That moment. When you find a prog album you love.

^^That's what I thought of 'Script for a Jesters Tear' when it came out..more than 26 years ago..

I'd never heard anything like it; blew me away. As did Exit ..stage left by Rush which I also discovered that year.

I can probably count on no more than two hands, how many albums have instantly grabbed me and stayed with me, but funnily enough 'And then there were three' by Gnesis was also one of them.

Classic 70's prog is something I'm still trying to completely love. I like it because of the weirdness and interesting sections, odd time sigs etc, and the musicianship is just excellent. I sort of expected Marillion to come out like that. But it's almost like a ridiculously long pop-rock song with some bits of prog with the spoken words and stuff.

Originally posted by Blacksword ^^That's what I thought of 'Script for a Jesters Tear' when it came out..more than 26 years ago..

Definitely with you on that one Andy

Another for me was 'Moving Pictures'

Originally posted by spknoevl The ones that really changed my entire musical perspective:   King Crimson - ITCOTKC Yes - Yessongs (it introduced me to their catalogue at what was arguably their creative peak) Genesis - Live (Watcher in the Sky really caught my ears and turned me onto the band) Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire (a total game changer; it sounded like music from another planet)

Definitely with you on those, love your summation of Birds Of Fire, too.

As far as King Crimson goes, after being into their 1970's output & loving it, then Fripp returning with the Belew/Levin/Bruford lineup on 'Discipline'... that was a pure revelation

Honestly, I barely remember even remember some of such moments in my case. I do remember that when I heard The Mahavishnu Orchestra's "Inner Mounting Flame", I was, like, WTF. The skills these guys had, the speed of execution, the tone of McLaughlin's guitar ... BOO-ya!

Edited by Dayvenkirq - March 16 2012 at 09:35

In June, 2010, I bought Foxtrot by Genesis and Permanent Waves by Rush. That really changed my life right there and completely changed my perspective on how music is composed and played. Those two albums are my all time favourites.

There are many albums that really created moments like these in my life,
but most of them are not prog ( ! ).
But most memorable for me is how I became a BJH-Fan with "Gone to Earth".
Although my love for this album didn't stay the same - while "Live Tapes" and "Octoberon" even grew on me.
"Brave" ( again the Marillos ! ) comes to mind.
And the surprise that "Generation 13" by Saga had caused way back then.
"Selling England by the Pound" entered my life in the 90s with such a magical moment as well.

Sometimes I think I know so well what my favorite records are, but the only reliable test is to look at how much a certain record gets played and listened to with attention.

I can remember the last the time I had this feeling of being utterly impressed with a new album. It was SBB's Pamiec, though I must admit the Spirogyra debut was also quite a shake.

Originally posted by The Truth Most the stuff I listened to had to grow on me but after I had started delving into new music I kind of had that moment when I first listened to GY!BE because it was so damn different from anything I'd heard before but amazing. I'm more of a person stuff has to click on and that struck me right away.

I'm with you for the most part.  I had that same "This is it!" moment when I first put on "Lift Your SKinny Fists..."  I felt like it was a cinematic soundtrack for my own life.  It really hit me hard and deep, almost to tears.  But generally, that doesn't happen on the very first listen for me.  My greatest musical discovery of the past year for example, Ariel Pink (not prog), clicked in a HUGE way only on the 3rd listen.  Before that, it was just, "hey, this isn't bad".


Edited by HolyMoly - March 16 2012 at 11:31

It's quite euphoric:)