Proggiest Studio Debut from Prog-Related

Roxy Music - Roxy Music (with Eno!) is for shure a real Prog album, and should be on top of this poll

Belated; catching up on stuff I neglected to follow up on before due to pressing family matters.  Thanks for the link.  Suffice to say, a very well-written and comprehensive review and I look forward to purchasing the album at some time.  I'm sure I've heard the album before (part of a friend's collection), but not for many years.  I used to be very big on Jon Anderson (saw him with Kitaro in concert years back -- that was excellent).

Melomaniac wrote: Saga and Iron Maiden's debut albums were amazing debuts !

    
Hardly Proggy though - either of them

This would be my pick...

Edited by T.Rox - October 17 2006 at 12:04

Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination is full blown prog.

^ You mean Supertramp's debut album?  By the time of this poll they already had been moved to Art Rock.  Great band. 

Been many, many years since I last listened to ELO's debut album.  Something to buy since my old record collection which I largely acquired from a brother is gone, sadly (was part of the collection).

Tales of Mystery and Imagination!

Open-Mind wrote: The Kick Inside for me

A lovely album, and one of the first CDs I bought (particularly for "The Man With the Child in his Eyes" -- used to imagine she was singing that to me ). 

It's got a good proggy-pop feel to it.

Excuse the anecdote: A strange thing happened when I first played The Kick Inside (had never heard it before).  As I was listening to "Strange Phenomenon" I was reading a book called Riding the Iron Rooster (yeah multi-tasking hehe).  She was singing about strange coincidences... Suddenly as I got to a line well into the book that happened to mention the Buddhist mantra "Om mani padme hum," as words of power, she sung the same words at the EXACT same time.  Strange phenomenon indeed!  Struck me as rather eerie, anyway.




Edited by Logan - October 05 2006 at 13:40

Fassbinder: Yes, Peter Sinfield would offer some real competition if I had included him -- rather regretted not including him, but I was thinking at the time that I might also come out with a poll specifically for Prog-Related 'solo' artists such as he.  I expect if people know his work that he'd lead the polls -- John Wetton might do well as well and....

Memowakeman and R o V e R: I certainly consider ToM&I to be a very proggy album  indeed.  Great stuff.  The Alan Parsons Project is, of course, considered a progressive rock group by many (especially by the kind of people who consider albums like Dark Side of the Moon to be Prog -- which he engineered as well as a band I listed before...), and I would have little compunction in rating that album 5 stars at this site (i.e. a Prog masterpiece).  It's no coincidence that I placed that album at the top.  I can't say it's more proggy than all of the other albums here, but it is my favourite, and, admittedly, my particular raison d'etre  for instigating this poll.  Incidentally, I had considered doing this as poll for the first two band albums due to my respect for I Robot.

I'd been a fan of the Alan Parsons Project for many years (especially the Asimovian titled I Robot which I spun an awful lot) when I saw Tales... at the library and excitedly took it out.  I was blown away by it -- it helped that I also had also been a fan of Edgar Allan Poe for many years.  'Twas a major oversight not to have listened to the album years earlier.

I must admit that I am happy to see it leading this poll (though I wish more people had voted for whatever).  Heck, at 3 votes [now 4!] (though one is mine hahaha) to one vote in other, and all the rest having a grand total of absolutely none, it's stomping the competition!   I feel so vindicated as, to be honest, I rather would like to see The Project in a full-fledged Prog category -- even if they're better suited to AOR.   Heck, Doctor Evil's son referred to them as a progressive rock group in Austin Powers (leading Prog authority Mike Myers being a fan -- hehe).

 I expected Tales... to lead this poll, but I wasn't expecting such a wide margin.

EDIT: someone else voted as I composed this post bringing Tales to four votes.

Edited by Logan - October 05 2006 at 12:57

I haven't heard most of the groups/artists from the "subgenre", not to speak about the first studio album only. But from what I have heard, somehow it seems to me that Peter Sinfield album (I don't see much difference between Still and Stillusion) is the proggiest. But you've excluded solo efforts and single albums...