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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 06 2017 at 11:36
I don't think any song really changed my life but Hocus Pocus and Focus' Moving Waves album opened musical doors. Perpetual Change ( Yessongs version )  was the first real progrock song that I really dug after that. .  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 06 2017 at 23:07
Thinking of this topic in all seriousness.......
If I go all the way back, I'd have to say, not really 2 singular tracks, but, when I watched Floyd's Live At Pompeii, I was totally sold on the idea of 'long songs and instrumental stretches'. Shortly after, I received Atom Heart as a birthday gift. Then I discovered Genesis' Trick of the Tail album. Dance On A Volcano solidified my musical future.....
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2017 at 02:04
Close to the Edge by Yes and Echoes by Pink Floyd, both masterpieces what changed my life
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2017 at 04:55
Cinema Show and Firth of Fifth.....
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2017 at 15:27
Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

If I go all the way back, I'd have to say, not really 2 singular tracks, but, when I watched Floyd's Live At Pompeii, I was totally sold on the idea of 'long songs and instrumental stretches'. Shortly after, I received Atom Heart as a birthday gift.
 
Hey, that's cool! After watching Pompeii I became a proghead too and my first CD was Atom Heart Mother...
 
Two tracks that changed my life? Echoes and Atom Heart Mother. Add BMS, Il Giardino del Mago.
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 11 2017 at 10:10
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 11 2017 at 11:18
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 13 2017 at 10:48
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 13 2017 at 16:23
pffff...  just like prog fan...  music doesn't change your life it merely accentuates it.. the good or the bad. When you are depressed you put Floyd on.. when ready to kick ass and chase pussy you put on some RATT!!!!  Of course it is women, not music, which change our lives but they don't know what those are do they so music must suffice. Poor sods..
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 13 2017 at 18:14
1/In the Court of the Crimson King, which I heard in my parents backyard in 1969 on WNEW FM, Scott Muni's Friday afternoon show Things from England.  That migrated my interest to UK prog whereas previously I'd mostly been a fan of US West Coast folk/rock & blues/rock.  I wouldn't even call that my favorite KC track now, because I'm more partial to the Discipline quartet and the Double Trio, but no other KC since has had that level of influence.
2/Next, I'd have to pick Hope for Happiness, which I heard early in 1970 in my new friend Mike's attic in a heavily altered condition.  That track (in fact, the entire Soft Machine 1 album) resulted in me being more interested in avant and dada prog than in the symphonic prog of Court.  It isn't a stretch to suggest that absent that album, I wouldn't have discovered Henry Cow and gone the whole R.I.O. route.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2017 at 20:21
Supper's Ready and 2112 were the songs that got me specifically deep into prog. Before that I just listened to some prog bands without actually getting into the genre as a whole.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2017 at 21:18
As Dylan says : " We're a changin' all the time ".
Just 2 tracks in recent years changed my way of thinking in many ways ;
Meshuggah - 'I'
Anthrax - 'Among The Living' track of the same album.
............totally sold me on the extreme way of things,
Of course, loved Magma and VDGG for decades, and Maiden have been in my life for over 30 years, but........
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2017 at 00:35
Baba O'Riley because it got me interested in prog and then Tarkus solidified my interest and made me an ELP fan for life. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 17 2017 at 00:18
hmmm this isn't an easier questions to answer due to the ageless timeline of mine being a hopeless nature of my own jagged jaded journey to self focus on the music which I alone found for my self! older families members passing on there choices which ranged from Genesis Tull Yes ELP ect so it a two pronged answers so its:

Genesis = Supper`s Ready
Marillion = The Web  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 28 2017 at 14:59
Tool - The Grudge when I was 14 (and the whole "Lateralus" CD). Never experienced anything like that (already having heard PF, The Doors, 'Tallica) before, still my favourite Tool song.

Marillion - Script For A Jester's Tear two years later, perfect for teen angst and heartbreak. This album also convinced me I must be on stage, playing guitar and touring the world. Well this is what I do for living now, typing this from my Kyiv apartment mere days after my band returned from our second South American tour...life is full of wonders indeed
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 28 2017 at 16:16
Klaus Schulze's "Synphära" and "Conphära" from his album "Cyborg". It is the music Jean and I first made love to. Embarrassed


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 28 2017 at 16:20
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 31 2017 at 08:32
Uriah Heep - July Morning, which was recommended by Fenriz from Darkthrone when I was still into my Black Metal era. The long synth/guitar mixed solo blew my mind as to how structured song layers could be so intricately put together.

Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet, which was recommended to me by a musician whose worked with Steven Wilson as a session guitarist as we were chatting after a local gig. That was my first real introduction into prog-rock outside of simple curiosity.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 31 2017 at 13:28
Wink Thanks for all the recommendations.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 01 2017 at 05:16
Oops, already answered this!

Edited by cstack3 - October 21 2017 at 23:11
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