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Posted: April 05 2009 at 11:26

Keppa4v wrote:

^Is that second last one Smell the Glove by Spinal Tap or should I adjust my brightness settings? Embarrassed

I'm sure that's where they got the idea. LOL

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Posted: April 05 2009 at 11:22

Raff wrote:

Dean wrote:

tszirmay wrote:

and the #1 Roxy Music- For Your Pleasure (music-style-fashion-intellect-romance)

That one deserves to have Amanda shown in all her glory...

I'm sure you don't know that Amanda (Lear) became a celebrity in Italy in the Eighties... Most of her fame rested on her ambiguous posturing, and very deep voice - the rumour was she had undergone a sex change LOL

. I actually used to like her very much - she had oodles of class and humour, and was anything but your typical dumb bimbo.

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Posted: April 05 2009 at 11:07

^Is that second last one Smell the Glove by Spinal Tap or should I adjust my brightness settings? Embarrassed

It's on PA!

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Posted: April 05 2009 at 10:37

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Posted: April 05 2009 at 09:17

1. Genesis- And Then There Were Three
I bought this on vinyl at a garage sale. The guy there told me it was like The Beatles, which I was hugely into so I checked it out and it opened the doorways to prog.
2. The Beatles- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
When my uncle gave this to me I was expecting something similar to the early Beatles. I listened the crap out of this one. It got me into more psychedelic rock, which led to prog.
3. Metallica- The Black Album
While this is far from the best Metallica album, this is what got me into metal. I remember as a little 8 or 9 year old kid listening to this obsessively.
4. Dream Theater- Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
This was my followup to my Metallica obsession. I listened to the first disc a lot and found it similar to the metal I was listening to, and enjoyed it. When I gave disc 2 a spin, I was blown away. I was already into prog, but I never realized music could be heavy, but still so emotional.
5. Genesis- Selling England By The Pound
This was my first true prog classic that I listened to. I wore out And Then There Were Three, so my dad gave me a cassette of this, thinking I would hate it. I remember listening to this at least twice a day for a month. I would sit at my keyboard for hours trying to figure out the keyboard solo. This album brings back a lot of good memories.

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Posted: April 05 2009 at 09:06

Dean wrote:

tszirmay wrote:

and the #1 Roxy Music- For Your Pleasure (music-style-fashion-intellect-romance)

That one deserves to have Amanda shown in all her glory...

. I actually used to like her very much - she had oodles of class and humour, and was anything but your typical dumb bimbo.

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Posted: April 05 2009 at 08:05

No album or albums have changed my life as such but there have been a few classics which have made an impact and have stood the test of time due to their sheer brilliance.

1) The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - my all time favourite.

Genesis' tour- de - force and Gabriel's best work. He knew that Genesis could never top this ( they didn't !), which made his decision to move on that little easier.

2) Astral Weeks - Van Morrison.

Quite simply, an essential part of any serious music listener's collection. Morrison at his poetic and musical best. An album of oustanding beauty and depth.

3) Ziggy Stardust - Bowie.

Need I say more. An album which influenced so many artists.

4) Music In A Doll's House ( Family )

The best debut album ever, in my opinion. Way ahead of its time. Quite simply sublime from start to finish. Roger Chapman's vocal's alone, are worth the asking price.

5) Crime Of The Century - Supertramp.

Perfection. The quintiessential Supertramp album and the one which band members hold up as their defining moment. Sheer bliss. I saw Supertramp play live in the mid 70s, and it remains one of the very best concerts I have attended. Brilliant musicians.

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Posted: April 05 2009 at 03:18

Probably the first proper prog rock album I heard (unless you count the Beatles' more experimental stuff), my dad has it on cassette tape.

The first prog rock album I owned myself, and pretty much all I listened to back in junior high. LOL

The album that got me into metal.

The album that got me into punk, which actually was partly by accident. I heard this album had the worst production ever and I happen to be a sucker for lo-fi stuff. Big smile

I think this album is where my interest in post-punk and gothic rock became more than just dabbling.

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Posted: April 04 2009 at 21:36

Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Pendragon - The Masqureade Overture
Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin or Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream or Mellon Collie

It would be hard to explain the significance, but they're all shards of the past 4-10 years of my life.

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Posted: April 04 2009 at 21:27

1. Opeth - Still Life

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This album brought me into prog metal, and that's not all of it. It's also my favourite album of all time.

2. Death - Symbolic

Needless to say, this album tought me the meaning of the word "riff". It also made me wanna pick up the guitar and opened my eyes to the greatness of Lord Schuldiner.

3. Yes - Fragile

After my old man played me Roundabout off this beautiful release, two things happened: 1. I found prog and LOVED it, thus exploring deeper into it 2. It made me want to BE Rick Wakeman, and I doubt without this album I would be anywhere near as serious about the instrument as I am now.

4. The Fratellis - Costello Music

This album put me off Indie about as badly as Mortician's "Hacked Up For Barbeque" put my grandma off Deathgrind. Truly, truly horrible stuff, it's is like nails on a chalkboard to me. And then someone told me it was one of the best Indie albums out there. Thank God they said that. Heaven knows where my music tastes would lie if it weren't for this bad boy. An anti-favourite, but nonetheless very importance.

5. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

My first ever prog birthday present off my good mother, I took a shine to this one very quickly and it well and truly got me expanding my sights as a prog listener. Also, it rooted me as an ambitious prog keys player as I learned every single song on piano, from the title track, through In The Cage and Anyway, to It. It still remains to this day, as my favourite G-Dogs album.

Edited by The Pessimist - April 05 2009 at 06:25

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Posted: April 04 2009 at 21:03

great question!

in order of when first heard;

Led Zeppelin
Diary of a Madman
Band of Gypsys
Discipline
Tarkus

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Posted: April 04 2009 at 20:55

1. Discovering Black Sabbath...

Black Sabbath was really the first band that fasicinated me.. took me beyond my family's very small record collection that consisted of Peter Frampton Comes Alive, The Who's "Tommy", Elvis, Jan & Dean and Jim Croce. The first cassette I bought was "Sabotage" and to this day it's still my favorite Black Sabbath album. I absolutely fell in love with the track "The Writ" .. From there this was my first completionist task and all were on cassette...

Like I mentioned before, I used to save up my lunch money and visit a local record store which had a huge demo tape wall with all kinds of metal. Having a few demo tapes I was ready for my first vinyl purchase.. I had 25 dollars I saved up from presents and bought my first two albums:

Talk about mind blowing... The year was 1983 and I had just turned 14 years old.. A year earlier one of my neighborhood friends brother helped a local band called Avatar and I snuck into a keg party where I saw them play and then they released their debut album:

I already had their EP "Dungeons Are Calling" way before they released this album, so to me the EP was always their first output...

After my Dad burned all my Black Metal albums using my rare picture vinyl Venom albums as kindling.. I was kind of forced to pursue the more operatic metal bands .. Fates Warning, Queensryche and later Dream Theater...

I joined the Navy in 1987/1988 and lost touch with most of my metal music, having given away most of my demo tape collection before I joined ... I begged my Mom to send me all my Black Sabbath tapes... During this time is when I listened to way too much Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Kinks, Beatles, Joe Cocker, Canned Heat, Yardbirds, Yes, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray and other blues based rock. When I was home on leave a friend of mine played this:

This album single handedly changed what I thought metal was about .. I found it heavy, original, and totally stood out from anything else I've ever heard in metal and had absolutely zero cliche metal trappings. This rekindled my headbanging, moshing notions...

With my Metal fascination, one must know I have also always been fascinated with female vocalists which predates Black Sabbath.... For this I blame The Runaways and Blondie.

Well... I know I've went over five, but I'll include one more... This album probably has the biggest impact that changed my life ...

Why? Because it's the album that brought me here

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Posted: April 04 2009 at 19:55

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Posted: April 04 2009 at 19:43

How did I forget this one!?

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Posted: April 04 2009 at 18:28

1. Some random cheap compilation CD with some splendid live versions of Hendrix's Little Wing, Purple Haze and Voodoo Child (Slight Return). Those three tracks are what got me interested in music in the first place, when I was twelve.

2. Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction. My secondary school had a small "café" (they liked to call it that) in the basement, and it was run by some guy who used to play GN'R a lot of the time, and this album in particular. It was the first non-Hendrix rock album that really clicked with me, and it got me interested in discovering more music besides Hendrix.

3. Rush - Caress of Steel. This was my first prog album. Discovering prog eventually led me to discover a good portion of what I listen to today. At first I was a typical "prog snob" but then I started looking into some bands in this sites "prog related" section such as Muse, and then more non-prog bands (which weren't just hard rock).

4. At the Drive-In - In/Casino/Out. This is the album that once and for all really opened my mind to non-prog and non-hard rock music. For some reason it just clicked with me immediately. I had never listened to such music before, or when I had I hadn't particularly liked it. I was also knee deep into avant-prog stuff at the time of discovering this band and album (through the The Mars Volta connection, of course) which makes my immediate love of this album from first listen even more surprising. It was just a little over two years ago today.

5. I don't know if I've encountered any album of this importance since number four. It's bound to happen some day, but I don't feel it has happened just yet.

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Posted: April 04 2009 at 18:06

Hmm...

If you would prefer 20 albums instead of five, visit here:

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Posted: April 04 2009 at 18:05

Tool - La te ra lus | Nothing, absolutely nothing, has ever affected me in this way ever again. The greatest album I have ever heard. And my first serious introduction to Prog.

Pink Floyd - The Wall | I know, I know, most people cite DSotM as their best, but for me, it's The Wall. It's the first Floyd album that actually clicked with me all the way. Been a fan ever since.

Yes - Relayer | This album had to grow on me, but now I see it for the sheere genious that it really is! Yes' masterpiece!

Porcupine Tree - In Absentia | The first PT album I ever heard. After I heard the genious acoustic guitar opening to ''Trains'', I knew these guys would soon be one of my favorite modern Prog bands. Little did I know they would later graduate into becoming one of my favorite bands of any era!

Meshuggah - Catch 33 | I don't care what anyone says. If they don't get what is great about it, trying to explain it is a futile attempt.

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Posted: April 04 2009 at 17:47

Wheels of Fire (Cream) - made me realise that there really was better music than the Beatles

Woodstock - turned me into a hippie