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Topic: Your first Prog album?
Posted By: Gandalff
Subject: Your first Prog album?
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 07:54
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Please remember: What´s your first touch of Prog Rock and when had it happened approximately?
Regarding me, it was Mike Oldfield´s Tubular Bells about 1986, thus in my 17.
EDIT: Dark Side Of The Moon I had listened much earlier, about in my 11. ------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
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Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 08:02
| Thick as a Brick when I was a freshman in high school back in 1973. Friend handed it to me and said you need to listen to this in one sitting. I did and it blew me away. from there got into most of the classic prog bands. |
Posted By: friso
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 08:06
| If Iron Maiden albums don't count, it was Arena's Contagion. I was fifteen at the time. |
Posted By: silverpot
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 08:08
| Days of Future Passed in 1967. That album changed the way I listened to music for ever. |
Posted By: Blackbeard
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 08:23
1975 i bought "Dark Side of the Moon". That was the starting point auf my first progrock season. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 08:23
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I think it may have been Tubular Bells in 1973. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: MFP
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 08:30
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friso wrote:Posted By: SunJester
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 08:32
| Pink Floyd's "Atom Heart Mother!" And a very good album it was too! |
Posted By: dedokras
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 08:43
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Pink Floyd - The Wall, being 12 back in 1991. ------------- http://mlyk.bandcamp.com/ |
Posted By: Apteryx72
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 08:46
| Quite bordeline, Invisible Touch, Genesis. |
Posted By: Run Home Slow
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 09:06
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The First i bought was at 17, in '79 and it was Genesis, Seconds Out... listened on my mom and dad cheap system... then i bought Yes, Close to the edge... and i was on a go with prog... i can easily remember the third one too... Yes, Tormato was just out at the time. ------------- If you got ears, you gotta listen — Captain Beefheart |
Posted By: Tychovski
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 09:09
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Tons of crossover growing up - first official would have been Close To The Edge when I was about 13. ------------- Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974, it's a scientific fact. |
Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 09:15
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Rush' 2112, around 1988, when I was 15. I never recovered.
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Posted By: krishl
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 09:27
| Aqualung and Machine Head in 71 or 72. Didn't know they were prog though. |
Posted By: frankbostick
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 09:29
| 1970 King Crimson In The Wake Of Poseidon ...and my life changed. |
Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 09:42
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I dabbled, had Yes' greatest hits, 80's Genesis, Some Rush and Floyd, Iron Maiden, worshipped Queensryche and Peter Gabriel (though I found tracks like Family and the Fishing Net and Moribund very strange and difficult.)
I had read that Gabriel had been in Genesis before and thought that sound would probably be pretty cool.
So finally I found Selling England by the Pound at a record store and got it. Dancing with the Moonlit Knight absolutely blew me away from the first notes all the way through until the end. And It still does - probably about 1992 when my ear first heard it.
And that's when I knew I was different than most other music fans. I joined a band of Dream Theater fanatics soon after the rest is history. ------------- 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: akaBona
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 09:54
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after school in my friends home radio was open and I heard something totally new for me: South Side Of The Sky. So, my first one was Yes: Fragile, followed by Yes: Close To The Edge and King Crimson: Lark Tongues In Aspic ... |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 10:04
......or Dark Side Of The Moon same year. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: pajet
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 10:30
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Collage - Moonshine My absolutely favourtie till now. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 10:51
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'The Wall' Pink Floyd, in 1982. I was 13.
