Thanks for watching everyone. I thought I'd done so good getting Red Barchetta and YYZ pronunciations right for the Rush heads, yet I had no idea Neal Peart was pronounced Peert! I guess we can add him to the list along with Mutt Lange (apparently pronounced Langer but everyone says Lang) or Chad Kroeger (pronounced like Freddy Krueger though everyone says Crow-ger). Who are some other big names we collectively butcher unknowingly?!

I loved this era of King Crimson.

80's King Crimson is my favorite of the bunch. But I still love that Yes/Buggles Drama album.

What I really like about King Crimson 80s era is that despite changing their sound, there's still undeniable signals that what you're listening *is* King Crimson and not just a completely different band. Things like Fripp's experimentations with ambient loops and electronics, uncommon time signatures even in their poppiest songs, mysterious and poetic lyrics, they're all there. Same goes for King Crimson's 90s and 2000s output. Despite changing their genre, they still sound like themselves, you can recognize from a distance that what you're listening is King Crimson. That's a surprisingly rare bar many bands don't achieve, and part of the reason Crim is my favourite band ever.

Don’t forget Asia, which had alumni from Yes, King Crimson and ELP.

I absolutely love 80s era Rush. It is easily my go-to for listening. I appreciate that Geddy stopped some of his shrieking and also love how they incorporated synths and technology. And as a kid of the 80s, it was impossible not to love Genesis.

The Alan Parsons Project did VERY well in the 80s! Although they had only 3 albums in the 70s.

"Mystic Rhythms" by Rush is most definitely the perfect marriage of old and new. I could listen to a 10-hour loop of that song and just drift away.

Those three 80's King Crimson albums are great albums.

Rush always reacted musically to the era but never sold out, what an incredible discography they left behind

~~ saw Rush in 1981 - YES in 1984 - King Crimson in 1982 & 84 - Asia in 1982 & 83 - David Gilmour in 1984 - some of the best shows I've ever been to ..

King Crimson got through the 80s the best of all of them. Fantastic music.

Hold Your Fire is such an underrated gem of a record. Really heartfelt and uplifting in an aspirational/don't surrender kind of way. And I will defend Tai Shan to my grave.

King Crimson was one of the handful of not embarrassing Prog bands in the '70s and they continued that streak in the '80s.

Genesis is my favorite of the bunch. It’s so unbelievable how many great songs they have made during the 80s

In defense of Pink Floyd, A Momentary Lapse of Reason was a pretty big hit. It ultimately went quadruple platinum. The track Learning to Fly went number 1 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart. And I think it has a number of solid tracks on the album, including One Slip and On the Turning Away.

It is tough not to just focus on Rush in a video like this. They did the best job of adapting to this decade but still maintained their proggy integrity.

Aside from a couple of MTV friendly songs like Sleepless 80's KC holds up extremely well. There was a good amount of experimental stuff too which is legitimately avant garde (Industry etc). Discipline is easily one of their best albums.

King Crimson -Waiting Man Live at Frejus 82 is a thing of beauty.

A) King Crimson has always been my favourite band and I haven’t seen the 80’s albums as a sort of “adaptation” to that era, but a natural evolution. B) Not on the list, the band Renaissance, that was a bit mainstream early on did definitely give up most/all of their proggish style and became just another popgroup.

Great video! Really should've made mention of Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins solo work as well. Sledgehammer took over the top spot on the charts from none other than Genesis in July 1986, and had a really cool, groundbreaking video to go with it (the most played video in MTV history). Also, love or hate his solo stuff, Phil Collins 80's pop domination is absolutely remarkable! Another honorable mention, even though they weren't Prog, would be Grateful Dead with Touch of Grey in 1987. The fact that they made the top 10 on the Billboard charts and had a video in heavy rotation on MTV with this track was simply amazing!

You can add Jethro Tull to the mix. Their albums in the first half of the 80s (A, Broadsword and the Beast and Under Wraps) had lots of synth and New Wave influences.

After the breakup of King Crimson in 1974, Fripp went on to do a lot of solo and session work where he experimented with his style. He brought his influence into every record he played on and left a larger impression than most people assume. I'd say that he, along with Brian Eno, is one of the biggest reasons the early 80s sounded the way it did. One of the albums he played on and helped influence the stylistic direction of was Talking Heads's Fear of Music.

Jethro Tull was the Prog Band that really tried everything creatively in the 80s. I love it. A, Broadsword, Under Wraps and Crest of a Knave are awesome!

