Our first fifteen favorite Prog Archives-albums
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Topic: Our first fifteen favorite Prog Archives-albums
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Subject: Our first fifteen favorite Prog Archives-albums
Date Posted: September 05 2024 at 10:39
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Instead of writing "our first favorite Prog Rock-albums", include early discoveries, that you never associated with Prog, later located in some sub-genre here along with the usual suspects. So if more or less relevant albums by Iron Maiden, Deep Purple, Tangerine Dream, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Radiohead, Tool, ELO, David Bowie, Talking Heads, Queen, electric Miles... etc were among the favorites of your younger self - include them as well as the usual suspects. Spanning from early childhood to late teens (in chronological order) My list would be something like. Edit: I needed a top sixteen too as Lewian's The Dreaming-pick remided med that Kate Bush was missing from my list: ELO - Time (found in my parents collection) Pink Floyd - The Wall (found in my parents collection) Metallica - Master of Puppets (All my friends were into them really. Love all 83-88) Death - Leprosy (The most extreme music I had encountered up to that point. A natural part of being a young metalhead:) Led Zeppelin - I-IV (got them all at once for Christmas) Jethro Tull - Stand Up (more followed soon) Genesis - Nursery Cryme (My first actual full blown Prog Rock album. A female friend was a fan after being introduced to them from her big brother. The rest 70-76 followed whenever I could affort it) King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (the rest 69-74 followed whenever I could affort it) Swans - Children of God (Borrowed from an older friend first. White Light etc... followed) The Residents - Duck Stab/Buster and Glen (Also borrowed from the same friend along with Meet the Residents - started to obsessively collecting them) Dead Can Dance - (St) (A girlfriend were into them. Love everything they ever released) David Bowie - Hunky Dory (The album was played at some party. Got him complete 69-83 + Blackstar by now) Kate Bush - Hounds of Love (I already knew I liked her through radio and videos. Plus that same girlfriend was a fan. When I went to the counter to pay for it, I got it for free:) Love and own most of her discog) Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure (Actually bought because of the cover. I only knew More Than This/India beforehand, which my parents ownes on #7. Soon bought everything) The Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord. (Randomly borrowed it from the library:) Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine (I knew a couple of songs from television. Now own everything 1970-1986) -I think all of these have shaped me in one way or another. I never stopped loving - or listening to any of them. Well, I rarely really listen to The Wall and ISotLC in full anymore, but I know them by heart. What are yours?
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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: September 05 2024 at 11:18
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I'm not quite sure what qualifies as I had no idea what prog is when I started to discover stuff, so obviously there was no way to associate that stuff with prog at the time. Some of the very first (I list one per artist, usually the first contact or the first I really got into): Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Watch Pink Floyd - "Two Originals" (that was a double album with Piper and Saucerful of Secrets) From my father's collection: Jethro Tull - Aqualung Novalis - s/t ELP - Welcome Back My Friends to the Show that Never Ends But then I figured out pretty soon that there is such a thing as "prog", but did I know that these were included? Honestly I don't know anymore. (I did know that KC, Yes, Genesis, VDGG, Camel and many others were part of it before I had any of their stuff.) Or rather, the connection between these and "prog" wasn't really clear to me. Can - Soon Over Babaluma Holger Czukay - Movies Amon Düül II - Tanz der Lemminge Tangerine Dream - Rubycon Kraftwerk - Mensch-Maschine Some special cases: Peter Hammill - Patience (I knew VDGG was prog but the first PH solo things I found out about didn't sound all too prog, and were respected by the music press as opposed to most of prog at the time) Cardiacs - Live (it was clear to me that this was proggy but somehow they belonged to a different "culture" at the time) Some discoveries I didn't think were prog at the time, and was later surprised to see in PA: Kate Bush - Never For Ever Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring (my first contact was much before that, but the first two albums aren't prog for sure; the third one is probably controversial) Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die Japan - Tin Drum David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees Camberwell Now - The Ghost Trade This Heat - s/t Dead Can Dance - Spleen and Ideal Radiohead - Kid A Kante - Zweilicht (in fact I was on PA before them, even though I knew them before I came to PA) Not sure whether that's really the "first twenty" or so but for the moment I leave it at that (already edited...). Like Saperlipopette, I still love all of these albums.
