Forum Home Forum Home > Progressive Music Lounges > Top 10s and lists
  New Posts New Posts RSS Feed - Your first Prog album?
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Events   Register Register  Login Login

Topic ClosedYour first Prog album?
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  <1234 11>
Author
Message
  Topic Search Topic Search  Topic Options Topic Options
lazland View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: October 28 2008
Location: Wales
Status: Online
Points: 13759 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2010 at 10:52
When I was a kid in Essex, my cool next door neighbours used to babysit for me, take off my sister's Osmonds singles, and put on Black Sabbath & Deep PurpleCool That would have been around 1973.

As for myself, my cousin introduced me to Yes GFTO in 1976. I bought it, and a lifelong love affair with prog started. I was just 11 years old.
Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org

Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time!
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: 67425 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2010 at 10:54
The Wall. The first one I liked was probably Fragile.
Back to Top
chrijom View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: October 23 2010
Location: UK
Status: Offline
Points: 683 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2010 at 10:56
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound, sometime in the early '80s.
Back to Top
italian fan View Drop Down
Forum Newbie
Forum Newbie
Avatar

Joined: July 10 2010
Location: italy
Status: Offline
Points: 17 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2010 at 11:01
my first prog album I bought  was "Live in USA" by Premiata Forneria Marconi and this happened in 1975;it's still one of my favourite between more one thousand I heard and 35 years I listened.....
Back to Top
Stooge View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: April 09 2009
Location: Toronto, Canada
Status: Offline
Points: 1003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2010 at 11:03
Without diving into prog-related or proto-prog, my first prog album may have been The Wall.  I probably got this when I was around 18 or so, so I was pretty late in getting into prog music.  I think I also got my first fusion album, Weather Report's "Heavy Weather" around the same time.
Back to Top
Formentera Lady View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: August 20 2010
Location: Germany
Status: Offline
Points: 1840 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2010 at 11:05
Genesis - Three Sides Live, about 1981.
Back to Top
J-Man View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: August 07 2008
Location: Philadelphia,PA
Status: Offline
Points: 7826 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2010 at 11:12
Genesis - And then There Were Three followed by Genesis - Selling England by the Pound. I was probably in the 8-9 year old range.

Check out my YouTube channel! http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime
Back to Top
Epignosis View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: December 30 2007
Location: Raeford, NC
Status: Offline
Points: 32546 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2010 at 11:16
As I recall, this:

Kansas The Best of Kansas album cover

(1984 version)

Then this:

Yes Yessongs album cover
https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays
Back to Top
TheGazzardian View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: August 11 2009
Location: Canada
Status: Offline
Points: 8760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2010 at 11:38
First I bought was Echoes - Pink Floyd. Although I never really thought of Pink Floyd as prog or that much different than other Classic Rock artists back then; first I bought where I knew something was different about the music upon listening was Relayer by Yes, so I think that counts more.

Although it was Fragile that got me really into the stuff.
Back to Top
CPicard View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: October 03 2008
Location: Là, sui monti.
Status: Offline
Points: 10841 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2010 at 13:31
Frankly, I couldn't say: my father always listened to Pink Floyd (and also Jean-Luc Ponty and Pat Metheny), while my mother enjoyed Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin (plus a ton of funk/soul like James Brown or Aretha Franklin).
So, I guess I've been exposed to Progressive music at a very young age.
Back to Top
Theriver View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: March 13 2010
Location: Lisbon Portugal
Status: Offline
Points: 181 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2010 at 13:37

Genesis live
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: December 19 2010 at 13:41
First album I ever bought was a prog album: "Merlin" by Kayak in 1981. I was 16 years old.
 
But, I grew up as a kid between three teenage prog loving brothers, being immersed in music of Genesis, Yes, ELP, Procol Harum, Focus, Jethro Tull etc. when I was about 6 years old, really liking it too, hearing quite some prog music in my early youth.
Back to Top
The Block View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: September 01 2009
Location: St. Alfonzo's
Status: Offline
Points: 924 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2010 at 13:46
Selling England by The Pound....I was 10.
Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp!

Back to Top
Mastosis View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: November 24 2010
Location: Siberian Divide
Status: Offline
Points: 119 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2010 at 14:43
It was probably Dark Side of the Moon when was 15 or 16. I listened to it in one sitting and was blown away.
Back to Top
richardh View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: February 18 2004
Location: United Kingdom
Status: Offline
Points: 28830 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2010 at 15:16
I bought ELP - Pictures At An Exhibition when I was about 14. Absolutely hated it but not long after they released Fanfare For The Common Man with that great video filmed in the Montreal Olympic Stadium and that persuaded me to give some of their other stuff a try. Tarkus got me hooked and it went on from there.

Edited by richardh - December 19 2010 at 15:17
Back to Top
kjprogger View Drop Down
Forum Groupie
Forum Groupie
Avatar

Joined: October 29 2008
Location: San Diego
Status: Offline
Points: 85 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 20 2010 at 16:32
A Trick of the Tail at age 17.  And I haven't looked back since. 
Back to Top
The Wrinkler View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: December 03 2009
Status: Offline
Points: 638 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 20 2010 at 16:42
First Prog album I owned: Fragile
Back to Top
kplloyd View Drop Down
Forum Newbie
Forum Newbie
Avatar

Joined: November 10 2005
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 12 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 20 2010 at 16:51
Yes' Fragile, shortly after it came out ...
Back to Top
BarryGlibb View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: August 28 2010
Location: Melbourne, Oz
Status: Offline
Points: 1781 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 20 2010 at 17:03
Thick As A Brick, 1972, age 13.
Back to Top
The Wrinkler View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: December 03 2009
Status: Offline
Points: 638 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 20 2010 at 17:03
^ What a year! 
Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  <1234 11>

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down



This page was generated in 0.098 seconds.
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.