Forum Home Forum Home > Progressive Music Lounges > Top 10s and lists
  New Posts New Posts RSS Feed - Your first ten albums
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Events   Register Register  Login Login

Your first ten albums
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  123>
Author
Message Reverse Sort Order
  Topic Search Topic Search  Topic Options Topic Options
johnobvious View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: May 11 2006
Location: Nebraska
Status: Offline
Points: 1367 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote johnobvious Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Topic: Your first ten albums
    Posted: October 23 2021 at 07:21
The first ten Rush albums
Biggles was in rehab last Saturday
Back to Top
ProfPanglos View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: July 25 2017
Location: Austin, Texas
Status: Offline
Points: 624 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote ProfPanglos Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 04 2021 at 12:35
1.  Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill
2.  Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
3.  Pink Floyd - A Nice Pair
4.  Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme Back My Bullets
5.  Elton John - Madman Across The Water
6.  Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
7.  Jethro Tull - A Passion Play
8.  ELP - Trilogy
9.  The Beatles - Abbey Road
10.  Pink Floyd - Meddle

It was something like that, anyway.  It was a loooooooong time ago.  I'm pretty certain about the first 5.  The other 5 were definitely early/beginning purchases.
Back to Top
essexboyinwales View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member


Joined: April 27 2015
Location: Bridgend
Status: Offline
Points: 5244 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote essexboyinwales Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 29 2021 at 08:56
First one was Pearl Jam's, don't think I have any others.....
Back to Top
miamiscot View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: April 23 2014
Location: Ohio
Status: Offline
Points: 3630 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote miamiscot Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 28 2021 at 07:32
With my own money:

Chicago - CTA
Chicago - II
Yes - Fragile
Chicago - III
Yes - The Yes Album
Yes - Close To The Edge
ELP - ELP
ELP- Tarkus 
ELP - Pictures At An Exhibition
Genesis - Live
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
Wings - Band On The Run

My taste in music hasn't changed one bit. Apparently!!! 
The Prog Corner
Back to Top
richardh View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: February 18 2004
Location: United Kingdom
Status: Offline
Points: 29684 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote richardh Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 28 2021 at 06:36
memory not what it used to be!

ELP - Pictures At An Exhibition (£2 cassette in 1976 !!)
then my next bunch of ELP albums were mainly Birthday /Christmas presents as well as Yes - Tormato (all cassette).
I think I was still into buying singles rather than albums for a couple of years . Also a tendency to get school mates who could afford albums to do cassette copies!
Tubeway Army - Replicas (vinyl, I still have it!! I vaguely remember queuing for this!)
Keith Emerson - Inferno/Nighthawks (both on vinyl when I was at college)
at some point I got some vinyl via Record Collector magazine (all still owned) . Included 
Vangelis - Beauborg 
Aphrodite's Child - 666
Kayak - II

Also acquired on Vinyl
Tomita - Mind Of The Universe
Yes - Going For The One
Kayak - Periscope Life

I think the first CD I acquired was either Vangelis - China or ELP - Best Of around about 1985.

All so vague now!!
Back to Top
Ronstein View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: October 13 2020
Location: Wiltshire, UK
Status: Offline
Points: 1280 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Ronstein Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 28 2021 at 04:27
No idea (far too long ago) but some of these will be in there.

Keef Hartley Band - Halfbreed
Dr Strangely Strange - Kip of the Serenes
Genesis - Trespass
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Safe As Milk
5000 Spirits - Incredible String Band
Tyrannasuarus Rex - My People Were Fair and had Sky in their Hair
William R Strickland - Is Only The Name
James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
Back to Top
Boojieboy View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: April 02 2016
Location: Earth
Status: Offline
Points: 664 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Boojieboy Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2021 at 21:36
I started off in more of a hard rock direction, with something like the following:

Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Not Fragile
Bang - self-titled only album
Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties
Grand Funk - Survival
Moxy - Moxy II
Josephus - Dead Man
Rush - A Farewell to Kings
Kansas - Leftoverture


Edited by Boojieboy - September 28 2021 at 13:49
Back to Top
BrufordFreak View Drop Down
Collaborator
Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: January 25 2008
Location: Wisconsin
Status: Offline
Points: 8480 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote BrufordFreak Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2021 at 15:14
Originally posted by kenethlevine kenethlevine wrote:

Hmm, this is tough but 

The Band-s/t-my first because I won it!
Three Dog Night - It Ain't Easy - the first one I bought
Mouth and MacNeil - How do you do
Juke Box Jive - ktel collection

Yeah! I had these, too! I forgot about all those KTEL album! And I had the 45 version of "How Do You Do"

and then started getting into prog

Procol Harum - s/t and Best of
Cat Stevens - Foreigner and Tea for the Tillerman
Strawbs - Grave New World and Bursting at the Seams
Drew Fisher
https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/
Back to Top
Progmind View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: June 29 2010
Location: Argentina
Status: Offline
Points: 3458 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Progmind Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2021 at 12:11
I started buying music in 1985, when i was 10 years old, my first record was

