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demolition man 
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 Posted: April 17 2009 at 15:43 |
No fancy album covers here 
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Solar Fire - The Greatest band on the planet ever since!
Genesis - The Lamb - OMG
ELO - Face The Music - Tremendous!
John Miles - Stranger In The City - Music was my first love!
Abraxas - 99 - Polish Prog is awsome
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Telinstryata
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Posted: April 17 2009 at 14:27 |
Going by the stipulation that these are albums that have changed my life, I must be honest. Some of these are rather embarrassing now. These are in chronological order of receiving/purchasing. 1) Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry  The first "metal" album I ever owned. My parents got it for my for Xmas when I was a kid. I still get nostalgic whenever I hear the classic drum intro from "We're not going to take it" 2) Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood 3) Iron Maiden - Seveneth Son of a Seventh Son The first albums I ever purchased with my own money. I still listen to Iron Maiden quite a bit...Motley Crue on the other hand......  4) Metallica - ...And Justice For All The first Metallica album I heard/purchased and my love of metal has grown stronger ever since. 5) Dream Theater - Awake The first Dream Theater album I ever purchased and my first foray into prog metal. Buying that album lead me to look for other bands like them. Which in turn lead me here to PA. My eyes were opened wide by this site and the amount of excellent music out there. Not just in prog metal, but in all of the other genres as well. Since first frequenting this site (I'm only new to the forum, not the site) I have come close to doubling my collection of CDs, with Procupine Tree, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Opeth, Genesis, etc, etc,etc
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W.A.S.P
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Posted: April 17 2009 at 13:08 |
Sabaton - The Art Of War
Rush - Fly By Night
Judas Priest - British Steel
Genesis - Turn It on Again : The Hits
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
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Green Shield Stamp
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Posted: April 17 2009 at 11:45 |
Here's my contribution. These albums have meant a great deal to me in different periods of my life.
The closing adagio still reduces me to tears. The most profoundly moving music I have ever heard.
I know it's an obvious choice, but I love jazz and this is a perfect album in so many ways.
The album that started my love affair with prog rock. I bought it in 1979 when I was 15 and I still listen to it regularly...and to my ears it sounds as fresh as the day I bought it.
This album made me aware of how excellent lyrics could add a whole new dimension to the enjoyment of music.
Tom Waits 'Blue Valentine'. Waits' broken-bar-stool philosophy gives a tremendously humane portrayal of fragile, damaged lives - with wit, generosity and sincerity. He is a true poet. My favourite lyricist of all. The boozy, off-centre performances perfectly express the subject matter.
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Haiku
Writing a poem
With seventeen syllables
Is very diffic....
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el dingo
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Posted: April 17 2009 at 02:59 |
MEDDLE - Pink Floyd
First album (cassette) I bought when it came out and with my own money from the British tradition of doing a paper round. One of These Days and Echoes freaked me out - the tracks after OoTD gave no hint of what Echoes would be like on the first play. My first listen to an 'epic'. Still a favourite today.
BLACK SABBATH - Black Sabbath
I actually got Paranoid and this at the same time but there's not room for two Sabbaths with only five choicesand I prefer this. Everyone says it, but the opening chords to the album were quite something to a 13-y-o kid in 1971 - and still are today. Grew my hair and got a wooden cross on Kensington market.
A NOD'S AS GOOD AS A WINK TO A BLIND HORSE - Rod Stewart & The Faces
Bought on the strength of Maggie May & Stay With Me. My fave live band of all time, they reminded you of how music could be fun, fun, fun. Humorous, poignant, okay a bit shambolic in places but who cared? And I just loved their hard-drinking, who-gives-a-toss image.
LONDON CALLING - The Clash
I was never a punk but I heard this, cut my hair and ditched the flares. Awesome live, too. Years later my mate opened a tattoo studio and one of his first jobs was to do the full-colour album cover that covers one of my shoulder-blades. Simenon trashing his bass... what an iconic image.
THE HOLY BIBLE - Manic Street Preachers
One of the most lyrically powerful albums ever, it seems like the documentation of a personal insanity (as indeed it probably was). Stripped down red-hot bursts of guitar-fuelled anger, it killed the myth that MSP were pretty boys jumping on a bandwagon. Not to be played when you're in a bad mood.
