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toolis 
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 Topic: Album that broke your prog cherry!
Posted: May 20 2007 at 12:02 |
Pink Floyd - The Wall for me but back then i didn't know i was listening to sth called prog... then DT and Fates Warning came... i still can't sleep on my back...  
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-music is like pornography...
sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more...
-sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue...
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Dim
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Posted: May 20 2007 at 11:56 |
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Yessongs!!! Greatest thing Yes put out, and a major eye opener.
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ClassicRocker
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Posted: May 19 2007 at 18:16 |
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I was caught unawares by the "ELP Threesome": BSS, Tarkus; and Trilogy..
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Pekka
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Posted: May 19 2007 at 11:00 |
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I think I was listening to Dream Theater way before I got into prog, I just thought of it as a bit more complex metal, and can't really see that it lead me anywhere more proggish. It was just a metal band I liked. Then a bit later came Absoluuttinen Nollapiste (a Finnish band in the prog-related category) and Sigur Rós that opened my mind a lot, and the latter got me interested in King Crimson's Starless and Bible Black, since I thought that the song Trio had a lot of Sigur feel to it. I borrowed that album from my cousin, but it didn't really blow my mind, which was exactly what the song Starless did when my friend sent it in mp3. So after a few steps it was King Crimson's Red which did the job for me.
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prog4evr
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Posted: May 19 2007 at 10:46 |
 fuxi wrote:
...RELAYER. Boy, what an initiation! |
Same for me. Couldn't agree more...
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magnus
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Posted: May 19 2007 at 09:58 |
chamberry wrote:
For me it was the ever-so-obvious Dream Theater's Metropolis pt.2
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mine as well  although, I didn't truly open my eyes for prog until about 5 years later, because Thick as a Brick surely managed to make me feel like a virgin again 
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The scattered jigsaw of my redemption laid out before my eyes
Each piece as amorphous as the other - Each piece in its lack of shape a lie
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Sckxyss
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Posted: May 19 2007 at 02:33 |
De-loused in the Comatorium was my first, and a life-changing experience it was... I'd never heard anything like it and thought TMV were the most inspired and unique band of all time! 
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paolo.beenees
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Posted: May 17 2007 at 13:53 |
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"Smogmagica" by Le Orme. I didn't like it, but it made me very curious about 1970s rock in Italy and abroad
Edited by paolo.beenees - May 17 2007 at 13:54
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progismylife
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Posted: May 17 2007 at 13:40 |
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Yes - Fragile
which was shortly followed by
Genesis - Foxtrot
then I discovered King Crimson
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Arsillus
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Posted: May 17 2007 at 13:38 |
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I was already pretty familiar with Rush and Yes, but it wasn't until I first purchased and heard In The Court of the Crimson King that everything clicked.
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daz2112
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Posted: May 17 2007 at 13:25 |
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Genesis - Foxtrot...When it first came out in 1972 when i was 10 years old!
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In the constellation of cygnus,There lurks a mysterious force...The black hole
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maribor
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Posted: May 17 2007 at 08:00 |
Genesis - We Can't Dance of all things
and later
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery (that was probably the real introduction)
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Non mi svegliate
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willy
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Posted: May 16 2007 at 21:58 |
2112 by our lovable canadian friends (rush  ). T'was a good place to start with prog imo.
Edited by willy - May 16 2007 at 21:59
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moreitsythanyou
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Posted: May 16 2007 at 20:30 |
Either The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute or Radiohead - OK Computer
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oracus
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Posted: May 16 2007 at 20:28 |
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In prog the album di terra for BMS.. Absolutely brilliant (it reminds me Stravinsky's Rite of Spring)
Generally in music, Albert Ayler shake my world. I couldn't believe what i've heard. Magic genius madness
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Ryth
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Posted: May 16 2007 at 20:07 |
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2112 by Rush and Meddle by Pink Floyd.
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Drakk
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Posted: May 16 2007 at 18:38 |
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Technically, I think it was Kansas, but my first love of Prog came from Genesis, I do believe.
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[QUOTE=darkshade] [QUOTE=Sckxyss]
I'm disappointed - neither of these players are avant-garde!
Al di Meola.
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haha i know. but the poll itself is avant-garde
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scott_c
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Posted: May 16 2007 at 16:25 |
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2112 I think.
Although I did hear Pink Floyd's The Division Bell at 9 years old or something. Its still about my favourite album ever.
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LeInsomniac
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Posted: May 16 2007 at 15:31 |
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It was Genesis - the lamb lies down on broadway, followed by all the prog albums by them. Then it was Yes with close to the edge and then everything else came...
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Happy Family One Hand Clap, Four Went On But None Came Back
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mystic fred
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Posted: May 16 2007 at 12:10 |
I think "Trespass" did it for me - the most beautiful thing i'd ever heard... 
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