Your first Prog album?

The Dark Side Of The Moon I was 13 Never heard something so beautiful I was Blown away by the magic of this soft music with High Peeks at time from that Day Ive Been A Major Music Lover Learned To play Guitar Saxophone And Piano I wish Kids These Days could Enjoy Those masterpieces without being Seen as weird or oh look at the guy with long Hair With a Metal Balloon On fire on his Shirt I wish they could go at school and people would say Ohh man that's an Awsome Zeppelin shirt you got there man(obviously talking about my life:P) Funny facts my teacher used to always comment on my shirt dues to the fact that most of them where 70's People. Well that's An awsome shirt you got there first listen to that when I was 16 Frampton comes alive awsome teacher thank you for the support:P

 

Dark Side of the Moon and some other Pink Floyd albums (WYWH, The Wall and Animals), but those are obligatory first albums...got into Dream Theater and the more proggy side of metal (also Opeth, in particular).  A couple months later, I was at a friend's house and he was playing "All of the Above" by Transatlantic.  It was only on in the background, but even so, it captured my attention and I asked what it was.  A few months later I bought a bunch of albums including SMPT:e, Close to the Edge and Selling England by the Pound.

First I heard was either The Wall or 2112 on vinyl, somewhere around 1999-2000. (pretty cliche)

First I owned was Dark Side of the Moon (also cliche).

Operation: Mindcrime by Queensryche, back in 1988, it totallly blew my mind, I jumped straight straight from classic heavy metal to Qr.

I don't remeber.

But if you don't count things like Tool, Mars Volta and Mastodon then it was Pink Floyd - Echoes, then In The Court of the Crimson King

Marillion - Misplaced Childhood

The Yes Album,a  few days later Relayer

I'm guessing it would be either a Queen or a Pink Floyd Record, but back then I did not consider them prog, meaning I did not know of prog, I just knew I liked their style.

Snow Dog wrote: [QUOTE=sigod]Rush - A Farewell To Kings  Nice story. I was so fond of record listening sessions with friends.

Thank you sir.  It seems as if that was a 70s/early 80s thing but who knows? I wonder if teenegers still gather together in rooms to say things like 'wow' and 'awsome!' in response to listening to new music.