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I started my prog listening by bying one of best albums ever made; Rush- moving pictures! After that I have bought Kansas, Marillion and more Rush! Pendragon and Saga is the next stepp...
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The first album that actually had the term 'progressive' assocated with it, was that Decca sampler Wowie Zowie The World Of Progressive Music.  However, previously I had bought a couple of Nice albums, the first Renaissance and Court Of The Crimson King, when these bands were called 'underground bands' by the musical press but going into our 'progressive music' section, along with the John Mayall and Canned Heat album,s in the record shop where I worked!!!
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Points: 15585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 21 2004 at 15:32

Had to look this up, but my fist ones were:

Nantucket Sleighride - Mountain (OK it's not prog as such, but it was pretty damn close)

From the Witchwood - Strawbs (Great album, with my limited resources, I had the choice of this or Audience's "House on the hill"). HOTH is great, but I always felt I made the right choice.

Relics - Pink Floyd (An early introduction to sounds I had not heard until then)

Pictures - ELP (I'd heard their first two, but this was the first I bought. It was a budget label release then, a sort of stop gap until "Trilogy" was ready. Superb stuff)
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Mine was ELP Trilogy which was followed by In the Court of the Crimson King by, you know whom.
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KC - ITCOTKC  was my first... Then I got the Yes Album and ELP's first album for my birthday.  With the money I received from my birthday.. I went and bought Ummagumma. 

I was very different from all the girls in my junior high school who were barely listening to David Cassisdy..maybe some of the cooler ones listening to the Allman Bros...  Hey I grew up in the South!
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When I was about 11, I ordered some hard rock CDs in search of some of the tunes of the SNES game 'Rock'n'Roll Racing', lots of Purple, Zeppelin and Steppenwolf that is. Somehow I had some bucks left, and recalled reading in a rock encyclopedia about King Crimson...the book recommended Larks' Tongues in Aspic, but for some reason, that one was full-priced, so I grabbed the first mid-price disc I saw...happened to be "Red"...been stuck here since then!
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I think it was actually Seling England by the Pound...that can get you a little spoiled to start. 
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I had two first prog' albums:

1.- Unaware of what prog means: Bought Uriah Heep Look at Yourself  before I heard the word progressive, I just loved that album.

2.- Totally aware of what Prog means: I was a prog newbie in 1976 and I asked a friend to bring me the album from Argentina (Not available in Perú) Six Wives of Henry the VIII had recently heard the excerps from Yessongs and was impressed, so asked for the album.

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Hmm. The first prog album I remember aquiring was a tape-copy of "Yessongs" my friend made me from his dad's vinyl.  The first I can remember actually buying myself would either be Yes-90125 or King's X-Faith Hope Love.  Yeah, I'm young (25).
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DREAM THEATER "Scenes from a Memory : Part II"  , in 2000 !

It has changed my music life for ever ...
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The first prog album i got, was also my first album ever

A collection of great dance songs-Pink Floyd.

it was a gift from my father in 1985, and i still got it!
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Originally posted by EVO EVO wrote:

The first prog album i got, was also my first album ever

A collection of great dance songs-Pink Floyd.

it was a gift from my father in 1985, and i still got it!

I reckon it was the first prog album I've ever heard.
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The first prog album? about four years ago, my brother passed along a copy of Dark Side, and I have been listening to that album virtually daily since! Around the same time, a good friend of mine recommended Rush to me, so I went out and found a copy of 2112. these two albums are what turned me onto prog!
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Points: 54 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 23 2004 at 14:06
Well, i was 9 years old (i'm 16 right now) when i bought my first Prog rock cd. I remember vividly, it was Porcupine Tree's "The Sky Moves Sideways".
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Well Minstrel X great to see young prog fans like yourself.My first prog album was ELP's 1st album with the incredible Knife Edge and the truly magnificent 'Take a Pebble' in 1970 it's been a rollercoaster of highs and lows in prog world ever since.
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my prog rock adventure started with tool. i saw the video for schism on kerrang! and thought it was so different to normal music. i found "lateralus" second hand and hated it so i thought it was a won off.

a month later i had all of tools albums as it grew on me so much and prog rock was the best thing in the world to me (and still is).

then i got into pink floyd and the mars volta and now i am into tonnes of prog bands.
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I bought Animals by Pink Floyd. Why? Hughie Green on 'Opportunity Knocks' went on about how good it was (I think he was sacked for this!), saying how his son kept playing it to him and he really loved it. English readers of a certain age might remember this happening.... 
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Points: 63 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 11 2004 at 21:48
Nursery Cryme. I bought it in 1971.
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