First Prog Album

My first prog album: Moody Blues: In Search of the Lost Chord

Does Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds count??

If not then The Wall by Floyd. Blew my effing mind! Marillion, Rush, Genesis, Yes et al followed soon after. I thank Floyd for getting me into prog rock.

Trilogy - Emerson, Lake and Palmer (unless you consider the Beatles progressive)

octopus-4 wrote: Trilogy - Emerson, Lake and Palmer (unless you consider the Beatles progressive)

Like I said, Abbey Road is prog to me (partly), but what came before from the Fabs is psych. IMHO.

Dean wrote: We're the same age and I was also in high school when ItCotCK came out, I certainly remember hearing 21st Century Schizoid Man but not much else even though I would have undoubtedly heard the whole album at the time. Then, I've never been grabbed by Mellotron in quite the same way as the sound of a guitar or synth would rip out my brain through my ears, kick it around the floor for 5 minutes and stuff it back in again.

I also get a visceral reaction with guitars and synths, but the Mellotron's icy tones definitely have a place in some prog songs. New World by Strawbs comes to mind as does In The Wake Of Poseidon by KC. Strangely enough, I think that the instrument is played out in many Moody Blues' songs. A bit too much when proper orchestral accompaniment would have better served the songs. Mike Pinder is a Mellotron master, but he's a decent piano player too. Just too much Tron for me, I suppose, in Moody songs.

Edited by SteveG - November 02 2016 at 15:10

When I was about 6 years old, I started playing a computer game, Sid Meiner's Civilization III. I played it both because it was fun and because I loved the music, which looking back, was actually very progressive sounding. Eventually, I downloaded the music onto a disk and listened about everyday. I did the same with many other computer game soundtracks. I guess you could say these were sort of my first prog albums because they appealed to my senses so much. If you're talking actual prog rock, then probably a best of Pink Floyd complication when I was 13. This was including Echoes. That song really got to me and thus began a search for progressive music.

Most are stating prog rock.....My first prog album purchase was probably Funkadelic Maggot Brain, I was a huge funk/R&B fan before prog rock, that music got me into prog rock. Parliament/Funkadelic, EW&F, Sly that music and some of their longer jam songs was a good setup for prog rock from Yes, Floyd, Can.

First album was Marillions Fugazi at a friends house, he played the first song, Assassins, wich had a keyboardsolo that got me interested. Then followed all the Marillion albums, Yes, Pink floyd etc...

But my musical journey really started a couple years later when I was introduced to the italians... I never forget when I heard the first minutes of Museo rosenbach's masterpiece at a local shop in Stockholm. My life changed forever.

I honestly don't know for certain...but it was probably one of the very early Moody Blues albums in '67 or '68.....so I'll say Days of Future Passed, and as it happens I will be seeing the Moodies tonight Nov 3 in Merrillville Indiana (haven't seen them for over 40 years) not far from where I live. Sadly Thomas and Pinder no longer play with them but I hope it will be a good show....