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Abrawang 
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 Posted: April 16 2009 at 23:15 |
In chrono order:
1 - Long Tall Sally - The Beatles - I was a kid and this was first taste of rock 'n roll. Great time to get started and it put me off most of the pre-Beatles (i.e. Elvis) pop for decades.
2 - Sgt. Pepper's - In three years they go from I wanna Hold Your hand to A Day in the Life. Being young, I took for granted that it wasn't so unusual for a good band to develop like this. It really broadened my conception of how varied rock and pop could be.
3 - Days of Future Passed - The early stages of prog. Got me thinking how the complex composition of classical could be converted or adapted to contemporary music styles.
4 - Highway 61 Revisited - Dylan - So musical inventiveness wasn't limited to four or five guys with long hair and electric guitars. Lyrics mattered and you didn't have to have a traditionally "good" voice to get you ideas across.
5 - Thick As a Brick - OK, the chains are off. Who knows what the limits are with prog?
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Casting doubt on all I have to say...
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el dingo
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Posted: April 17 2009 at 02:59 |
MEDDLE - Pink Floyd
First album (cassette) I bought when it came out and with my own money from the British tradition of doing a paper round. One of These Days and Echoes freaked me out - the tracks after OoTD gave no hint of what Echoes would be like on the first play. My first listen to an 'epic'. Still a favourite today.
BLACK SABBATH - Black Sabbath
I actually got Paranoid and this at the same time but there's not room for two Sabbaths with only five choicesand I prefer this. Everyone says it, but the opening chords to the album were quite something to a 13-y-o kid in 1971 - and still are today. Grew my hair and got a wooden cross on Kensington market.
A NOD'S AS GOOD AS A WINK TO A BLIND HORSE - Rod Stewart & The Faces
Bought on the strength of Maggie May & Stay With Me. My fave live band of all time, they reminded you of how music could be fun, fun, fun. Humorous, poignant, okay a bit shambolic in places but who cared? And I just loved their hard-drinking, who-gives-a-toss image.
LONDON CALLING - The Clash
I was never a punk but I heard this, cut my hair and ditched the flares. Awesome live, too. Years later my mate opened a tattoo studio and one of his first jobs was to do the full-colour album cover that covers one of my shoulder-blades. Simenon trashing his bass... what an iconic image.
THE HOLY BIBLE - Manic Street Preachers
One of the most lyrically powerful albums ever, it seems like the documentation of a personal insanity (as indeed it probably was). Stripped down red-hot bursts of guitar-fuelled anger, it killed the myth that MSP were pretty boys jumping on a bandwagon. Not to be played when you're in a bad mood.
Sorry they're not all prog but the question said albums that changed your life, and these are the ones that changed mine.
And I've been lucky enough to see all of them live, all of them more than once and all of them in their heyday 
Edited by el dingo - April 17 2009 at 03:03
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It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough.
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Green Shield Stamp
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Posted: April 17 2009 at 11:45 |
Here's my contribution. These albums have meant a great deal to me in different periods of my life.
The closing adagio still reduces me to tears. The most profoundly moving music I have ever heard.
I know it's an obvious choice, but I love jazz and this is a perfect album in so many ways.
The album that started my love affair with prog rock. I bought it in 1979 when I was 15 and I still listen to it regularly...and to my ears it sounds as fresh as the day I bought it.
This album made me aware of how excellent lyrics could add a whole new dimension to the enjoyment of music.
Tom Waits 'Blue Valentine'. Waits' broken-bar-stool philosophy gives a tremendously humane portrayal of fragile, damaged lives - with wit, generosity and sincerity. He is a true poet. My favourite lyricist of all. The boozy, off-centre performances perfectly express the subject matter.
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Haiku
Writing a poem
With seventeen syllables
Is very diffic....
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W.A.S.P
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Posted: April 17 2009 at 13:08 |
Sabaton - The Art Of War
Rush - Fly By Night
Judas Priest - British Steel
Genesis - Turn It on Again : The Hits
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
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Telinstryata
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Posted: April 17 2009 at 14:27 |
Going by the stipulation that these are albums that have changed my life, I must be honest. Some of these are rather embarrassing now. These are in chronological order of receiving/purchasing. 1) Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry  The first "metal" album I ever owned. My parents got it for my for Xmas when I was a kid. I still get nostalgic whenever I hear the classic drum intro from "We're not going to take it" 2) Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood 3) Iron Maiden - Seveneth Son of a Seventh Son The first albums I ever purchased with my own money. I still listen to Iron Maiden quite a bit...Motley Crue on the other hand......  4) Metallica - ...And Justice For All The first Metallica album I heard/purchased and my love of metal has grown stronger ever since. 5) Dream Theater - Awake The first Dream Theater album I ever purchased and my first foray into prog metal. Buying that album lead me to look for other bands like them. Which in turn lead me here to PA. My eyes were opened wide by this site and the amount of excellent music out there. Not just in prog metal, but in all of the other genres as well. Since first frequenting this site (I'm only new to the forum, not the site) I have come close to doubling my collection of CDs, with Procupine Tree, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Opeth, Genesis, etc, etc,etc
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demolition man
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Posted: April 17 2009 at 15:43 |
No fancy album covers here 
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Solar Fire - The Greatest band on the planet ever since!
Genesis - The Lamb - OMG
ELO - Face The Music - Tremendous!
John Miles - Stranger In The City - Music was my first love!
