What Prog album is the most personally important?
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Topic: What Prog album is the most personally important?
Posted By: SteveG
Subject: What Prog album is the most personally important?
Date Posted: June 30 2014 at 08:52
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Last week I created a poll between Rush's albums A Farewell To Kings and Hemispheres as both albums were personally important works to me as well as being musically important and felt that only other PA members could objectively pick the best of these two acclaimed albums. Would any members care to share with PA any prog albums that hold personal significance to them and why? (the why is totally optional.) |
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: June 30 2014 at 10:48
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: June 30 2014 at 11:28
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Besides the sentimental feeling towards Rush, the band that really got me into progressive music and started my interesting in older rock music, i would say The Mars Volta. I got into them my freshman year of high school and just really connected with Frances the Mute overall. Not sure how to explain the feels but when you have a band that you enjoy and connect with so much the time spent with their albums transcends just listening to music.
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Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: June 30 2014 at 11:33
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At the risk of losing my prog membership card. The three that hold the most meaning are Genesis' s/t album, Abacab and 90125 as these were the first three prog-ish albums I heard when I was 14 and they got me started on a lifetime of spending tons of cash on music. Although there are by far better albums out there in music, and by those two bands in particular, those three will always hold a special place for me. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: June 30 2014 at 12:06
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Maybe on the fringes of prog, but Kid A is probably the most important album to me. I remember one time, I had been participating in a composition workshop pouring days and nights into a thirty second piece. I was exhausted and tired of music in general. I explained my predicament to a friend and he offered to let me use his phone to relax and listen to music (I didn't have an iPod with me). All he had was the entire Radiohead discography. I listened to Kid A. Radiohead was already my favorite band and Kid A my favorite album, but this time I connected with their music like no other time in my life. I was inspired to put what I made aside, and write something without the limit of genre or standard notation (neither of which I am against, but eschewing it for the time being was helpful to me learning how to express through music). From this point on, I simply wrote music. I didn't draw lines between pop and classical, romantic and avant-garde, and simply tried to learn how to be an artist. I enjoy making music a lot more having had that experience with Kid A and still get inspired whenever I listen to it. ------------- https://dreamwindow.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow - My Music 
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: June 30 2014 at 12:34
| Triumvirat's two albums Illusions On A Double Dimple and Spartacus. Not only are they my favorite progressive records, but Illusions was my gateway to prog album for me, the first real progressive album I had and loved, and inspired me to investigate prog in general. (that occurred in 1985) When I heard Spartacus for the first time 3 years later, I knew I had stumbled across what would permanently be my favorite band, and that my exploration into progressive rock would continue to this very day. |
Posted By: KingCrInuYasha
Date Posted: June 30 2014 at 12:38
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The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn by Pink Floyd. There's a lot of music out there I would not have gotten into, let alone enjoyed, had I not picked up this album first. It blew my mind the first time I listened to it and led me to get into more experimental stuff and material that was out of my comfort zone at the time. ------------- He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball! |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: June 30 2014 at 12:49
Almost the same for me, plus Atom Heart Mother ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
KingCrInuYasha wrote:Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: June 30 2014 at 13:00
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The Wall methinks. I listened to that album incessantly for two years and it got me listening to music that was more intellectually loaded and with a wider array of styles.
