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Funny. The only exposure I've had to Meredith Monk is due to the Milwaukee knuckleheads on Red Letter Media. My worlds are colliding 😊😊😊

Still comfortable with your stance on Israel Steven? Without conditions?

The Armoury Show - Waiting For The Floods.....a sleeper 1985 album. Not a dud track.......I play it every few months.

Todd's Acapella ? Maybe u covered. A pioneering work

Twelfth Night was the greatest Prog Band of the 80s, we needed to wait for Tool and Mars Volta for another leap like that.

I have to mention Ultravox’s 1982 album, “Quartet.” Brilliant pop sensibilities that have the production from the late George Martin make this album in a class of its own. Love the electronic and rock music genre melding. Such a terrific album and deserves massive recognition from the year 1982. ❤😅

Dire straits masterpiece

As much as hot space isn't there Best its a brave album and does have some good material on it

Marillion fans twits, no surprise

bizarre comparison between Hawwind and Clube da Esquina...over analysis?

And now I’m sitting here on a Sunday autumn evening playing Nick Drake again. I’ll probably wear a long coat tomorrow as well. Thanks.

Love this. Me and a friend of mine did one of these type reviews on Progressive Rock in the mid 80's. Recorded it on Hi-8 Video. I have to dig it out and watch it. Would love to have seen you do '66 to '69. But you are both not as old as I am. I was born in '56 and was a child basically in those early years but I was a huge music fan at an early age. I have something among my group of friends I call "The Dino Listen" which is sitting between the 2 stereo speakers at a loud level with album cover & liner notes reading along with lyrics if they were included. Big fan of No Man, Storm Corrosion, Porcupine Tree, Steven Wilson & Blackfield. Love to see Pro musicians who are huge fans of other artists. Most Pro artists do not listen to other artists because they are consumed by their own body of work.

Can we get another 90's episode please 👍

Ha! Steven! Watched “no birds sing” and recognized the sleeping busker….supastah!

I will see your Asia and raise you GTR - fucking awful.

Agree, the Harper / Page album sounds to me like a DAT recording that has been re-sampled once of twice too many times. Something wrong sound wise and I think it's a digital issue, and not intentional.

Power Windows is an honest attempt at updating their approach. Not even in the same arena as 2112 or Hemispheres, or Permanent Waves.

Enslaved are a super progressive black metal 🤘 band, you should review in my opinion they’re great discography ❤

I was born in 87 and was the perfect age to receive both this and Limp Bizkit's Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavoured Water, which I believe were the same year or perhaps a year apart. They were both absolutely ubiquitous at school and brought everyone together in way I'll always have great fondness for those albums for, besides the music itself which I can still enjoy today regardless of any nostalgia..

I saw YES perform CTTE in 1973 and I remember it clearly to this day. And I saw Pink Floyd perform the complete WYWH album. Tull do partial TAAB (but it was in 1977). I can die happy.

Is this the Kevin gilbert from the band Toy matinee.

Love this podcast very informative 👍

"Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" must rate pretty high for that band, so far as taking the initial template and moving it forward. Such a good sounding mix, drums and guitars and deep sluggy bass as it should be. I think it's their best as an album.

Steven Wilson is such a cool record nerd and knows more about the classic rock "recording" history than just about anyone I have ever come across. So glad to see him sit down, relax and spill his heart on these records from this incredible era. There really was something special about pop/rock/R&B 1967 to about 1982. Great stuff after this, but a different era had begun in 1983/84 in my opinion.

LOVE your focus on 1982, particularly that you dedicated six episodes to it. Enjoyed every minute. I watched fervently in anticipation of your takes on Elvis Costello's seminal Imperial Bedroom (released July 2, 1982). Any chance for a footnote episode that would include this kaleidoscopic 15-track novel of words and music produced by Geoff Emerick? I think it represents a turning point in his writing and singing and in the musicality of the Attractions. Keep up the good work!

That APP album I find too "easy listening" and not at all consistent. Nowhere near iRobot, not even close.

Well this time you've introduced me to the bleak, despairing "joys" of The Cure's "Pornography" album. I've previously liked a few of their singles, and I have the Disintegration and Wish albums (and I love those), but the first time I heard their early stuff was when Steven did his beautifully eerie cover of "A Forest". And now I'm listening to the Pornography album for the first time and wow, it's absolutely brilliant! I am definitely adding this to the collection! :) (EDIT: Personally I think the whole vibe of an album is what makes it "depressing" - maybe it's also down to when people listen to it in their lives too and if it resonates with that. For me albums like Alice in Chains' "Tripod" or Portishead's "Dummy" and NIN's "The Downward Spiral" have that kind of turgid, "pull you under" kind of vibe. I'll have to listen to this one more to see if it has that kind of effect).

I think the 'negativity' and 'cult of Rush members' Steven speaks of, are people that disagree with his well-paid opinions - how dare they!

