What album made you discover/like prog?

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

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.