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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

I didn't have an older brother/cousin to guide me either, but there was the perfect record shop next to my school with the most excellent owner, always listening to my returns on what I bought before and guided me to other albums and always hit the spot (very few misses). The dude looked a lot like Roger Earle of Savoy Brown (later Foghat) and owned the Records On Wheels in Mississauga. 

Impossible to miss Harmonium's debut in the spring of 74 while still in Montreal, but by the fall I was in the greater Toronto area, and when I saw Crime of the Century in the ROW shop window, I knew I had to listen to that, so next day, I had enough money to take it home. 

When I came back astounded by what I'd heard, I asked him for more of the same, and out I came with DSOTM and the next time was ITCKOFCK. Of course TAAB and Aqualung were right up there, as well.
I did have an early near-miss with SEBTP at first, because I thought it was too weird-sounding (production-wise) but it clicked later, once I got ATOTT. 

Thanks for this Hugues; I'm always interested to read of the formative experiences of others. There appear to be a number of differences in our upbringings, which contributed to my backward development when it came to music, which I shall outline...

1) I didn't start buying any of my own music until 1983, by which time 'Prog' of any kind had an incredibly low profile. All the other kids at school were ironically more into the sort of stuff Greg lists in his polls than anything remotely prog.
2) I grew up in the middle of nowhere, on the edge of a village with a long (and expensive) bus ride to the nearest town, where there were only a couple of record shops.
3) I was one of four kids who didn't get much pocket money at all and was certainly not encouraged to spend it on music. My parents were quite erm 'Victorian' and vetted anything like this which came into the house... I was 16 by the time I got a modest allowance and the vetting relaxed a little.
4) The only exposure I got to any prog in early 80's Britain, would have been Tommy Vance's Friday Rock show, but you had to wade thru a tonne of hair metal before you heard anything more interesting. There were no mags I knew of and certainly nothing on the 3 channels of our TV screens at the time.
5) My father really disliked music as an art-form. I grew up in a house where the 'spoken word was king' and Radio 4 was on every morning and most weekends...

Reading this back now, it's flipping amazing I ever got to hear anything worthwhile at all!  LOL
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There wasn't much music played in our house; my father (secretly) enjoyed Jazz and big band music so i did hear some of that when i was younger; also some trad folk, church music and classical filtered through.. I remember being obsessed with Holst's The Planets when i was about 10! My older brother brought home tapes of Mike Oldfield, Rick Wakeman, Camel, Focus etc and these really caught my attention.. again, i got fixated on Tubular bells and broke his tape by playing it so much! At School i had a passing interest in Heavy Metal but it soon filtered out to more sophisticated bands such as Rush, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Magnum (loved Marauder live + the 2x 7'' eps.. why they didnt just make it a double lp, i dont know..) and then into NWOBPR.
I also really started to explore American West coast 60s & 70's, German and Italian bands as well as the more underground British progressive. Then i had a spell where music didnt feature so highly in my life until about 1993 when i started to re-discover and explore again.

So my list of most important 15 lps from my early years is:

Mike Oldfield- Tubular Bells (and Hergest Ridge, which i connect to more (emotionally) than TB
Rick Wakeman- Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the round table
Camel- Mirage
Focus- Focus (budget Polydor compilation album)
Barclay James Harvest- Time Honoured Ghosts
Stackridge- Friendliness
Hawkwind- Hawkwind (first lp i bought with my own pocket money..99p)
Genesis- Seconds Out
Genesis- Trick of the tail
Jeff Wayne's War of the World
Rush- Farewell to Kings
Caravan- land of grey and pink
Roy Harper- Bullinamingvase (one of those days in England)
Sensational Alex Harvey band- Live
Barclay James Harvest- Live Tapes (worked part of my summer school holiday potato picking to save up to buy this!)

The first 6/7 were tapes my brother brought home and the rest were (some) of the first lps i saved up to buy myself.


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Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

I didn't have an older brother/cousin to guide me either, but there was the perfect record shop next to my school with the most excellent owner, always listening to my returns on what I bought before and guided me to other albums and always hit the spot (very few misses). The dude looked a lot like Roger Earle of Savoy Brown (later Foghat) and owned the Records On Wheels in Mississauga. 

