Your 1st 6 prog albums
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Topic: Your 1st 6 prog albums
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Subject: Your 1st 6 prog albums
Date 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 ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
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Posted By: Skalla-Grim
Date 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. ------------- "4/4 - That's 5/4 minus one." - Don Ellis (1934-1978) |
Posted By: TheLionOfPrague
Date Posted: January 30 2016 at 11:37
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-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) ------------- I shook my head and smiled a whisper knowing all about the place |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: January 30 2016 at 11:41
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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 them Crime 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...   |
Posted By: dwill123
Date 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 |
Posted By: Lewian
Date 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... |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: January 30 2016 at 12:41
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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 By: fudgenuts64
Date Posted: January 30 2016 at 13:27
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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.
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Posted By: emigre80
Date Posted: January 30 2016 at 13:35
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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 By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: January 30 2016 at 13:47
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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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Posted By: DDPascalDD
Date 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. ------------- |
Posted By: sukmytoe
Date 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. |
Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: January 30 2016 at 16:39
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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.------------- -- Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth. |
Posted By: Upbeat Tango Monday
Date 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 ------------- Two random guys agreed to shake hands. Just Because. They felt like it, you know. It was an agreement of sorts...a random agreement. |
Posted By: emigre80
Date Posted: January 30 2016 at 16:51
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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infocat wrote:Posted By: HackettFan
Date 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 ------------- A curse upon the heads of those who seek their fortunes in a lie. The truth is always waiting when there's nothing left to try. - Colin Henson, Jade Warrior (Now) |
Posted By: TeleStrat
Date Posted: January 31 2016 at 10:39
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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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Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: January 31 2016 at 13:39
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) that it's hard to forget when each purchase happened
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Posted By: Cambus741
Date 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 |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: January 31 2016 at 15:54
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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) ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: January 31 2016 at 16:09
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I was a bit of a latecomer to prog, as in my teens, it was basically hard rock/heavy metal that I collected. Then, I started collecting real progressive rock lps in the winter/spring of 1986/1987, when I was 24 years old. Colosseum-Valentyne Suite Colosseum Live Triumvirat-Illusions On A Double Dimple Strange Days-9 Parts To The Wind Passport-Looking Thru Quatermass |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: January 31 2016 at 16:19
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There are going to be some guesses in here as its tough to remember Pink Floyd - DSOTM Oldfield - Tubular Bells Jethro Tull - Aqualung Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene Yes - Close To The Edge Genesis - Trespass ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: January 31 2016 at 16:37
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Queen – II Pink Floyd – The Wall Genesis – Nursery Crymes Eloy – The Power and the Passion (thanks Tom!) Focus – Moving Waves Renaissance – Scheherazade and other Stories |
Posted By: akaBona
Date Posted: January 31 2016 at 16:54
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1. Yes - Fragile (bought it from my friend) 2. Yes - Close To The Edge (birthday present from my parents) 3. Yes - Time And A Word (birthday present from my friend) 4. King Crimson - Lark's Tongues In Aspic (saw it in a local record shop with a sricker "including ex-Yes Bill Bruford" 5. Frank Zappa - Hot Rats (heard Peaches En Regalia and went straight to buy it) 6. Jethro Tull - Benefit (met a girl who loved JT ...) Ah, those were the days 😊 |
Posted By: Meltdowner
Date Posted: January 31 2016 at 17:05
If I consider Prog Related bands, it's all Led Zeppelin. If not, it's all Pink Floyd.  |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: January 31 2016 at 19:05
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Uriah Heep - Demons & Wizards Nektar - Remember the FutureFocus - Moving Waves Yes - Relayer Yes - Fragile Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd - Animals Genesis - Trick of the Tail Supertramp - Crisis? What Crisis? Camel - Moonmadness ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: zwordser
Date Posted: January 31 2016 at 21:21
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Wha? hardly any mention of Rush yet? I can fix that! Don't quite remember the order, but my first prog albums (around 1985-86) were: 2112 Moving Pictures Grace Under Pressure Power Windows Yes, 90125 At about 14-15 years old then, I disliked Jethro Tull, kind of liked Kansas Styx and Queen, was lukewarm about Pink Floyd, had only heard 80's Genesis (thought it so-so), and had never heard of King Crimson. But I Loooved Rush! ------------- Z |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: January 31 2016 at 21:59
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Started listening to rock music in general in the early eighties. My first prog-related albums were by Blue Oyster Cult, Fire of Unknown Origin and Revolution by Night. Mostly was into hard rock back then, so my first prog albums were Rush "Moving Pictures" Rush "Signals" Rush "Grace Under Pressure" And was into some "modern rock" via MTV, so then Peter Gabriel melting face Peter Gabriel "Security" And Marillion "Misplaced Childhood" would round out my first six if my memory is correct, but I could be forgetting something. |
Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: February 01 2016 at 00:16
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Not necessarily in this order, but it looked something like: Radiohead– Ok ComputerYes– Fragile The Mars Volta– Deloused in the Comatorium King Crimson– In the Court of the Crimson King Can– Ege Bamyasi Sigur Ros– Takk... I got a lot of albums from my brother ripping his friend's iPod onto the family desktop computer. I don't remember which ones I came around to liking then, and which ones I liked later. I think OK Computer, Fragile, Deloused, and Takk... were pretty immediate, but In the Court and Ege Bamyasi were more challenging I'm pretty sure. But I eventually came around. I had a couple tracks from Battles' Mirrored and a couple of Kansas tracks as well.