Btw Steve, I moved this to top 10s and lists. If any thread asks for personal faves or just call on people to name/list a specific set of albums or indeed album, then it's here you post it  ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: June 30 2014 at 13:45
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may feel out of place, but its actually a compilation (*gasp!*) from Yes called The Ultimate Yes. it made me into becoming the huge Yes fan i am today and got me into the prog world. HOWEVER, Rush was the first prog band i knew a song from (YYZ from GH2) and loved those guys first. ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: RockHound
Date Posted: June 30 2014 at 18:13
| I would have to say that Yes, Genesis, and Tull albums from 1971-1973 constitute my musical core. Picking any one album, however, would be impossible. |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: June 30 2014 at 19:17
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The Strawbs Hero & Heroine as well as all the Roxy Music studio albums. Just love that stuff so much, saving my life so many times, I stopped counting..... ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: June 30 2014 at 21:01
That was the first and only prog album my mom ever bought for me she described it as being hit in the head with a board over and over again |
Posted By: Mirror Image
Date Posted: June 30 2014 at 21:14
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I have many bands that were important to me, but picking one album would be impossible. I'm indebted to Genesis, Pink Floyd, Rush, Marillion, and King Crimson. These were the bands that really opened my ears to progressive rock and what it had to offer. ------------- “Music is enough for a lifetime but a lifetime is not enough for music.” - Sergei Rachmaninov |
Posted By: Prog_Traveller
Date Posted: June 30 2014 at 21:30
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Several but a few that come to mind for me are:
Yes-relayer Porcupine Tree-Lightbulb Sun (very important album to me. I saw the tour but also I played it right before I moved out of my mom's house). Marillion- Clutching at Straws. This album got me through some tough times. As for Rush I'd say "hemispheres." |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: June 30 2014 at 21:31
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Harmonium - L'heptade
Peter Hammill - Everyone You Hold Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow Pink Floyd - The Division Bell David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive ------------- |
Posted By: Kati
Date Posted: June 30 2014 at 22:49
Steve G, I have too many, but right now Trespass comes to mind by Genesis, it's brilliant and gives me chicken skin (goose bumps). Also the knife is one of my ultimate tracks but besides this all tracks are too good. hugs xxxxxx |
Posted By: Kati
Date Posted: June 30 2014 at 22:50
Steve G, I have too many, but right now Trespass comes to mind by Genesis, it's brilliant and gives me chicken skin (goose bumps). Also the knife is one of my ultimate tracks but besides this all tracks are too good. hugs xxxxxx |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: July 01 2014 at 01:17
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Tarkus without doubt. I loved fantasy and Marvel comics and this music seems closest to those things. You could lose yourself in it especially with headphones. That created my love of prog rock. Some years after that I would say IQ - The Wake became a very important personal statement, I could connect spiritually as well as emotionally with that also to a lessor extent with Tales From The Lush Attic. Beyond that Rush became a very important band to me as I became (hopefully) more emotionally secure and mature. It may sound strange but it was the album Roll The Bones that resonated most with me although I would name Counterparts and Test For Echo as well. More recently I might go for Muse - Absolution as having songs that resonate with me. It has that very English aggression and questioning of authority that I can relate to. Should also mention that Floyds The Wall was very important to me growing up but less so now.
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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: July 01 2014 at 14:17
| ^I was a bit older when Pink Floyd's The Wall came out so I was mainly interested in the album for it's wild concept and fantastic sound. Why do you suppose it struck a chord with so many young people when it was released? |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: July 01 2014 at 14:49
The beginning of the 80's seemed a wasteland to this 19 year old at the time and that album was perhaps the very last full blown epic musical statement about society and its ills. I was a bit late to the prog party in terms of my musical taste as well so considering this was the only significant 'old style' prog album released between 1978 and Marillion's Misplaced Childhood in 1985 then it had to do.
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Posted By: *frinspar*
Date Posted: July 01 2014 at 14:51
Wow, that's pretty much how it went for me with those same albums. I stole Abacab from my sister. She got it for Man on the Corner and didn't much like the rest. Dodo/Lurker really struck me as different than anything I'd heard before. I was 8 or 9 and it was mostly radio up to that point Then came 90125, and a few more years down the road, I eventually started working my way backwards to the other stuff. Abacab is definitely the album I'm probably most connected to. |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: July 01 2014 at 16:01
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Really? ... Here it is:  OK, well, that's a load of s$%t. I love the lush, "cumbersome" (a word critics like to use for some works) synth textures on it, and those Miles Davis-like solos, even though I'm not really into Miles' stuff. What got me into prog (the thing that some of the previous posts address) is a different question.
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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: July 01 2014 at 16:43
| ^So what actually did get you into Prog? This sounds like too good a story to pass on. |
Posted By: Prog_Traveller
Date Posted: July 01 2014 at 16:46
Maybe not ones that were on your radar but there were a few others such as: Eloy-Silent cries and mighty echoes 1979 UK-Danger Money 1979 Genesis-Duke 1980 Rush-Permanent Waves-1980 Yes-Drama- 1980 Camel- Nude 1981 Rush-Moving Pictures- 1981 King Crimson-Discipline- 1981 " " -Beat 1982 Peter Gabriel-Security-1982 Marillion-Script for a Jester's Tear 1983 |
Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: July 01 2014 at 16:53
The early albums from most bands, especially the first 2 Genesis albums - both are easily 5 stars for me. For example, I prefer the debut even to "Nursery Cryme" or "ATOTT". "Trespass" is my all-time favourite album, even though it's not as advances musically as "Foxtrot". Same for loads of albums for me ("Shine On Brightly" for instance), but Trespass is the most personally important to me Nice to see what everyone else thinks too - good thread! 
