First Intro to Prog - Progressive Rock Music Forum

TheProgtologist wrote:

Fragile by Yes

Same for me. My intro to symphonic prog at least (my favorite genre, at least
at this point.)

One likes to believe
In the freedom of music
But glittering prizes
And endless Compromises
Shatter the illusion
Of integrity

Going for the one - Yes and Seconds out - Genesis...

Humm now we know why (along w/'Animals') '77 is my fave prog year!

Pink Floyd-Echoes
Genesis-A Trick of the Tail
Yes-Classic Yes

Like the Miracle said, I once was (and still sort of am) a classic rock fan. Again, like the Miracle (not exactly), I discovered this site by searching for Genesis songs and my prog tastes have grown from it and always will grow.

"It is impossible to achieve the aim without suffering." - Robert Fripp, from the title track of Exposure

I already knew a lot of Rush and Pink Floyd from the radio, as well as Tool and Radiohead. I think my first "official" prog album was The Fragile, by Yes.

my first excursion into prog was pink floyd, my dad was and still is obsessed. but the first band that i loved in prog that i discovered myself was Van Der Graaf Generator - H to He, Who Am The Only One. i fell in love with it right away, peter hamills voice just took me away.

Discipline- KC

Tho, i have heard Floyd's DSOTM before that, i didnt know it was prog and only looked at it as classic rock.

Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.

I very nearly didn't get into prog when I was younger:

I borrowed "Nursery Cryme" and "Foxtrot" from a friend, who had nicked them from his older brother, and I was desparate for more great music like this.

He lent me "Relayer" and "Fragile" and I absolutely did not get into them - too finicky and fussy for my taste, despite the odd great riff and stellar bass sound. Too much mouth and no trousers, IMO.

Thanks to Marillion, who I met after a small gig they did a few months before releasing "Script...", I got back into real prog, listening to the other Neo-Prog bands, especially Twelfth Night, who played regularly at my local boozer, the Enid, the tapes I'd made of the Genesis albums, Gentle Giant, Jethro Tull, King Crimson and loads more.

This was helped by Reading Rock festival 1982, which had a very high Prog percentage among the great NWOBHM bands: Iron Maiden, Budgie, Michael Schenker Group, Marillion, Pallas, The Enid, Praying Mantis, Tygers of Pan Tang, Bernie Marsden, Y&T... the list reads like a who's who of 1980s rock greats!!

But to this day I haven't got over my general loathing of Yes - especially for nearly turning me completely off Prog Rock

Pink floyd the wall, and then gentle giant with In a glass house and King Crimson Lark's tongues in aspic

Edited by Korova

La Speranza della coscienza è forza
La Speranza del sentimento è schiavitù
La Speranza del corpo è malattia
(G.I. Gurdjieff)

I started with Jethro Tull, Thick as a Brick

. I had no idea what progressive music was, I only knew what thing: I friggen loved that album. My dad showed me King Crimson: USA

, which blew my mind, and then U.K's wonderful debut

. Then I bought the wonderful album Fragile by Yes. I was addicted, for the better or worse.

My brother really likes prog, when I was 10 he lent me 2112 and hemispheres by Rush, they became my favourite band, but then he introduced me to Marillion a little later and I heard Brave. My love affair with prog really began with this...

"And so as I patrol in the valley of the shadow of the tricolour I must fear evil for I am but mortal and mortals can only die."