A lot of prog bands didn't make it through the 80's so I have immense respect for those who did. KC's 80's albums are probably my favourites in their discography, with Red. Great vid!

I think it could be argued that Subdivisions was the big hit of Rush’s 80s era.

Power Windows is extremely under appreciated. “Territories” is a dance song that also fits New Wave.

80s King Crimson is really incredible stuff

Never clicked a video so quickly. Growing up as a teen, I noticed that every prog band I would dive into had this 80s phase with lots of synths and poppy grooves. I loved it! It's always such a vibe when virtuous musicians play pop.

The most New Waveish thing Genesis ever did was probably the song Who Dunnit? from Abacab in 1981. When I first bought the album back then and heard it, I cringed and was saying wtf? to myself over and over, and was frankly embarrassed by it, as I had already been a Genesis diehard since 1975. It seemed like a throwaway track so I just ignored it. But then I saw Genesis on the Abacab Tour and they played Who Dunnit?. Phil was dressed in some bizarre goggles, Rutherford was playing the drums, and Banks I think was wearing a snorkel mask. It was both bizarre, but admittedly funny. I then realized it was Genesis poking fun at both "New Wave" and themselves (hey, we're going to be a New Wave band now). In the context of the concert, it was just 5 minutes of silliness and very lighthearted compared to their usual "serious" persona. Tony Banks' usually complex keyboard sounds were very simple "synth pop" sound that was being played all over MTV by that time. Since Genesis was way too talented to create this seriously, after seeing them do it in concert it was obviously a satiric parody of the direction of music and of themselves. You really should have showed the Who Dunnit? video in this! In retrospect, the album version of the song Abacab, with its extended instrumental guitar/synth tradeoff and dual drumming is probably the song which most signified a change in sound from the 70s, the more sparse, less dense 80s sound with lyrics that were really nonsense. They created that tune purely out of a band jam, no prewritten songs were brought in for the most part. Yet live, I always thought that song kicked azz. I saw Genesis in 1980, 81, 82, 84 twice, and 87. I saw Yes on the Drama tour in 1980. After seeing them with the classic lineup in 77, 78 and 79, what a shock that was to see them without Anderson and Wakey. But, the concert was still damn good because I liked the harder edged sound of the Drama album (I thought Tormato sucked, a mess). Obviously when playing the older tunes, I especially missed Wakeman's majestic keyboards. I actually skipped the other 80s "YesWest" tours, as I was less enthused about 90125. I saw the new Crimson in Jan 1984 in a small on campus college chapel which couldn't have held more than 300! Sat dead center in the 3rd pew, about 20 feet from Bruf's drum kit! Incredible show. I saw the 87 Delicate Sound of Thunder Tour also, another epic show that was surreal to watch. Rush I regret not seeing until the late 80s, but still was an active listener throughout the decade. Their run from Permanent Waves through Power Windows was their peak. I'm a bit surprised you didn't even mention the Prog Supergroup ASIA in this video, given the massive popularity of that 82 debut album, with a simplified streamlined sound that influenced so much of 80s guitar rock. Still think its a great album and got far too much derision thrown at it by a segment of the uber serious snooty "Prog Nerds" division of the fanbase. Also, no mention of Camel, Peter Gabriel solo. By 1978 PG was wearing a short almost punkish haircut and definitely was exploring different sounds.

While I love Rush from the seventies for their musical experimentations and crazy ass song lyrics, I also love their eighties stuff for their just beyond musical competence and singular lyrics that in my opinion are about the best in rock and roll. Hold your fire is likely my favourite rush album with Power Windows number two. The bass on Marathon is beyond prog but ironically is still pretty melodic, the bass in that song almost takes the place of the guitar in establishing the melody. While I listen to YES stuff from the seventies in awe, I listen to their eighties stuff just as more generally listenable. Maybe because I was too young in the seventies to really be into music and came to it later. The 'song' format was too much in my head so I liked that, but really still paid attention to lyrics. But nothing from the eighties could approach La Villa Strangiato or Awaken. THose are classics that the will be studying in the coming years as something singular 'bands' who were collective orchestras and composers.

80's Rush is SOOO much more accessible. I can listen to it anytime but it doesn't sacrifice any of the playing, and lyrically, some of their best content came from the 80's onwards. Prog Rock epics are great but it's not digestable for everyday listening. I actively avoid most comments on Genesis, Pink Floyd and Rush band pages because there's always people just needlessly going on about how bad the "Later Years" stuff was. It's not for everyone but banging on about and putting down 40+ year old albums is kind of sad. Appreciate the video!

