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BaldJean 
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I really could not say. I grew up with prog. my parents were hippies and listened to all this stuff all the time. hearing prog epics was absolutely normal to me when I was a kid
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The Runaway
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Posted: January 10 2010 at 14:03 |
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Tubular f**king Bells |
Fixed.
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Malve87
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Posted: January 10 2010 at 16:30 |
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Shine On You Crazy Diamond
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ProgressiveAttic
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Posted: January 10 2010 at 17:05 |
ProgressiveAttic wrote:
Yes - The Gates of Delirium (I was listening to Relayer in its entirety for the first time) |
well.... I am not really sure.... because my father used to play prog music to me wen I was between 3 and 6.... I rediscovered prog with Relayer so that is my final answer....
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Posted: January 10 2010 at 21:50 |
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For me, it was Yes' "Sound Chaser".
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A Person
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Posted: January 10 2010 at 21:53 |
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Pink Floyd was my first prog band, I guess the first epic I heard was "Dogs", although I didn't think of it as anything other than a long PF song at the time. I'm not counting Shine On, because I could hardly remember hearing it from when I was younger.
Edited by A Person - January 10 2010 at 21:54
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topofsm
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Posted: January 10 2010 at 22:32 |
I think I first heard an "epic" of sorts when my brother and his friend played me Albuquerque by Weird Al Yankovic. I loved the neverending nature of it.
After that I can't really remember. I guess I was into Green Day when they came out with American Idiot so I had Jesus of Suburbia and Homecoming (9+) and I loved those too, they actually changed movements and it felt like a journey. After that, long songs were totally natural.
I can't say for sure what the next epic was, it was probably SOYCD. Of course I'd look up prog albums all the time and notice the ones with long songs, so I was familiar with all they Pink Floyd ones. As for the first 20+ minute one it was probably Octavarium.
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TheGazzardian
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Posted: January 10 2010 at 22:58 |
My first was Shine On You Crazy Diamond. The local classic rock album was playing it as part of their "deeper than the singles" (or whatever they called it) series. I remember it gave me the impression of being in a cave for the first bit. I don't know how much of the song they played, though, because I wasn't aware it was split into multiple parts, and that was back when five minute songs sometimes sounded long to me, so Shine On definitely seemed long. (But not in a bad way...)
I later got Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd, and it has most of Shine On, and Echoes. My next one would have been Dogs/Sheep/Pigs from Animals. But, as much as I liked these songs, they were just long songs to me ... not "epics"
The first song that seemed to be more than a long song for me was Gates of Delirium by Yes. Ironically, I bought that, not as a prog fan, but just as someone who had seen Relayer while browsing for 90125 and been fascinated by the three song format. I ended up loving it, but in a "This is a work of genius but way over my head" kind of way. It would be three years before I truly understood Yes ... and then there was no going back.
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halabalushindigus
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Posted: January 11 2010 at 00:30 |
From Todd Rundgren's "Utopia", The Ikon
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assume the power 1586/14.3
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harmonium.ro
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Posted: January 11 2010 at 01:10 |
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Nektar's A Tab In The Ocean. That rocked my world.
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The-time-is-now
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Posted: January 11 2010 at 11:45 |
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As a matter of fact, Close to the edge was my FIRST one.
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dtig80
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Posted: January 11 2010 at 11:45 |
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My first epic was A Change of Seasons by Dream Theater. It is still one of my favorites to this day. It was when I first getting into prog and that song completely changed my perspective on music. There are so many different parts in that song that it feels like 5 different ones. This is obviously why they gave each part of the song a different name because of the different stages it goes through. I have gone deeper into prog rock now and I see where Dream Theater gets a lot of there different themes. This song sounds like a heavier version of Rush and Yes combined.
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Bitterblogger
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Posted: January 11 2010 at 11:45 |
ProgressiveAttic wrote:
Yes - The Gates of Delirium (I was listening to Relayer in its entirety for the first time) |
That's the first one I heard live (1975).
For recordings, probably Echoes (seeing Live At Pompeii in a theater), or Karn Evil 9 (on "Quadrophonic"; anyone remember that?).
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akamaisondufromage
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Posted: January 11 2010 at 11:50 |
Blowin Free wrote:
Kotro wrote:
Tubular f**king Bells |
Fixed. |
I have this feeling that 'Tubular f**king Bells' was the first epic I heard. But the first Epic I took in was (Of course) Supper's Ready - My preferred form of epic 
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Bolix
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Posted: January 11 2010 at 16:54 |
I was sixteen when I bought WISH YOU WERE HERE.
With few money in my pockets i could buy only one or two LP in a year (life changed when i enterd in a bank to work...).
This LP is one of the greatest things in my life, absolutely !!!!!!!!!!!
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lazland
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Posted: January 11 2010 at 17:00 |
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Thirteen years old - Awaken, and fell in love at first listen.
Although, if prog related is in the mix, it would be Stargazer by Rainbow from Rising a year earlier.
Happy days they were too.
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seventhsojourn
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Posted: January 11 2010 at 17:12 |
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Coin flip between Close and Supper's... typical BOF!!
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Posted: January 12 2010 at 08:07 |
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Nightshine
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Posted: January 12 2010 at 09:22 |
Close to the Edge.
When I was 13 years old.
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whydontyoueatcarrots
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Posted: January 12 2010 at 12:57 |
lazland wrote:
Thirteen years old - Awaken, and fell in love at first listen.
Although, if prog related is in the mix, it would be Stargazer by Rainbow from Rising a year earlier.
Happy days they were too.
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An 8 minute and 26 seconds long song featuring the Munich Philharmonic about going to battle against a wizard, I think we can let it slide?  Definitely the song that made me love (Dio era) Rainbow. Really, Dio in general. There's no sun in the shadow of the wizard...
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Mom, I tore a big hole in the convertible
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