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Poll Question: From which band did you buy your first prog album?
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    Posted: July 28 2014 at 16:16
Tell from which of these bands/solo artist did you buy your first prog album? If the artist is not in the list pick the closer one. If you want you can fill the following items (or some of them of course, or none of them too)

In my case for example

Band: Genesis - Three sides live (the one with the four side in studio)

Format: Cassette

Year: 1984

Age: 15

Music I listened before: Classical Music


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 28 2014 at 16:49
Band: Yes - The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Collection

Format: CD

Year: 2011

Age: 11

Music I listened before: Classic Rock in general (including some of prog, mainly Rush, the first prog band i technically expanded on before Yes)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 28 2014 at 17:18
Band: Pink Floyd - Meddle

Format: CD

Year: 2007 I think

Age: 13 or 14

Music I listened before: Bit 'o this 'n bit 'o that, and a fair bit of Pink Floyd
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 28 2014 at 17:23
Vinyl. Genesis Live. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 28 2014 at 18:42
Before I started a collection of my own, I played my dad's records a lot, and it's hard to place exactly where my first prog purchase was. But i think it was:

Band: Moody Blues - To Our Childrens'.....

Format: Vinyl

Year: 1979?

Age: 10

Stuff I listened to Before : Moody Blues and Beatles mostly, this was a repurchase of something my dad had when I was a toddler and used to listen to then. I wasn't aware it was "prog" really, I didn't really use that term until around college (1987) when I first became seriously interested in prog as a genre and sought out artists in that vein.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 28 2014 at 19:02
As I recall "Fragile" was my first prog vinyl, early 80s.  Prior to that I has many PR/crossover acts on cassette, Styx, Rush, Zep, Moodies, Who....

But I'll give the honor to Fragile....that was the first of what I considered my prog rock collection.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 28 2014 at 19:03
Probably some Pink Floyd.  Before that, though, I hijacked my dad's copies of Aqualung and Fragile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 28 2014 at 19:23
Had a bunch of Kansas, Jethro Tull, Moody Blues, Supertramp, 10CC and Pink Floyd on 8-track and vinyl so probably one of those.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 28 2014 at 19:48
From the list Pink Floyd DSOTM.
Cant vote though because the first vinyl prog album I bought was Ziggy Stardust by Bowie. I didnt know it was prog then. (Not that I knew what prog was as a 14 year old!)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 28 2014 at 21:19
I bought In the Court of the Crimson King on vinyl.
A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 28 2014 at 21:38
Originally posted by Wanorak Wanorak wrote:

I bought In the Court of the Crimson King on vinyl.


Same here. Got it in 1973, when I discovered prog. It is the album, and the song "Epitaph" particularly, that changed my life.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 28 2014 at 23:21
Tough to remember.....but I think

Band: Rush~Fly By Night
Format: Vinyl
Year: 1975
Age: 11
Music I listened before (and still do): Funk, R&B
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 29 2014 at 00:09
Band: King Crimson




Format: CD




Year: 2005 (or so)




Age: 17 (or so)




Music I listened before: Not much. Mainly just classic rock or contemporary radio.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 29 2014 at 00:45
It was Songs from the wood from JT together with In rock from Deep Purple, I guess 25 years ago
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 29 2014 at 00:46
So many years and albums and passed since that time I cannot remember. It could have been Yes, or Tull, or Pink Floyd, or quite possibly ELP, who should be on this list as well. If we can include Proto-Prog, then it is definitely Burn by Deep Purple.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 29 2014 at 01:53

Band: Genesis - Seconds Out

Format: Vinyl

Year: 1977

Age: 13

Music I listened before: Pop

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 29 2014 at 02:39
First prog album I listened to:
Genesis - Three sides live (belonged to my older brother)
Format: Cassette
Year: 1982
First album I bought myself:
Yes - Yessongs (used, on a flee market, I still own it)
Format: Vinyl
Year: 1982
Age: 14

Music I listened before: Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Classical Music, especially Baroque chamber music (I played it myself)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 29 2014 at 03:18
I would say that Rick Wright (Pink Floyd) - his solo album Wet Dream, was my first 'true' Prog (or related, if you will) that I bought with my own allowance back in 1987.
I did have a couple of Beach Boys' albums from my pre-teen days, and after buying some Floyd tapes in Bali received Atom Heart & Wish You Were Here on LP. Then, my haunt was the local 2nd-hand record shop not far from home, and I bought Wet Dream and the 12" of Roger's Pros & Cons of Hitch-Hiking. Still with me to this day..........
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 29 2014 at 04:43
Band: Rush - 2112

Format: CD

Year: 2012

Age: 12

Music I listened before: Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, etc. Was still a couple of years before I really got into prog, and anything beyond Rush (didn't have a computer to listen to new bands back then). 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 29 2014 at 05:06
My first cassette is not listed (ELP - Trilogy). My first vinyl was DSOTM so Pink Floyd.

Before? - Animals, John Mayall, Arlo Guthrie, blues in general which I still listen to.

Age? I have bought Trilogy by coincidence as "gift" for my first Philips tape reader at 11 (My elder brother bought me a guitar before).

I have bought my first turntable when I was 14, just in time for DSOTM.

Edited by octopus-4 - July 29 2014 at 05:10
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