First song you heard of your favourite bands
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Topic: First song you heard of your favourite bands
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Subject: First song you heard of your favourite bands
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 07:17
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Reading the thread about the Dixie Dregs I remembered that I got into them by downloading one single song form audiogalaxy.com (the website is long gone ... must have been 5 years ago). Do you remember any "key songs" you downloaded or heard on the radio etc. that got you interested in a band which you now call one of your favourites? For Me:
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Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 07:23
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rush - Tom Sawyer, Subdivisions, Limelight, Closer to the Heart.
heard on the radio all in one set of music and got me hooked ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 07:25
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Rush - Bastille Day (All The World's A Stage)
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond Yes - Roundabout |
Posted By: Frasse
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 07:57
Probably Invisible Touch or We Can't Dance.
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 08:02
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^ those were the first Genesis songs you ever heard? Well, I admit that it's the same for me. It was I Can't Dance - I saw the video on MTV. I kind of liked it, but I really liked Jesus He Knows Me.
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Posted By: Zitro
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 08:09
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Genesis: Firth of Fifth
Yes: Heart of the Sunrise
The Flower Kings - Big Puzzle
Led Zeppelin - I grew up with it when little, but Achilles Last Stand made me a huge fan and made me listen to their whole discography
Pink Floyd - Same with Zeppeling, but the album Wish You Were Here made me a huge fan
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Posted By: Eat_Paris
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 08:13
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Pull Me Under - DT afterwards.... i got infected with prog virus until now... ------------- "love prog .. simply because its beautiful" .. and lindsay lohan =P~ |
Posted By: blazno
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 08:22
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Rush - 2112 Collosseum - The Kettle JT - Aqualung ------------- 
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Posted By: eugene
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 08:28
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Recent but brilliant example:
Here on PA I heard a song called "The Odessa Steps Sequence" by French TV. It got me curious immediately, and now French TV is one of my favourite bands. I have already 4 studio albums of theirs, their live CD is on the way, and I am planning to acquire all their discography eventually. ------------- carefulwiththataxe |
Posted By: Gravity Eyelids
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 08:30
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Porcupine Tree - Blackest Eyes
Marillion - The Invisible Man
Anathema - Release
Rush - Tom Sawyer
The only ones I can remember at the moment. ------------- Into this wild Abyss the fiend Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while, Pondering his Voyage. |
Posted By: Bastille Dude
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 08:34
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Genesis- Watcher of the skies Rush- Spirit of radio, Although I didn't know it was Rush until MP came out, I just thought it was a cool song with a women singing. ------------- DEATH TO FALSE PROG! |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 08:45
ELP - Hoedown (Radio 1 in 1976 -DLT show )
IQ - First heard them on a radio one session broadcast on the Friday Rock show about 1985.Probably heard 'Widows peak' first.
Muse - Hysteria (first heard them on radio one again and thought they were a louder and more rocked up version of Radiohead!
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Posted By: Chus
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 09:34
Genesis: Jesus, He Knows Me  (I heard it in a movie)
Jethro Tull: To Cry You A Song (not bad) 
King Crimson: Epitaph Yes: Owner Of A Lonely Heart (no kidding) ------------- Jesus Gabriel |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 10:00
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Supertramp - School (from one of my dad's tapes)
Jean-Michel Jarre - Zoolook (heard it first at my cousins place)
Genesis - Wacher of The Skies (my old music teacher at school introduced me to'em with this song)
Gentle Giant - The Runaway (same)
Meshuggah - Future Breed Machine (downloaded)
Dream Theater - The Mirror (downloaded from PA)
Symphony X - Church of the Machine (same) ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Scapler
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 10:05
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Kansas-Wayward Son It's on the radio all the time, it was bound to be their first song I heard! ------------- Bassists are deadly 
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Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 10:06
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Rush-- Test For Echo
Deam Theater-- Pull Me Under
Symphony X-- Inferno
The Cure-- Boys Dont Cry
Anathema-- Fragile Dreams
Megadeth-- Symphony of Destruction
Pantera-- Cemetery Gates
Metallica-- One ------------- 
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Posted By: TeniGray
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 10:39
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LTE-Acid Rain Dream Theater-Learning To Live (it was amazing when i heard it..., tis the best song of DT) Bill Evans Trio-Autumn Leaves(itsn't prog, but...Bill Evans tis a genius) Porcupine Tree-Shallow Anglagard-Vandringar I Vilsenhet ... ------------- ...tomorrow will be different... |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 10:45
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Dream theater - Instrumedley (From the Hudson Music Sampler DVD) Megadeth - Symphony Of Destruction (From a hard rock cd i got a few years back) Jethro Tull - Bungle In The Jungle (sample on PA) Gong - Oily Way (sample from PA) |
Posted By: Tholomyes
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 10:52
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Frank Zappa - Willie The Pimp King Crimson - The ConstruKction of Light Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall Gentle Giant - The Advent Of Panurge The Mars Volta - Inertiatic ESP
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Posted By: Mr Krinkle
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 11:01
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King Crimson: Epitaph
Emerson Lake and Palmer: Eruption Yes: Yours is no disgrace Genesis: Watcher of the Skies ------------- "...I like the way the music goes...there's a few good guys who can play it right..." |
Posted By: Mategra
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 11:04
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GENESIS - "The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging" (early in 1975)
AMON DÜÜL II - "Da Guadeloop" (spring of '75)
KING CRIMSON - "21st Century Schizoid Man" (autumn of '76)
I heard them on the radio. And just because of the presenter who said something like "here comes something odd and special", I turned my tape recorder on.
