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EchidnasArf 
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Posted: September 01 2011 at 01:58 |
First "prog" album purchase: Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here, when I was 11. Do I still listen to it? Absolutely. First ever album purchase: Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff - Greatest Hits, when I was 6 .
Do I still listen to it?  I'll never tell.
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presdoug
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Posted: August 31 2011 at 16:35 |
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the first record i bought was a 45 of Blood, Sweat and Tears "Spinning Wheel" b-side "More and More"
the first album i owned was bought as a Christmas gift from my parents-Steppenwolf's "Monster"
the first album i bought with my own money i believe was Elvis Presley's "Flaming Star"
i never listen to any of these anymore
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: August 29 2011 at 21:41 |
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The very first album that I bought with my own money (newspaper route) was Alice Cooper's Killer in 1972. I love that album to this very day.
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...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
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MoodyRush
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Posted: August 29 2011 at 17:43 |
My first purchase I believe was Days of Future Passed by the Moody Blues. 
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Follow me down to the valley below.
Moonlight is bleeding from out of your soul.
-Lazarus
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catfood03
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Posted: August 29 2011 at 06:52 |
Little River Band... I really loved "Take It Easy On Me" and "Man On Your Mind" as a child and asked my parents to buy it for me 
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thehallway
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Posted: August 29 2011 at 05:56 |
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Lots of Fragiles....... it's a prog gateway, perhaps.
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richardh
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Posted: August 29 2011 at 03:01 |
 akamaisondufromage wrote:
My first single was 'Ballroom Blitz' Sweet I was about 8 or 9 and I bought it at Woolworths and I am not at all embarrassed because it was the start of a long relationship with music. And its a good single!
My first Album was 'Ride a White Swan' by T Rex and it was a bit of a surprise as I was expecting more T Rex Pop but got hippy dippy electro folk. It grew on me quite quickly.
My first tape was 24 Carat Purple. |
Ballroom Blitz was the first single I bought as well. My parents disapproved and wondered why I couldn't have bought something nice instead.The Sweet were a great band. I own about 3 or 4 cd's and they get played! My first cassette purchase (£2) was ELP - Pictures At An Exhibition. Absolutely hated it. Anyway for some reason I persevered with ELP and eventually became a long 'suffering' fan.
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frippism
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Posted: August 28 2011 at 23:36 |
hmm first purchase or first prog purchase?
Well the first album I guess I really bought was Beatle's 1 thingie when I was 7. If my memory serves me right it was bought in a gas station on the outskirts of Rome (I lived in Italy back then- good fun). Being a child of a progger (well sort of progger) dad when I started getting into prog I had my own CD shelf to look around in. Though I got into prog come to think about it when a friend of mine gave me "Fragile" on CD. But King Crimson, VDGG, GG, Genesis, ELP, Gong, it was all there. It was really great to find a CD of band I've just read about on the internetz or something and be able to talk to me dad about it and all. I think I've surpassed him in the prog field by far though! Even the stuff I listen to now is way too far out.
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There be dragons
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Wanorak
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Posted: August 28 2011 at 22:38 |
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My first two purchases were Heart's Dreamboat Annie and Paul McCartney and Wings Band on the Run. Both I still enjoy listening to now. The first prog albums I got were Supertramp's Crime of the Century and Yes' Fragile.
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A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!!
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cstack3
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Posted: August 28 2011 at 18:44 |
First LPs? I remember like yesterday:
a) "Led Zep 3" (I was enamored with "The Immigrant Song")
b) King Crimson's "In the Wake of Poseiden," what a gem!
c) CSNY "Deja Vu"
'twas a nice way to begin a career!
Edited by cstack3 - August 28 2011 at 18:45
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Earendil
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Posted: August 28 2011 at 18:37 |
The first one I went to the store with my mom and bought myself was a Christian pop album from a band called FFH.... 
And I grew up listening to Matchbox Twenty, Collective Soul, DMB, Creed, Nickelback, and Three Days grace. Then I got into bands like Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, and Metallica. Then my first prog album was Systematic Chaos. Glad I've come a long way. |
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Progmind
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Posted: August 28 2011 at 18:23 |
my first buy was "Songs form the big chair" by Tears For Fears
My first Prog Album was "2112" by Rush
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TheRingshifter
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Posted: August 28 2011 at 17:23 |
I think it was either Green Day - American Idiot or Bink 182 - Greatest Hits.
