Your First Prog Album? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Abbey Road

Just another Band from LA, on cassette!

Gotta love Billy the Mountain

Twirly, twirly, twirly, twirly, twirly!

"Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes"
and I need the knits, the double knits!

The first I heard was my Dad's copy of Dark Side of the Moon, probably around the age of 7. I don't have an actual first prog album (singular), because I made my first purchase through Columbia House on one of those 5 for a penny deals (and then you had to buy three at regular price). This was about the age of 14 or 15. Of those five:

Yes - Classic Yes (the 1981 compilation)

Yes - 90125

Genesis - Genesis (the 1983 shapes album)

ELO - Secret Messages

The Best of Alan Parsons Project (1983 compilation)

As you can see, my prime teen years were in the dreadful 1980s. That was about the best Columbia House was offering at the time. I ended my relationship with them around 1987 once I discovered some better used record shops in the area (I actually walked a good three miles to one every Saturday after I got paid from the part-time job at a local supermarket during my last year of high school and into my first year of college until I had a car). Oddly enough, Columbia House kept sending me junk mail well into the 1990s and somehow followed me through several different apartments.

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i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag
that's a happy bag of lettuce
this car smells like cartilage
nothing beats a good video about fractions

Originally posted by EddieRUKiddingVarese

EddieRUKiddingVarese wrote:

Just another Band from LA, on cassette!

Gotta love Billy the Mountain

Twirly, twirly, twirly, twirly, twirly!

No offense dude but...

ahh... will need to put this on next.

Though they all run together.. The Yes Album, Salisbury, ELO2, and this one. Probably introduced to them around the same time. This was the one of the 4 that hit the hardest... while ELO2 did take me to outer space and beyond as a child.. this one took me to a even more interesting place.

Starting of course with the cover...

The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip

I know I'm late, but this was a fun exercise, reading other people's experiences and reflecting back on my own over thirty years ago. If the Beatles count, then it would Sgt. Pepper's & the White Album. If not, then Dark Side of the Moon.

A few years later after a detour through heavy metal, I was introduced to Rush and discovered Yes, King Crimson and Genesis, but that early brush with the Beatles and Pink Floyd were a nice place to start.

I believe it was E.L.P.'s Trilogy which I bought at a small record store on the side of the freeway in my hometown that was owned by a substitute teacher I knew while in high school. The guy did absolutely no business at this location, and it was a real wonder how he stayed open at all. The next album I picked up somewhere else was this cheesy-looking PFM compilation import that had a photo of bread on its cover. It had all the hits though.

Edited by Rednight - April 01 2016 at 12:31

"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno

The first album I bought with elements of Prog in it was The Clouds Scrapbook; though for me, the first truly Prog album was In the Court of the Crimson King (though itself filched from 1-2-3/Clouds of course).

The Yes Album on 8 track tape. That was a long time ago. Wink

"You never had the things you thought you should have had and you'll not get them now..."

Queen II (cassette) then Classic Yes (cassette). Then a whole bunch more cassettes by Queen, Rush, Tangerine Dream, Roxy Music, Asia, Kansas, etc.

First on vinyl when I finally got a record deck aged roughly sixteen were Pendragon's Fly High, Fall Far EP and IQ's The Wake.

Edited by Mascodagama - March 29 2016 at 14:37