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Posted By: Flight123
Date Posted: February 01 2016 at 04:38
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Great question and I had to think hard about ownership rather than taping off friend's records, etc. If memory serves for the Big 6: Dark Side of the Moon - June 74 (I was 12) Trespass - Dec. 74 Relayer - April 75 Welcome Back My Friends - Dec. 75 Lizard - June 81 Bursting Out - late 78 1975 was the year I managed to save the pocket money and started buying records on a fairly regular basis. Other notable purchases - that I still listen to now were Henry Cow 'In Praise of Learning' and Hatfield and the North 'The Rotter's Club' |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: February 02 2016 at 08:37
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Rush records, probably. ------------- |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 02 2016 at 09:37
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Are you serious?.....I can't even get my grandkids names correct at times and you want me to recall which 6 prog albums I bought first...? Whatever was out in '68-'69 I suppose. before '68 my brother and I usually bought singles on 45....I didn't buy many albums (we did buy the Beatles Stones, etc ) until a little later....didn't really have the money or inclination until we got into college.
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: February 02 2016 at 13:08
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Hi, Goes way back ... but not sure I can call them "progressive". Beatles -- Sgt Peppers I never thought that "progressive" started with the listing that is mostly here, as it was a continuation of something that was already there which others had created. But the English invented the world, therefore "progressive" has to be English. Funny how if one makes a list of everything posted here, it's almost all exclusively after 1972 ... and it was there way before! I do not think that much of the stuff later is any better (or worse) that what existed previously, and actually find that some stuff is not that great. A lot of folks are attached to Genesis' Foxtrot and Trespass, but I am not ... Ange's 2 albums prior to these are just as good if not better, for example. And theatrical music, and events, was a very European thing ... which we (specially here) will not credit the folks all over Europe that used it for political purposes for at least 10 years prior to Genesis and Peter Gabriel putting on an outfit and making it look like Europe did not have a history of theater ... and that's just plain old bull-prairie and you know it. It's just pathetic that the rock press has this idea that is is new and this and that, when in essence it is a re-hash of many things done before! it was done slightly different, in another medium ... and you even got a cover to show for it ... JT's "A Passion Play". Either the story was dead, or that entertainment was dead! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: AlanB
Date Posted: February 02 2016 at 13:18
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Argus - Wishbone Ash A Live Record - Camel Going For The One - Yes Moonmadness - Camel Rain Dances - Camel The Wall - Pink Floyd (I think so, anyway. It was back in the 70s and at some point I bought other Camel, Floyd and Yes albums too). |
Posted By: PrognosticMind
Date Posted: February 02 2016 at 16:45
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Started getting super serious about progressive rock around 2007-2008ish: Yes - Fragile Yes - Close to The Edge King Crimson - ITCoTCK King Crimson - Red Genesis - Foxtrot Genesis - Nursery Cryme ------------- "A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. Got me?" |
Posted By: Cactus Choir
Date Posted: February 03 2016 at 11:34
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This is testing my memory (and reminding me how ancient I am) but I think it was: Works Volume 1 - ELP Trilogy - ELP Close to the Edge - Yes Yessongs - Yes Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield Ommadawn - Mike Oldfield ------------- "And now...on the drums...Mick Underwooooooooood!!!" "He's up the pub" |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: February 03 2016 at 12:07