Impossible to miss Harmonium's debut in the spring of 74 while still in Montreal, but by the fall I was in the greater Toronto area, and when I saw Crime of the Century in the ROW shop window, I knew I had to listen to that, so next day, I had enough money to take it home. 

When I came back astounded by what I'd heard, I asked him for more of the same, and out I came with DSOTM and the next time was ITCKOFCK. Of course TAAB and Aqualung were right up there, as well.
I did have an early near-miss with SEBTP at first, because I thought it was too weird-sounding (production-wise) but it clicked later, once I got ATOTT. 

Thanks for this Hugues; I'm always interested to read of the formative experiences of others. There appear to be a number of differences in our upbringings, which contributed to my backward development when it came to music, which I shall outline...

1) I didn't start buying any of my own music until 1983, by which time 'Prog' of any kind had an incredibly low profile. All the other kids at school were ironically more into the sort of stuff Greg lists in his polls than anything remotely prog.
2) I grew up in the middle of nowhere, on the edge of a village with a long (and expensive) bus ride to the nearest town, where there were only a couple of record shops.
3) I was one of four kids who didn't get much pocket money at all and was certainly not encouraged to spend it on music. My parents were quite erm 'Victorian' and vetted anything like this which came into the house... I was 16 by the time I got a modest allowance and the vetting relaxed a little.
4) The only exposure I got to any prog in early 80's Britain, would have been Tommy Vance's Friday Rock show, but you had to wade thru a tonne of hair metal before you heard anything more interesting. There were no mags I knew of and certainly nothing on the 3 channels of our TV screens at the time.
5) My father really disliked music as an art-form. I grew up in a house where the 'spoken word was king' and Radio 4 was on every morning and most weekends...

Reading this back now, it's flipping amazing I ever got to hear anything worthwhile at all!  LOL

That sounds very similar to my experience; when i was much younger my mother was very religious and things were a bit, er, stiff (ie my Dad's 'secret' jazz and big band) but that (thankfully) passed and things became a lot more relaxed and open as i grew up so i was allowed to be a bit wilder than my older siblings. But we grew up on a farm in the middle of nowhere.. and had no money. And i listened to Tommy Vance tooLOL and Alan Freeman's saturday afternoon show before that. Most of my contemporaries were Punks and metal heads which was ok but there were a couple of 'old hippy couples' i knew who lent me some very interesting records.. and things went from thereBig smileWink

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That sounds very similar to my experience; when i was much younger my mother was very religious and things were a bit, er, stiff (ie my Dad's 'secret' jazz and big band) but that (thankfully) passed and things became a lot more relaxed and open as i grew up so i was allowed to be a bit wilder than my older siblings. But we grew up on a farm in the middle of nowhere.. and had no money. And i listened to Tommy Vance tooLOL and Alan Freeman's saturday afternoon show before that. Most of my contemporaries were Punks and metal heads which was ok but there were a couple of 'old hippy couples' i knew who lent me some very interesting records.. and things went from thereBig smileWink

Very much so.... I skirted around this in my above description, but control thru religious zeal was very much a factor for me too, and once again, my Mother was the driving force... and I was the oldest, with three younger sisters.
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Originally posted by Cosmiclawnmower Cosmiclawnmower wrote:

Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

I didn't have an older brother/cousin to guide me either, but there was the perfect record shop next to my school with the most excellent owner, always listening to my returns on what I bought before and guided me to other albums and always hit the spot (very few misses). The dude looked a lot like Roger Earle of Savoy Brown (later Foghat) and owned the Records On Wheels in Mississauga. 

Impossible to miss Harmonium's debut in the spring of 74 while still in Montreal, but by the fall I was in the greater Toronto area, and when I saw Crime of the Century in the ROW shop window, I knew I had to listen to that, so next day, I had enough money to take it home. 

