In the Wake of the Poseidon - my first prog album
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Topic: In the Wake of the Poseidon - my first prog album
Posted By: Icarium
Subject: In the Wake of the Poseidon - my first prog album
Date Posted: September 10 2012 at 17:50
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It is my first prog album and i love it, and it marked me as a prog fan my second is Fragile. so eh, you see the picture,. who other share this experience -------------  
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Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: September 10 2012 at 18:08
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I bought it soon after it came out, listened a few times and put it away for 30 years without ever getting the urge to play it. I gave it to a charity shop last year. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: September 10 2012 at 18:15
sad to har that  ,  , i hope the album is missing you 
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Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: September 10 2012 at 18:58
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My first album ever was Burn by Deep Purple, if you want to count that as Prog. Other early albums include Led Zeppelin IV, Yessongs, Songs From the Wood, Bursting Out, Going For the One, Brain Salad Surgery, Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, and Made In Japan, along with a host of more straight rockers like the Doobie Brothers and Aerosmith. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Eria Tarka
Date Posted: September 10 2012 at 19:05
In the Wake... was definitely in my first 10 prog albums .
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Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: September 10 2012 at 19:06
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My first prog albums were Fragile, ITCOTCK and Tubular Bells. First rock albums were Band on the Run and Dreamboat Annie ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: JS19
Date Posted: September 10 2012 at 19:08
I loathe it. Sorry  ------------- 
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Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: September 10 2012 at 19:18
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^ +1. Me: first rock albums were Magical Mystery Tour, DSOTM, WYWH, etc.. My first prog album: ... DSOTM, WYWH, etc. Floyd, basically. In the Wake? F%^k no, and thank goodness it wasn't.
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: September 10 2012 at 19:28
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Fragile was also my second prog album, but I didn't hear Wake for a long time after I started on prog. Even as far as KC goes I heard a lot of their other albums earlier than it. |
Posted By: hobocamp
Date Posted: September 10 2012 at 21:14
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I love Wake. But in all honesty, several tracks sound like a lot like tracks from Court.
Nothing wrong with that, eh? I consider Up to be my first prog album because it lead me back to Genesis and then others. |
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: September 10 2012 at 22:05
| I think if the album had been released by some obscure band it would have been rated differently. I think it's a very good album on its own right. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: September 11 2012 at 01:37
| I started with ELP then worked back to the albums that featured individual members and so naturally got Wake and Court as well. Court has the beautifull songs but Wake is a much harder more energtic album. Its closer to what I enjoy now while I havn't listened to Court in its entireity for about 10 years probably. |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: September 11 2012 at 02:02
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It was an early one. Probably among the 15 first. Got it a couple of weeks after buying their debut. Loved it. I do hear the similarities of Pictures of a City & 21st Century and the (beautiful) title track & Epitaph but it never got in the way of appreciating the songs or the album. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: September 11 2012 at 02:24
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Can't say it was. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: September 11 2012 at 03:38
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No. In fact, I had little interest for KC in my first prog years. ItCotCK has been in my collection since I was 19 or 20 and Islands since last year, and that's it. Nevertheless, In the Wake of Poseidon was a good start.
My first prog albums were Relics and DSotM (Pink Floyd) and CttE (Yes). ------------- 
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Posted By: Earthmover
Date Posted: September 11 2012 at 08:22
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Thank god no. It's the worst KC album. Still 3 stars.
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Posted By: frankbostick
Date Posted: September 11 2012 at 09:04
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My first prog album: ITWOP
My second prog album: ITCOCK
Year 1970
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Posted By: antonyus
Date Posted: September 11 2012 at 09:08
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My first prog album: dsotm
My second prog album: relayer
Year 1991
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: September 11 2012 at 09:56
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The first prog album I bought for my own collection (I listened to my dad's records too, and he had some prog), I think it was Pink Floyd's Meddle album. Not counting Floyd, it might be King Crimson's first album, which I remember my dad recommending to me while we were record shopping. "Hey, you'll probably like this if you like Pink Floyd". ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Theriver
Date Posted: September 11 2012 at 12:46
| My first one was Genesis Live. I loved the intro. |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: September 11 2012 at 13:50
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My first was ELP Trilogy. Before I was mainly into country-rock and blues. ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: September 11 2012 at 17:11
| Not my first prog album, but I love it. |
Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: September 11 2012 at 17:26
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Not my first, but one of the first I bought and heard after jumping on the prog wagon. My first was something by JT (can't remember which one 'cause I bought all their early ones pretty much at the same time), if Led Zeppelin's IV doesn't count that is. -------------  
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Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: September 11 2012 at 17:41
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I've slept since then......I have no clue what my first prog album was. In the Wake probably took me 25yrs to like it as much as I do, which is not saying much, but I still spin it probably 2x per month. -------------   
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Posted By: Eria Tarka
Date Posted: September 11 2012 at 19:19
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mister nobody wrote:Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: September 11 2012 at 19:52
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I think by first he means "favorite." In any case, it is by far my least favorite KC album I own (well, Thrak... no, still Poseidon.)
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Posted By: Wu Bi Shuai
Date Posted: September 11 2012 at 22:34
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My first albums were 2112, Emerson Lake & Palmer (s/t), and Dark Side of the Moon. I didn't hear In the Wake of Poseidon until after I had listed to ITCOTCK for about a year, so it didn't leave much of an impression on me. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: September 12 2012 at 02:46
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The Wall was my first prog album.
I only got into KC in the last five years or so. ITWOP, I can take or leave to be honest. Has some good moments. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: HarbouringTheSoul
Date Posted: September 12 2012 at 03:05
Good thing Wake wasn't my first prog album, I don't know if I would have ever gotten into the genre. Then again, maybe I would love it now.  The first prog album I heard must have been something by Frank Zappa when I was four or five. I distinctly remember hearing Hot Rats at that age. The first album I listened to with the awareness that it's prog was either Foxtrot or SEBTP. And the first one I bought was Fragile. |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: September 12 2012 at 03:35
Thanks! My first three LPs were ITWOP, Led Zep 3 and "Carry On" by CSNY! I think I was about 15. I didn't like ITWOP as much as ITCOTCK, but it has its moments! This is really quite nice, some fine Mellotron work & vocals by Lake: |
Posted By: JS19
Date Posted: September 12 2012 at 03:58
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Mine was Rush - Different Stages (Live) (With the entire live playing of 2112!) then Yes - Close To The Edge. I reckon I did all right... -------------
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Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: September 12 2012 at 15:06
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Nope, a recent purchase in fact. My first was Aqualung followed by a string of Dream theater albums to feed my then, new Prog addiction. Protest the Hero came after that, and I found I was listening to a lot of Prog Metal that year - 2009. I've only been into the 70's stuff for about 2 years.
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: September 12 2012 at 15:45
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[QUOTE=thellama73]I think by first he means "favorite." In any case, it is by far my least favorite KC album I own (well, Thrak... no, still Poseidon.)
[/QUOTE) no, by 1st mean the 1st i obtained, as a album of progressive music, my favourite is the Lamb, but my first prog album is I the Wake of the Poseidon, the 1st i spent my money on, and the first i listend to on my own in my room at the age of 18 -------------
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Posted By: Earthmover
Date Posted: September 12 2012 at 15:48
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The first real prog album was Atom Heart Mother (I'm not sure if I should consider Piper and ASoS really prog, they're more of psychedelic), but I didn't know it was prog. The really first prog album for me would be 2112. ------------- |