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Tom Ozric 
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 Posted: March 24 2016 at 04:25 |
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I guess, for me it would've been Floyd's DSOTM cassette - back in the very early 80's - I must've been around 8-10 years old. I didn't know it was 'Prog' but always loved it. My first real Prog vinyl would've been Wish You Were Here, my 14th birthday, 1986. |
Actually - December 1985 - The Wall - waaaay before I received WYWH as a vinyl gift. But I am hard-pressed accepting The Wall as a truly 'Prog' work. It's fantastic, no doubt, but not what I've come to know about PROG in its essence..........
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Sean Trane
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Posted: March 24 2016 at 04:44 |
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Does my father's Stand Up count?? (I was 6, but played that album constantly )
My first album ever (bought with my own money from newspaper delivery) was Crime Of The Century, in sept 74 (age 11)... then came DSOTM, SEBTP (I didn't dig or get that one for a while) , Harmonium's debut, etc...
within a year, I had Aqualung, TAAB, ITOTCK, In Rock, Paranoid, ITLOG&P, 5θ Saison, etc...
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Necrotica
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Posted: March 24 2016 at 04:50 |
Tom Ozric wrote:
Tom Ozric wrote:
I guess, for me it would've been Floyd's DSOTM cassette - back in the very early 80's - I must've been around 8-10 years old. I didn't know it was 'Prog' but always loved it. My first real Prog vinyl would've been Wish You Were Here, my 14th birthday, 1986. |
Actually - December 1985 - The Wall - waaaay before I received WYWH as a vinyl gift. But I am hard-pressed accepting The Wall as a truly 'Prog' work. It's fantastic, no doubt, but not what I've come to know about PROG in its essence.......... |
I consider The Wall a prog album, but I can definitely see what you mean. A lot of websites classify the album as "progressive pop," and with songs like Another Brick in the Wall and In The Flesh, that certainly makes sense.
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Won't you take me down, to the underground
Why oh why, there is no light
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Cookie13
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Posted: March 24 2016 at 05:23 |
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Probably Images & Words - Dream Theater at 1996.
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"Clipside of the pinkeye flight
I'm not the percent you think survives
I need sanctuary in the pages of this book."
Son Et Lumiere - The Mars Volta
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Posted: March 24 2016 at 05:24 |
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Pink Floyd's Relics on my 13th birthday.
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: March 24 2016 at 05:51 |
Necrotica wrote:
Tom Ozric wrote:
Tom Ozric wrote:
I guess, for me it would've been Floyd's DSOTM cassette - back in the very early 80's - I must've been around 8-10 years old. I didn't know it was 'Prog' but always loved it. My first real Prog vinyl would've been Wish You Were Here, my 14th birthday, 1986. |
Actually - December 1985 - The Wall - waaaay before I received WYWH as a vinyl gift. But I am hard-pressed accepting The Wall as a truly 'Prog' work. It's fantastic, no doubt, but not what I've come to know about PROG in its essence.......... |
I consider The Wall a prog album, but I can definitely see what you mean. A lot of websites classify the album as "progressive pop," and with songs like Another Brick in the Wall and In The Flesh, that certainly makes sense. |
It was that BRILLIANT lead solo in ABITW II that blew my young mind. There was just soooo much soul and feeling (which I never 'got' at that age, but knew this was something really special......) that sold me........ Then it was Obscured, AHM, then the Barrett stuff. Now it's anything from Magenta to Meshuggah, Ciccada to Igra Staklenih Perli, back to Il Tempio delle Clessidre, through Elephant9, Dungen and Kosmos, to Etron Fou Le Loublan and Shub Niggurath. This list goes on by dozens, and dozens.......and dozens............... .............then I come across P.A...................
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Meltdowner
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Posted: March 24 2016 at 06:05 |
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If I count Proto Prog and compilations it's Deep Purple's Platinum Collection that I got for Christmas in 2009, I think. Then I bought most Led Zeppelin albums and The Doors' boxset. The first Prog album I bought was DSOTM on CD in 2011. Then I continued the Floyd collection, bought every Supertramp album from COTC to BIA, Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge and CTTE.
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Lewian
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Posted: March 24 2016 at 06:40 |
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Manfred Mann's Earthband - first Watch on tape at the age of 12, then Nightingales and Bombers, the first album that I bought and still have.
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A_Flower
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Posted: March 24 2016 at 08:05 |
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I was 13 in 7th grade when I listened to the best or Pink Floyd. That was when I heard Echoes. After that moment, my life was never the same...
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zravkapt
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Posted: March 24 2016 at 08:53 |
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If we're including proto, related and crossover stuff here...I had albums by the Beatles, Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails and Primus before I was into 'prog'.. I just remembered shortly after Zappa died I bought Hot Rats. I probably had that before I bought DSOTM.
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Magma America Great Make Again
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: March 24 2016 at 10:20 |
As far as purchased for me, I got Sgt Peppers as a surprise present a few weeks after it was released in '67. As far as bought with my own hard-earned-allowance cash...I road my 10 speed on a cool 1975 July morning to the local record store. Was randomly looking through the shelves and stumbled on Brain Salad Surgery. One look at the cover and it was all over...I wasn't leaving without it 
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AlanB
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Posted: March 24 2016 at 11:28 |
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Argus by Wishbone Ash. I bought it on cassette in 1973 then when that wore out I bought the vinyl, then later on the CD.
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Posted: March 24 2016 at 14:33 |
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I must've been 9 or 10 when I made a tape of my aunt's vinyl copy of The Wall. It's still around somewhere, but I tend to go for my cd nowadays.
My first prog purchase though? Delicate Sound Of Thunder the year after methinks.
Edited by Guldbamsen - March 24 2016 at 14:34
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams
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Posted: March 24 2016 at 16:09 |
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I think it was The Yes Album...or was it Barclay James Harvest Live.
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TheLionOfPrague
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Posted: March 24 2016 at 17:50 |
Dark Side and Trilogy.
The Division Bell and The Wall a bit before but don't consider them "prog".
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I shook my head and smiled a whisper knowing all about the place
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miamiscot
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Posted: March 24 2016 at 18:24 |
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Cambus741
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Posted: March 24 2016 at 18:55 |
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Depends if Queen are considered prog;
if so then it would have been A Night at the Opera.
Otherwise it would be Marillion's Real to Reel
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Necrotica
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Posted: March 24 2016 at 19:29 |
Cambus741 wrote:
Depends if Queen are considered prog;
if so then it would have been A Night at the Opera.
Otherwise it would be Marillion's Real to Reel
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Yeah, I consider Queen's first four albums prog
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Take me down, to the underground
Won't you take me down, to the underground
Why oh why, there is no light
And if I can't sleep, can you hold my life
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Posted: March 24 2016 at 20:27 |
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I don't remember what the first one I heard was, but the first one I got was Rush's Moving Pictures.
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TheLionOfPrague
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Posted: March 24 2016 at 21:08 |
Necrotica wrote:
Cambus741 wrote:
Depends if Queen are considered prog;
if so then it would have been A Night at the Opera.
Otherwise it would be Marillion's Real to Reel
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Yeah, I consider Queen's first four albums prog |
First five I'd say (thought not sure I'd say they're prog). The first big stylistic change was in News of the World, although it'd be more radical in The Game.
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I shook my head and smiled a whisper knowing all about the place
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