I wish I was joking...
The first album I bought which I still listen to is "Gorillaz - Demon Days". Definitely not prog but a really great and sometimes beautiful sort of alternative rock hip-hop album. I went through some years where I was prog-elitist and didn't listen to it, but one day I just decided to listen to it again and it's great! The first albums I bought that are on this site where, I think, Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos and The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath.
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thehallway
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Posted: August 28 2011 at 15:48 |
javier0889 wrote:
And my first CD was Zeppelin's fourth. I was 14, I believe.
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javier0889
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Posted: August 28 2011 at 13:13 |
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My very first tape was Beatles' Revolver, at the age of 10, I believe. That was given to me by my dad, a day after he rented "The Compleat Beatles" VHS which caught my attention in a very strange yet awesome way.
The first tape I have the memory of buying by myself was "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn", two years later. I loved the cover... yes I was a freak boy back then (and I'm still a freak! :D)
And my first CD was Zeppelin's fourth. I was 14, I believe.
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http://www.last.fm/user/javier0889
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friso
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Posted: August 28 2011 at 13:11 |
questionsneverknown wrote:
I'm not going to even pretend to be cool. Fairly certain that the first music I purchased would have been a 45 of "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" by Elton John and Kiki Dee. First album, if memory serves, was probably KISS Alive (the first one). History can be ugly. |
I still think Kiss Alive albums are very energetic, I can really enjoy Kiss alive II. Yes is said it
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40footwolf
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Posted: August 28 2011 at 13:08 |
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Queen's A Night at the Opera. I sort of played it out but it still holds a special place in my heart.
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Heaven's made a cesspool of us all.
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TODDLER
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Posted: August 28 2011 at 13:05 |
wjohnd wrote:
not sure if this is worth a thread, but i'm new around here so please forgive any lack of nettiquette.
i was browsing through the prog archives and came across Rod Argent - listed under crossover prog.
Way back in 1972, at the tender age of 9 i remember buying 'Hold your head up' my first ever single (7" black vinyl disc for all you youngsters), running home with it and playing it endlessly on the old travel turntable that my folks had.
I thought it was the best thing i'd ever heard and when two of my friends came round I insisted they listen to it.
naturally they thought i was nuts and that it was rubbish.
Naturally the style is not appealing to them. I remember being a kid, my brother-in-law drove me around to watch bands rehearse and Rod Argent's electric piano solo on "She's Not There" was required for keyboard players during auditions. If you could play it note for note....you were in. Argent's music based around singer/songwriting to a degree with Russ Ballard is what gave them popularity. But then....if you observe some of the lesser known tracks from In Deep, Nexus, and Ring of Hands you will hear a style which can only be defined progressive. Rod Argent's keyboard playing on Ring of Hands is completely diverse and outstanding. It's just dated sounding and people have difficulty with it. The band is simplistic a lot, but to play Rod's solos would be difficult.
Of course i am older and wiser now.
I don't impose my taste on my friends for a start, but anyway this is just a misty eyed ramble by way of saying i just realised i was buying prog related records before i even realised it.
What about you, what was your first musical purchase? and does it still rate listening to today?
Hawaii Five-O by the Ventures.
(btw i should mention that subsequent purchases of Slade, Sweet and Suzi quatro demonstrate that Argent might have been a fluke) |
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Progosopher
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Posted: August 28 2011 at 12:42 |
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I usually discount The Batman Theme Played by The Markettes when I was six and did not know what music was. I did, however, know Batman. This was the original series starring Adam West, by the way. My real first purchase came when I was fourteen, I think. I had been avidly listening to AM radio for some years, and so had a good sense of what was out there, at least what hit the mainstream (at a time when the likes of Yes, ELP, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, etc were the mainstream). Actually, the purchase was of two records: Burn by Deep Purple and Caribou by Elton John. The latter did little for me, although I really liked Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me (I have come to appreciate Sir Elton in later years), but the Deep Purple just knocked my socks off. As my sister said, "Oh, you like the hairy guys." I replied, "Yeah!" I just got a CD version of Burn, and listening to it is like visiting an old friend after a long absence.
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The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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Formentera Lady
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Posted: August 28 2011 at 12:17 |
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My first album that I bought from my own money was back in the mid 80ies: Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear. It's still one of my favourite albums.
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