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: September 05 2024 at 11:37
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I'll count Stand Up as my first album, though it was my dad who bought it back then: I just played it transparent  +/- in order of acquisition and they were my first albums - prog or not. Harmonium - debut + 5th Season Supertramp - Crime Of The Century Pink Floyd - DSOTM + WYWH Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick + Aqualung Traffic - Low Spark of High Heeled Boys Santana - Abraxas Tangerine Dream - Ricochet Caravan - G&P Genesis - SEbtP & (later) Trick OTT K. Crimson - ITCOTCK Yes - CTTE & TYA Others In Rock, Paranoid, Zoso, Who's Next, A Space In Time, Moontan, etc... . ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: September 05 2024 at 11:42
Anyway, great list/selection. |
Lewian wrote:Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 05 2024 at 11:43
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From my childhood until a teen... Alan Parsons Project - I Robot (brother bought it) Gary Numan - Replicas (brother bought it, and I associate it with Prog) Camel - The Snow Goose (seemed like everyone's older brother had this album) David Bowie - Changes One (brother bought this compilation albums) Pink Floyd - The Wall (brother bought this one release and immediately played for me) Pink Floyd - Works (compilation album that I bought for my other brother) Pink Floyd - various Pink FLoyd albums like Wish You Were Here, Atom Heart Mother.... Gryphon - Midnight Mushrumps (brother's collection again, and later for me, my English teacher kept it in class) Focus - Hamburger Concerto (my neighbour's older brother, love at first listen, and, later for me, my English teacher kept it in class) the Who - Quadrophenia and Tommy (friend's house had it) Kraftwerk - The Man Machine (while I was in hospital for a burst appendix, someone gave me this on cassette) Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (same person gave me this on cassette to listen to while in hospital, and Echo and the Bunnymen) Yes - Fragile (A friend played this to me) Rush - Hemispheres (same friend played this to me) Kate Bush - The Whole Story (I first got into her due to here music videos, but then later I was exposed to this compilation album) Oh and I could include most of Led Zeppelin due to a friend as a teenager. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: September 05 2024 at 12:06
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OK, as a teenager, one fave album per group, all on PA? They are merely going to be in alphabetical order, but I think I can make a reasonable stab at it... APP: Turn Of A Friendly Card BJH: Everyone is Everybody Else (Still is) Black Sabbath: Sabotage Deep Purple: In Rock ELO: ELO II Genesis: Foxtrot Hawkwind: Hall Mountain Grill JMJ: Oxygene Kansas: Leftoverture Led Zep: Physical Graffiti Marillion: Script Rush: Permanent Waves Sky: Sky 1 Tangerine Dream: Ricochet Yes: GfTO (it isn't now, of course) there was other PA stuff knocking around at the time, such as Moodies, Andreas Vollenweider, Pallas & Styx to name a few, but none would have got into the top 15. I know this will shock and sadden you all, but I really didn't get my teeth into Floyd, Camel, Oldfield, Eloy & Tull until my early 20's (Having no older brothers, uncles or friends who liked Prog)... expel me from PA if you wish  ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: September 05 2024 at 12:08
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Tangerine Dream – Exit (I went through the entire bin and this LP stood out) Jean-Michel Jarre – Rendez-Vous Jethro Tull – The Broadsword and the Beast Goblin – Dawn of the Dead Simonetti - Pignatelli - Morante – Tenebre Kraftwerk – The Man-Machine Yes – 90125 Rush – Grace Under Pressure Synergy – The Metropolitan Suite Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Brain Salad Surgery Vangelis – Direct King Crimson – Red Santana – Marathon Emerson, Lake & Powell – S/T Genesis – ...And Then There Were Three ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: September 05 2024 at 12:14
Wasn't that just a great experience as a teen? When money was (always) tight, you scrabbled thru the bargain bin in the corner clutching at straws for inspiration, taking a punt and finding a real gem like that for 3 or 4 £? Those were the days, my friend...  ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: September 05 2024 at 12:20
Doesn't
matter who bought it imo. Parents, siblings or a friend records that
you got into is fair game. I bought my own copy though. After someone
had brought a Living in the Past-cassette along on a school trip
(side one and two was played on the bus). I wanted to buy that one
really, but the record store didn't have it. I went for Stand Up after about 30 seconds of A New Day Yesterday in the listening booth. It was the perfect introductory album.
