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