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Posted By: Mr Krinkle
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 11:07
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I didn't read the first message, sorry. None of the above tracks was downloaded. All original.
First downloads: Gentle Giant: In a glass house Van der Graaf Generator: Killer Magma: Riah Sahiltaahk ------------- "...I like the way the music goes...there's a few good guys who can play it right..." |
Posted By: BePinkTheater
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 11:15
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Gentle Giant: Knots
Yes: Roundabout
Dream Theater: Beyond this Life
Genesis: Supper's REady
Sigur Ros- Untitled Track one (vaka)
Godspped You! Black Emporer: Moya
Porcupine Tree: Blackest Eyes
Mahavishnu Orcestra: Dance of The Maya
King Crimson: Lizard ------------- I can strangle a canary in a tin can and it would be really original, but that wouldn't save it from sounding like utter sh*t. -Stone Beard |
Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 11:18
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I heard Cage, Red and Epitaph by King Crimson on a sampler for the Discipline label. There's a short Frippy soundscape and a RFSQ track on there too. Cage is otherwise only available on the Vrooom EP so I suppose I got lucky. |
Posted By: ozzy_tom
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 11:24
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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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Posted By: TerLJack
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 11:28
| "The Musical Box" A friend played it for me. |
Posted By: Evans
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 11:43
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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. :) |
Posted By: scaife
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 12:02
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Genesis - "Down And Out" from ATTWT (album purchase)
ELP - "Hoedown" from Best Of (album purchase)
Yes - "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" from 90125 (radio)
Dream Theater - "Pull Me Under" from Images And Words (Album purchase)
King Crimson - "Elephant Talk" from Discipline (music video)
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Posted By: Eric the Red
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 12:27
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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.
Yes-Close to the Edge-(fall of 1976) My reaction: The introductory synthesizer and the guitar, bass blast from Steve Howe and Chris Squire completely blew my mind. I was only 15 at the time and up until that moment the most progressive thing at had heard was Boston's "More than a Feeling".
Captain Beefheart-Ash Tray Heart-(1981 while a student in college)-The atonal, wild and angular approach to arranging and playing music was something I was only beginning to start to appreciate after hearing King Crimson the year before. And this was before I got "Trout Mask Replica". Man, get me a cup of coffee or something!
Frank Zappa-Titties and Beer-(1982 while a student in college)-My reaction was snobbish given the ribald nature of the lyrics. To this day I don't like the song. This set me back several years and I did not give Frank Zappa a serious listen as an artist until several years after I heard another favorite band of mine, Henry Cow, and discovered that Zappa, among others, was an enormous musical influence on their style of playing and composing. After that, I explored his remaining catalogue and now I own every one of his albums. I guess that means I am a Zappa fan now.
Fred Frith-"Kick the Can" from the album "Speechless"-(1982 while a student in College)-Before I bought and listened to this album I read a review of it in "Musician" magazine that was done side by side with Robert Fripp's "Let the Power Fall". Being a Robert Fripp and King Crimson fan by this time I was compelled to find out more about this Frith fellow. I bought "Speechless" my local underground record store. Again, it was like nothing I had heard before and in hindsight I can see the enormous similarity with with Captain Beefheart's work. This experience led me to abtain more of Frith's work and Henry Cow's music. IMHO Fred Frith is the most unique and original guitarist I have ever heard in any genre. His music ranges from epics composed with in Henry Cow, to improvised work and songs that are anything by ordinary. ------------- mentally sharp dullard |
Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 12:36
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(Sorry, not much time, so I'll only consider the first of my favourite bands)
SOUND CHASER! Howzat? 
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Posted By: Bravo
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 12:39
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Pink Floyd - Money
Yes - Close to the Edge
Santana - Samba Pa Ti
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
The Mars Volta - Vicarious Atonement
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Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 13:53
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Muse: Sing for Absolution (streamed on this site) Taal: Coornibus (streamed on this site) Mew: Saviours of Jazz Ballet (sent to me by a friend) Van der Graaf Generator: Refugees (streamed on this site) Gentle Giant: Giant (downloaded the album) King Crimson: 21st Century Schizoid Man (downloaded the album) Rush: Something for Nothing (listened to on a friend's iPod) |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 14:18
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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?" ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: Frasse
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 14:35
Pop-era Genesis was at their peak in popularity while I was a small kid back in the late 80s/early 90s...