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Posted By: Garlop
Date Posted: July 01 2014 at 18:10
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If i 'd have to choose one album. I would say Moon7 by The Gourishankar. That album its just too perfect. I could listen to it for many years and dont get tired of it. There are few albums that can really touch you like that. What really pisses me off its that they are very underrated. They should get more attention  ------------- Time has no name and regret has no meaning |
Posted By: bencament
Date Posted: July 01 2014 at 18:26
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For me i'd have to say Dark Side of the Moon. Blew my mind when I first heard it as a kid, but what's cooler is I can still listen to it and get that same feeling. Other ones that are important to me, all for different reasons are - Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet Dream Theater - Octavarium Opeth - Blackwater Park ------------- http://www.thebencameronproject.com |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: July 01 2014 at 19:36
The first time I heard "The Court of the Crimson King" (on dizzler.com, now a non-existent radio website), the first few seconds, was when I was introduced to the sound of the string Mellotron. It was nothing like what I've heard before. Big grandiose chords that sound dark and dramatic. And the-way-ahead-of-its-time processed vocal on "Schizoid Man" ... noisy-grungy music in 1969 ... fused with jazz? Well, this is way more interesting than American classic rock. Either ITCOTCK or The Dark Side of the Moon. Have you ever thought to yourself these cheesy ideas that (1) you feel liberated and find beauty when you hear Roger's lyrics the band's music and (2) all the people in the world collectively must realize how absolutely futile and pointless evil is? That's how I felt when I heard DSOTM. Very "psychedelic", hippie thoughts, but they just make sense. That album really shines both musically and lyrically.
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Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: July 01 2014 at 19:40
Before I got into Prog there were three albums all on this site that really had an affect on me. Permanent Waves by Rush was an album that simply fit my personality if that makes any sense. Melancholic yes but there are some amazing peaks with lots of emotion for me. It was my soundtrack when I was 19 or 20. Also Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon which is the closest thing to perfection that i've heard. Again like the Rush cd it was playng in my car constantly as I drove around the beaches up here. If I could pick a third it would be Supertramp's Crime Of The Century. It's kind of weird that I discovered Dark Side.. and Crime Of The Century just when both bands had released new albums back in 1979 in The Wall and Breakfast In America repectively. I remember because while all my friends were all wanting to hear the new releases by these two bands I was more interested in playing Dark Side and Crime because they both appealed to me more. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Mirror Image
Date Posted: July 01 2014 at 19:49
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I guess if I were to pick a few prog rock albums that have been most important to me, they would be the following:
Genesis: Wind & Wuthering Marillion: Brave Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon Yes: Close To The Edge Gentle Giant: Three Friends (not much of a GG fan anymore, but this was important album for me in the early stages of my prog rock journey) King Crimson: Beat (the first KC album I heard and it completely blew my mind) Rush: Grace Under Pressure (still one of my favorite Rush albums next to Power Windows, Signals, Moving Pictures, and Permanent Waves) ------------- “Music is enough for a lifetime but a lifetime is not enough for music.” - Sergei Rachmaninov |
Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: July 01 2014 at 23:57
| The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. I was very young, but a friend of mine, who was oddly on top of music for his age got it and we listened to it. I didn't like it. Later when I got to high school I bought Abacab. Another friend reminded me of the Lamb and really recommended it. I'd just melt into my bean bag after school and listen to it, sometimes with earphones or sometimes not. It was a fabulous source of escapism during my teenage years. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: July 02 2014 at 01:05
I expected I would get a list from someone but at the time there was no internet and the radio in the UK was utter sh*t excluding the Friday rock show and Radio Caroline. Marillion suddenly had a hit though and I started to take notice as they were on Top Of The Pops
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Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: July 02 2014 at 11:33
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Looks like most people listed albums that have personal sentimental or nostalgic meaning, same goes for me I suppose. Can't name one but I can pick different ones from different time periods: 70s - 'Song for America' because it was the first time I dove into the back-catalog of a band and discovered non-FM radio music had a lot to offer. 80s - 'Misplaced Childhood'. Why? read the review. 90s - Kate Bush 'The Dreaming'. An 80s album I got totally hooked on in the 90s. 00s - Green Carnation 'The Quiet Offspring'. Was great for working out and also good mood music. Played the crap out of this one for several years. 10s - Smell of Incense 'Through the Gates of Deeper Slumber'. A great album to just get lost in. ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: July 02 2014 at 11:33
The Wall is probably the most important prog album for me because it was the album that got me into prog rock. I didn't realise what prog was at the time (I as 12) I just thought it was very 'interesting' and appealing and a departure form te endless heavy metal I was listening to at the time. I liked anger being expressed in a more subtle way that was absent from metal. It was the first prog album my mum bought me too.. She went on to buy me others as presents at my request.