When I came back astounded by what I'd heard, I asked him for more of the same, and out I came with DSOTM and the next time was ITCKOFCK. Of course TAAB and Aqualung were right up there, as well.
I did have an early near-miss with SEBTP at first, because I thought it was too weird-sounding (production-wise) but it clicked later, once I got ATOTT. 

Thanks for this Hugues; I'm always interested to read of the formative experiences of others. There appear to be a number of differences in our upbringings, which contributed to my backward development when it came to music, which I shall outline...

1) I didn't start buying any of my own music until 1983, by which time 'Prog' of any kind had an incredibly low profile. All the other kids at school were ironically more into the sort of stuff Greg lists in his polls than anything remotely prog.
2) I grew up in the middle of nowhere, on the edge of a village with a long (and expensive) bus ride to the nearest town, where there were only a couple of record shops.
3) I was one of four kids who didn't get much pocket money at all and was certainly not encouraged to spend it on music. My parents were quite erm 'Victorian' and vetted anything like this which came into the house... I was 16 by the time I got a modest allowance and the vetting relaxed a little.
4) The only exposure I got to any prog in early 80's Britain, would have been Tommy Vance's Friday Rock show, but you had to wade thru a tonne of hair metal before you heard anything more interesting. There were no mags I knew of and certainly nothing on the 3 channels of our TV screens at the time.
5) My father really disliked music as an art-form. I grew up in a house where the 'spoken word was king' and Radio 4 was on every morning and most weekends...

Reading this back now, it's flipping amazing I ever got to hear anything worthwhile at all!  LOL

That sounds very similar to my experience; when i was much younger my mother was very religious and things were a bit, er, stiff (ie my Dad's 'secret' jazz and big band) but that (thankfully) passed and things became a lot more relaxed and open as i grew up so i was allowed to be a bit wilder than my older siblings. But we grew up on a farm in the middle of nowhere.. and had no money. And i listened to Tommy Vance tooLOL and Alan Freeman's saturday afternoon show before that. Most of my contemporaries were Punks and metal heads which was ok but there were a couple of 'old hippy couples' i knew who lent me some very interesting records.. and things went from thereBig smileWink


Yikes.... PinchPinchPinch

Glad I'm of an atheist/agnostic background, though my grandparents were all 4 practicing Scatholic Wink

Yessss, my dad was a jazz fan (mostly swing) and a classical fan (lots of records at home), and my mom was more into music hall type of stuff (Piaf, Montand, Dietrich, Brel, etc...), so yeah, there was a lot of music home, including jazz greats spending the night at home (Memphis Slim et al... , but that stopped when my dad saw them fixing junk), because my dad helped organize concerts in clubs but that was before we left for Canada (I was 7, and don't have much concert souvenir - probably didn't attend many).

To avoid the allowance pocket money spending issues with parents; me & my two younger brothers delivered newspaper after school, which was comfortable income for kids our age. It doesn't mean that we didn't get anything from our parents (we did get "normal" amounts - whatever that meant), but it doesn't mean they were that relaxed on discipline . 




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My first 15 prog albums In chronological order, but not necessarily in order of purchase. Smile

5 stars 1973: Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv_4sZCLlr0
4 stars 1974: Rick Wakeman - Journey to the Centre of the Earth - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HVDIPmbCnE
4 stars 1974: Tangerine Dream - Rubycon - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd6XL_IOS3I
5 stars 1975: Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlNi-zZF6wI
4 stars 1975: Tangerine Dream - Ricochet - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM1Wc6ha_ic
4 stars 1975: Camel - The Snow Goose - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o51kWja3Rrw
5 stars 1976: Camel - Moonmadness - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYIBtjTeIFM
5 stars 1976: Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3hueHdzYSI

No prog albums by Caravan, Dead Can Dance, ELP, The Enid, Genesis, Hawkwind, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Nektar, Pink Floyd, Procol Harum,  Spooky Tooth, the Strawbs, Traffic or Wishbone Ash until after 2010. Embarrassed


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I surely like this idea of a thread (not quite new as far as I remember), but if I have to feel good about my list, I need to include some non-PA albums and to tell what I don't consider to be Prog (Progressive Rock).  Otherwise, my list consists of albums I got in early to mid-'70s, being a teenager, and there's some chronological order in it. 
Shortly after, I got really much into progressive music.

