Forum Home Forum Home > Progressive Music Lounges > Prog Recommendations/Featured albums
  New Posts New Posts RSS Feed - What was your first prog album?
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Events   Register Register  Login Login

Topic ClosedWhat was your first prog album?
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  <1 2345>
Author
Message
  Topic Search Topic Search  Topic Options Topic Options
aapatsos View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: November 11 2005
Location: Manchester, UK
Status: Offline
Points: 9226 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2010 at 14:23
It should have been I&W by Dream Theater or Parallels by Fates Warning
Back to Top
crimhead View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar
VIP Member

Joined: October 10 2006
Location: Missouri
Status: Offline
Points: 19236 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2010 at 14:25
ELP's debut album, shortly followed by ITCOTCK.
Back to Top
Moogtron III View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: April 26 2005
Location: Belgium
Status: Offline
Points: 10616 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2010 at 15:53
My first album was a prog album ApproveCoolApproveCoolApproveCool 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.
Back to Top
cloviskoba View Drop Down
Forum Groupie
Forum Groupie
Avatar

Joined: July 26 2008
Location: Brazil
Status: Offline
Points: 54 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2010 at 17:50

Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear
Back to Top
batbold66 View Drop Down
Forum Newbie
Forum Newbie
Avatar

Joined: June 29 2010
Status: Offline
Points: 3 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2010 at 17:56
My first was YESSONGS. I saw the movie on NightFlight and had to have the LP.
Back to Top
KyleSchmidlin View Drop Down
Forum Newbie
Forum Newbie


Joined: December 21 2009
Location: Texas, USA
Status: Offline
Points: 22 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2010 at 21:53
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.
Back to Top
Ian Stuart View Drop Down
Forum Groupie
Forum Groupie
Avatar

Joined: February 05 2010
Location: IL USA
Status: Offline
Points: 95 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2010 at 00:00
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 ...
Back to Top
Dean View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout

Joined: May 13 2007
Location: Europe
Status: Offline
Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post 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):
What?
Back to Top
uduwudu View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member


Joined: July 17 2007
Status: Offline
Points: 2601 		Direct Link To This Post 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.Wink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0thH3qnHTbI
Back to Top
Vompatti View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar
VIP Member

Joined: October 22 2005
Location: elsewhere
Status: Offline
Points: 67407 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2010 at 04:16
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.
Back to Top
Anthony View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: April 08 2006
Location: Netherlands
Status: Offline
Points: 774 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2010 at 04:30
A trick of the tail
Future prosperity lies in the way you heal the world with love
(Introitus - The hand that feeds you)
Back to Top
PhideauxFan View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: August 14 2007
Location: France
Status: Offline
Points: 4579 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2010 at 04:43
The Wall by Pink Floyd or Fugazi by Marillion. I don't really remember ...
Back to Top
BrufordFreak View Drop Down
Collaborator
Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: January 25 2008
Location: Wisconsin
Status: Offline
Points: 8192 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2010 at 07:14
Besides the Beatles? URIAH HEEP's Demons and Wizards.
Drew Fisher
https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/
Back to Top
Repner View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member


Joined: September 16 2007
Location: Scotland
Status: Offline
Points: 203 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2010 at 09:37
Probably Dark Side Of The Moon.  Before I even knew what prog was
Back to Top
Klogg View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: April 10 2010
Location: Goiânia-Brazil
Status: Offline
Points: 682 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2010 at 09:45
Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

Besides the Beatles? URIAH HEEP's Demons and Wizards.

Ermm, none of them are prog
Back to Top
Philliam View Drop Down
Forum Newbie
Forum Newbie
Avatar

Joined: November 10 2007
Location: Wisconsin
Status: Offline
Points: 3 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2010 at 15:25
Either Permanent Waves, or Seventh Son of a Seventh Son can't remember which
Back to Top
Wookie View Drop Down
Forum Newbie
Forum Newbie


Joined: July 27 2010
Location: Russia
Status: Offline
Points: 3 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2010 at 15:41
I had some Pink Floyd CDs all along and never paid them any attention... Until one day I realized there was some music other than the stuff I listened to back in the day.
The first album I bought was "In the Court of the Crimson King" by King Crimson.
Back to Top
Bitterblogger View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member


Joined: November 04 2007
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 1719 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 28 2010 at 00:18
Originally posted by Captain Clutch Captain Clutch wrote:

The first one I ever heard was one of these two; can't be sure what, but both were years ahead of other stuff


O Captain My Captain (credit W. Whitman)
This is it exactly, with the purchase of Fragile.
Back to Top
refugee View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar
VIP Member

Joined: November 20 2006
Location: Greece
Status: Offline
Points: 7026 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 28 2010 at 05:52
And Then There Were Three, followed by A Trick of the Tail … and the rest of Genesis’ back catalogue, of course.
He say nothing is quite what it seems;
I say nothing is nothing
(Peter Hammill)
Back to Top
b4usleep View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: December 21 2009
Location: Istanbul
Status: Offline
Points: 620 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 28 2010 at 08:44
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.


So many of us
Really don't mind if you sit this one out.
My words but a whisper, your deafness a shout.
Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  <1 2345>

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down



This page was generated in 0.170 seconds.
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.