I think it should be noted that a key piece of the 80s KC lineup is Tony Levin, probably one of the best bassists of that era or really any era. He absolutely strengthens every track on Discipline/Beat/Three of a Perfect Pair, but he also worked alot with Peter Gabriel in the same decade. We have him to thank for helping to make tracks like _Sledgehammer_ and _Shock the Monkey_ . Plus he used the best version of the guitar, the Chapman Stick. In a way, there's three guitarists and one bassists on 80s KC tracks, with Levin compressing the role of guitarist and bassist with one beautiful instrument. We need more Stick in music, shit slaps.

Always loved Discipline and Beat by KC, and Drama by Yes. Some good stuff came out of this era

Thank you for mentioning Missing Persons. In my humble opinion, my theory is, Terry Bozzio heard Rush's Moving Pictures & inspired him to write Spring Session M released a year later.

Thanks for this video! I'm so sick of progheads talking about this era of these bands as if they brought the plague. I absolutely love early prog, but I love all these bands' 80s period just as much. There's room for everything, and how progressive is it to stick to one type of sound or music your whole carreer? I so much enjoy songs that have a great hook and dont last 20 minutes as well. There's beauty in tight songwriting, hell even in cheesiness.

80's Crimson's topnotch! The absolute zenith is the Absent Lovers version of Waiting Man

I’d love if you did a video on The Cult. They basically changed sound every album from 84-94 which usually ended up working in their favor, while still sounding like The Cult.

Signals by Rush and 90125 (my #s 4 and 5 albums of all time) shaped my childhood and pre teen years. Couple that with huge portions of Abacab and the Genesis self titled album, plus The Police and Missing Persons, and it was an awesome childhood full of poppish musical complexity. Nice mention of Terry Bozzio as well. It seemed to be the era of the Drummer, as you had Bozzio, Peart, and Stewart Copeland getting as many headlines as anyone else. They still had their style but it was inside a song.

great video! The least "Prog" thing those bands could have done is keeping their 70's style. Instead, they truly PROGressed, embraced new styles and morphed their sound. All those bands ( especially crimson) were still highly innovative and experimental in the 80's, they just became less " rock".

Throughout the late 70s, Rush (or perhaps more properly Peart, who sort of dragged the rest of the band with him) was very much into reggae and New Wave. When it was Neil's turn to control the tape deck on the bus, it was more often than not Bob Marley; for about thirty years, Neil curated a mixtape/playlist of songs he liked for every tour which would get played over the PA before a Rush show, and in tours of the UK in the late 70s, he'd include a Police track which would cause the (basically metalhead) audience to boo for a few minutes. A Philadelphia concert promoter also infamously booked Blondie to open for Rush around that time. So the adapting of New Wave norms (which started in earnest in January 1980's "Permanent Waves"... the name of that album itself meaning that there is no "New Wave", just permanently good music) came because they marinated themselves in that sound for years. Neil would later write that a lot of musicians who defined themselves by virtuosity couldn't adapt to punk and new wave. "What am I going to do? Forget how to play?" Some figured out how to do interesting things in the new style and were joined by punks whose chops grew to the point that they could play as well as the prog masters (e.g. Sting and Summers (though not Copeland, who was a prog drummer before The Police)) and thrived in the 80s. Peart hypothesized that there was a cycle in popular music, where when the music on the radio got too far beyond what 3-4 teenagers in their garage could reasonably expect to be able to play along to they'd create something new that they could play. The new scene would sweep almost everything aside (a few masters from the old would adapt) and then become more complex as the new masters explored and learned how to write and play, and the cycle would turn. "Wave after wave will flow with the tide and bury the world as it does. Tide after tide will flow and recede leaving life to go on as it was."

Thanks for this, I would never had realised that 80’s King Crimson was a very single influence on many a jazz prog metal band, or could sit side by side with my other pop prog favourites like the Police or Ozriks… awesome man!!!

The prog rock 80's transformations have always been very interesting to me, superficially it seems like them cashing in, "writing pop tunes is easy for us, let's get rich" and I think there is an element of that, but I also think it has a lot to do with acknowledging prog was limiting their audience and musicians ultimately want to connect with people and create experiences that resonate. I love this period, esp. what Yes, Asia, GTR, and Genesis did.

