What’s the first prog album you bought?
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Topic: What’s the first prog album you bought?
Posted By: Jim Garten
Subject: What’s the first prog album you bought?
Date Posted: March 05 2004 at 03:53
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Given the age range of the members here, thought it would be interesting to know the first prog album you bought, when you bought it, & why.......
For me, it was Uriah Heep's 'Greatest Hits' - my neighbour had bought this when it first came out (approx 1973??) - don't know why.... she was into the Carpenters, Donnie Osmond et al  .
She played this to me, a mere 10 year old child, and I was hooked from the first chords of 'Gypsy' onwards; when I heard 'The Wizard' I knew I had to have this album, so bought it from her for the princely sum of £1.00 (2 weeks pocket money in those days...). Barring a couple of years in the late '70s when I thought I should be into punk (  sorry - peer pressure & all that  ), and a continuing love of good heavy metal (hey, I had long hair in those days), I never looked back..... I concentrated on finding 2nd hand (ie cheap) copies of Uriah Heep albums, then my brother in law played me Yes, Genesis & Floyd - the rest, as they say, is history------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
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Posted By: Stormcrow
Date Posted: March 05 2004 at 05:26
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If memory serves.... given my "age range" that might be problematic, but.... I blew my birthday money to come home from the record store clutching "In The Court Of The Crimson King" and "Ummagumma" tightly in my clammy (but not bivalve) little hands. Even had money left over from that ten dollar bill. Those were the days. |
Posted By: Paco Fox
Date Posted: March 05 2004 at 06:41
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I could say it was Dire Straits 'Love Over Gold'. Ok, ok, I know many of you would torn your clothes off for me saying that record is prog. So I'll say that the first record I listened to knowing it was prog was 'Thick as a brick'. I had a vague notion about the genre. Some time later, afriend introduced me to Camel. But that story has alredy been told...
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: March 05 2004 at 07:15
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Nothing wrong with Love Over Gold - damned good album & the closest Knopfler ever got to prog -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: dude
Date Posted: March 05 2004 at 08:01
I was never a Dire Straits fan but i loved "Telegraph Road"..BRILLIANT!!!. the first prog album i ever bought was probably "A FAREWELL TO KINGS" by RUSH i saw them on a late night national rock show back in the early 80's here in my country and was blown away by Xanadu!!!
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Posted By: Aerandir
Date Posted: March 05 2004 at 08:35
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Pink Floyd - The wall if it's consider prog, otherwise Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the moon. but the album that really changed my music influence was Dream Theater's - Awake ------------- That which doesn't kill you, postpones the inevitable |
Posted By: dude
Date Posted: March 05 2004 at 08:44
AERANDIR: the WALL is as prog as you can get!!!.I actually did not like "The Wall" it did not do much for me(except for "Comfortably Numb"....That guitar solo at the end...WOW!!) but "Dark Side Of The Moon"..not only is it a prog classic!,it is a history making,MUSIC classic.There is nothing i could say about this album that has not been said already!!
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Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: March 05 2004 at 09:27
| My first prog album was not aprog album but a prog single, yes a prog single, Hocus Pocus by Focus ( the shorter 3:25 version ) which I played the crap out of before buying the Dutch Masters compilation which had the full six minute version plus that killer "fast version". I can`t remember what was on the second side of the single because at the time as an 11 year old child I was more interested in Hocus Pocus. Other early prog albums I owned were Gentle Giant Octopus, Jethro Tull`s Thick As A Brick and Yessongs. The live version ofPrepetual Change is still one of my all-time favourite prog tracks. |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: March 05 2004 at 10:53
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I had two older brothers who bought EVERYTHING. It was after they flew the nest in the late seventies that I had to part with my own cash. I would have to guess that the U.K. album was the first I actually spent my own money on. I remember recording my brothers albums onto eight track, carefullly holding my watch and trying to time each track so as not to cut a tune in half (god I hated that). My first CD purchases were: Allan Holdsworth "Sand" / Pink FLoyd "Momentary Lapse of Reason" / Rush "Hold your Fire." They were all released about the same time and I just bought my first cd player. As I recall, that cd unit cost about $345. The same unit sells for $40 to $70 today. " |
Posted By: Marcelo
Date Posted: March 05 2004 at 16:07
Genesis' "Selling England By The Pound" was the first. After to hear in the radio "Firth of Fifth" (yes, it isn't a joke, once upon a time was possible to turn on the radio and find the Genesis, Yes or Floyd long themes), I told myself: "I MUST buy this album!"... It happened almost 30 years ago! 