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: September 05 2024 at 12:30
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Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: September 05 2024 at 15:48
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A chronological list is impossible for me because during the mid-to-late '70s, I was being exposed to music quite frequently and therefore do not recall which albums I got when or in what order. Also, I won't include Prog Related or Proto-Prog. Anyway, the following list is as close to chronological as I can recall: Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon Tangerine Dream - Rubycon Supertramp - Crime of the Century Split Enz - Mental Notes Hawkwind - Space Ritual Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery Emerson Lake & Palmer - Works Jeff Beck - Blow by Blow Jeff Beck - Wired Split Enz - Dizrythmia Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd - A Nice Pair (a double album of "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" and "A Saucerful of Secrets") Pink Floyd - Meddle Pink Floyd - Obscured by Clouds Pink Floyd - More Pink Floyd - Relics Pink Floyd - Animals Yes - Close to the Edge Yes - Fragile Faust - Faust IV Emerson Lake & Palmer - Emerson Lake & Palmer King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King Genesis - Nursery Cryme Genesis - Wind & Wuthering Rare Bird - As Your Mind Flies By Van der Graaf Generator - World Record ... ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: September 05 2024 at 17:05
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Ok, I'll try to play along as best as I can. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (I was big into the fab four as a kid) " " - The White Album Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffitti Yes - Fragile " - Relayer King Crimson - Larks tongues in Aspic " " - In the Court of the Crimson King Rush - Signals (the first I bought by them so still kind of a sentimental thing) " - Hemispheres ELP - Same Gentle Giant - Octopus (probably my favorite GG) Kansas - Leftoverture (I think this was the first or one of the first Kansas albums I heard) Camel - The Snow Goose Marillion - Misplaced Childhood Marillion - Clutching At Straws That's 15 so I'll quit while I'm ahead. ;) PS I regret leaving out Genesis (definitely a careless omission). Selling England by the Pound should be in there so I'll just say it's number 16 although it should probably be sandwiched in between Yes and King Crimson.
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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: September 05 2024 at 21:03
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How bout a list of albums that I always thought were proggy that I'm still surprised were/are not included in PA's database: Joni Mitchell Don Juan's Reckless Daughter XTC Stereolab (only added this year) Jane Siberry Bruce Cockburn Nina Hagen King Sunny Adé Michael Hedges Strawberry Alarm Clock Tears For Fears Depeche Mode The Cure West Indian Girl Knower Dif Juz ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: September 05 2024 at 22:27
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^That's an interesting list as well so why not:). I've never personally
thougth of Depeche Mode in the context of Progressive Rock. In regards to the others ones I
know of from your list, I guess at some point while listening "hey, this is actually kind of proggy" has at least crossed my mind. Nothing
strikes me as equally obvious as Stereolab did. I would surely get
behind a Strawberry Alarm Clock though. Dif Juz are probably obscure
enough to never have been suggested by anyone.
Btw: My own list was relatively accurate, but also just as close to chronological as I can recall.
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: September 05 2024 at 22:34
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: September 05 2024 at 22:47
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I had all these either on cassette or vinyl and to the best of my recollection were my 'primers'. Wings - Band On The Run The Who - By Numbers ELP - Pictures at an Exhibition (quickly followed by ELP, Tarkus, Trilogy, Brain Salad Surgery)Yes - Tormato
Keith Emerson - Inferno King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King Rush - Exit Stage Left Yes - Going For The One ELP - Welcome Back My Friends The Nice - Five Bridges Suite Aphrodite's Child - 666 Vangelis - Beauborg Tangerine Dream - Dream Sequence (compilation of the Virgin Years) Genesis - Lamb Lies Down On Broadway Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: September 05 2024 at 23:05
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^Seems to me you knew what you were looking for (unlike me:). |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: September 05 2024 at 23:12
| ^ Yep, I didn't really bother with hard rock, metal or general pop music at all. ELP, Yes and Genesis were the beacons of light that shone bright although Pink Floyd - The Wall was massively important to me when it came out (not such a big fan now) |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: September 06 2024 at 00:37
