What Prog album is the most personally important?

dr wu23 wrote: ITCOTCK.....what else in 1969...?

ITCOTCK and Abbey Road for me in 1969. But I'm silly like that.

octopus-4 wrote: SteveG wrote: dr wu23 wrote: ITCOTCK.....what else in 1969...? ITCOTCK and Abbey Road for me in 1969. But I'm silly like that. Nothing to say...Abbey Raod is the best Beatles' album IMO

True Luca, I actually heard ITCotCK immeditately after hearing Abbey Road in 1969 and it's safe to say that my mind was never the same after that. They are two extremely important albums to me.


Edited by SteveG - July 03 2014 at 09:06

SteveG wrote: dr wu23 wrote: ITCOTCK.....what else in 1969...? ITCOTCK and Abbey Road for me in 1969. But I'm silly like that.

Rush's Presto was their first new album release that I purchased as a new release and the first tour that I saw them live so it has special meaning to me for that.

I always liked Metallica for their time signature changes, but I suppose like many others, Dream Theater's Images and Words bridged the gap for me from them to a whole new world of new music.  A subset of this album would be Transatlantic's SMPT:e.  I had to check out this band that had Mike Portnoy in it and it absolutely blew me away.  From there I had to check out Marillion, The Flower Kings, and Spock's Beard and the floodgates opened from there.  

dr wu23 wrote: SteveG wrote: dr wu23 wrote: SteveG wrote: [QUOTE=dr wu23]ITCOTCK.....what else in 1969...? ITCOTCK and Abbey Road for me in 1969. But I'm silly like that.   Yes...I was a big fan of the Beatles , first Zep, first Sabbath, etc etc,  but as I mentioned to Octopus I never thought of them as prog then ..just as really good bands. But when I heard ITCOTCK....it was a whole new experience for me. They were onto doing music a little differently than other bands ...it made a huge impact. Oh, I'm not splitting hairs Doc, it's just that after hearing the Abbey Road side 2 suite and ITCotCK, Paul Revere and the Raiders just never sounded the same to me after that. Cheers.

As Morpheus might say...."I know exactly what you mean. " Wow. I feel 7 days younger! Happy B-day and all the best to you!


Edited by SteveG - July 03 2014 at 10:18

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd.  It was the first Pink Floyd album I ever bought and a life changer for me.  Richard Wright's beautiful keyboard work in the Shine On You Crazy Diamond suite just blew me away.  It was the first time keyboards did that to me.  Before then I was always a guitar freak.  Loved Hendrix, Clapton, Page, Iommi, etc.  Still do.  But, with Pink Floyd their sound was not the blues drenched heavy rock I had been listening to.  It was an entirely different experience for me.  Mind blowing in fact.  I began buying other Pink Floyd albums which only deepend my love of their spacey prog sound.  Inevitably I started to seek out other prog bands like Yes, Genesis, Jethro Tull & King Crimson and my life was forever changed.  WYWH was my gateway into a whole new world.

Have to be an album I bought as a teen, on vinyl. Which I remember playing and getting into prog. Jeff Waynes War of the Worlds is up there then, along with KrAFTWERK'S mAN MACHINE, or Pink Floyds The Wall. So many others....

FLOYD : Pipper

For me, it's Nursery Cryme because that's what started it all off, and then Genesis Live as that's the first prog album I bought.

ExittheLemming wrote: I find the whole premise of the thread rather odd i.e. isn't every single musical album you enjoy/loathe based on a personal subjectivity to the music and content therein (or am I missing the point?)

I don't even understand your question. Personal subjectivity is right there in the title.

SteveG wrote: Last week I created a poll between Rush's albums A Farewell To Kings and Hemispheres as both albums were personally important works to me as well as being musically important and felt that only other PA members could objectively pick the best of these two acclaimed albums.

No, no one can.

Edited by Dayvenkirq - July 04 2014 at 15:40