Abraxas - 99 - Polish Prog is awsome
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Zargus
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Posted: April 17 2009 at 18:36 |
Dark side of the moon
In the court of the crimson king
Close to the edge
Who's Next
The Doors
Edited by Zargus - April 20 2009 at 09:00
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el dingo
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Posted: April 18 2009 at 00:59 |
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Is that Led Zep IV, Sabbath's Vol. IV or both? |
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It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough.
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Bodysnatcher
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Posted: April 18 2009 at 17:34 |
Genesis - The Lamb
Peter Gabriel - PG I
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Radiohead - OK Computer
No explanations.....probably it would be boring ! but these albums really changed my life at some point !.
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Just cos you feel it, it doesn´t means it´s there....
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E-Dub
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Posted: April 18 2009 at 19:53 |
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Rush - Moving Pictures
This album forced me to listen to the music and structure of a song, which basically escaped me previously in my early years.
U2 - The Joshua Tree
This album changed the way I listen to music. Prior to this I just listened to hard rock and heavy metal.
Pat Metheny Group - Letter From Home
Metheny was one of my first introductions to jazz. Very light, airy and ethereal...really impacted me back in the 80's.
Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
I remember seeing the video of "The Flight Of Icarus" on MTV and completely being blown away by it. Iron Maiden showed me that a metal band can, indeed, be complex and multi-layered.
Marillion - Brave
I think we all know how much I love this album--wasn't always the case, however. I remember not being all that blown away by it. One day it just suddenly hit me, and every subsequent listen forces me in deeper and deeper. A true masterpiece and the best thing Marillion has ever produced.
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: April 18 2009 at 20:18 |
Lets see and in order:
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1.- In the mid 70's when i was a very small kid (10 or 11), I listened top 40 until I bought this album:
Uriah Heep - Look at Yourself
Still didn't knew it was Prog, as a fact i didn't had a clue what prog was, but found there was something better than top 40.
2.- To impress an older girl, I told her her strange music was great, she was listening this album:
Yes - Yessongs
My first steps into Prog.
3.- The first Prog album i bought with my allowance:
Rick Wakeman - Six Wives of Henry the VIII
Listened it so much, that was scratched all over.
4.- Discovered the best band ever:
Genesis - Foxtrot
This was the moment i decided to become a Proghead.
5.- Prog didn't die in 1978.
Anglagard - Hybris
Iván
Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - April 19 2009 at 11:41
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angelmk
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Posted: April 18 2009 at 21:10 |
Genesis - Selling England by the pound Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven Amon duul 2 - Phalus dei Agalloch - The Mantle Pink Floyd - The Wall
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ghost_of_morphy
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Posted: April 19 2009 at 00:44 |
 Telinstryata wrote:
Going by the stipulation that these are albums that have changed my life, I must be honest. Some of these are rather embarrassing now. |
I applaud you on entering the spirit of this post. I certainly am not proud of listing a Jefferson Starship album that I haven't listened to in nearly twenty years, but it definitely was a defining point of my life.
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Zargus
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Posted: April 19 2009 at 05:32 |
el dingo wrote:
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Is that Led Zep IV, Sabbath's Vol. IV or both? |
Sry for that i edited it its Led zeppelin ofc, IV or ZoSo well i usualy call it IV.  I dont like top 5 lists like this caus there is always more albums i whuld like to add... well after some thinking i changed paranoid & IV to whos next and the doors first album caus i think i got em earlier and that they where more important, in changing my music life.
Edited by Zargus - April 20 2009 at 09:00
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maninthejar
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Posted: April 19 2009 at 05:49 |
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david bowie
the rise and fall of ziggy stardust and the spiders from mars
queen
queen 2
genesis
the lamb lies down on broadway
alice cooper
killer
deep purple
made in japan.
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el dingo
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Posted: April 21 2009 at 02:58 |
maninthejar wrote:
david bowie
the rise and fall of ziggy stardust and the spiders from mars
queen
queen 2
genesis
the lamb lies down on broadway
alice cooper
killer
deep purple
made in japan. |
 Most of these would have been in my top 10 or twenty - but we were only allowed five!
for Queen II - one of my all-time faves. I completely lost interest in them after Sheer Heart Attack.
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It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough.
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npjnpj
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Posted: April 21 2009 at 04:01 |
1) For me it all started in 1970 with Deep Purple In Rock.
2) A short while later along came Led Zeppelin 2
3) Then I heard Yessongs at a friend's house.
4) In 1975 someone introduced me to Frank Zappa's One Size Fits All.
5) Then it all flows along until a mate introduced me to Dream Theater's Scenes From A Memory.
Of course there were a lot of minor ones in between, but I'd name the above as my major landmarks.
Edited by npjnpj - April 21 2009 at 04:02
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ZowieZiggy
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Posted: April 27 2009 at 06:32 |
- Abraxas (from Santana): my first album ever (January 1971)
- Selling England By The Pound (Genesis)
- YesSongs (Yes)
- Horses (Patti Smith)
- The Clash (The Clash)
These really changed my life. Besides there are of course lots of great recordings I profundly love. A hundred or so (have a look at my 5 star ratings).
Take care.
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Valarius
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Posted: April 27 2009 at 14:39 |
Kiss - Destroyer
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Megadeth - Risk
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Michael Jackson - Dangerous
Something like that, not really in any particular order though.
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emerson_wakeman
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Posted: April 30 2009 at 08:56 |
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ELP - Pictures at an Exhibition
Camel - Mirage
Grobschnitt - Solar Music Live
Pink Floyd - Dark side of the Moon
Colosseum - Live
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