You mean you learnt to appreciate the musical architecture of this album whilst still a teen? Now, that's what I call precocious!! ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: September 06 2024 at 03:06
I didn't have an older brother/cousin to guide me either, but there was the perfect record shop next to my school with the most excellent owner, always listening to my returns on what I bought before and guided me to other albums and always hit the spot (very few misses). The dude looked a lot like Roger Earle of Savoy Brown (later Foghat) and owned the Records On Wheels in Mississauga. Impossible to miss Harmonium's debut in the spring of 74 while still in Montreal, but by the fall I was in the greater Toronto area, and when I saw Crime of the Century in the ROW shop window, I knew I had to listen to that, so next day, I had enough money to take it home. When I came back astounded by what I'd heard, I asked him for more of the same, and out I came with DSOTM and the next time was ITCKOFCK. Of course TAAB and Aqualung were right up there, as well. I did have an early near-miss with SEBTP at first, because I thought it was too weird-sounding (production-wise) but it clicked later, once I got ATOTT. . ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: September 06 2024 at 04:56
Thanks for this Hugues; I'm always interested to read of the formative experiences of others. There appear to be a number of differences in our upbringings, which contributed to my backward development when it came to music, which I shall outline... 1) I didn't start buying any of my own music until 1983, by which time 'Prog' of any kind had an incredibly low profile. All the other kids at school were ironically more into the sort of stuff Greg lists in his polls than anything remotely prog. 2) I grew up in the middle of nowhere, on the edge of a village with a long (and expensive) bus ride to the nearest town, where there were only a couple of record shops. 3) I was one of four kids who didn't get much pocket money at all and was certainly not encouraged to spend it on music. My parents were quite erm 'Victorian' and vetted anything like this which came into the house... I was 16 by the time I got a modest allowance and the vetting relaxed a little. 4) The only exposure I got to any prog in early 80's Britain, would have been Tommy Vance's Friday Rock show, but you had to wade thru a tonne of hair metal before you heard anything more interesting. There were no mags I knew of and certainly nothing on the 3 channels of our TV screens at the time. 5) My father really disliked music as an art-form. I grew up in a house where the 'spoken word was king' and Radio 4 was on every morning and most weekends... Reading this back now, it's flipping amazing I ever got to hear anything worthwhile at all! ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: September 06 2024 at 05:28
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There wasn't much music played in our house; my father (secretly) enjoyed Jazz and big band music so i did hear some of that when i was younger; also some trad folk, church music and classical filtered through.. I remember being obsessed with Holst's The Planets when i was about 10! My older brother brought home tapes of Mike Oldfield, Rick Wakeman, Camel, Focus etc and these really caught my attention.. again, i got fixated on Tubular bells and broke his tape by playing it so much! At School i had a passing interest in Heavy Metal but it soon filtered out to more sophisticated bands such as Rush, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Magnum (loved Marauder live + the 2x 7'' eps.. why they didnt just make it a double lp, i dont know..) and then into NWOBPR. I also really started to explore American West coast 60s & 70's, German and Italian bands as well as the more underground British progressive. Then i had a spell where music didnt feature so highly in my life until about 1993 when i started to re-discover and explore again. So my list of most important 15 lps from my early years is: Mike Oldfield- Tubular Bells (and Hergest Ridge, which i connect to more (emotionally) than TB Rick Wakeman- Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the round table Camel- Mirage Focus- Focus (budget Polydor compilation album) Barclay James Harvest- Time Honoured Ghosts Stackridge- Friendliness Hawkwind- Hawkwind (first lp i bought with my own pocket money..99p) Genesis- Seconds Out Genesis- Trick of the tail Jeff Wayne's War of the World Rush- Farewell to Kings Caravan- land of grey and pink Roy Harper- Bullinamingvase (one of those days in England) Sensational Alex Harvey band- Live Barclay James Harvest- Live Tapes (worked part of my summer school holiday potato picking to save up to buy this!) The first 6/7 were tapes my brother brought home and the rest were (some) of the first lps i saved up to buy myself. ------------- |
Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: September 06 2024 at 05:40
