Five albums that changed your life
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Topic: Five albums that changed your life
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Subject: Five albums that changed your life
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 05:45
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I saw this topic on a football forum (of all places) and thought that it was pretty interesting. Here was my contribution.
1. Yes -- The Yes Album
 I got four eight-tracks and an eight track player for Christmas a long time ago.
This was one of the four and it canalized my taste for all time. 2. Jefferson Starship -- Nuclear Furniture
 How could I not include the album that I lost my virginity to, even if it isn't
all that great? (It was the only cassette in my collection that she liked.) 3. Premiata Forneria Marconi -- Per Un Amico
 This is the album that taught me that it's ok to listen to music that isn't
sung in English. 4. The Flower Kings -- Back in the World of Adventures
 This is the album that really gets to me now. I often listen to the first track
on my way to work and it really psychs me up. (After all, I work in the world of adventures.) The last track, on the other hand, is a great way to wind down as I'm driving home. The stuff in between I listen to randomly here and there. 5. Genesis -- Abacab
 This one gets included because I loved it so much back in the day that I taught myself to play everything on it (on the clarinet and the saxophone.) ------------- 
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 06:24
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Script for a jesters Tear - Marillion
Moving Pictures - Rush A Trick of the Tail - Genesis The Wall - Pink Floyd Houes of the Holy - Led Zeppelin Predictable choices, maybe, but these were the albums upon which my love of prog, and generally a love of music beyond heavy metal, was forged. It was these albums that made me realise good music could include keyboards, could tell stories, didn't have to be brain crushingly heavy or focussed on death and Satan. I was 14. |
Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 07:35
I've done this several times before on different forums, but I've got no idea where to and when, so let's try once again.  1. Green Day - Dookie I'd heard and liked some rock music before, starting with Metallica and Alice Cooper in the tender age of six, but around my tenth year in '95-'96 having heard When I Come Around I copied this album from my cousin. Dookie is my first true love and still a trusted companion after thirteen or so years (and Tre Cool was my first drumming hero, thanks to the brilliant fills in Basket Case). A week ago I gave this the 1537th listen and did it still sound good? Hell yeah. The sh*tloads of nostalgia aside, it's still the best punk rock record I've heard.  2. Iron Maiden - Brave New World I'd found Metallica again around the late 90s and so renewed my interest in heavier music, but since there's only five spots to fill, I've got to choose the next heavy crush, that had a bigger impact in my life in general. One day in the summer of 2000 a friend came to my house with this album and during the first song I'd become a fan. Later I collected the rest of their works and joined a Finnish Maiden fan forum called Maidenfinland. A couple of people in Maidenfinland put up their own music/pets/life in general bulletin board in 2003 and invited me along. On that board and the accompanying IRC channel I got to know a girl who seemed to have a similar kind of interest in music as me (that was in the early 2005 so I had already expanded my tastes beyond punk and metal). We chatted away frequently, met a couple of times at gigs and of these following four years we've spent the last three together and the last two and a half under the same roof. So Maiden and Maiden fans really changed my life, not just musically   3. Absoluuttinen Nollapiste - Nimi muutettu One of my favourite Finnish rock bands has for over ten years been Apulanta, and when their drummer Sipe Santapukki recorded a solo album I of course bought it. On it he invited his favourite Finnish vocalists to sing on tracks he had written and performed entirely by himself. The first song was a collaboration with Tommi Liimatta, the singer in an obscure prog-pop-rock band Absoluuttinen Nollapiste. He had a weird but somehow really cool voice and the lyrics he had written (an exception to the album rule) for the song were brilliant. I had to get my hands on some more of his material, and this was the first album I heard from them. The first song was mostly based on piano and flute and again brilliant lyrics. There were no distorted guitars or fast drums or anything. This album broadened my idea of good music like nothing before and shortly after I found Sigur Rós and via them the next entry...  4. King Crimson - Red I think it was around 2003 when I visited the same cousin who got me into Green Day. I was flipping though her cd collection and saw Starless and Bible Black by King Crimson. I had heard the band's name before somewhere so I put it on. The first four songs didn't do much for me but the fifth, Trio, was really beautiful and reminded me of Sigur Rós which was one of my dearest new acquaintances. I mentioned later to a Maiden-related friend whom I knew to be a prog fan that I'd liked a Crimso song, he replied by sending me Starless and telling me to listen to the best song in the world. Well, if someone saw my Ultimate PA Song List entry, you know that eventually I agreed with him  Red was the first Crimso album and prog album overall that I bought and it was the start of a wonderful journey that still continues... 5. Neil Young - Harvest Moon Could as well be Harvest or After the Gold Rush, these three albums had been bought by my girfriend some years ago and they were lying amonst our collection with no interest from me at all and very little from her. One day about a year ago I was feeling bored and felt like listening to something new, and put this album on. It just clicked, don't really know why. I spent the following days listening to these three albums and pretty soon I started digging deeper into his catalogue. Now I have about 15 of his solo albums, some CSNY stuff and recently I've taken and interest in other singer/songwriters like Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Nick Drake whom I knew before Young (introduced to me by the same cousin), but only recently I've learned to really appreciate his records. These Young albums have been a gateway to my newest adventure: singer/songwriter, folk and country. ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42652" rel="nofollow - It's on PA! 
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 07:41
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1. The Verve - Urban Hymns 2. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin 3. Emerson Lake & Palmer - Welcome Back My Friends 4. Pink Floyd - Live In Pompeii (the DVD) |
Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 08:48
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This kind of post is always so hard - how do you pick just 5? But let's try (in no particular order):
The first album I can remember buying with my own money.
I had never heard of him before finding this album, and couldn't stop listening.
The energy this album exudes is incredible, and all the songs are timeless.
If you have to ask, you won't get it.
Made for a powerful soundtrack to an interesting time in my life. ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 09:01
What, no Decemberists ?
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 09:06
Cool topic.  Now I've got to think a bit, you're making my head hurt.  1. Rick Wakeman's - Journey To The Center Of The Earth. Got me in to prog before I actually got into prog. Shares equal footing with the King Arthur one. 2. Dixie Dregs - What If. An intense progressive instrumental album. I would go on to seeing this band perform live more times than I will actually ever see another band live. 3. Kansas - Point Of Know Return. Kansas was my first band to see live and that was their latest album at the time.  4. Skeleton Crew - Learn To Talk. Don't ask me why, it just came to mind. Saw them live about the time I was just trying to seriously play instruments and had my first keyboard (Korg Poly 61) and a black Electric Kramer with a whammy bar. (I'm still trying to seriously play my current instruments.)  5. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Apocalypse. Holy crap, intense classical/jazz/rock fusion. As a teen when I was off from school I fell asleep one afternoon with one of the sides playing on the turntable on repeat. Probably warped me for life... ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 09:13
Three copies of Dark Side of the Moon and two of Tubular Bells. 
Dark Side Of The Moon
 I was a Floyd fan before this release, but it was the anticipation of its release, and the queueing outside the record store that day, that made me realise that my fandom had gone beyond just liking the band. The first listen blew me away, I had heard the whole thing played live a few months before,so new what to expect, but didn't fully expect to hear what I did (sorry that's quite difficult to explain in words). I literally hung on every note, every word from the first heartbeat to the last - it felt like my heartbeat had synchronised to the record and I had become one with the music. It really was that profound.
