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Poll Question: Which of the following bands was your entryway into progressive rock?
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9 [5.81%]
36 [23.23%]
27 [17.42%]
15 [9.68%]
9 [5.81%]
7 [4.52%]
6 [3.87%]
2 [1.29%]
3 [1.94%]
5 [3.23%]
36 [23.23%]
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    Posted: September 09 2008 at 15:39
Genesis, Jethro Tull, Marillion, Mike Oldfield

Edit: oh yeah... like someone said above, "technically Dream Theater" - even though they were never one of my favourite bands (still aren't), they still managed to make me curious enough to check out some prog rock.


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A 3 record compilation of DP of the best of MKI MKII and MKIII, then Yes Close To The Edge, TOTO, ELP first album and Tarkus, Yes, Relayer, etc.




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Selling England By The Pound was really when I got into prog, and Drama continued the trend.

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technically Dream Theater, because I used to listen to metal all the time, but they did not really influence my interest in prog rock, and partially because i did not know prog rock existed.

early Phish is really what got me into exploring this "strange new world" of music, and is what brought me to this very site. and the rest was history.
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My actual first encounter with Progressive Rock was with Rush. And I've been listening to them pretty intensely ever since. Especially their "Permanent Waves", "A Farewell to Kings", "Hemispheres" albums. I think if I remember correctly the first song I heard by them was "Closer to the Heart" which is still etched on to my memory.

And thus I was opened up to the prog world.  o_o
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Pink Floyd and Dream Theater

Listening DT for the 1st time was INCREDIBLY INCREDIBLE 'cause I used to listen sh*tty music
then I realized that DT are not that big, but were LOL

And Pink Floyd, I started with "the Wall" since I was kid, and then Wish you were here and DSOTM etc.Clap
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Yes.

My dad played me The Heart of the Sunrise and I haven't looked back since.

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Originally posted by MisterProg2112 MisterProg2112 wrote:

Dream Theater.


Same for me.
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Pink Floyd, although I think King Crimson made me love the genre.
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I found an old 8track player in a used speedboat that my parents bought and it had one 8 track with it (some Motown crap if I remember correctly.)   I promptly went out and bought John William's soundtrack to the Star Wars film.  (Yep this dates me.)  That Christmas my parents bought me four 8 tracks and two of them were Fragile and The Yes Album.  I've been hooked ever since.
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Dream Theater.
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Well back when I was getting a band together in my earlier Junior High years, I was getting into all kinds of classic rock. I was downloading a lot of Pink Floyd off of iTunes, and I thought they were cool. So like all things I think are cool, I researched them. Wikipedia said they were categorized as something under prog rock. I looked up prog rock but really didn't get the Wikipedia defenition of it. It also mentioned something about a band called King Crimson defining the genre. So I listened to the song "In the Court of the Crimson King".
 
So back then, I thought prog was basically slow music with keyboards.

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Real headscratcher that one...who could it be...?
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Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord to be precise - had been listening to a lot of folk & psychedelic-pop up until then, but this album turned my head completely, more so than Sgt Pepper at the time.
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almost simultaneously, Genesis and Yes...Rush & Marillion followed shortly afterwards...Big%20smile
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A mixture of The Mars Volta and Coheed and Cambria...


yes my past didn't change since last time I posted in this thread.

Edited by moreitsythanyou - August 23 2008 at 17:37
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Tool-I didnt even listen to music before i found tool
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THE GROUNDHOGS - SAW THEM AT THE TENDER AGE OF 17 ON TOP OF THE POPS PLAYING THEIR 'SIGNATURE'  CHERRY RED. WAS ONLY USED TO TRACKS LASTING 3 MINUTES SO THIS AT 6 MINS WAS REAL 'UNDERGROUND' STUFF - AND TS MCPHEE IS STILL GOING STRONG - PLAYING IN RUNCORN ON 31ST MAY AGED 64!
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Hi,

I started with ELP self-titled when it was released. After that I listened a lot of earlier music as well, Nice, Beggars Opera etc. but ELP was the one that opened "bandoras box" for me. And the box has been open since that.

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Had to be Yes.
 
I had earlier heard Court of the Crimson King, which got my attention but I didn't dive into it.
 
I first heard Yes at my very first rock concert (Mott the Hoople in Tunbridge Wells, Kent). They had been playing tunes over the PA during setup. Shortly before the band was ready, they played Yours is no disgrace off the just-released Yes album. I was absolutely blown away and hooked for life.
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