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OK, as a teenager, one fave album per group, all on PA? They are merely going to be in alphabetical order, but I think I can make a reasonable stab at it...

APP: Turn Of A Friendly Card
BJH: Everyone is Everybody Else (Still is)
Black Sabbath: Sabotage
Deep Purple: In Rock
ELO: ELO II
Genesis: Foxtrot
Hawkwind: Hall Mountain Grill
JMJ: Oxygene
Kansas: Leftoverture
Led Zep: Physical Graffiti
Marillion: Script
Rush: Permanent Waves
Sky: Sky 1
Tangerine Dream: Ricochet
Yes: GfTO (it isn't now, of course)

there was other PA stuff knocking around at the time, such as Moodies, Andreas Vollenweider, Pallas & Styx to name a few, but none would have got into the top 15.

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
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From my childhood until a teen...

Alan Parsons Project - I Robot (brother bought it)
Gary Numan - Replicas (brother bought it, and I associate it with Prog)
Camel - The Snow Goose (seemed like everyone's older brother had this album)
David Bowie - Changes One (brother bought this compilation albums)
Pink Floyd - The Wall (brother bought this one release and immediately played for me)
Pink Floyd - Works (compilation album that I bought for my other brother)
Pink Floyd - various Pink FLoyd albums like Wish You Were Here, Atom Heart Mother....
Gryphon - Midnight Mushrumps (brother's collection again, and later for me, my English teacher kept it in class)
Focus - Hamburger Concerto (my neighbour's older brother, love at first listen, and, later for me, my English teacher kept it in class)
the Who - Quadrophenia and Tommy (friend's house had it)
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine (while I was in hospital for a burst appendix, someone gave me this on cassette)
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (same person gave me this on cassette to listen to while in hospital, and Echo and the Bunnymen)
Yes - Fragile (A friend played this to me)
Rush - Hemispheres (same friend played this to me)
Kate Bush - The Whole Story (I first got into her due to here music videos, but then later I was exposed to this compilation album)

Oh and I could include most of Led Zeppelin due to a friend as a teenager.
Duos for fave acts
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

I'm not quite sure what qualifies as I had no idea what prog is when I started to discover stuff, so obviously there was no way to associate them with prog at the time.
That's sort of my point. I wanted you to include albums you didn't associate with anything prog (and maybe still don't) when you first heard them, but are in the PA band/artist-index (like perhaps Kate Bush, Kraftwerk etc...). So that we get a bigger, broader, fuller story. I had heard of Prog when I got into Genesis and King Crimson... and I knew they were considered "classic prog". But everything listed before (and everything after except for The Moody Blues) is just music I found  to be good, different and interesting.  

Anyway, great list/selection.
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I'll count Stand Up as my first album, though it was my dad who bought it back then: I just played it transparentLOL


+/- in order of acquisition and they were my first albums - prog or not.


Harmonium - debut + 5th Season
Supertramp - Crime Of The Century
Pink Floyd - DSOTM + WYWH
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick + Aqualung
Traffic - Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
Santana - Abraxas
Tangerine Dream - Ricochet
Caravan - G&P
Genesis - SEbtP &  (later) Trick OTT
K. Crimson - ITCOTCK
Yes - CTTE & TYA


Others
In Rock, Paranoid, Zoso, Who's Next, A Space In Time, Moontan, etc...


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I'm not quite sure what qualifies as I had no idea what prog is when I started to discover stuff, so obviously there was no way to associate that stuff with prog at the time. 

Some of the very first (I list one per artist, usually the first contact or the first I really got into):
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Watch
Pink Floyd - "Two Originals" (that was a double album with Piper and Saucerful of Secrets)

From my father's collection:
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Novalis - s/t 
ELP - Welcome Back My Friends to the Show that Never Ends

But then I figured out pretty soon that there is such a thing as "prog", but did I know that these were included? Honestly I don't know anymore. (I did know that KC, Yes, Genesis, VDGG, Camel and many others were part of it before I had any of their stuff.) Or rather, the connection between these and "prog" wasn't really clear to me.
Can - Soon Over Babaluma
Holger Czukay - Movies
Amon Düül II - Tanz der Lemminge
Tangerine Dream - Rubycon 
Kraftwerk - Mensch-Maschine

Some special cases:
Peter Hammill - Patience (I knew VDGG was prog but the first PH solo things I found out about didn't sound all too prog, and were respected by the music press as opposed to most of prog at the time)
Cardiacs - Live (it was clear to me that this was proggy but somehow they belonged to a different "culture" at the time)

Some discoveries I didn't think were prog at the time, and was later surprised to see in PA:
Kate Bush - Never For Ever
Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring (my first contact was much before that, but the first two albums aren't prog for sure; the third one is probably controversial)
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Japan - Tin Drum
David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees
Camberwell Now - The Ghost Trade 
This Heat - s/t
Dead Can Dance - Spleen and Ideal
Radiohead - Kid A
Kante - Zweilicht (in fact I was on PA before them, even though I knew them before I came to PA)

Not sure whether that's really the "first twenty" or so but for the moment I leave it at that (already edited...).

Like Saperlipopette, I still love all of these albums. 


Edited by Lewian - September 05 2024 at 16:14
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Instead of writing "our first favorite Prog Rock-albums", include early discoveries, that you never associated with Prog, later located in some sub-genre here along with the usual suspects.

So if more or less relevant albums by Iron Maiden, Deep Purple, Tangerine Dream, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Radiohead, Tool, ELO, David Bowie, Talking Heads, Queen, electric Miles... etc were among the favorites of your younger self - include them as well as the usual suspects.

Spanning from early childhood to late teens (in chronological order) My list would be something like. Edit: I needed a top sixteen too as Lewian's The Dreaming-pick remided med that Kate Bush was missing from my list:

ELO - Time (found in my parents collection)
Pink Floyd - The Wall (found in my parents collection)
Metallica - Master of Puppets (All my friends were into them really. Love all 83-88)
Death - Leprosy (The most extreme music I had encountered up to that point. A natural part of being a young metalhead:)
Led Zeppelin - I-IV (got them all at once for Christmas)
Jethro Tull - Stand Up (more followed soon)
Genesis - Nursery Cryme (My first actual full blown Prog Rock album. A female friend was a fan after being   
 introduced to them from her big brother. The rest 70-76 followed whenever I could affort it)
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (the rest 69-74 followed whenever I could affort it)
Swans - Children of God (Borrowed from an older friend first. White Light etc... followed)
The Residents - Duck Stab/Buster and Glen (Also borrowed from the same friend along with Meet the Residents - started to obsessively collecting them)
Dead Can Dance - (St) (A girlfriend were into them. Love everything they ever released)
David Bowie - Hunky Dory (The album was played at some party. Got him complete 69-83 + Blackstar by now)
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love (I already knew I liked her through radio and videos. Plus that same girlfriend was 
 a fan. When I went to the counter to pay for it, I got it for free:) Love and own most of her discog)
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure (Actually bought because of the cover. I only knew More Than This/India
 beforehand, which my parents ownes on #7. Soon bought everything)
The Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord. (Randomly borrowed it from the library:)
Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine (I knew a couple of songs from television. Now own everything 1970-1986)

-I think all of these have shaped me in one way or another. I never stopped loving - or listening to any of them. Well, I rarely really listen to The Wall and ISotLC in full anymore, but I know them by heart.

What are yours?


Edited by Saperlipopette! - September 06 2024 at 04:01
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