Your first Prog Song?

Dayvenkirq wrote: ^ OK, I have no idea what you are talking about, man. It really was one of my first prog experiences.

It don't get any better than that of course everything is all downhill from there

I have no idea.  How can you remember such a thing?

The first song that pulled me right into prog was Kansas' Magnum Opus, never looked back

I remember. It was the summer of my sophomore year and my brother and I were staying in Walnut Creek, California and frequenting Rasputin's (a local record store). We bought a copy of Blue Oyster Cult's Fire Of Unknown Origin. After enjoying it very much we went back and asked the clerk there what else he might reccomend and he handed me my first (of many) copy of Rush' 2112. Unfortunately for the next 8 years of my life I was a Rush fan and had no idea that there was a wider world of Prog Rock until I myself started working at record stores, and many years still after that, landed a job at a record store with a Prog enthusiast who showed me the real Genesis. The rest is prog history.

When I was about 10 I definitely heard Bungle In the Jungle by Tull and loved that. Someone gave me vinyl Aqualung and I didnt understand it. I heard on radio heaps of Queen and Bowie. Ziggy Stardust spiders From Mars album was heard. Some Pink Floyd was heard but again misunderstood. I heard some early Yes from the 70s, and Genesis.

Back in around 1980 when I was about 12 I rifled through my older cousin's record collection and discovered the previously unheard of 2112 and The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, playing them one after the other....and then again, and again, and again. My life was never the same from that point onwards...... 

South Side Of The Sky from radio programme called Popnonstop. It took some time to find out what was and who performed that song. Anyway, it changed my life 

dr wu23 wrote: infocat wrote: I have no idea.  How can you remember such a thing?     Heh...you stole my reply.        If the Moody Blues are 'prog' then it would have to be Nights In White Satin or Ride My See Saw from In Search Of....but the first thing I heard that was what people called prog now was ITCOTCK when I heard it in the spring of '70...or maybe Astral Traveler by Yes in 1970.....we are back to what one considers prog again.

The Bearded Bard wrote: Probably something by Pink Floyd.

Larree wrote: The Bearded Bard wrote: Probably something by Pink Floyd. I heard all the early Pink Floyd before I heard ITCOTCK, but always considered them psychedelic.  I don't think anything was actually called "progressive" until the early 1970's.