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Progrock for Beginners 2.0 Show 80: 1983-4
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| Artist | Song | Time | Album | Year |
| Fates Warning | S.E.K. | 1:15 | Night On Bröcken | 1984 |
| Fates Warning | Shadowfax | 3:12 | Night On Bröcken | 1984 |
| Asia | Never In A Million Years | 3:37 | Alpha | 1983 |
| Jean-Luc Ponty | Far From The Beaten Paths | 5:56 | Individual Choice | 1983 |
| Novalis | Sinus | 5:41 | Sterntaucher | 1983 |
| Steve Morse Band | V.H.F. (Vertical Hair Factor) | 4:19 | The Introduction | 1984 |
| The Alan Parsons Project | One Good Reason | 3:22 | Ammonia Avenue | 1983 |
| Blue Öyster Cult | Take Me Away | 4:27 | Revolution By Night | 1983 |
| Eloy | A Broken Frame | 8:03 | Performance | 1983 |
| Crack The Sky | Talking To Napoleon | 4:34 | World In Motion | 1983 |
| Genesis | It’s Gonna Get Better | 5:12 | Genesis | 1983 |
| Uriah Heep | Stay On Top | 3:33 | Head First | 1983 |
| Mike Oldfield | Shadow On The Wall [With R. Chapman] | 5:01 | Crises (1) (2013 Remaster) | 1983 |
| Yes | Hold On | 5:09 | 90125 (2004 Remaster) | 1983 |
| Steve Hackett | Stadiums of the Damned | 4:25 | Till We Have Faces | 1983 |
| IQ | Awake And Nervous | 7:42 | Tales From The Lush Attic | 1983 |
| Barclay James Harvest | Fifties Child | 4:09 | Ring of Changes | 1983 |
| Tony Banks | And The Wheels Keep Turning | 4:39 | The Fugitive | 1983 |
| Marillion | The Web | 9:00 | Script for a Jester’s Tear | 1983 |
| Jean-Luc Ponty | Computer Incantations For World Peace | 5:23 | Individual Choice | 1983 |
| Saga | Cat Walk | 4:01 | Heads Or Tales | 1983 |
| Alux Nahual | Aqui esta tu tierra | 4:15 | Hermanos De Sentimiento | 1984 |
| The Police | Miss Gradenko | 1:57 | Synchronicity | 1983 |
| Abel Ganz | Kean On The Job | 6:47 | Gratuitous Flash | 1984 |
| Rush | Afterimage | 5:01 | Grace Under Pressure | 1984 |
| Embryo | Che Mangerai Domani Vipera (part two) | 6:46 | Zack Gluck | 1984 |
| Pink Floyd | Not Now John | 4:46 | The Final Cut (2011 remaster) | 1983 |
| Haze | Gabadon | 3:34 | C’est La Vie / The Ember | 1984 |
| The Alan Parsons Project | Days Are Numbers (The Traveller) | 4:34 | Vulture Culture | 1984 |
| Camel | Stationary Traveller [Instrumental] | 5:17 | Stationary Traveller | 1984 |
| Jethro Tull | Under Wraps #1 | 3:53 | Under Wraps | 1984 |
| Jethro Tull | Under Wraps #2 | 2:06 | Under Wraps | 1984 |
| Univers zero | L’Etrange Mixture Du Docteur S | 3:44 | UZED | 1988 |
| Barclay James Harvest | Sideshow | 4:49 | Victims Of Circumstance | 1984 |
| Jean-Luc Ponty | Watching Birds | 4:52 | Open Mind | 1984 |
| Roger Hodgson | Give Me Love Give Me Life | 7:31 | In The Eye Of The Storm | 1984 |
| King Crimson | Sleepless | 5:04 | Three of a Perfect Pair | 1984 |
| David Gilmour | Love On The Air | 4:09 | About Face | 1984 |
| Cardiacs | Jibber And Twitch | 4:32 | The Seaside | 1984 |
| Novalis | Talisman | 3:43 | Bumerang (Vinyl) | 1984 |
| Sky | Son of Hotta | 7:01 | Cadmium | 1983 |
| Twelfth Night | Art Illusion | 3:41 | Art and Illusion | 2003 |
| Ozric Tentacles | Velmwend | 4:34 | Erpsongs | 1984 |
| Eloy | Escape To The Heights | 4:41 | Metromania (2005 Remaster) | 1984 |
| Deep Purple | Wasted Sunsets | 3:54 | Perfect Strangers | 1984 |
| Marillion | Jigsaw | 6:26 | Fugazi (1998 Remaster) (1) | 1984 |
| Thomas Dolby | Hyperactive! | 4:01 | The Flat Earth | 1984 |
| Queen | I Want To Break Free | 3:08 | The Works | 1984 |
| David Bowie | Blue Jean | 3:07 | Tonight | 1984 |
| Triumph | Midsummer’s Daydream [Instrumental] | 1:32 | Thunder Seven | 1984 |
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