Thela Hun Ginjeet is just so good. But the Invisible Touch I could do without ever hearing again.

I could go on and on about how amazing Rush as a band was throughout their whole career. They never "sold out," so to speak; they may have changed their sound a little over the years, but musically they were still distinctly Rush. The lyrics were still intelligent and philosophical, the instrumentals, while simpler than their earlier work, were still tight and varied, and of course there remained the masterful percussion of the professor himself Neil Peart.

I feel so very prog having watched this. I must now search for a power pop video to return me back to home base.

80s Rush is probably my favorite era of the band! Grace Under Pressure, Power Windows and Hold Your Fire are albums I've listened to countless times and still do now.

The 80s king crimson line up is the best 4 piece rock ensemble of all time they walk the line of progressive songwriting and accessibility better than anyone man. They also had such an incredible mix of humor and art bro i literally could not praise them anymore. Thank you for making this video this topic doesnt get nearly enough attention

Don't forget Styx. In the 70s they had great prog songs like "Fooling Yourself" & "Suite Madame Blue". In the 80s they had new wave songs like "Too much time on my hands" & "Mr Roboto".

RUSH mixing prog.with new wave Is awesome!!!

The 80s were the last great decade for pop radio (some AOR stations also added a poppier element , so it wasn't just Top 40) and the prog giants' evolution really lent the era a sense of sophistication. Add in great 80s albums from even older bands like the Kinks and the Who, who also embraced technology and even made a couple of solid dancefloor bangers, and you get 3 generations going on four making amazing music. I'm so glad other people love this era. I listen to this music now and I have dreams about people and things I haven't thought about in years . . . crazy. PS: Gotta add to the chorus of Rush fans chiming in . . . .Grace Under Pressure was my first Rush album (and tour). I knew the big hits from Moving Pictures, but I bought it after Grace because once you get the Rush bug, it stays in your system. I was a New Wave girl but also just a rock chick, and one of my besties was a phenomenal drummer. I had already started playing bass, and he pushed me to learn most of the Rush back catalog.

Rush handled the 80's the best of all these groups IMO. Genesis and Rush are my two favourite bands of all time, but I struggle with post Duke Genesis, with the exception of a few songs here and there. Rush didn't strip the music down like Genesis did, they just evolved their sound while maintaining the complexity and the cerebral nature of the music.

nailed it... "it should be contemptible, but it's infectious. dammit." nice coverage. that comment re: genesis, who never recovered. crimson did some great work in that era and went on to do more under-covered stuff... last couple of albums are amazing, and the recent live shows with 3 drummers have been utterly epic. I've seen 3 of them. oh, and Peter Gabriel just released a new album at age 73 and it's pretty good. if I'm still eating solid food at 73 I'll be happy.

This is a great video. Rush and Genesis certainly sailed the 80s with style. One worth mentioning is Jethro Tull - the dramatic shift on A (which I love), and a genuine hit album in Crest of a Knave.

How can you leave out Asia (not a 70s Prog band, but formed from them) or Emerson Lake and Powell (not Palmer)? More importantly, there's The Fixx. They have always been viewed as a New Wave band, but put aside the 4/4 time and short songs, and you'll see all of the elements of Prog: the philosophical lyrics, the deeper meanings, the highly technical playing. It's all there, they just arrived too late for the 1970s.

Love that you mentioned Missing Persons in connection with Rush. Cool, friend.

The ending made me laugh 😂 The 80’s had some of the best entries of these band’s discographies. Great video!

12:14 Perfect editing that made me chuckle. I love how your script acknowledges and makes the most of the footage you're using at the time. It's a little detail a lot of channels don't bother with. Good attention to detail: how prog of you.

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that our weird sub-set of Proggies are particularly keen to bang out self-referential videos, there’s so much about prog on KZfaq. But this is an absolute banger of a mini-doc. Awesome piece of work, thanks Man.