Tubular Bells
 In 1973 the hype surrounding this album was everywhere - it was difficult to avoid it - Mike Oldfield was the boy-genius who had done the unthinkable and released an album where he had played every instrument. I am always wary of hype so I approached it with caution - yet my fears were unfounded - it was simple, yet, clever, beautiful yet disturbing. A few years later I discovered something new about it - if you play it very loud it takes on a new dimension - it suddenly becomes more alive and more dramatic. The fact that I can still listen to it after all those years and all those repeated plays and still enjoy it is remarkable feat.
Draconian Times
 Not Prog, and I have to admit it was Holly Warburton's sumptuous cover picture that prompted me to pick this up, but from first spin I was hooked - this album brought me back to seriously listening to metal and set me off on a trail of finding deep brooding metal that led to Opeth, Pain Of Salvation and Emperor.
Crime of The Century
 Pop music was never an anathema to me - I could happily listen to 10cc, The Sweet and T.Rex alongside my Floyd and VdGG albums - it didn't bother me. But I would never have bought this album in a million years on the strength of Dreamer. It was bought for me - I wasn't particularly grateful, I didn't want to play it, but when I did I was transformed (see my review) ... I went out with the girl for two years as an indirect result of this album
 Unknown Pleasures
 Not Prog - As a 20 year old I got caught up in the Punk "revolution" but I was never a convert - I could see that it was transitory, of the moment and wasn't something you actually sit down to listen to. Joy Division changed that - it was something more than just different, it was a shift in philosophy and had its own agenda, it was introspective music of the inner person, not a superficial lambaste against the world. It was covering the same ground that my favourite Prog bands of the 70s had touched upon - emotions over reactions, this was the language of Peter Hammil and Roger Waters in a different accent from a differnet perspective, it was the music of a darker Peter Gabriel and Robert Fripp with an edge and with an attitude. ------------- What? |
Posted By: trili
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 09:19
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Back in Black - AC/DC - I started playing guitar because of that record. Permanent Waves - Rush - As soon as I got my first guitar a friend gave some Rush tapes and I the first song I ever learned was Spirit of the Radio. Ummagumma - Pink Floyd - Still haven't heard a heavier song than "Be careful with that axe..." Learn that being heavy has nothing to do with how low you tune or how much distortion you use. No Remorse - Motorhead - Raw is good! Junta - Phish - Jam is good! :) ------------- https://oddjohnhawkins.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: comatose
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 09:30
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some are not prog related king crimson - red (lark's tongues in aspic) tool - lateralus depeche mode - songs of faith and devotion pure reason revolution - the dark third pearl jam - ten |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 09:35
#1  My first purchase from the Purpes, even if it didn't blew me away in the instance, having consider it very heavy, I was completely wrong. Such awesome riffs, stunning vocals, and great solos. The album that introduced me to all the Heavy stuff. #2  Not a favorite album of mine anymore, but the movie, the album that introduced me to Prog in a certain way, just blew my away, the moment I saw it the 25th of December in 2005. Simply changed my perception of music, and surely 'art'. Any catchy Pop single at that moment that was released I cared less from then onwards, they couldn't show me such brilliance this movie had showed me. #3  On consequence of having loved The Wall, 1 year later, my brother was really into The Who, and my dad purchased the movie of Tommy. Once again it blew my ears off, fell in love with The Who, and surely also added a big part of my nowadays love of Prog and 70's/60's Rock. Tommy and The Wall movies just blew all the Pop I was listening, they really changed my music life. While Come Taste the Band, changed my perception of Heavy Rock, and from then onwards love the band, and any band with some fierceful hammond. |
Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 09:41
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Well, "changed your life" and "favorite" are two very different things Raff. <wink right back at you That said, it occurs to me there should be something from recent history on that list as well - it seems I didn't post anything more recent than 1985. But I don't want to remove anything either, so here's a 'bonus':
------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Raff wrote:
Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 09:43
Well that explains a few things...... ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 09:44
1. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B001BSH0TE/sr=8-2/qid=1238854978/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=5174&s=music&qid=1238854978&sr=8-2">
Def Leppard - Pyromania. Along with Quiet Riot's Metal Health, these were the first two records that I ever owned that weren't Elvis Presley or Billboards Greatest Pop Hits of the Year.
2. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B00005K9LN/sr=1-1/qid=1238855144/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=5174&s=music&qid=1238855144&sr=1-1">
 Judas Priest - British Steel. The first record that I ever bought on my own with my own money. I saw the video for Breaking the Law on MTV and I just had to have this. In my opinion still one of the best NWOBHM albums ever. JP are the Metal Gods.
3. http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/B000002H2H/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_1?ie=UTF8&index=1">
 Metallica - Ride the Lightning
At this point in my life I was listening to all of the 80's metal bands that were popular in the day. Motley Crue, Ratt, Twisted Sister, Def Leppard, Quiet Riot, etc... I was out in my yard mowing my lawn and my kind of friend (we had had a sort of falling out as teens sometimes do) and neighbor happened to be in his garage with Ride the Lightning blasting. I loved it immediately as at that time I had never heard music played in such away with so many time signature changes, etc... They had even better albums later on but this was the first for me and still my favorite.
4. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B000001ESD/sr=1-1/qid=1238855636/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=5174&s=music&qid=1238855636&sr=1-1">
 Rush - Caress of Steel. Obviously, no list of five albums that changed my life would be complete without an entry from Rush. Again, this was a first, as in the first album that I bought bearing the Rush name. I had heard Limelight and Tom Sawyer on the radio about 5 years before and probably Freewill and Spirit of Radio but I didn't really care for them. Something to do with the singer's really high voice. I had some friends who talked about how awesome Rush was and so I decided to revisit them. Caress of Steel was the starting place of that visit and the beginning of what is now a 20+ year love affair.
5. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B00005Q6DX/sr=1-2/qid=1238855911/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=5174&s=music&qid=1238855911&sr=1-2">
 Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever. I suppose that the 5th one could have been Dream Theater's Images and Words as the precursor to this. I was a fan of Dream Theater from the first time that I heard Pull Me Under and have followed them ever since then. I became curious about this Transatlantic album because of the fact that Mike Portnoy was involved in. And when I first heard this album I was absolutely blown away. At this point in my life I was listening to my idea of the big 7 prog bands: Rush, Yes, Genesis, ELP, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, and King Crimson but other than a few bands here and there I had no idea that there was other music of this nature out there. After hearing Transatlantic I had to track down Spock's Beard, The Flower Kings, and Marillion music and it was all just a snowball running downhill from there picking up everything that I could get my hands on along the way. ------------- 
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Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 09:57
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These are the big five. I could easily have chosen five others, but these occupy specific points:
1. The Beatles Something New. My first rock album.
http://www.amazon.com/Something-New-Beatles/dp/B000TBFXOI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1238856790&sr=1-1">
 2. Yes The Yes Album. My first prog album, from the 'modern' era.
http://www.amazon.com/Yes-Album/dp/B00007KWHN/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1238856856&sr=1-1">
 3. Return to Forever Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy. Uh oh, discovered jazz.
http://www.amazon.com/Hymn-Seventh-Galaxy-Return-Forever/dp/B0000046X0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1238856911&sr=1-1">