Black Sabbath (UK) - Vol. 4 (not Prog)
Deep Purple (UK) - Fireball (not Prog)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer (UK) - Trilogy
Moody Blues (UK) - Seventh Sojourn (not really Prog)
Procol Harum (UK) - In Concert with the Edmonton Orchestra (not really Prog)
Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles (USA) - Live! (not on PA)
Ten Years After (UK) - Rock & Roll Music to the World (not on PA)
T. Rex (UK) - Slider (not on PA)
Alice Cooper (US) - Billion Dollar Babies (not on PA)
Led Zeppelin (UK) - Houses of the Holy (not Prog)
Osibisa (Africa) - s/t  (not Prog but progressive)
Ekseption (NL) - Trinity
Golden Earring (NL) - Moontan (not Prog)
Savage Rose (DK) - Dødens Triumf (not really Prog)
Rick Wakeman (UK) - The Six Wives of Henry VIII


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^ It's a kind of my proto-Prog or proto-progressive period, and I'd still say, that was some good listening. Big smile








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Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Tangerine Dream – Exit (I went through the entire bin and this LP stood out)


Wasn't that just a great experience as a teen? When money was (always) tight, you scrabbled thru the bargain bin in the corner clutching at straws for inspiration, taking a punt and finding a real gem like that for 3 or 4 £?

Those were the days, my friend... Cool


It spake to me.

I don't recall what I paid, but it was still a "full-price" record at the time. having only been out a few years. Maybe it was a tenner.
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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:


I surely like this idea of a thread (not quite new as far as I remember)
It's a variation over a (common) theme.
Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Black Sabbath (UK) - Vol. 4 (not Prog)
Deep Purple (UK) - Fireball (not Prog)
Moody Blues (UK) - Seventh Sojourn (not really Prog)
Procol Harum (UK) - In Concert with the Edmonton Orchestra (not really Prog)
Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles (USA) - Live! (not on PA)
Ten Years After (UK) - Rock & Roll Music to the World (not on PA)
T. Rex (UK) - Slider (not on PA)
Alice Cooper (US) - Billion Dollar Babies (not on PA)
Led Zeppelin (UK) - Houses of the Holy (not Prog)
Osibisa (Africa) - s/t  (not Prog but progressive)
Golden Earring (NL) - Moontan (not Prog)
Savage Rose (DK) - Dødens Triumf (not really Prog)
Prog or not, all relevant in a progressive rock context methinks. Among other titles I'm glad to see Slider, an album I actually listened to earlier today.
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One point for The slider :-)
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Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Tangerine Dream – Exit (I went through the entire bin and this LP stood out)


Wasn't that just a great experience as a teen? When money was (always) tight, you scrabbled thru the bargain bin in the corner clutching at straws for inspiration, taking a punt and finding a real gem like that for 3 or 4 £?

Those were the days, my friend... Cool


It spake to me.

I don't recall what I paid, but it was still a "full-price" record at the time. having only been out a few years. Maybe it was a tenner.


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Spanning from early childhood to late teens (in chronological order)
Btw: during the years I obsessed with Genesis, King Crimson and Jethro Tull - I also tried an album each by Gentle Giant, Van Der Graaf Generator, Yes and a few more that I located in the Prog-section. But nothing had the same appeal to me. Only when I got back to them years later, it clicked (with Yes it has never truly clicked though). So while The Residents was instant love, most of the regular Prog took some getting used to. It's quite common for me. Loved Univers Zero and Art Zoyd the first time I heard them, while Camel and Renaissance did nothing for me (now I love all four).
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I can't remember the first prog album I ever bought out of my own money, but I do remember the first prog album I ever received as a present, and that was Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells at Christmas 1973, when I recall the full price of an album at the time was £2.39 from W.H. Smiths. Obviously, when I grew a little older and wiser, I realised W.H. Smiths' stationers wasn't the best place to look for the latest albums. Tongue
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Originally posted by mellotronwave mellotronwave wrote:

One point for The slider :-)

Yes, thanks for this correction, as I took the title from an old list, I made of the first records I got, and I wasn't so thorough with this title.

