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wjohnd 
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 Posted: June 23 2012 at 10:10 |
 wjohnd wrote:
It was a while ago now but I'm guessing it was Pink Floyd - Animals.First one I owned was Rush 2112. |
forgot to mention that my first gig was to see Rick Wakeman. A friend and his older brother who had a mini cooper, but the kind that was like really small van. I had to sit in the back getting rattled around for an hour and a half each way, but i was lucky he took me at all given i'd been snogging his girlfriend the previous month.
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Ancient Tree
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Posted: June 23 2012 at 09:11 |
i was looking for some new sounds,and i found a thick as a brick song on the simpsons and i became fan of prog in a second ,my first album was jethro tull thick as a brick 
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Argonaught
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Posted: June 23 2012 at 05:12 |
By 1987 I had developed a taste for what I describe as 'modern quality music' - a somewhat broad and loose category that transcends genres, but is mostly associated (in my mind) with heavy prog, art- and symphonic rock, jazz fusion and non-syrupy pop. The albums that fell into this category around that time: (1) A Momentary Lapse of Reason (2) Moving Pictures (3) Close to the Edge (4) Thick as a Brick
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NickHall
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Posted: June 23 2012 at 02:25 |
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when I first heard Crimson King I realised I had been a prog fan all along.
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Mr. Maestro
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Posted: June 10 2012 at 22:08 |
My dad is a college professor, and when I was very young I used to hang out in his office a lot. Once when I was there, I came across his vinyl copy of Rick Wakeman's Journey to the Centre of the Earth sitting on a shelf. The album artwork looked really interesting, and I asked my dad what the music was like; he said it was like "rock music mixed with classical music," which intrigued me. He let me listen to it and I absolutely loved it, but I kind of forget about it as time went on.
The album that actually got me seriously interested in prog was actually The Best of Kansas. I'd heard hits like "Carry On Wayward Son" and "Point of Know Return" on the radio many times, and decided I'd check out what else Kansas had to offer. That compilation included a few prog epics like "Song for America" and "The Pinnacle," and I found that I enjoyed those tracks a lot more than the radio-friendly stuff.
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"I am the one who crossed through space...or stayed where I was...or didn't exist in the first place...."
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Prog_Traveller
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Posted: June 10 2012 at 21:33 |
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Good question and I honestly don't remember for sure what it was. 90125 was the first Yes album I bought but I won't count that. I suppose it was Fragile by Yes. I got into them to a great extent through kids at camp in the summer of 1984 even though I was already starting to get into them before that. My dad had TYA on vinly and I ordered "classic Yes" on cassette just before going to camp. Compilation or best of albums don't really count though.
Soon after that I got into King Crimson and Genesis.
I do consider Pink Floyd prog to a great degree. I bought "THe final cut" on vinyl in 1983 but won't qualify that as a prog album.
To this day my favorite prog bands are the most well known 70's bands(maybe in part because those were the first ones I heard): Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Rush, ELP. In roughly that order although ELP is probably one of my least favorite of the well known bands(I still like them though but probably for sentimental reasons). Oddly enough I only had their first album for a long time and not much else until 89 or so when I finally heard "Tarkus." It's all just great music in my opinion.
Edited by Prog_Traveller - June 10 2012 at 22:02
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ProgSeeker
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Posted: June 10 2012 at 18:08 |
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I'm really not sure what would count as my first prog album. Probably The Best of Kansas, with Selling England By the Pound and ELP's Trilogy following very soon after I believe. Fragile was probably right in there too... can't remember the order, but what a wonderful time that was!
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dabulge
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Posted: June 10 2012 at 16:20 |
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Dream Theater's greatest hit album. I was blown away how good Pull me Under was. I went into best buy and got the feeling that i needed to buy something by that artist, and ever since I have been a hugeeeeeee dream theater fan. Prog is the best music in the world!!!!!!!! At that time I was about 15 to 16 I'm 18 now so not to long ago.
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DiamondDog
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Posted: June 08 2012 at 09:02 |
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For me, hearing "In the Court of the Crimson King" changed everything; I appreciated all the strands that led there more after that.
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Earthmover
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Posted: June 04 2012 at 17:46 |
Well, my first touch with prog is Pink Floyd of course, but back then I didn't even know what is prog rock. The first album I put on knowing it's progressive rock I'm listening to was 2112. Really an amazing album, but a bit shadowed by its followers - AFTK, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures.
I still think, though, that MP is overrated - it's pretty good, but it's no match for trio of AFTK, Hemi and Perma.
