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Paco Fox 
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 Posted: July 15 2005 at 03:17 |
Mmmm... maybe Mike Oldfield's Amarok. I had listened to 'Islands' before, but just for the song 'Magic Touch'. I had seen the video on TV when it came out, and to this day it's still one of my favourites. One or two years later I bought 'Earth Moving'. When 'Amarok' came out, I bought it... and got a bit astonished. I even remember what I was doing when I listened to it the first time (washing the dishes!). It took me 3 or 4 years more to know about prog as a genre (remember, almost no internet then). The first record I bought knowing what I was getting into was 'Thick as a Brick'...
...And, from this day, I'm lost for social life. I became... A GEEK. Well, at least geeker than I was.
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NutterAlert
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Posted: July 15 2005 at 03:19 |
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Brain Salad Surgery
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Proud to be an un-banned member since 2005
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Valarius
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Posted: July 15 2005 at 03:52 |
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Queensryche's "Promised Land". At first I didn't like... I got Dream Theater's "Images And Words" and instantly fell in love with DT. But now I listen to "Promised Land" more often and really like it.
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R o V e R
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Joined: July 13 2005
Location: India
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Posted: July 15 2005 at 04:15 |
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in the court of the crimson king
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Pablo_P
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Joined: March 20 2005
Location: Poland
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Posted: July 15 2005 at 04:17 |
My first prog rock album? I remember that day about 5 years ago I bought AQUALUNG... Good album, I like Jethro Tull but I'm not a big fan of this band... Second prog album was "In the Court of the Crimson King" I bought maybe one month later and I became totally addicted to prog... 
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Pablo P.
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Moogtron III
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Joined: April 26 2005
Location: Belgium
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Posted: July 15 2005 at 04:58 |
Merlin by Kayak. I loved it, especially side 1, although I bought it because of the hitsingle on side 2, Seagull.
It's not only my 1st album in prog, but also my 1st album in general, by the way.
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Sekkyoku
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Joined: April 27 2005
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Posted: July 15 2005 at 05:44 |
Point Of Know Return, by Kansas, and Genesis´ Nursery Cryme. Found them in basements, at age of 15.
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Hammill
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Posted: July 15 2005 at 05:51 |
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the first album i bought was king crimson's itcotck about 6 or 7 years ago.
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Eetu Pellonpaa
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Joined: June 17 2005
Location: Finland
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Posted: July 15 2005 at 06:49 |
I listened heavymetal as an angry teenager, and DEATH's "Human" might be my first prog-album, if you accept DEATH as a prog (I'm not sure if it is).
Next step in my music evolution occured as I read from a newspaper an interview of girls going to Guns'n'Roses concert. They were asked, if they liked URIAH HEEP. They thought it was something terrible old music, andmotivated by this I went straight to record shop and bought URIAH HEEP's "Magician's Birthay".
I'm gettin' closer to the consensus of prog classification, but the last step was taken as I bought YES's "Yesterdays", as it had same kind of neat covers as Uriah Heep did. Thanks Roger!
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Zargus
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Joined: May 08 2005
Location: Sweden
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Posted: July 15 2005 at 06:59 |
Dark Side of the Moon, one hell of a start!
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chopper
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Posted: July 15 2005 at 07:32 |
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Genesis Live - the second album I ever bought after Billion Dollar Babies.
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aegis
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Joined: June 23 2005
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: July 15 2005 at 07:44 |
No doubts on this one... Fragile by Yes.
Bought it in 1975, and loved it ever since!
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daghrastubfari
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Posted: July 15 2005 at 08:01 |
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Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here. It was also one of my first albums, I
bought it together with Nirvana's in Utero around 8 months ago
during a holiday in Germany.
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Single Coil
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Posted: July 15 2005 at 08:27 |
I got into "Court of the Crimson King" and "Thick as a Brick" my freshman year of high school. Everyone else was listening to Michael Jackson and Men at Work... I did what I could to spread the word... but most people just didn't get it.
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If it's worth playing, it's worth playing loud!
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Dragon Phoenix
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Posted: July 15 2005 at 08:36 |
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IIRC, Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here. Quite some time ago.....
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Infinity
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Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: July 15 2005 at 08:50 |
First 2 (truly intentional) purchases - Rush: Retrospective Vol.1 & Yes: Close To The Edge
...suffice to say my collection (and obsession) is now much bigger
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I can't remember what I said
I lost my head.
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Gloryscene
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Posted: July 15 2005 at 09:29 |
My first investigative purchase was Yessongs and from there on in I started on a journey of fantastic discovery
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"The Beautiful Ally Of Your Own Gravediggers"
www.gloryscene.co.uk
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cobb
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Posted: July 15 2005 at 09:32 |
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Bought Yessongs back when it was released- That was an eye opener.
Again as a few have stated, Roger Dean was the motivation for that
purchase as well. Anyway I haven't looked back and have been a progger
long before the term was invented. It is good to see such a wealth of
prog music being produced nowadays after the dry times of the eighties
and early nineties.
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Gloryscene
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Posted: July 15 2005 at 10:01 |
 cobb wrote:
Bought Yessongs back when it was released- That was an eye opener. Again as a few have stated, Roger Dean was the motivation for that purchase as well. Anyway I haven't looked back and have been a progger long before the term was invented. It is good to see such a wealth of prog music being produced nowadays after the dry times of the eighties and early nineties. |
My purchase of Yessongs was about 18 months ago and it is indeed a masterpiece!!! The Mars Volta, Coheed & Cambria are just two of the top current acts
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"The Beautiful Ally Of Your Own Gravediggers"
www.gloryscene.co.uk
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dkearns
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Posted: July 15 2005 at 10:17 |
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Delicate Sound Of Thunder - an excellent place to ease into things really.
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