your first album

i think the first album i ever remember listening to was my dad's queen "greatest hits" cd.

The first album I bought was Deep Purple's Machine Head.  My Uncle got me into them.  My Dad also had them on reel to reel, so they are the first band I remember hearing and really enjoying.  Though they aren't prog, I still enjoy them.  They are one of the few non-prog bands I still listen to.  By the way trouserpress, In Rock is a great album.  I just saw Deep Purple last summer.  Ian Gillan was unbelievable.  Great concert.

mhh... the first cassette I received was Bee Gees' "Here at last... Bee
Gees live", so i guess it was the first album i listened to from start to
finish. The first prog cassettes i bought were "Nursery Cryme" and
"Duke" on the same day and the former changed my life (well, sort
of...). then i switched to lps. my first one was "Snakes and ladders"
by Gerry Rafferty (oh! what a great pop musician!) and the first prog
was Mike Odlfield's double "Airborn", actually a Canadian release (i
still wonder how i came across it in Italy - btw, i'm looking for the
cd, anybody knows more about a mysterious edition that should
have been published in Canada?)

First CD...hehe...Green Day - Dookie. Hey, I'm a big Green Day fan and always will be, but they're about the only thing that's not prog that I still listen to on a regular basis.

As for first prog CD...it was Symphony X - The Odyssey

First non prog-metal...hmm...I think it was Genesis' The Lamb What a way to start!

I have no idea what the first album was I ever heard... but I'm afraid the first CD I ever bought was a compilation of house music.

And I think the first real album I ever bought must've been Radiohead's Pablo Honey. (nowadays people think this is prog )

My first prog album was Yes' 90125 (because of "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" ), I think (but that was much later)

Edited by Joren

hmmm... wow, I cant really remember the first thing I ever listened to, but I recall being into Crash Test Dummies at an early age.  The first cassette I ever bought was Green Day - Dookie, and the first CD's I ever bought were Nirvana - Nevermind and Soundgarden -Superunknown.  I was probably about 10 or at the time. 

as far as prog, it's really hard to know, because I liked prog bands before I knew that they were called "prog"

Edited by GoldenSpiral

My first self owned cd, if I recall correctly, was a nsync single...or was it "smurfhits - vol 4"? You know these little blue cuties. Oh those were the times. BTW about 2 and half months later, at christmas eve, I got Kind of Blue from my grandpa. I think I was 5 or 6! Talk about musical progression! Sadly i never liked the cover, at that time cartoons was a effective eye catcher, so it sort of disappeared, unfortunely

THE FIRST PROG ROCK ALBUM I EVER BOUGHT WAS KING CRIMSON'S ITCOTCK, THE FIRST ROCK ALBUM I EVER BOUGHT WAS RAINBOW'S RISING, THE FIRST METAL ALBUM WAS MANOWAR'S SIGN OF THE HAMMER AND THE FIRST MUSIC ALBUM GENERALLY WAS SMURFS-A SONG COMPILATION AT THE AGE OF 6 OR 7

I didn't quite understand, I thought RUM26 meant the "very first album", not necessarily prog... Anyway, let me relieve from your embarrassment: Micheal Jackson's Bad... I think I was 13-15 something. I liked it so much that I made a copy

If the question was restricted to prog, it would have been difficult, since every other day something I knew from my past turns out to be prog!!! Example? Jean Michel Jarre (oxygene), Vangelis (Spiral, Chariots of Fire), Procol Harum (Whiter Shade of Pale), albeit I did not listen to these pieces in entire albums. Nevertheless, I knew the highlights from my childhood (especially electronic instrumental tracks were played in the radio every now and then as filler...)

As my first vinyl, I remember DP's Singles A's and B's (the shorter one, with fireball as the last track). There sure must be other, and probably earlier ones, (among which Thriller of MJ has a place!) but this is very prominent for me (and relieves me from my shame to an extent!!!). I STILL believe DP is prog!!!!!

Oh, and there are Turkish folk/pop artists, but you are not interested in them anyway... (those who look for new tastes from unexplored grounds may want to check Baris Mancho and Erkin Koray. These are among the first and most respected turkish psychedelic/folk/prog rock artists. good luck, because the spelling of the former differs widely!)

RUM26 wrote: stonebeard wrote: i'm so f**king embarrassed about this but...   No Way Out by Puff Daddy and The Family it get's worse, then I bought the Titanic soundtrack... and then I went through a pop phase. If I didn't discover Dream Theater, I might be still listening to that sh*t. LOL! , i once wanted to get limp bisket (can u belive that)

God...I have three limp bizket albums

please don't make me think of anything else that i regret owning.