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Posted By: StarshipTrooper
Date Posted: March 05 2004 at 16:20
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Dark Side Of The Moon or One of my Yes albums. Hard to remember now. I was into heavy rock more than prog at the time. ------------- 
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Posted By: Alexander
Date Posted: March 05 2004 at 21:00
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Darkside of The Moon. ------------- On A Dilemmia Between What I Need & What I Just Want 
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Posted By: maani
Date Posted: March 05 2004 at 22:30
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Well... Depending on our definition of prog, my first prog album was probably In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly, or possibly something by Cream. However, if those don't qualify, the first prog album I bought with my own money (i.e., not turned onto it by either older brother or friend) was In the Court. (Okay, I admit to being old...) Peace. |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: March 06 2004 at 00:34
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I had an older sister, whose teenaged gang introduced the 12 year-old me to the stuff around 1972, when Foxtrot came out. If Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday (I was into reading horror, and swords & sorcery) doesn't count, it was probably The Lamb, or Starless and Bible Black. But I was a seasoned prog fan (Yes, ELP, Tull, Genesis), with little allowance, before I was buying my own albums.... My first "album" ever was a 45 single (50 cents or so!): The Archies (aka Tommy James) "Sugar Sugar." Corny-cutsie! Ha! Soon after I moved into CCR singles, starting with "Hey Tonight." Let's ROCK! CRANK IT UP on the little pink plastic portable mono player! Groovy! Blue and red lightbulbs in the basement ceiling for an "apache-tied" soc-hop! Have you seen my peace medallion? Sigh. Ah youth, I hardly knew ye.... Wahhhh! PS: I also cried (boyish-manly tears)when the Beatles broke up. 'Strewth, Dude ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Hmmm. It's very tough to recall. I must have burned those memory braincells that very night....
Posted By: RobJ
Date Posted: March 06 2004 at 02:54
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I would have to say In the Court of the Crimson King which was in my car CD player today. A minor correction Danbo, you had ONE older brother who bought everything, the other one probably still has the first dollar he ever made. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 06 2004 at 04:54
| ELP -Pictures At An Exhibition .Cost £2 in 1976! I absolutely hated it!! Luckily I got a copy of 'Tarkus' about a year later and that kick started my life long love of prog rock. |
Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: March 06 2004 at 07:07
| I don't really remember what was exactly my FIRST prog album, but I think it was 90125 by Yes (because I liked 'Owner Of A Lonely Heart'). Otherwise it would be 'Space Metal' by Star One... |
Posted By: Glass-Prison
Date Posted: March 06 2004 at 13:52
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Well, I happen to be only 16, and a young newcomer to the prog scene, but in a short two years of being a proghole, I must say, I have simply become infatuated with the music. My first prog record would have to be 2112, by rush. My guitarist (I'm a drummer, btw) recommended it to me when I was just 14, and just beginning to appreciate music (Thanks mostly to high speed internet and a program called KaZaA). nevertheless, I popped into kazaa to download some rush tunes. the first tunes I remember were YYZ and Limelight; after that I found a copy of 2112 itself. Within a few months, I had the entire rush collection on cd. Other CD's I listened to in that early stage were Dark Side(Whom I was turned on to by my brother), in the Court, Malmsteen's Rising Force (I know it's a stretch...) and The Lamb Lies down on Broadway(Which sat on my CD rack for two years before I finally learned to appreciate it.). Recently I have acquired other bands, such as Yes, ELP, and Dream Theater (once again thanks to my guitarist). Now, however, I'm trying to turn other people on to prog, a difficult task indeed. |
Posted By: Tauhd Zaïa
Date Posted: March 06 2004 at 14:02
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Bonjour !
Foxtrot and maybe Abbey Road in 197..
(I'm so old ? ------------- The State Of Grace Is Achieved |
Posted By: arqwave
Date Posted: April 06 2004 at 02:21
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YES - UNION, i bought it because of the high reviews of that time, then RUSH -PRESTO, i think those things were around 1991... peace |
Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: April 06 2004 at 03:03
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from memory, I think that it was Hawkwind 'spirit of the age' ------------- 
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Posted By: diddy
Date Posted: April 06 2004 at 08:42
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Wish you were here by Pink Floyd...but that wasn't with the real thought of buying a prog album... my first Prog album was Relayer and Octopus, ordered at the same time... ------------- If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear... George Orwell |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: April 06 2004 at 10:23
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RobJ wrote:
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: April 06 2004 at 12:23
| I've mentioned it before on a previous thread, Focus - Dutch Masters and before that I had the single version of Hocus Pocus. I was enlightened and embarked on a magical journey of music as a result. And now, 2,500 albums later well, I think that speaks for itself! |
Posted By: progchain
Date Posted: April 06 2004 at 13:00
| I think Balletto di Bronzo "Sirio 2222" or Rovescio della Medaglia "Contaminazione" |
Posted By: Scafell
Date Posted: April 06 2004 at 17:10
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Which came first ? - one of these... Demons and Wizards (Uriah Heep) Living In The Past (Jethro Tull) Moving Waves (Focus) Pilgramage (Wishbone Ash) Fragile (Yes) Have to say though, that all of these still qualify in my all time top 20 lists - and thats 3000 albums later!
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: April 07 2004 at 04:17
As a first 5 albums, or even a top 5 albums, that is an impressive list Scafell -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Scafell
Date Posted: April 07 2004 at 06:54
| Yes Jim - I'm quite proud of my early choices - a good start in life - but it's all down to a Radio Luxemburg radio programme called "Jenson's Dimensions" - hosted by Kid Jenson. It was, as I remember it, a prog music show and introduced me to a new music which I would not have discovered by listening to the commercial radio available at the time. I can also thank him for playing "Fandangos In Space" by Carmen which, for me, is the GREATEST ALBUM OF ALL TIME - bar none. I doubt if most people on here have heard of them but if possible they should try and track their 3 albums down - notwithstanding the fact that they are now deleted on CD. |
Posted By: Gaston
Date Posted: April 07 2004 at 07:50
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I think I bought Saucerful of Secrets first. Or was it Relics? -------------  
It's the same guy. Great minds think alike. |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: April 07 2004 at 08:33
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I especially like ARGUS (classic), THERE'S THE RUB (rockin' & polished), and NEW ENGLAND. ("In All of My Dreams, You Rescue Me" is a beautiful song!) Wishbone were great! Any other fans out there? Perhaps not really prog (no keyboards) but intelligent, with "progressive" elements. Love those dual lead guitars! Essential 70s music! ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: April 07 2004 at 09:32
There's that word again, PR - still in denial, are we?? -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Aztech
Date Posted: April 07 2004 at 10:19
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If I remember correctly My first prog albums were Genesis Live and Tarkus/ELP I bought those albums without knowing much them many many moons ago and have never regret it ! |
Posted By: peringo2
Date Posted: July 21 2004 at 07:40
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Yes' "90125". And the first time I knew the meaning of "prog rock" (Yes' was only a recomendation), Marillion's "La Gazza Ladra" (or was it Kansas' "Song for America"?) "Aqualung" comes a close third. My god, what a way to start... ------------- "Your sperm's in the gutter/ Your love's in the sink" |
Posted By: oliverstoned
Date Posted: July 21 2004 at 07:59
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My very first were: Mike olfield/crises Pink floyd/the wall |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: July 21 2004 at 08:08
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Genesis "Live", followed shortly by Barclay James Harvest "Gone to Earth" (vinyl). Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon", Genesis "Foxtrot" and Peter Gabriel "So" - as soon as CDs were commercially available! |
Posted By: charliefreak
Date Posted: July 21 2004 at 08:50
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Genesis - Seconds Out.