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Nursery Crymes - Genesis Foxtrot - Genesis Genesis Live - Genesis A Trick of the Tail - Genesis Chocolate Kings - PFM Watercourse Way - Shadowfax Fish Out of Water - Chris Squire Symphonic Slam - Symphonic Slam Maxophone - Maxophone Had to go nine here due to some underlying circumstances: The first three were released as part of very poorly manufactured album compilations on the old Buddah label and were readily available in the cut-out section (which I regularly perused) of the Wherehouse Records store down the way, so I got a good dose of them then. 'Trick and Chocolate Kings were simultaneously presented to me for consideration around the time I graduated from high school in '76. And the last three arrived at the previously mentioned record store around the same time in '75 and were heavily delved into. The Shadowfax offering was the last of the bunch to gain my attention and was worthy of many listenings. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: backtothegarden
Date Posted: February 03 2016 at 13:04
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These are the first 6 that had an impact on me, in chronological order: King's X - Gretchen Goes To Nebraska Dream Theater - Images and Words Candiria - Surrealistic Madness Yes - Fragile Rush - Permanent Waves Genesis - Trick of the Tail If it's the first six I ever had/heard, this list would be Dream Theater - Images and Words + Awake, and King's X's first four albums. |
Posted By: frankbostick
Date Posted: February 05 2016 at 10:20
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Hard to remember, but i try. Year: 1970 Age: 17 Certainly: King Crimson - In The Wake... King Crimson - In The Court... Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother VDGG - H To HE Probably: Genesis - Nursery Cryme Gentle Giant - Acquiring The Taste Renaissance - Renaissance Amon Duul II - Yeti Audience - Friend's Friend's Friend Colosseum - Valentyne Suite or Yes - The Yes Album or Can - Tago Mago |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: February 05 2016 at 11:25
I remember buying Nursery/Foxtrot in a budget 2lp compilation album I think was called, "Genesis: Rock Theater" or something As far as Shadowfax, amazing album and extremely hard to find on LP...did you actually buy that at The Wherehouse? FYI: that was rereleased on CD many years ago but the intro to Linear Dance is different than the original vinyl. Part of the synth solo is totally missing! ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: cledussnow
Date Posted: February 05 2016 at 12:49
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2112 Dark Side of the Moon The Yes Album In the Court of the Crimson King Trespass Wish You Were Here |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: February 05 2016 at 13:32
------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: February 05 2016 at 13:55
Wow, if I would've walked into a Wherehouse and seen Watercourse Way stuck between the Sex Pistols and Simon & Garfunkel I probably would've dropped dead of heart failure on the spot I actually had a few of their Windham Hill albums and I don't think it's that they went downhill, rather they knowingly swapped their prog style for 80's acoustic new age. It remained great musicianship, but in a restrained new age framework so you'd never have imagined it was the same band. As far as the Watercourse Way CD, the only difference I've ever been able to hear is the missing synth line at the beginning of Linear Dance. I've tried to figure out what happened because other parts of the synth solo remain...maybe the tapes they remixed from dropped the synth track at that spot? Of course, doubly frustrating since Linear Dance is my fave song  ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: February 05 2016 at 15:08
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Got the Yes Album for Xmas as a wee lad - was one of my first LPs period (the very first was the Who's Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy - got caught stealing it from the Sunrise Mall on Long Island; security called my parents over the loudspeaker to come get their son from the brig.....my bottom is still red from that encounter.....my parents felt guilty and made me pay for the album but it sat in its wrapper for months before they finally let me give it a spin). Anyway, my first five prog albums were (surmising here): - The Yes Album - ELP - Works, Vol. 2 - Crimson - Islands - Moody Blues - Caught Live +5 - Procol Harum - Live with the Edmonton.... ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: February 05 2016 at 15:43
------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: wilmon91
Date Posted: February 05 2016 at 16:23
