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Repner 
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 Posted: July 27 2010 at 09:37 |
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Probably Dark Side Of The Moon. Before I even knew what prog was
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BrufordFreak
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Posted: July 27 2010 at 07:14 |
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Besides the Beatles? URIAH HEEP's Demons and Wizards.
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Drew Fisher
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PhideauxFan
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Posted: July 27 2010 at 04:43 |
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The Wall by Pink Floyd or Fugazi by Marillion. I don't really remember ...
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Anthony
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Posted: July 27 2010 at 04:30 |
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A trick of the tail
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Future prosperity lies in the way you heal the world with love
(Introitus - The hand that feeds you)
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Vompatti
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Posted: July 27 2010 at 04:16 |
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Fragile.
Actually The Wall was the very first one, but I didn't understand it at that time (I was mainly into Bon Jovi) and sold it after a couple of listens.
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uduwudu
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Posted: July 27 2010 at 04:12 |
Can't remember the first prog album. But this tune sent me on my way. Note the influence on Genesis.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0thH3qnHTbI
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Dean
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Posted: July 27 2010 at 04:10 |
This was the first album I bought with money I'd earnt (rather than pocket money or a gift): 
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What?
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Ian Stuart
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Posted: July 27 2010 at 00:00 |
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I purchased the album In The Court Of The Crimson King, on vinyl, when it was released. And to tweak the memories of some of my contemporaries - I first heard it on Beeker Street , hosted by Clyde Clifford, on the AM radio "underground" show out of Little Rock Arkansas USA (which I was able to receive, atmospherically 'skip'ping in most of the late nights, in N. Illinois)! I too never looked back - although the term "progressive" came along much later ...
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KyleSchmidlin
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Posted: July 26 2010 at 21:53 |
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I had Thick as a Brick and Aqualung from a very early age, but didn't actually come to enjoy them until much later. I've had a lot of Pink Floyd for some years. But I think my first prog CD, and the second CD I ever bought, was Tool's Aenima, and even though my interest in that band (and metal music in general) has virtually evaporated I do still enjoy that album. I think when I first started buying prog I didn't know that I was buying prog.
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batbold66
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Posted: July 26 2010 at 17:56 |
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My first was YESSONGS. I saw the movie on NightFlight and had to have the LP.
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cloviskoba
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Posted: July 26 2010 at 17:50 |
Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear
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Moogtron III
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Posted: July 26 2010 at 15:53 |
My first album was a prog album   It was Merlin by Kayak.
Okay, maybe that particular '80's Kayak album was only half prog, especially the half with the King Arthur legends, (side 2 had some commercial sounding tunes also) but still... Kayak was a good stepping stone for me towards prog, together with the prog albums of my brothers.
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crimhead
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Posted: July 26 2010 at 14:25 |
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ELP's debut album, shortly followed by ITCOTCK.
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aapatsos
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Posted: July 26 2010 at 14:23 |
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It should have been I&W by Dream Theater or Parallels by Fates Warning
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anfega
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Posted: July 26 2010 at 13:55 |
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Dream Theater - Metropolis pt2
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Thomaesson
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Posted: July 25 2010 at 20:30 |
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Mine was "Songs from the Wood" - Jethro Tull
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The Truth
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Posted: July 25 2010 at 19:43 |
 The Truth wrote:
A Kansas live album with extended versions of songs my uncle gave me, I believe it was a bootleg. I didn't know it was prog at the time though. My first prog album bought knowing it was prog was Relayer. |
Looking back it actually seems like I may have had Dark Side of the Moon before Relayer... Maybe I didn't, I don't remember  (I don't recall, I got no memory, Of anything... Anything at all)
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jammun
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Posted: July 25 2010 at 18:22 |
Given that we can't even agree on what was the first prog album, and I was there for all of 'em, I have no idea.
I do know that I stopped listening to Jimmy Dean, Johnny Tillotson, and Terry Stafford (look 'em up on Wikipedia) and the other crap on the radio in rural New Mexico once I heard my first Beatles' single, which would be I Wanna Hold Your Hand. I realize this is not an entirely satisfactory answer, but after The Beatles it all just flowed together. Beatles, Yardbirds, Animals, Zombies. What do I know, I was wha? 11-12 years old? And then the floodgates opened...Cream, Hendrix, Nice and all the rest. A guy grows up listening to this stuff. What the hell's so unusual about Crimson or Yes?
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Can you tell me where we're headin'?
Lincoln County Road or Armageddon.
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Klogg
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Posted: July 25 2010 at 17:40 |
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The first rock album I heard (first time in listening ROCK!) was Aphostrophe by Frank Zappa, on the same day I listened Overnite Sensation!
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himtroy
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Posted: July 25 2010 at 15:34 |
My first full blown prog album where I realised I was onto something different from the psychedelic rock I'm used to was ELP-S/T. I was hanging out with a friend, and I'd just gotten in that elevated mindset for one of my first times ever. His brother comes in and blasts ELP....I remember it hitting me harder than a train into a small child. I was going crazy, thoughts like "what is this" kept going through my mind, then in Barbarian when it suddenly goes from heavy to soft piano I realised how beautiful this music was. After this I was lost for ten minutes during Take a Pebble...some of the most beautiful music I'd ever heard.
Unfortunately I could never get into ELP as much as many here have, but their first album, Pictures, and the A side of Tarkus are absolutely phenomenal material that will always be with me.
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