Sorry they're not all prog but the question said albums that changed your life, and these are the ones that changed mine.
And I've been lucky enough to see all of them live, all of them more than once and all of them in their heyday 
Edited by el dingo - April 17 2009 at 03:03
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It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough.
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Abrawang
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Posted: April 16 2009 at 23:15 |
In chrono order:
1 - Long Tall Sally - The Beatles - I was a kid and this was first taste of rock 'n roll. Great time to get started and it put me off most of the pre-Beatles (i.e. Elvis) pop for decades.
2 - Sgt. Pepper's - In three years they go from I wanna Hold Your hand to A Day in the Life. Being young, I took for granted that it wasn't so unusual for a good band to develop like this. It really broadened my conception of how varied rock and pop could be.
3 - Days of Future Passed - The early stages of prog. Got me thinking how the complex composition of classical could be converted or adapted to contemporary music styles.
4 - Highway 61 Revisited - Dylan - So musical inventiveness wasn't limited to four or five guys with long hair and electric guitars. Lyrics mattered and you didn't have to have a traditionally "good" voice to get you ideas across.
5 - Thick As a Brick - OK, the chains are off. Who knows what the limits are with prog?
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Casting doubt on all I have to say...
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Anirml
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Posted: April 14 2009 at 11:47 |
 King Crimson - "In The Court of the Crimson King"  King Crimson - "Lizards"  Yes - "Close to the Edge"  Black Sabbath - "Heaven and Hell"  Camel - "Moonmadness"  Rare Bird - "Rare Bird" (love "As your Mind flies by" too)
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Nov
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Posted: April 14 2009 at 07:49 |
 progadicto wrote:
What a wonderful list of albums that changed your life... I named different five but the albums you picked are still in my list of albums that changed my perception of music...
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Well thankyou very much  The first three were big influences on me in my teens, especially "Second's Out". When I heard that album I knew I'd found my band  I could also add this album as a big one in my teens:  As for Talk Talk, they were the best band of the 80s (in my opinion) and their concert at Hammersmith Odeon in 1986 on the Colour of Spring tour was one of my top 3 gigs of all-time. I also saw them supporting Genesis at Milton Keynes in 1982 but that's another story Another favourite 1980s album was this one:  As for The Flower Kings, they've been an absolute revelation to me and they are certainly my current favourite band. Another big album for me in recent years has been this one though as it was my introduction to the "3rd wave of prog".  Thanks again for your nice comment. Nov
Edited by Nov - April 14 2009 at 07:51
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progadicto
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Posted: April 14 2009 at 05:20 |
What a wonderful list of albums that changed your life... I named different five but the albums you picked are still in my list of albums that changed my perception of music...
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Bj-1
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Posted: April 13 2009 at 22:11 |
1. Supertramp - The Very Best of Supertramp Vol. 1
Believe it or not, this compilation set the standard for my music taste when I was a little kid. Supertramp remains my personal favorite band today.
2. Jean-Michel Jarre - Zoolook
Jarre's most unorthodox and avant-garde release was love at first listen for me when I was younger. A very unique album that have meant a lot to me musically.
3. King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King
The album that really opened my mind for complex and sophisticated music. I played it nearly to death back when I got it but it never get's old nevertheless. Definetely an important album for me!
4. Extol - Synergy
My first taste of technical progressive death/thrash metal. Expanded my horizons for bands like Meshuggah and Dillinger Escape Plan very quickly and got me really hooked in metal afterwards.
5. Present - Triskaidčkaphobie
I've never felt so obsessive over an album like when Im listning to this one, it seems I can't get enough of it. Dark and tense stuff that is definetely a challenge for the mind. Completely unique in every sense of word!
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RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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why-do-i-bother
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Posted: April 13 2009 at 19:17 |
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Pink Floyd -Dark Side Of The Moon
ELO - Out Of The Blue
ELP - Pictures At An Exhibition
Tangerine Dream - Encore
These are the albums that shaped my understanding of prog (even though i didn't know what prog was at that time), and are in the order i heard them. The first four are by year the otheer 2 are when i could afford to buy them.
However 6 would not do justice, maybe even 20-30.
