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Points: 700 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 23 2015 at 08:22
Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

Originally posted by Man With Hat Man With Hat wrote:

Originally posted by Polymorphia Polymorphia wrote:

I started liking prog around the time I started exploring music in general, so, previously, it was classic rock and mainstream rock.
 
Pretty much ditto.
Same here.


And me. The first band I loved was AC/DC. I still think Powerage is a great album.

The first record I ever bought though was Video Killed the Radio Star by the Buggles. I was very small at the time Embarrassed
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Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

It was the sixties. So, I don't remember.
 
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That works for me also...........seriously I was listening to all the usual Brit and US rock bands back then.
Beatles, Stones, Who, Doors, Jefferson Airplane, etc, etc...
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But my first prog album was A Trick Of The Tail by Genesis.
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Points: 1361 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 02 2015 at 11:01
I mostly didn't listen to or care about albums, just radio (pop & classic rock)---with one big exception: 

Men at Work, Cargo.

I think I was 12 or 13, I got Cargo for my birthday (because I liked Men at Work on the radio). I loved the album and listened to it every day (literally) for months without tiring. 

... Not prog, but I believe it had some influence on my taste for prog later--its a little more sophisticated both musically and lyrically than lot of other pop music at the time and has some excellent flute/sax parts/solos like this one:


 Friends introduced me to Rush shortly after, and my Cargo spell was finally broken.
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Points: 30845 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 02 2015 at 13:45
Tales from Topographic Oceans (1st prog cd)

Beefour that : Testament, Sword and Bathory

Brefrore that: Def Leppard, A-ha and Whitesnake

Brbrff : Joe Dassin rules, man!!!
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Points: 23098 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 02 2015 at 13:49
Before prog? Well there was prog...only I didn't really know.

As for artists found outside of the prog umbrella, there were:

Michael Jackson
The Grease SoundtrackEmbarrassed
Ravel's Bolero
Kim Larsen/Gasolin
Queen
Scorpions
Stevie Wonder
Kiss
Metallica
Korn
Type O Negative

+ a thousand different 60s and 70s rock bands like Cream, The Stones, Kinks, Neil Young, Bob Dylan etc etc.
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I didn't really listen to ALBUMS pre-prog but some of the bands/artists I liked 'pre-prog' were Beatles, The Who, AC DC, Scorpions, UFO, Van Halen, Metallica, Megadeth, Maiden, Soundgarden, ABBA, Santana. At this point, I already liked Pink Floyd and APP without knowing they were prog/prog related. Also Heep.
 
And lastly, there was Ilayaraja, prolific enough to make just about anybody who is not Senmuth feel like they were slackers. I never got the impulse to seek out good Western music until I finally got a bit tired of listening to only his work.
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When I was 15, I joined the mail-order "Record Club of America."  That was 1970.  

The first vinyl platters I bought were "In the Wake of Poseidon" by King Crimson; "Deja Vu" by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young; and "Led Zeppelin III." 

That pretty much got me on the right track!  Before then, it was stuff like the Monkees.  
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Points: 6673 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 03 2015 at 00:12
First albums:
The Beatles (all the big ones), Steppenwolf, the Santana debut and John Barleycorn Must Die by Traffic were my first purchases.  
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Hmmm.... 10 albums? That's going to be hard. I listened to Boudewijn de Groot (Dutch folk singer) a lot, then got into Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Van Halen, Iron Maiden, Metallica and very soon after that discovered Rush, Marilion. It got better from there - after I passed aged 13 ;-)
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