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I didn't buy music until I was 15 or so, so it begins in about 1994.. Saga Silent Knight 1994-1995 Saga Worlds Apart 1994-1995 Saga Images at Twilight 1994-1995 Saga Generation 13 1995-1996 Saga Heads or Tales september 1995 Gentle Giant Gentle Giant feb-june -96 "Generation 13" could have been a present, not sure.. In that case, we can add this instead: Gentle Giant Aquiring the Taste feb-july -96 So that's the main albums, but just for fun, I bought this the same year: Gentle Giant Octopus 19th sept 1996 and got these wishlist items for birthday and christmas the same year: Genesis Selling England By the Pound 4/10 -96 Marillion Brave 4/10 -96 Genesis Nursery Cryme 24/12 -96 But there's one album missing , "Saga - Saga", which I don't know when I got, it could be one of the first 6, not sure.. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 05 2016 at 16:35
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you're asking for things I was listening 25 something years ago, let me see... there was Pink Floyd with Wish You Were Here, Animals and Dark Side of the Moon. And then there was Yes with Time and a Word, and the Yes Album. And then there was Supertramp with Crime of the Century. Last but not least, Marillion with Misplaced Childhood. oh, wait, I can't count, there are 7 |
Posted By: gr8dane
Date Posted: February 05 2016 at 16:51
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In Rock Paranoid Master Of Reality Tarkus Trilogy ------------- Shake & bake. |
Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: February 06 2016 at 19:33
. I only remember the first one: Yessongs, used vinyl on the flee market, and I was around 15. I still have that vinyl!------------- http://theprogressiveweb.blogspot.de" rel="nofollow - Visit me in Second Life to talk about music. |
Posted By: King Manuel
Date Posted: April 29 2016 at 01:04
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If my memory serves me right: Pink Floyd - A momentary lapse of reason Yes - 90125 Yes - Close to the edge Rush - A show of hands Dream Theater - When Dream and Day Unite Jethro Tull - Aqualung ------------- Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 29 2016 at 07:59
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ELP -Pictures At An Exhibition on cassette when I was about 14 (1976). It cost £2 at the time and I absolutely hated it at first. Later I was given as presents all of ELP's albums ( on request as I managed to get past my initial shock
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Posted By: Michael P. Dawson
Date Posted: April 29 2016 at 08:28
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1970, as far as I can remember: Benefit
Procol Harum Stand Up A Salty Dog Uncle Meat (and then all the Mothers/Zappa I could get my hands on) In the Wake of Poseidon |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: May 03 2016 at 07:29
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I think... The Wall - Pink Floyd Equinox - JJ Jarre Script for a Jesters Tear - Marillion Exit..stage left - Rush A Trick of the Tail - Genesis Chronicle of the blacksword - Hawkwind ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: MullMuzzler
Date Posted: May 03 2016 at 09:25
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Year: 1987 Age: 14 Queen - Sheer Heart Attack Queen - A Night At The Opera Yes - Close To The Edge ELP - Pictures At An Exhibition Queen - Queen II Niemen Enigmatic - Niemen Enigmatic (1970) ------------- ... and nobody played synthesizer. |
Posted By: ALotOfBottle
Date Posted: May 03 2016 at 10:58
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I can't remember exactly, so I'll just list the ones that I got when I started collecting LPs. 1. Nektar - Remember The Future 2. ELP - Pictures At An Exhibition 3. The Nice - Five Bridges 4. Camel - Mirage 5. Wishbone Ash - Argus 6. Dang, can't remember |
Posted By: starless2112
Date Posted: August 14 2016 at 19:58
| I don't remember what the first album I bought was, but I know when I was 14 is when I got really into Pink Floyd. So that would have been 1990. I know I bought Ummagumma, A Nice Pair and Dark Side sometime in the early 90's. Not sure about other prog. Didin't really get into prog until later in my 30's |
Posted By: mechanicalflattery
Date Posted: August 14 2016 at 20:44
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Pink Floyd: DSOTM/WYWH/Animals/The Wall Jethro Tull: Aqualung/TAAB David Bowie: Low/Ziggy Stardust Yes: Close To The Edge Genesis: Selling England By The Pound Mainly used this site as a reference when I discovered prog, a few years back. My tastes are thankfully a bit more diverse now.
