In the Prog Seat: The First 5 Prog Albums We Bought
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- Join Pete Pardo, Rick LaBonte, Chuck Alvarez, Rand Kelly, and special guest Niamh the Prog Nerd as they discuss the first 5 prog albums they ever purchased.
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Thanks for having me back on the show, I had a great time talking with you all 😁
HMV are still trading Niamh, been in today and bought a couple of CDs.
Hi Niamh. Just having another go at asking if you have listened to IQ? The Wake, Ever, Subterranea and the Road of Bones best listens. I think most of them are available on vinyl. Cheers. Mike.
Your always good Niamh
@@johnhenfrey5936 yeah, and as I posted above they are planing to open 70 more stores due to the popularity of vinyl!
Genesis And then there were three is a brilliant album, you'll love it, was my introduction into the band.
Thank you all for watching and commenting on our show this evening.
Hey Rand, do you play a Strat? If you’re using a different guitar with a different scale length that will change the nodal points and could be the reason why you can’t get that particular note to feed back properly. Even if it is a Strat though, every piece of wood has specific frequencies that it likes to resonate at which could affect it as well. Just some thoughts…anyway great show and thanks for your cool stories and general input on all these episodes!
@@erikberg5363 When I tried it I was playing a Gibson SG.
@@shyshift Yeah that will have a different scale length (the vibrating length of the string from nut to saddle) than the Strat. Most Gibsons use a 24.75” scale length while Fenders are usually 25.5”. I believe Terry mainly used Fenders.
Thanks Rand, love listening to your great stories & suggestions. These are great videos
Hi Rand. Great show. Love Magical Mystery tour and Pictures at an Exhibition is from classical Russian composer Mussorgsky.
Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition - Wikipedia
Being a bit older, my first were King Crimson, Court of the Crimson King, Jethro Tull Aqualung, Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother, ELP first album and Yes, The Yes Album. 1969 1970 were amazing years.
The beauty of this episode, It's All About Discovery. Nobody cared about labels or genres it was just pure music that appealed to you.
I remember in 8th grade A friend brought in Yes' Fragile, and we listened at lunch. I loved it, knew absolutely nothing about Prog
Love Fragile, was first Yes I heard, my dad's vinyl.
1. Yes - Fragile
2. Rush - Fly by Night
3. Kansas - Leftoverture
4. Rush - 2112
5. Rush - A Farewell to Kings
Pete great great show...love listening to Niamh tell her choices. This show made me very happy, but quite sad a the same time. Chuck explaining what happened to his king crimson album struck a chord. Like yourself, I used to have a huge collection of CD's and cassettes in my basement in NJ. It was years and years of collecting. Probably along the lines of 15,000+. Well about 10 years ago , we had this little hurricane that hit us here in NJ and in the middle of the night, I was awoken to my cat crying badly. I woke up and ran down my basement. My cat was on top of the bar about 12 feet and I realized that my basement was under 7 feet of water. Everything was destroyed there. Then it dawned on me. My entire lifelong music collection was decimated....nothing could be saved. I felt like I lost everything. I realized that it would cost $50,000+ to recover it all & I just never could afford it. To this day it still hurts so bad. However, thank u for the amazing shows. I am a music historian like yourself....just without the props. Much love to the entire sea of tranquility family.
So horrible, I feel for you! 😧
Thank you
Niamh!!!! Sea of Tranquility keeps getting better! All The Damn Time!!! 🤘😎
These are my first five that I've owned that one can consider prog...
