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Slartibartfast 
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 Posted: April 06 2009 at 17:47 |
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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DocJ
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Joined: January 14 2007
Location: Atlanta, GA
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Posted: April 06 2009 at 16:19 |
Pink Floyd
The Beatles
Procol Harum
The Clash
Traffic
(Early) David Bowie
Jimi Hendrix
Mott the Hoople
Kinks
Small Faces
Radiohead
Jethro Tull
Elton John (but just "Caption Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy")
Muse, Porcupine Tree, Pure Reason Revolution, R.E.M., Doors, Who. Nirvana, Badfinger, Yes, Cream.....
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Negoba
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Joined: July 24 2008
Location: Big Muddy
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Posted: April 06 2009 at 13:39 |
1. Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time: when I got this album is when my social role in high school changed from skinny nerd dude to skinny headbanger dude. I picked up guitar at the same time. People actually made fun of me, not because they didn't like Iron Maiden but because it was beyond their thinking that I'd like it.
2. Led Zeppelin IV - No other album defined good music for me like this one. I blasted it so much in the dorms that a couple of the other "cool" kids who didn't know me lent me all the rest of the Led Zeppelin albums just so they could hear something else. It still permeates my own music to this day.
3. Queensryche : Operation: Mindcrime : I was a huge guitar junkie by the time this one came out, and this album started to set me apart from the other metalheads as being into wierd music. While it's standard issue here, at my high school only one other person (who hadn't been introduced by me) knew about this album in 1988.
4. Genesis - Selling England by the Pound - My first true prog album. I think the second cassette I owned in junior high was the Shapes album which I liked quite a bit then, in college I had really grown to like Peter Gabriel solo. When I found SEbtP I was dumbfounded. I had never heard anything like it. The only classic prog I knew was Yes' Fragile, which is a far cry from this.
5. Etta James - Mystery Lady : the soundtrack to my courtship with my wife. Perhaps the strongest voice in blues of all times tackles Billie Holliday's catalog and we get a modern, soulful take on these classics that deservedly won a Grammy, and saved James' career. Amazing album
Edited by Negoba - April 06 2009 at 13:51
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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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mr.cub
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Joined: March 06 2009
Location: Lexington, VA
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Posted: April 06 2009 at 13:31 |
 Negoba wrote:
What is it with this forum and the Allman Brothers? |
Hammond Organ + Slide Guitar = 
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micky
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Posted: April 06 2009 at 13:15 |
 a wise man wondered that once about the forum and Steely Dan 
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Negoba
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Posted: April 06 2009 at 13:13 |
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What is it with this forum and the Allman Brothers?
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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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easytargets
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Joined: November 12 2008
Location: Cantabria
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Posted: April 06 2009 at 13:10 |
Sorry for the covers 
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The water rushes over all
cities crash in the mighty wave;
the final man is very small,
plunging in for his final bathe
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micky
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Posted: April 06 2009 at 13:08 |
hahahhahhahha... oh that's great..... and about right.... just substitute this for Debbie...(she's top 10.. not top 5) 5) 
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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easytargets
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Joined: November 12 2008
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Posted: April 06 2009 at 13:08 |
I´ve been checking my mind and found 8 albums that
really changed my life:
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The water rushes over all
cities crash in the mighty wave;
the final man is very small,
plunging in for his final bathe
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Padraic
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Posted: April 06 2009 at 13:06 |
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rushfan4
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Posted: April 06 2009 at 13:05 |
Micky,
Let me fill in the other 3 for you:
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micky
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Posted: April 06 2009 at 12:41 |
that's a hard one... of course I'm taking it literally... have had NUMEROUS albums that hit me like a ton of bricks... but only a couple I could say that were life changers... 1.  college was so much more than babes and booze...it was a real education hahhaha. I knew this woman that supplied my ...ahhh... smoking materials and was a Billie freak and started me down the path of being a lifelong fanatic of jazz and blues. 2.  one of the first Italian albums I got... which of course.. was a life changer indeed hahah  can't really think of anymore... those were the two that really changed my life...
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Padraic
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Posted: April 06 2009 at 12:37 |
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As a teen:
Rush - 2112
Yes - Close to the Edge
Dream Theater - Images and Words
In the past few years (crap, I'm down to two).
Henry Cow - Leg End
Magma - Retrospektiw I-II
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progvortex
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Posted: April 06 2009 at 12:33 |
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1. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
I won't try to explain how profound this album is for me, and I know I wouldn't be the first to do so. This album has taught my lessons and gave me insight that are now a part of my everyday life.
2. Close to the Edge - Yes
I do not follow any organized religion, I personally believe that spirituality and morality comes from within. This album sparked those things within me.
3. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
My first jazz album when I was 14 years old. This completely changed my outlook on music: There was something beyond the 3 minute, 3 chord pop songs with catchy melodies. I always felt that Miles didn't create licks or riffs with his trumpet, he create large and abstract paintings.
