First Prog Album you Ever Heard
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Topic: First Prog Album you Ever Heard
Posted By: Oxygen Waster
Subject: First Prog Album you Ever Heard
Date Posted: January 01 2006 at 02:10
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Mine was (I feel lucky for it to have been)In the Court. whats yours? |
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: January 01 2006 at 03:52
| Pink Floyd - The Wall. |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: January 01 2006 at 03:57
Dark Side Of the Moon... and it was also the first album I ever bought. Now I think it's pretty overrated ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: January 01 2006 at 04:07
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Rush: Grace Under Pressure/ Signals Yes: Drama Genesis: Three Sides Live Heard all around the same time....I then collected their respective back catalogues fairly quickly... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: January 01 2006 at 04:13
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Either Rick Wakeman's Journey either Tangerine Dream's Ricochet either Tangerine Dream's Force Majeure either Vangelis' Albedo 0.39 anyways,an excellent start  ------------- 
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Posted By: Hesselius
Date Posted: January 01 2006 at 05:07
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Jethro Tull: Aqualung ------------- This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper |
Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: January 01 2006 at 11:14
| Dream Theater - Images And Words |
Posted By: Ed_The_Dead
Date Posted: January 01 2006 at 11:18
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Tool - Lateralus Though I diden't ktow it was prog back then in 2001 ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ed_the_dead/?chartstyle=asimpleblue5"> 
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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: January 01 2006 at 11:58
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1972 - Atom Heart Mother ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: proger
Date Posted: January 01 2006 at 12:06
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Dark Side Of The Moon(thank u brother!!!)
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Posted By: Winter Wine
Date Posted: January 01 2006 at 12:12
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Close to the edge, god i'll never forget hearin' it for the first time... ------------- My computer's broke |
Posted By: Marwin
Date Posted: January 01 2006 at 12:26
| i think i t was Rush - Moving Pictures or Dream Theater - Images and Words |
Posted By: Cygnus X-1
Date Posted: January 01 2006 at 12:33
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Either Rush - Moving Pictures or Dark Side Of The Moon. Both really got me hooked. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Bodins/?chartstyle=DarkSide5Big"> 
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Posted By: calvin
Date Posted: January 01 2006 at 12:43
| Dream Theater - Images and Words |
Posted By: Guzzman
Date Posted: January 01 2006 at 13:03
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If I recall correctly it was "Rock Theatre" by Genesis
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Posted By: Rael72
Date Posted: January 01 2006 at 14:02
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All the way through? It'd be CTTE, probably.
------------- My grip must be flipping Cos his handshake keeps slipping My hopes keep on dipping And his lips keep on smiling all the time |
Posted By: tardis
Date Posted: January 01 2006 at 14:06
| I can't be absolutely sure, but it may have been Rick Wakeman's Journey To The Center Of The Earth (on vinyl). |
Posted By: Zac M
Date Posted: January 01 2006 at 14:10
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Echoes-The Best of Pink Floyd was my first prog album, even though it's a compilation. My first real prog ALBUM was Saucerful of Secrets, if I remember correctly... ------------- "Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression." -Merleau-Ponty |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: January 01 2006 at 14:16
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Wish You Were Here. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa" rel="nofollow - Release Polls Listened to: 
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Posted By: Nixoleon
Date Posted: January 01 2006 at 15:29
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Genesis- Foxtrot, but back then I was just a Genesis fan and didn't get into Prog as a genre until a few years later.
Better late than never... |
Posted By: fcoulter
Date Posted: January 01 2006 at 15:38
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http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_BAND.asp?band_id=94 - EMERSON LAKE AND PALMER 's http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=1862 - Emerson Lake and Palmer , on vinyl. This undoubtedly dates me a great deal. It was also the first rock album I remember listening to. My mother listened to Dionne Warwick, and I vaguely remember hearing Knock Three Times, by TONY ORLANDO AND DAWN when I was younger. But this is the first album I really remember. (I think we got it because my Dad, a concert pianist, had heard of Keith from his child prodigy days.) ------------- Fredrik V Coulter 
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Posted By: HeirToRuin
Date Posted: January 01 2006 at 21:02
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I bought Fates Warning's No Exit when I was 14. I liked the cover
(note to avatar), and when I got home and put it in... \m/
------------- ARTEMIA - http://www.reverbnation.com/artemiamusic" rel="nofollow - http://www.reverbnation.com/artemiamusic L.i.E. - http://www.reverbnati |
Posted By: Rashikal
Date Posted: January 01 2006 at 22:03
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2112
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listen to Hella |
Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: January 01 2006 at 23:24
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for me it was Dream Theater - Scenes from a memory
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Posted By: fanloy
Date Posted: January 01 2006 at 23:25
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Pink Floyd ------> The Wall ------------- 
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Posted By: R_DeNIRO
Date Posted: January 01 2006 at 23:35
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Dream Theater - Falling Into Infinity ------------- We were always be much human than we whish to be. |
Posted By: MadCapLaughs
Date Posted: January 01 2006 at 23:39
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Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here ------------- yeah |
Posted By: sularetal
Date Posted: January 02 2006 at 06:20
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It would be Tool - Undertow or from the old stuff Camel - Moonmadness ------------- 
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Posted By: BackToBruijn
Date Posted: January 02 2006 at 06:37
As I can remember the first prog album I heard and conciously appreciating it is The Very Best of YesAllthough I must have heard large pieces of the Wall and other Pink Floyd songs earlier. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 02 2006 at 08:36
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I remember 3 prog album during my childhood that my parents burned up ELO - ELO2 Yes - The Yes Album Bo Hansson - The Lord of the Rings the first who knows.... but all 3 remain favorites of mine through 30 years of evolving musical tastes. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: TheLamb
Date Posted: January 02 2006 at 08:58
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Selling England By the Pound I wasn't really sure that it was called "Prog", but about 2 years ago I was a classical pianist that didn't listen much to popular music, only classical, I was given Selling as a birthday present, and I didn't like most of the album but I was impressed with Firth of Firth (Today is my favorite prog song under 10 minutes). The intro, flute, and the harmonies of the parts with vocals (with the pipe organ sound...) sortof reminded me of classical so I liked it.
In the following year I got more into mainstream rock and hard rock, which was a bit boring but sortof opened my mind more towards progressive rock, and then I listened intensivly to Selling England which I already owned, baught A Change of Seasons by DT after listening to Scenes from a Memory at my friends house but they didn't have it at the CD shop so I got A Change of Seasons, then Foxtrot, then Close to the Edge, and then I started to become very into prog. I still love classical, but I always listen to prog before I go on stage..., helps me concentrate ------------- 
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Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: January 02 2006 at 09:08
| Genesis Live - I was shocked by the story of the girl on the underground. I was hoping for something heavier, because I was very into AC/DC, Motorhead and Hawkwind at the time... years later, after acquiring Trespass and Nursery Cryme, it grew on me - but it's still low on my list of favourite Live albums. |
Posted By: Alagithil
Date Posted: January 02 2006 at 09:49
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FRAGILE by Yes. An amazing intro with lots of depth and great songs, but it's not my favorite now. ------------- Life is like an avantgarde play because tuna. |
Posted By: avestin
Date Posted: January 02 2006 at 10:11
