Your Progressive Biography

The first album you bought - My first prog. album is Dream Theater's Train of Thought.
The first album you loved - Dream Theater's Scenes from a Memory
The moment you discovered that you loved Prog - When I often listened to The Dance of Eternity.
Favourite drinking album - I do not drink... but if I do, I prefer The Mars Volta's Frances The Mute
Favourite relaxing album - No-Man - Schoolyard Ghosts
An album that makes you emotional - Remedy Lane by Pain of Salvation
An Album you would play to someone who doesn't know or enjoy Prog - Blackfield I & II
You are having dinner in a fancy restaurant with your partner, what album would you play? - Rainbow Children by Prince (not prog. but it's really cool to me).
You are having dinner in a fancy restaurant with your partner, what album would you play to annoy the other patrons? - Six Litanies for Heliogabalus by Mr.Zorn
Rarest Album/EP/Single (or version of) you own - I think I don't have one, could Dol Theeta and Oceans of Night (Scott Mosher's Band) be counted as rare?
Favourite guilty pleasure album - no, pleasure only.
Are you a Music Elitist? - No, I think I'll need more time... ('til Death.)

The first album you bought - King Crimson - Discipline
The first album you loved - KC - Discipline
The moment you discovered that you loved Prog - Hmm...tough call. I guess as I continued through KC's discog...which really isn't a moment. It happened more gradually.
Favourite drinking album - I usually don't drink and listen to music.
Favourite relaxing album -
An album that makes you emotional - VDGG - Godbluff/H To He..., PT - Stupid Dream
An Album you would play to someone who doesn't know or enjoy Prog - I made a mixed cd for someone as like an introduction to prog...but I suppose something a bit mellow...like Genesis' Foxtrot or Moody Blues' Days Of Future Passed. Somehing in the canterbury field probably would work too.
You are having dinner in a fancy restaurant with your partner, what album would you play? - Depends if I was there to talk to the other person or to listen to the music. To just throw one out there...Soft Machine - Vol II
You are having dinner in a fancy restaurant with your partner, what album would you play to annoy the other patrons? - Merzbow...any album really. In the prog realm...Present, 5uus, Ulver's first or third, other RIO or extreme metal.
Rarest Album/EP/Single (or version of) you own - Pfft. No Idea.
Favourite guilty pleasure album - Anything by A Flock Of Seagulls. In the prog world...idk. Don't thikn of prog as a guilty pleasure.
Are you a Music Elitist? - More likely than not.

The first album you bought - Fragile
The first album you loved - Yessongs was my first that made the sky open up
The moment you discovered that you loved Prog - "roundabout sounding out, love you so, love you so...."
Favourite drinking album - Minutemen - Double Nickels
Favourite relaxing album -  Oldfield
An album that makes you emotional - The Kick Inside-Kate Bush
An Album you would play to someone who doesn't know or enjoy Prog - In Absentia
You are having dinner in a fancy restaurant with your partner, what album would you play? - Opus Avantra - Strata
You are having dinner in a fancy restaurant with your partner, what album would you play to annoy the other patrons? - Jacula
Favourite guilty pleasure album - The Grand Illusion
Are you a Music Elitist? -  I'd like to be, but I still enjoy "99 luftballoons" and Styx's "Babe", so the Elitist Guild won't let me in.

Edited by Finnforest - April 17 2010 at 18:25

Great THRRREAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Edited by AtomicCrimsonRush - April 17 2010 at 08:54

The first album you bought - The Move ~ s/t
The first album you loved - The Moody Blues ~ Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
The moment you discovered that you loved Prog - probably listening to A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers around a friends house back in 1971.
Favourite drinking album - ??? ... never equated the two - I'll pick Meddle for the want of something to put.
Favourite relaxing album - The Cacophony Of Light ~ The Gaia Cacophony
An album that makes you emotional - Nine Inch Nails ~ The Downward Spiral
An Album you would play to someone who doesn't know or enjoy Prog - Pink Floyd ~ Dark Side Of The Moon
You are having dinner in a fancy restaurant with your partner, what album would you play? - David Bowie ~ Hunky Dory
You are having dinner in a fancy restaurant with your partner, what album would you play to annoy the other patrons? - Yes ~ Relayer
Rarest Album/EP/Single (or version of) you own - Kaleidoscope ~ A Tangerine Dream (vinyl)
Favourite guilty pleasure album - Buck's Fizz ~ Greatest Hits
Are you a Music Elitist? - Nope.


