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    Posted: March 23 2016 at 19:23
I know someone's probably posted this topic at some point or another, but I just wanted to put it up out of curiosity. Can you guys recall your very first progressive rock album? Prog-related applies too. This may sound incredibly random, but Journey's first album was actually my first in the genre. I was a huge Journey fanatic when I was younger (they were my first band in general), and I remember getting their debut at a mall in my area when I was around 10 or 11 years old. There was a Virgin Mega Store (when those were still around, lol) at the mall, and I used to get a bunch of great classic rock and progressive rock/metal records from there when I was a kid and teenager. Lots of nostalgia Smile

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Tubular Bells when I was about 14
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Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of The Worlds in the mid 80's.
The first full on Prog album I bought was The Dark Side Of The Moon. Although Electric Ladyland I heard before the Pink Floyd one.
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Days of Future Passed, for prog-related.  Fragile for pure prog. Respective ages acquired: 13 and 15.
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Originally posted by emigre80 emigre80 wrote:

Days of Future Passed, for prog-related.  Fragile for pure prog. Respective ages acquired: 13 and 15.

Hey cool, it was Fragile for me, too.
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For me was The Divison Bell from Pink Floyd, after in the same day i listened to DSOTM, in the first listen sounded very strange, but after some time it was getting better ;)
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Crime of the Century or Moving Pictures or Wish You Were Here...probablement.
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Uriah Heep Very 'eavy...Very 'umble & Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
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Probably Aqualung.
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The Beatles main albums 1967-1969
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The first one I heard was Tarkus at the tender age of eight; a buddy's dad owned it and we like the sci-fi cover.   The first one I bought, just a few years later, was Hemispheres because, again, I dug the cover.
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Heard: DSOTM (I listened to my uncle's vinyl copy when I was 10; I was all like WTF during "On The Run")

Bought: Genesis 'Live-The Way We Walk-The Shorts'LOL I don't think that counts. Let's see, these work better: Classic Yes or The Best Of ELP(don't remember which I got first, could have got them at the same time). Those are compilations of course but I think I got a CD copy of DSOTM as my first 'prog' album.
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I'm not quite sure. It was either Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, Yes's Fragile or Yessongs. Whichever it was, - I had all 3 of those albums, but can't say which one came first - it was the late 70s, and I was a pre-teen. I loved Yes, but they left me a bit cold. But Floyd. They seemed to have been made just for me. Everything I heard by them on the radio (Have a Cigar, On the Run, One of These Days, Breathe, Comfortably Numb, Shine On, Hey You) spoke directly to my soul.

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Damn, you guys had a better first experience than I did, haha. Either way, I'd say some of my other early prog records were Hemispheres, Tarkus, Queen II, and Deadwing. 

Edited by Necrotica - March 24 2016 at 01:05
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I think The Endless River. I just wanted to try some Pink Floyd - I guess about one year ago - and wanted to work my way backwards.
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My original vinyl collection was purchased in the 60s and 70s so I have no idea what my first "official" prog album was.
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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.
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Pink Floyd's WYWH for me.
And then DSOTM, Meddle, Animals...

And then Tangerine Dream's Ricochet

(Not mentionning proto-prog like The Beatles nor prog-related like Radiohead)


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