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Neo-Romantic 
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Tom Sawyer. Heard it on the radio on my way home from school one day in my early-mid teens about a decade ago. I didn't think too much of it at first admittedly, but then when I started playing drums I decided to get the Moving Pictures album remembering the drum part was unlike anything I'd ever heard before and wanted to figure out what went into playing so masterfully. It all spiraled out from there over the next few years.
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Posted: April 19 2013 at 17:08 |
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The Beatles. "Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band", the whole record through headphones on high-end equipment for the era, it was there it all started, as prog as prog can be and something alike never heard before. Jimi Hendrix was waiting in the wings ...
Of slightly more modern bands, Queen II was an eye opener, as was Foxtrot and Nursery Cryme, to keep it short that was the beginning since then hundreds of bands and thousands of records have passed. Dream Theaters Images and Words was a milestone in recent time, Steven Wilson holds up the flag today, but there are so much great music out there and a lot of it are crossbred and a fusion of different styles so much is prog without strictly being "prog". I think the bandname of Dream Theater says a lot, it's an audible theatre to dream to - even for us non potheads ;-)
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Mr. Maestro
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Posted: April 08 2013 at 21:17 |
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Wakeman's Journey to the Centre of the Earth was my first encounter with prog. I listened to that album many times as a child, long before I knew what "prog" was. I only discovered the genre years later when I heard "Carry On Wayward Son" and Floyd's "Brain Damage" on the radio and took an interest.
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theadolescentprogger
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Posted: April 08 2013 at 21:06 |
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For me? Probably "Wish you were Here" Pink Floyd!
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Posted: April 08 2013 at 14:30 |
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I bought Roundabout as a single when I was 8. I was working my way up from Donny Osmond and Bobby Sherman.
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Posted: April 08 2013 at 12:48 |
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Y'all might not consider it prog, but looking back on it I do!
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Ambient Hurricanes
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Posted: March 28 2013 at 23:25 |
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I can't possibly remember the first prog song I heard (Kansas? Pink Floyd?) but the song that kickstarted my prog addiction was The Spirit of Radio by Rush.
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: March 28 2013 at 18:43 |
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Probably Genesis - Giant Hogweed & The Knife, I was given them on a mixed tape by a friend.
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axeman
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Posted: March 28 2013 at 17:06 |
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I can't even recall when I fist heard the term prog rock. |
I can. I was in a usenet newsgroup when we got tired of punk-alternative fans going on to alt.rock.progressive and sniping that people still listening to 70s music was the opposite of "progressive". "Real progressive" was the simplistic angst-driven discordant folk(?) that they listened to.
It's a good example of how to win a battle by retreat. "Hey, let's just call it 'prog'! There's no contention over the name 'prog'." In the 70s, I'm pretty sure we referred to it as "Art Rock", but sometimes "progressive music".
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axeman
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Posted: March 28 2013 at 16:52 |
Although to some, Carry on Wayward Son might be a suitable answer. And it is almost there, but the real jump was after buying Leftoverture to deal with the weird last track ( Magnum Opus). Once I absorbed that song, I was on the prog path. Then I started listening to AOR radio, and heard more Kansas, Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, and Jethro Tull.
That is, I might have heard I Know What I Like before that--and I can almost swear that I heard Roundabout before that. I'm pretty sure I like Roundabout from the get-go, though there was something definitely in there that nobody else was doing.
But my first involvement with prog was Kansas->Leftoverture->Magnum Opus.
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The Bearded Bard
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Posted: March 28 2013 at 15:50 |
Oh, I didn't hear it in 1967 or something like that. Probably in the '90's, on the radio.
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dr wu23
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Posted: March 28 2013 at 14:50 |
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. |
That works for me......I can't even recall when I fist heard the term prog rock.
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dr wu23
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Posted: March 28 2013 at 14:49 |
The Bearded Bard wrote:
Probably something by Pink Floyd. |
As early as Arnold Layne or See Emily Play....or later...?
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Larree
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Posted: March 28 2013 at 14:44 |
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.
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The Bearded Bard
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Posted: March 28 2013 at 14:40 |
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Probably something by Pink Floyd.
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Larree
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Posted: March 28 2013 at 14:39 |
dr wu23 wrote:
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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.
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Same here. First thing I heard that is actually called "progressive rock" today was ITCOTCK. But I do not think the "progressive rock" genre even existed when I heard ITCOTCK for the first time! In theory, I can say that my listening tastes were always progressive in nature anyway. Even before the invention of the genre.
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dr wu23
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Posted: March 28 2013 at 14:25 |
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.
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akaBona
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Posted: March 28 2013 at 10:14 |
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 
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Ruby900
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Posted: March 28 2013 at 10:10 |
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Close to the Edge for me - my parents had it on LP, and I stil love it!
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"I always say that it’s about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place". Rick Wakeman
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the only sane man
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Posted: March 28 2013 at 08:14 |
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...... 
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