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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2005 at 10:57

I believe my first prog albums were the Rush Chronicles.   After I was blown away by that compilation, I listened to all of my dad's old Rush records and I became an instant Rush fan.  Of course, I always thought Rush was just a hard rock band.  It wasn't until I bought the Lamb Lies Down on Broadway that I found out about this wonderful thing called prog.  That's why to this day, Rush and Genesis are my two favorite prog bands. 

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2005 at 10:59
Pink Floyd's "Animals" is the frist progressive rock album I really fell in love with. After that was probably Rush's "Moving Pictures". This was all back when I was a freshman in High School.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2005 at 12:54

strangely enough, my first prog album was KC's THRAK ......

...wonder how could I survive that?!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2005 at 13:35
Dream Theater - Images and Words, about a year ago now. not only was it my first Prog CD, it was also one of my first CDs (I bought it and Billy Talent at the same time, so technically, they're both my first CDs). up until then I'd just been listening to mp3s. the first prog album I ever heard was DT's Scenes From A Memory, which started it all for me.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2005 at 15:17

I welcomed prog in my world with two albums that I got on the same day, September 24 2003: Hemispheres (Rush) and To My Children's Children's Children (The Moody Blues) After listening to Hemis for a week or so, I made the decision to follow the more rocking path laid down by Rush...and that path has by now led me quite deep inside the prog jungle.

  

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2005 at 19:08
for me it was either Court of the Crimson King, the First ELP album,  or  The Yes Album..  Jethro Tull was right in there as well with Thick as a Brick.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2005 at 20:10

Nursery Cryme

I bought it strictly because of the cover.  I just knew I was about to walk into something totally different that would alter how I would view music forever....

....just because of that freaky artwork.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2005 at 20:14
I'm pretty sure it was 2112
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2005 at 20:17

"The Best Of Uriah Heep"

First prog album, first album I purchased with my own green.

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2005 at 22:22

It was actualy very weird, it was rick wakeman's journey to the centre of the earth, and i had no idea of wath progressive rock was.

I think mr wakeman really deserves an  for that one,

if you  count Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band as a prog, then that would be it

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2005 at 22:26
Kansas - Vinyl Confessions
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2005 at 05:39
That would be Genesis - We Can't Dance. If that ain't prog enough, then Peter Gabriel's 'Us'. After that I started to work my way through older Genesis (Tresspass, Nursery Crime...) This was in 1992-1993.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2005 at 06:24

On vinyl - Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, not long after it was released. 

On cassette -Pictures at an Exhibition or Tarkus by ELP. 

Neitherwas the first album I ever bought, that was either Brain Capers by Mott the Hoople or Wishbone Ash's first album.

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2005 at 06:27
Christmas morning, 1980, The Yes Album.....recently picked up a Rhino remastered edition and fell in love all over again.
I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2005 at 08:53
Twas ELP BSS Xmas present in '74.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2005 at 08:59
In 1976, Rick Wakemans' "King Arthur" which led me through a friend's recommendation to "Close to the Edge" as my next purchase
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2005 at 10:21
My first was ÆNIMA by Tool.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2005 at 10:49
Dark Side of the Moon for me... six years ago, when I was twelve...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2005 at 11:26

Rush - Retrospective 1974-1980

...to get a taster for Rush.

"...misty halos made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine."
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2005 at 12:59
Pink Floyd - The Wall. And at the time I had no idea what Prog even was. Listening to that album back then probably blew a fuse in my brain, because I never realized that an album could tell on ongoing story (concept album) or generally be so adventurous. Of course, that album seldom impresses me today. ;)
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