Story of your first prog album

A Jethro Tull album for sure, just can't remember which one. Bought a lot of JT albums (the ones from the 70's) in a short space of time.

Edited by The Bearded Bard - February 29 2012 at 15:00

I went searching through the back of the cabinet in the bottom of my parents' entertainment center, through Dad's old records, and found Pictures at an Exhibition by Emerson, Lake and Palmer.  I was hooked.   They were the first band that I bought every single thing they'd ever recorded.  Later on, in college, I had gotten into guitarists and was listening to a lot of Satriani and Vai, and a friend loaned me a Dream Theater CD.  I remember when I listened to Images and Words, I HATED Metropolis Pt. 1 at first, but this weird part from the instrumental section got stuck in my head for some reason, and I had to go back and listen to it.  This happened more than once, and I kept going back and listening to it, and eventually I had this epiphany where I realized they were doing some really funky stuff with time signatures and that's when I truly got hooked on Progressive Rock - there was no turning back after that moment, I was completely disinterested in boring music that stayed in common time for the whole song and didn't do anything but verse/chorus/verse/chorus.

progprogprog wrote: I hadn't been listening to any kind of music for roughly one year(17-18).I was in my classmate's suite, lying on the bed.I heard "Si on avait besoin dune cinqueeme siason-Harmonium" from her speaker, the song( I think it was "histoires sans paroles" ) pretty surprised me. I asked about the music, and she said it's a classic progressive rock album from 1975. After that I started reading about that era of music. And the wonderful journey began. Which album was your first true prog album?(If you remember)

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A Momentary Lapse of Reason.  I was 14, and my incipient LP collection was full of pop-metal and latin american rock.  One afternoon at a record store in Bogotá, the cover of AMLOR attracted my attention and I decided to give it a try. That was it, by the end of that year I managed to get almost all the PF catalog.

quintessential prog to me @ age  18= anything Yes  quintessential now @ age 51=  ELP trilogy(exotic masterpiece that it is)strawbs, (always loved benedictus). Procol Harum..Robin Trower?My first album somebody bought me was Led Zeppelin 4,  i think the first truly progressive album i ever heard was the zombies

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In the Summer of 1979 when I was fifteen I bought  'And Then There Were Three'  by Genesis.  In quick succession I then bought 'Selling England by the Pound', 'Dark Side of the Moon', 'Wish You Were Here' and 'Close to the Edge'.

My first must have been Klaus Schulze's Black dance. When i was raiding my fathers LP-collection and basically went on the mare cover art (Which is in my opinion awesome  ). I ask my dad what is was and his reply was at lest of what i remember positive about the music ...

I can't remember my feelings from that album but i didn't listen to it for a wile.. maybe 14 years haha...