It's by no means my fave prog album, of course. That award goes to Rush ESL I guess, or maybe Genesis - Trick of the tail. It was when I heard these albums I went full time prog...  ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: threaz
Date Posted: July 02 2014 at 15:03
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Definitely one of the Floyds' album.Let's put Meddle here, the one I love most. It got me into progressive music and I'm really grateful for that happening to me. Since then, I have discovered so many diffrent prog music which, in many ways, seems better and more gripping that classic PF sound. So that, it's rather sentimental value. it's great to return to WYWH and listen, what has brought me here :) |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: July 02 2014 at 22:46
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ITCOTCK.....what else in 1969...? ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: HemispheresOfXanadu
Date Posted: July 02 2014 at 22:59
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2112 for rescuing my view on music in general. ------------- https://twitter.com/ProgFollower" rel="nofollow - @ProgFollower on Twitter. Tweet me muzak. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: July 02 2014 at 23:31
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KC's Discipline.
Other good contenders: Zappa's One Size Fits All, UK's debut, SB's The Kindness Of Strangers, & Genesis' The Lamb... ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: July 03 2014 at 01:06
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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: July 03 2014 at 08:37
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: July 03 2014 at 08:39
Nothing to say...Abbey Raod is the best Beatles' album IMO ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: July 03 2014 at 08:57
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: July 03 2014 at 09:41
------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: July 03 2014 at 09:44
Yes...I was a big fan of the Beatles , first Zep, first Sabbath, etc etc, but as I mentioned to Octopus I never thought of them as prog then ..just as really good bands. But when I heard ITCOTCK....it was a whole new experience for me.
They were onto doing music a little differently than other bands ...it made a huge impact. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: July 03 2014 at 09:50
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: July 03 2014 at 09:55
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Rush's Presto was their first new album release that I purchased as a new release and the first tour that I saw them live so it has special meaning to me for that. I always liked Metallica for their time signature changes, but I suppose like many others, Dream Theater's Images and Words bridged the gap for me from them to a whole new world of new music. A subset of this album would be Transatlantic's SMPT:e. I had to check out this band that had Mike Portnoy in it and it absolutely blew me away. From there I had to check out Marillion, The Flower Kings, and Spock's Beard and the floodgates opened from there. ------------- 
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: July 03 2014 at 10:09
btw....I see we both have a b-day coming up....I'm about a week older than you.
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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: July 03 2014 at 10:17
btw....I see we both have a b-day coming up....I'm about a week older than you.
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Posted By: zwordser
Date Posted: July 03 2014 at 20:29
I'm with you on 90125. Back in my teen days in the 80's, 90125 essentially was Yes for me and my friends, and we listened to it constantly; the only other music I knew by Yes were the couple of earlier songs that got played on the classic rock stations (typically Roundabout and I forget what else). For later (early-mid 2000's prog-exploration period) Relayer is probably the most personally important to me--but there are many other important albums. ------------- Z |
Posted By: Prog 74
Date Posted: July 04 2014 at 08:52
| Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd. It was the first Pink Floyd album I ever bought and a life changer for me. Richard Wright's beautiful keyboard work in the Shine On You Crazy Diamond suite just blew me away. It was the first time keyboards did that to me. Before then I was always a guitar freak. Loved Hendrix, Clapton, Page, Iommi, etc. Still do. But, with Pink Floyd their sound was not the blues drenched heavy rock I had been listening to. It was an entirely different experience for me. Mind blowing in fact. I began buying other Pink Floyd albums which only deepend my love of their spacey prog sound. Inevitably I started to seek out other prog bands like Yes, Genesis, Jethro Tull & King Crimson and my life was forever changed. WYWH was my gateway into a whole new world. |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: July 04 2014 at 09:05
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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?)
