Your first Prog album?

Well, I guess my first kind of prog-related albums would have been `Queen 1`, `Queen 2' and `Sheer Heart Attack' - those first three special Queen albums! I had never heard such adventurous `pop' music before, and definately got my interest going!

After delving into the usual Pink Floyd albums (Wall, DSOTM, WYWH), I would have to say my PROPER introduction to real prog would have been my chance meeting with Tom Ozric from these very Archives!

He leant me a tape which had Genesis `Nursery Cryme' on one side, and Eloy's `The Power and the Passion' on the over - WHAT A DOUBLE!!!

I had never heard inventive, strange and fascinating rock music like it!

Those two albums are still very special to me to this very day!

And all because Tom was wearing a Marilyn Manson t-shirt - or so I thought....turned out it was Marillion, after some confusion! He knows what this story is about!

Man, what year was that, Tom?! Seems like a lifetime ago!

Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - January 15 2013 at 23:37

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Well, I guess my first kind of prog-related albums would have been `Queen 1`, `Queen 2' and `Sheer Heart Attack' - those first three special Queen albums! I had never heard such adventurous `pop' music before, and definately got my interest going! After delving into the usual Pink Floyd albums (Wall, DSOTM, WYWH), I would have to say my PROPER introduction to real prog would have been my chance meeting with Tom Ozric from these very Archives! He leant me a tape which had Genesis `Nursery Cryme' on one side, and Eloy's `The Power and the Passion' on the over - WHAT A DOUBLE!!! I had never heard inventive, strange and fascinating rock music like it! Those two albums are still very special to me to this very day! And all because Tom was wearing a Marilyn Manson t-shirt - or so I thought....turned out it was Marillion, after some confusion! He knows what this story is about! Man, what year was that, Tom?! Seems like a lifetime ago!

Indeed - that must've been early in '95 (ooh, '96??........I still have that paper with everyone's names and phone numbers on it for some reason - it's really tatty now  - recall that 'hero' dude who was always full of himself  ??  - what a friggin' joker he was - Marcus).  Fortunately for us both, those 4 'Traineeship' () classes amalgamated into 1 for those of us stubborn enough to stick with it !!  It was that Marillion T-shirt - Marilyn Manson - WTF, are you dodging with my head ???  Amusing thinking back now how a T-shirt can start a cool, valuable friendship.  Prog rules !!

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: I like to think of it as a `prog destiny'!! If I recall, I rather liked the Manson `Superstar' album at the time (don't ask, but thinking back, I think there were several proggy elements on it?!) and I started talking about him thinking your Marillion/Jester t-shirt must have said `Marilyn' and the jester was him! Anyway, that random mistake change out musical paths forever...well, mine, you were well on the way already!

Hey, but I was all 'old school', and you always seeking out the up-to-date stuff.  You were into Floyd hardcore, so when some-one mentions Barrett, people listen...........

"Presto" by Rush, a month or so after that tour came to Quebec City.

The first one I owned (and probably listened to) was Muse's Black Holes and Revelations in 2007, though I didn't actually get into prog until later.

Gandalff wrote: Regarding me, it was Mike Oldfield´s Tubular Bells about 1986, thus in my 17.

Same album for me. November 1979.

THE FRIST PROG MUSIC TO BRING ME TO THE BROTHERHOOD/SISTER`S. WAS

Argus by Wishbone Ash

The Wall; it was pretty much the only prog album we had in the house growing up. The saddest part was, my father only really bought it for "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2".

The first I heard were Pink Floyd's "Atom Heart Mother" and "Ummagumma" one afternoon about forty years ago.  I listened to my dad's records for a bunch of years after that.The first I bought for myself was Rush's "A Farewell To Kings", in 1980