Ill say it since nobody else will. Signals and power windows are incrediblely underrated rush albums that deserve way more recognition

For Rush, I would have made many points about "Grace Under Pressure" REALLY showing the New Wave influence, with guitarists such as "Paul Reynolds" (Flock of Seagulls), "The Edge" (U2) and "Midge Ure" (Ultravox) for Alex Lifeson and his deep reverb & echo added to his signature guitar tone. Also lets not forget (though many would want to) *Kansas* and their 2nd an last album with vocalist John Elefante; "Drastic Measures" which is VERY New Wave/Prog (except for "Mainstream"), with a 80's Pop quality but with the Kansas sound by a thread. It was Kerry Livgren that said "The album that should not have been called Kansas", but I actually enjoy it. Their next 2 albums would be Pop influenced but they also had some standout proggier tunes with "Steve Morse" on guitar (with Rich Williams respectively) and new member "Billy Greer" would be their longest running Bassist. *Asia* is another, but I guess not-so "New Wave" affiliated but an 80's pop sound to their type of Prog Rock, much like Floyd's "A Momentary Lapse of Reason", both I quite enjoyed. I especially liked "Yet Another Movie" and "One Slip". *Saga* the Canadian Neo-Progressive Rock band started getting that New Wave vibe on "Heads or Tales" (1983) and then went full 80's Prog Pop with a touch of New Wave on "Behaviour" (1985), "Wildest Dreams" (1987), "A Beginners Guide to Throwing Shapes" (1989) and 2 more albums until going FULL Prog with their excellent conceptual album "Generation 13" (1995). *Jethro Tull* and albums; "A" (1980), "The Broadsword and the Beast" (1982), "Under Wraps" (1984) either had a few tracks or all out New Wave or 80's Pop influences. *Premiata Forneria Marconi* (PFM)" had; "Come ti va in riva alla città" (1981), "PFM? PFM!" (1984), "Miss Baker" (1987) with New Wave/80's Prog-Pop. *Eloy* albums; "Performance" (1983), "Metromania" (1984) very much influenced by New Wave (and may have lost its many fans). *Crack the Sky* and; "White Music" (1980), "Photoflamingo" (1981) with its Punk/New Wave inspirations, "World in Motion 1" (1982), "Raw" (1986), "From the Greenhouse" (1989) Prog-Pop/New Wave. *3* (Keith Emerson, Robert Berry, Carl Palmer); "To the Power of Three" (1988) with its touches of New Wave and Prog-Pop, though "Desde la Vida" is probably the Proggiest of tracks (the standout track for me, and the single "Talkin' About"). Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush were creating their own versions of "New Wave". And if it wasn't for the Ensemble Comedy show "Fridays", I would have not dived into King Crimson, but their appearance on the program blew my socks off. I vaguely knew about them (but knew Bill Bruford), and proceeded to buy the 3 "Primary Color Albums" and then went backwards into their catalogue. Genesis after "ABACAB" was hit or miss with me, though I do enjoy the self-titled album. Yes was re-vitalized with Trevor Rabin, and it would be my 1st time to see them on the "90125" Tour, and for "Big Generator" and then finally going backwards fully into their catalogue. But "Talk" (1994) is on my Top 5 Yes albums along with "Drama" (1980) which was my 1st real exposure to the band (even though hearing their famous tracks on AOR Radio), and I _thought_ the vocals were Jon Anderson at that time.

Although lesser known at first, Split Enz started off as an art rock/prog band but by about 1978 or '79 embraced a much more streamlined pop band with a lot of cool quirks.

My uncle is a singer,and had a cd box set of a Time Life Best of the 1980s."Learning to Fly " from Pink Floyd was one of my favorite songs on it as a kid

Genesis in the 80s was still pretty good. Duke is still one of the band's top albums, and it started their pop/80s area. It gets too much hate. And Genesis is probably my favorite prog band

Wow. I can’t believe your subscription count is where it is. It should be much much higher.

Just commenting to say that I’m glad to watch your videos custom made for us weirdos ❤

I can’t believe you didn’t take this opportunity to cover Supertramp. How prog of you!

Just binged the whole playlist and subscribed. Love this kind of content.

I always felt like rush by the virtue of being a bit younger than a lot of other prog bands where a lot more open to this. There's a reoccuring trope where alex lifeson will go from playing an agressive riff to suddenly sounding like Jonny Marr and it always works.

Great video! I think Asia would’ve been worth covering too

for someone who's always loved 70s prog and has now been obsessively rediscovering 80s new wave pop, this is one of the best videos I've ever seen would love to see a similar breakdown on 70s punk going into 80s post-punk/goth

that's insane how you perfectly timed your script to start at the beginning of Vital Signs and then cut to the reggae groove. great video

I saw Floyd on the MLoR tour at Manchester Maine Road in '88. Definitely in my all time top five of live bands I've seen. Others are The Who at the NEC, Pearl Jam at the Bercy in Paris, Elbow at Wolves Civic, and The Robben Ford Band at Ronnie Scotts.

