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 (eight months 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 (eight months ago)
3. I’ve Seen All Good People, Yes
― putting the cad in decadent (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 10 October 2025 21:43 (eight months ago)
4. "Your Wildest Dreams" - The Moody Blues
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 10 October 2025 21:44 (eight months ago)
5. Utopia - “Crybaby”
(In my dreams)
― brimstead, Friday, 10 October 2025 21:44 (eight months ago)
6. Magic Power - Triumph
― putting the cad in decadent (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 10 October 2025 21:46 (eight months ago)
7. "In Too Deep" - Genesis8. "Invisible Touch" - Genesis
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 10 October 2025 21:47 (eight months ago)
9. Touch and Go - Emerson, Lake & Powell
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 10 October 2025 21:49 (eight months 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 (eight months ago)
12. Moonlight Shadow - Mike Oldfield
― for the 1975 german film, see fox and his friends (Matt #2), Friday, 10 October 2025 22:38 (eight months ago)
^TUNE
― brimstead, Friday, 10 October 2025 22:40 (eight months ago)
13. "Time Stand Still" - Rush
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 10 October 2025 22:43 (eight months 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 (eight months 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 (eight months ago)
14. Mike and the Mechanics- Silent Running
― Tight steel. Alien forces. Megamachine vs. the sleazers. (President Keyes), Friday, 10 October 2025 22:54 (eight months 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 (eight months 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 (eight months ago)
17. "Lap of Luxury" - Jethro Tull
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 10 October 2025 22:59 (eight months 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 (eight months 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 (eight months 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 (eight months 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 (eight months ago)
22. "The Voice" - Moody Blues
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 10 October 2025 23:05 (eight months ago)
23. On the Loose - Saga
― for the 1975 german film, see fox and his friends (Matt #2), Friday, 10 October 2025 23:07 (eight months ago)
24. Steel Monkey - Jethro Tull
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 15 October 2025 15:29 (eight months 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 (eight months ago)
28. Behind The Lines - Genesis
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 15 October 2025 18:30 (eight months 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 (eight months 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 (eight months ago)
Kansas (w/ Dixie Dreg Steve Morse)- "All I Wanted"
The video is a time capsule.
― earlnash, Thursday, 16 October 2025 05:05 (eight months 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 (eight months ago)
Does Queen count?
― Siegbran, Thursday, 16 October 2025 06:41 (eight months ago)
"Oh Daddy" by Adrian Belew seems to loosely fit the criteria
― Josefa, Thursday, 16 October 2025 12:33 (eight months 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 (eight months 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 (seven months ago)
Marillion - "Kayleigh"
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 October 2025 16:20 (seven months 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 (seven months 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 (seven months ago)
olivia newton-john & elo "xanadu"
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 17 October 2025 17:47 (seven months ago)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_(Gentle_Giant_album)
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 17 October 2025 17:56 (seven months 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 (seven months ago)