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ProgMetaller2112 
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 Topic: Your first Prog Song?
Posted: January 22 2013 at 23:20 |
I've been wondering when you finally heard your first prog song?I'll give mine away "The Spirit of Radio" by Rush. 
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Posted: January 22 2013 at 23:39 |
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As fate would have it, on my parents old console record player, Yes's Close to the Edge. I still remember it like it was yesterday. There were other songs on the radio and such that I may have heard before that could have been prog, but it was not until CTTE that I knew what it was.
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Posted: January 22 2013 at 23:44 |
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Showing my age with this one: The Yes Album, 1971. Been hooked on Prog ever since.
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Posted: January 22 2013 at 23:45 |
^ Don't feel bad, I am there with you... 
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Posted: January 22 2013 at 23:45 |
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Floyd - "Money". It all started for me with the radio, so ... . If asking for "real" prog, then "The Court of the Crimson King", I think.
Edited by Dayvenkirq - January 23 2013 at 00:23
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Posted: January 22 2013 at 23:54 |
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The first... "Far Cry" by Rush. It was the first time I knew I was listening to Rush at least. Other than that, the first three prog songs I listened to where I knew it was prog were "Roundabout", "21st Century Schizoid Man", and "The Knife" in that order.
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Posted: January 23 2013 at 02:27 |
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"The Gumbo Variations" is the first one I remember hearing. I must have been about three years old.
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Posted: January 23 2013 at 07:48 |
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I'm another one showing my age-Aqualung. Back in eight grade we had a music class and had to bring in an album and select a track to play the class. A girl in my class brought the Agualung album, newly released, and played the title track.
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Posted: January 23 2013 at 07:55 |
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My dad had a lot of prog albums when I was growing up, so it's hard to say what came first. I just kind of grew up with it. Even when I was 5 years old I had 2 of my own Moody Blues records.
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Posted: January 23 2013 at 08:06 |
Not really counting hearing tracks like `Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen, or even (dare I say it?) `November Rain' by Guns N Roses or various 80's Metallica, all of which have prog elements, I think my first taste of what lead to proper prog was hearing the album `Queen 1', with tracks like `Great King Rat' and `Liar' with their little multi-sections and different directions.
I had never heard pop/rock music like it, and it certainly made me take notice! Soon after, it was devouring all of Floyd's albums, by my first proper intro to `real' prog was a cassette with Genesis `Nursery Cryme' on one side and Eloy's `Power and the Passion' on the other, given to me by chance by my old friend and Archives member Tom Ozric! 
Cue much expanding of my mind....! 
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Posted: January 23 2013 at 08:35 |
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Abbey road, side 2.
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Posted: January 23 2013 at 08:41 |
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Since first 3 Floyd albums are pure psychedelia, I'll say Atom Heart Mother, the song.
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Posted: January 23 2013 at 10:40 |
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Red Barchetta By Rush, My parents taped their wedding song over it and gave it to the DJ to play at the reception. I found it years later in my Dad's old apartment that he hung on to for years. Even though it cut in midway through the song I listened to it for years. For the record, this was the Exit Stage...Left Version and I was about 4-5 years old.
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Posted: January 23 2013 at 18:31 |
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Back when they played great music on the radio: 'Roundabout' got me into Yes; 'Aqualung' got me into Jethro Tull - both in 1971 when I was 12...
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Posted: January 23 2013 at 18:53 |
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A Change of Seasons by Dream Theater was the song that got me into prog.
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Posted: January 23 2013 at 19:31 |
ProMetaller  I honestly can't say or remember which was first, the reason is that I had no idea it was prog, only later I found out that what I tend to like/listen is considered/named prog
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ProgMetaller2112
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Posted: January 23 2013 at 20:27 |
 Dayvenkirq wrote:
Floyd - "Money". It all started for me with the radio, so ... . If asking for "real" prog, then "The Court of the Crimson King", I think.
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“War is peace.
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"Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart
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Dayvenkirq
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Posted: January 23 2013 at 20:28 |
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^ "Real" because some people don't consider Floyd prog enough.
Edited by Dayvenkirq - January 23 2013 at 20:29
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ProgMetaller2112
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Posted: January 23 2013 at 20:31 |
Dayvenkirq wrote:
^ "Real" because some people don't consider Floyd prog enough. |
no no not that "You just aren't ready to step into the Court of The Crimson King for your first prog song, that's a no no", Andrey
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“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
"Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart
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Dayvenkirq
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Posted: January 23 2013 at 22:16 |
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^ OK, I have no idea what you are talking about, man. It really was one of my first prog experiences.
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