 4. Clash London Calling. Uh oh, rediscovered rock.
http://www.amazon.com/London-Calling-Clash/dp/B00004BZ0N/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1238856964&sr=1-1">
 5. Tool Aenima. Hmm, it seems there are still competent musicians in the '90s.
http://www.amazon.com/Aenima-Tool/dp/B00000099Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1238857021&sr=1-1">
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Posted By: Doomcifer
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 09:59
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Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction Well, I was in grade school and my mother would buy me a cassette if I hit certain grades every time my report card came out. Since she wouldn't buy me Iron Maiden, but would buy me GnR (go figure hah), this was the first album that was relatively heavy that I got hooked on and wore out the cassette. Tool - Aenima i was hooked on this album from early on in high school and was my intro to more complex and darker music. i do think lateralus is their masterpiece though. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral another album I was hooked on in high school and another intro to REALLY dark music. Radiohead - Kid A this album is so dear to me for the simple fact that it got me through a severely difficult time in my life. I remember when I first purchased it in college, being completely pissed that I wasted my money on it, and playing frisbee with it in the dorms. That is until a couple years later when I dropped into severe depression and this record totally clicked with me. I dont listen to it much nowadays because it brings back the feelings of said time in my life. Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane The album I was really hooked on while recovering from my depression and getting my life back in order back around '03/04. The emotional depth of this album is profound. No specific albums but growing up, when my father would pick us up on weekends, he would play Classic Rock ala Sabbath, Zep, The Who and Prog Rock ala Jethro Tull, ELP, Yes, etc 24/7 and that seriously contributed to my love for music and prog as well. ------------- Greater is the man who conquers himself, than he who conquers a hundred times a hundred on the battlefield. |
Posted By: mr.cub
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 10:15
A favorite of mine as well, but one of the last Who records I heard. If only Moonie was up to his early 70's playing this would be an undisputed masterpiece. Nonetheless the songwriting and playing from Entwhistle and Townsend was never more succint.
As for me....
1. The Who- Who's Next: The first album I ever really heard and my introduction to the world of music. Remember driving up to Vermont at night in my father's car listening to this. For the next few years it was just Beatles and Who for me...
2. Yes- Relayer: I had heard Emerson, Lake & Palmer before, though I really could not digest their music as I had a strong aversion to synthesizer sounds. Having heard Yes before, I thought they might be a more appropriate band to check out. Not knowing anything about their albums I just listened to what was availible- and this was it. My father had Relayer and Going for the One on seperate sides of a cassette tape. This was the first real prog album I sat down and listened to, I remember laying on my basement floor and absorbing this on cassette.
3. Emerson, Lake and Palmer- Tarkus: The title suite was the first time I was blown away by a piece of music's emotion and intelligence. I must have listened to this song over and over for the longest time as well. From here, it was Yes, ELP, King Crimson and soon to be my favorite Jethro Tull.
4. Miles Davis-Kind of Blue: My first jazz album...typically the standard starting place for most jazz newbies. This is the album that got me into Coltrane, Adderley, Brubeck and Mingus among others. After this, I started getting into Miles' electric recordings and then realized my father had a bountiful collection of fusion records. And thus my exposure to Mahavishnu, RTF, Tony Williams and Weather Report.
5. The Beatles-Let it Be: Really changed my outlook on life, mellowed me out in my early teens and made me appreciate what the world had for 8 short years...the cover made me ruminate about their relationships towards the end of the road
And The Grateful Dead also had a strong impact on me for a while, had live recordings up the ying-yang but none of their albums really changed my life-it was these live shows ------------- 
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Posted By: Gustavo Froes
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 10:35
#1 The album tha REALLY got me into music in the first place,about four and a half years ago,and inspired me to take guitar lessons. #2  Although I only listened to it in it's entirity about some years ago,it was a fair share of my childhood's soundtrack,I can only associate it to car trips in the middle of the night.  #3  The album that introduced me to prog(although I was already a big fan of Jethro Tull,I didn't knew back then what exactly this genre was.I listened to it at a very fragile period of my life,so it hit me in a major way. #4  My first introduction to a 70's classic band,up to that point I was a big fan of punk/grunge,but after this album I discovered new bands every week and quickly left my earlier preferencies behind(though I still hold a huge affection to bands like Green Day and Red Hot Chili Peppers). #5  Simply the album that hit me most strongly and quickly(the only contender being Close To The Edge),making me fall instantly in love with Deep Purple's Mk II and opening many doors for me. There are albums such as Aqualung that sould have been in this list for being very important soundtracks of my childhood/teenage years,but you can say that these five albums were the basic structure of my musical preferencies/knowledge. |
Posted By: Captain Capricorn
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 10:53
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Posted By: crimson87
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 11:25
 1-"Houses if the Holy" by Led Zeppelin. This record really got me into classic rock from the 60's and 70's and started my endless quest for new music. I can still remember the first time I heard Robert Plant's vocals singing "I have a dream , crazy dream" and that ( and the Rain Song) blew my mind.
 2-Soda Stereo "Sobredosis de TV" This compilation of the most succesful Argentinean band got me in the music at the age of 10.
 3-The Ultimate Yes. The record that got me into prog Enough said
 4-Almendra-Almendra. The record that taught me that in our country there were bands as good as in the UK
 5-Miles Davis "Bitches Brew". It got me into jazz , a genre I thought I could never like.
 Bonus Track- Welcome Back by ELP.
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Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 11:33
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1. Santana - Supernatural. My first taste of virtuoso guitar of any kind and I was blown away. Rock music doesn't play on FM radio in these parts, so I guess that puts in perspective the impact those lightning fast runs of his had on me, I hadn't ever thought the guitar could be used this way. Much later I realized this was really one of his mediocre efforts, I don't care, I still love all those solos. 2. Scorpions - Blackout. My gateway to heavy music, to be specific the song No One Like You. The solos had an effect rather like that of Supernatural much before. Santana's solos had speed and verve, Jabs's had fury, it was something else. 3. Genesis - Selling England By The Pound. My first taste of prog. Firth of the Fifth made an immediate mark and has stayed safely lodged in its lofty perch since then. 4. Exodus - Bonded By Blood. Opened the floodgates as far as extreme metal was concerned for me. It took a while to realize that Ballof really wasn't like Hetfield on Kill em All, he was much much more badass. When I did, I couldn't get enough of it. Bonded By Blood also taught me to listen to riffs rather than just the vocal lines. 5. Gentle Giant - In A Glass House. Got me hooked to prog again and also made me at least attempt to improve my keyboard skills, one that's proved very difficult to balance with work requirements but at least Minnear ignited the inner flame again.  |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 11:33
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King Crimson- In the Court.... (obviously)
Traffic- John Barleycorn must Die
Focus- Moving Waves
Rick Wakeman- The 6 wives of Henry VIII
and the #1 Roxy Music- For Your Pleasure (music-style-fashion-intellect-romance) ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 12:12
That one deserves to have Amanda shown in all her glory...