4. Pawn Hearts - Van Der Graaf Generator
This was my first exposure with progressive rock. To be honest, I hated it at first. To me it was uncomfortable to listen to, too dramatic, poorly produced. It would take me a long time to get used to this album, but once I did, I was stunned. I had learned to invest myself in music in order to reap the rewards.
5. In The Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
From the hard rock of Schizoid Man to the beautiful I Talk to the Wind, a song that sounded like wind itself, the spacey avant-garde all the way to the triumphant final track. This album is really an amazing journey.
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Life is like a beanstalk... isn't it?
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fusionfreak
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Joined: August 23 2007
Location: France
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Posted: April 06 2009 at 11:19 |
1 Magma: MDK
2 Mahavishnu Orchestra:Birds of fire
3 Amon Duul 2:Tanz der Lemminge
4 Yes:Tales from Topographic Ocean
5 Genesis:The Musical Box
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I was born in the land of Mahavishnu,not so far from Kobaia.I'm looking for the world
of searchers with the help from
crimson king
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Roj
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Location: Manchester, UK
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Posted: April 06 2009 at 10:38 |
Hmmmm. Just how difficult is this?
1. ELP - Brain Salad Surgery.
Back when I was only 8 years old I liked Slade, T Rex et al. My brother got this and played it to death. I loved it, was hooked, and essentially prog was now in my blood. I still love it!
2. J-M Jarre - Oxygene
My discovery of progressive electronic music. Thanks Jean.
3. Yes - Going For The One
On hearing Awaken for the first time, it was like "Oh my God!!". I still feel the same about it now.
4. The Black Dog - Bytes
After hearing this monumental album, IDM took a different meaning for me. This is really groundbreaking, in parts dark and foreboding, at other times stunningly beautiful. The best electronic band by an absolute country mile IMHO. I probably prefer Spanners, but Bytes was the first.
5. The Flower Kings - Stardust We Are
My first album by TFK, a band that have literally changed my musical life. I never thought it possible another band would ever come close to Floyd, Yes, Genesis and IQ. TFK are now out in front on their own.
Amazingly I've had to leave out some incredible albums; Seconds Out, DSOTM, Ummagumma, Metallica's Kill Em All, Van Halen I and Eddie Jobson's Green Album amongst them.
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tszirmay
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Joined: August 17 2006
Location: Canada
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Posted: April 06 2009 at 10:37 |
Dean wrote:
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...
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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. 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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Yeah! I know!   According to many music fans out there, we proggers are all dumb bimbos!Thank goodness!
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I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth.
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rdtprog
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Heavy, RPI, Symph, JR/F Canterbury Teams
Joined: April 04 2009
Location: Mtl, QC
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Posted: April 06 2009 at 10:06 |
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PINK FLOYD DARKE SIDE OF THE MOON (DISCOVERY OF THE PROG SCENE)
YES SONGS (MY FIST TRY TO PLAY "AIR GUITAR")
GENESIS FOXTROTT (MY FIRST DISCOVERY OF A LONG CONCEPT SONG)
RUSH A FAREWELL TO KINGS (DISCOVERY OF MY FAVORITE BAND)
LED ZEPPELIN SONGS REMAINS THE SAME (MY FAVORITE ROCK ALBUM, NOT PROGRESSIVE)
DREAM THEATER IMAGES AND WORDS (MY FAVORITE METAL BAND)
RONNIE STOLT FLOWER KINGS (MY DISCOVERY THAT NEW PROG WAS SIMILAR TO THE 70's)
IQ TALES FROME THE...(DISCOVERY THAT PROG WAS STILL ALIVE)
MARILLION SCRIPT... (DISCOVERY OF SOMETING AS GOOD AS GENESIS)
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Edmundo
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Posted: April 05 2009 at 16:21 |
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1) David Sylvian: Secrets of the beehive
2) Mick Karn: Dreams of reason produce monsters
3) Magma: Mercy
4) Hatfield and the north: The rotter's club
5) Robert Wyatt: Rock bottom
They're naturally 5 of my all time favourites. Not inconditionally my favourites, but I have heard them in very special moments of my life. Therefore they meant something particular for me.
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lazland
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Location: Wales
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Posted: April 05 2009 at 13:44 |
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This kind of post is always hard, but here goes:
1. Yes - Going for the One.
The album that introduced me to prog.
2. Genesis - Nursery Cryme
Hearing the mellotron and incredible symphonic pieces for the first time hooked me for life. Plus, of course, THAT cover, which convinced me as a teenager that art and music were intertwined.
3. Genesis - Duke
Because prog and commercial do sometimes go together, and this proved it to me.
4. Peter Gabriel - III (Melt)
The album that had us all going nuts in the last year of secondary school and proved there was life after a huge legendary band.
5. Marillion - Marbles
This album proves to me that the whole genre is in absolutely safe hands as we face the threat of the older, "classic", bands passing into inevitable old age and death. An album that manages commercial, melancholy, scary, touching, and incredible all at the same listen - pushing the boundaries.
I could, of course, choose many more, but I think these are the ones that absolutely changed my perception of music and its potential, plus its effect on me as a person.
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