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Catcher10 
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I remember now, I was locked in a basement and forced to listen to this krapp 24/7/365......I still see a therapist about it.
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Pelata
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Posted: November 06 2018 at 13:25 |
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I first heard that song as an adult. While I can't say it scared me, it did leave me a tad unsettled. I thought to myself, "They were doing THAT in the 60s??" |
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Posted: November 04 2018 at 05:22 |
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I got introduced to prog in the late 80's, by workmates at the first place i worked. I was given a few Pink Floyd records and they just blew me away, and quickly Floyd became my favourite group (even managed to see them on their Delicate Sound OF Thunder world tour).
Of course at the time I had no idea what "progressive" music was, and I just thought Pink Floyd was just regular rock, albeit, to my ears, simply "better". Fast forward to 1996 and I still had no idea what prog was, nor had my musical tastes expanded much beyond Floyd, Zeppelin, the Beatles, the Who, Stones etc. That was when I purchased a book by Pete Frame called "Rock Family Trees". Even though I barely knew any bands mentioned in it, it was still a good read, but the last family tree in the book was what truly made me discover prog. It was the family tree of a group I'd never heard of, called Asia, and it mentioned a lot of other groups I'd also never heard of, King Crimson, ELP, Yes, UK etc, labelling them all "progressive rock". But what got me interested was a simple comment regarding Rick Wakemans move to Yes. Pete simply wrote "Critics labelled them overblown and pretentious, yet they were more popular than ever". That single comment sparked my curiosity, and prompted me to go out and buy something from this group Yes, just to hear it. Thankfully my local store had a few CD's, and I picked up the one with the most interesting cover, and that just happened to be Fragile  It was prog all the way after that!
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gr8dane
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Posted: November 03 2018 at 13:56 |
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Through my buddy's older brother.
He played Tarkus and To our children children children a lot. Good start I think.:)
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Shake & bake.
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Cylli Kat
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Posted: November 03 2018 at 12:32 |
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You two just made me bust a gut laughing! Thanks!  My intro to prog was a bit traumatic, so Stockholm Syndrome may not be too far off the mark! Great post and reply. |
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Cylli Kat
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Posted: November 03 2018 at 11:59 |
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For me, I have to credit my 3 of my cousins, who lived directly across the street from my family when I was very young. They introduced me to music (in general), electric guitars, & even quadraphonic music...
Through them, I was introduced to Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Yes, Led Zeppelin, etc. I adored them all (especially Yes), but nothing could have prepared me for the absolute majesty of King Crimson's "The Court of the Crimson King" (The song). It was 1969, I was four years old, the music was loud, and this MONSTER came roaring out of the speakers that absolutely captivated whilst it simultaneously horrified me. Literally, "The Court of the Crimson King" scared me. Like a horror movie does to some people... The first time I heard it, I was so scared by it's power, I was literally crying and begged my cousin to turn it off... (Remember, I was four when this happened.) But, I was hooked. After the initial shock wore off, repeated listenings just made me love it more and more. The vocal harmonies in the chorus still give me chills that make my neck and arm hair stand up and point at the moon... The album is justifiably an essential, classic, must have in your collection 5+++ from alpha to omega (α to ω), beginning to end. But this was the song that burst the floodgates and sent me on this wondrous odyssey into progressive music... Edited by Cylli Kat - November 03 2018 at 13:21 |
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: November 02 2018 at 21:42 |
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Through Yes and King Crimson then Genesis right after. Things snowballed from there. For me it was more about reading about these bands in a rock encyclopedia book than just listening to the radio in part because this was the eighties and there wasn't much prog on the radio at the time(just the classic stuff).
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Posted: November 02 2018 at 19:58 |
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I originally found prog through Iron Maiden, with songs like Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Hallowed Be Thy Name greatly interesting me due to their longer lengths. From here, I decided to look for some other long songs and came across Dream Theater's Octavarium, which intrigued me for the band's name, the interesting album cover, and the 24 minute length of the song. I fell in love with parts of this song extremely quickly, and decided to check out some of their other works, only to be surprised by how long their average songs were, intriguing me greatly about the world of prog music. From there, I found a great deal out about the genre and have enjoyed listening to it ever since.
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I would like to add that my mothers have an odd way of choosing which music to play next (sometimes I ask myself if there is anything pertaining to them that is not odd). New additions to their collection are listened to a few times until they have formed an opinion of it (this is probably what everyone does). But usually they let the computer pick a random album from the database and listen to it in completeness, regardless of how they like the music. If the computer picks a “Complete Works” edition of some composer consisting of ten or more CDs they listen to all of them. So you never know what kind of music will come up next, which certainly broadens the listening experience. |
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AliceBaldieDaughter
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Posted: October 27 2018 at 08:22 |
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Through my mothers. They have a huge musical collection which is not sorted by genre at all. So you will, for example, find Mozart next to Mother Gong or Beethoven next to the Beatles. Since they collect all kinds of music - rock music (not only prog), jazz, ethnic music, classical music (including opera), chansons (regardless what language, but mostly French, Italian and German), ancient music, klezmer and whatnot - and also play music themselves my sister and I grew up with a wide scope of music. Prog is just a small part of it.
