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My first 15 prog albums In chronological order, but not necessarily in order of purchase. Smile

5 stars 1973: Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv_4sZCLlr0
4 stars 1974: Rick Wakeman - Journey to the Centre of the Earth - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HVDIPmbCnE
4 stars 1974: Tangerine Dream - Rubycon - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd6XL_IOS3I
5 stars 1975: Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlNi-zZF6wI
4 stars 1975: Tangerine Dream - Ricochet - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM1Wc6ha_ic
4 stars 1975: Camel - The Snow Goose - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o51kWja3Rrw
5 stars 1976: Camel - Moonmadness - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYIBtjTeIFM
5 stars 1976: Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3hueHdzYSI

No prog albums by Caravan, Dead Can Dance, ELP, The Enid, Genesis, Hawkwind, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Nektar, Pink Floyd, Procol Harum,  Spooky Tooth, the Strawbs, Traffic or Wishbone Ash until after 2010. Embarrassed


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Originally posted by Cosmiclawnmower Cosmiclawnmower wrote:

Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

I didn't have an older brother/cousin to guide me either, but there was the perfect record shop next to my school with the most excellent owner, always listening to my returns on what I bought before and guided me to other albums and always hit the spot (very few misses). The dude looked a lot like Roger Earle of Savoy Brown (later Foghat) and owned the Records On Wheels in Mississauga. 

Impossible to miss Harmonium's debut in the spring of 74 while still in Montreal, but by the fall I was in the greater Toronto area, and when I saw Crime of the Century in the ROW shop window, I knew I had to listen to that, so next day, I had enough money to take it home. 

When I came back astounded by what I'd heard, I asked him for more of the same, and out I came with DSOTM and the next time was ITCKOFCK. Of course TAAB and Aqualung were right up there, as well.
I did have an early near-miss with SEBTP at first, because I thought it was too weird-sounding (production-wise) but it clicked later, once I got ATOTT. 

Thanks for this Hugues; I'm always interested to read of the formative experiences of others. There appear to be a number of differences in our upbringings, which contributed to my backward development when it came to music, which I shall outline...

1) I didn't start buying any of my own music until 1983, by which time 'Prog' of any kind had an incredibly low profile. All the other kids at school were ironically more into the sort of stuff Greg lists in his polls than anything remotely prog.
2) I grew up in the middle of nowhere, on the edge of a village with a long (and expensive) bus ride to the nearest town, where there were only a couple of record shops.
3) I was one of four kids who didn't get much pocket money at all and was certainly not encouraged to spend it on music. My parents were quite erm 'Victorian' and vetted anything like this which came into the house... I was 16 by the time I got a modest allowance and the vetting relaxed a little.
4) The only exposure I got to any prog in early 80's Britain, would have been Tommy Vance's Friday Rock show, but you had to wade thru a tonne of hair metal before you heard anything more interesting. There were no mags I knew of and certainly nothing on the 3 channels of our TV screens at the time.
5) My father really disliked music as an art-form. I grew up in a house where the 'spoken word was king' and Radio 4 was on every morning and most weekends...

Reading this back now, it's flipping amazing I ever got to hear anything worthwhile at all!  LOL

That sounds very similar to my experience; when i was much younger my mother was very religious and things were a bit, er, stiff (ie my Dad's 'secret' jazz and big band) but that (thankfully) passed and things became a lot more relaxed and open as i grew up so i was allowed to be a bit wilder than my older siblings. But we grew up on a farm in the middle of nowhere.. and had no money. And i listened to Tommy Vance tooLOL and Alan Freeman's saturday afternoon show before that. Most of my contemporaries were Punks and metal heads which was ok but there were a couple of 'old hippy couples' i knew who lent me some very interesting records.. and things went from thereBig smileWink


Yikes.... PinchPinchPinch

Glad I'm of an atheist/agnostic background, though my grandparents were all 4 practicing Scatholic Wink

Yessss, my dad was a jazz fan (mostly swing) and a classical fan (lots of records at home), and my mom was more into music hall type of stuff (Piaf, Montand, Dietrich, Brel, etc...), so yeah, there was a lot of music home, including jazz greats spending the night at home (Memphis Slim et al... , but that stopped when my dad saw them fixing junk), because my dad helped organize concerts in clubs but that was before we left for Canada (I was 7, and don't have much concert souvenir - probably didn't attend many).

