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Floydoid 
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 Posted: July 04 2024 at 09:39 |
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Meddle by Pink Floyd - first heard it back in 1972 and it was my gateway into the Floyd (in particular), and into prog rock (in general).
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ThyroidGlands
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Posted: July 04 2024 at 08:21 |
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About three years ago, I listened to Focus III. For several months, I had been leaning towards listening to more complex music, but I had never listened to progressive rock. I didn't know what kind of music it was, but I really liked the album. When I looked up information about the band on the internet, I immediately recognized the brilliant Hocus Pocus (which up to that point I had found horrible). After that, I listened to Hamburger Concerto, which blew my mind after a couple of listens. So, we could say that Hamburger Concerto is the first prog album I listened to (I don't consider Focus III to be progressive rock).
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Bloody bloody racket and rumpus
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moshkito
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Posted: July 04 2024 at 08:14 |
Hi, I really miss, what I call, the "artistic" side of the music ... when all it means these days to be progressive is to have "lyrics" tell us what the whole thing is about ... not realizing that the music, for hundreds of years, has always spoken far more than many words ... and that is not to say that some words are not special, but within the past 20 years, not a whole lot has really shown itself to be absolutely massively well composed material ... and all we have to do is hear Rachel Flowers do TARKUS in its entirety on the piano alone ... to realize what an incredible piece of music it is ... and not many pieces stand out like it. I always reference this with my days at UCSB ... 40 years ago ... no professor would ever have looked at that and thought it was excellent, and Keith had to "translate it" for his mates, and ended up with an incredible piece of music ... only to find many years later ... what it really was ... but that "style" was how things got noticed in those days ... and gracious goodness ... it doesn't really get a whole lot better than that. I always thought TFTO and Tarkus were 2 of the greatest things in my collection, and often I say ... my life!
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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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richardh
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Posted: July 04 2024 at 03:16 |
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Tarkus.
That was a revelation to me. This is even possible? For a while I thought all other bands were pants though. Nothing compared to this. Eventually I got to prog in general but it took a few years for the Tarkus effect to wear off. Most 70's prog was always a little wimpy compared to ELP!
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Grumpyprogfan
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Posted: July 03 2024 at 15:27 |
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Back in dinosaur time we listened to Zappa, Rush, Floyd, Kansas, Tull and never knew it was prog. I've always enjoyed music that had unusual twists and turns so that's why I dig prog.
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TheGazzardian
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Posted: July 03 2024 at 10:09 |
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Yes - 90125 made me curious about Yes, which lead to Relayer / CTTE, but they were just 'another artist' in my library. Each album of theirs made me like them more and want to hear more. It wasn't until I think my seventh Yes album (Fragile) that something clicked and I recognized it wasn't just Yes, but prog as something distinct I was into and wanted to explore further. In The Court, Selling England by the Pound, 2112, Thick as a Brick and Gentle Giant were the records that confirmed the broader 'prog' umbrella was, indeed, something special.
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Jared
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Posted: July 03 2024 at 09:34 |
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Genesis: Three Sides Live...
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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
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David_D
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Posted: July 03 2024 at 09:33 |
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The first Prog album, I liked (even much), was ELP's Trilogy.
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quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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moshkito
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Posted: July 02 2024 at 08:11 |
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Hi,
None really ... I was already into the music that was putting the bubblegum AM thing to bed, with the Beatles, Moody Blues, and as time went by, I got into Janis, Jim, and many others as soon as they appeared and it was the "new mantra", the new vision, that took over for me ... it was a cultural revolution for me, and I welcomed it. And when that shooting took place in Ohio, I knew I was in the right place, fighting with the artists for something that was fair ... and not out of line. The music, like the arts, NEVER STOPPED, and continued, and I have been with them since then. To think that there was one album, or band that made a difference is strange to me ... so how were you aware of things around you ... and worse ... did it matter at all? For many of us, going back to the 60's, most of it was important, and not just hot farts, and insipid lyrics by a lot of bands considered tops in various lists. I like to say that the "poetry" was killed, and replaced by plastic, or plasticine as the Beatles said. And I think that many of us didn't care anymore ... like we were defeated, anyway! A generation, that while well meaning, did not have the inner strength to continue ... they had to wait for it to get commercialized!
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Posted: July 02 2024 at 03:33 |
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Ze Słowem Biegnę do Ciebie by SBB (first heard it in 2013). That was my very first step into the "prog" world. Then came In the Court of the Crimson King (King Crimson) and Fragile (Yes). I became a "true prog fan" the moment I figured out the common elements between those three albums, and that there was a whole genre of music built upon those elements.
