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dennismoore 
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 Topic: Your first Prog Song?
Posted: June 23 2013 at 16:52 |
 ProgMetaller2112 wrote:
I've been wondering when you finally heard your first prog song?I'll give mine away "The Spirit of Radio" by Rush.
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Nice start.  . My first prog tune was "Then" by YES from "Yesterdays". Thank god for older cousins, he had a real cool record collection when I only had one or two records. "Then" had such a unique original sound unlike any other music I had heard on the radio or on other records. A few weeks later my cousin played RUSH - 2112, he thought the William Tell overture part was cool, I hated the shreaking vocals. A few years later I saw RUSH in concert and when they played Xanadu, full version, in concert, I was hooked!
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Posted: June 23 2013 at 15:24 |
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Stuff I grew up with (without choice, not all prog)... Floyd, Tull, Queen, Meat Loaf, Rocky Horror, Rodriguez, Mike Batt, and some folk stuff...
More prog came naturally later.
Edited by Neelus - June 23 2013 at 15:26
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Posted: June 23 2013 at 15:14 |
I very much dug semi prog's Yes's 90125 offered to an elder sister for her birthday 29 years ago ( and remain still impressed at this album ). I've listened to it in the right order, so you name the first song that's prog to your ears if any, and that's the one.
KCrimson's Islands 23 years ago. Ladies on The Road was the first one, a schoolmate discovered among his parents's old LP's and thought it was crazy and funny (he said it in a well educated South Italian – the country his parents were from – fashion ), but didn't become a prog lover himself.
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Posted: June 23 2013 at 13:56 |
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^ You are a noob. Post enough on the forum to vote.
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Posted: June 23 2013 at 13:14 |
I think, it was Rush's BU2B last year in metal radio show. After that came their whole discography and it is continuing.
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Posted: June 22 2013 at 20:23 |
Holy crap, what a place to start!  I was already into ELP, Moody Blues, Procol Harum and Focus at that time and barely heard of Genesis, but I know my mind would have been super-blown if I'd heard Supper's Ready then.
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Posted: June 22 2013 at 13:05 |
Dayvenkirq wrote:
Floyd - "Money". It all started for me with the radio, so ... . If asking for "real" prog, then "The Court of the Crimson King", I think.
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Nope ... "The Magical Mystery Tour" for the Proto-Prog song ... No ... "Michelle". You can get so lost with those compilations.
Edited by Dayvenkirq - June 22 2013 at 13:06
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Posted: June 22 2013 at 12:59 |
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I'm thinking it was Tom Sawyer if you consider that prog. That was on Rockband so that's where my first memorable exposure was with it. If not, prolly some Who material. |
Yeah thats the same thing that happened to me and if not, its probably Guitar Hero III that did it.
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Posted: June 22 2013 at 12:34 |
Probably Carry On My Wayward Son.
Either that or some Queen song.
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Posted: June 22 2013 at 11:59 |
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I'm thinking it was Tom Sawyer if you consider that prog. That was on Rockband so that's where my first memorable exposure was with it. If not, prolly some Who material.
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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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Posted: June 22 2013 at 11:19 |
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The first one I can remember was Liquid Tension Experiment's "Acid Rain" in 2005 (yes, I'm a lightweight).
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Posted: June 22 2013 at 06:51 |
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Posted: June 22 2013 at 05:06 |
Maybe something from Magg!!
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Posted: June 21 2013 at 21:38 |
Iron Butterfly's first album "Heavy" was the probably the first prog or proto-prog album I heard that I recognized as taking a step beyond most of what got played on top 40 radio. One track in particular, Fields of Sun, grabbed my attention like nothing before the first time my older brother played it,  so that could be considered my first. Possession, So-Lo, Stamped Ideas and Iron Butterfly Theme were no slouches either. 
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Posted: June 18 2013 at 09:45 |
Mullmuzzler - His Voice was the first prog song I actually listened to.
Yes, I knew Mullmuzzler before Dream Theater 
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Posted: June 17 2013 at 15:53 |
My first one technically would have been something by Rush because my dad was a huge fan of them.
But the first prog song I listened with the actual intent of getting into prog was The Musical Box, and it's been one of my favorites ever since!
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Posted: June 17 2013 at 15:24 |
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My first would be "Glasgow Kiss" by John Petrucci on the G3 dvd. I thought to myself, "My gosh this would be awesome with vocals.."
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Posted: June 13 2013 at 09:58 |
morrisdick wrote:
I was calling The Beatles underrated (a touch of irony!!) |
Not sure how your irony works.
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Posted: June 13 2013 at 07:50 |
I remember hearing 'She's So Heavy' by the Beatles when I was too young to know music could be classified into categories. The only music I had heard before that was late 60's early 70's pop and my ears were blown away by this new sound. I'll always consider that my first prog song, it opened my ears to new sounds.
Not long after that I heard Yes's "Your Move/Seen all Good People" and when I got my first record player bought the album and have been a prog head ever since.
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Posted: June 13 2013 at 06:05 |
I was calling The Beatles underrated (a touch of irony!!)
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