To avoid the allowance pocket money spending issues with parents; me & my two younger brothers delivered newspaper after school, which was comfortable income for kids our age. It doesn't mean that we didn't get anything from our parents (we did get "normal" amounts - whatever that meant), but it doesn't mean they were that relaxed on discipline . 




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That sounds very similar to my experience; when i was much younger my mother was very religious and things were a bit, er, stiff (ie my Dad's 'secret' jazz and big band) but that (thankfully) passed and things became a lot more relaxed and open as i grew up so i was allowed to be a bit wilder than my older siblings. But we grew up on a farm in the middle of nowhere.. and had no money. And i listened to Tommy Vance tooLOL and Alan Freeman's saturday afternoon show before that. Most of my contemporaries were Punks and metal heads which was ok but there were a couple of 'old hippy couples' i knew who lent me some very interesting records.. and things went from thereBig smileWink

Very much so.... I skirted around this in my above description, but control thru religious zeal was very much a factor for me too, and once again, my Mother was the driving force... and I was the oldest, with three younger sisters.
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Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

I didn't have an older brother/cousin to guide me either, but there was the perfect record shop next to my school with the most excellent owner, always listening to my returns on what I bought before and guided me to other albums and always hit the spot (very few misses). The dude looked a lot like Roger Earle of Savoy Brown (later Foghat) and owned the Records On Wheels in Mississauga. 

Impossible to miss Harmonium's debut in the spring of 74 while still in Montreal, but by the fall I was in the greater Toronto area, and when I saw Crime of the Century in the ROW shop window, I knew I had to listen to that, so next day, I had enough money to take it home. 

When I came back astounded by what I'd heard, I asked him for more of the same, and out I came with DSOTM and the next time was ITCKOFCK. Of course TAAB and Aqualung were right up there, as well.
I did have an early near-miss with SEBTP at first, because I thought it was too weird-sounding (production-wise) but it clicked later, once I got ATOTT. 

Thanks for this Hugues; I'm always interested to read of the formative experiences of others. There appear to be a number of differences in our upbringings, which contributed to my backward development when it came to music, which I shall outline...

1) I didn't start buying any of my own music until 1983, by which time 'Prog' of any kind had an incredibly low profile. All the other kids at school were ironically more into the sort of stuff Greg lists in his polls than anything remotely prog.
2) I grew up in the middle of nowhere, on the edge of a village with a long (and expensive) bus ride to the nearest town, where there were only a couple of record shops.
3) I was one of four kids who didn't get much pocket money at all and was certainly not encouraged to spend it on music. My parents were quite erm 'Victorian' and vetted anything like this which came into the house... I was 16 by the time I got a modest allowance and the vetting relaxed a little.
4) The only exposure I got to any prog in early 80's Britain, would have been Tommy Vance's Friday Rock show, but you had to wade thru a tonne of hair metal before you heard anything more interesting. There were no mags I knew of and certainly nothing on the 3 channels of our TV screens at the time.
5) My father really disliked music as an art-form. I grew up in a house where the 'spoken word was king' and Radio 4 was on every morning and most weekends...