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Posted By: listen
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 12:56
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in order of discovery: Rush: Moving Pictures
Santana: Caravanserai Jan Dukes de Grey: Mice and Rats in the Loft Agitation Free: Malesch Brainticket: Psychonaut many other albums could be on this list i suppose, maybe pink floyd: animals asia minor: between flesh and divine anyone's daughter: adonis to name a few good topic! ------------- Now is all there is. Be before you think! |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 13:03
For those wondering, Amanda is NOT the black pussy!  ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: Gorgo Ourgon
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 14:18
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...first post - cool forum! I'm a partner in crime (bandmate) with Captain Capricorn ...nice to be here!
5 albums that changed my life:
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Posted By: Captain Capricorn
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 14:48
Nice to see you here Gorgo
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Posted By: MFP
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 16:06
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Iron Maiden: Powerslave Yes: CTTE |
Posted By: ten years after
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 17:47
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Wheels of Fire (Cream) - made me realise that there really was better music than the Beatles
Woodstock - turned me into a hippie
Trilogy - got me into prog rock
Yessongs - i got my first job in order to be able to buy it
Never Mind the Bollocks - Symbolically, a neat full stop for my youth
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Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 18:05
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Tool - La te ra lus | Nothing, absolutely nothing, has ever affected me in this way ever again. The greatest album I have ever heard. And my first serious introduction to Prog. Pink Floyd - The Wall | I know, I know, most people cite DSotM as their best, but for me, it's The Wall. It's the first Floyd album that actually clicked with me all the way. Been a fan ever since.
Yes - Relayer | This album had to grow on me, but now I see it for the sheere genious that it really is! Yes' masterpiece!
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia | The first PT album I ever heard. After I heard the genious acoustic guitar opening to ''Trains'', I knew these guys would soon be one of my favorite modern Prog bands. Little did I know they would later graduate into becoming one of my favorite bands of any era!
Meshuggah - Catch 33 | I don't care what anyone says. If they don't get what is great about it, trying to explain it is a futile attempt.
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 18:06
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Hmm...
If you would prefer 20 albums instead of five, visit here:
http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=56528 - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=56528
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Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 18:28
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1. Some random cheap compilation CD with some splendid live versions of Hendrix's Little Wing, Purple Haze and Voodoo Child (Slight Return). Those three tracks are what got me interested in music in the first place, when I was twelve. 2. Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction. My secondary school had a small "café" (they liked to call it that) in the basement, and it was run by some guy who used to play GN'R a lot of the time, and this album in particular. It was the first non-Hendrix rock album that really clicked with me, and it got me interested in discovering more music besides Hendrix. 3. Rush - Caress of Steel. This was my first prog album. Discovering prog eventually led me to discover a good portion of what I listen to today. At first I was a typical "prog snob" but then I started looking into some bands in this sites "prog related" section such as Muse, and then more non-prog bands (which weren't just hard rock). 4. At the Drive-In - In/Casino/Out. This is the album that once and for all really opened my mind to non-prog and non-hard rock music. For some reason it just clicked with me immediately. I had never listened to such music before, or when I had I hadn't particularly liked it. I was also knee deep into avant-prog stuff at the time of discovering this band and album (through the The Mars Volta connection, of course) which makes my immediate love of this album from first listen even more surprising. It was just a little over two years ago today. 5. I don't know if I've encountered any album of this importance since number four. It's bound to happen some day, but I don't feel it has happened just yet. |
Posted By: Gorgo Ourgon
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 19:43
How did I forget this one!? 
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Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 19:55
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Posted By: Plankowner
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 20:55
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1. Discovering Black Sabbath...
 Black Sabbath was really the first band that fasicinated me.. took me beyond my family's very small record collection that consisted of Peter Frampton Comes Alive, The Who's "Tommy", Elvis, Jan & Dean and Jim Croce. The first cassette I bought was "Sabotage" and to this day it's still my favorite Black Sabbath album. I absolutely fell in love with the track "The Writ" .. From there this was my first completionist task and all were on cassette...
 . Like I mentioned before, I used to save up my lunch money and visit a local record store which had a huge demo tape wall with all kinds of metal. Having a few demo tapes I was ready for my first vinyl purchase.. I had 25 dollars I saved up from presents and bought my first two albums:
  Talk about mind blowing... The year was 1983 and I had just turned 14 years old.. A year earlier one of my neighborhood friends brother helped a local band called Avatar and I snuck into a keg party where I saw them play and then they released their debut album:
 I already had their EP "Dungeons Are Calling" way before they released this album, so to me the EP was always their first output...
After my Dad burned all my Black Metal albums using my rare picture vinyl Venom albums as kindling.. I was kind of forced to pursue the more operatic metal bands .. Fates Warning, Queensryche and later Dream Theater...
I joined the Navy in 1987/1988 and lost touch with most of my metal music, having given away most of my demo tape collection before I joined ... I begged my Mom to send me all my Black Sabbath tapes... During this time is when I listened to way too much Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Kinks, Beatles, Joe Cocker, Canned Heat, Yardbirds, Yes, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray and other blues based rock. When I was home on leave a friend of mine played this:
 This album single handedly changed what I thought metal was about .. I found it heavy, original, and totally stood out from anything else I've ever heard in metal and had absolutely zero cliche metal trappings. This rekindled my headbanging, moshing notions...
With my Metal fascination, one must know I have also always been fascinated with female vocalists which predates Black Sabbath.... For this I blame The Runaways and Blondie.
Well... I know I've went over five, but I'll include one more... This album probably has the biggest impact that changed my life ...
 Why? Because it's the album that brought me here
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 21:03
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great question! in order of when first heard; Led Zeppelin Diary of a Madman Band of Gypsys Discipline Tarkus |
Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 21:27
1. Opeth - Still Life lThis album brought me into prog metal, and that's not all of it. It's also my favourite album of all time. 2. Death - Symbolic  Needless to say, this album tought me the meaning of the word "riff". It also made me wanna pick up the guitar and opened my eyes to the greatness of Lord Schuldiner. 3. Yes - Fragile  After my old man played me Roundabout off this beautiful release, two things happened: 1. I found prog and LOVED it, thus exploring deeper into it 2. It made me want to BE Rick Wakeman, and I doubt without this album I would be anywhere near as serious about the instrument as I am now. 4. The Fratellis - Costello Music  This album put me off Indie about as badly as Mortician's "Hacked Up For Barbeque" put my grandma off Deathgrind. Truly, truly horrible stuff, it's is like nails on a chalkboard to me. And then someone told me it was one of the best Indie albums out there. Thank God they said that. Heaven knows where my music tastes would lie if it weren't for this bad boy. An anti-favourite, but nonetheless very importance. 5. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway  My first ever prog birthday present off my good mother, I took a shine to this one very quickly and it well and truly got me expanding my sights as a prog listener. Also, it rooted me as an ambitious prog keys player as I learned every single song on piano, from the title track, through In The Cage and Anyway, to It. It still remains to this day, as my favourite G-Dogs album. ------------- "Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value." Arnold Schoenberg |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: April 04 2009 at 21:36
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Marillion - Misplaced Childhood Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon Pendragon - The Masqureade Overture Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin or Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream or Mellon Collie It would be hard to explain the significance, but they're all shards of the past 4-10 years of my life. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Toaster Mantis
Date Posted: April 05 2009 at 03:18
 Probably the first proper prog rock album I heard (unless you count the Beatles' more experimental stuff), my dad has it on cassette tape.  The first prog rock album I owned myself, and pretty much all I listened to back in junior high.  The album that got me into metal.  The album that got me into punk, which actually was partly by accident. I heard this album had the worst production ever and I happen to be a sucker for lo-fi stuff.  I think this album is where my interest in post-punk and gothic rock became more than just dabbling. ------------- "The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook |
Posted By: Keltic
Date Posted: April 05 2009 at 08:05
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No album or albums have changed my life as such but there have been a few classics which have made an impact and have stood the test of time due to their sheer brilliance.
