Prog love

I cut down before I stopped, and that helped (I kept a mental list of activities as I become accustomed to doing them without cigarettes - as in, I can get through a day at work without a cigarette, now I can get through an entire movie without going out for a smoke, etc.) However, there are a few that are still problematic, such as writing papers and doing housework. I still don't know any adequate reward for doing the damn ironing that doesn't involve going outside for a smoke...but I still manage it anyway.

Progkid wrote: First prog album you heard and your memories?

I would have to say the journey started way back when I first heard The Beatles Sgt. Peppers' Lonely Hearts Club Band, the album virtually responsible for the birth of what would eventually  be called Progressive Rock - I was a teenager and it was the most exciting rock music I'd heard to date -  My friends and I didn't know what to make of it other than blowing our ears and minds! - At the time there were various descriptions starting to spring up calling it "Art-Rock" to my favorite, "Psychedelic music." And I'm still listening to it!

I was kind of lucky when I were a small kid. There were lots of university age people around where I lived (on a street with no road). So I heard Lizard at one house, Stand Up and Living In The Past at another, Meddle and Atom Heart Mother elsewhere. Biggest kid excitement - new Bowie album... (like er, now... kind of, er...). There was student hostel across the small non-road and lots of Beatles, Stones etc would float over... I kind of liked it all but only got hooked one day when discovering Nursey Cryme, Selling England and Dark Side.

Finally getting into The Yes Album did lots of good things...

Biggest blow away (other than Led Zep 4) was A Farewell To Kings and Permanent Waves (jeez guys those albums were and are mighty). Only really heard one album I really didn't like (or respected) and I can't remember that and that was only just over ten years ago.

At the age of 8 or 9 my mother brought me to the cinema to watch "Yellow Submarine" and I became a Beatles fan. I loved "Revolver" most, which is almost prog, isn't it?
Embarrassingly, I grew out of this first music phase in my life (and it took me all too long to rediscover how good the Beatles were), but at the age of 12 I heard my father playing a tape with Watch by Manfred Mann's Earthband in the car, and I fell in love with music for probably the rest of my life. (My father by the way had played this kind of accidentally and was rather clueless about it - when I asked him what it was, he told me that it's Elton John, who was on the other side of the tape. So I spent my pocket money on an Elton John record and was bitterly disappointed. My father reimbursed me, though, and I could buy Nightingales and Bombers, which I love to pieces until this day.)


Edited by Lewian - October 22 2015 at 19:35

I was probably 9-ish the first time I heard Fragile by Yes. I'd say that was the first prog that I'd ever heard; the most progressive stuff I'd heard beforehand was Deep Purple. I loved Roundabout right away but it would be a while before I came to appreciate anything else on the album.