What decade did you first get into prog?

silverpot wrote: The 60s for me. It started with the Moodies' Days of Future Passed. Before that I was of course a staunch Beatles fan. It has struck me that the devoted Beatles' fans all went with the Moodies, the Floyds and the rest of the so called prog bands, while the most devoted Stones' fans later prefered Led Zep, Purple and Sabbath.

True, except for those of us who also like The Moodies and Floyd and are fascinated by people's fascination with The Beatles...

2000s. 2006, to be more precise.

Yay, got to vote with the majority :) .. old folks we are, there is not denying

giselle wrote: late 60s

Just wondering what albums from the late sixties got you into prog? I can probably guess one of them.

Some of those bands didn't stay underground for very long. 

Larree wrote: In theory I could say the 60's and start a debate over what was "prog" before the actual genre existed but since I heard ITCOTCK for the first time in 1970 I selected the 1970's.   And I think it is awesome that people are discovering prog in the 2010's!  Seven votes for the 2010's so far.  Cool!

Yeah that was kind of my point actually and I like the way you worded it there. Whether ITCOTCK was the first prog album is almost irrelevant in a way. It's hard to argue though that it was the album that really started the genre and more importantly made people aware of the genre. You can't have a prog genre if nobody is aware of it or knows how to label it. Sure, there were some songs here and there and some albums and I personally consider the Nice to be probably the first real prog band but the fact is that COURT is really the one that put prog on the map and made people aware of this thing called prog. So I would say that prog as a fully formed genre did not exist until the seventies.


Edited by Prog_Traveller - April 01 2013 at 16:39

Wish I could say it was sooner, but... 2010s. 

I kind of stepped into it about 2008, but I didn't become serious about it until mid-2010 when I started listening to Pink Floyd.

I have 3 older brothers and unintentionally i grew up with pink floyd, yes, king crimson..etc

Prog was the first type of music I got into as a kid, late 70's (5 years old), going through my father's vinyls... First band I loved was Pink Floyd.