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    Posted: January 23 2014 at 23:53
Country: King Crimson - ItCotCK
Language: Sigur-Ros - ()

Even though that Sigur-Ros album isn't a real language I feel like it counts since the language is based on Icelandic.
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Points: 2323 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 23 2014 at 16:18
Originally posted by Barbu Barbu wrote:

Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
 
Same here.
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Pink Floyd - The Wall is the easy pick for me - being a huge fan and a non-English Dane, yet that strikes me as cheating.
My first foreign "prog" albums were probably Samla Mammas Manna's Måltid and the Älgarnas Trädgård debut. Both of em pretty weird for a young kid, but they were intriguing and I kept coming back for more of the same madness and unwieldy energy. 
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Remember that compilation album put out by Buddah(?) Records that mixed up Genesis' Nursery Crymes and Foxtrot albums? The vinyl was so bad that one could visably see small areas in it that were flattened and warped. It played like it, too. Well, that was the first, and it was no less a special introduction for me into the world of Gabriel-era Genesis. Next came a discount version of Crimso's Red, and its vinly faired just as well. Still, I was a prog innocent, and both these offerings just kicked me in the pants. Somewhere, I still have the Red album.
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Points: 14169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 16 2014 at 12:22
Think the first album I bought in general was Abbey Road
(I'm American)
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Country--Tull, TAAB
Language--does Beyond Creation count? The Aura is in English, but they primarily speak French. Tongue
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Points: 30855 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 16 2014 at 11:46
Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
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Almost all my albums are foreign:

First album: I got Cargo by Men At Work for my 12th (?) birthday sometime in the early 80's.
First Prog Album: Think it was Rush's Grace Under Pressure, mid-eighties.
First foreign language album: Felona E Sorona by Le Orme, sometime around 2009-10.
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Points: 841 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 08 2014 at 16:46
The first LP I ever bought was foreign, namely Revolver, or maybe it was Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme. I'm not really sure. At this time there were no Swedish music to be reckoned with, and that's a fact that's followed me throughout the years, I still don't listen to popular domestic artists. I've tried but it always have this provincial sound to it, except for ABBA.
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Ermm aren't they all English language albums by non-English artists?

this wasn't specified was it?

so presumably all instrumental albums can be disregarded for the sake of this thread as well as all Eloy releases

in that case I reckon Vangelis and Irene Papas - Odes was my first foreign language purchase
You put them under "Foreign Language -" in your post...  nevermind.
I assumed that the split was between bands that come from other English Language speaking countries (USA , Canada etc) and bands that come from countries where English is not their native language (ie Germany , Italy etc) regardless of whether they were singing in their native language or not. 
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Ermm aren't they all English language albums by non-English artists?

this wasn't specified was it?

so presumably all instrumental albums can be disregarded for the sake of this thread as well as all Eloy releases

in that case I reckon Vangelis and Irene Papas - Odes was my first foreign language purchase
You put them under "Foreign Language -" in your post...  nevermind.
What?
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Points: 29590 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 08 2014 at 01:57
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Ermm aren't they all English language albums by non-English artists?

this wasn't specified was it?

so presumably all instrumental albums can be disregarded for the sake of this thread as well as all Eloy releases

in that case I reckon Vangelis and Irene Papas - Odes was my first foreign language purchase
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Almost certainly something by Rush, possibly All The World's a Stage.



Probably Rush for me too. Exit stage..left I think.
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Probably Octavarium by Dream Theater. Every other prog album I'd bought before that was either Pink Floyd or Gilmour solo.
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Ermm aren't they all English language albums by non-English artists?
What?
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Points: 29590 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2014 at 01:53
Rush for certain as far another country goes. Would have been Exit Stage Left. I can't remember when I bought my first Kansas album but I'm certain it was later.

Foreign Language - Eloy (Planets) or Aprhrodites Child (666) sometime in the late eighties although I bought a Jean Michel Jarre box set of his first 6 albums also around this time. Can't remember when I got my fist PFM album (Chocolate KIngs) but I think it was later.
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Points: 2755 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 06 2014 at 15:07
I bought The Yes Album and Fragile at the same time, so it's a tie.
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Points: 18657 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 05 2014 at 14:47
Originally posted by GhostPony750 GhostPony750 wrote:

My father had a huge prog rock collection before, but I actually bought them with my own money.


That's cool! Was it mostly UK/US bands or did he have some others sprinkled in there (Italy, Japan, South America, etc.)?
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Points: 7969 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 05 2014 at 12:56
In the days of my youth in the USSR (late 70s - beginning of the 80s) you could get Western LPs mostly on black market. So I had these now classic records on tape.

I can't remember for sure, but one of the first foreign prog LPs I bought was "Supernova" by EXODUS: http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=9202.
Language: Polish.

Still love this record.
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Points: 18146 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 05 2014 at 11:22
Originally posted by Xonty Xonty wrote:

Hi, just interested to see what everyone's first foreign prog album was that they bought. This is regarding both the language and the country even if the language is the same as yours.

 
We already had Aphrodite's Child, Alan Stivell and others at home, But even in Brazil we already had Beatles, Moody Blues and Procol Harum, and that was a pretty damn good start.
 
When we arrived in Madison in October 1965, immediately heard Blonde on Blonde, Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield, and many others around that musical scene, or what I used to call the "semi-jazz" material. Madison also had a few kids playing some clubs by the name of Steve Miller and Ben Vereen!
 
Thus, continuing on music that was different, and from different countries was not an issue for our family. We already had loads of Amalia Rodrigues, Gilbert Becaud, Jacques Brel and Edith Piaf, for example.
 
But "bought", would probably have been an import and was likely either CAN or AMON DUUL 2.


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