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When I was a 6 y.o. I remember my Father and older brother always putting on the vynil Pink Floyd albums - Wish you were here, Meddle and Animals. Those 3 albums sank in and I liked them eventually and I asked my brother to play them for me from time to time (he didn't trust me to not scratch them, rightfully so). So those were my first. Can't say which was the first really, although I remeber really loving Wish you were here and later on I was really hooked by Echoes and Dogs. ------------- http://hangingsounds.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - Hanging Sounds http://www.progarchives.com/ProgRockShopping.asp" rel="nofollow - PA Index of prog music vendors |
Posted By: White Duck
Date Posted: January 02 2006 at 10:39
| Pink Floyd-Wish you were here |
Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: January 02 2006 at 10:47
The same situation as Ed_The_Desd had!!!Mine was Tool's Lateralus too,& I'm still not quite sure that it's prog 
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Posted By: Octamarium
Date Posted: January 02 2006 at 10:52
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Awake...dream theater ------------- Look in the mirror...my friend! |
Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: January 08 2006 at 07:47
| Fragile - Yes |
Posted By: horza
Date Posted: January 08 2006 at 08:00
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YOU tell ME
It was either 'Magicians Birthday' by Uriah Heep or 'A Trick of the Tail' by Genesis I was'nt aware that Heep were prog back then  ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: rushaholic
Date Posted: January 08 2006 at 08:02
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I think it was Rush - 2112 but I also heard Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother right around the same time. I was hooked! |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: January 08 2006 at 10:14
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In order of what I remember:
------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Bart
Date Posted: January 08 2006 at 10:29
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So do I :) It sounded very odd to me and it's strange I didn't give up with Pink Floyd and whole prog music! Next came KC " In the Court...", Yes "Tales from..." and others - but I was prepared for this great music then :) PS. Hello everybody, I'm new guy from Poland here. This is my debut :) ------------- Saw you sitting on a sunbeam in the middle of my daydream |
Atkingani wrote:Posted By: W.Chuck
Date Posted: January 08 2006 at 10:31
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Pink Floyd - Division Bell
and if some think this is no prog album then : Symphony X - Live on the Edge of Forever ------------- 
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Posted By: Winter Wine
Date Posted: January 08 2006 at 10:42
Hello bart ------------- My computer's broke |
Posted By: GPFR
Date Posted: January 08 2006 at 10:44
Thats a bit creepy, same here. About everything. ------------- www.myspace.com/hail_peter 
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Posted By: Octamarium
Date Posted: January 08 2006 at 11:19
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PF...Dark side of the moon.....and I didn't like it then Yes...Drama.....and I didn't like it then Dream theater.....Awake......and I completely fell in love with it! Now I also like Dark side....but I continue to hate Drama! ------------- Look in the mirror...my friend! |
Posted By: Rising Force
Date Posted: January 09 2006 at 14:55
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Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime (I didn't even know it was prog) Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (I didn't know it was prog either) Yes - Relayer (now THIS is definetly prog) |
Posted By: xjester
Date Posted: January 09 2006 at 17:18
| PF-Dark Side |
Posted By: Thufir Hawat
Date Posted: January 09 2006 at 17:28
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My first prog album was “Classic Yes”, but the first real prog album I listened to was “Journey to the Center of the Earth” by Rick Wakeman. ------------- "I can't see through my eye lids" |
Posted By: Space Chief
Date Posted: January 09 2006 at 17:39
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"Dark Side", "WYWH", and "Fragile". ------------- 
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Posted By: ghostdogg
Date Posted: January 10 2006 at 21:43
| Going for the One by Yes |
Posted By: Billymac
Date Posted: January 10 2006 at 22:46
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School Holidays 1974 I heard the following three albums (from the collection of a friends older brother) Tales From Topographic Oceans - Yes. Selling England by the Pound - Genesis DarkSide of the Moon - Pink Floyd What a start to my teenage years! 
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: January 10 2006 at 23:04
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"Nursery Cryme" or "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway", one of the two. I remember I loved "Carpet Crawlers". I was about 6 at that time. My brother, who is 10 years older than I am, listened to them.
