Your 1st 6 prog albums

       I was a bit of a latecomer to prog, as in my teens, it was basically hard rock/heavy metal that I collected. Then, I started collecting real progressive rock lps in the winter/spring of 1986/1987, when I was 24 years old.

Edited by presdoug - February 01 2016 at 03:08

Queen – II
Pink Floyd – The Wall
Genesis – Nursery Crymes
Eloy – The Power and the Passion (thanks Tom!)
Focus – Moving Waves
Renaissance – Scheherazade and other Stories

If I consider Prog Related bands, it's all Led Zeppelin. If not, it's all Pink Floyd.

Wha? hardly any mention of Rush yet?

Edited by zwordser - January 31 2016 at 21:22

Radiohead– Ok Computer

Edited by Polymorphia - February 01 2016 at 00:16

Rush records, probably.

Hi,

Goes way back ... but not sure I can call them "progressive".

Beatles -- Sgt Peppers
Rolling Stones -- Their Satanic Majesty's Request
Moody Blues -- Days of Future Passed
The Who -- Tommy
Chicago -- 1

I never thought that "progressive" started with the listing that is mostly here, as it was a continuation of something that was already there which others had created. But the English invented the world, therefore "progressive" has to be English.

Funny how if one makes a list of everything posted here, it's almost all exclusively after 1972 ... and it was there way before!

I do not think that much of the stuff later is any better (or worse) that what existed previously, and actually find that some stuff is not that great. A lot of folks are attached to Genesis' Foxtrot and Trespass, but I am not ... Ange's 2 albums prior to these are just as good if not better, for example. And theatrical music, and events, was a very European thing ... which we (specially here) will not credit the folks all over Europe that used it for political purposes for at least 10 years prior to Genesis and Peter Gabriel putting on an outfit and making it look like Europe did not have a history of theater ... and that's just plain old bull-prairie and you know it.

It's just pathetic that the rock press has this idea that is is new and this and that, when in essence it is a re-hash of many things done before! it was done slightly different, in another medium ... and you even got a cover to show for it ... JT's "A Passion Play". Either the story was dead, or that entertainment was dead!

Started getting super serious about progressive rock around 2007-2008ish:

Nursery Crymes - Genesis
Foxtrot - Genesis
Genesis Live - Genesis
A Trick of the Tail - Genesis
Chocolate Kings - PFM
Watercourse Way - Shadowfax
Fish Out of Water - Chris Squire
Symphonic Slam - Symphonic Slam
Maxophone - Maxophone

Had to go nine here due to some underlying circumstances: The first three were released as part of very poorly manufactured album compilations on the old Buddah label and were readily available in the cut-out section (which I regularly perused) of the Wherehouse Records store down the way, so I got a good dose of them then. 'Trick and Chocolate Kings were simultaneously presented to me for consideration around the time I graduated from high school in '76. And the last three arrived at the previously mentioned record store around the same time in '75 and were heavily delved into. The Shadowfax offering was the last of the bunch to gain my attention and was worthy of many listenings.




Edited by Rednight - February 03 2016 at 12:08

Hard to remember, but i try.
Year: 1970
Age: 17

Certainly:
King Crimson - In The Wake...
King Crimson - In The Court...
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
VDGG - H To HE

Probably:
Genesis - Nursery Cryme
Gentle Giant - Acquiring The Taste
Renaissance - Renaissance
Amon Duul II - Yeti
Audience - Friend's Friend's Friend
Colosseum - Valentyne Suite or Yes - The Yes Album or Can - Tago Mago