Followed by Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here; Rick Wakeman's Journey To The Centre Of The Earth and Six Wives Of Henry VIII |
Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: July 21 2004 at 09:08
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SUPERTRAMP's Paris and PINK FLOYD's Dark Side of the Moon. Soon after, Wish You Were Here, OLDFIELD's Tubular Bells (very easy to find, Oldfield does very well in Spain), KING CRIMSON's In the Court of the Crimson King, and GENESIS's Trespass. |
Posted By: artbass
Date Posted: July 21 2004 at 09:43
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The first progalbum I got was Genesis' Foxtrot, but the first I bought was Yes' Relayer. ------------- she feels wind around her she feels a warming sun she feels some raindrops wet her leaves since that time she lost her griefs |
Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: July 21 2004 at 11:01
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Hmm- between siblings' records and borrowing/ taping from people, I acquired a lot of albums without actually buying them (that never happens anymore, of course ). I think the first one I distinctly remember purchasing was "Starless and Bible Black". ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/sollipsist/?chartstyle=kaonashi"> 
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: July 21 2004 at 11:26
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Pink floyd - The Wall Think I was about 12. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: neo eric
Date Posted: July 21 2004 at 12:06
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I started my prog listening by bying one of best albums ever made; Rush- moving pictures! After that I have bought Kansas, Marillion and more Rush! Pendragon and Saga is the next stepp... |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: July 21 2004 at 15:10
| The first album that actually had the term 'progressive' assocated with it, was that Decca sampler Wowie Zowie The World Of Progressive Music. However, previously I had bought a couple of Nice albums, the first Renaissance and Court Of The Crimson King, when these bands were called 'underground bands' by the musical press but going into our 'progressive music' section, along with the John Mayall and Canned Heat album,s in the record shop where I worked!!! |
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: July 21 2004 at 15:32
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Had to look this up, but my fist ones were: Nantucket Sleighride - Mountain (OK it's not prog as such, but it was pretty damn close) From the Witchwood - Strawbs (Great album, with my limited resources, I had the choice of this or Audience's "House on the hill"). HOTH is great, but I always felt I made the right choice. Relics - Pink Floyd (An early introduction to sounds I had not heard until then) Pictures - ELP (I'd heard their first two, but this was the first I bought. It was a budget label release then, a sort of stop gap until "Trilogy" was ready. Superb stuff) |
Posted By: Foxy
Date Posted: July 21 2004 at 17:06
| Mine was ELP Trilogy which was followed by In the Court of the Crimson King by, you know whom. |
Posted By: threefates
Date Posted: July 21 2004 at 17:51
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KC - ITCOTKC was my first... Then I got the Yes Album and ELP's first album for my birthday. With the money I received from my birthday.. I went and bought Ummagumma. I was very different from all the girls in my junior high school who were barely listening to David Cassisdy..maybe some of the cooler ones listening to the Allman Bros... Hey I grew up in the South! ------------- THIS IS ELP 
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Posted By: bityear
Date Posted: July 21 2004 at 18:32
When I was about 11, I ordered some hard rock CDs in search of some of the tunes of the SNES game 'Rock'n'Roll Racing', lots of Purple, Zeppelin and Steppenwolf that is. Somehow I had some bucks left, and recalled reading in a rock encyclopedia about King Crimson...the book recommended Larks' Tongues in Aspic, but for some reason, that one was full-priced, so I grabbed the first mid-price disc I saw...happened to be "Red"...been stuck here since then!  ------------- www.geocities.com/joelbitars |
Posted By: Gonghobbit
Date Posted: July 21 2004 at 20:18
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I think it was actually Seling England by the Pound...that can get you a little spoiled to start.
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Posted By: Possessed
Date Posted: July 21 2004 at 22:34
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The Mothers of Invention - Freak Out!