-------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: January 10 2006 at 23:45
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: January 10 2006 at 23:56
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Yes - Fragile -------------  |
Posted By: Figglesnout
Date Posted: January 10 2006 at 23:58
dark side of the moon for me...but i guess i'm the only one here that still loves it ------------- I'm a reasonable man, get off my case |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: January 11 2006 at 00:29
ahem   -------------
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Posted By: Transona
Date Posted: January 11 2006 at 00:53
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Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence I finally gave in and decided to see what the fuss was about them. After I listened to it, I wonder what took me so long. |
Posted By: Emiaj
Date Posted: January 11 2006 at 01:20
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the first prog album was Yessongs...I was just 6 yrs old but can recall playing Seen all good people & And you and I a lot until my sister's boyfriend took it to his house afraid that I'd scratch his imported gem or draw football figures all over Dean's artwork
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Posted By: Awaaan
Date Posted: January 11 2006 at 01:44
| My mom listened to Peter Gabriel when i was younger. That was my first contact with prog. But the first prog album i bought myself was Opeth - Blackwater Park i think. |
Posted By: Harold Dupont
Date Posted: January 11 2006 at 01:58
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I know it ain't original, but Pink Floyd were the first for me two. There was a 2 for 30$ sale on Floyd's albums, so I bought Dark side and Wish you were Here that time. I don't have to tell you that this investissment was one of the greatest in all my life
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Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: January 11 2006 at 02:22
It was Dark side of the moon, before that i lisened to KoRn, Limp bizkit, Rage against the machine and ather great stuff  . The smallest thing i can say is that DSOTM opened up a new musical world to me, it is hands down the most important album ever for me, and still too this day one of my all time favorites, perhaps becaus it was the first realy great album i ever heard i dont know. ------------- 
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Posted By: XTChuck
Date Posted: January 11 2006 at 08:58
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"We're Only In It For The Money" by the Mothers of Invention
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Posted By: prog4life
Date Posted: January 11 2006 at 09:15
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ELP - Trilogy Long time ago! |
Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: January 11 2006 at 09:43
| Not sure if I'd call it prog, but its listed on this site - Rick Wakeman's "King Arthur". But for me the first real prog album I heard was Close to the Edge! |
Posted By: mrdurganator
Date Posted: January 11 2006 at 17:34
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can't remember exactly, but i remember being scared of 'aqualung's title track when my dad played it when i was about 6. not sure why though! ------------- is there anybody out there? |
Posted By: Phil K
Date Posted: January 11 2006 at 17:47
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It was The Nice - The Nice. Still an album better than any of the ELP albums too. It was half live (New York - Filmore-something-or-other I think) and half studio. Then I went onto Genesis/Van Der Graaf/Egg Couldn't tell you which came next. The cheapie 99p Decca sampler, Wowie Zowie came 2nd, I recall now. |
Posted By: FordPrefect
Date Posted: January 12 2006 at 20:52
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Hi everybody! I'm new fellow to this forum from Finland! First whole album of prog that I bought and then heard was 'Fragile' by Yes and that happened about 20 years ago... not bad a starting point!?
------------- Don't panic |
Posted By: Mongo
Date Posted: January 12 2006 at 21:26
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Days of Future Passed First one I bought myself, Welcome Back my friends... I was 11
------------- "The options are ever fewer on the ground these days" Fish |
Posted By: Pylo
Date Posted: January 14 2006 at 08:58
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This one I think !
------------- Pylo |
Posted By: pogoowner
Date Posted: January 14 2006 at 09:38
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Leftoverture - Kansas ------------- And it might as well be raining, 'cause the sunlight hurts his eyes, And his ears will never hear the children's cries |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: January 14 2006 at 09:38
^ so basically you entered prog through fake-prog! 