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: August 14 2016 at 20:50
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Oh gosh, uhhh .. Hemispheres Tarkus Meddle Yessongs Thick as a Brick Birds of Fire ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: Terrapin Station
Date Posted: August 15 2016 at 13:20
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It's hard for me to say for a couple different reasons: (1) Albums were shared among my family, and not just my parents and siblings, but a couple aunts and uncles and a grandfather, too (well, although that grandfather didn't collect rock, but still...). I also had music teachers who were regularly giving me albums to take home and listen to for extended periods of time. Add to this that I was a music fan going as far back as I can remember--and I started taking music lessons when I was only six years old--and it's difficult for me to remember who owned what and when (when because albums that music teachers let me borrow, for example, I gave back but then often bought it for myself at that point). (2) I don't consider there to be any sort of clear distinction between psychedelic music and prog, and I think that stuff like the Grateful Dead, later Beatles, Amboy Dukes from at least the second album on, etc. are clearly prog. This aspect is exacerbated by the fact that we were buying all of this music when it came out--I was six years old/I started taking drum lessons in 1968. Re the stuff that would non-controversially be considered prog, though, I knew all of the following when they were new: the Nice albums, Zappa from We're Only in It for the Money (I heard the earlier albums by 1969/1970), Jethro Tull pretty much from the start, ELP from their start, and I knew the first three King Crimson albums and Genesis' Trespass by early 1971, the first three Yes albums by mid-1971. |
Posted By: Modrigue
Date Posted: August 15 2016 at 13:35
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Pink Floyd - WYWH Radiohead - OK Computer Soft Machine - Third Gong - Camembert Electrique Dream Theater - When Dream and Day Unite Tangerine Dream - Phaedra ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqf2srRfppHAslEmHBn8QP6d_eoanh0eW" rel="nofollow - My compositions |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: August 16 2016 at 04:45
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Not sure, but possibly: IQ - Nomzamo Pink Floyd - The Wall Faith No More - The Real Thing King's X - Out Of The Silent Planet Metallica - ...And Justice For All IQ - Are You Sitting Comfortably? At this time I really didn't know what prog was. It was only when I got hold of The Platinum Collection by Genesis that I really started to find out... |
Posted By: Son.of.Tiresias
Date Posted: September 17 2016 at 06:05
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My dear father gave me a PHILIPS Radiorecorder and "The Magician´s Birthday" on c-cassette as Xmas present in 1972, that was something extraordinary beautiful. What a nice surprise ! He knew exactly what I liked, not some random stupid bands at the time. Of course, I already had heard some Uriah Heep songs on FM radio (no-one had a record player in our little village) so I just knew it was another superb album from this incredible band. Still wonderful after all these years, never ages. Next summer I bought... "Very ´eavy..... Very ´umble" "Salisbury" "Look at Yourself" "Demons and Wizards" on c-cassette Years passed, listened for them almost every day. I was just a kid, doing things like other all lads did, mess with girls, playing football & ice hockey etc... till in late 1973 I chose my life for Rock´n´Roll. On FM radio I heard albums such as (not their entirety sadly, those programmes were that stupid 1/2 hour and their cut just when the best parts (climaxes were coming) "Atom Heart Mother", "Meddle", "Starless and Bible Black", "Shine on Brightly", "Brain Salad Surgery", "Selling England by the Pound", "Grand Hotel", "Bridge of Sighs", "Twin Peaks - Live in Japan"..... by MOUNTAIN All changed ! In the late hot Summer of 1975, me and dad went to buy our first stereo set. I received a bonus LP, chose one that was no other than "666" by Aphrodite´s Child. A double album full of incredible stuff. There was also Irene Papas, what a performance, it was crazy ! The tune was "Infinity". It also blew me away and finally got hooked to Prog and never looked back. I still listen to the cassettes occasionally  Thanks, Dad. You are the Greatest
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: September 17 2016 at 07:15
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If anything on PA counts the list will be both boring an absurd: Led Zeppelin I - IV Kraftwerk - Trance Europe Express The Residents - Duck Stab/Buster and Glen Both a Gryphon and a Dead Can Dance-album (bought because of their occasional "medieval-approach") may have been bought before those two last on the list. After I had heard about the Prog-term and started buying what I understood as Progressive Rock, it'll be something like this: Genesis - Nursery Cryme Jethro Tull - Stand Up Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King King Crimson - Lizard Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord |
Posted By: Kingsnake
Date Posted: September 17 2016 at 08:44
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Queen - Miracle Saga - Behaviour Barclay James Harvest - Octoberon Camel - Mirage Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick Gentle Giant - Free Hand I guess....