Although I did have 'War of the Worlds' in 1980 aged 11, if that counts. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 10:52
When I was a kid in Essex, my cool next door neighbours used to babysit for me, take off my sister's Osmonds singles, and put on Black Sabbath & Deep Purple That would have been around 1973.As for myself, my cousin introduced me to Yes GFTO in 1976. I bought it, and a lifelong love affair with prog started. I was just 11 years old. ------------- 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: Vompatti
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 10:54
| The Wall. The first one I liked was probably Fragile. |
Posted By: chrijom
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 10:56
| Genesis - Selling England by the Pound, sometime in the early '80s. |
Posted By: italian fan
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 11:01
| my first prog album I bought was "Live in USA" by Premiata Forneria Marconi and this happened in 1975;it's still one of my favourite between more one thousand I heard and 35 years I listened..... |
Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 11:03
| Without diving into prog-related or proto-prog, my first prog album may have been The Wall. I probably got this when I was around 18 or so, so I was pretty late in getting into prog music. I think I also got my first fusion album, Weather Report's "Heavy Weather" around the same time. |
Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 11:05
| Genesis - Three Sides Live, about 1981. |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 11:12
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Genesis - And then There Were Three followed by Genesis - Selling England by the Pound. I was probably in the 8-9 year old range. ------------- 
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 11:16
As I recall, this: (1984 version) Then this:  ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 11:38
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First I bought was Echoes - Pink Floyd. Although I never really thought of Pink Floyd as prog or that much different than other Classic Rock artists back then; first I bought where I knew something was different about the music upon listening was Relayer by Yes, so I think that counts more. Although it was Fragile that got me really into the stuff.
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 13:31
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Frankly, I couldn't say: my father always listened to Pink Floyd (and also Jean-Luc Ponty and Pat Metheny), while my mother enjoyed Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin (plus a ton of funk/soul like James Brown or Aretha Franklin). So, I guess I've been exposed to Progressive music at a very young age. |
Posted By: Theriver
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 13:37
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Genesis live |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 13:41
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First album I ever bought was a prog album: "Merlin" by Kayak in 1981. I was 16 years old.
But, I grew up as a kid between three teenage prog loving brothers, being immersed in music of Genesis, Yes, ELP, Procol Harum, Focus, Jethro Tull etc. when I was about 6 years old, really liking it too, hearing quite some prog music in my early youth.
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Posted By: The Block
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 13:46
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Selling England by The Pound....I was 10. -------------  |
Posted By: Mastosis
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 14:43
| It was probably Dark Side of the Moon when was 15 or 16. I listened to it in one sitting and was blown away. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 19 2010 at 15:16
| I bought ELP - Pictures At An Exhibition when I was about 14. Absolutely hated it but not long after they released Fanfare For The Common Man with that great video filmed in the Montreal Olympic Stadium and that persuaded me to give some of their other stuff a try. Tarkus got me hooked and it went on from there. |
Posted By: kjprogger
Date Posted: December 20 2010 at 16:32
| A Trick of the Tail at age 17. And I haven't looked back since. |
Posted By: The Wrinkler
Date Posted: December 20 2010 at 16:42
| First Prog album I owned: Fragile |
Posted By: kplloyd
Date Posted: December 20 2010 at 16:51
| Yes' Fragile, shortly after it came out ... |
Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: December 20 2010 at 17:03
| Thick As A Brick, 1972, age 13. |
Posted By: The Wrinkler
Date Posted: December 20 2010 at 17:03
| ^ What a year! |
Posted By: Earendil
Date Posted: December 20 2010 at 17:10
| Octavarium which came out when I was in 8th grade. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: December 20 2010 at 17:21
How appropriate. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Earendil
Date Posted: December 20 2010 at 17:41
Woah. Coincidence?  No, it must have been fate.
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Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: December 20 2010 at 17:45
Likewise!!
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Posted By: Wardenclyffe
Date Posted: December 20 2010 at 18:03
Went camping with the school in the summer of 1974 and I shared a tent with a prog fanatic with a tape recorder and just the one tape: Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother....I was hooked from then on and here I am still proggin' hard!
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: December 20 2010 at 18:10
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When I was about 15 I recall I owned 3 prog vinyl albums only...