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Posted By: Legoman
Date Posted: January 14 2006 at 13:09
| Pink Floyd's The Wall, though I know I heard lots of bits from Darkside of the Moon and Aqualung far before I heard The Wall in it's entirety. |
Posted By: ahvilela
Date Posted: January 14 2006 at 17:48
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"Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd", I know but a I dont remember, but "Close to the Edge - Yes" was the second and I remember when! ------------- What happened to this song we once knew so well,We must have waited all our lives for this moment |
Posted By: akin
Date Posted: January 14 2006 at 21:50
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Probably something progressive from the Beatles (Abbey Road? White Album?). Of course someone will argue that Beatles are not progressive, but their last albums are for sure more progressive than lots of bands here. The first album that I knew it was progressive rock: one live Hawkwind´s album (they have dozens of them). |
Posted By: razifa
Date Posted: January 15 2006 at 01:09
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The first one I listened was "Gutter Ballet" by "Savatage" ------------- ********** **razifa** ********** |
but the one who made fall in love with progressive was "Carved in Stone" by "Shadow Gallery", a real legend for prog metal lovers...
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: January 15 2006 at 01:13
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Posted By: martinprog77
Date Posted: January 15 2006 at 01:39
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my first album was 'queen II ' but the one that change my life is ''selling ingland by the pound'' |
Posted By: Rael is Real
Date Posted: January 15 2006 at 02:06
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It wasn't an Album, or a song...It was a show ! My father was working at the Montreal Olympic Stadium and he brought me and my brother to see Pink Floyd, Animals tour in 1977. I was 10...Man...A giant Pink Pig.. Surround sound effects at the beginning of the show... Freaks smoking pot all around...People throwing toilet paper rolls and cheering at beach balls...Planes flying over the stadium...Waters screaming at a guy who lit a firecracker during pigs on the wing (an episode that deeply influenced Waters for The Wall -rock star relationship with his fans- and brought us the song Another brick in the Wall) All these people vibrating to the same trip... My destiny was written right then...
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Posted By: OLAK!
Date Posted: January 15 2006 at 23:12
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I forgot but it was either wish you were here by pink floyd, lateralus
by tool or if one considers it to be prog - absolution by muse (i know
most people don't consider it prog but it was the band i started with,
and the one that led me on to discover progressive music)
------------- When will you come convulsing to my basement? |
Posted By: Yanns
Date Posted: January 15 2006 at 23:16
| Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery |
Posted By: ken4musiq
Date Posted: January 16 2006 at 00:47
| The first prog album I ever owned was Dark Side of the Moon. I don't know how I obtained this album. It was just in my collection one day. I think one of my sisters friends must have brought it over and left it. My Dad must have mistakenly put it in with my records. I rarely listened to it as it was scratched up. It was so prominent on the radio that you didn't really need to buy the album. I always wanted to get one of those half speed mastered version that were big in the 1970s. When you went to buy an audiophile system, they would play the half speed version to show off the system. I didn't buy a new copy until it came out on CD. It was one of my first CD buys but it was not remastered. |
Posted By: paradigm
Date Posted: January 16 2006 at 12:37
| Emerson, Lake & Palmer-ELP |
Posted By: Marc Baum
Date Posted: January 16 2006 at 12:45
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<--- Just look on the avatar ------------- "All you need to do is sit back, and acquire the taste." - GENTLE GIANT |
Posted By: Chris_Kemp
Date Posted: January 16 2006 at 12:46
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The Beatles - Revolver ------------- "That's not your face...it's mine! IT'S MINE!! |
Posted By: Ishmael
Date Posted: January 16 2006 at 13:37
| Peter Gabriel-Secret World Live, I was raised on it. |
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: January 16 2006 at 14:26
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Focus- Moving Waves a masterpiece! ------------- |
Posted By: Fragile
Date Posted: January 16 2006 at 19:54
| ELP's first eponymous album with the earth shattering ' Knife edge' and the truly awesome 'Take a Pebble' This was swiftly followed by the album that changed my life from a very young heavy rocker into another ;the magnificent 'Yes Album' |
Posted By: troy
Date Posted: January 16 2006 at 20:08
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Yes- Fragile ------------- SUNSET IS AN ANGEL WEEPING HOLDING OUT A BLOODY SWORD NO MATTER HOW I SQUINT I CANNOT MAKE OUT WHAT IT IS POINTING TOWARD |