1 - Tears For Fears - Songs From the Big Chair,  format vinyl
2 - U2 - War, format vinyl
3 - The Cure - Standing on a Beach, format cassette
4 - XTC - The Black Sea, format casette
5 - Talk Talk - It´s My Life, format casette
6 - Marillion - Misplaced Childhood, format casette
7 - Depeche Mode - Construction Time Again, format vinyl
8 - The Alarm - Strenght, format vinyl
9- Genesis - Nursery Crime, format vinyl
10 - Rush - 2112, format cd
Back to Top
Argo2112 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: June 20 2017
Location: New Jersey
Status: Offline
Points: 4462 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Argo2112 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2021 at 11:49
Wow, This is a tough one. I know this much, they weren't prog albums. I didn't get in to prog until my late teens - early 20's ( And beyond) 
 Probably a lot of mainstream 70's stuff like Chicago, Doobie Brothers, ELO ( OK, kind of proggy) , Billy Joel, Fleeetwood Mac, Heart.... Stuff like that. 
Back to Top
Rednight View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: January 18 2014
Location: Mar Vista, CA
Status: Offline
Points: 4812 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Rednight Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2021 at 11:39
I'll concentrate on prog albums here because the actual initial 10 albums collected were the usual suspects such as the Beatles and the like:

1. Trilogy - ELP
2. Maxophone - Maxophone
3. Symphonic Slam - Symphonic Slam
4. Nursery Cryme - Genesis
6. Foxtrot - Genesis (both Nursery Cryme and Foxtrot appearing together on the
   1976 Buddah Records release Genesis - The Best...)
7. Red - King Crimson
8. Relayer - Yes
9. Feels Good To Me - Bruford
10. The Award-Winning Marcony Bakery - PFM (compilation)
"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
Back to Top
Steve Wyzard View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: March 30 2017
Location: California
Status: Offline
Points: 2871 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Steve Wyzard Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2021 at 10:50
1. Aerosmith - Live! Bootleg
2. Aerosmith - s/t
3. Boston - s/t
4. Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
5. Aerosmith - Rocks
6. Led Zeppelin - In Through the Out Door
7. Supertramp - Breakfast in America
8. Led Zeppelin - IV
9. Deep Purple - Deepest Purple: The Very Best of
10. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti 
Back to Top
TheLionOfPrague View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: March 08 2011
Location: Argentina
Status: Offline
Points: 1069 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote TheLionOfPrague Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 26 2021 at 20:47
Basically the RHCP discography. Aside from the music I listened to because of my dad (U2, Marillion, Pink Floyd, Simple Minds, etc) I got into the Red Hot when I was 10 or so and it was the only band I listened to until I was 14 or so. I got By the Way first when it came out, then Californication, then a Greatest Hits, then One Hot Minute, then BSSM, then the debut and then Stadium Arcadium was coming out as I was expanding my musical tastes, so it would be.

- By the Way - RHCP
- Californication - RHCP
- One Hot Minute - RHCP 
- Blood Sugar Sex Magik - RHCP
- s/t - RHCP
- Stadium Arcadium - RHCP
- The White Album - The Beatles
- Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
- Trilogy - Emerson Lake & Palmer
- Fragile - Yes

Then I got a bunch of Floyd albums my dad didn't have (Meddle, Atom Heart Mother, More, Saucerful,etc), all of Queen's early albums, several Genesis albums from the '70s and several Beatles albums from their later period. 
I shook my head and smiled a whisper knowing all about the place
Back to Top
Psychedelic Paul View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: September 16 2019
Location: Nottingham, U.K
Status: Offline
Points: 43953 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Psychedelic Paul Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 26 2021 at 07:38
Originally posted by suitkees suitkees wrote:

Indeed, memory is not flawless... I'm only sure about my first album. So I will list some of the other albums that I got rather quickly after, but it is possibly not really part of the first ten, but 20 or so... Prog, without really knowing what it was from the start, was actually my first musical love affair, so my first albums were all prog, actually.

1. Yes - 90125 (instead, I almost bought a Judas Priest album - a narrow escape ;)
-  Yes - Tormato (a bit surprised by it, but intrigued...)
-  Yes - Fragile (and then I started to understand a bit what "symphonic rock" was...)
-  Focus - Focus (compilation)
-  Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear
-  Eloy - Colours
-  Ange - Au delà du délire
-  Saga - Worlds Apart
-  Manfred Mann's Earthband - Watch
-  Pallas - The Sentinel


