Yeah, fun thread: (very early) 80s kid here as well. It took a few minutes to bring back the memories but I'm pretty sure these are all correct.
Drama
Duke
The Wall
Works 1
A
Starless & Bible Black (Discipline wasn't out yet...)
Yeah, fun thread: (very early) 80s kid here as well. It took a few minutes to bring back the memories but I'm pretty sure these are all correct.
Drama
Duke
The Wall
Works 1
A
Starless & Bible Black (Discipline wasn't out yet...)
Hard to remember exactly, but here's what I think...
Pink Floyd: Dark Side
Genesis: Trick of the Tail
Yes: Tormato and Yessongs simultaneously
Tull: Aqualung
ELP: Works Volume II
King Crimson: Red
Bill
Pink Floyd...................Wish You Were Here. (Not a huge fan so not a huge following by me)
Genesis.......................Foxtrot (Went back and got Nursery Cryme)
Yes ............................Fragile ( Took me longer than some of my friends to get on the bandwagon)
Tull.............................Benefit (My friends turned me onto Tull when Benefit came out)
ELP.............................ELP ( Heard "Lucky Man" on the radio a lot)
King Crimson...............Court of ( One of those desert island discs)
Octopus
CTTE
SEBTP
Aqualung
BSS
no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone
The Wall
Genesis Live
Yessongs
Aqualung
Welcome Back, My Friends...
LTIA (on a crappy cheap cassette tape where either I couldn't hear the quiet parts or the loud parts blew out my speakers...)
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
Yes- 90125 (followed by classic Yes)
Genesis- same (someone gave it to me as a gift but I didn't play it much and didn't realize they were a prog band until a bit later)
Jethro Tull-Aqualung (I believe but I'm not sure when I got it or first heard it)
Pink Floyd-the final cut (I bought it on vinyl soon after it came out)
King Crimson- Islands (crappy choice for first album I know)
ELP-debut
Last edited by Digital_Man; 09-25-2016 at 04:45 PM.
[This will totally show I was a teen in the 80s...]
Stay strong brother. I feel your pain. Lol. Seriously though it was a weird time to be getting into prog for the first time wasn't it?
If I stick with the list in the OP, it would look like this,Can we agree that the big 6 are the groups you state in your first post? Otherwise this will get crazy fast.
Pink Floyd - N/A (never owned a PF album)
Genesis - Foxtrot
YES - Fragile
KC - ItCoCK
ELP - Trilogy
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
But, since my "big 6" does not include Pink Floyd (never a fan), I will substitute Gentle Giant.
And although I am a JT fan, they would not quite make my "big 6" either. I will substitute PFM.
GG - Octopus
Genesis - Foxtrot
YES - Fragile
KC - ItCoCK
ELP - Trilogy
PFM - Storia di un minuto
And if there were a god, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence - Russell
One of these selections is not like the others...Originally Posted by battema
DSOTM
Fragile
APP
The Best of ELP
Red
Tresspass
True story...I knew about Yes and ELP first, and then got into Asia (beyond what I'd heard on the radio). Got the 'Live in Moscow' album and thought the 'Starless' track that Wetton sang sounded soooo cool and stuff. So, I found a cutout copy of SABB in a cutout bin at Tape World and bought it *assuming* that the title track was the same song. I honestly had no clue what the F*CK I was hearingOne of these selections is not like the others...
Took several years and slightly better ears before I revisted Crimson with THRAK and then worked backwards from there. Ironically enough, today SABB is among my favorites from them.
If you're actually reading this then chances are you already have my last album but if NOT and you're curious:
https://battema.bandcamp.com/
Also, Ephemeral Sun: it's a thing and we like making things that might be your thing: https://ephemeralsun.bandcamp.com
The Wall
Tormato
Aqualung
Trilogy
LTIA
ATTTWT - all around 1979/80
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Genesis: Invisible Touch
Yes: 90125
King Crimson: n/a
Jethro Tull: n/a
Emerson Lake & Palmer: n/a
Wow, I posted this thread, went to bed, went to work, got home and we're on page 3. The 'big six' never fail.
Thanks for all the responses so far. Yeah, I should have put this in OT to begin with.
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off
Piper
Nursery Cryme
Time and a Word
This Was
ELP
In the Wake of Poseidon
Early seventies as a teenager, so rather difficult to remember the exact order.
A couple of them are easy:
Tull - none...
Genesis Live - only one I've got
As for the rest, I think these were the first ones:
KC- In the Court (or Earthbound?)
Yes - Yessongs
Floyd - A Nice Pair (the first two as a double)
ELF - Pictures at an Exhibition (or the first?)
Animals
Foxtrot
Yessongs
SFTW
Works 1
ITCOTCK
Trilogy
War Child
Dark Side
Fragile
Duke
ITCOTCK
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A gentleman is defined as someone who knows how to play the accordion, and doesn't.
Meddle
Octopus
Fragile
Aqualung
ELP
ITCOTCK
I think the subtext is rapidly becoming text.
I like how some people replace one of the six with Gentle Giant.
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off
Going For the One
Animals
USA
Welcome Back My Friends...
Aqualung.
All bought in my teens, in the late 70's, early 80's.
.......
Long gap until the 1990's: Selling England....
"And this is the chorus.....or perhaps it's a bridge...."
That reminds me that my first Crimson album was A Young Person's Guide. Bought it on tape and it was a regular rotation with my Dodge Dart (with mag wheels - lol).True story...I knew about Yes and ELP first, and then got into Asia (beyond what I'd heard on the radio). Got the 'Live in Moscow' album and thought the 'Starless' track that Wetton sang sounded soooo cool and stuff. So, I found a cutout copy of SABB in a cutout bin at Tape World and bought it *assuming* that the title track was the same song. I honestly had no clue what the F*CK I was hearing
Took several years and slightly better ears before I revisted Crimson with THRAK and then worked backwards from there. Ironically enough, today SABB is among my favorites from them.
Octopus the Syd Barrett song?
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Tales From Topographic Oceans
Larks' Tongues In Aspic
Brain Salad Surgery
Thick As A Brick
Animals
(What do I win?)
The Prog Corner
You win an award for the best albums to start with. They are all stone cold classics.
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
Bookmarks