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chopper 
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 Posted: April 04 2016 at 06:39 |
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Mine was Genesis Live, bought when it first came out as it was a budget release at £1.99. It was my second ever LP after Billion Dollar Babies which cost the princely sum of £2.45.
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Necrotica
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Posted: April 05 2016 at 01:11 |
 chopper wrote:
Mine was Genesis Live, bought when it first came out as it was a budget release at £1.99. It was my second ever LP after Billion Dollar Babies which cost the princely sum of £2.45. |
Nice; it's always cool to hear from someone who already had experiences with prog so early on... although I have to say, Billion Dollar Babies is also a great first album 
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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
https://www.youtube.com/@CocoonMasterBrendan-wh3sd
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Flight123
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If you were a teenager in the early-mid 70s vinyl was expensive! You made your choices very carefully. Budget albums such as Genesis 'Live', ELP's 'Pictures at an Exhibition', Pink Floyd's 'Relics' and even 'The Faust Tapes' (sold for the price of a single) were often an introduction to prog. for many or were the first album bought.
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AEProgman
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Posted: April 05 2016 at 07:58 |
The first albums I bought with my own money were actually 8-track tapes. Believe it or not they were Black Sabbath - Paranoid and something by the Carpenters  . The next one I traded a Three Dog Night 8-track for Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and from there it was all over.
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kjtheguitarist
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Posted: April 05 2016 at 10:59 |
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Pink Floyd - The Wall
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mateprog
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Posted: November 02 2016 at 10:44 |
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Wish You Were Here. In a friends car after a Metallica gig. 15 years old.
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AtomicCrimsonRush
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Posted: November 03 2016 at 03:14 |
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King Crimson In the court of the Crimson King. Dad brought it home for me.
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Rednight
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Posted: November 03 2016 at 08:56 |
mateprog wrote:
Wish You Were Here. In a friends car after a Metallica gig. 15 years old. |
Did you ever live that down?
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"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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backtothegarden
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Posted: November 04 2016 at 09:58 |
terramystic wrote:
Dream Theater - Images and Words
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Same here. Some guy in my brother's music theory class hooked him up with a cassette copy of it. I bought the CD longbox (if you remember those) shortly afterwards.
Then I discovered Helmet, which sent me on an entirely different musical course. My next prog discoveries would not be made until 6 years after that, when I bought Rush "Permanent Waves" and "Signals", along with Yes "Fragile", from Goodwill, to go along with a sweet Kenwood direct drive turntable.
THEN the rest was history.
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Scorpius
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Pink Floyds The Wall for me, though I had listened to some songs from the genre before that.
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AtomicCrimsonRush
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Posted: November 05 2016 at 01:15 |
Scorpius wrote:
Pink Floyds The Wall for me, though I had listened to some songs from the genre before that. |
Yeah I heard that in college during a slacking off session in the sound lounge as a group of us were skipping classes. Those were the days
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Devoncir
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Posted: November 05 2016 at 08:54 |
the same as most of the replies:
YES - FRAGILE and ( and that's different) TORMATO - got them together, and loved them both.
Later I was brainwashed that Tormato wasn't good, but brainwash doesn't work for me, so still love it
Edited by Devoncir - November 05 2016 at 08:54
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frajo99
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Posted: November 05 2016 at 23:55 |
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I think it was either To Our Children's Children's Children by the Moody Blues or Dark Side of the Moon. I don't really remember the first time I listened to either of those, but I was definitely younger then 10.
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frajo99
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Posted: November 05 2016 at 23:58 |
Devoncir wrote:
the same as most of the replies:
YES - FRAGILE and ( and that's different) TORMATO - got them together, and loved them both.
Later I was brainwashed that Tormato wasn't good, but brainwash doesn't work for me, so still love it
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I totally agree with you. Tormato certainly isn't the greatest Yes album, but it is far from bad. I love "Madrigal."
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