Jeff Waynes War of the Worlds -
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine - 1978
Pink Floyd - The Wall - 1979
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 20 2010 at 19:20
I already started a thread like this. I'm going to have to kick your butt.  My first two came as part of the initial membership deal with Columbia. Two Wakemans: Journey and King Arthur. It took a couple of years or so before I became a full fledged addict. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Majikthise
Date Posted: December 20 2010 at 19:41
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Probably Dark Side of the Moon when I was a kid. The one that got me going on prog, however, was the 35th anniversary compilation triple album of Yes material. First Yes song I heard was Roundabout, and it blew me away immediately. Became a huge fan of the band and prompted me to start looking into more prog. |
Posted By: Dr. Occulator
Date Posted: December 20 2010 at 19:45
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Close to the Edge - Yes, 1972, while driving through misty highlands in northern Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: December 20 2010 at 19:59
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depends if you count The Beatles' albums, but the album that made me realize that this art form was my preferred was URIAH HEEP's Demons and Wizards. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: December 20 2010 at 20:13
My parents have Dark Side of the Moon, so definitely that...when, I don't know...probably somewhere between 7-10 years old, though they've had it as long as I've known them. 
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Posted By: Ian Stuart
Date Posted: December 20 2010 at 21:05
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I like to think I was in at "the beginning" - I have the LP from Touch in 1968. [I did not, however, begin to 'keep up' with all thing destined to be progressive!  |
Posted By: Pang Chi Nam
Date Posted: December 20 2010 at 21:30
| Dark Side of the Moon...I got it when it came out and I've gone through 3 vinyl editions & 2 CDs. |
Posted By: Exocet
Date Posted: December 21 2010 at 06:21
| My first Prog album was Close to the Edge of Yes in 1975 |
Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: December 21 2010 at 06:42
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First i listen too, i cant remember, my brother was into prog, so that have been when i was very young.
But i know what was my first Vinyl, that i got for Christmas, at the same time as i got my first (used) record player.
------------- Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 21 2010 at 06:45
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first heard: Tarkus in 1975 at about 9 years old first owned: Hemispheres when released in '78, I liked the surreal cover |
Posted By: The-time-is-now
Date Posted: December 21 2010 at 07:39
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Tormato. I was 19/20. -------------  One of my best achievements in life was to find this picture :D |
Posted By: XTChuck
Date Posted: December 21 2010 at 09:03
| Mothers of Invention "We're Only in it for the Money" in 1969. I was 10. |
Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: December 21 2010 at 09:07
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Rush - A Farewell To Kings
I was a heavy metal nugget back in the late 1970s'/early 80s. A mate of mine had played me Going For The One which in my infinite teenage wisdom, I had dubbed 'f*cking Country and Western music' (yes I know, I'm still slapping myself about the head about it now). My mate was not undaunted however and during one afternoon record listening session, he spun AFTK and everything changed in an instant. I'll admit that at first, I found Geddy's vsinging hilarious but I couldn't fault the playing. Happily, his voice grew on me and I played this album to death over the next six months. It remains a watershed moment for my music listening and opened a door to the world of progresssive music.
 Such a great musical revelation would not occur in my life again until I discovered the phenomenal talent that is Justin Bieber.  ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: The Salem
Date Posted: December 21 2010 at 10:10
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Dark side of the moon is taking the lead :) (which was my 1st prog album, and still my inspiration ) |
Posted By: Mikeyg
Date Posted: December 21 2010 at 10:52
| For me it was 1969, I was 13 and I bought 'The Court of the Crimson King'...I never looked back |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: December 21 2010 at 11:08
Very close to the same time, I'd say around 1989-90, I discovered Fragile and 2112 at about the same time, and both were equally mind-blowing. I was around 13 years old.
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Posted By: For6luca
Date Posted: December 21 2010 at 11:49
| Images and words in 1999, I was 16 |
Posted By: thehallway
Date Posted: December 21 2010 at 11:53
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The Yes Album, at 13 years old, an unforgettable Christmas!