1) The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - my all time favourite.
Genesis' tour- de - force and Gabriel's best work. He knew that Genesis could never top this ( they didn't !), which made his decision to move on that little easier.
2) Astral Weeks - Van Morrison.
Quite simply, an essential part of any serious music listener's collection. Morrison at his poetic and musical best. An album of oustanding beauty and depth.
3) Ziggy Stardust - Bowie.
Need I say more. An album which influenced so many artists.
4) Music In A Doll's House ( Family )
The best debut album ever, in my opinion. Way ahead of its time. Quite simply sublime from start to finish. Roger Chapman's vocal's alone, are worth the asking price.
5) Crime Of The Century - Supertramp.
Perfection. The quintiessential Supertramp album and the one which band members hold up as their defining moment. Sheer bliss. I saw Supertramp play live in the mid 70s, and it remains one of the very best concerts I have attended. Brilliant musicians.
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: April 05 2009 at 09:06
I'm sure you don't know that Amanda (Lear) became a celebrity in Italy in the Eighties... Most of her fame rested on her ambiguous posturing, and very deep voice - the rumour was she had undergone a sex change . I actually used to like her very much - she had oodles of class and humour, and was anything but your typical dumb bimbo. |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: April 05 2009 at 09:17
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1. Genesis- And Then There Were Three I bought this on vinyl at a garage sale. The guy there told me it was like The Beatles, which I was hugely into so I checked it out and it opened the doorways to prog. 2. The Beatles- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band When my uncle gave this to me I was expecting something similar to the early Beatles. I listened the crap out of this one. It got me into more psychedelic rock, which led to prog. 3. Metallica- The Black Album While this is far from the best Metallica album, this is what got me into metal. I remember as a little 8 or 9 year old kid listening to this obsessively. 4. Dream Theater- Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence This was my followup to my Metallica obsession. I listened to the first disc a lot and found it similar to the metal I was listening to, and enjoyed it. When I gave disc 2 a spin, I was blown away. I was already into prog, but I never realized music could be heavy, but still so emotional. 5. Genesis- Selling England By The Pound This was my first true prog classic that I listened to. I wore out And Then There Were Three, so my dad gave me a cassette of this, thinking I would hate it. I remember listening to this at least twice a day for a month. I would sit at my keyboard for hours trying to figure out the keyboard solo. This album brings back a lot of good memories. ------------- 
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Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: April 05 2009 at 10:37
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Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: April 05 2009 at 11:07
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^Is that second last one Smell the Glove by Spinal Tap or should I adjust my brightness settings?
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: April 05 2009 at 11:22
I wouldn't be so sure of what I do and don't know ------------- What? |
Posted By: Toaster Mantis
Date Posted: April 05 2009 at 11:26
I'm sure that's where they got the idea. ------------- "The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: April 05 2009 at 13:44
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This kind of post is always hard, but here goes: 1. Yes - Going for the One. The album that introduced me to prog. 2. Genesis - Nursery Cryme Hearing the mellotron and incredible symphonic pieces for the first time hooked me for life. Plus, of course, THAT cover, which convinced me as a teenager that art and music were intertwined. 3. Genesis - Duke Because prog and commercial do sometimes go together, and this proved it to me. 4. Peter Gabriel - III (Melt) The album that had us all going nuts in the last year of secondary school and proved there was life after a huge legendary band. 5. Marillion - Marbles This album proves to me that the whole genre is in absolutely safe hands as we face the threat of the older, "classic", bands passing into inevitable old age and death. An album that manages commercial, melancholy, scary, touching, and incredible all at the same listen - pushing the boundaries. I could, of course, choose many more, but I think these are the ones that absolutely changed my perception of music and its potential, plus its effect on me as a person. ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: Edmundo
Date Posted: April 05 2009 at 16:21
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1) David Sylvian: Secrets of the beehive 2) Mick Karn: Dreams of reason produce monsters 3) Magma: Mercy 4) Hatfield and the north: The rotter's club 5) Robert Wyatt: Rock bottom They're naturally 5 of my all time favourites. Not inconditionally my favourites, but I have heard them in very special moments of my life. Therefore they meant something particular for me. |
Posted By: rdtprog
Date Posted: April 06 2009 at 10:06
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PINK FLOYD DARKE SIDE OF THE MOON (DISCOVERY OF THE PROG SCENE) YES SONGS (MY FIST TRY TO PLAY "AIR GUITAR") GENESIS FOXTROTT (MY FIRST DISCOVERY OF A LONG CONCEPT SONG) RUSH A FAREWELL TO KINGS (DISCOVERY OF MY FAVORITE BAND) LED ZEPPELIN SONGS REMAINS THE SAME (MY FAVORITE ROCK ALBUM, NOT PROGRESSIVE) DREAM THEATER IMAGES AND WORDS (MY FAVORITE METAL BAND) RONNIE STOLT FLOWER KINGS (MY DISCOVERY THAT NEW PROG WAS SIMILAR TO THE 70's) IQ TALES FROME THE...(DISCOVERY THAT PROG WAS STILL ALIVE) MARILLION SCRIPT... (DISCOVERY OF SOMETING AS GOOD AS GENESIS) |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: April 06 2009 at 10:37
Yeah! I know! According to many music fans out there, we proggers are all dumb bimbos!Thank goodness!------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: Roj
Date Posted: April 06 2009 at 10:38
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Hmmmm. Just how difficult is this?
1. ELP - Brain Salad Surgery.
Back when I was only 8 years old I liked Slade, T Rex et al. My brother got this and played it to death. I loved it, was hooked, and essentially prog was now in my blood. I still love it!
2. J-M Jarre - Oxygene
My discovery of progressive electronic music. Thanks Jean.
3. Yes - Going For The One
On hearing Awaken for the first time, it was like "Oh my God!!". I still feel the same about it now.
4. The Black Dog - Bytes
After hearing this monumental album, IDM took a different meaning for me. This is really groundbreaking, in parts dark and foreboding, at other times stunningly beautiful. The best electronic band by an absolute country mile IMHO. I probably prefer Spanners, but Bytes was the first.
5. The Flower Kings - Stardust We Are
My first album by TFK, a band that have literally changed my musical life. I never thought it possible another band would ever come close to Floyd, Yes, Genesis and IQ. TFK are now out in front on their own.
Amazingly I've had to leave out some incredible albums; Seconds Out, DSOTM, Ummagumma, Metallica's Kill Em All, Van Halen I and Eddie Jobson's Green Album amongst them.