1. Tool - Aenima (1996) (February 1997)
2. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (1973) (December 1997)
3. Dream Theater - Images and Words (1992) (January 1998)
4. Rush - 2112 (1976) (June 2000)
5. Rush - Moving Pictures (1981) (August 2000)
1. Yes - 90125
2. Genesis - Wind and Wuthering
3. Camel - Moonmadness
4. Renaissance - Tales of 1001 Nights vol 1
5. Gentle Giant - Free Hand
1. Pink Floyd- The Wall CD (September 2009)
2. Genesis- A Trick of the Tail CD (December 2009)
3. Yes- Fragile CD (June 2013)
4. ELP 1970 Debut LP (Record Store Day 2016)
5. King Crimson- In The Court of the Crimson King CD (April 2017)
This was a fantastic episode. Thanks to all contributors for their input and for sharing their early Prog music experiences. I would add “Days of Future Passed” (1967) by The Moody Blues.
Great choices,one and all.Being an ELO fan,since their first release (No Answer),I'd like to add "Eldorado" which is a fantastic album..Checkout Mr.Kingdom,Boy Blue,Laredo Tornado.Eldorado Overture ect..
The Moodys were so often overlooked. Sadly!
Yessongs was my first ever prog purchase in 1974. I shared a flat at college with two guys who had the classic Genesis, Yes, Pink Floyd ELP and The Nice albums so I did not buy them as listened to theirs. Then the following year when we moved on to other lodgings I started buying some of them myself...What heady days they were and buying the Likes of Wish You were Here on release..This followed hearing the great DJ Alan Freeman playing the whole thing on his Saturday afternoon radio show....A Wow moment!
It’s great to hear from people who are passionate about music. I rarely come across people who like the music that I do. I’m 60 years old and work with people that are in their 20’s. Shows like this allow me to be part of a music community that I can relate to. Thanks Pete
Chucks instant Music knowledge always blows me away..
All in 1981 i was 13, And a Week-end whit my older cousin i will never forget, he open a world of fantastic music !!
1- Pink floyd - The Wall
2- Genesis - Seconds out
3- Yes - Yessongs
4- Genesis - The Lamb
5- Harmonium - Si on avait besoin d'une cinquième saisons
Harmonium that the odd one out why that you had to b
Great show. Rand, loved your story from band class.
Thanks
Very nice episode. Going back to our beginnings, so to speak. Beautiful.
My approach here is to take the first albums I bought from the first five progressive rock bands I got into; if I go by first five albums, literally, they will all come from one band (and that wouldn't be nearly as interesting.)
So...
1st: Rush - Permanent Waves (It all started here, Spring of 2000. Bought several of their albums before moving on to explore the works of others.)
2nd: Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
3rd: Jethro Tull - Aqualung
4th: Yes - Fragile
5th: Genesis - Foxtrot
I bought Nos. 3 and 4 at the exact same time, but, technically, I listened to the former first, hence its position.
I have a distinct feeling that both Rush and Yes will appear on several lists; These two bands seem like perfect 'gateway' or 'entry' bands into the world of progressive rock.
I was a teen in the 70's, so my first progressive LPs were all from that era:
ELP "Brain Salad Surgery"
Yes "Close to the Edge"
Jethro Tull "War Child"
Kansas "Masque"
Genesis "A Trick of the Tail"
Even today, classic prog music reaches me like nothing else.
"Awaken" on Going for the One has maybe the best guitar riff I've ever heard
Yessongs was my first prog album purchase in ‘74.
Yes was the master of the genre imo. Next was Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory, Jethro Tull - Aqualung. Next Trilogy by ELP, then Relayer by Yes
My first album I bought with my own money was Brain Salad Surgery by ELP. I was 9 years old in 1974. I loved it then and I still do today.
I still have not heard 'Going for the One'. I only heard 'Pink Floyd - Animals' today for the first time (because of the 1977 episode). I still have all those Tull, Genesis, Kansas etc. albums to listen to. All good things to come when I have nothing else to but sit and listen to music.
Going for the One is a masterpiece.
David Cairns what are you waiting for? Going For The One is the same band that played on Tales From Topographic Oceans. And the last song Awaken is just as exciting as anything they have done.
