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Songs From the Wood was the first prog album I ever heard loooooooooooong before I knew what prog was, and then Tool's AEnima got me truly interested.
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I think I bought Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall and Wish You Were Here pretty much at the same time. Then a week after, I bought Yes' Relayer and Close to the Edge.
Jethro Tull's Thick As A Brick came not too far after.
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I don't really know how to answer this because for some reason people on this site act like it went from no prog rock to prog rock with a single album.  I worked my way through psych rock and kept going til I was in the middle of prog.  The clear transition going from psych to prog seemed continuous to me, but I guess I can pick out which ones were more proggy.  Probably Caravan's first album, or United States of America if its avant qualities justify it as prog.
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The first prog album I heard was this:



First prog album I owned is trickier...my dad took me to the music store and bought for me The Yes Album, Fragile and Close To The Edge, so I suppose those were the first three I owned.

First prog album I bought was probably Dark Side of the Moon...but I'm really not sure.

I know that when I was really young the first albums I owned were the blue and red Beatles albums that my dad bought for me when I was probably 10 years old. That was what got me into music in the first place.
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I can't say which the first Prog albums I listened to because my dad played Yes, Floyd, ELP, Genesis and Zappa since the day I was born.
 
However, I can tell which were my first Prog purchases:
 
Yeah, I know, polar opposites.
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Dark Side of the Moon, of course. Followed by Wish You Were Here & Moving Pictures.
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My prog collection began with these:

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Yes Yessongs album cover
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Originally posted by The Quiet One The Quiet One wrote:

I can't say which the first Prog albums I listened to because my dad played Yes, Floyd, ELP, Genesis and Zappa since the day I was born.
 
However, I can tell which were my first Prog purchases:
 
Yeah, I know, polar opposites.


No...you mean poles apart.  Wink
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The first I heard was Dark Side, as my parents own it.  The first I bought was King Crimson's Discipline. 
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Points: 15745 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 24 2010 at 17:02
Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Originally posted by The Quiet One The Quiet One wrote:

I can't say which the first Prog albums I listened to because my dad played Yes, Floyd, ELP, Genesis and Zappa since the day I was born.
 
However, I can tell which were my first Prog purchases:
 
Yeah, I know, polar opposites.


No...you mean poles apart.  Wink
 
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Originally posted by natewait natewait wrote:


I know that when I was really young the first albums I owned were the blue and red Beatles albums that my dad bought for me when I was probably 10 years old. That was what got me into music in the first place.






 I had those! Around the same age, too, or maybe a little younger

I was practically raised on The Beatles, and Dr. Seuss
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Outta of these 2 but its a bit like the chicken or the egg. I really cannot remember which one I bought first back then. My LP's before were all Beatles till the about 1970 Big smile Help was actually the first album that I bought back in 1968. ( Mono of course Tongue )
 
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Originally posted by Captain Clutch Captain Clutch wrote:

Originally posted by natewait natewait wrote:


I know that when I was really young the first albums I owned were the blue and red Beatles albums that my dad bought for me when I was probably 10 years old. That was what got me into music in the first place.






 I had those! Around the same age, too, or maybe a little younger

I was practically raised on The Beatles, and Dr. Seuss
 
Same with me (well, maybe not Dr. Seuss so much). I grew up listening to prog playing in my house since day one, so I have no idea what my first prog album would have been. I guess I was listening to prog the whole time, but it was only later on that I discovered it was "special".
 
Anyway, I very distinctly remember coming home from the record store with my first ever purchases, I might have been 9 or 10. And, looking back, I can definitely see how these two shaped my musical tastes, even today. LOL
 
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A certain album called Dark Side of The Moon, you may have heard of it, it's from a wee band called Pink Floyd, from Cambridge.
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Originally posted by Any Colour You Like Any Colour You Like wrote:

A certain album called Dark Side of The Moon, you may have heard of it, it's from a wee band called Pink Floyd, from Cambridge.
 
That's the one with the black prism in the cover?
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Points: 12294 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 24 2010 at 17:43
Originally posted by The Quiet One The Quiet One wrote:

Originally posted by Any Colour You Like Any Colour You Like wrote:

A certain album called Dark Side of The Moon, you may have heard of it, it's from a wee band called Pink Floyd, from Cambridge.
 
That's the one with the black prism in the cover?


Yeah, there's also this track with clocks, and coins cascading onto each other! It's pretty trippy eh, you should check it out sometime!
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Originally posted by Any Colour You Like Any Colour You Like wrote:

Originally posted by The Quiet One The Quiet One wrote:

Originally posted by Any Colour You Like Any Colour You Like wrote:

A certain album called Dark Side of The Moon, you may have heard of it, it's from a wee band called Pink Floyd, from Cambridge.
 
That's the one with the black prism in the cover?


Yeah, there's also this track with clocks, and coins cascading onto each other! It's pretty trippy eh, you should check it out sometime!

Wasn't that a cheap remake of this album?
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Points: 15745 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 24 2010 at 17:50
Originally posted by Any Colour You Like Any Colour You Like wrote:

Originally posted by The Quiet One The Quiet One wrote:

Originally posted by Any Colour You Like Any Colour You Like wrote:

A certain album called Dark Side of The Moon, you may have heard of it, it's from a wee band called Pink Floyd, from Cambridge.
 
That's the one with the black prism in the cover?


Yeah, there's also this track with clocks, and coins cascading onto each other! It's pretty trippy eh, you should check it out sometime!
 
Oh yeah, I've heard about it, but can't find it anywhere in the record shops, I've heard they haven't remastered it yet. Well, hopefully someday they will...
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Points: 12294 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 24 2010 at 17:54
Originally posted by The Quiet One The Quiet One wrote:

Originally posted by Any Colour You Like Any Colour You Like wrote:

Originally posted by The Quiet One The Quiet One wrote:

Originally posted by Any Colour You Like Any Colour You Like wrote:

A certain album called Dark Side of The Moon, you may have heard of it, it's from a wee band called Pink Floyd, from Cambridge.
 
That's the one with the black prism in the cover?


Yeah, there's also this track with clocks, and coins cascading onto each other! It's pretty trippy eh, you should check it out sometime!
 
Oh yeah, I've heard about it, but can't find it anywhere in the record shops, I've heard they haven't remastered it yet. Well, hopefully someday they will...


One can but dream...
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Points: 756 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 24 2010 at 18:02
Originally posted by unclemeat69 unclemeat69 wrote:

Originally posted by Any Colour You Like Any Colour You Like wrote:

Originally posted by The Quiet One The Quiet One wrote:

Originally posted by Any Colour You Like Any Colour You Like wrote:

A certain album called Dark Side of The Moon, you may have heard of it, it's from a wee band called Pink Floyd, from Cambridge.
 
That's the one with the black prism in the cover?


Yeah, there's also this track with clocks, and coins cascading onto each other! It's pretty trippy eh, you should check it out sometime!

Wasn't that a cheap remake of this album?
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No, that one's a remake of the Flaming Lips album. Wink
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