I'm just 4 years younger than you and Linkin Park is probably my album of the year. They were a total breath of fresh air compared to the postBrit Pop and the New Acoustic movement. I was so sick of indie. During this era , well until the US came along and gave it a massive kick with The Strokes, White Stripes, Yeh Yeah Yeahs etc.

I must disagree with Tim about 1980s Genesis. While it's true they never entirely abandoned prog, the balance of the albums in that decade moved decisively toward pop. Invisible Touch basically has two proggy and one proggish track and five pop songs. Notably, they held two other proggy pieces back from the album. Genesis 1983 really has only Home by the Sea as genuine prog, Mama as proggish and a totally forgettable side two. Abacab only has Dodo/Lurker as prog, a couple of proggish bits and a lot of weak poppy filler.

But Close to the Edge is little pieces joined together too. Very unfair on Genesis. Supper's Ready is an absolute masterpiece!

19:38 -- In regards to Asia, I came upon this album only about six months after discovering Yes and their varied discography (and 16 years after its release), so despite knowing Howe and Downes, this was my intro to Palmer and Wetton. I went into the record not having any expectations and I enjoyed it a lot, although I only played it once or twice. Cut ahead to a few months later and after a bad heartbreak (bear in mind I was 18), and on subsequent spins the pure emotion and melody entranced me like nothing else. I grew to listen to it deeper and closer and it since cracked my all-time Top 5. Despite some FM accessibility and overwrought emotional lyrics, if *you were of a certain age*...it was incredible. And to this day the record perfectly encapsulates a 50/50 synthesis of my love of both pop and progressive music. I think that next to Genesis, Rush, and It Bites, Asia had that recipe down just right. Certainly for the debut. I think the real "problem" that the record had was in preconceptions of the artists involved. If one went into it without any idea of who is singing or playing and purely approached it as an FM rock/prog album in the vein of Rush or Saga, they'd be pleasantly surprised.

Found you today, loving this so far. What is weird when you compare 1982 to today is, so far there has been only one album I didn't know and all the rest are in my top 100 several in my top 10 but I bet if we made lists for 2024 they'd all be completely different. I miss the way we were united then.

Honestly, synth era Rush is currently my favorite. Peak-songwriting in my opinion, would've been as popular as Genesis if it hadn't still been just that little bit too complex for people to handle.

I've never seen SW laugh so hard!

If you watch this while under the influence the texture of the background becomes intensely hypnotic

Wild Things Run Fast is Joni's most underrated LP and was not lauded at all at the time!!! great songs. Larry Klein was her second best bassist. she was 39 when recorded, she embraced hard rock guitar on title track. chinese cafe is one of her greatest songs. i dream flat tires sound like belew crimson. Vinnie C and Larry K have amazing chemistry.

Also guilty of being ignorant of 80s metal 😂

An ace album. Trouble Your Money is friggin great.

Lou Reed's The Blue Mask was one of the best albums of 1982. Many think it was the best of his career.

What he said about Genesis is on point 👌🏻

Well, good thing we don't come here for the metal I guess. 😂 Lots of good stuff was released this year, though. Accept, Kiss, Scorpions, Tank, Motörhead, Manowar, Demon just to name a few. The metal explosion started for real in 83 but 82 wasn't too shabby

I think its not Genesis as a band that loved pop music, i think its the dominant role of Phil Collins who liked pop music.

None of the Asia albums are good in my opinion. Overproduced, bombastic in a wrong way, Sing-a-long-stadium-hits, yekkk bleeehg. Producer to the engineer: " do we haven more channels to fill? yeah we have, we only used until now 34 tracks, we still have 2 more, but I can also remix tracks 1 t/m 12 to 2 tracks, so we have even more tracks to put sounds on" ..... the music sounds like a sink which is full of left overs and tries to flush it all away but it can"t

Consequences, I bought it when it came out and I still listen to it and really enjoy it. A masterpiece!!

10/10 for Rush. And greetings from Poland 🤚

The thought of SW reminiscing about deadwing, in absentia, signify, foabp, and HIS album years. 20 years from now, and me listening in through probably a neural chip by that time is giving me a hard on. Sorry.

We love your music AND the album years podcast. But it's wild that there are people who know the podcast but don't know the music. Truly and sadly a generation thing.

Asia are a funny band. Incredible talent, great music, but somehow it's too poppy at the same time. Weird combination that gets me going from feeling their sublime musical runs which gets sickly sweet on their next song. Broadsword is a great album. Just like Steve said, it's got a pop sheen and the songs are succinct and get right to the point. Tim well points out the great guitar riffs and bursts by Martin Barre. They are fabulous and tastefully fit into the songs so well and without dominating the sound. The members of the band must have great musical ears to get all the different feels into the songs - traditional Tull, synth, the pop sheen, and atmosphere - and still make it sound good. That album cover alone probably got Tull millions of extra sales. I've heard of people who do historical re-enactments that love the Celtic/Viking vibe on this album and the artistic imagery on the cover. It did well in Germany apparently.

Signals is my favorite album of ALL time !!! For me it is a perfect album in all aspects !!!