@@jeffreycoy Going for the One is a masterpiece and my fav album of theirs. Relayer is next for me followed by Close to the Edge
As best as I can recall, the first five prog albums I purchased were: 1. King Crimson-In the Court of the Crimson King 2. Yes-Close to the Edge 3. Jethro Tull-Aqualung 4. Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon, and 5. Yes-Relayer
1) Vanilla Fudge - Debut
2) In a gada da vita - Iron Butterfly
3) Search Of The Lost Chord - Moody Blues
4) Darkside Of the Moon - Pink Floyd
5) Moving Waves - Focus
Kudos to Rand for the Chicago pick. I was in bands all through high school and college that did songs from the first 8 albums, it was a great way to build your chops!
Thanks
Born in 1955 so i was there when it was taking off! Plus seeing some of these guys live at this time.
I got them all in the early 70s in my teens, within a year, a few months or days after release. 1. King Crimson-In the Court Of (first prog album ever in 1970). 2- ELP-ELP. 3. Yes- The Yes Album. 4. ELP- Tarkus. 5. Yes- Fragile and HM, Genesis- Foxtrot.
1- the wall
2- dark side of the moon
3- selling England by the pound
4- hemispheres
5- in the court of crimson king
1. Welcome Back My Friends - ELP
2. Genesis Live
3. Close To The Edge - Yes
4. Foxtrot - Genesis
5. Starless And Bible Black - King Crimson
The first and last on the list were gifts. Nursery Cryme, The Yes Album and Stand Up - Jethro Tull were the next few I bought.
Great discussion. The Beatles were definitely the fountainhead for progressive rock. Bill Bruford said that there were two questions when you started a band in the late 60s - was it as good as the Beatles, and did you sound different to everyone else? The first five prog records I can remember buying are: Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield, Works Volume 1 - ELP, Going for the One - Yes, In The Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson, The Nice feat. America - The Nice.
Unsure if my first prog is prog but Abacab > Signals > Moving Pictures > Doubtful Genesis' self-titled counts > Grace Under Pressure > The Wall.
Abacab is prog, with some mainstream thrown in, along with the self-titled.
@@MRB16th Sounds good to me! A reaction guy just heard Supper's Ready and stated it's his 2nd fave (Close to the Edge 1st) song ever.
Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Yes - The Yes Album
Yes - Fragile
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
I’m nearly 70. I was buying these prog albums, even while I served in the Marines, when they were released. I was mostly drawn to the album art initially.
The Dark Side Of The Moon is my first prog album, I bought a copy in Italy in 1990, based on what I knew of Pink Floyd at the time, which was a concert I saw on TV a few years earlier. After that I got hooked on Rush for many years, but I don't recall the order of them all. I do recall getting A Farewell To Kings first of them. I was mesmerised by their music. The next not Rush album was King Crimson's first, after hearing the (kind of) title song on radio where they talked about how it had been 30 years since its release.
Great show. Great stories and guests. Brings me back to discovering so much great music for the first time
I bought all these on cassette in the mid-1980s.
1. The Moody Blues - Voices in the Sky (UK import version - blue cover with no drawing) - this was the gateway to them becoming my favorite band.
2. Rush - Moving Pictures
3. Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
4. Yes - Fragile
5. Jethro Tull - Original Masters
Around the same time period, I also acquired the first 2 Asia albums on a twofer cassette.
On LP, I bought the GTR album, a Best of ELP and the Emerson, Lake and Powell album.
Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon
Kansas- Kansas
Genesis- Live
Genesis- Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. Then I saw that tour two months later in Kansas City. Bought "Selling England by the Pound" three days later.
Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
First 5 I purchased : ( started in 1973 at the age of 10 )
- Yessongs
- Close To The Edge
- Rush 2112
- Genesis - Seconds Out
- Kansas Point of Know Return
#6 was Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd - Animals
Rush - 2112
Yes - Fragile
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
If you want to count fringe stuff the first prog albums I bought were
Deep Purple - In Rock
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Chicago - Greatest Hits
Hey Niamh...HMV are not only still going in the UK but are planing on opening another 70 shops! This due to the popularity of vinyl. I still go in and buy from them to keep the high street going.
