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       What was the first progressive rock album you ever heard?  Under what circumstances did you hear it?  Did you like it immediately or did someone have to convince you to listen again?

My first was Leftoverture.  I put it on the record player after nosing around in my dad's records in the attic.

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yesfan88 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: August 24 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 357	Topic: first album Posted: August 30 2006 at 17:26
	What was the first progressive rock album you ever heard? Under what circumstances did you hear it? Did you like it immediately or did someone have to convince you to listen again? My first was Leftoverture. I put it on the record player after nosing around in my dad's records in the attic.
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The Miracle Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: May 29 2005 Location: hell Status: Offline Points: 28427	Posted: August 30 2006 at 17:30
	Ben done 4383294832098409328409325924394823057 times... Anyway, my first was DSOTM which I now think is waaaaaaay overrated
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sleeper Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: October 09 2005 Location: Entropia Status: Offline Points: 16449	Posted: August 30 2006 at 17:33
	I think mine was the PF compilation Echoes. Probably not the best introduction but I liked what I heard. I'd prefer to get the full albums these days rather than compilations.
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VanderGraafKommandöh Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: July 04 2005 Location: Malaria Status: Offline Points: 89372	Posted: August 30 2006 at 17:45
	Echoes isn't a bad compilation though. Again, it would have had to have been Pink Floyd for me, as my brother used to play them a lot when he was living here. I also used to hear a lot of The Moody Blues when younger. My first prog purchase was The Moody Blues - Caught Live +5.


Ed_The_Dead Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: April 29 2005 Location: Poland Status: Offline Points: 4928	Posted: August 30 2006 at 17:51
	Tool - Lateraus.. though I actually didn't know it :P MY 1st r00 prog album was DTs Images and Words...


Hemispheres Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: December 22 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 533	Posted: August 30 2006 at 17:52
	Yes - Close to the edge or possibly King Crimson - Discipline I was 8 and I only liked the first 4 minutes of close to the edge and the song elephant talk by king crimson,anyway that was the beggining. boy i was a weird kid
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gods of marble Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Groupie Joined: August 30 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 44	Posted: August 30 2006 at 18:24
	animals is my earliest recolection of anysort of music. period. there was the brief period of weird al yankovic, then zep (who i absolutely hate), then rediscovering pink floyd, then onto yes/kc/rush/bowie/the who, where my music taste matured and now im into tmv, hella, crime in choir and what not.

Rocktopus Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: March 02 2006 Location: Norway Status: Offline Points: 4202	Posted: August 30 2006 at 18:31
	Hearing Not knowing: The Wall Knowing: Nursery Cryme First Purchased: Not Knowing: Gryphon: The Collection Knowing: Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick
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unforgivable74 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Groupie Joined: August 17 2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 99	Posted: August 30 2006 at 18:35
	'Marillion - Misplaced Childhood' was my first taste of prog. I was about 12. I became a Pink Floyd / Genesis fanatic for the following 11 years until I rediscovered Marillion at the time of 'This Strange Engine' 1997ish. From that point to present day, Marillion are my number one although I now rate 'Clutching' above 'Misplaced' from the Fish era.
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Arrrghus Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: July 21 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 5296	Posted: August 30 2006 at 18:37
	My first taste was Rush's Fly By Night and 2112. Rush was my first prog band obsession (before I had even heard of prog!) However, the Yes Album also comes close.


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	My first ones: Supertramp - Very Best of Vol.1 Pink Floyd - Divison Bell Jean-Michel Jarre - Zoolook
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Rivertree Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / Band Submissions Joined: March 22 2006 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 17627	Posted: August 30 2006 at 18:41
	I think, it was 'Close To The Edge' by YES. It was released 1972. It was one or two years later when I had the opportunity to hear this great album!!!


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Dirk Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: August 11 2005 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 1043	Posted: August 30 2006 at 19:20
	Pink Floyd. I got the Wall and Wish you were here simultaneously when i was 17. Probably i listened to the Wall first because of the well known track.

MuzikLuva Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Groupie Joined: April 22 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 81	Posted: August 30 2006 at 19:20
	Pink Floyd Ummagumma in early 1970. I remember looking through all kinds of albums in the record department of Times Square Stores in Levittown, NY and seeing the cover. I looked at the back of the album and was blown away by the number of instruments that they had laid out. I bought it as I was so intrigued by what I saw. It took quite a few listens before I started to really enjoy it all. What sucked was that I had a mono turntable so I couldn't really enjoy or appreciate what was there. A year and a half later when I got my first real stereo and a set of decent headphones I listened to it again with a whole new appreciation.

Cristi Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Crossover / Prog Metal Teams Joined: July 27 2006 Location: wonderland Status: Online Points: 43643	Posted: August 30 2006 at 19:24
	Pink Floyd - The Final Cut.

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	In 1989 - Pink Floyd: Delicate Sound of Thunder. Then Yes - The Yes album (taken by chance!) and Rush - A Farwell to kings (this one I was presented by a neighbour, some kind of r'n'r teacher).
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	2112 It was back when i was getting into drumming, and I heard Neil Peart was pretty good, so I checked it out.


mizzin Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: September 23 2005 Location: Bulgaria Status: Offline Points: 25	Posted: August 30 2006 at 20:16
	I'm born in 1987 and i listen to prog since 93/94.My first favourites were Wish You Were Here(5), Black Moon(3) and other ELP, The Division Bell(4), Fireball(1), and a QUEEN compilation(2). I listened to them on a bulgarian deck and reciever and the cassetes were pirat so....Those are good memories