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I'm 43 and the first prog album that I bought was The Division Bell by Pink Floyd, which should be in the year that it was released.

However, I had probably listened to some other prog bands/albums before. I recall that my older brother had the album Heavy Horses by Jethro Tull, for instance, and I must have listened to it a couple of times at least.
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I'm not far off 70, and first discovered prog back in 1971 when I was 15.
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Almost 61 (no big bother or sister, but two younger bros).

1969 Brussels , first taste: Tull's Stand Up (and Hair's OST) >> my dad's albums, though he was in jazz & classic (I mobed to Beatles & Stones afterwards)
Spring 1974 Montreal , first album bought Harmonium's debut (every kid in school bought it). 
Fall 74 Toronto , Crime of the Century >> my own money (newspaper delivery route), saw the arresting artwork in the record shop next to my school

in the next few months, ITCOTCK, DSOTM, ITLOG&P, SEBTP, LSOHHB, TAAB (yes, I liked all of these long album titles), all bought on advice of the coolest record store owner ever (Record on Wheels in Mississauga)


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I will be 57 in a couple of months. I was probably 13 or 14 when I first started listening to prog. That was from the radio and a local once a week program that played the "best in progressive rock and jazz fusion". Though my interest stemmed by an earlier interest in album cover art. My local library had the Album Cover Album, which had had a number of Richard Dean and Hipgnosis covers.
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I am 64. My first tastes of prog date from 1970 or so, when I found a single "Feelings / Italian Concerto" by Ekseption. I played Italian Concerto over and over again; I loved it. In March 1971, at age 11, I heard "A Girl Named You" by Supersister, then, some months later, "Hocus Pocus" by Focus. When I came to know Pink Floyd in June 1972, I turned to prog. The first album I bought was Dark Side of the Moon, a few weeks after its release.
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I'm 57.

I discovered what's now known as prog when I bought albums by Led Zeppelin and Supertramp in 1980, Deep Purple, Styx, Queen, and Rush in 1981, and Genesis and the Moody Blues in 1982.
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I'm 5 and I discovered prog when I was about 12......
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Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

I'm 5 and I discovered prog when I was about 12......


So your adventure is regressive, rather than progressive? Tongue
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Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

I'm 5 and I discovered prog when I was about 12......
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Originally posted by Archisorcerus Archisorcerus wrote:

Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

I'm 5 and I discovered prog when I was about 12......


So your adventure is regressive, rather than progressive? Tongue

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I'm 55. I discovered it through listening to my Dad's album collection. First heard it when I was a kid at the age of 6 without knowing what it was. Started really getting into it around the age of 14. It was still not called prog then in my little bubble. Local radio stations just lumped it in with classic rock at the time. Some days I like to pretend I'm a traffic cone.
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Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

I'm 55. I discovered it through listening to my Dad's album collection. First heard it when I was a kid at the age of 6 without knowing what it was. Started really getting into it around the age of 14. It was still not called prog then in my little bubble. Local radio stations just lumped it in with classic rock at the time. Some days I like to pretend I'm a traffic cone.
You're 55, but someday you like to pretend you're a 5 year old

Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

There is a house inside the soap.
Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

There are a lot of pixels trapped in my nose hairs.
Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

I smell like I have nouns in my socks.
Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

I'm a web page with armpits!


A total trainwreck of a forced attempt at humor. You're just not funny. Your "jokes" are load of cringe.*

*disclaimer: I wasn't "sober" when I said that (sleep deprivation)

Edited by Hrychu - June 10 2024 at 23:27
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I'm 49 years old and have been listening to Prog since I was about ten years old. So that's almost four decades of listening to thousands of releases. Quite the journey! Smile
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Originally posted by Hrychu Hrychu wrote:

Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

I'm 55. I discovered it through listening to my Dad's album collection. First heard it when I was a kid at the age of 6 without knowing what it was. Started really getting into it around the age of 14. It was still not called prog then in my little bubble. Local radio stations just lumped it in with classic rock at the time. Some days I like to pretend I'm a traffic cone.
You're 55, but someday you like to pretend you're a 5 year old

Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

There is a house inside the soap.
Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

There are a lot of pixels trapped in my nose hairs.
Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

I smell like I have nouns in my socks.
Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

I'm a web page with armpits!
A total trainwreck of a forced attempt at humor. You're just not funny. Your "jokes" are load of cringe.

