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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 13 2006 at 14:29
The album that got me into prog was "Aquiring The Taste" by Gentle Giant, that album is awesome.

The first I bought was "Free Hand" by the same band...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 13 2006 at 14:36
Rush were the first prog band that really pricked up my ears 2112 just blew me away I had never heard anything like the title track.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 13 2006 at 14:48

My first prog album was Twilight in Olympus By Symphony X.

I'm a firm believer in the philosophy of a ruling class. Especially since I rule.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 13 2006 at 14:49

Not that i think of it. it was actually a Frank zappa tape that my art teacher gave me on casette. it was Called "The Complete Zappa" or something like that and it had a bunch of different albums on it.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 14 2006 at 14:23
The first prog albums I purchased ('cause I already dug Genesis by my older brother's influence) were Rush Subdivisions, Asia (first) and Genesis Abacab (you can tell the year, 1982, by the choice, that order also included Toto IV, btw their new album is great too).

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 14 2006 at 14:48

    Liquid Tension Experiment 2. An amazing record! "When the water breaks" is sheer brilliance.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 18 2006 at 08:44
Moving Pictures-Rush

Brilliant!!!

Haven't been able to listen to anything but prog since.
I can feel no sense of measure
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 18 2006 at 08:50
Caress of Steel by Rush was the first album with proper prog songs I heard. The Fountain of Lamneth enchanted me. Now I'm stuck. LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 18 2006 at 09:11
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 18 2006 at 09:33
Okay, I'm seriously going to date myself, but...
 
Piper at the Gates of Dawn and In the Court of the Crimson King.  I had already heard such proto-prog as Vanilla Fudge and Sgt. Pepper.  Thus, I was there at the very beginning, youngsters, when the word "prog" had barely been coined...
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 18 2006 at 15:09
Originally posted by magog magog wrote:

Since i cannot consider Pink Floyd as prog or any heavy metal as prog I think my first prog-album was Aqualung...but many years have passed and my memory is getting older! 
 
ShockedHow can you not consider Floyd as prog???
When the world is sick
Can't no one be well
But I dreamt we were all
beautiful and strong

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 18 2006 at 16:10
I bought Nursery Cryme on cassette when I was thirteen and I was definitely converted to prog! Some months later I bought my first prog album, it was Oldfield's double lp Airborn - I'm still waiting for a cd edition just for the live lp (taken from the Exposed tour but from different concerts)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 18 2006 at 17:30
don't laugh.

Train of Thought - Dream Theater

I got into progmetal late :(
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 18 2006 at 18:18
Some Ozric Tentacles album. Can't remember which. This one guy once started playing Ozric Tentacles at English class (the teacher asked if anyone had music we could play) and I liked it so much I just had to buy some album by them :)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 18 2006 at 19:15
I'm not sure, I think it was The Ladder by Yes
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2006 at 00:42
mine was awake by dream theater
 
after hearing it, i was hooked on prog
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2006 at 00:47
Originally posted by J.La J.La wrote:


    Liquid Tension Experiment 2. An amazing record! "When the water breaks" is sheer brilliance.
That album gives me a headache. I'm not sure why; it's really not that heavy, and I turn the volume down to around 5 to compensate for the deafening mixing volume.
Originally posted by magog magog wrote:

Since i cannot consider Pink Floyd as prog or any heavy metal as prog I think my first prog-album was Aqualung...but many years have passed and my memory is getting older! 
If Pink Floyd aren't prog, what is? Wish You Were Here is a lot more prog than Aqualung...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2006 at 14:39

My first prog album was also the first CD I bought : Wish You were Here

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2006 at 14:39
DT - SFAM the day it was released
I still can't get how Dream Theater music is created by humans

Dream Theater in Monterrey, Mexico   03.03.06   Unforgettable
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2006 at 14:47

I don't think Uriah Heep Very 'eavy Very 'umble counts as prog, why not...

... but my first real prog album was Genesis Trespass and I still, after listening it hundreds of times and about 500 other prog albums in 36 years time, I still consider it to be the all time best prog album!
 
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