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DaveyByTheSea
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Posted: June 04 2012 at 15:28 |
Master of Time wrote:
My First prog album was Moving Pictures. I heard Tom Sawyer on TV and thought it was fantastic, so my uncle burned a copy for me. I listened to it about once or twice and shelved it. About a year later I became friends with a group kids who worshiped Rush, so I decided to listen again. It took a while but after a few listens I finally got it, and loved it. I then checked out the rest of the Rush discography but never really listened to any other prog. That is until my Dad decided to show me his favorite band, Yes. It took me a while but I warmed to them, but still weren't into them. Then one day I decided to download a couple songs. A few weeks later when Star Ship Trooper came on shuffle I couldn't stop listening, so I decided to check out an album. The only one available to me was Relayer. Gates of Delirium came on and I was blown away. Yes immediately became my favorite band, I kept exploring more prog and I never looked back. So my first was Moving Pictures but the one that really broke me into Prog was Relayer. |
Good lad!
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Skyline Teacher taught me everything!
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gazagod
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Posted: June 04 2012 at 14:56 |
when i understood there was such a thing as 'prog rock'... i got king crimson 'red' and 'lark's tongue in aspic' on compact disc.. back in 2000...oh, those were nice years of solitary discovery...but, i was a very hc metalhead a the time, still... helped my guitar playing a bit
now, many years later.. i have way too many KC live albums... fripp still bewilders me.. and i pick up a few 'modern prog' albums from time to time, though i tend more to the avant prog/zEuhl stuff... i listened to too much modern classical in the oughties and wanted a bit MORE...
just got the headspace cd... the beginning is pretty derivative.. but it gets much better, imho
Edited by gazagod - June 04 2012 at 15:00
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gazagod
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Posted: June 04 2012 at 14:51 |
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i bought all the world's a stage in 1991 when i was 13... sure as hell didn't think of it as 'prog'...
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we only know that we do not know
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RyanElliott
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Posted: June 04 2012 at 09:42 |
It was Rush for me
I listened to Presto first when I was nine and loved it from that age and it is and will always be close to my heart.
I also had Selling England by the Pound by Genesis from a very early age and it set the foundation for my listening tastes and own music style...for life!
Edited by RyanElliott - June 04 2012 at 09:42
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Dayvenkirq
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Posted: June 02 2012 at 11:01 |
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^ I presume your "period" key does not work.
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stacyj
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Posted: June 02 2012 at 08:07 |
Do some resesarch?
Camel
Genesis
Alan Parsons
...too many to name.
Rush is way after the fact!
...but then i guess that depends on age?
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Master of Time
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Posted: June 02 2012 at 02:12 |
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My First prog album was Moving Pictures. I heard Tom Sawyer on TV and thought it was fantastic, so my uncle burned a copy for me. I listened to it about once or twice and shelved it. About a year later I became friends with a group kids who worshiped Rush, so I decided to listen again. It took a while but after a few listens I finally got it, and loved it. I then checked out the rest of the Rush discography but never really listened to any other prog. That is until my Dad decided to show me his favorite band, Yes. It took me a while but I warmed to them, but still weren't into them. Then one day I decided to download a couple songs. A few weeks later when Star Ship Trooper came on shuffle I couldn't stop listening, so I decided to check out an album. The only one available to me was Relayer. Gates of Delirium came on and I was blown away. Yes immediately became my favorite band, I kept exploring more prog and I never looked back. So my first was Moving Pictures but the one that really broke me into Prog was Relayer.
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stacyj
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Posted: June 01 2012 at 22:45 |
Well imagine that?
I was a foster child taken away from,
straight A's and Church every Sunday?
To a Group Home,where anything goes!
From 3 dog Night to Camel&Tangerine Dream overnight!!!!
Then asked to back to my prior life?
I couldnt,after some sway? ....i wondered why?
Now i don't!!!! C
BTW? ...when i was bout 8 or 9 yrs old?
...i was ordering benny goodman swing era albums! ....go figure?
one confused individuale? ....or really in tune 2 himself?
...u tell me?
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MokRodrigues
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Posted: June 01 2012 at 21:26 |
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Hum... I've always been a Pink Floyd fan, but I've started my love of Prog when I bought Classic Yes... I don't know the reason that I don't consider my Pink Floyd albums my first Prog albums...
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Blobfish
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Posted: April 16 2012 at 22:56 |
My ear-liest venture, as far as being sent to a new space upon listening, Yma Sumac... Peruvian Prog? No, back then I guess it was labeled Exotica. If 'Prog' came about in the 70's, I'd hav'ta say my introduction to the debut LP's of England's King Crimson, ELP, Gentle Giant, Genesis, Caravan and Soft Machine. Though must credit those new notes n' tones from the US of A; Raymond Scott's Manhattan Project, Frank Zappa and his Bizarre label, Terry Riley and the new minimalist composers and commercially SF's Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, NY's Velvet Underground, LA's Spirit and the Doors were opening doors and influencing those abroad.
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