Your first Prog album?

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Buon pomeriggio!
Tu hai occhi attraenti....if you don't mind me saying!
Please excuse my dreadful Italian!
Tony C.

clarkpegasus4001 wrote: 1967/ 1976 wrote: I do not remember my first Prog album...: Hmmm... Banco del Mutuo Soccorso S/t in MC format, I think.... Just out of curiosity, are you Italian then? Tony C.

Edited by 1967/ 1976 - January 18 2011 at 09:22

I do not remember my first Prog album...: Hmmm... Banco del Mutuo Soccorso S/t in MC format, I think... But if you see Prog in all forms... I think David Bowie "Space Oddity" or Led Zeppelin "The Sound Remains The Same". But also "Vintage Magnum" or T. Rex "The Collection" and Tyrannosaurus Rex "BBC Radio1Live in Concert" was between my first Prog buying.

Rush - Permanent Waves

Deep Purple - Book of Taliesyn or Led Zep II at 10 yo.

I had Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds around 1981 along with Abacab, failing that it would be Script for a jester's Tear in 1983

I liked prog before I even listened to it. I saw the cover for Pawn Hearts and immediately thinking, "This is going to be incredible". I had heard a little Stravinsky and Varese in my high school wind ensemble, and I loved how they were breaking all the rules of their time. Flouting convention is especially intriguing when you're in high school. 

Listened to Rush around the same time. Loved the Ayn Rand individualism and breaking away from the collectivism and meekness that enables a totalitarian world government, and the sci-fi elements (Attention all planets of the Solar Federation) all that.

And this was only 3 years ago!

I love Jon Anderson's voice. I think his voice perfectly characterizes the individual and group collective. I think he's the vocalist all aspire to be.

My little brother was googoo over Close to the Edge and Tormato and Yessongs. My buddy had recorded me a tape of "Meddle" and "Atom Heart" I listened dutifully to "Lamb" on HIS turntable. But 1st I owned was probably "A Trick of the Tail". As to the above, we always called Anderson and Yes sissies for the high voice, little did I know that he was onto something. Oh, I was maybe 11 or 12 or 13 lol

Edited by Steven Brodziak - January 01 2011 at 07:38

First brush with prog was Roundabout on the radio when I was 15. First album, Classic Yes. Loved the album, hated the live versions of Roundabout and I've Seen All Good People. Branched from Yes to King Crimson and Wakeman while my best buddy became a huge ELP guy. Started to understand the genres and styles by about 25, started listening to global prog about same time.