That sounds very similar to my experience; when i was much younger my mother was very religious and things were a bit, er, stiff (ie my Dad's 'secret' jazz and big band) but that (thankfully) passed and things became a lot more relaxed and open as i grew up so i was allowed to be a bit wilder than my older siblings. But we grew up on a farm in the middle of nowhere.. and had no money. And i listened to Tommy Vance too and Alan Freeman's saturday afternoon show before that. Most of my contemporaries were Punks and metal heads which was ok but there were a couple of 'old hippy couples' i knew who lent me some very interesting records.. and things went from there  ------------- |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: September 06 2024 at 06:08
Very much so.... I skirted around this in my above description, but control thru religious zeal was very much a factor for me too, and once again, my Mother was the driving force... and I was the oldest, with three younger sisters. ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: September 06 2024 at 06:34
Yikes....  Glad I'm of an atheist/agnostic background  , though my grandparents were all 4 practicing Scatholic Yessss, my dad was a jazz fan (mostly swing) and a classical fan (lots of records at home), and my mom was more into music hall type of stuff (Piaf, Montand, Dietrich, Brel, etc...), so yeah, there was a lot of music home, including jazz greats spending the night at home (Memphis Slim et al... , but that stopped when my dad saw them fixing junk), because my dad helped organize concerts in clubs but that was before we left for Canada (I was 7, and don't have much concert souvenir - probably didn't attend many). To avoid the allowance pocket money spending issues with parents; me & my two younger brothers delivered newspaper after school, which was comfortable income for kids our age. It doesn't mean that we didn't get anything from our parents (we did get "normal" amounts - whatever that meant), but it doesn't mean they were that relaxed on discipline . . ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 06 2024 at 07:36
My first 15 prog albums In chronological order, but not necessarily in order of purchase.   1967: The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kH3L9CRYvGAW2D1bj_2vx0JYvSpe74Wvw" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kH3L9CRYvGAW2D1bj_2vx0JYvSpe74Wvw 1972: Renaissance - Prologue https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4D831F451F324FD8" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4D831F451F324FD8 1973: Renaissance - Ashes Are Burning - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kLlzvwRGj185pGq9yYhveAzan1m0qWHbQ" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kLlzvwRGj185pGq9yYhveAzan1m0qWHbQ 1973: Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv_4sZCLlr0" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv_4sZCLlr0 1974: Renaissance - Turn of the Cards - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lbUiF3mgChPZsCVm33AO0_o3Rpc1qH6fs" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lbUiF3mgChPZsCVm33AO0_o3Rpc1qH6fs  1974: Rick Wakeman - Journey to the Centre of the Earth - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HVDIPmbCnE" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HVDIPmbCnE 1974: Tangerine Dream - Rubycon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd6XL_IOS3I" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd6XL_IOS3I 1975: Hayward & Lodge - Blue Jays - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l1Hr46rQ8oA1IGGodOHI0AFZxJefwJ-eA" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l1Hr46rQ8oA1IGGodOHI0AFZxJefwJ-eA 1975: Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlNi-zZF6wI" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlNi-zZF6wI 1975: Tangerine Dream - Ricochet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM1Wc6ha_ic" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM1Wc6ha_ic 1975: Camel - The Snow Goose - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o51kWja3Rrw" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o51kWja3Rrw 1976: Camel - Moonmadness - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYIBtjTeIFM" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYIBtjTeIFM 1976: Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3hueHdzYSI" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3hueHdzYSI 1977: Rick Wakeman - White Rock - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kkYuJUyku6MfvESHSFRTuinx36mpqchCU" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kkYuJUyku6MfvESHSFRTuinx36mpqchCU 1977: Barclay James Harvest - Gone to Earth - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lVED_Dbce_ZX9KdJ_t-r0Ck_3EYCSpQvg" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lVED_Dbce_ZX9KdJ_t-r0Ck_3EYCSpQvg No prog albums by Caravan, Dead Can Dance, ELP, The Enid, Genesis, Hawkwind, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Nektar, Pink Floyd, Procol Harum, Spooky Tooth, the Strawbs, Traffic or Wishbone Ash until after 2010.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: September 06 2024 at 07:51
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I surely like this idea of a thread (not quite new as far as I remember), but if I have to feel good about my list, I need to include some non-PA albums and to tell what I don't consider to be Prog (Progressive Rock). Otherwise, my list consists of albums I got in early to mid-'70s, being a teenager, and there's some chronological order in it.