Reading this back now, it's flipping amazing I ever got to hear anything worthwhile at all!  LOL

That sounds very similar to my experience; when i was much younger my mother was very religious and things were a bit, er, stiff (ie my Dad's 'secret' jazz and big band) but that (thankfully) passed and things became a lot more relaxed and open as i grew up so i was allowed to be a bit wilder than my older siblings. But we grew up on a farm in the middle of nowhere.. and had no money. And i listened to Tommy Vance tooLOL and Alan Freeman's saturday afternoon show before that. Most of my contemporaries were Punks and metal heads which was ok but there were a couple of 'old hippy couples' i knew who lent me some very interesting records.. and things went from thereBig smileWink

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There wasn't much music played in our house; my father (secretly) enjoyed Jazz and big band music so i did hear some of that when i was younger; also some trad folk, church music and classical filtered through.. I remember being obsessed with Holst's The Planets when i was about 10! My older brother brought home tapes of Mike Oldfield, Rick Wakeman, Camel, Focus etc and these really caught my attention.. again, i got fixated on Tubular bells and broke his tape by playing it so much! At School i had a passing interest in Heavy Metal but it soon filtered out to more sophisticated bands such as Rush, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Magnum (loved Marauder live + the 2x 7'' eps.. why they didnt just make it a double lp, i dont know..) and then into NWOBPR.
I also really started to explore American West coast 60s & 70's, German and Italian bands as well as the more underground British progressive. Then i had a spell where music didnt feature so highly in my life until about 1993 when i started to re-discover and explore again.

So my list of most important 15 lps from my early years is:

Mike Oldfield- Tubular Bells (and Hergest Ridge, which i connect to more (emotionally) than TB
Rick Wakeman- Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the round table
Camel- Mirage
Focus- Focus (budget Polydor compilation album)
Barclay James Harvest- Time Honoured Ghosts
Stackridge- Friendliness
Hawkwind- Hawkwind (first lp i bought with my own pocket money..99p)
Genesis- Seconds Out
Genesis- Trick of the tail
Jeff Wayne's War of the World
Rush- Farewell to Kings
Caravan- land of grey and pink
Roy Harper- Bullinamingvase (one of those days in England)
Sensational Alex Harvey band- Live
Barclay James Harvest- Live Tapes (worked part of my summer school holiday potato picking to save up to buy this!)

The first 6/7 were tapes my brother brought home and the rest were (some) of the first lps i saved up to buy myself.

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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

I didn't have an older brother/cousin to guide me either, but there was the perfect record shop next to my school with the most excellent owner, always listening to my returns on what I bought before and guided me to other albums and always hit the spot (very few misses). The dude looked a lot like Roger Earle of Savoy Brown (later Foghat) and owned the Records On Wheels in Mississauga. 

Impossible to miss Harmonium's debut in the spring of 74 while still in Montreal, but by the fall I was in the greater Toronto area, and when I saw Crime of the Century in the ROW shop window, I knew I had to listen to that, so next day, I had enough money to take it home. 

When I came back astounded by what I'd heard, I asked him for more of the same, and out I came with DSOTM and the next time was ITCKOFCK. Of course TAAB and Aqualung were right up there, as well.
I did have an early near-miss with SEBTP at first, because I thought it was too weird-sounding (production-wise) but it clicked later, once I got ATOTT. 

Thanks for this Hugues; I'm always interested to read of the formative experiences of others. There appear to be a number of differences in our upbringings, which contributed to my backward development when it came to music, which I shall outline...

1) I didn't start buying any of my own music until 1983, by which time 'Prog' of any kind had an incredibly low profile. All the other kids at school were ironically more into the sort of stuff Greg lists in his polls than anything remotely prog.
2) I grew up in the middle of nowhere, on the edge of a village with a long (and expensive) bus ride to the nearest town, where there were only a couple of record shops.
3) I was one of four kids who didn't get much pocket money at all and was certainly not encouraged to spend it on music. My parents were quite erm 'Victorian' and vetted anything like this which came into the house... I was 16 by the time I got a modest allowance and the vetting relaxed a little.
4) The only exposure I got to any prog in early 80's Britain, would have been Tommy Vance's Friday Rock show, but you had to wade thru a tonne of hair metal before you heard anything more interesting. There were no mags I knew of and certainly nothing on the 3 channels of our TV screens at the time.
5) My father really disliked music as an art-form. I grew up in a house where the 'spoken word was king' and Radio 4 was on every morning and most weekends...