Interesting and cool video I would have possibly made space for including Asia in it. I understand why you didn't (them not being a 70s prog band, but an 80s supergroup full of 70s prog musicians)

Thrilled to be in the company of such fine weirdos. Cheers, folks. Also, no one ever seems to talk about Hold Your Fire, but I love that album. Thanks for talking about it.

80s King Crimson is so good I actually think I like it more than their 70s output

amazing video! your writing is super informative yet absolutely personal and honest. happy to hear your pov is very pro-pop and praising these very different albums and what makes them special. also respect for using whole clips with audio o7

I prefer 70's prog, epic, shrieking Geddy Lee, epic solo Rush to anything else but I will say that Power Windows is a masterpiece. And one of my all time favorites. Every song on that record is a banger.

Thanks for putting this together and saying some thing I've been thinking. Such a unique time for prog with many overlooked bangers

Dude your channel is awesome. I've gone back thru all your older videos, and as I have a damaged brain, I love your particular brand of sonic discourse. Keep up the good work.

Great video. Love all these bands …cheers from Rio 🎊🥰

No band was better at taking complex music and making it accessible for people that weren’t even into Prog as Rush was. Even an album like Hold Your Fire where most of it sounds extremely poppy, there’s just so much going on underneath it all. If you were a long time fan of them, what a journey it was from album to album. Not too many bands changed their sound as much as they did while still sounding like no other band. They were just so damn unique, I love it all.

Great idea! There's much to love in 80s pop/prog. It's still leagues above much of what was on MTV then.

Hey, i wanted to say thanks for the video! Ive never been a prog rock fan or of most 80s stuff, but i really enjoy hearing people breakdown the music they’ve listened to.

Another fantastic video from you. Thank you for making these, I truly enjoy your explorations of lesser discussed eras in music.

Rush: I love Fly by Night, Caress of Steell, 2112, A Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures... and also Signals, Grace Under Pressure, Power Windows and Hold Your Fire!!! Rush made great music in the 80'...smart, well made, good melodies, technical prowess, well thought out lyrics...were they aiming for more songs like Xanadu? In fact, Moving Pictures is from that era, the new wave era.

Thanks so much for this. Brings back MANY MANY memories.

Good stuff! I was never a Crimson fan, so that part of it was all new to me. (Hey, Tony Levin! Went to work for Peter Gabriel and kind of stayed in PG's orbit from then onward, to the betterment of us all!) Over the years I've come to the conclusion that the entity known as Pink Floyd really ceased to exist after The Wall, for various reasons. And while I like the Momentary Lapse album, it's really its own weird thing, isn't it? Genesis, though. That's my main band, has been since "Invisible Touch" landed while I was in high school. And... yeah, those last few (Collins-led) albums defined them so much that those beloved early years with Pete and Steve seem like the output of a whole other band... which they kind of were, I suppose. (I still think the post-Collins record showed promise and I wish they'd gotten to follow that up.) Bands from the 60s/70s landing big radio hits in the 80s sure was a weird thing, though. The Dead's "Touch of Grey" anyone? Tull's Crest of a Knave album pulling a Grammy win away from Metallica? Weird times, fun times.

Drama is actually my favorite Yes album, it retains the prog but also has the new wave tinge and even some metal influence. I love how Crimson trying to go new wave/80s pop is still weird af

Loved the 70s music. Concerts were $6 Nice video

Brilliant video, man! Great narrative. Whimsical musings. Astute observations. Loved this video!!

This was really well put together. Kudos!

No mention of Tull? How prog of you.

I always try to give props to filmmakers, who really put the time in, do the research, and are exceptionally good writers. You really made an amazing film, and I enjoyed it immensely. Thanks for putting in the time! “How Prog of you“.

I am surprised The Moody Blues were not mention. They changed their sound a bit and had a really successful 80s with several #1s and Top Ten hits.

Power Windows is Rush's most artistically salient piece of work imho, delicious

“Started counting to 4…” OMG, That’s hilarious!!!

It never fails to capture me- 80s King Crimson still holds up amazingly, especially for how little it ever receives airtime. I still prefer 70s, nothing beats LTiA and Red, but still...

Fantastic video. Enjoyed every second of it. Thanks for posting.

I’m listening to so much prog right now. I’ve got enough music to listen to until I die.