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Posted By: fusionfreak
Date Posted: April 06 2009 at 11:19
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1 Magma: MDK
2 Mahavishnu Orchestra:Birds of fire
3 Amon Duul 2:Tanz der Lemminge
4 Yes:Tales from Topographic Ocean
5 Genesis:The Musical Box ------------- I was born in the land of Mahavishnu,not so far from Kobaia.I'm looking for the world of searchers with the help from crimson king |
Posted By: progvortex
Date Posted: April 06 2009 at 12:33
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1. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd I won't try to explain how profound this album is for me, and I know I wouldn't be the first to do so. This album has taught my lessons and gave me insight that are now a part of my everyday life. 2. Close to the Edge - Yes I do not follow any organized religion, I personally believe that spirituality and morality comes from within. This album sparked those things within me. 3. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis My first jazz album when I was 14 years old. This completely changed my outlook on music: There was something beyond the 3 minute, 3 chord pop songs with catchy melodies. I always felt that Miles didn't create licks or riffs with his trumpet, he create large and abstract paintings. 4. Pawn Hearts - Van Der Graaf Generator This was my first exposure with progressive rock. To be honest, I hated it at first. To me it was uncomfortable to listen to, too dramatic, poorly produced. It would take me a long time to get used to this album, but once I did, I was stunned. I had learned to invest myself in music in order to reap the rewards. 5. In The Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson From the hard rock of Schizoid Man to the beautiful I Talk to the Wind, a song that sounded like wind itself, the spacey avant-garde all the way to the triumphant final track. This album is really an amazing journey. ------------- Life is like a beanstalk... isn't it? |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: April 06 2009 at 12:37
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As a teen: Rush - 2112 Yes - Close to the Edge Dream Theater - Images and Words In the past few years (crap, I'm down to two). Henry Cow - Leg End Magma - Retrospektiw I-II |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 06 2009 at 12:41
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that's a hard one... of course I'm taking it literally... have had NUMEROUS albums that hit me like a ton of bricks... but only a couple I could say that were life changers... 1.  college was so much more than babes and booze...it was a real education hahhaha. I knew this woman that supplied my ...ahhh... smoking materials and was a Billie freak and started me down the path of being a lifelong fanatic of jazz and blues. 2.  one of the first Italian albums I got... which of course.. was a life changer indeed hahah  can't really think of anymore... those were the two that really changed my life... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: April 06 2009 at 13:05
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Micky,
Let me fill in the other 3 for you:
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: April 06 2009 at 13:06
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Posted By: easytargets
Date Posted: April 06 2009 at 13:08
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I´ve been checking my mind and found 8 albums that
really changed my life:
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 06 2009 at 13:08
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hahahhahhahha... oh that's great..... and about right.... just substitute this for Debbie...(she's top 10.. not top 5) 5)  ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: easytargets
Date Posted: April 06 2009 at 13:10
Sorry for the covers ------------- The water rushes over all cities crash in the mighty wave; the final man is very small, plunging in for his final bathe |
Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: April 06 2009 at 13:13
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What is it with this forum and the Allman Brothers? ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 06 2009 at 13:15
 a wise man wondered that once about the forum and Steely Dan
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Posted By: mr.cub
Date Posted: April 06 2009 at 13:31
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Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: April 06 2009 at 13:39
1. Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time: when I got this album is when my social role in high school changed from skinny nerd dude to skinny headbanger dude. I picked up guitar at the same time. People actually made fun of me, not because they didn't like Iron Maiden but because it was beyond their thinking that I'd like it.
 2. Led Zeppelin IV - No other album defined good music for me like this one. I blasted it so much in the dorms that a couple of the other "cool" kids who didn't know me lent me all the rest of the Led Zeppelin albums just so they could hear something else. It still permeates my own music to this day.
 3. Queensryche : Operation: Mindcrime : I was a huge guitar junkie by the time this one came out, and this album started to set me apart from the other metalheads as being into wierd music. While it's standard issue here, at my high school only one other person (who hadn't been introduced by me) knew about this album in 1988.
 4. Genesis - Selling England by the Pound - My first true prog album. I think the second cassette I owned in junior high was the Shapes album which I liked quite a bit then, in college I had really grown to like Peter Gabriel solo. When I found SEbtP I was dumbfounded. I had never heard anything like it. The only classic prog I knew was Yes' Fragile, which is a far cry from this.
 5. Etta James - Mystery Lady : the soundtrack to my courtship with my wife. Perhaps the strongest voice in blues of all times tackles Billie Holliday's catalog and we get a modern, soulful take on these classics that deservedly won a Grammy, and saved James' career. Amazing album
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Posted By: DocJ
Date Posted: April 06 2009 at 16:19
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Pink Floyd The Beatles
Procol Harum
The Clash Traffic
(Early) David Bowie
Jimi Hendrix
Mott the Hoople
Kinks
Small Faces
Radiohead
Jethro Tull
Elton John (but just "Caption Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy")
Muse, Porcupine Tree, Pure Reason Revolution, R.E.M., Doors, Who. Nirvana, Badfinger, Yes, Cream.....
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: April 06 2009 at 17:47
What's with the Allman Brothers? Tie him to the whipping post.  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: April 06 2009 at 22:16
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Stand up - Jethro Tull Close to the Edge - Yes Obscured By Clouds - Pink Floyd Leftoverture - Kansas In the Wake of Poseidon - King Crimson I Guess you can tell from these albums that I'm quite old, but I think I have a good taste in music, specially prog |
Posted By: mr.cub
Date Posted: April 06 2009 at 22:32
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^ Couldn't really tell...Young fella like myself has The Who, Yes, ELP, Miles Davis and The Beatles on his list. And by the way, Stand Up is on my desert island list -------------
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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: April 07 2009 at 01:14
1. King Crimson - Discipline - This was the first album that got me into Prog rock, and needless to say, I'm eternally grateful for that. 2. Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius - In simplest terms, showed me what a bass could really do and got me started into fretless bass  3. Dun - Eros - My introduction to Zeuhl.  4. Charles Mingus - Ah Um - This one was what really started to draw me into the more normal side of jazz after listening to Mahavishnu Orchestra, fusion era Miles, etc...  5. Can - Tago Mago - This was my intro to Krautrock, and is still probably my most listened to in the genre. It's just always clicked with me.  I'm sure there are others that I would like to have on this list, but these were all some of the biggest musical eye openers for me. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: April 07 2009 at 01:57
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i have seen this topic since it was created but actually don't dare in writing those 5 albums, now i would mention these, though i could forget other ones:
1. Pink Floyd - Darkside of the Moon
2. Radiohead - The Bends
3. Il Balleto di Bronzo - YS
4. Ayreon - The Human Equation
5. several more (Snow Goose, Red, The Kick Inside, Per un Amico, etc.) ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: rosenbach
Date Posted: April 07 2009 at 14:27
Really hard to decide, but i choosed 6 albums that had a real influence on the music i've listen to over the years
1.QUEEN: Jazz. First album i ever bought been a teenager, after that i focused only on buying music albums (before that i was pretending to collect post stamps, coins, keychains ... but since then i left all that behind) 
2. ELO: Out of the blue. Once i had almost all Queen albums this was my first studio double album and i used to love it (instrumental passages, strings and vocal arrangements, love songs ... well i was 14 years!) this led me to get most of ELO's albums, and then to some other groups like Styx, Alan Parsons, etc. 
3. RAINBOW: Rising. This album led me to hear more heavy rock (Deep Purple, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin) and to some other hard rock groups of the 80's. I used to love Blackmore's guitar playing style and he became my favourite guitarrist for a while. 