Yes - The Yes Album
Genesis - A Trick of the Tail
Alan Parsons Project - I Robot
Yes - Fragile
Rush - All the World's a Stage
5. Duke - GENESIS
4. Stand Up - JETHRO TULL & Rage For Order - Queensryche
3. Signals & Caress Of Steel - RUSH
2. Hemispheres - RUSH & Gretchen Goes To Nebraska - KING'S X
1. 2112 - RUSH
1. Floyd, WYWH, DSOM
2. The Yes Album
3. Rush, 2112
4. Santana, Moonflower
5. Genesis, Lamb.
In no particular order, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (Genesis), Moonmadness (Camel), Brain Salad Surgery (ELP), Close to the Edge (Yes), Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd).
Great show and wonderful to see Niamh back In The Prog Seat. Thanks to all five for such a enjoyable show. Hard to remember my first five after all these years but sure that the first Emerson, Lake and Palmer album, In The Court of The Crimson King and The Yes album as very early purchases. Thanks again for sharing your memories and stories.
Easily one of the best episodes ever.
I am the same age as two of your guests. So the memories are a little hazy. It took a few years to get truly possessed with the Prog bug. But when I did, CDs were then available and so I was snapping up used vinyl left and right.
I had some exposure from my parents' record collection to a few things that were somewhat proggish, The Beatles Sgt Pepper, Iron Butterfly In-a-gadda-da-vida, Moody Blues Days of Future Past, but I would start my own prog collection around age 11 with...
1) Rush- Moving Pictures.
I heard a few tracks from this on FM radio and fell for them hard. From that day on I would be a livelong Rush fan, and a lifelong prog fan.
2) Pink Floyd-
A little tough to remember which album came first, but I think it was...
A Collection of Great Dance Songs
Followed very soon after by
Dark Side of the Moon.
I had of course heard their stuff on radio as well and distinctly remember The Wall being huge all throughout 1980. This album despite the name was a great "Best of" of their 70's work with an edited Shine On, Money and the one that just slayed me...Sheep. The vibe and mood on this as well as Shine On are so cool and the "Fell on his neck with a scream" section, and the triumphant closing guitar sequence is about as good as it gets!
2.5) This one is borderline prog and I forgot all about it until after coming up with the first five...
Supertramp- Paris.
This would be an early example of my love of live albums. I absolutely went nuts for the song "Take the Long Way Home". On the strength of that one song I heard on radio, I took a big chance on the only album I could find with it...an expensive double live album. Still one of the best live albums ever. These guys were not only flawless in recreating the studio songs live, like Genesis, they were even better live. They brought even more feeling, mood and atmosphere to the songs live than they did in the studio.
3) Jethro Tull- Thick As a Brick
I had heard Tull here and there, but when I found this old gem in my Dad's LP collection, I was by this point ready to appreciate more challenging music and this totally hit all my buttons. It was great folk, great rock, great prog, great comedy and a great story all wrapped up in one super long "song". The record wasn't in the best of shape, but my Dad had an original copy with the full fold out newspaper! Needless to say, I nicked it and never returned it!
4) Genesis- Seconds Out
By this point I'm pretty sure I had a few Yes albums, but I can't remember what first, probably Fragile and The Yes Album. Anyway, between Alex Lifeson, Steve Howe, and Ian Anderson, I was developing an interest in playing classical and acoustic guitar. A friend that was more seriously studying classical guitar suggested checking out Steve Hackett's pieces as well. And played me Seconds Out. This was my first intro into the classic prog Gabriel Genesis material. And I fell hook, line and sinker. Despite the absence of Gabriel, the mood and atmosphere on this live album was magical and the playing was unbelievable!
