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Polymorphia 
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 Posted: January 21 2015 at 17:53 |
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I started liking prog around the time I started exploring music in general, so, previously, it was classic rock and mainstream rock. Nothing really special, though I was into Sigur Ros (whom I still love), and another band I was into at the time, Edison Glass, had some math rock influence.
Edited by Polymorphia - January 21 2015 at 17:56
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Man With Hat
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Posted: January 21 2015 at 18:02 |
 Polymorphia wrote:
I started liking prog around the time I started exploring music in general, so, previously, it was classic rock and mainstream rock.
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Pretty much ditto.
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The Son of Gorp
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Posted: January 21 2015 at 19:02 |
Honestly, I didn't start listening to many full albums until I got into prog. I listened to random songs on YouTube, over and over... and over. These are the few full albums I listened to.
The Who - Who's Next Led Zeppelin - IV, Physical Graffiti The Beatles - Abbey Road, Sgt. Peppers Radiohead - Kid A
On the way to a Radiohead concert, I listened to "Roundabout" for the first time on the radio. It all went uphill from there 
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Argonaught
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Posted: January 21 2015 at 21:50 |
Rednight wrote:
If you are one who got into prog after generally being a fan of some other genre of music, list 10 albums (CDs) that best exemplify the latter. |
I'm afraid there weren't too many CDs out there when I got into music 
I very clearly remember listening to Rush, PF, ELP, the Beatles, Kansas, Iron Maiden, Deep Purple and Yes in mid- to late '70s (I believe all of these are somehow "prog-related" on PA, but back then the expression "progressive rock" was being used only sparingly). I also recall listening to loads of disco , but I can't remember specifically what bands, albums .. whatever .. generic.
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Roland113
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Posted: January 21 2015 at 22:33 |
So, ok, this is a tough one, I listened to a lot of different stuff, plus I was always kind of into prog thanks to my Dad. The ten albums that I'm going to list are favorites that represent different parts of my life when I wasn't listening to prog. Even though some of the albums are in the archives, I wasn't thinking of them as prog when I was listening to them. In no particular order:
Depeche Mode - 101 Tones on Tail - Tones on Tail Jean Michel Jarre - Revolution INXS - Kick Sasha - Involver Sasha and Digweed - Northern Exposure II Orbital - Insides Dream Theater - Awake Love and Rockets - Express New Order - Substance Live - Throwing Copper Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
(Yeah, I went over but I was on a roll)
Edited by Roland113 - January 23 2015 at 09:12
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Cristi
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Posted: January 22 2015 at 01:30 |
Interesting idea for a topic. Before I knew what prog was all about (I would listen to a few prog albums but I did not even now it was genre called like that  and i was listening to Pink Floyd, Yes, Marillion and Supertramp) my 10 albums: Whitesnake - 1987 Iron Maiden - Seventh Son... Van Halen - 1984 Metallica - Master/justice/KeA/RTL Queensryche - Empire Testament - PWYP/Souls of Black/The Ritual Dire Straits - s/t /Love Over Gold Led Zeppelin - I/II/III/IV/Houses of the Holy WASP - s/t/Inside the Electric Circus Black Sabbath - Paranoid/SBS/Vol IV/Technical Ecstasy I used to listen to A-ha and Depeche Mode (Music for the masses), still listen to them even today, Cinderella's first couple of albums, still great to this day, The Doors (I used to be a bit of a fanboy as a teenager, now I rarely listen to them). Back in '93/'94, I started listening to a lot of 60s/70s bands like Deep Purple, Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Hendrix, Joplin, Dylan to name a few. Great stuff to this day. And Queen was one of the first bands that I loved, still listen to a lot of their albums.
Edited by Cristi - January 22 2015 at 01:37
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Svetonio
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Posted: January 22 2015 at 01:37 |
Man With Hat wrote:
Polymorphia wrote:
I started liking prog around the time I started exploring music in general, so, previously, it was classic rock and mainstream rock.
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Pretty much ditto. |
Same here.
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richardh
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Posted: January 22 2015 at 01:49 |
Wings - Band On The Run The Who - The Who By Numbers both very fine albums and I still like them. Then I discovered ELP and didn't look back.
