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Well, I grew up with my dad playing Rush and Yes and Dream Theater. I eventualy started buying albums when I was 9 or so and also inherited alot of CDs from my parents. I think my first albums that I bought were Abby road and  Sgt.pepper by the Beatles and Exit Stage Left and Caress of Steel by Rush. I owe all my love for music to my dad. now I'm into everything from Abba to Sex pistols to Edgar varese and John cage.
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Before I first heard The Wall, I went to a movie called The Departed. That was the first time I ever heard someone I really got stuck to (since Creedence and Elvis) this little song was Comfortably Numb, the one Roger Waters played live with Van Morrison in Berlin.

So when I came home I searched on amazon for the soundtrack of the Deprated movie. When I found the song, I went on youtube and found out that it wasn't a Roger Waters song. It was a Pink Floyd song. So the next day I went to Media Markt and bought The Wall on compact disc, and it blew my mind. Every song, was perfect and thanks to The Departed and Martin Scorsese, I found Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Black Keys, Goblin, etc.
And when I heard Money, I decided to play bass, and I've done so for four years now. I owe Pink Floyd so much, for reviving my music intrest and for playing bass.
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Points: 9 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 15 2012 at 12:36
first one was trespass after came banco del mutuo and le orme just got kook instanly  it simply was instant love  from 13 to 18 years old after i became and old man but in 1998 got back to the same process genesis and they others and it all came back (without substance any more)it fullfil my life very well as a cabinet maquer the sound of the machine became very borring with they itech stoff to lissen to music today wow
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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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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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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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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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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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^ I presume your "period" key does not work.
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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!



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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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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


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Originally posted by Master of Time 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.
 
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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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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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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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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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Points: 1474 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 10 2012 at 21:33
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.


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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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when I first heard Crimson King I realised I had been a prog fan all along.
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