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    Posted: November 23 2013 at 09:17
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.

For me:

Country: Rush - 2112 (Canada) (also the first prog album I ever bought as well!)
Language: Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun (Icelandic)

Keen to see what everyone's are! Smile
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Aww man.  Back in the day getting an import was pretty cool. Cool 

Having said that, I'm too old to remember now.  Big smile (not really, it will come to me sooner or later...)

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Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (back in 1987), then Rubycon and soon after Amon Duul II 'Carnival In Babylon'. Ooooh, German trippers - YAY !!
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In the U.S. imports were a lot bigger deal in the 70s than today.  Unless you had a good local record store that stocked imports (not very common, especially in smaller towns) you usually had to order them unless the album was on an American label or a label with an American distributor.  So my first 'foreign' album was probably Jethro Tull, Manfred Mann, Black Sabbath or Moody Blues or something like that since they were all released in the U.S.
 
First non-English album was probably Czesław Niemen or Kraftwerk.  I picked up vinyl from both of them in the mid and late 70s.
 
 
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When I got into prog in the mid 70's I lived halfway between 2 Tower Record stores that both stocked tons of imports.  The first import only release I remember buying was Van Der Graaf Generators "Aerosol Grey Machine"...it was either that or Schick, Furs & Froehlings "Symphonic Pictures".  Tower used to give out this free import catalog and I would spend hours drooling over the exotic prog bands I couldn't wait to hear Wink  

As far as foreign language goes, the first non-English speaking/singing band I bought was either France's Pulsar "Strands of the Future" album or it might have been Italy's PFM "Per Un Amico".
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Hi,
 
Sorry ... not foreign to me, because in Brasil we hear a lot of bands, and artists, and later I heard even more in America.
 
In the end, this was all about how attentive you were to what was out there, and I already knew that music LIVED around the world, even though no one knew it.
 
It did help that the midwest was lively in music, though my "imports" time did not start happening until we reached California, though I already had Stones, Beatles, Kinks, ELP, Procol Harum and many other things in my collection.
 
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Moving Pictures by Rush back in 2007 is the first I can remember. But I know I had a copy of Dark Side of the Moon before that.

But if we're talking about albums in a foreign language, that honor belongs to PFM's Storia di un minuto, which I bough back in the fall of 2012.
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Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
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The first foreign album I got must have been one of the grunge Seattle bands in 91' probably Soundgarden or Nirvana.
Foreign language (if I don't consider English to be foreign) must be something Italian, probably Per Un Amico or Maxophone.
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Country - Black Sabbath: Paranoid
Language - Sigur Ros - Valtari
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Almost certainly something by Rush, possibly All The World's a Stage.
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Considering that I was born and grew up in Namibia, 99,99% of my collection is foreign.
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Country - Something by Tull. Probably "Roots to Branches"
Language - Probably "Per un Amico" by PFM or "1001 Degrees Centigrades" by Magma




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Country: Rush - 2112 (first album I ever bought)

Language: Alcest - Les Voyages De L'ame
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Probably either the Moody Blues , Procol Harum, or Floyd...........around 67.
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Country: 24 Carat Purple, a Deep Purple compilation: this was my second prog record, the first one was from my country of birth, the Netherlands: Merlin by Kayak

Language: probably L'Isola Di Niente by PFM
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