5) Frank Zappa- You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol #3
By this point I was working in a record store and we got a promo of this. Unfortunately, because of Frank's racy subject matter, I couldn't play all of it in store. Zappa was multi-dimentional and had so many sides and styles to his music. But there was a pretty good mix of stuff on this double CD and I immediately drawn by the beauty of Zoot Allures, the insane prog of Drowning Witch, the amazing solo stretches of King Kong, and a brilliant suite of songs from a very underrated album know as You Are What You Is featuring a very young Steve Vai and one of many killer bands featured on this album and the whole live series.
And yet another artist that usually came off better live than in the studio! Unfortunately I didn't discover Zappa until a year after his last tour and never got to see the man himself live
And there you have it. More or less my first five (one per artist) prog albums.
Rand's recollection of "The Record Store" was spot on...you took chances on album art, titles, the store's employees, etc. Never considered the ARP/Mellotron angle, though. :-)
There was "Progressive Rock" stations. 1972 is the 1st tine I heard the term. 1972 was the year we had a car with an FM Radio.
Progressive Rock was Hard Rock/AOR. The "hits" were on Top 40 AM Radio.
Thanks jazzpunk.
For me, everything changed in 1982. MTV. ASIA. No internet so I had to find out who these 4 guys were. The best way was to buy albums from their former bands. So…
1. Asia - Self titled
2. King Crimson - Red
3. ELP - Best of
4. ELP - Self titled
5. ELP - Trilogy
Yes - The Yes Album
ELP - Emerson Lake & Palmer
Focus - Moving Waves
Hawkwind - In Search of Space
Pink Floyd - Meddle
All bought in 1973 with my hard earned paper round money...
Camel, “Moonmadness” Rush “2112”, Strawbs “Hero’s and Heroine’s”, Yes “Yesterdays” and Floyd “Animals” come to mind for me as some of first prog listening experiences. I enjoyed the show!
I started listening to prog when I was 17, the first album that I was introduced to was “Hemispheres” by Rush. My first five progressive rock albums were:
1. Styx: The Grand Illusion
2. Rush: A Farewell To Kings
3. Rush: Moving Pictures
4. The Moody Blues: This Is The Moody Blues
5. Kansas: Point Of Know Return
Agree with both Rand and Niamh - Tarkus is awesome from top to bottom; Thoroughly enjoy both sides of the record. Greg Lake's vocals on The Only Way send chills down my spine. It's my favorite along with the title track from the album.
...And Then There Were Three is a great album; Transitional, but great.
Thanks Knight Vision I IX V. I have no clue why I sang a snippet of The Only Way a capella.
I got passed along vinyl by my late uncle when I was 6-8 years old in the early 90s. All influential prog stuff in no particular order:
- rush 2112
- rush hemispheres
- pink Floyd wish you were here
- yes fragile
- rush all the world's a stage
Very interesting stories. I can't remember everything about my way to prog, but I remember that my first album considered prog rock was the best of Saga. I did not know what prog was by that time. My uncle recommended them to me - and they were and still are e huge number here in Germany. That was about 20 years ago.
It's a challenge to remember my first five Prog Rock albums - and I'd agree with Niamh, it ought to be the first five I got with my own money. For an avid rock fan kid, the ultimate candy store experience was to make a trip up to Music Millenium in Portland and explore their goldmine of import records. The first three I can remember were an effort to get records that my friends and my brother were NOT getting. Portable Madness by Sensations Fix, Pollen by Pulsar, and a double disc collection of Gentle Giant music called "Giant Steps: The First Five Years" (so it sampled pieces through the Power and the Glory). Exciting! All my vinyl is long gone, and I miss those records! I guess I am still replacing my old vinyl and tape cassettes.
Nice to see Niahm back. Hope she gets a chance to speak this time. LOL
1. King Crimson - Starless and bible black.
2. Gong - Live at Sheffield.
3. Eloy - Silent cries and mighty echoes.
4. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of fire.
5. Yes - Fragile.
My father owned a bunch of Floyd cassettes so as a kid that was my first introduction. Later I borrowed The Yes Album, followed by Crimso's debut and ELP's self-titled from the public library. My first buy was Yes' 35th anniversary compilation, as a teen.
