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Posted: November 26 2004 at 13:33 |
I didn't make this a poll, as someone is bound to think of something that I didn't put on the list - and anyway, the purpose of this thread is to try to collect some data surrounding the birth of prog (Oooh! a thread on a mission!) - specifically, the first prog album.
I'm going to go with the obvious choice, because I can't think of anything earlier which I would consider a bona fide prog album (but then I've been flat on my back with a mad dose of the flu for the past 3 days or so, hence the old braincell isn't clicking away as it normally does);
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Posted: November 26 2004 at 13:40 |
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the beatles with argent peps by tha beatles! My mom says that its the trippiest album of her teen days. lol
&nbs p; &nbs p; &nbs p; &nbs p;
g2g ps that guy is freaky!
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Posted: November 26 2004 at 13:46 |
Yep Cert: ITCOTCK
All others need not apply.
Case closed.
Move along now!
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Posted: November 26 2004 at 13:56 |
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lol
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Posted: November 26 2004 at 14:18 |
Just to stir things up a bit, I'll go with "Shine on brightly" by Procol Harum, which includes the magnificent "In held 'twas in I".
Prog didn't suddenly arrive overnight of course, it evolved. I reckon "SoB" was the first complete prog album though.
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Posted: November 26 2004 at 14:27 |
 Easy Livin wrote:
Just to stir things up a bit, I'll go with "Shine on brightly" by Procol Harum, which includes the magnificent "In held 'twas in I".
Prog didn't suddenly arrive overnight of course, it evolved. I reckon "SoB" was the first complete prog album though.
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 Wrong wrong WRONG Breezy!
Prog sprang fully-formed, from the head of Zeus/Fripp, with ITCOTCK!
Prior to that, all was formless darkness.
Stop arguing before I come over there and STRAIGHTEN YOU OUT, kilt boy! 
 "Procul-Freekin-Harum" indeed! Ha! 
Where's a symbol for "infinity" (as in, how long this debate will go on) when I need one?
Edited by Peter Rideout
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Posted: November 26 2004 at 14:34 |
Peter Rideout wrote:
Yep Cert: ITCOTCK
All others need not apply.
Case closed.
Move along now!
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Yes, yes, yes. Quite right.
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Posted: November 26 2004 at 15:09 |
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The Nice 'Ars Longa Vita Brevis'-1968.Keith Emerson,Lee Jackson,Brian Davison and Davy O'List were doing prog before Fripp and his chums.
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Posted: November 26 2004 at 15:13 |
richardh wrote:
The Nice 'Ars Longa Vita Brevis'-1968.Keith Emerson,Lee Jackson,Brian Davison and Davy O'List were doing prog before Fripp and his chums. |
Arrrrrrgggghhhhhh!!!!!
"Pop!" 
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
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O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Posted: November 26 2004 at 15:18 |
Peter Rideout wrote:
richardh wrote:
The Nice 'Ars Longa Vita Brevis'-1968.Keith Emerson,Lee Jackson,Brian Davison and Davy O'List were doing prog before Fripp and his chums. |
Arrrrrrgggghhhhhh!!!!!
"Pop!"
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Don't be daft.
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Posted: November 26 2004 at 15:37 |
richardh wrote:
The Nice 'Ars Longa Vita Brevis'-1968.Keith Emerson,Lee Jackson,Brian Davison and Davy O'List were doing prog before Fripp and his chums. |
Agreed.
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Posted: November 26 2004 at 15:43 |
Peter Rideout wrote:
Easy Livin wrote:
Just to stir things up a bit, I'll go with "Shine on brightly" by Procol Harum, which includes the magnificent "In held 'twas in I".
Prog didn't suddenly arrive overnight of course, it evolved. I reckon "SoB" was the first complete prog album though.
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Wrong wrong WRONG Breezy!
Prog sprang fully-formed, from the head of Zeus/Fripp, with ITCOTCK!
Prior to that, all was formless darkness.
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I totally disagree. Prog Progressed through quite a few related events that culminated with ITCOTCK and others of that year and the next. 
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Posted: November 26 2004 at 16:17 |
Actually, an unstated goal of this thread is to make some kind of attempt at disproving the "Big Bang" theory.
Or confirming it.
Or at least attaining oblivion - whichever comes first...
So keep the agreements, arguments and alternatives coming 
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Posted: November 26 2004 at 16:30 |
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Posted: November 26 2004 at 16:37 |
richardh wrote:
Peter Rideout wrote:
richardh wrote:
The Nice 'Ars Longa Vita Brevis'-1968.Keith Emerson,Lee Jackson,Brian Davison and Davy O'List were doing prog before Fripp and his chums. |
Arrrrrrgggghhhhhh!!!!!
"Pop!"
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Don't be daft. |
No no, not "pop" as in pop music, "pop!" as in the vein in my forehead bursting!
(That's why I put the word in quotation marks. Print can be a less-than-adequate medium for communication....)
Edited by Peter Rideout
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Posted: November 26 2004 at 16:38 |
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Posted: November 26 2004 at 16:40 |
Peter Rideout wrote:
Yep Cert: ITCOTCK
All others need not apply.
Case closed.
Move along now!
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How hard is it? Case closed? How many times do I have to say it? 
FREAK OUT!
It's the oldest album listed in the Archives. It's the first album by the genius Frank Zappa. It's the first album to combine rock with avant-garde. The songs may not all be progressive, but the record as a whole IS.
Case closed! 
(hey, I'm serious)  
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Posted: November 26 2004 at 16:49 |
Garion81 wrote:
Peter Rideout wrote:
Easy Livin wrote:
Just to stir things up a bit, I'll go with "Shine on brightly" by Procol Harum, which includes the magnificent "In held 'twas in I".
Prog didn't suddenly arrive overnight of course, it evolved. I reckon "SoB" was the first complete prog album though.
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Wrong wrong WRONG Breezy!
Prog sprang fully-formed, from the head of Zeus/Fripp, with ITCOTCK!
Prior to that, all was formless darkness.
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I totally disagree. Prog Progressed through quite a few related events that culminated with ITCOTCK and others of that year and the next.
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Wasn't it obvious that I was joking? Of COURSE prog, like all forms of music, EVOLVED.
Duh!
(Evolved from the Monkees, I hear....)
I don't effing know what effing album was the effing first effing prog album! (I was only 7 or 8 years old!) -- I leave that to more "seasoned" & informed souls, like Maani "the Word" Alterman, Dick "I was there" Heath, and Queasy "I'm Scottish" Liver.
Now Cert: Definitively define "prog," please....
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O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
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Posted: November 26 2004 at 16:52 |
Of course, if prog "evolved," there really was no definitive "first" prog album....
 Sorry, but I think that the question is kind of pointless, comrade Cert. I think that the best you can hope for is a list of multiple proto-prog "firsts."
Edited by Peter Rideout
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O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
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Posted: November 26 2004 at 17:04 |
Absolutely right!
Searching for the "first" prog album will be as fruitless as searching for the evolutionary missing link-it doesnt exist.
Mind you Peter, I cannot for the life of me understand why you get your pampered knickers in a twist everytime someone misses your clumsy attempt at whimsy!
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