Reading this back now, it's flipping amazing I ever got to hear anything worthwhile at all!  LOL
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I know this will shock and sadden you all, but I really didn't get my teeth into Floyd, Camel, Oldfield, Eloy & Tull until my early 20's (Having no older brothers, uncles or friends who liked Prog)... expel me from PA if you wish  Embarrassed



I didn't have an older brother/cousin to guide me either, but there was the perfect record shop next to my school with the most excellent owner, always listening to my returns on what I bought before and guided me to other albums and always hit the spot (very few misses). The dude looked a lot like Roger Earle of Savoy Brown (later Foghat) and owned the Records On Wheels in Mississauga. 

Impossible to miss Harmonium's debut in the spring of 74 while still in Montreal, but by the fall I was in the greater Toronto area, and when I saw Crime of the Century in the ROW shop window, I knew I had to listen to that, so next day, I had enough money to take it home. 

When I came back astounded by what I'd heard, I asked him for more of the same, and out I came with DSOTM and the next time was ITCKOFCK. Of course TAAB and Aqualung were right up there, as well.
I did have an early near-miss with SEBTP at first, because I thought it was too weird-sounding (production-wise) but it clicked later, once I got ATOTT. 


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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Vangelis - Beauborg

You mean you learnt to appreciate the musical architecture of this album whilst still a teen?

Now, that's what I call precocious!!  
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^ Yep, I didn't really bother with hard rock, metal or general pop music at all. ELP, Yes and Genesis were the beacons of light that shone bright although Pink Floyd - The Wall was massively important to me when it came out (not such a big fan now)
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^Seems to me you knew what you were looking for (unlike me:).
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I had all these either on cassette or vinyl and to the best of my recollection were my 'primers'.

Wings - Band On The Run
The Who - By Numbers
ELP - Pictures at an Exhibition (quickly followed by ELP, Tarkus, Trilogy, Brain Salad Surgery)
Yes - Tormato
Keith Emerson - Inferno
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
Rush - Exit Stage Left
Yes - Going For The One
ELP - Welcome Back My Friends
The Nice - Five Bridges Suite
Aphrodite's Child - 666
Vangelis - Beauborg
Tangerine Dream - Dream Sequence (compilation of the Virgin Years)
Genesis - Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

PS I regret leaving out Genesis (definitely a careless omission). Selling England by the Pound should be in there so I'll just say it's number 16 although it should probably be sandwiched in between Yes and King Crimson.
That makes three of us. 15, 16... I don't really care:). My original title was: Our first ten (fifteen, twenty...) favorite Prog Archives-albums, but it took up too much space so the last bit was left out.
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^That's an interesting list as well so why not:). I've never personally thougth of Depeche Mode in the context of Progressive Rock. In regards to the others ones I know of from your list, I guess at some point while listening "hey, this is actually kind of proggy" has at least crossed my mind. Nothing strikes me as equally obvious as Stereolab did. I would surely get behind a Strawberry Alarm Clock though. Dif Juz are probably obscure enough to never have been suggested by anyone.
Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:

A chronological list is impossible for me because during the mid-to-late '70s, I was being exposed to music quite frequently and therefore do not recall which albums I got when or in what order. Also, I won't include Prog Related or Proto-Prog. Anyway, the following list is as close to chronological as I can recall:
I made up my own rules on the spot. Just to limit my selection and hopefully make it somewhat interesting in a PA-context. It can be read as a suggestion more than a demand. Everyone should do their version in the way that feels right for them, I guess. 

Btw: My own list was relatively accurate, but also just as close to chronological as I can recall.


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How bout a list of albums that I always thought were proggy that I'm still surprised were/are not included in PA's database:

Joni Mitchell Don Juan's Reckless Daughter 
XTC
Stereolab (only added this year)
Jane Siberry
Bruce Cockburn
Nina Hagen
King Sunny Adé
Michael Hedges
Strawberry Alarm Clock
Tears For Fears
Depeche Mode
The Cure
West Indian Girl
Knower
Dif Juz
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Ok, I'll try to play along as best as I can.