RAND! I’m here for you and all of it. Love this show and thanks to everyone involved. And Rand, I appreciate your insight, especially about the Beatles. And I appreciated your comments when I did my “Tomorrow Never Knows,” etc. request. Now I know why. I also was deeply changed by the Beatles ( “Revolver” and on) and I sought out the kinds of experiences that I heard on that vinyl.
You may have already done this, but I would love a show about “My First Concert” with this group. I was super lucky.
My very first concert was: The Beatles first US Tour. Atlantic City Convention Center. I think it was August 1964. I was quite young but was allowed to go with a group of friends. We could hardly hear the very short set but it was a great “first.” Thanks again. ✨🤪
I'm not sure what prog album I bought most recently, let alone decades ago. My goto for prog back them was my older brothers LP collection, and the Tommy Vance Friday Rock show and Alan Freeman Saturday Show on Radio 1.
First album I bought myself, I think, was ELOs A New World Record. Best guess after that: Camel Moonmadness; Rush A Farewell To Kings; Yes Going For The One; Supertramp Even In The Quietest Moments; Genesis Seconds Out.
@Sea of Tranquility Wow pete thats a trip because drama was the first one i purchased also but wasnt the first one i owned.First one i owned my older brother for Xmas of 1979 gave me three albums B.O.C some enchanted evening ,Cheap tricks first and the YES album.Never heard yes before.Played it and completely was blown away by the music.I was 10.
“Days of Future Passed” (1967) by The Moody Blues.
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"( 1967) by The Beatles
"Odessa" (1969) by Bee Gees
"Yessongs" (1973) by Yes, actually I went to see the tour in 1972
"Tales From Topographic Oceans" ( 1973) by Yes
"Kansas"(1975) by Kansas
In that period of time I was into Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Camel, but also the Beach Boys, Procul Harum
My Top5 Yes Fragile
Jethro Tull-Aqualung
Genesis-The Lamb lies down on broadway
Pink Floyd-The Wall
Pink Floyd-Wish you were here
Phil Collins In the air Tonight
Is Phil Collins prog? I know he was in Genesis and Brand X but I never heard his solo work mentioned as prog.
@@realobama1100 none. Every solo album is pop.
Ok
Pink Floyd - DDotM
Genesis - SEbtP
Yes - Fragile
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
Focus - Live at Rainbow
Elton John - Honky Chateau
My first ever progressive rock albums:
1. Camel - The Snow Goose
2. The Best of Jethro Tull: The Anniversary Collection
3. ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
4. Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
5. Caravan - For Girls That Grow Plump in The Night
First ever progressive metal albums:
1. Queensÿche - Operation Mindcrime
2. Dream Theater - Images and Words
3. Savatage - Streets: a Rock Opera
4. Fates Warning - No Exit
5. Conception - Paralell Minds
There was a BBC broadcast of Led Zep live in 1969 - playing mainly first album tracks - which had an interview section. In that interview, Robert mentions progressive blues bands like Zep, Tull and Ten Years After. In the UK music press of the early Seventies, 'progressive music' included Purple, Sabbath and all those...it was only in the Eighties 'prog' revival, that the term was applied to the sort of music we know now as prog.
My order of getting Prog Albums:
1. Atom Heart Mother - 93 or 94
2. DSOTM - 95
3. Nursery Crymes and Foxtrot - 2017
4. ITCOTCK- 2017
5. Moving Pictures and Selling England by the Pound - 2017
So the gap between the 90s and 2017 was because I didn't really know prog until 2017 and didn't realize Pink Floyd was prog, always thought of them as classic rock. Through YT I learned about prog rock and the associated bands in 2017.
My first prog albums was:
1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (Wish You Were Here and The Wall shortly thereafter)
2. Jethro Tull - Aqualung (and Stand Up right after that)
3. Kansas - Leftoverture
4. Rush - 2112
5. Camel - Mirage
And the first prog metal album I got was Operation: Mindcrime in 1988.
