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Points: 11415 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 04 2014 at 18:55
Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Dayvenkirq wrote:

Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

I find the whole premise of the thread rather odd i.e. isn't every single musical album you enjoy/loathe based on a personal subjectivity to the music and content therein (or am I missing the point?)
I don't even understand your question. Personal subjectivity is right there in the title.


Duh....So why not call the thread 'what's your favourite Prog album?(unless you're replying by proxy)'LOL


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^ Isn't there a difference between "your favorite" and "personally important" ?
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Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Dayvenkirq wrote:

^ Isn't there a difference between "your favorite" and "personally important" ?


Maybe that's one for the OP to answer?
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I just posted a piece on Floyd's Atom Heart Mother. It is certainly not a great album, but the personal significance earns it a special place in my musical heart. 
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Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Dayvenkirq wrote:

^ Isn't there a difference between "your favorite" and "personally important" ?


Maybe that's one for the OP to answer?
OP's Response. I believe that there is a difference, but it comes down the individual person. If, for example, somone has a Prog album that he or she used to listen to in order to help with the passing of a loved one, I believe that the album would have personal importance to them. You could get into semantics and say that the album has sentimental value for that person but there's enough hair spliting in these threads that removes one from the topic. An album that I just described would be personally important but I doubt that it would also be the person's favorite album. At least it wasn't in my case.


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Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Dayvenkirq wrote:

^ Isn't there a difference between "your favorite" and "personally important" ?


Maybe that's one for the OP to answer?
OP's Response. I believe that there is a difference, but it comes down the individual person. If, for example, somone has a Prog album that he or she used to listen to in order to help with the passing of a loved one, I believe that the album would have personal importance to them. You could get into semantics and say that the album has sentimental value for that person but there's enough hair spliting in these threads that removes one from the topic. An album that I just described would be personally important but I doubt that it would also be the person's favorite album. At least it wasn't in my case.
I agree. There are albums which are very important for me, but they are far from being my favorites. 
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I may on my own here, but Song For America and Point of Know Return were probably the two most personally important progressive rock albums for me.  I always appreciated how heavy the music could be yet still harmonically and melodically complex and interesting.
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Originally posted by uvtraveler uvtraveler wrote:

I may on my own here, but Song For America and Point of Know Return were probably the two most personally important progressive rock albums for me.  I always appreciated how heavy the music could be yet still harmonically and melodically complex and interesting.

Grooves and hooks can be personally important too, so you're not on you're own.
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There really is no most important, but too many good ones...
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Rush - Hemispheres
King Crimson - Lizard
Yes - Close to the Edge

^ these are my favorite albums of all time
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I can't go past Gong YOU.

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Originally posted by ClemofNazareth ClemofNazareth wrote:

70s - 'Song for America'
80s - 'Misplaced Childhood'...
 

Two great albums!  MC is especially important to me because it takes me on such a ethereal journey whenever I listen to it...
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I'm a lover of a genre, not sure the name, but the perfect mix of jazz fusion and progressive rock, and I think for me the first UK album, and some of the early Bruford LP's are what stuck with me.  Not sure how many bands were creating that genre before that,  becuase Jazz fusion hadn't been around that long ...
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First "In the Court of the Krimson King" by... guess who? Big smile
I asked repeatedly my father to play it when I was a little child, reading sci-fi (a "warped" child out of his time)
Then "Banco del Mutuo Soccorso" by the homonymous band. I discovered prog music in my country and, incidentally, began to play bass teached by one of the band bassists.
Then "Deadwing" by Porcupine Tree. It opened me up to progrock heritage.
Recently "Avoid the Light" by Long Distance Calling. Getting to know post-rock and post-metal was a huge exaltation. (LDC are great, by the way!)
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Tool's Aenima will always take me back. First prog album, and first prog band i ever got into. It was a good time, I was just about done growing up and enjoying my last years of easy living.
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A Trick Of The Tail, it introduced me to prog, it's not my favourite album but it's the first prog album I listened to.
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Points: 41324 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 01 2015 at 11:32
Marillion - Holidays in Eden & Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon - they made me drop the metal or rock bands I was listening at that time (for long while) and made me look for something similar which obviously led to my discovery of more progressive music. Aaaaaaaaaaaaah, those were the days, good times!. I feel old just reading what I've just written. LOL


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Everything from Pink Floyd and Camel

It was present in a special part of my life
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