But I grew up on Classic-era Floyd. ------------- http://www.thefreshfilmblog.com/" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: December 21 2010 at 12:06
Nice story. I was so fond of record listening sessions with friends. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Green Shield Stamp
Date Posted: December 21 2010 at 14:54
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First for me was 'And Then There Were Three' by Genesis, which I bought in June 1979. This was quickly followed by Selling England by the Pound, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and Close to the Edge. Every penny I could get my hands on went towards buying albums (which were about £3 at the the time). ------------- Haiku Writing a poem With seventeen syllables Is very diffic.... |
Posted By: idoownu
Date Posted: December 21 2010 at 15:24
| Animals - Pink Floyd |
Posted By: fasolplanetarium
Date Posted: December 21 2010 at 21:48
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I'll say In The Court of The Crimson King was the first prog album I heard with the knowledge of it being prog. There was this vinyl copy lying around in my house that belonged to my dad back in the day that had "The Crimson King" on the cover with his two front teeth colored in with a pen. Then he got me a copy for my birthday and I never touched the thing for maybe 2 years until I started getting into music. I always remember how spooky that cover was, and how amazed I was when I finally put that record on. That sh*t changed who I was.
------------- "Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom." -Kierkegaard My music blog: endless-sound.blogspot.com |
Posted By: Mikeyg
Date Posted: December 22 2010 at 09:41
| For me when I listened to that Crimson for the first time, I think I bought it just for the cover my musical taste was defined, literaly overnite, from that point the floodgates opened, I came across Gentle Giant, Yes, Magma, Ange, Caravan, Camel....the list goes on an on. So much good music and not enough years in a lifetime to enjoy it all. |
Posted By: sorcerer kermes
Date Posted: December 22 2010 at 09:51
| wish you were here by PF |
Posted By: geegee
Date Posted: December 22 2010 at 10:32
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Various musicians in my family, music was always on ... Pink Floyd and Genesis were playing constantly as far back as I can remember (I'm kinna young, I'm a '76 baby) But I think I 've been rejecting a lot of that until maybe 89 - 90. when, at that time, I was really (and still am tho) into Peter Gabriel solo work, the greatest voice ever (to me). But also discovered more "hard-rock" sounding bands like Fates warning or Dream theater, around 93-94 Then, strangely, I came back to more 'classical' prog (can I actually say that ?) recently, around 98 - 99. What was the question already ?  ------------- https://500px.com/gaelberthon |
Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: December 22 2010 at 10:42
 It seems as if that was a 70s/early 80s thing but who knows? I wonder if teenegers still gather together in rooms to say things like 'wow' and 'awsome!' in response to listening to new music.------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: December 22 2010 at 11:03
I used to love walking around to my friends with several albums under my arm. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Nakatira
Date Posted: December 22 2010 at 12:05
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I'm guessing it would be either a Queen or a Pink Floyd Record, but back then I did not consider them prog, meaning I did not know of prog, I just knew I liked their style.
But the first Prog record I bought as in intentionally buying prog, changed my life completely and made me apreciate music in an entire different way, Thick as a Brick it was called and it will allways be my favorite record. ------------- http://daccord-music.com/home.cfm |
Posted By: Bitterblogger
Date Posted: December 22 2010 at 12:40
| Fragile, summer of 1974. |
Posted By: Sanmartinphase7
Date Posted: December 22 2010 at 13:29
| The Yes Album,a few days later Relayer |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: December 22 2010 at 16:19
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Hi,
None really.
By the time I heard the Beatles, Rolling Stones and all that when I was in Brazil, I was already aware of Ravel, Stravinsky, Orff, Bartok ... and then I already knew a lot of music, some popular stuff from Europe ... and ... like many other folks that are musically educated ... that is have heard a lot of other things ... it's hard to consider a band that just does 3 to 4 minute songs important or progressive ... and folks like The Beatles tried to change that mold ... and it got lost in the shuffle of popularity and fame! And 45 years later ... shame!