I wish I'd bought those ten albums too, but thankfully, I never bought a Judas Priest album, or I may have been tempted to play it backwards. Wink
Back to Top
Spacegod87 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: February 16 2019
Location: Australia
Status: Offline
Points: 1107 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Spacegod87 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 26 2021 at 07:11
1. Beatles - Revolver
2. Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's
3. Beatles - White Album
4. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
5. Yes - Tormato
6. Deep Purple - Fireball
7. Cream - Disraeli Gears
8. Genesis - Trick of the Tail
9. Grateful Dead - Terrapin Station
10. George Harrison - Cloud Nine
Levitating downwards,
atomic feedback scream.
Back to Top
ExittheLemming View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: October 19 2007
Location: Penal Colony
Status: Offline
Points: 11420 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote ExittheLemming Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 26 2021 at 05:35
A Night at the Opera - Queen (Xmas pressie)
Live - the Sensational Alex Harvey Band (2nd hand store)
Framed - the Sensational Alex Harvey Band (2nd Hand store/shoplifting..a joke BTW. I'm not a thiefWink)
Relics - Pink Floyd (cos it was discounted)
Pictures at an Exhibition - ELP (cos it was discounted)
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd (Birthday pressie)
Live - Genesis (bought with my first wage packet)
Five Bridges - the Nice (bought with my 2nd or 3rd wage packet)
17 Seconds - the Cure (Birthday pressie)
Emotional Rescue - Rolling Stones (pal bought it, hated it so much he gave it to me for nowt)





Edited by ExittheLemming - September 26 2021 at 05:38
Back to Top
Lewian View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: August 09 2015
Location: Italy
Status: Offline
Points: 15216 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Lewian Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 26 2021 at 04:49
When I got into the Beatles at 8, I got or bought several that had not been in the family before, namely, if I remember correctly:
1967-1970
A Hard Day's Night
Let It Be
Help
Revolver

Then before discovering prog through Manfred Mann's Earthband I also got
Boney M. - Nighflight to Venus
Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack)
Abba - The Album

And then came MMEB:
Nightingales and Bombers
The Roaring Silence
...and some more but we're already at 10.

The album opening up the next band was
Pink Floyd - Animals... and from that point I started to buy many things in short time.


Edited by Lewian - September 26 2021 at 04:51
Back to Top
suitkees View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: July 19 2020
Location: France
Status: Offline
Points: 9050 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote suitkees Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 25 2021 at 15:54
Indeed, memory is not flawless... I'm only sure about my first album. So I will list some of the other albums that I got rather quickly after, but it is possibly not really part of the first ten, but 20 or so... Prog, without really knowing what it was from the start, was actually my first musical love affair, so my first albums were all prog, actually.

1. Yes - 90125 (instead, I almost bought a Judas Priest album - a narrow escape ;)
-  Yes - Tormato (a bit surprised by it, but intrigued...)
-  Yes - Fragile (and then I started to understand a bit what "symphonic rock" was...)
-  Focus - Focus (compilation)
-  Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear
-  Eloy - Colours
-  Ange - Au delà du délire
-  Saga - Worlds Apart
-  Manfred Mann's Earthband - Watch
-  Pallas - The Sentinel

And more or less in those same early vinyl acquiring days I got written off discs from the local library (just the discs, not the sleeves...): Styx - Pieces of Eight and Kansas - Monolith.


Edited by suitkees - September 25 2021 at 16:03

The razamataz is a pain in the bum
Back to Top
lazland View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: October 28 2008
Location: Wales
Status: Offline
Points: 13809 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote lazland Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 25 2021 at 15:05
Blimey, really tough question.

For a certainty, the first albums I purchased were:

1. Yes. Going for the One
2. Rainbow. Rising
3. Deep Purple. Machine Head
4. Motörhead. Bomber
5. Led Zeppelin IV

After that, a wee bit hazy. The first Genesis album I purchased was ATTWT, I remember that much, swiftly followed by Nursery Cryme following a chat in the music room at school (I was in the school brass band, and it was full of Prog and metal fans).

The first Floyd album would have been DSOTM. Probably about the same time as The Wall.

And then a plethora of classic albums. Crimson, Yes, you know the score. Still love them all now as much as I did then.
Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org

Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time!
Back to Top
AFlowerKingCrimson View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: October 02 2016
Location: Philly burbs
Status: Online
Points: 19039 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote AFlowerKingCrimson Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 25 2021 at 12:57
Difficult for me since there was so many but I'll give it a go anyway. I'll include only albums and cassettes(not singles). I didn't buy cds until later. Most of these were cassette tapes and were from around late 82-83 and I believe all were pretty new at the time. * = vinyl

J. Geils Band- Freeze Frame *
Joan Jett & The Black Hearts - I Love Rock N Roll *
Journey- Escape * (almost bought the first Asia album instead)
A Flock of Seagulls -same *
Foreigner - 4
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Rush - Signals
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut*
Duran Duran - Rio
Styx- Kilroy Was Here

A few more:

Men At Work - Business As Usual
Journey- Frontiers
ZZ Top - Eliminator *
Yes- 90125 (on cassette tape)
Genesis - shapes (was a christmas present)
Van Halen - Diver Down
David Bowie - Let's Dance 
Quiet Riot - Metal Health (a christmas present from a friend at the time)*


There were probably others but these are the ones I remember.
* vinyl


Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - September 25 2021 at 13:55
Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  123>

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down



This page was generated in 0.211 seconds.
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.