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Topic: first album
Posted By: yesfan88
Subject: first album
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 17:26
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What was the first progressive rock album you ever heard? Under what circumstances did you hear it? Did you like it immediately or did someone have to convince you to listen again?
My first was Leftoverture. I put it on the record player after nosing around in my dad's records in the attic. ------------- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"- Evelyn Beatrice Hall |
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 17:30
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Ben done 4383294832098409328409325924394823057 times... Anyway, my first was DSOTM which I now think is waaaaaaay overrated  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 17:33
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I think mine was the PF compilation Echoes. Probably not the best introduction but I liked what I heard. I'd prefer to get the full albums these days rather than compilations. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 17:45
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Echoes isn't a bad compilation though. Again, it would have had to have been Pink Floyd for me, as my brother used to play them a lot when he was living here. I also used to hear a lot of The Moody Blues when younger. My first prog purchase was The Moody Blues - Caught Live +5. -------------   
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Posted By: Ed_The_Dead
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 17:51
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Tool - Lateraus.. though I actually didn't know it :P
MY 1st r00 prog album was DTs Images and Words... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ed_the_dead/?chartstyle=asimpleblue5"> 
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Posted By: Hemispheres
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 17:52
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Yes - Close to the edge
or possibly King Crimson - Discipline
I was 8 and I only liked the first 4 minutes of close to the edge and the song elephant talk by king crimson,anyway that was the beggining.
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Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 17:55
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Probably Kansas Monolith.
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Posted By: gods of marble
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 18:24
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animals is my earliest recolection of anysort of music. period.
there was the brief period of weird al yankovic, then zep (who i absolutely hate), then rediscovering pink floyd, then onto yes/kc/rush/bowie/the who, where my music taste matured and now im into tmv, hella, crime in choir and what not.
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Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 18:31
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Hearing Not knowing: The Wall Knowing: Nursery Cryme First Purchased: Not Knowing: Gryphon: The Collection Knowing: Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: unforgivable74
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 18:35
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'Marillion - Misplaced Childhood' was my first taste of prog. I was about 12. I became a Pink Floyd / Genesis fanatic for the following 11 years until I rediscovered Marillion at the time of 'This Strange Engine' 1997ish. From that point to present day, Marillion are my number one although I now rate 'Clutching' above 'Misplaced' from the Fish era. ------------- Laughs as I clean my teeth, laughs as I rub at my eyes. |
Posted By: Arrrghus
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 18:37
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My first taste was Rush's Fly By Night and 2112. Rush was my first prog band obsession (before I had even heard of prog!) However, the Yes Album also comes close. ------------- 
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 18:38
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My first ones:
Supertramp - Very Best of Vol.1
Pink Floyd - Divison Bell
Jean-Michel Jarre - Zoolook
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Posted By: Rivertree
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 18:41
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I think, it was 'Close To The Edge' by YES. It was released 1972. It was one or two years later when I had the opportunity to hear this great album!!!
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Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 19:17
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Dream Theater - Metropolis pt.II: Scenes from a memory
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Posted By: Dirk
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 19:20
| Pink Floyd. I got the Wall and Wish you were here simultaneously when i was 17. Probably i listened to the Wall first because of the well known track. |
Posted By: MuzikLuva
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 19:20
| Pink Floyd Ummagumma in early 1970. I remember looking through all kinds of albums in the record department of Times Square Stores in Levittown, NY and seeing the cover. I looked at the back of the album and was blown away by the number of instruments that they had laid out. I bought it as I was so intrigued by what I saw. It took quite a few listens before I started to really enjoy it all. What sucked was that I had a mono turntable so I couldn't really enjoy or appreciate what was there. A year and a half later when I got my first real stereo and a set of decent headphones I listened to it again with a whole new appreciation. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 19:24
| Pink Floyd - The Final Cut. |
Posted By: moodyxadi
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 19:40
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In 1989 - Pink Floyd: Delicate Sound of Thunder. Then Yes - The Yes album (taken by chance!) and Rush - A Farwell to kings (this one I was presented by a neighbour, some kind of r'n'r teacher). ------------- Bach, Ma, Bros, Déia, Dante. |
Posted By: willy
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 20:03
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2112 It was back when i was getting into drumming, and I heard Neil Peart was pretty good, so I checked it out. ------------- 
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Posted By: mizzin
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 20:16
I'm born in 1987 and i listen to prog since 93/94.My first favourites were Wish You Were Here(5), Black Moon(3) and other ELP, The Division Bell(4), Fireball(1), and a QUEEN compilation(2). I listened to them on a bulgarian deck and reciever and the cassetes were pirat so....Those are good memories 
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Posted By: The Lost Chord
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 20:35
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le mooooody blues in search of the lost chord my friends!!
and, unlike many, this album STILL is my favorite ever...i was lucky to hear the best prog album as my first. let alone the fact that it is also the "true" first prog album ever -------------  "Only the sun knew why"
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 20:46
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2112 and Fragile, about the same time. The first prog song was "Heart of the Sunrise" - hook, line, and sinker.  |
Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 21:13
I think it was Frances the Mute by The Mars Volta. I didn't really know what prog was as a matter of fact, but I liked The Mars Volta songs I'd heard. Originally I thought Cassandra to be really drawn out, but now it's all good. On second thought, it could have been Hail To The Thief by Radiohead, but I think it's Frances.-------------  <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Posted By: billbuckner
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 21:21
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Not Knowing: The Wall Knowing: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (I'm a sucker for concept albums) |
Posted By: Zoso
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 21:41
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Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here, and Sgt. Pepper's and Abbey Road if you want to count them. The album that realy got me into Prog though was Fragile by Yes.