...as was Phil Collins, I first believed that Pop-era Genesis just was him solo. It wasn't until later that I heard of Genesis. The song that got me hooked on them was Duke's Travel.
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MikeEnRegalia wrote:Posted By: An old fart
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 14:43
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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. ------------- "Make tea, not love" |
Posted By: Ne_Plus_Ultra
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 15:33
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King Crimson - Epitaph Dream Theater - Pull Me Under Rush - Red Barchetta Porcupine Tree - Blackest Eyes The Mars Volta - Roulette Dares (This Is The Haunt of) Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (heard it in its entirety) Riverside - The Same River Tool - The Grudge Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness |
Posted By: Sublimación
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 15:42
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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 ------------- 
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Posted By: Rosescar
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 16:45
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King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man, but the song that really did it for me was Epitaph Hatfield And The North - Lounging There Trying Focus - Hocus Pocus Frank Zappa - Jewish Princess... maybe. Actually, no, Son Of Mr. Green Genes played by my piano teacher Camel - Lady Fantasy ------------- http://www.soundclick.com/rosescar/ - My music! "THE AUDIENCE WERE generally drugged. (In Holland, always)." - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: Matteo
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 16:49
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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 |
Posted By: bsurmano
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 16:56
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Pink Floyd - See Emily Play
Colosseum - Elegy
Jethro Tull - With You There To Help Me
Genesis - The Musical Box
King Crimson - Epitaph
------------- 'Sundown,yellow moon, I replay the past I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast..... Either I'm too sensitive or else I'm gettin' soft.' Bob Dylan |
Posted By: FirstUtterance
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 17:43
| Rush - The spirit of radio |
Posted By: Fassbinder
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 19:23
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I joined this site being already a convinced Prog liker, and there are very few bands which I may count among my favourites (an expanded circle) discovered via samples of PA.
Therefore the only example I have is "The Crystal Ship" -- I heard it on the TV (not on the radio) and have fallen in love with The Doors.
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Posted By: Scott
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 19:40
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By Rush: Tom Sawyer...now I'm an addict. They rule! |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 20:39
Genesis - First song on Shapes, whatever it is... From real Genesis, it was Watcher of The Skies. Dream Theater - Regression TMV - Son et Lumiere Led Zeppelin - Battle Of Evermore Jethro Tull - With You There To Help Me Pink Floyd - Breathe ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: The Green Tank
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 20:56
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I was listening to internet radio and heard Roundabout by Yes. From then on i knew that this was a band I'd have to look into.
The next Yes song I heard was And You And I, and I knew this was a band I'd listen to my whole life. ------------- 
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Posted By: stupid_dreamer
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 21:05
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Porcupine Tree - Open Car (Downloaded from Ares) Pearl Jam - Do The Evolution (Music Video in the TV) Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life (Music Video on TV) |
Posted By: oracus
Date Posted: December 16 2006 at 23:40
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Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - Io Vivo
When i first heard it reminds me (of course) Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring and i fell in love immediately. Before that i was looking in google for "classical and rock or jazz and rock or rock with classical influences" (poor me) but not results there. Now, i can tell that i found my true passion :D ------------- 
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: December 17 2006 at 07:12
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Genesis - Dance on a volcano
Rush - Spirit of Radio (from Exit Stage Left) ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: December 17 2006 at 07:23
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Genesis - Dancing With the Moonilt Knight
Peter Gabriel - Red Rain
Harmonium - Vert
Pain of Salvation - Used
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Posted By: 1800iareyay
Date Posted: December 17 2006 at 18:50
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Yes- Roundabout
ELP- Tocatta
King Crimson- 21st Century Schizoid Man
Dream Theater- Metropolis Part I
Pain of Salvation- Ashes
Marillion- Assasing
Genesis- We Can't Dance (thankfully I later heard Supper's Ready or else I'd never listen to them)
Metallica- Enter Sandman
Iron Maiden- Run to the Hills
Spock's Beard- The Great Nothing
Queensryche- Queen of the Reich
Symphony X- Of Sins and Shadows
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Posted By: Dieu
Date Posted: December 17 2006 at 19:12
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I sneaked up in my older brother room the listen to some of is lp records and singles, 33 & 45 rpm.