I don't know, bud. When I read your posts and compare them to my own, I like my posts better. No offense. Maybe you'll get better at this as you get older. If you're having a creative block, you can cheat and use a random word generator from time to time to make your own gibberish. We all have our bad days.
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Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

Originally posted by Hrychu Hrychu wrote:

Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

I'm 55. I discovered it through listening to my Dad's album collection. First heard it when I was a kid at the age of 6 without knowing what it was. Started really getting into it around the age of 14. It was still not called prog then in my little bubble. Local radio stations just lumped it in with classic rock at the time. Some days I like to pretend I'm a traffic cone.
You're 55, but someday you like to pretend you're a 5 year old

Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

There is a house inside the soap.
Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

There are a lot of pixels trapped in my nose hairs.
Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

I smell like I have nouns in my socks.
Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

I'm a web page with armpits!
A total trainwreck of a forced attempt at humor. You're just not funny. Your "jokes" are load of cringe.


I don't know, bud. When I read your posts and compare them to my own, I like my posts better. No offense. Maybe you'll get better at this as you get older. If you're having a creative block, you can cheat and use a random word generator from time to time to make your own gibberish. We all have our bad days.
I greatly appreciate those ad hominem "arguments" :)

I don't have to be a baker to say the bread tastes like dogshіt. You know that saying well.*

*disclaimer: I wasn't "sober" when I said that (sleep deprivation)

Edited by Hrychu - June 10 2024 at 23:27
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^ As you say, it is a matter of taste: if someone likes the taste of dogsh*t he will say to the baker that he likes his bread...

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I'm 23 (24 this month) and as far back as I can really remember I listened to Tubular Bells every night on my Dad's 2nd gen iPod whilst going to sleep. My parents have one of those early years books where I scrawled my 3 favorite songs as "Tubular Bells", "Mr Blue Sky" and "Nightmare before christmas." I don't know which track 'Nightmare before christmas' might refer to, but in looking up the OST I found out that it was composed by Danny Elfman, and despite not having listened to Oingo Boingo I do enjoy the fact all three are represented on this site in some way.

I didn't 'discover' prog until mid-2021, at which time I had been listening to Kylie Minogue everyday for maybe 2 years. I worked in a place where they would typically play rock radio stations, and I began to enjoy rock more. I had been listening to Roundabout by Yes around the same time as I had been introduced to it via some friends who liked the show JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (where it is used as the end theme of the first series). I was listening to Roundabout and the Youtube auto-play then played Owner of a lonely heart, which I recognised from the radio, and I thought it was odd how different the two tracks were and as I do I looked up Yes on Wikipedia. There I read one of the genre tags for 'Progressive rock' and the single neuron lit up in my brain from the one time I had heard the term before when my dad used it to describe Mike Oldfield. I looked up Tubular Bells and of course, it's tagged as "Progressive rock," so I start looking up other artists I listened to and I had been listening to Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel which lead me to search "Peter Gabriel Progressive rock," the first result being the PA page for Peter Gabriel, and as this is the ultimate prog rock resource I found my way into the wider realm of prog through this site, which I am ever thankful for.
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Originally posted by Hrychu Hrychu wrote:



I don't have to be a baker to say the bread tastes like dogshіt. You know that saying well.

Are you intentionally trying to be a dickhead because you're doing it quite well. 


Edited by Jeffro - June 10 2024 at 16:58
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54!!!
first encounter with Prog was in 1982-83. An uncle of mine which still loves prog brought 
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Yes: Drama
Pink Floyd: Animals
Kansas; 2 for a show
a mix tape with songs from Jethro Tull and Rush on the same tape.
I was 12-13 Years old did not speak a word of English. I was born in the Dominican Republic. 
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@Jeffro. Well, I can tell you that you witnessed the side effects of my ruined sleep hygiene. :( Looking back, my posts really came off as harsh. Lack of sleep can be dangerous.

It's no joke. I actually had sleep deprivation hallucinations!

Edited by Hrychu - June 10 2024 at 23:26
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