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Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 21:47
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The Miracle wrote:Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 21:47
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My first was A Farewell To Kings by Rush.What i loved about it was how a song like Xanadu could have so many changes in it.I used to describe it as songs within a song,that made sense to me back then anyway.I played that record over and over in my bedroom on a cheap little record player i bought used from a friend. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: The Green Tank
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 21:55
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My first was......
JEFF WAYNE'S WAR OF THE WORLDS!!!
Didn't realize it was prog at the time, but I loved it. It's still an awesome album. ------------- 
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Posted By: alias10mr
Date Posted: August 30 2006 at 21:58
At the age of six my father gave me Santana "Abraxas" when that album came out. I guess I was destined early on... 
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Posted By: willy
Date Posted: August 31 2006 at 00:03
As am I, they're by far my favorites. Prog and non prog. -------------
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Posted By: mukster
Date Posted: August 31 2006 at 01:24
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I heard Kansas Leftoverture soon after it came out. Followed by Point of Know Return. Then someone lent me DSOTM and I listened to it with headphones on. That screaming at the beginning almost gave me a jammer! Four Focus albums after that, thanks to my high school math teacher.
Only really started getting back into prog after discovering this site, didn't realize there was so much out there. ------------- "Johnny calls the chemist, but the chemist doesn't come" |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 31 2006 at 02:24
| ELP -Pictures At An Exhibition.Absolutely hated it when I was 13.Almost put me off them for good until I got Tarkus. |
Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: August 31 2006 at 02:28
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If the first real prog I ever heard (and bought) was Bungle in the Jungle off the Warchild album, then it only stands to reason that my virgin album waaaaas... A Focus compilation. Hocus Focus? I dunno. Lotsa greens and reds on the cover. I heard it, liked it, forgot about it...heard Tull, heard Focus again, was hooked on the whole folk-rock, prog-rock, ba-roque. It was cool. ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: bundy
Date Posted: August 31 2006 at 02:36
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Either Pink Floyd's The Wall or Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene. A couple of mates played them to me in my final year of highschool (1980). Completely changed my outlook on music - Iv'e been addicted to prog ever since. ------------- They who know do not speak! They who talk do not know! |
Posted By: OpethGuitarist
Date Posted: August 31 2006 at 02:39
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Dark Side of the Moon, which I would assume would be most peoples start
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Posted By: Fassbinder
Date Posted: August 31 2006 at 02:45
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In my childhood I had listened to The Best of Niemen by Czeslaw Niemen. This is a compilation album, and it's not Prog, although it is listed in this site since Niemen is considered (rightly) Prog and all his albums are here. By that times I had no notions about Prog. The album appeared in my house by chance, and I liked it from the second or third listening.
Then, after some yars, still without knowing the term Prog but already dividing music into "worth listening" and "not worth listening", I used to listen to The Wall by Pink Floyd and The House of Blue Light by Deep Purple. My friend had them, I visited him and listened to them with him, while not understanding them too much. He didn't convince me (thanks for him, he was right!), and after about ten listenings there was kind of a "click"...
After that I turned to Prog.
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: August 31 2006 at 02:54
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Posted By: pero
Date Posted: August 31 2006 at 03:48
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In a high school when I was 16 my friend introduce me to prog (the term prog was not in use 1974) with LP's : "Close to the edge", "In a court..", "Lark tongues in aspic", "Lizard", "Hendrix-Electric ladyland" and "Thick as a brick".
It was pretty nice experience because I listened to Black Sabbath, Zeppelin and Deep Purple at the time.
The other my friend from gym was listening ELP and Gentle giant.
Pretty nice introduction to prog isn't it?
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Posted By: Tommiokoman
Date Posted: August 31 2006 at 03:49
That would be Lateralus by TOOL. First, I downloaded it  I was so overwhelmed by it, that I bought it, and dug deeper and deeper in progressive music. ------------- Nothing to see here, move along. |
Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: August 31 2006 at 14:35
Same here - Lateralus.I've got it,'coz Maynard's voice seemed to be like Kurt Cobain's one for me - I bloody loved NIRVANA .Then all these long psychedelic songs,mad signtures and rhythm changes made me looking for the related music...