My first 5 came to me tragically when I was 12 and an uncle died very young in a car accident. My grandmother gave me his LPs, among which were:
Jethro Tull, Aqualung; Traffic, When the Eagle Flies; ELO, Face the Music; Return to Forever, No Mystery; Kraan, Let it Out; and Nektar, A Tab in the Ocean.
It took me a long while to get into the Chick Corea and Kraan, but the others were in pretty much constant rotation from the first time I played them. The Nektar was particularly mind-blowing, and I think I let side A play through about 10 times before I even bothered to flip it over.
Rand - The Chicago Theater radio broadcast from 1978 (bootleg is called "In the Mouth of the Monster" is a nice alternative to Seconds Out and includes a killer Eleventh Earl of Mar as the opening track. The sound quality is phenomenal and the band is on fire. Well worth seeking out if you haven't already heard it. Billy from Brooklyn, NY
My top 5 that I first purchased on vinyl was in the late 70s: Pink Floyd - The Wall, Genesis - Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Jethro Tull - Aqualung, Rush - Grace Under Pressure and Genesis - Trick of the Tail.
Yes Close too the Edge, Fragile...Pink Floyd Meddle, Darkside, Animals...Ill have too get that Dream Theatre Images ..Niamh spoke about...Pete Luvs Them ...I'll Try Images. ☺️ Exciting!!
By the way Pete, your TH-cam site is just fantastic.
Going by a strict definition of prog (the big 70's stuff), these were my first 5 purchases. I didn't realize succumb to prog until the mid-late 90's:
1) Classic Yes compilation
2) Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (not counting 80's Genesis)
3) Trick of the Tail
4) King Crimson - Red
5) Pink Floyd - Animals
It's hard to remember the first five. I can definitely remember the first one and the other four are educated guesses...
1 - "Leftoverture" by Kansas
2 - "Point of Know Return" by Kansas
3 - "Awake" by Dream Theater
4 - "Images and Words" by Dream Theater
5 - "2112" by Rush
Aqualung and Heavy Horses by Jethro Tull, Monolith by Kansas, Topographic Oceans and The Yes Album by Yes
1) A Passion Play - Tull
2) Kansas - Kansas
3) I Robot - Alan Parsons Project
4) Song for America - Kansas
5) Close to the Edge - Yes
I went to high school & college in Pittsburgh in the '70s (Pitt, graduating in 1980), so I was fortunate to be old enough to be in the thick of things. My first concert was Jethro Tull touring A Passion Play. I was totally hooked on prog, and started digging deeper into other prog bands. We had a radio station in the Burg, WYDD, which advertised itself as a progressive rock station. And they played what they advertised. I listened to it all the time, and had the opportunity to see a ton of prog bands live; I'm grateful for the opportunities I had.
And btw, I absolutely fell in love with Kansas, saw them on every tour and own every album. And always will!
RIP Robby...
First 5 proggers!
Jethro Tull Aqualung
February, 1972;
Yes Fragile, May 1972;
J Tull Thick as a Brick
June 1972;
Close to the edge February 1973;
J Tull Pasion Play
July, 1973
I only remember 2 that I bought when they first came out - Animals and Going for the One. A great show, thanks for having Niamh on!
Pete and Rick,
You might like to hear this, but my first rock concert was Rush during the “Roll The Bones” tour at the age of 30.
It's so awesome to see younger people carrying the torch forward!
Emerson Lake & Palmer--Pictures at an Exhibition in 1972, although I copied Tarkus to a reel to reel tape from a borrowed LP a few months earlier.
I am so glad The Yes Album made it in the list. Saw them at that time with Tony Kay. They became one of my top bands for ever.