Edited by why-do-i-bother - April 13 2009 at 19:20
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Tony R
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Posted: April 13 2009 at 19:12 |
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1.= Who's Next - The Who
IV - Led Zep
The first 2 rock albums I bought
3. Yessongs - Yes
Defined my taste in music, from now on it was all about the music.
4. A Farewell To Kings - Rush. The first Rush album I got day of release and the first time I became a fanboy. From this point on Rush were my band.
5. In Absentia - Porcupine Tree.
The first time in a long time that I got excited about music. Took me back to my teenage years and that sense of discovery. Strange thing was that the first time I heard PT, in the mid 90s, I dismissed them as boring Floyd clones and didn't give them a second chance until a friend insisted.
Edited by Tony R - April 13 2009 at 19:14
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BroSpence
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Posted: April 13 2009 at 18:44 |
Elliott Smith - XO John Coltrane - A Love Supreme RZA as Bobby Digital - Digital Bullet Nick Drake - Pink Moon Tool - AEnema
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maisondufromage
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Posted: April 13 2009 at 17:32 |
too difficult
selling england by the pound: My first prog
the scream: Punk throws it all out
space ritual: Actually I still quite like this stuff punk and prog can live together.
in the flat field: I go goth
Yeti: prog and me are reunited.
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egamorf ud nosiam!
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Nov
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Posted: April 12 2009 at 19:12 |
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micky
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Posted: April 11 2009 at 15:29 |
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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The Quiet One
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Posted: April 11 2009 at 14:05 |
cacho wrote:
#1 
My first purchase from the Purpes, even if it didn't blew me away in the instance, having consider it very heavy, I was completely wrong. Such awesome riffs, stunning vocals, and great solos. The album that introduced me to all the Heavy stuff.
#2 
Not a favorite album of mine anymore, but the movie, the album that introduced me to Prog in a certain way, just blew my away, the moment I saw it the 25th of December in 2005. Simply changed my perception of music, and surely 'art'. Any catchy Pop single at that moment that was released I cared less from then onwards, they couldn't show me such brilliance this movie had showed me.
#3 
On consequence of having loved The Wall, 1 year later, my brother was really into The Who, and my dad purchased the movie of Tommy. Once again it blew my ears off, fell in love with The Who, and surely also added a big part of my nowadays love of Prog and 70's/60's Rock.
Tommy and The Wall movies just blew all the Pop I was listening, they really changed my music life. While Come Taste the Band, changed my perception of Heavy Rock, and from then onwards love the band, and any band with some fierceful hammond.
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OK, I'll make them 4:  Totally changed my thoughts about where music could go. After this, most of the Zappa albums my dad has, confirmed these thoughts...
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The Quiet One
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Posted: April 11 2009 at 14:01 |
progadicto wrote:
1.- Yes - Close to the Edge
2.- Deep Purple - Stormbringer
3.- Black Sabbath - Paranoid
4.- Fulano - En el Bunker
5.- Klaus Schulze - Timewind |
 Stormbringer also changed quite a bit my music life, but the first one was Come Taste the Band, then it was Stormbringer...
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Speesh
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Posted: April 11 2009 at 13:51 |
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In chronological order:
The Decemberists - Picaresque
Pretty much got me into music in general. I'd been listening to things casually but this album made music as important as it is to me today, caused me to reevaluate the medium as a whole. Also led me on a search for better music that inevitably led me here.
King Crimson - Red
My first exposure to progressive music, and sparked my interest in things that weren't easily 'accessible'.
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
My intro to the massive catalog of Uncle Frank, and still my favorite
of his. This album still has an effect on me that few others do. My
subsequent foray into his catalog changed everything I knew about
music, and got me into live music hardcore. Also had a profound effect on me as a musician.
Caravan - In the Land...
The album that really got me into progressive rock, and ravenously searching for more and more great music like never before.
Eyedea & Abilities - First Born
Probably rather unknown here, but its a rap album with very philosophical lyrics and metaphors peppered throughout, which resonated deeply with me and changed the way I look at things for the better. At a time when I really needed some guidance.
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progadicto
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Posted: April 11 2009 at 03:49 |
1.- Yes - Close to the Edge
2.- Deep Purple - Stormbringer
3.- Black Sabbath - Paranoid
4.- Fulano - En el Bunker
5.- Klaus Schulze - Timewind
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