4. RICK WAKEMAN: Journey to the centre of the earth. First prog album i ever listened and it shocked me (i already wrote about this in the "How did you fing prog" thread) 
5. FLAIRCK: Variaties op een dame. After listening one track of this album on the radio, i started searching for it but it took me a long time to get a bad quality tape and then the album (a cousin's gift that brought me from Germany) since then i went into folk music wich is my second love after progressive. 
6. DEAD CAN DANCE: Within the realm of the dying sun. A friend of mine borrow me this on vynil and i discovered something completely new, completely different from the prog rock i was listening at the time, so then i went to dig more into 4AD catalogue (Cocteau twins, This mortal coil, etc). I think these were the albums that in a way changed my life, and although i've not listen to some of them in many years (Queen, ELO and Rainbow)i think i will still enjoy them when i listen to them in future. |
Posted By: Noak
Date Posted: April 08 2009 at 10:06
 This album changed my way of looking at musical structure and sound.  Got me into 60s music which eventually got me into Prog and a lot of other genres as well.  Got me into Jazz.  Not my favorite Zappa album today but the first one i heard and it blew my mind straight open.  The first real Prog album I heard. |
Posted By: keiser willhelm
Date Posted: April 08 2009 at 10:53
 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A# oo from the opening monologue to the final triumphant climax this album changed the way i looked at music. i could argue that lift yr skinny fists like antennas to heaven is equally as deserving of this spot on the list but this was THE album that moved me past being just a casual listener of music.  Kayo dot - Choirs of the Eye holy sh*t i like weird music. The most emotionally moving work i have heard and still my favorite album. THE band that kick started my foray into minimalism, avant composition, ambient, rio, just about everything aside from standard rock ish type things.  Led Zeppelin IV The first album i can remember liking. dad used to play it in the car and i would crank it up. still know all the words and all the solos to every song. i credit this album with the first step in my musical journey  Creed Human Clay ha ha surprised to see this on the list? First album i ever bought. me and my friend really got into music here, after school listening, exchanging, trying out new things it all began with creed... i credit my love of music with this album. with aaarrrrrmmmms wide Ooooppaaaaann! lol  The Album that got me into prog. random google search led me here to this site and to pretty much everything else i now listen to. dream theater was the first band i was fanatical about and was, as the cliche goes, my gateway drug into all sorts of other wierdness. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/KeiserWillhelm" rel="nofollow - What im listening to |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: April 08 2009 at 11:17
Love - Forever Changes 
Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts 
Can - Ege Bamyasi 
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures 
Husker Du - New Day Rising ------------- 
Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: BobFripp
Date Posted: April 08 2009 at 22:30
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TOP 5 PROG ALBUMS (ALSO CHANGED MY LIFE): 1. IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING (KING CRIMSON) 2. ROCK BOTTOM (ROBERT WYATT) 3. THIRD (SOFT MACHINE) 4. FAUST (FAUST) 5. FLYING TEAPOT (GONG)
ALSO:
tubullar bells, larks tongues in aspic, red, close to the edge, selling england by the pound, fragile, thick as a brick, wish you were here, nursery crime, mekanik destrutiow kommandoh, angel's egg, etc...
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: April 08 2009 at 22:38
any band with the words 'All' and 'Man' makes the average progster feel tough |
Posted By: Jozef
Date Posted: April 08 2009 at 23:11
 1. David Bowie- "Low" (The instrumental songs on the second half of this album blew my mind despite how minimalistic they sounded)  2. Genesis- "Seconds Out" (This is what got me into prog. This live album remains my favorite to this day)  3. Radiohead- "Kid A" (An album that demonstrated how a band can completely shed its original sound and still sound incredible, if not better)  4. Magma- "1001 Centigrades" (My first foray into Zeuhl, which was unexplored territory for me.)  5. Pink Floyd- "The Final Cut" (Not really an album that changed my life, but it was the first I ever bought with my own money.) ------------- 
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Posted By: DJPuffyLemon
Date Posted: April 08 2009 at 23:59
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In order of discovery;
1) Appetite for Destruction - GNR
First got me interested in music as a whole.
2) ...And Justice for All - Metallica
First got me interested in metal and heavier music in general.
3) Close to the Edge - Yes
Introduced to me by my dad, and I remember thinking just how dry and pointless the first song sounded for the first few weeks I listened to it. After that I got into prog music.
4) something by Acid Mothers Temple
Heard this soon after first hearing Yes. This got me hooked on psychedelia. This was a long time ago though, as I am not really that much into them at all anymore.
5) De futura - Magma
Technically its a song not an album, but this got me into Zeuhl, which isn't that incredible of a step all its own but its my current fav genre and I think it did change my life because this style of music is one which I currently want to make myself and I'm sure that future music by me will be very Zeuhl influenced.
Its kind of unfortunate I didn't list either Pink Floyd or King Crimson, two bands which I was ginormously obsessed with about two/three years ago soon after discovering prog. Guess they didn't change anything though.
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Posted By: limeyrob
Date Posted: April 09 2009 at 06:33
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Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture - This introduced me to the world of classical music and played during music lessons at school - my first goosebump moment.
Top of the Pops Album no (something or other). In my naive days I bought this cos it was cheaper than 20 dynamic hits. Definitely changed my life - if it's cheap; it's usually cos it's crap.
Pink Floyd - Meddle (well Echoes really) - I'd never heard a piece of rock music this long before and it was brilliant from start to finish. Full emotional content especially as most of the piece is instrumental. My second goosebump moment. Also introduced me to prog.
Led Zep IV - thought it was crap to begin with. But that was only because I hadn't really got into rock music.
Only 4 albums but then I can't say that anything else changed my life
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: April 09 2009 at 11:15
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1. The Doors - Greatest Hits (2CD). My first CD ever by the first band I ever really heard and liked. I was listening only to classical music all my life. The Doors stepped in as the first rock representative in my musical world.
2. Chaos AD by Sepultura - The first Metal cd I ever listened to. Actually, after The Doors, Queen and the Beatles, the first non-classical act (minus JM Jarre and others like that) I ever heard. Until today it has a special place in my heart.
3. And Justice for All by Metallica - My favorite album ever for a long time... It held that position until it was crushed by the following one.
4. Images and Words by Dream Theater - My first DT album and the one which opened the whole prog world to me. Ironically, a few years before I heard it I saw a video of Pull me Under and hated the band because "the singer had the nerve to wear a Napalm Death shirt and sing with that pussy voice at the same time!"