The first "progressive" album that I went after was The Who ... "Tommy" ... because it was a rock opera, done by musicians our age, with instruments of our time and place. But, because of a hit or two, that piece is horribly trashed and still not considered valuable ... even to a place like this ... we still don't thiink of The Wall as a rock opera and that is an even better representative than a lot other pieces out there ... and the libretto makes half the operas that the Metropolitan does, look like really cheap endeavours in music -- done by rock'n'roll'ers too! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: LSDisease
Date Posted: December 23 2010 at 10:06
| Marillion - Misplaced Childhood |
Posted By: ProgressiveAttic
Date Posted: December 23 2010 at 10:19
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This is not really original but... Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon was the album that got me into prog around 2005 (I was 13), but it actually was part of a stack of CDs I stole from my father which included In the Court of the Crimson King, Trilogy, Relayer and Tales from Topographic Oceans...
Actually, I can't really remember what my first prog album was since prog has been played around my house since before I was born... actually one of the earliest memories I have is listening ELP's Karn Evil 9 from the Return of the Manticore boxset (I loved the manticore on the cover!)... I was probably around 3 years old at the time... ------------- Michael's Sonic Kaleidoscope Mondays 5:00pm EST(re-runs Thursdays 3:00pm) @ Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio(http://www.deliciousagony.com) 
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Posted By: Gentlegiantprog
Date Posted: December 23 2010 at 14:09
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I don't remeber. But if you don't count things like Tool, Mars Volta and Mastodon then it was Pink Floyd - Echoes, then In The Court of the Crimson King ------------- Let the maps of war be drawn ! 
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Posted By: jndoyle63
Date Posted: December 27 2010 at 23:53
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"Days of Future Past" in 1967, but back then I had no clue about prog. A few years later, when Yes released "Fragile", I began to be more aware of the genre. |
Posted By: gbmolina
Date Posted: December 28 2010 at 01:05
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Operation: Mindcrime by Queensryche, back in 1988, it totallly blew my mind, I jumped straight straight from classic heavy metal to Qr. ------------- prog freak |
Posted By: grosssover
Date Posted: December 28 2010 at 12:33
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helloo.. my first prog album was dream theater "awake"
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Posted By: CloseToTheMoon
Date Posted: December 28 2010 at 14:52
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First I heard was either The Wall or 2112 on vinyl, somewhere around 1999-2000. (pretty cliche) First I owned was Dark Side of the Moon (also cliche). ------------- It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen. |
Posted By: Flower King
Date Posted: December 29 2010 at 03:50
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First i heard was Dark Side of the Moon First I owned was Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory ------------- For the love of Prog! http://www.fromuzband.com" rel="nofollow - Progressive rock band FROM.UZ 
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Posted By: FullMoonRising
Date Posted: December 29 2010 at 04:17
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Dark Side of the Moon and some other Pink Floyd albums (WYWH, The Wall and Animals), but those are obligatory first albums...got into Dream Theater and the more proggy side of metal (also Opeth, in particular). A couple months later, I was at a friend's house and he was playing "All of the Above" by Transatlantic. It was only on in the background, but even so, it captured my attention and I asked what it was. A few months later I bought a bunch of albums including SMPT:e, Close to the Edge and Selling England by the Pound. I would say that DT, Transatlantic and Opeth are the bands that got me into prog. Transatlantic definitely got me more interested in the prog rock side rather than prog metal; first time hearing Bridge Across Forever, I was blown away, and played it every time I drove for a good 3 or 4 weeks afterwards.
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Posted By: NinaHoo
Date Posted: December 29 2010 at 07:16
Mine was 1987 (age 14) randomly choosen from my bro´s shelf.... and it was Rush Fly by night tried to make an affect to older boy I was pen-pal with...knew he like prog´rock.. That didn´t work out, but I got more intrested in progmusic 
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 29 2010 at 08:18
^This album got me definitely into prog. I heard it for the first time at the age of 12. It was given to me on my 13th birthday.
 ^7 months later, two or three weeks after its release, this was the first album that I bought.