Pink Floyd - Another brick in the wall part 2 Peter Gabriel - Games without frontiers Frank Zappa - you were what you is and later, I saw the video of Tom Waits - goin'out west, and I got hook... |
Posted By: Voyage_34
Date Posted: December 18 2006 at 14:23
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Dream Theater - can't remember the first song I heard because it took a long time of kinda half arsedly listening to train of thought for me to actually get it, but first I remember appreciating was stream of consciousness, stood on a bus near my house about to get off, when it just kinda clicked and I was in love. Then the following morning, this dying soul clicked with me walking home from a friend's house at 8am in the rain... and the rest just went from there. Porcupine Tree - first I heard I think was probably shesmovedon or arriving somewhere. Someone sent me a few tracks online, but I didn't get into them that much because I was kinda avoiding thinking about the person and p tree reminded me of them. But the first I remember appreciating was live signify from coma divine, with that funky 6/4 bit near the end which isn't on the album version. dredg - I first heard jamais vu apparently, but I don't remember thinking anything of it or even listening to it. I just know it was on my received files way after I got into them from getting catch without arms. The first song that I got into by them was sang real, it's still my favourite song of all time, you know that moment when something clicks within you and you feel a real affinity with a song? Well it hit me, and I listened to nothing but for about 2 or 3 days straight, first thing in the morning, on mp3 player throughout the day, going to sleep at night. and yeah the rest of dredg kinda fell into place after that. Muse - first song I heard was space dementia down the phone with a friend telling me it had piano and was amazing. Bought OOS on a whim, and first song I got into was microcuts, I hadn't heard anything like bellamy's vocals on that song ever I don't think and it really amazed me. I only consider maybe 5/6 bands to be absolute favourite bands on mine... but it's been over a year since a band has made a lasting and huge impression on me. So I'm just waiting around wondering when it's gona happen again cos you can't force it. ------------- Ok what's next? After the sex? |
Posted By: Heff
Date Posted: December 18 2006 at 17:28
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Blackest Eyes
Paranoid Android (The song that is responsible for me getting into prog)
Ghost of Perdition (I thought it was terrible at first)
Pull Me Under (Didn't like this one either)
Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
Close to the Edge
The Spirit of Radio
Stinkfist
Pantagruel's Nativity
Killer
Apocalypse Please
Star Alfur (When I saw The Life Aquatic... the scene almost made me cry and a large part of that was due to the song)
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Posted By: martinn
Date Posted: December 18 2006 at 17:42
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Yes - Yours is no Disgrace Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker Gentle Giant - Knots Rush - Tom Sawyer Genesis - Watcher of the Skies ------------- 
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Posted By: philhepple
Date Posted: December 18 2006 at 18:32
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King Crimson 21st Century Schizoid Man ELP The Barbarian Genesis Visions Of Angels Ambrosia Nice Nice Very Nice |
Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: December 18 2006 at 18:48
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Tool - Schism Dream Theater - Glass Prison Frank Zappa - Willie The Pimp Yes - Roundabout King Crimson - 21st DeadSoul Tribe - Why? Pain of Salvation - Beyond the Pale |
Posted By: Camelfan
Date Posted: December 18 2006 at 22:01
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Camel - Rhayader (actually it might not be the first I heard, but its the first I sat up and listened to) Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart or I've Seen All Good People, not sure which King Crimson - Exiles Genesis - The Knife Pink Floyd - Brain Damage Gryphon - Lament Gentle Giant - Prologue Caravan - Surprise, Surprise Focus - Hocus Pocus Eloy - Castle in the Air |
Posted By: progadicto
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 04:36
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I became a Prog fan thanx to my dear friend Mauro who gave a cassette wirh a compilation made by himself... It was 1987... In that cassette I heard for first time: -UK: Alaska, In the Dead of Night (from UK Live) -Yes: Cinema (from 90125) -An excrept from Klaus Schulze's Timewind -Mike Oldfield: The Lake (from Discovery) -Gong: You Can Kill Me (from Gong Live Etc) -Deep Purple: Stormbringer -And some others that I can't remember The next week I was buying ANYTHING that I found in stores about these and other bands that Mauro mentioned me... Of course that I'd heard some songs from bands like Floyd, Kansas, Zep... but to listen these cassette really change my life and my way to listen music... Unforgettable moment indeed... ------------- ... E N E L B U N K E R... |
Posted By: A B Negative
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 06:20
My cousin played me Hemispheres by Rush, and Master of the Universe from In Search of Space by Hawkwind. It was 1980 and they're still two of my favourite tracks.  ------------- "The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time." |
Posted By: prog4evr
Date Posted: December 29 2006 at 23:48
Heard Yes 'Roundabout' (from Fragile) on FM radio stations KMET 94.7 and KLOS 95.5 (in southern CA area) for the first time when I was a teenager back then. Heard Yes 'And You and I' on the Mighty MET and KWST 105.5 in the same area in the same timeframe. Heard Kansas tunes from self-titled on KWST, tunes from 'Leftoverture' on KMET and KLOS. Heard Jethro Tull (various tunes from 1971-1977 period) on all three of those stations in my early- and mid-teen years. FYI, KMET is defunct now (now it is a new-age jazz station), KLOS is an 'oldies' rock station (play very little prog - old or new), and KWST is also defunct - I think I heard it is now a Spanish-language mariachi channel! |
Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: December 30 2006 at 00:14
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Well when I went to see Yes in 2002, guess who was the opening act? None other than your friend and mine, Mr. Steve Wilson! I barely understood a word he said during his whole set, but I heard "band called Porcupine Tree" and, well, it's all history from there. ------------- Beauty will save the world. 
