Did you dig your favorite album at first listen?
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Topic: Did you dig your favorite album at first listen?
Posted By: Zitro
Subject: Did you dig your favorite album at first listen?
Date Posted: September 25 2007 at 10:50
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Think of your fave album, post it, then vote about your first listen experience. Did you like it, did it blow you away, did you actually hated it at first listen? |
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: September 25 2007 at 10:55
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Pain of Salvation- The Perfect Element Part 1 I really liked it on first listen but it took 6 months(!) for it to really hit me as the astounding masterpiece of music that it is. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: Zitro
Date Posted: September 25 2007 at 10:58
The Perfect Element 1? Stay away from reading my review on that  My fave I think is: Harmonium - Si on avait besoin d'une cinquième saison. I was intrigued, though the "autumn" and "summer" tracks kinda blew me away. The other would be "Led Zeppelin I", and it blew me away, but the album is not prog. |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: September 25 2007 at 11:05
Already read it  .------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005
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Zitro wrote:Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: September 25 2007 at 11:11
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Marillion's Brave didn't hit me right off the bat. Subsequent listens and really involving myself in both the disc and the live spectacle of the Brave Live 2002 DVD made me realize what a truly special and masterful disc Brave is. E ------------- 
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Posted By: Asphalt
Date Posted: September 25 2007 at 11:59
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Pink Floyd's The Wall produced an epiphany. The first - arguably - prog album I have listened to without knowing it was prog [I didn't know what prog was at the time]. Dream Theater's Scenes From A Memory left me in awe. I could not get a hold on myself for days afterwards. More recent favourites were more like the growing type (I didn't really care for Pain of Salvation even after I had first heard Entropia). However, for the sake of the ol' time ones, I went with the first option. |
Posted By: Yorkie X
Date Posted: September 25 2007 at 12:11
so much great stuff so little time.. if I don't "dig" something about it on first play I tend to move on these days, I mean its not really often that I don't detect something interesting first play ... the moment I hear death growls or power metal drumming going on and on I`m done listening ... I know what I look for good intelligent artistic expression if that's not there and it doesn't have to be prog I`m listening to it applies to all the music I love ... I`m done with it 
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: September 25 2007 at 12:46
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In the court of ... I had never heard something remotly like it, so yeah, it really blew me away!!!
------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: ProgBagel
Date Posted: September 25 2007 at 13:09
| Close to the Edge was a big step from my prog-metal roots. I liked it...but it had to grow. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 25 2007 at 13:17
I feel much the same way... If something about the album doesn't grab me then I generally prefer to move on. It has to intrigue me at the least. I don't have a particular favourite album du jour, though there a few that I've been listening to a great deal over the last month. I'll choose Pascal Duffard's Dieu est Fou as I've given that a great deal of plays since I first heard it not that long ago. I was seriously impressed on first listen, and unlike some albums that start to wear a little thin quickly, I still think it's as wonderful as when I first heard it. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: September 25 2007 at 13:20
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I've got so much stuff in my collection and am always adding new stuff. Kind of hard to really have a single favorite. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: ian picken
Date Posted: September 25 2007 at 13:50
Fraewell to Kings i first thought was good but after 1 month of listens i really could not stop, i still now listen to it once a week, at least... 
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Posted By: Darklord55
Date Posted: September 25 2007 at 15:21
Ghost Reveries! The music blew me away. I had to get used to the growls, which was out of the box for me. However, that has changed and now I am totally blown away.
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Posted By: Sckxyss
Date Posted: September 25 2007 at 16:15
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Mine is Hoyry-Kone's Huono Parturi. I listened to it 4 times in a row the day I got it.
I guess I kinda liked it...
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Posted By: FranMuzak
Date Posted: September 25 2007 at 16:37
Something similar happen to me with that album. I had heard it a dozen times and i was liking it already but it wasn't the big deal yet, then Marillion came to Mexico on the Brave tour and performed the full album live. After that i had a new great perspective.
But ican't honestly say exactly which album is my VERY favorite now. Could be one of these which i enjoy equally: Marbles,Brave, In Absentia, The Sky Moves Sideways, The Wall, Animals, A Time Of Day, Second Life Syndrome, Night and some others. What i can say is that most of these albums took me a while to fully apreciate them. ( with the exception of SLS and In Absentia that blew me away from the 1st time)
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: September 25 2007 at 16:53
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When I first read this topic I thought "Nah, I have too many albums that I like to have a favourite" But after an evening's musing I realise I actually do:
Back in the spring of 1973 an album was released that blew my socks off. I had seen the band perform the album in its entirety in the autumn of the previous year and to say this was an eagerly awaited day would be an understatement. I took a detour on my way to school and stood outside the record shop waiting for it to open with three pound-notes in my sticky hand, then frantically helped the store owner unpack the boxes of that week’s delivery so I could be the first person in our town to own a copy. I had to wait the whole day before I could get home to play it, but my friends and I spent most of the day at school just looking at the cover, reading the lyrics and studying the free posters and stickers that were included in the packaging, trying to summon the courage to ask the music teacher if she would let us play it at lunchtime (she didn’t). I read and re-read the lyrics on the bus home so that by the time I first played it I had practically memorised every word. I think it is hard to imagine quite the effect of hearing those heartbeats at the beginning for the first time: the snatches of conversation, the laughing, the cash machines, then the plane crash and the surge of the opening chord of Breathe… I loved every minute right through to the last heartbeat at the end, so much so I played it again, and again. Over the following 35 years I have played this album to death – literally, I’ve worn out two vinyl copies and the third is not looking too good, I’ve bought every anniversary re-issue and repackage release, I’ve got dozens of live versions and even the dub-reggae tribute album and still it sends shivers down my spine whenever I hear it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Dsotm.jpg"> (I just put the album on this evening as I was writing this and as it got to the opening chord of Breathe a Chinook helicopter flew over the roof of my house, the beat of its contra-rotating rotors rattling the windows as it passed!!... 'kin'ell!) ------------- What? |
Posted By: darkmatter
Date Posted: September 25 2007 at 17:22
My favorite progressive rock album is In Absentia, and when I first listened to it, I knew it was amazing and it was very special! 
