Your 1st 6 prog albums

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micky wrote: the more constructive of the three things my father genetically gave me.  A love of music, fast cars, and guns picked up all of these in my musical consciousness as a child around the same time.. mid 70's... ELO - 2 Bo Hansson - Lord of the Rings Uriah Heep - Salisbury Yes - The Yes Album JMJ - Oxygene CTA - s/t

the more constructive of the three things my father genetically gave me.  A love of music, fast cars, and guns

picked up all of these in my musical consciousness as a child around the same time.. mid 70's...


ELO - 2
Bo Hansson - Lord of the Rings
Uriah Heep - Salisbury
Yes - The Yes Album
JMJ - Oxygene
CTA - s/t

Late 1974-early 1975; age 18. Got my first 8-track tape player for my car and bought my first tapes.

Yes - The Yes Album
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
Moody Blues - This is the Moody Blues (2 tape set)
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Procol Harum - Procol Harum Live: In Concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

I don't know what the first 6 prog albums I bought were. I know the first one I heard was probably Nursery Cryme and the first one I bought was Genesis Live. After that most of my prog albums were taped by others onto cassette for a while - there was quite a healthy prog "club" at school. I know I had Selling England, Lamb Lies Down, Close To the Edge, ELP Welcome Back My Friends, The Snow Goose and Lord of the Rings very early on. I was around 12-13 at the time.


Edited by chopper - September 17 2016 at 09:58

East of Eden - Mercator Projected

If anything on PA counts the list will be both boring an absurd:

Edited by Saperlipopette! - September 17 2016 at 07:18

Not sure, but possibly:

IQ - Nomzamo
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Faith No More - The Real Thing
King's X - Out Of The Silent Planet
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
IQ - Are You Sitting Comfortably?

At this time I really didn't know what prog was.

It was only when I got hold of The Platinum Collection by Genesis that I really started to find out...

It's hard for me to say for a couple different reasons:

(1) Albums were shared among my family, and not just my parents and siblings, but a couple aunts and uncles and a grandfather, too (well, although that grandfather didn't collect rock, but still...).  I also had music teachers who were regularly giving me albums to take home and listen to for extended periods of time.  Add to this that I was a music fan going as far back as I can remember--and I started taking music lessons when I was only six years old--and it's difficult for me to remember who owned what and when (when because albums that music teachers let me borrow, for example, I gave back but then often bought it for myself at that point).

(2) I don't consider there to be any sort of clear distinction between psychedelic music and prog, and I think that stuff like the Grateful Dead, later Beatles, Amboy Dukes from at least the second album on, etc. are clearly prog.  This aspect is exacerbated by the fact that we were buying all of this music when it came out--I was six years old/I started taking drum lessons in 1968.

Re the stuff that would non-controversially be considered prog, though, I knew all of the following when they were new: the Nice albums, Zappa from We're Only in It for the Money (I heard the earlier albums by 1969/1970), Jethro Tull pretty much from the start, ELP from their start, and I knew the first three King Crimson albums and Genesis' Trespass by early 1971, the first three Yes albums by mid-1971.

Pink Floyd: DSOTM/WYWH/Animals/The Wall