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Posted By: HosiannaMantra
Date Posted: September 17 2016 at 09:40
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East of Eden - Mercator Projected Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Traffic - Dear Mr. Fantasy King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King Wishbone Ash - Wishbone Four Wishbone Ash - Argus |
Posted By: Kingsnake
Date Posted: September 17 2016 at 09:42
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Alphaville was one of the first I fell in love with, aswell. But that's more like progressive synthpop, or something like that. The Breathtaking Blue is a masterpiece by the way. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: September 17 2016 at 09:58
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I don't know what the first 6 prog albums I bought were. I know the first one I heard was probably Nursery Cryme and the first one I bought was Genesis Live. After that most of my prog albums were taped by others onto cassette for a while - there was quite a healthy prog "club" at school. I know I had Selling England, Lamb Lies Down, Close To the Edge, ELP Welcome Back My Friends, The Snow Goose and Lord of the Rings very early on. I was around 12-13 at the time. |
Posted By: TeleStrat
Date Posted: September 17 2016 at 10:46
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Since I bought 95% of my prog albums back in the 70s I have no idea what the first six were. I can say that Dark Side Of The Moon and Selling England By The Pound were among the first few I bought.
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Posted By: SquonkHunter
Date Posted: September 17 2016 at 12:41
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Late 1974-early 1975; age 18. Got my first 8-track tape player for my car and bought my first tapes. Yes - The Yes Album ELP - Brain Salad Surgery Moody Blues - This is the Moody Blues (2 tape set) Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick Procol Harum - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procol_Harum_Live:_In_Concert_with_the_Edmonton_Symphony_Orchestra" rel="nofollow - ------------- "You never had the things you thought you should have had and you'll not get them now..." |
Posted By: noni
Date Posted: September 17 2016 at 14:41
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Genesis.. Selling England by the Pound ELP.. Trilogy Camel... Snowgoose Yes .. The Yes Album Brand X... Unorthodox behaviour Stackridge... Mr Mick |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: September 17 2016 at 18:51
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the more constructive of the three things my father genetically gave me. A love of music, fast cars, and guns picked up all of these in my musical consciousness as a child around the same time.. mid 70's... ELO - 2 Bo Hansson - Lord of the Rings Uriah Heep - Salisbury Yes - The Yes Album JMJ - Oxygene CTA - s/t ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: September 17 2016 at 23:04
| This is going back a bit - but from memory, I fell for Floyd mostly as a 13 y.o. The Wall, then the rest. Then I suppose I branched out and got much of Yes, Crimso and Genesis output. This was when I was travelling to Indonesia a lot with my folks and the cassettes in Bali were dirt cheap. Brought back so many. Then along came ELP, and a fine 2nd-hand record shop near to my home. Then came Maiden and Metallica........ |
Posted By: Son.of.Tiresias
Date Posted: September 18 2016 at 03:11
 "Salisbury" &" Oxygene"..... that´s cool man ------------- You may see a smile on Tony Banks´ face but that´s unlikely. |
Posted By: RoeDent
Date Posted: September 18 2016 at 03:19
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All of my first 6 (+) prog albums were Pink Floyd albums, all bought in 2007: PULSE The Division Bell Wish You Were Here Meddle A Momentary Lapse of Reason Animals
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Posted By: EddieRUKiddingVarese
Date Posted: September 18 2016 at 04:10
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Just another Band from LA Chunga's Revenge The Wall The Works(Pink Floyd) Ship too Late to Save Drowning Witch Hot Rats ------------- "Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes" and I need the knits, the double knits! |
Posted By: Flight123
Date Posted: September 19 2016 at 03:02
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Back in the 70s, we made a tape of friend's albums (or their older brother's or sister's albums...remember those inner sleeves - 'home taping is killing music'..?) so my first prog albums were on tape; if memory serves 'Tarkus' and 'Selling England'. I then acquired 'Dark Side' and 'Trespass' on tape (I clearly remember my Dad saying it was their 'latest' in 1973) and then a record player for my 12th birthday so 'Genesis Live' and 'Relics' quickly followed... |