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Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: December 30 2006 at 00:26
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Radiohead - High & Dry (radio i think)
Yes - I've Seen All Good People (Mr. Deeds Soundtrack) Dream Theater - Never Enough (friend sent it cause I'm a Muse fan )
Porcupine Tree - Blackest Eyes (musicchoice on the TV, the name caught my attention and when I heard about them again, I remembered the song, Blackest eyes) King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man (XM Radio  )
The Mars Volta - Inertiatic ESP (saw it on Subterranean on MTV2, heard of "the band that formed out of ATDI) Sigur Ros - Untitled 1 (friend told me about them) -------------  <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Posted By: magnus
Date Posted: December 30 2006 at 11:07
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Dream Theater - propably one of the songs from SFOM(Dance of Eternity or The Spirit Carries On, can't remember which I heard first), discovered it through my brother when I was in 6th grade(more than six years ago!) Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick! This was EXACTLY what I was searching for when I got interested in 70's prog! it was epic, beautiful, cryptic, mind-boggling and exciting! I listened to it several times a day, every day, for weeks! Ark - Heal The Waters - Unfortunately, at the time when I first heard this song, I didn't realize how incredible this band actually was... and now, the fact that this band will NEVER get together again is tearing me apart. Circus Maximus - Sin was the first song I heard; my brother had put their CD in our car's CD player, and I just pushed play... after listening to this song and a few others, I felt a strong need to kick my self since I missed a golden opportunity to experience this very talented band with great potential live! I sincerely hope they're coming to Bodø when their next album is finished! :edit: Nearly forgot Tool! The first song I heard was The Grudge, since Lateralus was the first Tool album I acquired. Listened through it a couple of times at first, and by now I really love it(same with Ænima and I'm beginning to get into 10,000 days as well!)! ------------- The scattered jigsaw of my redemption laid out before my eyes Each piece as amorphous as the other - Each piece in its lack of shape a lie 
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Posted By: king_pin
Date Posted: January 01 2007 at 12:40
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Dream Theater - the Dance of Eternity, and i was completely blown awy, that's for sure! Pain of Salvation - Used, Ashes, Nauticus pt.1 - i was amazed! Metallica - Until it Sleeps, 2X4 - and that's probably the reason why i like the old AND the new Metallica ------------- nou... mag ik het niet nog een keertje overdoen? |
Posted By: willy
Date Posted: January 01 2007 at 13:11
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Well I cant guarantee its the first song I head by each group, but rather the first I ever noticed/took note of. Rush: Subdivisions (its still one of my favorites too) Yes: Roundabout (pretty much the only Yes song on the radio round these parts) Genesis: Misunderstanding (heard it on the radio) Pink Floyd : Time (again heard it on the radio) Dream Theater: A change of season ELP: Karn Evil 9, 1st impression part 2 (radio, again) ------------- 
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Posted By: Jeremy Bender
Date Posted: January 01 2007 at 13:13
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ELP : Jerusalem
Yes: Roundabout
King Crimson: Discipline
Pink Floyd: Atom Heart Mother
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Posted By: darksinger
Date Posted: January 01 2007 at 13:17
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monster magnet: spacelord hawkwind: lord of light or brainstorm emperor: although it was the prometheus album i first heard, the song that hooked me was "decrystallizing reason" hagalaz' runedance: when the trees were silenced ------------- 
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Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: January 01 2007 at 20:07
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I don't really remember the first songs I heard by bands, but I do remember the first song I relaly got into and enjoyed. Yes: Heart of the Sunrise Gentle Giant: Proclamation Genesis: Supper's Ready Mike Oldfield: Hergest Ridge Part One King Crimson: Red Rush: YYZ ELP: Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression Part 2 |
Posted By: giantenemycrab
Date Posted: January 02 2007 at 00:13
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Dream Theater- A Change of Seasons Pink Floyd- Money (When I heard it, I hated it. But then I later heard Us and Them, and couldn't get enough of it.. Loved them ever since, though I still don't like Money) Yes- Owner of a Broken Heart(didn't think it was that good, which it isn't, but then later heard other songs and liked them) King Crimson- Red Ayreon- Day Nine- Playground Fates Warning- Life in Still Water Iron Maiden- Two Minutes to Midnight (I know their not exactly prog) Wow, that brought up some memories.. |