1. Moody Blues: Days of Future Passed
2. King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King
3. Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Emerson, Lake & Palmer
4. Jethro Tull: Aqualung
5. Yes: Fragile
Hmm. (I’m including my older brother’s collection.) Tull - Thick As A Brick, Floyd - Dark Side, The Yes Album, Kansas - Leftoverture, Moody Blues - Caught Live Plus 5
Columbia House!! Yes. They never got money...did they?
1. Tormato - Yes
2. All The World's a Stage - Rush
3. 2112 - Rush
4. Close to the Edge - Yes
5. The Wall
I found Tormato in a bargain bin at about 11 years old and it was my beginning of my passion for Prog Rock.
I have a book somewhere that I used to write my album collection into in order of purchase. I'm sure my first few prog albums involved ELP & Focus, maybe Yes. A lot of those records shown I own and you've all inspired me to go back and rediscover them.
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Definitely my first prog album was The Yes Album. then coming in quick succession,
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
Journey To The Centre Of The Earth - Rick Wakeman
Close To The Edge - Yes
Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull
Lord Of The Rings - Bo Hansonn
The only time prog was played on radio in Detroit was late night on WRIF or on WDET the public radio station occasionally. I grew up in the Detroit area.
Rush - Test for echo
Dream theater - Images and words
Yes - Close to the edge
Spock's beard - The kindness of strangers
Genesis - Foxtrot
This was in 1997/1998, before that I only listened to Metal and since then my musical horizon expanded into many directions
ELP - Trilogy, 1974
ELP - Tarkus, 1974
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon, 1975
Yes - Close To The Edge, 1975
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery, 1976
What a first five albums - and the best material from those groups.
Jethro Tull was epic with us kids in the 70’s
im 61, i dont have the olds. I AM THE OLDS.so here we go as much as i can recall.
1. pink floyd dark side
2. uriah heep magicians birthday
3. yes yessongs
4. rush a farewell to kings
5. kraftwerk autobahn.
forgot " the olds " thick as a brick.
1 GentleGiant -Three Friends
2 Gentle Giant - Power and the Glory - both these I swapped for other albums with a school friend.
3 Mahavishnu Orchestra- Birds of Fire
4 Greenslade - Bedside Manners are extra
5 Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
I was fortunate to be around at the time these came out and was often led by reviews in Sounds and Melody Maker weekly publications. I was also a Paperboy and able to flick through the publications before posting through letterboxes!
Soft Machine 1 and 2, Frank Zappa Hot Rats and Burned Weeny Sandwich, Early Moody Blues and Steve Miller Band.
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My first album was Dark Side Of The Moon. Next In The Court Of The Crimson King. Curved Ir album Air Conditioning is amazing. Vivaldi so epic and it happened today,Propsitions,Rob One great music so groundbreaking for the time.
Prog is still a term which I sometimes know what is prog, and sometimes I think, is this prog?
Myself, if you consider the Moody Blues prog, my first buys would have been some of theirs - On The Threshold Of A Dream, To Our Children's Children's Children, In Search Of The Lost Chord, etc. Later on I bought Yes Fragile and Close To The Edge, Rush Fly By Night, Pink Floyd Meddle, and then came some Genesis - Selling England By The Pound and The Lamb Lies Down, and the debut Ambrosia album. Nektar is in there too, and ELP, and Triumvirate, and stuff like Tangerine Dream and Popul-Vuh.
1. Six Wives
2. Nursery Cryme
3. PFM Photos of Ghosts
4. Brain Salad Surgery
5. Topographic Oceans (on the day it came out.)
A cool uncle gave my 1st Prog album...Pictures At An Exhibition. On cassette. Had no idea what the Hell it was.
Next up, I bought Fragile. Never heard of Yes, the cover looked cool.
Then The Yes Album. Christmas 1972(?), Close To The Edge & ELP's debut.
Niamh gives me hope for future generations
1st 5 Prog albums I ever bought
Jethro Tull-Aqualung
Rush-Hemispheres
King Crimson-Red
Porcupine Tree-Fear of a Blank Planet
Mastodon-Crack the Skye