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Posted By: paroxix
Date Posted: December 29 2010 at 17:26
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it was either octavarium-dream theater or moving pictures-rush in 2007 i was 12
i'm not too sure on which one i listened to first ------------- Music is the only safe kind of high-Jimi Hendrix |
Posted By: Rockjf1
Date Posted: December 30 2010 at 10:02
| The Dark Side Of The Moon I was 13 Never heard something so beautiful I was Blown away by the magic of this soft music with High Peeks at time from that Day Ive Been A Major Music Lover Learned To play Guitar Saxophone And Piano I wish Kids These Days could Enjoy Those masterpieces without being Seen as weird or oh look at the guy with long Hair With a Metal Balloon On fire on his Shirt I wish they could go at school and people would say Ohh man that's an Awsome Zeppelin shirt you got there man(obviously talking about my life:P) Funny facts my teacher used to always comment on my shirt dues to the fact that most of them where 70's People. Well that's An awsome shirt you got there first listen to that when I was 16 Frampton comes alive awsome teacher thank you for the support:P |
Posted By: The_Jester
Date Posted: December 30 2010 at 10:10
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The first I really listened to (my dad was listening to Gentle Giant and Frank Zappa when I was younger but I was'nt really listening) was A Passion Play. I was 12 at that time and I had an awful nightmare and sickness when I overheard the intro in an other room. My dad was making it play and I listened to it carefully. Then I fell in love with prog. ------------- La victoire est éphémère mais la gloire est éternelle! - Napoléon Bonaparte |
Posted By: Suedevanshoe
Date Posted: December 30 2010 at 14:27
| First brush with prog was Roundabout on the radio when I was 15. First album, Classic Yes. Loved the album, hated the live versions of Roundabout and I've Seen All Good People. Branched from Yes to King Crimson and Wakeman while my best buddy became a huge ELP guy. Started to understand the genres and styles by about 25, started listening to global prog about same time. |
Posted By: Steven Brodziak
Date Posted: January 01 2011 at 07:26
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What an awesome 1st prog album! ------------- Well, there it is. (Amadeus) |
Posted By: Steven Brodziak
Date Posted: January 01 2011 at 07:37
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My little brother was googoo over Close to the Edge and Tormato and Yessongs. My buddy had recorded me a tape of "Meddle" and "Atom Heart" I listened dutifully to "Lamb" on HIS turntable. But 1st I owned was probably "A Trick of the Tail". As to the above, we always called Anderson and Yes sissies for the high voice, little did I know that he was onto something. Oh, I was maybe 11 or 12 or 13 lol ------------- Well, there it is. (Amadeus) |
Posted By: let prog reign
Date Posted: January 01 2011 at 09:52
| Before I knew what prog was I still loved Dark Side of the Moon |
Posted By: Suedevanshoe
Date Posted: January 02 2011 at 11:36
| I love Jon Anderson's voice. I think his voice perfectly characterizes the individual and group collective. I think he's the vocalist all aspire to be. |
Posted By: Aragon
Date Posted: January 02 2011 at 12:48
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My first time i listen Rock progressive was in the 1995 with this album by Marillion released in the 1988, and was soon LOVE ../album.asp?id=1760" rel="nofollow">  ../album.asp?id=1760" rel="nofollow - The Thieving Magpie
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Posted By: progvortex
Date Posted: January 03 2011 at 01:08
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I liked prog before I even listened to it. I saw the cover for Pawn Hearts and immediately thinking, "This is going to be incredible". I had heard a little Stravinsky and Varese in my high school wind ensemble, and I loved how they were breaking all the rules of their time. Flouting convention is especially intriguing when you're in high school. Listened to Rush around the same time. Loved the Ayn Rand individualism and breaking away from the collectivism and meekness that enables a totalitarian world government, and the sci-fi elements (Attention all planets of the Solar Federation) all that. And this was only 3 years ago! ------------- Life is like a beanstalk... isn't it? |
Posted By: areazione
Date Posted: January 05 2011 at 13:56
I started off with this anonymous band |
Posted By: Harold-The-Barrel
Date Posted: January 05 2011 at 14:37
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I had Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds around 1981 along with Abacab, failing that it would be Script for a jester's Tear in 1983
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