Thus: T. Rex - The Slider

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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Yessss, my dad was a jazz fan (mostly swing) and a classical fan (lots of records at home), and my mom was more into music hall type of stuff (Piaf, Montand, Dietrich, Brel, etc...), so yeah, there was a lot of music home, including jazz greats spending the night at home
Your parents sounds/sounded awesome. Actually there's nothing they were into that I couldn't enjoy myself. 
-I don't mean to complain. My parents had decent to normal tastes. The best of what they got according to me was: The Kinks, Beatles, The Troggs(!), a beautiful Bacharach/David-collection, Jimi Hendrix Smash Hits, Golden Hour of Donovan, ELO - Time, loads of ABBA, two Pink Floyd-albums, a bit of Queen, 1980's U2, 1970's Chris DeBurgh, a couple of Bruce Springsteen's (not a fan, but he's got some gems), Tom Waits, Nazareth... and about a dozen "basic" classical records (but very important to me)... could be much worse.
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

I didn't have an older brother/cousin to guide me either, but there was the perfect record shop next to my school with the most excellent owner, always listening to my returns on what I bought before and guided me to other albums and always hit the spot (very few misses).


I neither had any older siblings or cousins for guidance, plus my parents had no interest in music whatsoever. Their whole lives they never owned any equipment capable of playing music other than a radio, and then they mostly listened to spoken word broadcasts.

For me the big discovery started at Xmas 1970 when I received my own radio as a gift, and could finally listen to what I wanted in my own room... tho then we were in the pre-local stations era so music was pretty much limited to BBC Radio One, Radio Luxembourg, and the odd pirate station (when you could pick them up) such as RNI (Radio Nordsee international), Radio Caroline, or Radio Seagull. It was at my school mates' places that I first listened to albums by the likes Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, ELP, or Santana.

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Kind of hard to think back to what I was listening to back then and how they relate to prog but here's my best guess, no idea on sequence:-

Supertramp - Crime Of The Century
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Jeff Wayne - War Of The Worlds
ELO - Out Of The Blue
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Deep Purple - In Rock
Andre Lloyd Webber - Variations
Iron Maiden - Number Of The Beast
Genesis - Trespass
Rainbow - Rising
Led Zeppelin - IV
The Stranglers - No More Heroes
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Yessss, my dad was a jazz fan (mostly swing) and a classical fan (lots of records at home), and my mom was more into music hall type of stuff (Piaf, Montand, Dietrich, Brel, etc...), so yeah, there was a lot of music home, including jazz greats spending the night at home
Your parents sounds/sounded awesome. Actually there's nothing they were into that I couldn't enjoy myself. 
-I don't mean to complain. My parents had decent to normal tastes. The best of what they got according to me was: The Kinks, Beatles, The Troggs(!), a beautiful Bacharach/David-collection, Jimi Hendrix Smash Hits, Golden Hour of Donovan, ELO - Time, loads of ABBA, two Pink Floyd-albums, a bit of Queen, 1980's U2, 1970's Chris DeBurgh, a couple of Bruce Springsteen's (not a fan, but he's got some gems), Tom Waits, Nazareth... and about a dozen "basic" classical records (but very important to me)... could be much worse.


they weren't that cool (discipline was a rule)

Outside Stand Up and Hair's Broadway OST, they never had anything close to rock records at home and never really listened to it, though my daéd did keep an eye on what I was listening to.

They never had a hi-fi chain (which I bought my first in 76 aged 13), as my dad only owned two 3in1 stereo elements, with a t/t on top of the unit.  Conflicts arose, because I was "monopolizing" his Phillips installation and therefore the living room (or "The Den"), so I quickly came to the conclusion that my future Yamaha hi-fi would find room in my bedroom.


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Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Vangelis - Beauborg

You mean you learnt to appreciate the musical architecture of this album whilst still a teen?

Now, that's what I call precocious!!  

I'm not sure I actually liked it that much, but the artwork was fascinating! 
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