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The.Crimson.King 
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Posted: January 30 2016 at 10:54 |
Seems we talk a lot about the "big 6" 70's prog bands...I thought it would be fun to turn the "big 6" concept around to a chronological list of the 1st 6 prog albums you actually bought and your age when you started (as opposed to the 1st 6 you heard which may have been owned by a friend, older sibling or parent) and when you made the purchase - if you can still remember 
I bought my 1st prog album at 15 years old...
1) Brain Salad Surgery Jul '75 2) Close to the Edge Sep '75 3) Relayer Nov '75 4) Tales from Topographic Oceans Feb '76 5) Minstrel in the Gallery Apr '76 6) Trick of the Tail May '76
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Posted: January 30 2016 at 11:18 |
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My list would be rather boring (the list, not the music!) because it was like ...
Genesis, Trespass
Genesis, Nursery Cryme
Genesis, Foxtrot
Genesis, Selling England by the Pound
Genesis, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Genesis, Wind and Wuthering
(not "A Trick of the Tail" because I got that as a present)
At that time, Genesis was all the prog I knew. I doubt I even knew that there was a genre called "prog" back then. I think I purchased the albums around '93 oder '94.
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Posted: January 30 2016 at 11:37 |
-Dark Side of the Moon (late 2006, 14 years old) -Wish You Were Here & Animals soon after -Trilogy (early 2007, for my 15th birthday) -Fragile (mid-2007)
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I shook my head and smiled a whisper knowing all about the place
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Posted: January 30 2016 at 11:41 |
Out of contest: Stand Up (age 6) ... My father's, actually, but I played more often than he ever did
I'm sure of the first three or four and the order I bought themCrime of the Century (at 11, the next day it was released in Canada - sept 74) Dark Side of The Moon ... then a few months later Meddle Selling England (took around two years for me to dig it) Harmonium's debut (this was a religion at school) then, more or less in chronological order of acquisition: Cricklewood Green (TYA, not really prog, but their proggiest, by this time it was probably in 75) Si on ... 5è Saison ITCOTCK Thick As A Brick & Aqualung Grey & Pink (I guess I was 12 by then) Wish You Were Here CTTEdge, TYA and Fragile & Foxtrot & Aqualung & ELP and BSS were in there somewhere as well I don't think newspaper delivery money was ever more wisely spent...  
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Posted: January 30 2016 at 11:53 |
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In the Court of the Crimson King 1970
Emerson, Lake & Palmer 1970
Meddle 1971
The Yes Album 1971
Aqualung 1971
The Musical Box 1972
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Posted: January 30 2016 at 11:58 |
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I was 12 or 13 when I started, and the first two were Manfred Mann's Earthband - Nightingales and Bombers (listening to my father's MMEB-Watch brought me there and actually to my life long love affair with music) and Pink Floyd's Animals. Then I decided that I'd spend all my pocket money on the flea market on records which brought quite a number of albums in in short time, I think Ommadawn was among the first catch, more Pink Floyd and MMEB, Almost Alive (of all!) by Amon Duul II and more...
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Posted: January 30 2016 at 12:41 |
Most of my early albums were Pink Floyd albums. As I remember: Pink Floyd - Relics (13th birthday, 1972) Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (1973) Yes - Close to the Edge (14th birthday) I remember getting 7 other albums on my 14th, which were given to my father by one of his friends. Most of these were quite good: David Bowie's Space Oddity was one of them, Black Sabbath Vol.4 was another.
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Posted: January 30 2016 at 13:27 |
I guess Radiohead OK Computer and Kid A when I was 15 but at the time I didn't even know what prog was.
Then Dream Theater discography. I know for a fact Images and Words and Awake were the first two that I got into, from there it's fuzzy.
Going after the great Dream Theater phase and burnout that was the 15th year of my life, I want to say it was like this - Yes - Fragile Porcupine Tree - In Absentia Genesis - A Trick of the Tail Genesis - And Then There Were Three Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
All around early 2013.
Edited by fudgenuts64 - January 30 2016 at 13:30
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Posted: January 30 2016 at 13:35 |
I'm guessing it would have been early 1970s, six Moody Blues albums, because I know I had them all (I would have been 13 to 14 years old) After that, Fragile and Close to the Edge (1973, about 15 years old I think). Since I had no idea that what I was listening to was called progressive rock, meaning that I really didn't pay any attention to what I was acquiring when, that's the best I can do.
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Posted: January 30 2016 at 13:47 |
Remember it as if it wad yesterday
1.- Look at Yourself (Uriah Heep): Before I even knew Prog existed 2.- Six Wives of Henry the VIII (Rick Wakeman): Bought it in Argentina 3.- Yessongs: A gift 4.- Dark Side of the Moon: Sold in every store in Perú 5.- Trilogy: As N° 4 6.- Yesterdays: Idem
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DDPascalDD
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Posted: January 30 2016 at 14:01 |
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Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
Pink Floyd - The Endless River
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Pink Floyd - Animals
Yeah... I discover PF first just as a great rock band and later discovered the genre prog. And that all happened about a little more than 1 year ago.
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Posted: January 30 2016 at 16:14 |
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Black Sabbath - Volume 4
Osibisa - Woyaya
Uriah Heep - Sweet Freedom
Golden Earring - Moontan
Neu - Neu!
The Edgar Broughton Band - The Edgar Broughton Band
Around 14 years old at the time.
Edited by sukmytoe - January 30 2016 at 16:24
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Posted: January 30 2016 at 16:39 |
How on earth do you even remember? I know that WYWH was the first CD I bought, and I had a lot of Rush albums before that. I assume the Asia debut doesn't count?  That was my first album.
Edited by infocat - January 30 2016 at 16:40
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Posted: January 30 2016 at 16:44 |
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Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, back in 1994
Metallica - And Justice for All... 1995
Angra - fireworks 1998
Angra - Angels Cry 1998
Primus - Pork Soda 1999
Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory 2000
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emigre80
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Posted: January 30 2016 at 16:51 |
 infocat wrote:
How on earth do you even remember? I know that WYWH was the first CD I bought, and I had a lot of Rush albums before that.
I assume the Asia debut doesn't count? That was my first album.
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well, it counts as your first album. The first CD I bought was Dire Straits' Communique, as a present for my husband. Also not prog.
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Posted: January 31 2016 at 10:11 |
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1. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
2. Selling England By the Pound
3. Nursery Cryme
4. Trespass
5. Foxtrot
6. either Voyage of the Acolyte or Dark Side of the Moon was next, not sure which
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Posted: January 31 2016 at 10:39 |
I started buying albums in the early sixties so there is no way I can remember the order of specific albums. As far as bands, it would probably be Jethro Tull, then Pink Floyd, then Genesis. The first Tull was Stand Up, the first PF was Dark Side and I think the first Genesis was The Lamb Lies Down...
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: January 31 2016 at 13:39 |
infocat wrote:
How on earth do you even remember?
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That's a good question...grew up in a house where the Beatles and Stones were constantly blasting on the stereo then Black Sabbath was the 1st band I found myself and started buying albums with my own money, guess I could have listed Sabbath Bloody Sabbath as my 1st prog album! To me, that was a major milestone in growing up and independence, finding your own music outside of your home and spending your hard earned allowance on albums. Since I got into prog as a teenager (like many of us), the albums were all tied to important life events (made a new friend who guided me into prog, met my 1st girlfriend, joined a marching band as a snare drummer, got my 1st job, etc) t hat it's hard to forget when each purchase happened
Edited by The.Crimson.King - January 31 2016 at 13:41
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Posted: January 31 2016 at 13:40 |
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This largely depends on wether we consider earler Queen albums prog or not.
If we do then it was I think;
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
Queen - Queen 2
Marillion - Real to Reel
Marillion - Fugazi
Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear
if we do not regard Queen as prog then the next three were
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Yes - The Yes Album
Yes - Close to the Edge
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: January 31 2016 at 15:54 |
Geeze, I can't recall with any real clarity. I remember in 1972 (age 12) that I had Alice Cooper's Killer and School's Out, Deep Purple's Made in Japan, Led Zeppelin's ZoSo, and Black Sabbath's Paranoid. From a prog perspective, probably something like this, and in no particular order in 72 and 73: Aqualung (hey, any album with the line "snot is running down his nose" was cool at 12) Living in the Past (I remember the iconic album cover) Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (again, the album cover, and trying to fit the record sleeve back in) Fragile Days of Future Past Over-Nite Sensation (because Zappa at the time was funny, not unlike Weird Al Yankovic later)
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