What album made you discover/like prog?

For me, it was having been lent a copy of two Triumvirat albums, Illusions On A Double Dimple, and Old Loves Die Hard in the spring of 1985, when I was a young lad of 22 years. i thought to myself, this is a genre that would be a mistake not to delve into, and then I began buying lp records of other Triumvirat records, and other  prog bands like ELP, King Crimson, Genesis, PFM, etc.

Although I did not know the term Prog then, I would say that The Alan Parsons Project's I Robot was instrumental to a, maybe, eight year old me in appreciating Prog (love at first listen as I recall). I remember Gary Numan's Replicas being another fave back then (to me a Prog adjacent/related album). Then various Pink Floyd (Atom Heart Mother was an early fave, but my first I remember hearing was The Wall), Gryphon's Midnight Mushrumps and Focus' Hamburger Concerto. The first album I got into that I seem to remember getting to know as a Prog album was Yes' Fragile back in maybe 1986. Later the internet age exposed me to the vast majority of Prog (and related modern music) that I now know. Van der Graaf Generator was one of my early discoveries when searching for music online, but before that I had been recommended King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King at a sci-fi web forum and that was one thing that led me into Prog big-time.

Edited by Logan - July 01 2024 at 08:55

^ 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.

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.

^ 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.

Edited by Logan - July 01 2024 at 09:14

Logan wrote: ^ 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.

ITCOTCK.  I first heard it in 1969, when it first came out.  A friend played his brother's LP for me. 

Hi,

Genesis: Three Sides Live...

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.