First song you heard of your favourite bands

GENESIS - "The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging" (early in 1975)

Gentle Giant: Knots

Edited by BePinkTheater - December 16 2006 at 11:16

ELP - Tarkus (my favorite "song" :-) )
Uriah Heep - Gypsy
Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall
King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man
The Doors - Light My Fire
Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
Black Sabbath - Paraonid (or Iron Man?)
Nazareth - Love Hurts
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Another brick in the wall got me into prog. Yes, all three, as i thought they were supposed to be played in succession. (but i DID think that they ran rather unsmoothly, hehe..) and after that it was "UP" by Peter Gabriel, and especially the first song, "Darkness" which made me want to investigate Genesis further. Then the title track on "in the land of grey and pink" got me into caravan, "Rhayader" into Camel, "Aqualung"
 for Jethro tull and incarnation of the logos for Eloy. :)

King Crimson-Twenty First Century Schizoid Man (in the summer of 1980)  My reaction:  Where did this music come from in 1969?  No one had done anything like it up until then.  I bet the hippies with their flowers in their hair were destroyed by this song when it was played live in '69.  I guess we can call it fusion heavy metal of some sort.

Pink Floyd - Money

King Crimson - 21st century schizoid man
I remember listening to it in the CD shop before I bought it and thinking..."what the f**k is this?"

It must have been something like this, back in 1987-8:
Pink Floyd: Learning to Fly - the music video, which I saw from TV. I remember liking it, even though at the time I was listening to only heavy metal at the time. Soon later a friend of mine had the album Wish You Were Here and he borrowed it for me and it blew my mind. My heavy metal period was over for good, prog rock and other types of guitar bands like U2 and Big Country, etc. had completely taken its' place.
Jethro Tull: Farm on the Freeway. I remember hearing it from the radio and I was impressed by the way how great flute sounded as a solo instrument, along with the guitar in the instrumental section of that song and I was instantly hooked forever.
Genesis: Dancing with the Moonlit Knight. Simply because it's the first song on the first album by Genesis I ever heard, in a local library, as I had just began a prog head and wanted to get to know the new genre I had become so fond of.
Rush: probably the live version of The Spirit of Radio, because I think Exit... Stage Left was the first album by Rush I ever heard, again borrowed from a friend.
Marillion: Slainte Mhath, the first song on the TV performance of Live from Loreley -concert. I was not so excited at first, but later grew to like this band after my brother bought or borrowed Clutching at Straws from his friend, which inspired me to buy Misplaced Childhood and it certainly had a permanent effect on me.

King Crimson.....................21st century
Rush................................Tom Sawyer
ELP.................................from the begginig
Yes.................................Roundabout
Dream Theater.................strange deja vu
LTE................................paradagim shift
Gentle Giant.................... free hand
Deep Purple..................... Burn

i listened some of this songs ( my first prog song`s) from my big brother, the other `s  from  my  pc or my acting profesor


Edited by Sublimación - December 16 2006 at 15:43

The Mars Volta - This Apparatus must be unearthed
Muse - Time is running out
Tool - Schism
Dredg - Ode to the sun
Porcupine tree - arriving somewhere but not here
Oceansize - catalyst