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Posted: July 02 2024 at 02:28 |
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ITCOTCK. I first heard it in 1969, when it first came out. A friend played his brother's LP for me.
I was instantly grabbed by the sound of the Mellotron in the title song. The rest is history.
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SleepingFinger
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Posted: July 01 2024 at 22:23 |
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Nursery Cryme by Genesis. I heard The Musical Box and was hooked!
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: July 01 2024 at 09:24 |
My earliest experiences although I didn't necessarily know they were called prog at the time: Rush - Signals Bought on cassette tape in late 1982 Pink Floyd - The Final Cut Bought on vinyl in the summer of 1983 Genesis - Shapes (s/t) christmas present in 1983 Yes - 90125 bought on cassette tape in late 83 or early 84 Yes - Classic Yes - was waiting for me on cassette tape in the summer of 84 (I ordered it through the mail just before I went to summer camp. Some kids at camp were really into Yes so it made me even more excited when I got home to listen to it) Yes - Fragile Late summer of 1984 (late July or August of that year) In 1985 I first heard King Crimson, Relayer by Yes, etc. The snow ball obviously started to roll and by 86 I was well on my way to being a prog fan having known the term by then.
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Posted: July 01 2024 at 09:18 |
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Fragile and Relayer by Yes. Heard both at least a couple of years before Close to the Edge. Fragile got me more into Yes and Relayer got me more into prog in the sense that I knew this music was different. When I first heard relayer it made me think "what the hell is this?" King Crimson's Larks Tongues in Aspic around the same time or maybe a little later did the same thing. However, it was really seeing the term "progressive rock" in different books (especially the harmony encyclopedia of rock) that made me associate the term prog with the bands I was getting into at the time. If I didn't know the term "prog" or "progressive rock" or whatever then I most likely would never have explored beyond the big six.
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Posted: July 01 2024 at 09:14 |
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^ Thanks. I was only five years off you with Yes. The first Yes album I bought was Fragile in 1988 (I already knew it). The first album I ever bought was Pink Floyd's Works (as a gift for my brother) in 1983, I think.
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: July 01 2024 at 08:59 |
Yes, although not always in order of release year. For instance, I bought Renaissance' Ashes Are Burning firstly, followed by Turn of the Cards and then Prologue. The first YES album I ever bought was 90125 in 1983, and besides the Classic Yes compilation, they were the only two YES albums I owned before going online in 2010, when I discovered a whole new world of prog that I never knew existed before.
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Posted: July 01 2024 at 08:58 |
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Sometime back in the late 60s, my big brother played Deep Purple's "Book of Talesyn" for me. That was a sound I had been looking for, especially Jon Lord's Hammond playing.
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Posted: July 01 2024 at 08:42 |
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My Dad played DSOTM in the house one evening, ca. 1975, and that's where it started for me. Explorations of his vinyl collection led to more discoveries and then I started my own collection in my teenage years, ca. 1983-1984. I took a hiatus from it during my college years, but dove back into it after I had my first full-time post-college job. You need money to feed a hobby.
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Posted: July 01 2024 at 08:41 |
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^ Did you buy those in the 70s?
First album I ever bought for myself was The Who's It's Hard in the 80s, but that's another done topic. |
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: July 01 2024 at 08:28 |
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My prog rock starter kit - the first dozen prog albums I ever bought.
 1976: Camel - Moonmadness - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nyGHrNV07De1VA_TDOmy8b8V9hdj8yxS8 1975: Hayward & Lodge - Blue Jays - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l1Hr46rQ8oA1IGGodOHI0AFZxJefwJ-eA 1967: The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kH3L9CRYvGAW2D1bj_2vx0JYvSpe74Wvw 1973: Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv_4sZCLlr0 1975: Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlNi-zZF6wI 1972: Renaissance - Prologue - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nsKGwkJQV8nk_f5Xi353Il9e1A-tspJHg 1973: Renaissance - Ashes Are Burning - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kLlzvwRGj185pGq9yYhveAzan1m0qWHbQ 1974: Renaissance - Turn of the Cards - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lbUiF3mgChPZsCVm33AO0_o3Rpc1qH6fs 1974: Tangerine Dream - Ricochet - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM1Wc6ha_ic 1975: Tangerine Dream - Rubycon - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd6XL_IOS3I 1976: Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3hueHdzYSI 1974: Rick Wakeman - Journey to the Centre of the Earth - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HVDIPmbCnE |
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