5. Scenes from a Memory by Dream Theater - Obviously, my favorite album ever has to be here... ------------- 
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Posted By: SgtPepper67
Date Posted: April 09 2009 at 13:13
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Charly García - La Hija De La Lágrima  Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon  Oasis - Be Here Now  David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars  ------------- 
In the end the love you take is equal to the love you made... |
Posted By: Alitare
Date Posted: April 09 2009 at 13:21
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Pink Floyd's the Wall Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime Ayreon's The Human Equation Savatage's Streets: A Rock Opera Devin Townsend's Terria These five albums shaped my musical tastes the most. Fun to note that four of the 5 are rock operas. And Terria... These albums invoke the most emotional responses from me. I've cried to these albums, I've screamed with these albums, I've danced and jumped around, and drifted off to sleep with these albums. They shock me, emotionally, and are possibly my absolute 5 favorite albums of all time. |
Posted By: M@X
Date Posted: April 09 2009 at 13:37
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Nice thread !!! ... and in a chronological order as a supplement for you all 1. Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time 2. Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory 3. Genesis - Foxtrot 5. Balletto di Bronzo, Il - Ys 5. Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts ------------- Prog On ! |
Posted By: steve j
Date Posted: April 09 2009 at 13:55
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Great Thread
1. Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Rick Wakeman - 1st album I ever bought
2. Rainbow Rising - Rainbow - Was I gutted when Dio left this band - 2nd album I ever bought
3. Hemisphere's - Rush - Rush changed my life - this was the album
4. Scenes from a Memory - Dream Theater - gateway to the Prog Archives
5. Albums from Riverside / Symphony X / Porcupine Trree / Pain of Salvation - Jewels found within the Prog Archives.
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Posted By: vnmn23
Date Posted: April 09 2009 at 15:17
#1: Undertow - Tool. Saw the Sober video on Headbangers' Ball at 14 and thought it was the coolest thing I had ever seen/heard #2: Ocean Machine - Devin Townsend. Knew of Devin from his work with Steve Vai and this is easily his best work imo.  #3: In the Court of the Crimson King. Found this in my dad's vinyl collection and really sprouted my early prog exploration  #4: Faith No More - Angel Dust. First Mike Patton album I owned  #5: Hot Rats - Frank Zappa. My first Zappa.  |
Posted By: anael
Date Posted: April 10 2009 at 10:39
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for me: Creedence Clearwater Revical. Cosmo's Factory Alan Parsons. The Very Best Live Pink Floyd. The Wall Magma. MDK GY!BE. Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven ------------- 
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Posted By: progadicto
Date Posted: April 11 2009 at 03:49
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1.- Yes - Close to the Edge
2.- Deep Purple - Stormbringer
3.- Black Sabbath - Paranoid
4.- Fulano - En el Bunker
5.- Klaus Schulze - Timewind ------------- ... E N E L B U N K E R... |
Posted By: Speesh
Date Posted: April 11 2009 at 13:51
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In chronological order: The Decemberists - Picaresque Pretty much got me into music in general. I'd been listening to things casually but this album made music as important as it is to me today, caused me to reevaluate the medium as a whole. Also led me on a search for better music that inevitably led me here. King Crimson - Red My first exposure to progressive music, and sparked my interest in things that weren't easily 'accessible'. Frank Zappa - Hot Rats My intro to the massive catalog of Uncle Frank, and still my favorite of his. This album still has an effect on me that few others do. My subsequent foray into his catalog changed everything I knew about music, and got me into live music hardcore. Also had a profound effect on me as a musician. Caravan - In the Land... The album that really got me into progressive rock, and ravenously searching for more and more great music like never before. Eyedea & Abilities - First Born Probably rather unknown here, but its a rap album with very philosophical lyrics and metaphors peppered throughout, which resonated deeply with me and changed the way I look at things for the better. At a time when I really needed some guidance. |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: April 11 2009 at 14:01
Stormbringer also changed quite a bit my music life, but the first one was Come Taste the Band, then it was Stormbringer... |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: April 11 2009 at 14:05
OK, I'll make them 4:  Totally changed my thoughts about where music could go. After this, most of the Zappa albums my dad has, confirmed these thoughts... |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 11 2009 at 15:29
that deserves some clappies ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Nov
Date Posted: April 12 2009 at 19:12
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Posted By: maisondufromage
Date Posted: April 13 2009 at 17:32
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too difficult selling england by the pound: My first prog
the scream: Punk throws it all out
space ritual: Actually I still quite like this stuff punk and prog can live together.
in the flat field: I go goth
Yeti: prog and me are reunited. ------------- egamorf ud nosiam! |
Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: April 13 2009 at 18:44
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Elliott Smith - XO John Coltrane - A Love Supreme RZA as Bobby Digital - Digital Bullet Nick Drake - Pink Moon Tool - AEnema
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: April 13 2009 at 19:12
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1.= Who's Next - The Who
IV - Led Zep The first 2 rock albums I bought 3. Yessongs - Yes Defined my taste in music, from now on it was all about the music. 4. A Farewell To Kings - Rush. The first Rush album I got day of release and the first time I became a fanboy. From this point on Rush were my band. 5. In Absentia - Porcupine Tree. The first time in a long time that I got excited about music. Took me back to my teenage years and that sense of discovery. Strange thing was that the first time I heard PT, in the mid 90s, I dismissed them as boring Floyd clones and didn't give them a second chance until a friend insisted. |
Posted By: why-do-i-bother
Date Posted: April 13 2009 at 19:17
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Jethro Tull - Aqualung David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Pink Floyd -Dark Side Of The Moon
ELO - Out Of The Blue
ELP - Pictures At An Exhibition
Tangerine Dream - Encore
These are the albums that shaped my understanding of prog (even though i didn't know what prog was at that time), and are in the order i heard them. The first four are by year the otheer 2 are when i could afford to buy them.
However 6 would not do justice, maybe even 20-30.
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: April 13 2009 at 22:11
1. Supertramp - The Very Best of Supertramp Vol. 1
 Believe it or not, this compilation set the standard for my music taste when I was a little kid. Supertramp remains my personal favorite band today.
2. Jean-Michel Jarre - Zoolook
 Jarre's most unorthodox and avant-garde release was love at first listen for me when I was younger. A very unique album that have meant a lot to me musically.
3. King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King
 The album that really opened my mind for complex and sophisticated music. I played it nearly to death back when I got it but it never get's old nevertheless. Definetely an important album for me!
4. Extol - Synergy
 My first taste of technical progressive death/thrash metal. Expanded my horizons for bands like Meshuggah and Dillinger Escape Plan very quickly and got me really hooked in metal afterwards.
5. Present - Triskaidèkaphobie
 I've never felt so obsessive over an album like when Im listning to this one, it seems I can't get enough of it. Dark and tense stuff that is definetely a challenge for the mind. Completely unique in every sense of word!
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Posted By: progadicto
Date Posted: April 14 2009 at 05:20
What a wonderful list of albums that changed your life... I named different five but the albums you picked are still in my list of albums that changed my perception of music...
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Posted By: Nov
Date Posted: April 14 2009 at 07:49
Well thankyou very much The first three were big influences on me in my teens, especially "Second's Out". When I heard that album I knew I'd found my band I could also add this album as a big one in my teens:  As for Talk Talk, they were the best band of the 80s (in my opinion) and their concert at Hammersmith Odeon in 1986 on the Colour of Spring tour was one of my top 3 gigs of all-time. I also saw them supporting Genesis at Milton Keynes in 1982 but that's another story Another favourite 1980s album was this one:  As for The Flower Kings, they've been an absolute revelation to me and they are certainly my current favourite band. Another big album for me in recent years has been this one though as it was my introduction to the "3rd wave of prog".  Thanks again for your nice comment. Nov |
Posted By: Anirml
Date Posted: April 14 2009 at 11:47
 King Crimson - "In The Court of the Crimson King"  King Crimson - "Lizards" Yes - "Close to the Edge"  Black Sabbath - "Heaven and Hell"  Camel - "Moonmadness"  Rare Bird - "Rare Bird" (love "As your Mind flies by" too) |