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Cristi
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Posted: January 22 2015 at 01:52 |
richardh wrote:
Wings - Band On The Run
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I forgot this one and it's one of those albums of my childhood, my dad and older brother listened to that. aaahhhh, now I'm nostalgic 
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presdoug
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Posted: January 22 2015 at 02:12 |
Cristi wrote:
richardh wrote:
Wings - Band On The Run
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I forgot this one and it's one of those albums of my childhood, my dad and older brother listened to that.
aaahhhh, now I'm nostalgic
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I forgot Band On The Run, as well. Also from my childhood. An endearing album.
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Kazza3
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Posted: January 22 2015 at 02:25 |
Something like:
Frank Sinatra- Best of Michael Buble- Come Fly With Me Norah Jones- Come Away With Me Acker Bilk- Reflections Dave Brubeck- Time Out Benny Goodman- Best of Herbie Hancock- Headhunters Mahavishnu Orchestra- Birds of Fire The Beatles- White Album Mike Oldfield- Tubular Bells Muse- Absolution |
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Walton Street
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Posted: January 22 2015 at 04:19 |
i never stopped playing it ... fantastic album - in my top 10 of all time
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Gerinski
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Posted: January 22 2015 at 08:18 |
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Early Prog was in my ears for as long as I can remember, of course mixed with other rock of the period, Beatles, The Who, Zep, Iron Butterfly, Hendrix, Joplin... and some Folk like Cat Stevens, John Denver, Neil Diamond and things like that.
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Rick Robson
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Posted: January 22 2015 at 10:13 |
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Carpenters, Abba, Elton John, Genesis (ATTWT + I Know What I like), Simon & Garfunkel, Peter Frampton, maybe Men At Work too at that time, and some few tunes of a bunch of other artists and bands.
Of course I regarded here only international pop music (ok some pop rock as well), recalling what I most listened to during the seventies up to +-1979/1980, as back then onwards my interest in pop rock began to grow, mixed then with a few of prog rock and prog rock related bands too.
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Walton Street
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Posted: January 22 2015 at 10:15 |
I still remember the first piece of music I owned. Popcorn - Hot Butter. on 45 then it was Elton John's Greatest Hits - LP
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TeleStrat
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Posted: January 22 2015 at 10:31 |
I was into music before prog, before the British blues crusade and before the British invasion. My early favorites were instrumental guitar albums by The Ventures, Dick Dale and Chet Atkins.
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HolyMoly
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Posted: January 22 2015 at 14:50 |
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Before I became a "prog fan" I was already interested in Pink Floyd, Camel, and maybe a couple of other prog bands. But primarily I was into "hard rock", exemplified by albums like this:
Led Zeppelin II
Scorpions - Animal Magnetism
Triumph - Allied Forces
Queen - News of the World
As the 80s wore on, I got into some more new wavey/alternative things like:
INXS - The Swing
XTC - Skylarking
The Cure - The Head on the Door
New Order - Low Life
REM - Fables of the Reconstruction
And soon became a punk/hardcore fan listening to stuff like
Subhumans - From the Cradle to the Grave (my fav punk album ever)
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
Suicidal Tendencies - s/t (my first hardcore album)
Black Flag - Damaged
D.R.I. - Dealing With It
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: January 22 2015 at 19:03 |
HolyMoly wrote:
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
Suicidal Tendencies - s/t (my first hardcore album)
Black Flag - Damaged
D.R.I. - Dealing With It
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4 of my all time fave hardcore albums there...though the Minutemen are impossible to classify 
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richardh
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Posted: January 23 2015 at 01:51 |
Walton Street wrote:
I still remember the first piece of music I owned. Popcorn - Hot Butter. on 45 |
 ..always loved that Mine was Sweet - Ballroom Blitz
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King Crimson776
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Posted: January 23 2015 at 02:24 |
The Moody Blues were my first band so to some extent prog is my very core. My early favorites were:
Days of Future Passed - The Moody Blues Deja Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young America - America IV - Led Zeppelin Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles Beggar's Banquet - The Rolling Stones Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd Tarkus - Emerson, Lake & Palmer And Justice For All - Metallica
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