Story of your first prog album

Well, can't remember for sure if it was Pink Floyd's Animals or Kingston Wall's II.

If A Momentary Lapse of Reason counts as a prog-album, then that's the intro point for me.

First prog album I ever heard was 'Animals' by Pink Floyd. I was tripping off my face on acid at a friend's house - we'd both skipped school that day(I think it was a friday..) - at it sounded simply incredible. I'll never forget it.

I was already moving about in the fringes of progressive rock (what the site define as some prog-metal, a lot of proto-prog and prog-related), when I in my quest for more of that kind of music remembered my dad's record collection and his liking of two certain bands. Promptly I laid my hands on

 

and

 

to try them both out. Then I just took it from there.



  

I had a glimpse of prog when I was very little and my father played Supertramp on the cassette player. Later when I was 14 I bought a record from the Argentinean band Seru Giran and Pedro Aznar s fretless bass and charly garcia s synths sounded incredible to me. Still , I didnt have a clue of what prog was about.

I was strictly Classic rock for a while, I would listen to the local radio station at my dad's shop. For wasting my time being there he gave me $5 to buy a cd about every week and it progressively got, you guessed it, more progressive. 

Other than Pink Floyd, I think it was Rush's Gold compilation album or Yes's Classic Yes compilation. Also, at the the time I got either one of those 2, my friend introduced me to Dream Theater.


Edited by Fox On The Rocks - February 26 2012 at 13:51

By the time I was 10, I was already listening to The Who's Quadrophenia, Supertramps Crime of the Century, Deep Purples Made in Japan, Queens Night At The Opera and Pink Floyds Wish You Were Here.

I remember being obsessed with Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd when i was 12 and nobody in my school seemed to like any rock let alone anything from the 60's/70's

Once I got into high school, I started listening to Yes' Fragile/The Yes Album, ELP's Brain Salad and KC's In The Court. From there i discovered Yes' Relayer and Close To The Edge, followed by Gentle Giants Three Friends and Genesis' SEBTP.

Now being 23, I still love playing the classics that i have always listened to, as  well as other bands I picked up while in high school (VDGG, Anglagard, Frank Zappa, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Refugee etc).

There are still so many albums and artists that I need to listen to (even if I have 1000+ albums) that I dont think I will get to listen to them all in my lifetime.

I listened to my father's jazz albums and my sister's Elvis albums  until I heardHocus Pocus by Focus on the local AM radio station  in 1975 on the Dutch Master's compilation. After that I began snapping up every prog album I could lay my paws on. I still listen to jazz and classical and don't confine myself to progrock. Prog actually got me listening to more classical music.

Well I'd known Rush and Yes for a long time before I "got into" prog. How I got into progressive rock goes like this: