met de Engel (1980)

14. ANTHONY PHILLIPS 1984 (1981)
15. PAT METHENY & LYLE MAYS As Falls Witchita, So Falls Wichita Falls (1981)
16. KING CRIMSON Discipline (1981)
17. KATE BUSH The Dreaming (1982)
18. TEARS FOR FEARS The Hurting (1983)

19. TEARS FOR FEARS The Seeds of Love (1989) 

20. SOLSTICE Silent Dance (1984)

21. KATE BUSH The Sensual World (1989)

22. MANUEL GÖTTSCHING E2-E4 (1984)

23. PAT METHENY GROUP First Circle (1984)

24. THE POLICE Ghost in the Machine (1981)

25. PROPAGANDA A Secret Wish

26. BRUCE COCKBURN Stealing Fire (1984)
27.. FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD Welcome to the Pleasuredome (1984)

28. XTC The Big Express (1984)

29. ANTHONY PHILLIPS & ENRIQUE BERRO GARCIA Private Parts & Pieces III:  Antiques (1982)

30. STYLE COUNCIL Confessions of a Pop Group (1988)

31. MR. SIRIUS Barren Dream (1987)

32. AMENOPHIS Amenophis (1983)

23. BRUCE COCKBURN Big Circumstance (1988)

34. PETER GABRIEL Passion (Original Soundtrack Music from the motion picture The Last Temptation of Christ) (1989)

35. XTC Mummer (1983)
36. HOWARD JONES Human's Lib (1984)
37. U2 The Unforgettable Fire (1984)

38. JANE SIBERRY No Borders Here (1984)

39. LOS JAIVAS Obras de Violeta Parra (1984)

40. SBB Memento Z Banalnym Tryptikiem (1980)