Posted By: Freak
Date Posted: January 02 2007 at 12:04
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Genesis - "Watcher Of The Skies", Foxtrot (Dad's CD)
Marillion - "Warm Wet Circles", Clutching At Straws (Dad's CD)
Pink Floyd - "Shine On Your Crazy Diamond", Wish You Were Here (Dad's CD)
Supertramp - "School", Crime Of The Century (Friend's CD)
Sigur Rós - "Staralfur", Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou ------------- 
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Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: January 02 2007 at 12:20
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Yes - Rounabout
Pink Floyd - Money
VdGG - White Hammer
King Crimson - 21st century scizoid man
Genesis - Dancing with the moonlitknight
ELP - Karn evil 9
Tool - The grudge
Monster Magnet - Space lord
Mike oldfield - Tubullar bells part 1
Rolling stones - Satisfaction(cant get no)
Beatles - Love me do
The who - baba orily
The smiths - The is a light that never goes out
Bob dylan - Like a rolling stone
Black sabbath - Iron man
Megadeth - Hangar 18
Metallica - the unforgive II
The doors - Break on through(to the otherside)
And so on and on and on.. and.. Led Zeppelin - Stairway to heaven.. omfg o rly?  ------------- 
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Posted By: sheeves
Date Posted: January 02 2007 at 15:26
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Genesis- firth of fifth
Marillion- Script Pink Floyd- Happiest days of our lives/ Another Brick in the wall pt. 2 King Crimson- 21st century schizoid man Beatles- elanor rigby |
Posted By: Scarlet
Date Posted: January 02 2007 at 17:18
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KANSAS Carry On Wayward Son (Radio)
MANFRED MANNS EARTH BAND Blinded By The Light (Radio)
PORCUPINE TREE Waiting Phase One (Prog Archives)
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Posted By: Drekavac
Date Posted: January 02 2007 at 22:33
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Nektar - Countenance ELP - Tarkus King Crimson - In The Court of The Crimson King Can - Paperhouse Amon Duul II - Between The Eyes (Beat Club version) Yes - Heart Of The Sunrise Hawkwind - Silver Machine Incredible String Band - All Writ Down Van Der Graaf Generator - Man-Erg DOM - Introius Omega - Don't Keep Me Waiting Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express Gentle Giant - Giant Six Organs Of Admittance - Assyrian Blood Epitaph - Early Morning |
Posted By: rainbow111
Date Posted: January 08 2007 at 13:23
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Reniassance-Northern Lights
Blackmore's Night-Fires ar Midnight
Deep Purple-Smoke on the Water
Jethro Tull-Song for Jeffrey ------------- It's got to be slow Taking love the only way It's got to just flow Making love and taking time to let it grow |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: January 08 2007 at 13:36
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King Crimson - Red
Gentle Giant - Knots
ELP - The Barbarian
Dream Theater - The Glass Prison
Pink Floyd - entire DSotM album, so i guess Breathe...
YES - Long Distance Runaround
Phish - You Enjoy Myself
Frank Zappa - Peaches En Regalia
Return To Forever - Medieval Overture
Camel - Squigley Fair
Gensis - Firth of Fifth
Herbie Hancock - Palm Grease ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm 
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Posted By: paolo.beenees
Date Posted: May 15 2007 at 13:55
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Look what a good thread way back in the files! So...
Popol Vuh - Aguirre (as sountrack to the beautiful Werner Herzog's film)
Le Orme - Los Angeles (it didn't impress me that much. Luckily I insisted and bought Felona & Sorona)
Tangerine Dream - Ricochet Part 1
Amon Duul II - Eye Shaking King
Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart (of course... I was 10 then!)
Alan Parsons Project - Mammagamma
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Paolo Pa (you'll imagine how much I hated that song...)
The Trip - Caronte
Kraftwerk - The Robots
New Trolls - Una Miniera
Can - Mushroom
Kraan - Sarahs Ritt durch den Schwarzwald ------------- 
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Posted By: StyLaZyn
Date Posted: May 15 2007 at 14:14
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Wow...jogging the memory banks...
Genesis - Squonk
Rush - The Spirit of Radio
Dream Theater - Pull Me Under
Porcupine Tree - borrowed Lightbulb Sun so the whole CD
Vanden Plas - Into The Sun
I need to think some more.
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 15 2007 at 14:48
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The Classics:
Pink Floyd ~ Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast ... A school friend played it to me and I wasn't impressed, then he put Echoes on... Hooked.
The Enid ~ In The Region of the Summer Stars ... I really wanted to hear this band, but could not afford the LP, so bought The Lovers single instead, flipped it over to the b-side... Hooked.
Yes ~ Roundabout ... I'd never heard any Yes, but saw this EP cheap... Hooked.