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: July 04 2014 at 09:27
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Have to be an album I bought as a teen, on vinyl. Which I remember playing and getting into prog. Jeff Waynes War of the Worlds is up there then, along with KrAFTWERK'S mAN MACHINE, or Pink Floyds The Wall. So many others.... ------------- 
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: July 04 2014 at 12:29
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Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: July 04 2014 at 13:13
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BEATLES : Magical Mystery tour BEACH BOYS : Smile FLOYD : PipperBOWIE : Lodger TALKING HEADS : Fear Of Music |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: July 04 2014 at 14:50
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: July 04 2014 at 14:53
| For me, it's Nursery Cryme because that's what started it all off, and then Genesis Live as that's the first prog album I bought. |
Posted By: PC-72
Date Posted: July 04 2014 at 15:13
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Phaedra for the dreams and Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh for the power. Those two are divine. ------------- A negative number was raised to a power that is not an integer. |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: July 04 2014 at 15:37
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Posted By: genbanks
Date Posted: July 04 2014 at 16:10
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Well, for me it is definitely Wind & Wuthering as prog album, there are two others that nor so prog or not prog, About W&W and after of those decades of listen prog rock, this album has an unique atmosphere of melancholy, romanticism and epic and surely I wil have it in my heart forever. All the music there is perfect (exception of Wot Gorila? which in any case it's not bad) One of the others is Genesis Shapes, because becoming from listen only classical music, at 14 years old, this album got me into the rock music and was the origin of my searching pilgrimage over Genesis catalogue.
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: July 04 2014 at 18:55
Duh....So why not call the thread 'what's your favourite Prog album?(unless you're replying by proxy)' -------------
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Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: July 04 2014 at 19:24
| ^ Isn't there a difference between "your favorite" and "personally important" ? |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: July 04 2014 at 20:13
Maybe that's one for the OP to answer? -------------
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Posted By: Vinyl Connection
Date Posted: July 05 2014 at 00:40
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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. Members might enjoy the read: www.vinylconnection.com.au ------------- www.vinylconnection.com.au |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: July 07 2014 at 09:50
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: July 07 2014 at 10:48
I agree. There are albums which are very important for me, but they are far from being my favorites. ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: uvtraveler
Date Posted: July 07 2014 at 12:22
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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. |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: July 07 2014 at 13:57
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: July 09 2014 at 15:08
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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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Posted By: uhohjonah
Date Posted: July 13 2014 at 16:48
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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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Posted By: Drumstruck
Date Posted: July 15 2014 at 00:42
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I can't go past Gong YOU. Am very fond of Captain Beyond, Bloom, Fairy Tales, Wolf City - there are so many.
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Posted By: prog4evr
Date Posted: July 16 2014 at 02:43
Two great albums! MC is especially important to me because it takes me on such a ethereal journey whenever I listen to it... |
Posted By: Dean Watson
Date Posted: July 16 2014 at 12:58
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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 ... ------------- Find me at: http://deanwatson.bandcamp.com/ www.soundcloud.com/dean-watson http://www.cdbaby.com/Search/RGVhbiBXYXRzb24%3d/0 |
Posted By: Valle
Date Posted: July 16 2014 at 13:01
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First "In the Court of the Krimson King" by... guess who?
 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!) |
Posted By: Billy Pilgrim
Date Posted: July 17 2014 at 15:48
| 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. |
Posted By: addictedtoprog
Date Posted: July 20 2014 at 05:48
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Wish You Were Here...
Nothing else wud ever top this for me. |
Posted By: Old King Cole
Date Posted: April 01 2015 at 10:47
| 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. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: April 01 2015 at 11:32
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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. |
Posted By: Watcher of the Sky
Date Posted: April 01 2015 at 14:47
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Everything from Pink Floyd and Camel It was present in a special part of my life ------------- Nous sommes du soleil |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: April 01 2015 at 15:23
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Posted By: Friday13th
Date Posted: April 01 2015 at 16:19
| Probably Fragile since it was the first prog album I heard. |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: April 01 2015 at 16:23
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Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: April 01 2015 at 16:54
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i have no idea tbqh; some prog albums hold a place in my heart (the classic Yes albums for example), hell even the aforementioned acclaimed Rush albums (although i think 2112 beats them both to a crisp). so it's very hard to say. ------------- Progrockdude |