When were you infected by Prog?

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It's hard to say when I first became a progger because I probably hadn't heard of the word at the time.  When prog started being a term, it meant to me "bands I already liked" so I defined what I thought was prog by my own definitions out of neccessity.  Therefore, what I considered to be prog may not be considered so today.  When Black Sabbath's first album came out, I looked on that as prog in hindsight but the band seemed to go more commercial after that.  I also listened to Ten Years After whom I've never considered prog though I listened to them for the same reasons.  Especially the earlier stuff when they were more experimental.

But, it probably started with Sgt. Pepper.  When it came out, it was considered psychedelic but I loved the journey it took me on and the steps it took beyond the pop culture.  The complexity was startling.  It may have started there but I feel looking back it culminated with the Moody Blue's Days of Future Passed.  While before I would play entire albums in one sitting, this was the first one I felt like I had to listen to the whole thing.  A partial playing would be incomplete, like reading only a few chapters of an entire novel.  It had a beginning, middle and end.   While my definition for prog broadened after that, prog still has to make me feel that I am listening to more than a song