Your 1st 6 prog albums

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Dark Side of the Moon
The Yes Album
In the Court of the Crimson King
Trespass
Wish You Were Here

Rednight wrote: Yeah, Watercourse Way was indeed purchased at The Wherehouse Records back in the day. I heard about the omissions on the CD release and have stayed away. Besides, the band jumped over to Windham Hill Records, I believe, and really went downhill. I remember a former girlfriend taking me to a Shadowfax concert in the mid-'80s, and it really blew. So much for their freshman effort.

The.Crimson.King wrote: Rednight wrote: Yeah, Watercourse Way was indeed purchased at The Wherehouse Records back in the day. I heard about the omissions on the CD release and have stayed away. Besides, the band jumped over to Windham Hill Records, I believe, and really went downhill. I remember a former girlfriend taking me to a Shadowfax concert in the mid-'80s, and it really blew. So much for their freshman effort. Wow, if I would've walked into a Wherehouse and seen Watercourse Way stuck between the Sex Pistols and Simon & Garfunkel I probably would've dropped dead of heart failure on the

It was one of those open box sales - you know - on special display, a cut open box of like 100 or so sparkling, shrink-wrapped records that Wherehouse employees were directed to present as the newest thing on the horizon. I never followed up later to see if they ever gave Shadowfax its own slot between Los Sex Pistols and the "Hello Darkness My Old Friend" Bros. I'm sure they got it with Windham Hill.

you're asking for things I was listening 25 something years ago, let me see...
there was Pink Floyd with Wish You Were Here, Animals and Dark Side of the Moon.
And then there was Yes with Time and a Word, and the Yes Album.
And then there was Supertramp with Crime of the Century.
Last but not least, Marillion with Misplaced Childhood.

oh, wait, I can't count, there are 7

infocat wrote: How on earth do you even remember?

Exactly . I only remember the first one: Yessongs, used vinyl on the flee market, and I was around 15. I still have that vinyl!

ELP -Pictures At An Exhibition on cassette when I was about 14 (1976). It cost £2 at the time and I absolutely hated it at first.

I think...

The Wall - Pink Floyd
Equinox - JJ Jarre
Script for a Jesters Tear - Marillion
Exit..stage left - Rush
A Trick of the Tail - Genesis
Chronicle of the blacksword - Hawkwind

I can't remember exactly, so I'll just list the ones that I got when I started collecting LPs.
1. Nektar - Remember The Future
2. ELP - Pictures At An Exhibition
3. The Nice - Five Bridges
4. Camel - Mirage
5. Wishbone Ash - Argus
6. Dang, can't remember

Pink Floyd: DSOTM/WYWH/Animals/The Wall

It's hard for me to say for a couple different reasons:

(1) Albums were shared among my family, and not just my parents and siblings, but a couple aunts and uncles and a grandfather, too (well, although that grandfather didn't collect rock, but still...).  I also had music teachers who were regularly giving me albums to take home and listen to for extended periods of time.  Add to this that I was a music fan going as far back as I can remember--and I started taking music lessons when I was only six years old--and it's difficult for me to remember who owned what and when (when because albums that music teachers let me borrow, for example, I gave back but then often bought it for myself at that point).

(2) I don't consider there to be any sort of clear distinction between psychedelic music and prog, and I think that stuff like the Grateful Dead, later Beatles, Amboy Dukes from at least the second album on, etc. are clearly prog.  This aspect is exacerbated by the fact that we were buying all of this music when it came out--I was six years old/I started taking drum lessons in 1968.

Re the stuff that would non-controversially be considered prog, though, I knew all of the following when they were new: the Nice albums, Zappa from We're Only in It for the Money (I heard the earlier albums by 1969/1970), Jethro Tull pretty much from the start, ELP from their start, and I knew the first three King Crimson albums and Genesis' Trespass by early 1971, the first three Yes albums by mid-1971.