This is for my dissertation. We need real 80s hits from 70s prog stars. Supergroups welcome.
1. Heat of the Moment - Asia
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 10 October 2025 21:35 (one month ago)
2. Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 10 October 2025 21:42 (one month ago)
3. I’ve Seen All Good People, Yes
― putting the cad in decadent (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 10 October 2025 21:43 (one month ago)
4. "Your Wildest Dreams" - The Moody Blues
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 10 October 2025 21:44 (one month ago)
5. Utopia - “Crybaby”
(In my dreams)
― brimstead, Friday, 10 October 2025 21:44 (one month ago)
6. Magic Power - Triumph
― putting the cad in decadent (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 10 October 2025 21:46 (one month ago)
7. "In Too Deep" - Genesis8. "Invisible Touch" - Genesis
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 10 October 2025 21:47 (one month ago)
9. Touch and Go - Emerson, Lake & Powell
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 10 October 2025 21:49 (one month ago)
10. Learning to Fly - Pink Floyd11. On the Turning Away - Pink Floyd
― for the 1975 german film, see fox and his friends (Matt #2), Friday, 10 October 2025 22:35 (one month ago)
12. Moonlight Shadow - Mike Oldfield
― for the 1975 german film, see fox and his friends (Matt #2), Friday, 10 October 2025 22:38 (one month ago)
^TUNE
― brimstead, Friday, 10 October 2025 22:40 (one month ago)
13. "Time Stand Still" - Rush
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 10 October 2025 22:43 (one month ago)
Can we count writing credits from ex-proggers, or does it have to be performance?
― for the 1975 german film, see fox and his friends (Matt #2), Friday, 10 October 2025 22:44 (one month ago)
I’ve only known Moonlight Shadow from the “Dave Angel:Eco Warrior” sketch on the Fast Show.
― Mr. T's Ballroom (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 10 October 2025 22:47 (one month ago)
14. Mike and the Mechanics- Silent Running
― Tight steel. Alien forces. Megamachine vs. the sleazers. (President Keyes), Friday, 10 October 2025 22:54 (one month ago)
#3 isn't '80s!
15. "Feet Don't Fail Me Now" - Utopia
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 10 October 2025 22:56 (one month ago)
15. Easy Lover - Phil Collins & Philip Bailey16. Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
― for the 1975 german film, see fox and his friends (Matt #2), Friday, 10 October 2025 22:58 (one month ago)
17. "Lap of Luxury" - Jethro Tull
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 10 October 2025 22:59 (one month ago)
18. Kids in America - Kim Wilde (backed up by most of The Enid)
― for the 1975 german film, see fox and his friends (Matt #2), Friday, 10 October 2025 23:01 (one month ago)
19. Theme from "Chariots of Fire" - Vangelis
― for the 1975 german film, see fox and his friends (Matt #2), Friday, 10 October 2025 23:02 (one month ago)
20. GTR- When the Heart Rules the Mind
― Tight steel. Alien forces. Megamachine vs. the sleazers. (President Keyes), Friday, 10 October 2025 23:03 (one month ago)
21. Play the Game Tonight - Kansas
― for the 1975 german film, see fox and his friends (Matt #2), Friday, 10 October 2025 23:04 (one month ago)
22. "The Voice" - Moody Blues
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 10 October 2025 23:05 (one month ago)
23. On the Loose - Saga
― for the 1975 german film, see fox and his friends (Matt #2), Friday, 10 October 2025 23:07 (one month ago)
24. Steel Monkey - Jethro Tull
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 15 October 2025 15:29 (three weeks ago)
25. "the best of times" styx26. "too much time on my hands," styx27. "mr. roboto," styx
― andrew m., Wednesday, 15 October 2025 15:40 (three weeks ago)
28. Behind The Lines - Genesis
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 15 October 2025 18:30 (three weeks ago)
let’s dance?tubes, she’s a beautywe built this city?big log?valley girlsteve winwood might countalan parsons, eye in the skymore than this
― mig (guess that dreams always end), Thursday, 16 October 2025 00:52 (three weeks ago)
well, we can get Journey out of the way:
Any Way You Want It (1980)Who's Crying Now (1981)Don't Stop Believin'(1981)Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)(1983)
probably others depending on how you define "hit" and "arena rock" but these ones are sure bets it seems to me
― budo jeru, Thursday, 16 October 2025 02:24 (three weeks ago)
Kansas (w/ Dixie Dreg Steve Morse)- "All I Wanted"
The video is a time capsule.
― earlnash, Thursday, 16 October 2025 05:05 (three weeks ago)
While I would say Rainbow is obviously more prog ajacent (hey they did some classicalish tunes and Blackmore did eventually go all medieval on his axe), "Street of Dreams" would fit in a mix with these tunes.
― earlnash, Thursday, 16 October 2025 05:09 (three weeks ago)
Does Queen count?
― Siegbran, Thursday, 16 October 2025 06:41 (three weeks ago)
"Oh Daddy" by Adrian Belew seems to loosely fit the criteria
― Josefa, Thursday, 16 October 2025 12:33 (three weeks ago)
Kansas, "Fight Fire With Fire," to me the best that them cornfed xtian proggers ever done…
Moody Blues, "The other Side of Life," absolutely excruciating, and yet hilarious…
― veronica moser, Thursday, 16 October 2025 13:31 (three weeks ago)
not area rock exactly but:
The Korgis- "Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime"
The Korgis had two members of the prog/art pop group Stackridge.
― A floating crown, but an extremely small one (President Keyes), Friday, 17 October 2025 15:36 (three weeks ago)
Marillion - "Kayleigh"
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 October 2025 16:20 (three weeks ago)
Not a 70s prog group, although the drummer played with Steve Hackett so...maybe?
― so far so noir (Matt #2), Friday, 17 October 2025 16:28 (three weeks ago)
ah yeah, formed in 79 but definitely 80s
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 October 2025 17:31 (three weeks ago)
olivia newton-john & elo "xanadu"
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 17 October 2025 17:47 (three weeks ago)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_(Gentle_Giant_album)
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 17 October 2025 17:56 (three weeks ago)
Civilian most definitely did not have a hit but it would've been real interesting if it had. Gentle Giant were tremendously talented and obviously willing to play ball a little, they could've morphed into something like Utopia meets The Cars
― frogbs, Friday, 17 October 2025 18:09 (three weeks ago)