Prog Album of the Week - Week 80 (04/23/2015): IQ - The Wake

As always, we encourage participation from everyone - if you've never heard the album, there's a YouTube link provided! Go check it out and report back!

Welcome to the eightieth week of r/progrockmusic's Album of the Week! Last week we discussed Steven Wilson's Hand. Cannot. Erase. and that was lovely.

If you'd like to peruse previous weeks' discussions, please visit the archive.

We were missing some 80's prog so here we are.

http://i.imgur.com/xhFp6DE.jpg

###IQ - The Wake (1985)

Track Listing:

Track listing: 1) Outer Limits; 2) The Wake; 3) The Magic Roundabout; 4) Corners; 5) Window's Peak; 6) The Thousand Days; 7) Headlong; 8) Dans Le Parc Du Chateau Noir; 9) The Thousand Days (demo); 10) The Magic Roundabout (demo).

• Album on YouTube (looks like the "King Crimson" effect on YouTube, GL)
• [Album on Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wake_(IQ_album\))
• Progarchives review (3.78)

####Potential Discussion Questions:

• By the year 1985 a lot of the classic bands had either died completely or given into the synthesizers and drum machines of the 80s. This is veritably neo-prog: a halfway point between the "pure prog" of the 70's and the prog of the 80's?

• How would you personally rate the album?

• Are there any moments on the album you consider particularly strong or particularly weak (i.e., favourite/least favourite moments)?

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