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (I was big into the fab four as a kid)
"       "        - The White Album
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffitti
Yes - Fragile
"     - Relayer
King Crimson - Larks tongues in Aspic
"       "           - In the Court of the Crimson King
Rush - Signals (the first I bought by them so still kind of a sentimental thing)
"       - Hemispheres
ELP - Same
Gentle Giant - Octopus (probably my favorite GG)
Kansas - Leftoverture (I think this was the first or one of the first Kansas albums I heard)
Camel - The Snow Goose
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Marillion - Clutching At Straws 

That's 15 so I'll quit while I'm ahead. ;)


PS I regret leaving out Genesis (definitely a careless omission). Selling England by the Pound should be in there so I'll just say it's number 16 although it should probably be sandwiched in between Yes and King Crimson.


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A chronological list is impossible for me because during the mid-to-late '70s, I was being exposed to music quite frequently and therefore do not recall which albums I got when or in what order. Also, I won't include Prog Related or Proto-Prog. Anyway, the following list is as close to chronological as I can recall:
 
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Tangerine Dream - Rubycon
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
Split Enz - Mental Notes
Hawkwind - Space Ritual
Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Works
Jeff Beck - Blow by Blow
Jeff Beck - Wired
Split Enz - Dizrythmia
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd - A Nice Pair (a double album of "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" and "A Saucerful of Secrets")
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Pink Floyd - Obscured by Clouds
Pink Floyd - More
Pink Floyd - Relics
Pink Floyd - Animals
Yes - Close to the Edge
Yes - Fragile
Faust - Faust IV
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Emerson Lake & Palmer
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Genesis - Nursery Cryme
Genesis - Wind & Wuthering
Rare Bird - As Your Mind Flies By
Van der Graaf Generator - World Record
...
 
 



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Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

I know this will shock and sadden you all, but I really didn't get my teeth into Floyd, Camel, Oldfield, Eloy & Tull until my early 20's (Having no older brothers, uncles or friends who liked Prog)... expel me from PA if you wish  Embarrassed
That's ok:). What you're exposed to and who you meet will always be a little random. Sometimes pure coincidence, what we find and when we find it, shapes us. It's why I find these listing an interesting read. Sort of "a portrait of the artist as a young man" for music - or for prog lovers.
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

I'll count Stand Up as my first album, though it was my dad who bought it back then: I just played it transparentLOL

Doesn't matter who bought it imo. Parents, siblings or a friend records that you got into is fair game. I bought my own copy though. After someone had brought a Living in the Past-cassette along on a school trip (side one and two was played on the bus). I wanted to buy that one really, but the record store didn't have it. I went for Stand Up after about 30 seconds of A New Day Yesterday in the listening booth. It was the perfect introductory album.
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Kraftwerk - The Man Machine (while I was in hospital for a burst appendix, someone gave me this on cassette)
Interesting that Lewian, you and I all have this one.
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Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Tangerine Dream – Exit (I went through the entire bin and this LP stood out)

Wasn't that just a great experience as a teen? When money was (always) tight, you scrabbled thru the bargain bin in the corner clutching at straws for inspiration, taking a punt and finding a real gem like that for 3 or 4 £?

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Tangerine Dream – Exit (I went through the entire bin and this LP stood out)

Jean-Michel Jarre – Rendez-Vous

Jethro Tull – The Broadsword and the Beast

Goblin – Dawn of the Dead

Simonetti - Pignatelli - Morante – Tenebre

Kraftwerk – The Man-Machine

Yes – 90125

Rush – Grace Under Pressure

Synergy – The Metropolitan Suite

Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Brain Salad Surgery

Vangelis – Direct

King Crimson – Red

Santana – Marathon

Emerson, Lake & Powell – S/T

Genesis – ...And Then There Were Three
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