Le Orme ~ In Between (from Felona & Sorona) ... right from the first track... Hooked
Amon Duul ~ Phallus Dei ... It was a budget price album (49p I think), a whim-buy. Hooked.
Gong ~ Radio Gnome Prediction ... (from Camembert Electrique) see above. Hooked.
Tangerine Dream ~ unknown ... Jimmy Saville had them as his studio band (I kid you not!) when his Speakeasy radio show did a special broadcast from Berlin. Hooked.
Frank Zappa ~ something from 200 Motels... when I was 13 & hated it with a passion. Years later heard Joe's Garage. Hooked.
The modern stuff:
Marillillillion ~ Garden Party ... Saw it on TotP and loved the "I'm Miming" bit. Hooked.
Dream Theater ~ The Big Medley... Bought A Change of Seasons for this, (that happens when you are a Floyd nut), and didn't like it much. Had to wait until Metropolis pt2: Scenes from a Memory... Hooked.
Porcupine Tree ~ Lightbulb Sun ... I had No Man's Flowermouth and thought it pretty cool, but never followed up on any of Steve Wilson's other stuff. On a whim, bought Lightbulb Sun and thought it okay, not great, but by the time I got to Russia On Ice... Hooked.
Pain Of Salvation ~ Ashes... Heard this first on 12:5. Hooked.
Riverside ~ After ... an Amazon recomendation - one of the few that proved to be spot-on. Hooked. ------------- What? |
Posted By: sean
Date Posted: May 15 2007 at 15:10
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Dream Theater-Pull Me Under Rush-The Spirit of Radio King Crimson-21st Century Schizoid Man Ayreon-Loser |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: May 15 2007 at 17:11
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Some of my faves I can remember: Magma - Hortz fur Dehn Stekehn West (hated it, though) Can - Pinch VdGG - Killer Heldon - Bolero Comus - Song to Comus BMS - Non me Rompete High Tide - Futilist's Lament Cos- Perhaps Next Record/Viva Bomba King Crimson - 21st Century Shizoid Man Tangerine Dream - Stratosphere Genesis - Musical Box ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: May 15 2007 at 17:12
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Just remembered: Genesis was with Mama. ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: Speesh
Date Posted: May 15 2007 at 18:01
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Yes - Siberian Khatru Caravan - Golf Girl Frank Zappa - Little Umbrellas Porcupine Tree - Blackest Eyes These songs all pretty much blew my mind when I first heard them. |
Posted By: patomtz
Date Posted: May 15 2007 at 21:30
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Dream Theater - Metorpolis (1999?) ------------- I still can't get how Dream Theater music is created by humans Dream Theater in Monterrey, Mexico 03.03.06 Unforgettable 
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Posted By: patomtz
Date Posted: May 15 2007 at 21:31
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Opeth - ghost of perdition
Pain of salvation (in the flesh
symnphony x - the odyssey
shadow gallery - legacy ------------- I still can't get how Dream Theater music is created by humans Dream Theater in Monterrey, Mexico 03.03.06 Unforgettable
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Posted By: Atomic_Rooster
Date Posted: May 15 2007 at 21:35
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GG - Experience VdGG - Man-erg (thought it was ok) Magma - Da Zeuhl Wortz Mekanik (thought it was really weird) Captain Beefheart - Electricity (loved it immediately) KC - Schizoid Man ELP - Hoedown ------------- I am but a servant of the mighty Fripp, the sound of whose loins shall forever be upon the tongues of his followers. |
Posted By: debrewguy
Date Posted: May 15 2007 at 22:03
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Interview by Gentle Giant, Highway to Hell by AC/DC, Let There Be Rock by Drive By Truckers, Cruel to be Kind by Nick Lowe, Calling Occupants by Klaatu, In The Mood by Rush. but it goes without saying that the memory may not be right
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Posted By: darksideof
Date Posted: May 16 2007 at 00:47
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Topic: How old were you when got into prog?
I wrote this on the topy and I wanted to share it again on this one. becuase I am talking about my first experience with Prog. 
I was 13 almost 14 years old when I discovered progressive music. I remember when my dear uncle brought some Maxell tapes into the house. He went into his bedroom; actually it was all the men in the house bedroom. We were very poor and we had to share beds. So anyway the first tapes I remembered listening was YES: Drama, Rush some compilation from moving pictures to hermpherues. Pink Floyd: animals Genesis: Second out and them they were three and Kansas: Two for the show. At that time as a kid I was into what was current beside carabeam music because that where I am from. I was into Michael Jackson and that 80's stuff. I vividly remember listing those tapes it was like religious experiences. It brings tears to my eyes just to remember the great joy and unbelieble satisfaction that this music brought into my life. I never was the same kid ever again. Scene that day I can’t live without listening to progressive music. I even got a couple of kid form the neighbor into these prog-bands whao. Seriously From that day on I never stopped listening to prog Years later I stared building a rich and varieties collection of progressive and Jazz, Fusion. I first it was so weird at first especially pink Floyd animals and some genesis songs. I loved Rush since the first time I heard them as well as Kansas. Floyd and Genesis had to grow on us for awhile. ------------- http://darksideofcollages.blogspot.com/ http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Darksideof-Collages/ |
Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: May 16 2007 at 01:35
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King Crimson - 21st Century Schzoid Man - [Summer of 1969]
Yes - Roundabout
Jethro Tull - Living in the Past
Emerson Lake and Palmer - Tarkus - all these about 1970/71 period.
