First Prog Album

phonewind wrote: Moving Waves by Focus changed my life.

The first I heard was Stand Up, which my father had bought on the strength of Bourée... But I don't think he liked the rest much

I was six and loved the pop-op inside the gatefold and the mlazing front cover artwork, on top of loving the music inside it

However, my first album (bought at 11 with my newspaper delivery of The Toronto Star) was Crime Of The Century, bought the second day it was released in Canada (Sept 74 is my guess). My school was next to a pretty good record shop (Records on Wheel in Mississauga) and I saw the long-haired dude putting it in the window stand... i thought that cover was awesome, and the next day, I had enough money on me to take it home... Next was Harmonium's debut album, which hit all french-speaking students all over Canada like a storm.

I still have both vinyls (as w<ell as my dad Stand Up).


Before buying those two albums, I only really knew of The Beatles, The Stones and Jethro Tull well only the first two albums) in terms of rock... COTC really  floored me... I was only learning my English: I learned the language on that and Sgt Pepper. And I thought every song was written about me ... Hell, I thought they'd mispelled my name Rudy was really Hugy

Of course COTC lead me to buy DSOTM, SEBTP (didn't like that one much at first), ITLOG&P, ITCOTCK, TAAB within the next year or so





Edited by Sean Trane - November 01 2016 at 16:51

First prog song that hit me so powerfully it changed my life was South Side Of The Sky. After that nothing was same anymore.
My answer is Fragile.

Tubular Bells followed by Equinoxe

Well, I was listening to TSO and Kate Bush long before I knew what prog rock was. So, I guess my first "proper" prog album was Yes' 'Close to the Edge'. I still remember hearing that flawless title track for the very first time. It changed my life, and I've never looked back since!

Sean Trane wrote: Next was Harmonium's debut album, which hit all french-speaking students all over Canada like a storm.

I was 12 years old when I first heard ITCOTCK in 1969, and I was immediately grabbed by the sound of Mellotron.  

After listening to Beatles songs on the radio growing up, the first album I bought was Strange Days by The Doors. I just assumed all the other Doors albums were like Strange Days. None of the other Doors albums affected me as much as Strange Days, so I soon lost interest with them and looked for another band i could listen to. That's when I discovered The Yes Album and a whole new world opened up for me. A friend got me into Genesis and it was about the same time that DSOTM was hitting the radio waves.

I wore that one out a few times. !st live Genesis album.

Edited by phonewind - November 02 2016 at 04:17

cstack3 wrote: I was 12 years old when I first heard ITCOTCK in 1969, and I was immediately grabbed by the sound of Mellotron.   So much for the Monkees!!   It's been a fantastic voyage, thanks to everyone on PA for sailing along with me.  Cheers, Charles.

BaldJean wrote: SteveG wrote: cstack3 wrote: I was 12 years old when I first heard ITCOTCK in 1969, and I was immediately grabbed by the sound of Mellotron.   So much for the Monkees!!     Wow. A progger from the cradle! (Well, almost. ) I was more shocked by ItCotKC when I first heard it and only liked some parts of it. It was not until a few later that I really "got" what the album was about. I believe it was after I got into Fragile by Yes that my prog ears were fully opened. I definitely was a progger from the cradle due to my parents