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: July 21 2004 at 23:16
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I had two first prog' albums: 1.- Unaware of what prog means: Bought Uriah Heep Look at Yourself before I heard the word progressive, I just loved that album. 2.- Totally aware of what Prog means: I was a prog newbie in 1976 and I asked a friend to bring me the album from Argentina (Not available in Perú) Six Wives of Henry the VIII had recently heard the excerps from Yessongs and was impressed, so asked for the album. Iván
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Posted By: BrainRock Ben
Date Posted: July 22 2004 at 00:34
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Hmm. The first prog album I remember aquiring was a tape-copy of "Yessongs" my friend made me from his dad's vinyl. The first I can remember actually buying myself would either be Yes-90125 or King's X-Faith Hope Love. Yeah, I'm young (25). ------------- There are people pushing buttons who should be pushing boundaries. There are people answering phones who should be answering to no one. |
Posted By: Axe Victim
Date Posted: July 22 2004 at 01:19
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The Partridge Family ------------- This Whole World Has Gone Slum Gullion |
Posted By: M@X
Date Posted: July 22 2004 at 01:53
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DREAM THEATER "Scenes from a Memory : Part II" , in 2000 ! It has changed my music life for ever ... ------------- Prog On ! |
Posted By: EVO
Date Posted: July 22 2004 at 03:09
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The first prog album i got, was also my first album ever A collection of great dance songs-Pink Floyd. it was a gift from my father in 1985, and i still got it! ------------- Live Long and Prosper... |
Posted By: Foxy
Date Posted: July 23 2004 at 08:47
I reckon it was the first prog album I've ever heard. |
Posted By: Glass-Prison
Date Posted: July 23 2004 at 11:20
| The first prog album? about four years ago, my brother passed along a copy of Dark Side, and I have been listening to that album virtually daily since! Around the same time, a good friend of mine recommended Rush to me, so I went out and found a copy of 2112. these two albums are what turned me onto prog! |
Posted By: Minstrel X
Date Posted: July 23 2004 at 14:06
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Well, i was 9 years old (i'm 16 right now) when i bought my first Prog rock cd. I remember vividly, it was Porcupine Tree's "The Sky Moves Sideways". ------------- Minstrel X: Burning down the gallery |
Posted By: Fragile
Date Posted: July 23 2004 at 14:50
| Well Minstrel X great to see young prog fans like yourself.My first prog album was ELP's 1st album with the incredible Knife Edge and the truly magnificent 'Take a Pebble' in 1970 it's been a rollercoaster of highs and lows in prog world ever since. |
Posted By: frenchie
Date Posted: August 11 2004 at 19:24
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my prog rock adventure started with tool. i saw the video for schism on kerrang! and thought it was so different to normal music. i found "lateralus" second hand and hated it so i thought it was a won off. ------------- The Worthless Recluse 
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Posted By: onion3000
Date Posted: August 11 2004 at 20:10
| I bought Animals by Pink Floyd. Why? Hughie Green on 'Opportunity Knocks' went on about how good it was (I think he was sacked for this!), saying how his son kept playing it to him and he really loved it. English readers of a certain age might remember this happening.... |
Posted By: Arbiter
Date Posted: August 11 2004 at 21:48
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Nursery Cryme. I bought it in 1971. ------------- "Some things have to be believed to be seen." -Ralph Hodgson |
Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: August 11 2004 at 22:22
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PINK FLOYD's Dark Side and Wish... and SUPERTRAMP's Paris |
Posted By: zappa123
Date Posted: August 12 2004 at 06:54
| My father is really an old rocker even nowadays.So he had a lot of LP's.First I started with Beatles and Stones,Hendrix,Cream,Free,Zeppelin etc.And I love to listen to them even today.But there were two albums that made a huge impression on me.Pink Floyd-Meddle and Crimsons in the court of the crimson king.God how much I loved this two albums.And so my prog road begin.But the first money I actually spend on the album was Genesis-Nursery crime. |
Posted By: moonchild
Date Posted: August 17 2004 at 20:30
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The Moody Blues - Days of Future Past. If that one doesn't count then: King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King. ------------- In the Wake of Poseidon |
Posted By: Paco Fox
Date Posted: August 18 2004 at 03:26
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First one: Mike Oldfield - Islands First one conciously knowing it was something called 'prog': Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick |