Your first Prog Song?

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.

Probably Genesis - Giant Hogweed & The Knife, I was given them on a mixed tape by a friend.

Y'all might not consider it prog, but looking back on it I do!

For me? Probably "Wish you were Here" Pink Floyd!

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 ;-)

Not sure which was my first song from a prog branded band. It was either ELP's The Three Fates or Close to the Edge. My friends dad had CTtE and my dad had ELP. It is entirely possible that I heard Nights in White Satin prior to that.

However, what I would consider the first prog song would be Elton John's Funeral for a Friend. And I stand 100% behind its progressive attribution, as well as that of several other songs on Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.

Hm, either anything on OK Computer if you count it, if not Pull Me Under since it's the first song on Images and Words, was the album that got me into it.

The first one I really remember listening to on my own was Constant Motion by Dream Theater when I was in middle school.  It had just come out at the time.  

Edited by Earendil - April 22 2013 at 20:48

More metally than proggy, but Panic Attack by Dream Theater got me into them, and soon I branched off into the prog world.

Hard to tell. A lot of what is considered prog was on the radio. I remember a friends brothers listening to Fragile. I heard Smoke on the Water when it first came out, does that count? I first heard Twenty First Century Schizoid Man in '74. I could feel the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end and thought "what the hell is this"? Never really looked back after that.