Shortly after, I got really much into progressive music. Black Sabbath (UK) - Vol. 4 (not Prog) Deep Purple (UK) - Fireball (not Prog) Emerson, Lake & Palmer (UK) - Trilogy Moody Blues (UK) - Seventh Sojourn (not really Prog) Procol Harum (UK) - In Concert with the Edmonton Orchestra (not really Prog) Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles (USA) - Live! (not on PA) Ten Years After (UK) - Rock & Roll Music to the World (not on PA) T. Rex (UK) - Slider (not on PA) Alice Cooper (US) - Billion Dollar Babies (not on PA) Led Zeppelin (UK) - Houses of the Holy (not Prog) Osibisa (Africa) - s/t (not Prog but progressive) Ekseption (NL) - Trinity Golden Earring (NL) - Moontan (not Prog) Savage Rose (DK) - Dødens Triumf (not really Prog) Rick Wakeman (UK) - The Six Wives of Henry VIII ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: September 06 2024 at 10:19
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^ It's a kind of my proto-Prog or proto-progressive period, and I'd still say, that was some good listening. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: September 06 2024 at 12:08
It spake to me. I don't recall what I paid, but it was still a "full-price" record at the time. having only been out a few years. Maybe it was a tenner. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: September 06 2024 at 12:27
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Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: September 06 2024 at 17:18
| One point for The slider :-) |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: September 06 2024 at 17:19
same 
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: September 07 2024 at 03:30
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 07 2024 at 03:43
I can't remember the first prog album I ever bought out of my own money, but I do remember the first prog album I ever received as a present, and that was Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells at Christmas 1973, when I recall the full price of an album at the time was £2.39 from W.H. Smiths. Obviously, when I grew a little older and wiser, I realised W.H. Smiths' stationers wasn't the best place to look for the latest albums. 
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: September 07 2024 at 06:31
Yes, thanks for this correction, as I took the title from an old list, I made of the first records I got, and I wasn't so thorough with this title. Thus: T. Rex - The Slider ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: September 08 2024 at 10:22
-I don't mean to complain. My parents had decent to normal tastes. The best of what they got according to me was: The Kinks, Beatles, The Troggs(!), a beautiful Bacharach/David-collection, Jimi Hendrix Smash Hits, Golden Hour of Donovan, ELO - Time, loads of ABBA, two Pink Floyd-albums, a bit of Queen, 1980's U2, 1970's Chris DeBurgh, a couple of Bruce Springsteen's (not a fan, but he's got some gems), Tom Waits, Nazareth... and about a dozen "basic" classical records (but very important to me)... could be much worse.
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Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: September 08 2024 at 12:33
I neither had any older siblings or cousins for guidance, plus my parents had no interest in music whatsoever. Their whole lives they never owned any equipment capable of playing music other than a radio, and then they mostly listened to spoken word broadcasts. For me the big discovery started at Xmas 1970 when I received my own radio as a gift, and could finally listen to what I wanted in my own room... tho then we were in the pre-local stations era so music was pretty much limited to BBC Radio One, Radio Luxembourg, and the odd pirate station (when you could pick them up) such as RNI (Radio Nordsee international), Radio Caroline, or Radio Seagull. It was at my school mates' places that I first listened to albums by the likes Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, ELP, or Santana. ------------- 'We're going to need a bigger swear jar.' |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: September 08 2024 at 12:59
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Kind of hard to think back to what I was listening to back then and how they relate to prog but here's my best guess, no idea on sequence:- Supertramp - Crime Of The Century Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells Jeff Wayne - War Of The Worlds ELO - Out Of The Blue Black Sabbath - Paranoid Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon Deep Purple - In Rock Andre Lloyd Webber - Variations Iron Maiden - Number Of The Beast Genesis - Trespass Rainbow - Rising Led Zeppelin - IV The Stranglers - No More Heroes Tubeway Army - Tubeway Army ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: September 08 2024 at 16:20
they weren't that cool (discipline was a rule) Outside Stand Up and Hair's Broadway OST, they never had anything close to rock records at home and never really listened to it, though my daéd did keep an eye on what I was listening to. They never had a hi-fi chain (which I bought my first in 76 aged 13), as my dad only owned two 3in1 stereo elements, with a t/t on top of the unit. Conflicts arose, because I was "monopolizing" his Phillips installation and therefore the living room (or "The Den"), so I quickly came to the conclusion that my future Yamaha hi-fi would find room in my bedroom. . ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: September 10 2024 at 10:36
I'm not sure I actually liked it that much, but the artwork was fascinating!