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Posted: October 27 2018 at 07:29 |
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It was around in 68-69 when I started buying more LPs. Finnish bands and Zappa's Hot Rats. I used to go to a supermarket/discount store with my mom while she was still learning to drive. I was in college. Anyway, there was a bin of cutouts I bought for 1-2 dollars, UK bands that did not sell well. I got Gentle Giant, The Nice and a bunch of lesser bands that way. First bands seen in this order
1 Wigwam and Family, same festival in Finland during summer spent there 2 Jethro Tull 3 Genesis 4 Gentle Giant 5 Zappa
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: October 25 2018 at 10:21 |
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^No, I'm not changing to the album cover to ATTWT. ;)
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Posted: October 25 2018 at 10:11 |
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Posted: October 25 2018 at 09:33 |
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And then there were three
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Posted: October 25 2018 at 09:28 |
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I thank God I was born in 1962 into a home with an older brother. He went away to University and came back for Christmas with a cassette tape : Fragile on Side A and Tarkus on Side B.
When he came home for Spring Break he had Thick As A Brick and Dark Side Of The Moon vinyls with him. Game on!!! Been hooked ever since. (I'm working on my autobiography: "How Prog Ruined My Life.")
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Pelata
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Posted: October 24 2018 at 10:07 |
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I was born in 1971. I was the oldest sibling, and my mother hates rock music, so everything I discovered, I did so on my own. Some of my very earliest musical memories involve MTV and seeing videos by Phil Collins, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Asia, Rush and others (this was in addition to the Journey, Van Halen, Def Leppard etc I was loving as well) and really loving it. At the time, I had no idea Gabriel used to be in Genesis. I had no idea Genesis had any songs prior to "That's All". I had ZERO idea of the pedigree inherent within Asia. I just knew I really liked the stuff. It just felt different, more depth and significance somehow, than a lot of other music.
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Posted: October 24 2018 at 09:13 |
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I think my introduction to prog was my sister coming home with "Nursery Cryme" and BJH's "Once Again". This was quite a long time ago so my memory is a bit shaky but I think I read the lyrics and wondered what the hell all these songs about man-eating plants and men eating their toes were all about, so I listened and the rest, as they say, is history. The second album I ever bought was "Genesis Live" which was a budget price at the time (£1.99 if I remember rightly).
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Matti
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Posted: October 24 2018 at 05:49 |
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For me (born 1970), prog has been there almost right from the start, so here's how I started consuming music. I have a big brother (5 years older than me) and a big sister (3½ years older than me), who both listened to music and had LP's. Neither of them actually were strongly oriented to prog, but both had several albums of a proggy nature, especially in the scale of the early 80's popular music in general. The first album I got notably interested in, when I was too young to play vinyls by myself, was E.L.O.'s A New World Record. I was 10 years maybe. Around 1983 I began more actively to play the LP's of my bro and sis. Key albums included Dire Straits: Love Over Gold, Saga: Silent Knight, Rush: Signals, Asia: Asia, Yes: 90125, and Jon Anderson: Animation. The biggest impact on me was made by Jon's multi-part title track 'Animation'. It introduced me a whole new way of building a piece of popular music (I was pretty well aware of classical music too). I was deeply fascinated by the song. I'd like to mention also 'Telegraph Road' by Dire Straits. Back then I knew nothing about the genre called progressive rock, but, without knowing, I had opened the door with no turning back. I recorded music into cassettes before finally in the spring of '86 I bought my first own album. It was Marillion's Fugazi (1984). It could have been also Misplaced Childhood, but I persuaded my friend to buy that one. I had seen Marillion on TV, performing on some festival among other bands. I became a die-hard fan for a couple of years, but at the same time I was also gradually finding my way into the classic prog of the 70's (though I also got interested in Twelfth Night at one point). Soon I had new favourites such as Genesis, Yes, Pink Floyd, Camel, Renaissance, early King Crimson and Mike Oldfield. Prog has never been the only music I enjoy, but it's clearly defining me as a music lover more than any other genre. And it probably always will.
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Posted: October 24 2018 at 04:43 |
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I dad got me in this beautiful world. He is a real music lover, all genres, from classical to some rap (except metal, I will fix it for him
). FOOTBALL drive let me LISTE (not hear) my first prog song, during this footbal program the showed the almanac and it was the day of the birthday of The dark side of the moon release, so when the bassline from Money started to play I was abduct. In my house there is always music playing, so I starded ask my dad:"Who is this band". My firsts loves were Genesis and Italian group "Le Orme".Few months later I heard 21st century schizoid man...you can image...It was, and it is, never enough, there started my long path of the discovery... Thank you for your time!! KEEP ON PROG!!!
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Posted: October 24 2018 at 03:25 |
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I started a small grunge band about 15 years ago and our drummer was into Dream Theater. He introduced me into the prog scene with tracks like Metropolis pt. 1 and Overture 1928. I gotta say at first I didn't understand it, I was still obsessed with the more straight forward music like Nirvana, Bush, etc. But then a few years later it suddenly clicked and I was hooked!
Fast forward a few years later (2013 to be more precise) and I joined Endtime Odyssey to make prog music myself :D Through joining my band I got introduced to a lot of different bands, some lesser known ones and some that just exploded in recent years (looking at you, Haken and Leprous!).
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