Edited by Dean - April 16 2010 at 13:44

A Person wrote: The first album you bought - Close to the Edge (first album I bought on my own, IIRC) The first album you loved - Dark Side of the Moon The moment you discovered that you loved Prog - Dark Side of the Moon Favourite drinking album - I don't drink, but if I did it would probably be Kind of Blue again. Favourite relaxing album - Kind of Blue An album that makes you emotional - Hazards of Love An Album you would play to someone who doesn't know or enjoy Prog - Rush of Floyd, nothing specific You are having dinner in a fancy restaurant with your partner, what album would you play? - Moonmadness I dunno why. You are having dinner in a fancy restaurant with your partner, what album would you play to annoy the other patrons? - Metal Machine Music Rarest Album/EP/Single (or version of) you own - I don't own anything rare Favourite guilty pleasure album - I don't feel guilty listening to music I like. Are you a Music Elitist? - no

Updated version.

Any Colour You Like wrote: All credit for this thread must go to Epignosis, as he gave me the idea.

It's nice to get credit for doing something I don't really remember doing, instead of getting chastised for doing something I don't really remember doing. 

Let's see here...

The first album you bought - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Greatest Hits; first prog- Kansas, The Best of Kansas
The first album you loved - For the longest time, I never listened to albums, just tracks. The exception to this would be Boston's debut- I wore out my dad's 8-track tape of it.
The moment you discovered that you loved Prog - Riding through the West Virginian mountains and listening to "Miracles Out of Nowhere."  I believe I was 15.
Favourite drinking album - Jethro Tull's A Passion Play or Miles Davis' Kind of Blue
Favourite relaxing album - David Gilmour's On an Island or Miles Davis' Kind of Blue
An album that makes you emotional - The Decemberist's The Hazards of Love or Castaways and Cutouts
An Album you would play to someone who doesn't know or enjoy Prog - Echolyn's The End is Beautiful
You are having dinner in a fancy restaurant with your partner, what album would you play? - Norah Jones' Come Away With Me
You are having dinner in a fancy restaurant with your partner, what album would you play to annoy the other patrons? - Done this several times but only in the course of entertaining myself, mind you (Wyatting, at it's called, I believe)- for this I will go with Yes's Close to the Edge
Rarest Album/EP/Single (or version of) you own - No idea- probably one of the albums from some of the bands I associated with and jammed with years ago (one of which came from the late Frank Hardwick).
Favourite guilty pleasure album - Back in Black by Amy Winehouse, but I could have answered this a hundred different ways
Are you a Music Elitist? - No sir.

The first album you bought - Both Massive Attack's Mezzanine and Oasis' (What's The Story) Morning Glory, sometime back in 1998
The first album you loved - Led Zeppelin I
The moment you discovered that you loved Prog - Seeing Live In Pompeii
Favourite drinking album - I don't need musical excuses to drink
Favourite relaxing album - Cool jazz a la Miles, chilling Cafe del Mar electro stuff or some indie-pop
An album that makes you emotional - Dark Side OF The Moon
An Album you would play to someone who doesn't know or enjoy Prog - Live In Pompeii
You are having dinner in a fancy restaurant with your partner, what album would you play? - Kind Of Blue
You are having dinner in a fancy restaurant with your partner, what album would you play to annoy the other patrons? - I wouldn't do that
Rarest Album/EP/Single (or version of) you own - Kumm's 10 ani (an unreleased anniversary box with unreleased material)
Favourite guilty pleasure album - If it's pleasure then it's not guilty
Are you a Music Elitist? - Not any more

The first album you bought - black sabbath - parinoid
The first album you loved - black sabbath- parinoid
The moment you discovered that you  loved Prog - when someone pointed out that 50% of my favorite bands were prog
Favourite drinking album - i quit drinking 
Favourite relaxing album - pink floyd - animals
An album that makes you emotional - nine inch nails - and all that could have been (still)
An Album you would play to someone who doesn't know or enjoy Prog - king crimson - discipline
You are having dinner in a fancy restaurant with your partner, what album would you play? - lovage - music to make love to your old lady by
You are having dinner in a fancy restaurant with your partner, what album would you play to annoy the other patrons? - CRASS - ANY ALBUM
Rarest Album/EP/Single (or version of) you own - I own an original pressing of the dwarves - tooling for a warm teabag
Favourite guilty pleasure album - hole - live through this
Are you a Music Elitist? sometimes but not often ( i live in the mid-western united states... all the radio stations are country western/ pop, its hard not to be a little)