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: September 10 2024 at 14:40
This T. Rex album was maybe the only much Pop-influenced one I liked as a teenager. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: September 11 2024 at 04:32
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The fort 15 prog albums I listened to? These, I think: War Of The Worlds - definitely heard this in 1978 - scared the crap out of me (I was 7!) Some years later, a I got into rock and metal: The Wall Invisible Touch! Nomzamo Out Of The Silent Planet Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son …And Justice For All Seasons End ABWH Can’t Look Away Gretchen Goes To Nebraska Are You Sitting Comfortably? The Real Thing A Momentary Lapse Of Reason Once Around The World Something like that anyway!!! ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: September 11 2024 at 09:54
| ^Well it says first fifteen favorite so that's what I'm most curious about. As in the ones that really stuck with you at an early stage, or "formative prog years". But there's nothing wrong with your approach. I just think it's been done many times before. |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: September 11 2024 at 13:02
Hmm, I see what you’re saying. I’ve picked out 15 albums that I only now regard as prog, I certainly didn’t back then as I didn’t even know what it was! But apart from Invisible Touch, which is OK, I still really like the rest of these….so take out IT and put in When Dream And Day Unite, and there’s 15 albums that I still love and that have been hugely influential in my subsequent love of prog, which only truly kicked in about 23 years ago when I got Genesis’ Platinum Collection and heard their early stuff…. ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: September 12 2024 at 09:27
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My introduction to prog rock was from my Dad, who had an eclectic range of music he liked. He grew up with 1950s American rock, but also liked big band music and some prog rock from the 1970s (though at the time, at least in our circles, never knew it as prog rock. My first favorites were albums my Dad regularly played in the late 1970s. These included: 1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon 2. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here 3. Electric Light Orchestra - A New World Record 4. Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue 5. Electric Light Orchestra - Olé ELO 6. The Moody Blues - This Is the Moody Blues As we progressed into the early 1980s, my curiosity led to dig deeper into my Dad's collection for albums I can't recall him ever playing for us. These included: 7. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti 8. Electric Light Orchestra - On the Third Day 9. Pink Floyd - Animals 10. The Beatles - 1967-1970 (the blue album) This one is not on PA, but has tracks from several prog bands, including my first listen to Yes (Starship Trooper) Various - Heavy Metal - 24 Electrifying Performances - see: https://www.discogs.com/master/550941-Various-Heavy-Metal-24-Electrifying-Performances" rel="nofollow - https://www.discogs.com/master/550941-Various-Heavy-Metal-24-Electrifying-Performances My Mom at this time listened to the same ELO albums, but also listened to Disco compilations and the Carpenters. I still like the Carpenters to this day. Around 1983 I started my own record collection. The first records I added were through the the Columbia House mail order thing at the time. I believe the deal was 12 albums for a penny and then I had to buy 5 or 6 albums at full price within a year (anyone remember the exact details?). Columbia House was advertising this on TV at the time and I believe this marketing gimmick went into the 1990s. I believe I submitted my selections on a form I got out of a magazine. I don't actually recall all 12 of those albums, but some expanded my journey into prog: 11. Yes - 90125 12. Yes - Classic Yes 13. Genesis - Genesis (the shapes album) 14. Electric Light Orchestra - Time 15. Electric Light Orchestra - Secret Messages So, that takes me to my first 15. Additional albums came through listening to local Philadelphia radio stations WMMR and WYSP in the 1980s (like the Alan Parsons Project and Rush). The bands from the 15 above were also explored backwards to their debuts. By 1990 I had about 330 LPs. I took a break from buying during my college years, but returned to buying around 1995. At first this was replacing my LPs with CDs but I started discovering newer prog bands initially through the covers compilations that Magna Carta records produced and the online Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock which existed many years before Prog Archives. ------------- ---------- 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 |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: September 12 2024 at 17:47
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Yes- Fragile King Crimson- In The Court Of The Crimson King Jethro Tull- War Child Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here Al Di Demeola- Elegant Gypsy Emerson, Lake, and Palmer- Brain Salad Surgery ELO- Debut Rush- Hemispheres Gentile Giant- Octopus Jeff Beck- Wired Frank Zappa- Over-Nite Sensation Pink Floyd- Animals Kansas- Left Overture Santana- Festival Jethro Tull- Heavy Horses |