If only I had discovered Gentle Giant earlier.  I was already in my late teens when I picked up my first GG album, Octopus.  I think it was the perfect place to start.  I have since fleshed out my collection chronologically in either direction, back to their debut and up to The Power and the Glory.  Interestingly, of all those albums, my least favorite is In A Glass House, which is their highest rated studio album here on PA.  It seems a bit meandering, less focused than their other efforts.  I do quite like The Power and the Glory, but I think I prefer the first four albums to anything that followed.

I have to admit, their name probably contributed to why I first listened to them too. There's something about that idea of a Gentle Giant that I like.

My 19 daughter is pressing me since days to buy the tickets for ROGER WATERS at the end of July

Thank you for sharing that!  I have friends with autistic spectrum kids, I love 'em all!  Very neat, creative children, they are a gift for all of us to appreciate.

Don't you think Roundabout would be more fitting? 

The Yes Album is better than Fragile anyway.

 

He loves Marillion, Camel and Muse and some Yes and Rush but hates IQ and Genesis (probably because I adore them). He plays Hysteria and Roundabout as well as some Rush tracks like YYZ regularly and flawlessly on his bass and is actually getting his band to cover some prog tracks at gigs.

It's hard loving so much music and having no sustainable source of income.

In my mid- to late teens, instead of falling asleep to music, I would listen to music instead of going to sleep.  I guess it was a form of rebellion... Maybe.  This was one of the ways in which I discovered Progressive Rock.  My first classic Genesis album was Foxtrot, and I can recall listening to it for the first time, seated on my bedroom floor.  I discovered Porcupine Tree in the same way through In Absentia.  Magical experiences, to be sure.

 

Workout.

You can live 26 more years (unless you have health problems).

It's not enough time to listen to everything I would. You have 26 available years more than me.

24 isn't young, i've seen lots of younger people here, including me, i'm 16.

So there's something wrong with teenagers that like old music, and like it for the music and not the attitude?

Well, Yours is No Disgrace for the scratch.

Nice to read, I love Arlo Guthrie and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 

Neither did I. I still listen to, and enjoy, Simon & Garfunkel, John Denver, and classic rock and roll.

 

Since then I started using high hopes to put her to sleep. Now she's a painter and her last painting shows the shadow of a man in a dark-yellow twilight bringing a bell on his shoulder in a country landscape.

 

When I was 4, I've been told, I was used to play Beatles and Animals in the juke-box. It was too early for prog.  

Haha that came across as slightly sinister like treating your kid as an experiment. 

These guys on here with parents who had good musical taste are lucky. There is no way I'm letting my kids experience the rubbish that mine listened to. The 8 year old is into Rush and some space rock and the 6 year old is digging Mozart and Bach. Not a bad start.

 

 

Heeeeeeey !!! Sexy Lady. Oppan Gangnam Style

That's exactly my reality. Almost every kid in my class loves the music I hate. But Padraic, don't go so mad about that. They will mature and they will be interested in you music someday. Actually, the music video of Gangnam Style is a little guilty pleasure for me. But the music is c**p.