But I didn't consider it to be prog even when I was deep into GENESIS,PINK FLOYD,MARILLION etc...Anyway I adore it still and it IS one of the best Modern Prog albums EVER 
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Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: August 31 2006 at 14:44
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My first was Moving Waves by Focus. Hocus Pocus was a hit single on AM radio here in M ontreal in 1972 and that is what got me into this prog rock trip. ------------- |
Posted By: progadicto
Date Posted: August 31 2006 at 14:49
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YES - CLOSE TO THE EDGE and I love it immediatly... I was 13 y/o and it was such an experience... and I have to thank my friends Joso and Mauro for giving me that amazing gift... ------------- ... E N E L B U N K E R... |
Posted By: Melomaniac
Date Posted: August 31 2006 at 14:55
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My parents were a lot into Pink Floyd, and at age five (in 1979) I remember listening repeatedly to Wish You Were Here and Animals. ------------- "One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: August 31 2006 at 14:57
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My First prog album was "Made In Japan" by Deep Purple when i was 11 years old. My Very first album was "Hybrid Theory" by Linkin Park  i guess i was about 9-10 years old |
Posted By: Dee Dee Ramone
Date Posted: August 31 2006 at 15:39
| Mine was "Tarkus" in 1972, quickly folllowed by "Pictures at An Exhibition", "Emerson, Lake & Palmer" and "Trilogy". I guess the Pink Fairies "What A Bunch Of Sweeties", purchased at the same time, doesn't count as prog, does it? |
Posted By: Forgotten Son
Date Posted: August 31 2006 at 15:44
Exactly the same for me, though I had previousy heard many Prog albums that at the time I didn't realise were Prog such as Tubular Bells II, Images and Words and The Wall. |
Posted By: Minimalist777
Date Posted: August 31 2006 at 16:08
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Heh, One day at band practice (we were a bunch of kids who thought we were metal because we listened to Korn, Slipknot and newer Metallica, haha) the drummer wanted to show us a cd called Images and Words from a "new" band his teacher told him about called Dream Theater, that was the start of it all.... ------------- WWOSD? What Would OliverStoned Do? |
Posted By: ldlanberg
Date Posted: September 03 2006 at 01:30
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Deep Purple The Book of Taliesyn. (Yes, it was this gem that led me into Yes, Genesis and then King Crimson).
- A friend of my older brother left this original Tetragrammaton album our home. - One day I put it on the turntable.
- Those were the most adventurous sounds I had heard.
- After playing it a bit too much, I finally went exploring for other bands with
similarly expansive music.
- Some time later, I wind up posting stuff on Prog Archives. ------------- LDL |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: September 03 2006 at 04:33
The first Prog album I heard was Caress of Steel by Rush. I was blown away by The Fountain of Lamneth. I noticed its lenght, and was like "Omg. The song is 19 f***ing minutes long." Then I heard it, and I new that I wanted more of it fast! So I got 2112, A Farewell to Kings and Hemispheres (and eventually every other Rush album) and absolutetly loved them. Then I checked out Genesis, and I was stuck for good.  |
Posted By: Kithulhu
Date Posted: September 03 2006 at 18:50
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Rush - 2112. I fell in love with it the first time I heard it. |
Posted By: Moekk
Date Posted: September 03 2006 at 19:36
| first 70s psychadelic rock record- Dark Side of the moon, then DT etc... |
Posted By: Junges
Date Posted: September 03 2006 at 19:43
| Hmmm.. I don't remember exactly which album was the first that I listenned, but I can say that Dream Theater was my first introduction to prog. By them, I got into Yes, King Crimson, Rush, Pink Floyd, and all the world of prog. :) |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 03 2006 at 20:23
| No idea, but my first prog purchases (when I was about ten) were Yes' Fragile and Rush's Hemispheres. Both albums blew me away on first listen. |
Posted By: MadcapLaughs84
Date Posted: September 05 2006 at 02:03
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It was Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, I was sitting with my uncle and listen to it. Love at first listen, definitely love it. If you don't consider that album prog, the second was DSOTM, and it was a little harder to listen than the SPLHCB. ------------- 
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Posted By: zbida
Date Posted: September 05 2006 at 02:49
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MARILLION - FUGAZI (the whole)
GENESIS - THREE SIDES LIVE (excerpts)
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Posted By: gong
Date Posted: September 05 2006 at 06:04
Genesis "Trespass", i'v been 13. long time ago.
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Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: September 05 2006 at 08:11
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the first albums I've heard come from my father's vinyls collection (when I was less than 10): Alan Parson's "tales of mistery and imagination" (side B with the orchestral part and the floating melancholic guitar / synth duet during "the fall of the house of Usher" remain one of my best musical listenings) / Yes "Relayer" / Kansas "Point of know return" / Pink Floyd "Dark side of the moon".
The first albums purchased:
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Kraftwerk - Transe Europe Express
Mike Odfield - Tubular Bells
Hawkwind - Spirit of the age
Popol Vuh - Aguirre
Van Der Graff Generator - An introduction
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