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    Posted: September 25 2005 at 18:02
Mine was "The Yes Album" which my older brother told me to buy. That was back in about 1975, when I was nine or so.

The next few (all suggested to me by my brother) were: ELP - "Tarkus", Gentle Giant's live album (forgot the name), and Genesis - "Wind & Wuthering".

Thus, the die was cast and a prog-freak was born!
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Rush -2112

 

 

and Miles Davis's bitches brew (i think that album is very "prog")

 

 
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Kansas (Song for America, and it was on 8-track).  Followed about two seconds later by their first album and Masque.  First on vinyl was probably either Argent (Counterpoints) or Alan Parsons (I Robot), neither of which I actually considered to be prog until I found this place.  Besides Kansas though, the first one to leave me completely speechless was Aqualung.

All of them were the same summer I discovered Bowie and Floyd, and I couldn't hurry fast enough to s**tcan all my Osmonds and Jackson Five and Carpenters after that.
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I can not give an accurate story by naming just the first album. It was a sequence of albums, each one leading into the purchase of the next:

1. The Book of Taliesyn (Deep Purple) >>> 2. Children of The Future (Steve Miller Band) >>> 3. The Yes Album (Yes) >>> 4. Moving Pictures (Rush) >>> 5. Abacab, and immediately afterward, Three Sides Live (Genesis) >>> 6. Seconds Out (Genesis)

And after #6. I just starting purchasing every Genesis LP there was. Some King Crimson LPs, too.

So as you can see, my journey into "prog" rock (esp. Genesis) began with that obscure, but highly musical Deep Purple album. Which is why I still maintain that Deep Purple should be included on these archives.

 
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Dream Theater - Falling Into Infinity (My first prog album, but not the album that get my interest in prog)

Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (My second prog album, with it I become a progger, more or less 3 years ago).
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Hmm, first prog album eh?  Well when I was 4 (although I had no idea was prog rock was for that matter), I heard 3:47 E.S.T. by Klaatu, and Fly By Night in the same year.  I loved Klaatu when I was a little kid, and I always thought they were the Beatles until I actually saw the album cover!  As for Fly By Night, I remember By-Tor and the Snowdog the most from that age, and i still love it to this day
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This or the Division Bell, or the Wall, can't quite remember. around '96
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AEnima by tool was my first
how can this mean anything to me?
when i really dont feel a thing at all
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Originally posted by Biggles Biggles wrote:

Originally posted by The Miracle The Miracle wrote:

For me, it was Dark side, recommended by my dad. Not just the first prog CD Ihad, but rock music in general. Now I think it's one of the most underrated prog albums ever

How can you possibly say it's underrated? It's one of the most successful prog albums, no, it's one of the most successful albums period, ever.

I think he means overrated.
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Originally posted by The Miracle The Miracle wrote:

For me, it was Dark side, recommended by my dad. Not just the first prog CD Ihad, but rock music in general. Now I think it's one of the most underrated prog albums ever

How can you possibly say it's underrated? It's one of the most successful prog albums, no, it's one of the most successful albums period, ever.
The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe.

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My first I would say Rush, with Chronicles. First time I got introduced to the band was 16 years ago... Although I listened to my dad's Pink Floyd records when I was a kid. I remember my dad playing The Wall in 1981. I was 4 years old then, and it really scared the *#%& out of me... Specially Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1 with all the screams...
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Klaatu barada nikto.
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My first prog album was liquid tension experiment 2

I had heard good things and it was cheap and i figured why not and i fell in love with it and it made me crave more and at first i went for all the other DT albums then i fell for pink floyd rush and porcupine tree and now prog is all i listen too
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Moving Pictures - Rush
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For me, it was Dark side, recommended by my dad. Not just the first prog CD Ihad, but rock music in general. Now I think it's one of the most underrated prog albums ever
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Pink Floyd - The Wall. And at the time I had no idea what Prog even was. Listening to that album back then probably blew a fuse in my brain, because I never realized that an album could tell on ongoing story (concept album) or generally be so adventurous. Of course, that album seldom impresses me today. ;)
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Rush - Retrospective 1974-1980

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Dark Side of the Moon for me... six years ago, when I was twelve...
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My first was ÆNIMA by Tool.
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In 1976, Rick Wakemans' "King Arthur" which led me through a friend's recommendation to "Close to the Edge" as my next purchase
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