More recently:
Spocks Beard - Gibberish (downloaded from Amazon.com)
Glass Hammer - One King (downloaded from Amazon.com)
Porcupine Tree - The Sound of Muzac.
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Posted By: andu
Date Posted: May 16 2007 at 01:43
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I can't really remember. I've listened to many songs from prog bands that are now favourites of mine, but I couldn't appreciate or even like them because I didn't know about prog, so I couldn't have sharp experiences and therefore accurate memories. Prog-awareness has changed my listening experience now. ------------- "PA's own GI Joe!" 
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Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: May 16 2007 at 01:48
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Rush - Bastille Day VdGG - Lemmings King Crimson - Red Pink Floyd - Money Mars Volta - Vicarious Atonement Camel - Aristillus Caravan - Golf Girl Soft Machine - Facelift Jethro Tull - Living in the Past Hectic Watermelon - 21st Century Visigoth Egg - While Growing My Hair |
Posted By: prog4evr
Date Posted: May 19 2007 at 20:07
Me too - that's how I got into Kansas in the mid-1970s. After that, I heard 'Roundabout' and 'And You and I' on the Mighty Met, KMET 94.7 FM (defunct as of the mid-1980s in the metro-LA area) and got into Yes. Had friends introduce me to ELP, and loved everything by them from self-titled to BSS. Other prog bands were introduced to me by others - and so on, and so on...
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Posted By: -Radioswim-
Date Posted: May 20 2007 at 00:04
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First Genesis song I ever heard (of their prog era) was Suppers Ready
First Dream Theater song I ever heard was 6:00
First Camel song I ever heard was First Light First Yes song was ofcourse Roundabout First Porcupine Tree song was Blackest Eyes First Pink Floyd song was Money First Rush song ever was YYX First Radiohead song was Let Down First IQ song was The Wake (which I imediately fell in love with) thank god for Prog. |
Posted By: Dim
Date Posted: May 20 2007 at 00:54
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Siberian Khatru
As I am
Fear of a black planet (the song)
Musical box
Aqualung
Vicarious ------------- 
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Posted By: Castlevania
Date Posted: May 20 2007 at 12:24
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Frank Zappa - Zomby Woof (in a friend's car, I was like "what the hell are we listening too?!")
Gentle Giant - Way Of Life (me and some friends were waiting overnight for JT tickets and one guy had a tape deck, with In A Glass House playing!) Genesis - Dancing Out With The Moonlit Night (same place as GG) Henry Cow - War (listening booth) Yes - The Gates Of Delirium (a buddy's father recommended that I check out Yes, I found Relayer for five bucks, so it was my first. Mind blown!) |
Posted By: ClassicRocker
Date Posted: May 20 2007 at 15:29
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Yes - I've Seen All Good People
Supertramp - Bloody Well Right
Frank Zappa - Peaches En Regalia ------------- 
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Posted By: Sunhillow_
Date Posted: May 20 2007 at 17:37
| Machine Messiah started the whole crazy YES mania in my life . Used to listen to poppy 80's music circa 1985. Then this 3 part suit came to my ears. Boy, that was the moment of change. |
Posted By: asimplemistake
Date Posted: May 20 2007 at 17:42
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Opeth - Closure -- I didn't like it at all when I first heard it, first song of theirs I liked was "Beneath the Mire" Porcupine Tree - The Sound of Muzak -- That was a good start  Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy -- Loved it A lot of the time the first songs I hear of bands are songs here on PA, with a few exceptions. I do like the sound samples here, but I sometimes find that I may like one song but I don't like the rest from a band, or vice versa. |
Posted By: Floydian42
Date Posted: May 20 2007 at 18:07
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Genesis- Fly on a Windshield Pink Floyd - Another brick in the Wall Part 2. PT- Deadwing (title track) Opeth- Windowpane King Crimson- Elephant Talk |
Posted By: The Bard
Date Posted: May 20 2007 at 20:03
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Led Zeppelin - listening to IV as a child was cool but i wasn't hooked till I got there first album and listened to Dazed and Confused Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon. I always listen to the whole album, its more of a masterpiece that way. The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute. Another whole album masterpiece that completely won me over to make them my favorite band. ------------- Let the music be your master. |