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Posted By: Time Signature
Date Posted: September 25 2007 at 17:24
| I can say I dug it from the moment we pressed play on tape. The album was "Somewhere in Time" by Iron Maiden. I know, it probably doesn't count as a progressive album, but that's the album that got me into metal, rock and proggy music, and it's still my favorite album. |
Posted By: Dim
Date Posted: September 25 2007 at 17:56
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With most prog albums, it will take some time to sink in. But Yessongs was an immediate kick in the ears! ------------- 
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Posted By: Endless Wire
Date Posted: September 25 2007 at 18:09
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My favorite album is Quadrophenia. I really liked it upon first listen, but after one or two additional listens I absolutely loved it. ------------- . |
Posted By: Teh_Slippermenz
Date Posted: September 25 2007 at 18:49
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Relayer - Yes It did take a few weeks to grow on me, and I did lose my attention in some spots, but all in all, it BLEW ME AWAY!!! |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: September 25 2007 at 21:23
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ahhh... think we need the companion poll 'did you hate your least favorite album at last listen' I guess to answer the first question... you have to have A favorite album the second question.. .oh yeah.... and still I hated it as I tossed it out the window into traffic on the interstate. Damn...I need to review that album .  ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: September 25 2007 at 21:26
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didn't dig it, didn't understand it... but that's what happens when you hear Tarkus at the age of nine |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: September 25 2007 at 21:30
sucker!!!! ...
I was diggin Sister Sledge, Abba, the Bee Gees, and Donna Summer at
that age, thinking about all the coke and wild women I'd find
when I got older ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: fungusucantkill
Date Posted: September 25 2007 at 21:36
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I was confused and scared the first listen of Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle. I didnt know what was happening. I just happened to stumble on the album on accident and later realized that this was an Avant-garde masterpiece! -------------  
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: September 25 2007 at 21:41
you were way ahead of me |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: September 25 2007 at 21:44
I came up short at the finish though  ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: fighting sleep
Date Posted: September 26 2007 at 01:36
| So hard to choose! I suppose that my favorite right now would be Starless and Bible Black by King Crimson. When I first listened to this, it took me a while to get into, because it is very experimental. But it's really an excellent piece of prog. |
Posted By: Nipsey88
Date Posted: September 26 2007 at 02:06
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Well, my fave is The Lamb...first heard it at age hmm...maybe 12 or 13? Bought it cuz I heard the title track on our local rock station and liked it. I remember listening to it a few times and really only liking a handful of tracks...came back to it a few years later and haven't looked back. Brilliant. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Nipsey88/?chartstyle=myspace02" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: StarBreaker
Date Posted: September 26 2007 at 07:41
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That would be Amorphis - Elegy, and yes - I was completely blown away by it. Hell, I'm still blown away by it every time I listen to it. |
Posted By: yoel?
Date Posted: September 26 2007 at 09:57
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It was 'in the court of the crimson king'
and ive never been so amazed in my life!
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Posted By: ten years after
Date Posted: September 28 2007 at 08:13
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Excellent stuff dargdean. I can relate to every word you wrote (except there are no helicopters flying overhead). It sums up the excitement of each major release of the early 70s. |
Posted By: toolis
Date Posted: September 28 2007 at 09:03
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so where do we begin
and what else can we say? when the lines are all drawn what should we do today? it was the summer of 1997. i was just getting into prog metal with bands like Dream Theater, PoS, Mekong Delta and stuff. but there was always a special band which i had a soft spot in my heart for: Fates Warning. Jim Matheos' songs of Parallels and Inside Out really got me. but at that time things weren't looking that good.. Frank Aresti and Joe DiBiase - both members from the start and at least 50% responsible for the sound i loved - had left the band. the previous LP had released in 1993. and now what? i know i could trust Matheos, Alder and Zonder but how would it sound like? and i kinda figured out that since Aresti had left, Matheos would write all the music. i hadn't listened to a single note in advnace. all i knew was that it would be a concept album of a single 55-minute song. 'ambitious', i thought. and that the producer would be Peter Collins, well known from his productions for Rush. anyway, when A Pleasant Shade Of Gray was finally released i didn't buy it at once for the reasons mentioned. then, i read a review in a magaziine: 10/10! still, i couldn't know what it sounded like cause the review was very 'sentimental' and didn't describe it at all. but, since i trusted the guy who wrote it, i went out and got it. OH, MY GOD!!!! it was (and still is) the best album ever! Matheos free from Aresti was able to achieve perfection! it's the best concept, the best artwork, the best production, the best lyrics, the best drumming, the best music i had ever heard.. close our eyes awhile as mornig shadows play and listen to the rain wash the long night away face to face we'll awake to see another day and with hope in our hearts embrace this shade of gray this pleasant shade of gray... ------------- -music is like pornography... sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more... -sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue... |
Posted By: Norbert
Date Posted: September 28 2007 at 09:21
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I needed some time for most of my favourite albums, but never really hated them. OK, I could't stand Ashes at first, but when I got the whole TPE things changed. |
Posted By: daz2112
Date Posted: September 29 2007 at 15:21
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Dark side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Genesis - Foxtrot I got these albums in 1973 when i was 11 & they really did blow me away!!! First time into prog as my cousin who was 5 years older played these albums to me. ------------- In the constellation of cygnus,There lurks a mysterious force...The black hole |