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Posted: March 29 2016 at 15:14

Dream Theater - Images and Words

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Posted: March 29 2016 at 20:42

Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon

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Posted: March 30 2016 at 01:20

Some Pink Floyd, Yes and Supertramp that my older brother was listening. Did not even know it was called progressive rock. LOL

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Posted: March 30 2016 at 03:28

The first album I ever bought was Move by The Move (the band maybe proto-prog but that album ain't) when I was 12 - it cost me 5 shillings in 1969 because it didn't have a cover. [Back in the day record stores would only put the covers in the bins and kept the discs themselves behind the counter to stop nefarious folk helping themselves to a five-finger discount, but some still pilfered the covers leaving the store with a few coverless albums to sell].

The next was two years later (coz we wuz poor and buying albums was an extravagance we couldn't afford): Every Good Boy Deserves Favour by The Moody Blues and I'm calling that Prog Rock even if it is a bit Prog-lite.

Soon after that I got a Saturday job in Woolworths and with the wages burning a hole in my pocket I quickly expanded my horizons. The first full-blown honest to goodness Prog album I bought was either The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other by Van der Graaf Generator or Elegy by The Nice. Ownership of those two albums granted me access to the "cool kids" clique at school and that's where I was first exposed to the delights of Pink Floyd and became an unrepentant Floyd-fanboy.

However... because they were cheap and contained some excellent music I bought quite a few label samplers (Nice Enough to Eat, Bumpers, Age of Atlantic, Rockbusters and the Dandelion Sampler EP) and several budget albums back then (notably Phallus Dei by Amon Duul II, Camembert Electrique by Gong and of course Relics by Pink Floyd).

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¹ I soon tired of the school "cool kids" clique because I found them to be oddly narrow-minded and somewhat overly judgemental. Most of them were older than me and were heavily into American music that didn't appeal to me a great deal but mostly I struggled with their perception of what was cool and what was not. While through associating them I got to hear weird stuff like Zappa, Tonto's Expanding Head Band and White Noise liking Led Zeppelin or Uriah Heep was frowned upon (both were considered to be 'sell-outs' and only good for teenie-boppers), yet Sabbath and Purple were okay. The crunch came when they deemed previously acceptable Tyrannosaurus Rex albums to be unacceptable because of T Rex. If that was what it took to be cool I was happy to be uncool in their eyes because I'd much rather listen to Hot Love than Hot Rats.

² Even back in the 70s physically buying albums was not a young person's first exposure to good music. Rather than YouToob and illicit file-sharing we had late-night radio (John Peel's Top Gear etc.), The Old Grey Whistle Test on the telly and of course playground album swapping. The first time I heard Tangerine Dream was on the radio, several years prior to them signing to Virgin. Before the Compact Cassette became affordable (and therefore popular) we had ¼" reel-to-reel tape recorders and needless to say, many of the albums I'd borrowed from the school "cool kids" clique...

³ Compilation albums are not regarded particularly well on this site, which in the modern Now That's What I Call... climate is understandable. But back then they were a good way to hear music that you wouldn't otherwise hear. Prime among these were Label Samplers that showcased all the artists signed to a particular label, many of the albums I subsequently purchased were first heard on these samplers.

Edited by Dean - March 30 2016 at 04:52

What?

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Posted: March 30 2016 at 14:03

This thread seems familiar.......

So long ago who can recall......probably either Sgt Pepper, The Doors-st, or Jefferson Airplane-Crown if those qualify.....the first tue prog thing Moody Blues In Search of.....but my first prog album that blew me away as prog was probably ITCOTCK which I didn't buy until early spring 1970...and then The Yes album shortly after.

Memory's a bit fuzzy regarding those days.

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Posted: April 01 2016 at 12:44

micky wrote:

ahh... will need to put this on next.

Though they all run together.. The Yes Album, Salisbury, ELO2, and this one. Probably introduced to them around the same time. This was the one of the 4 that hit the hardest... while ELO2 did take me to outer space and beyond as a child.. this one took me to a even more interesting place.

Starting of course with the cover...

Have Magician's Hat and now want this one. Any good? Sad to know Hansson has been gone for six years now.

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Posted: April 01 2016 at 13:25

I think my first real prog album I had on vinyl was Nektar's "Remember The Future".

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Posted: April 01 2016 at 17:48

The first album i bought and listened seriously was TAAB. I am not sure if it was something else, i would be listening prog.

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Posted: April 02 2016 at 06:27

Does Jeff Waynes War of the Worlds count? If so then that's the one. Bought in 1979.

Otherwise Pink Floyd The Wall in 1982.

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Posted: April 02 2016 at 09:13

If you count a tape of a friend's album then it is 'Selling England' - the first one 'owned' would have been 'Dark Side' (also on cassette). My first vinyl was 'Relayer'.

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Posted: April 02 2016 at 09:38

First albums I listened to: Supertramp - Paris and Genesis - Three Sides Live. They were on cassettes that my older brother owned. The first one I bought myself: Yes - Yessongs and Genesis - Wind And Wuthering, both used vinyls on a flee market. I still have them!

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Posted: April 02 2016 at 10:15

Yes - Fragile and King Crimson - In Wake of Poseidon

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Posted: April 02 2016 at 10:16

Pink Floyd ~ The Wall

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Posted: April 02 2016 at 12:42

king crimson - in the court of the crimson king. the cover really stood out to me and one day i decided to listen to it. i am still obsessed with that album to this day

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Posted: April 02 2016 at 18:45

Wait- The Wall counts, right?

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Posted: April 03 2016 at 03:36

"90125" (if called prog) when I was 10, I was fond and have remained fond (couldn't be disappointed as I hadn't ever heard any the other Yes albums!) and 1st 100% prog "Islands": KC introduced by a comrade as a "crazy funny band" at 14. I discovered KC bit by bit, with some reluctance at those enchanting horrors and willingness to know how it all was made.

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