3 cds that got the ball rolling

[Metman]

Name 3 prog. Rock cds that you bought to start you off to Prog. Heaven: for Me:

Yes---Fragile
King Crimson--Court Of The Crimson King
Genesis--Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

 

[Leyth Mulla]

1. Moody Blues - Days Of Future Passed
2. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
3. Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail

 

[chrisg]

Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed

King Crimson - Court of the Crimson King

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - s/t

 

[DeepestPurple]

Dream Theater - Scenes From a Memory/Images & Words (forgot which I bought first)
King Crimson - Red
Rush - Fly By Night

 

[Neoman]

Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Yes - Close To the Edge
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

& the album that really "shot me into" prog heaven was Marillion's Misplaced Childhood (I flipped over this when it came out!)

 

[Rkbluez]

Emerson Lake & Palmer "s/t'
Yes "Fragile"
Jethro Tull "Aqualung"

 

[Magic Mountain]

Rush - A Farewell to Kings
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Yes - Relayer

 

[Mullmuzzler]

Dream Theater - Images and Words
Dream Theater - FII/Once in a Livetime
Liquid Tension Experiment 1 or Explorers Club

I do remember I started with I&W, FII/OiaLT...Then it blew with LTE and subsequent Magna Carta releases: Explorers Club, Shadow Gallery, Mullmuzzler, Leonardo The Absolute Man, LTE, Enchant, Lemur Voice, Bozzio Levin Stevens, Magellan, Rush Tribute Working Man.

 

[Sir Exar Kun]

Dream Theater - I&W
Watchtower - Control and Resistance
Magellan - Hour of Restoration (followed shortly by Shadow Gallery)

 

[mitchgx]

Rush - All the World's a Stage

Yes - Drama

Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear

 

[DJ's Locker]

The Moody Blues - Days of Furture Past
Yes - Fragile
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

The ball stopped rolling for awhile. Then came:

The Flower Kings - Stardust We Are
Opeth - Ghost of Perdition
Porcuping Tree - Deadwing

 

[masterworks]

mmagumma
Axe Victum- Bebop Deluxe
foxtrot

 

[raptured]

Rush - Hemispheres
Kansas - 2 for the Show (live)
UK - Night after Night (live)

 

[TitoC]

Rush - Fly By Night (specifically By-Tor & The Snow Dog)
Rush - 2112
Yes - Closer to the Edge, Drama and YesSHOWS (I know - weird, but I got into these all at the same time).

T

 

[Metman]

Pet Shop Boys
Wham
Culture Club

 

[lasercd]

Pet Shop Boys
Wham
Culture Club

Folks...I don't think he's kidding.

 

[Metman]

Folks...I don't think he's kidding.

I did that just for you Ken........

 

[Crazy Booduh]

Symphony X - V
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. II

These two got me into progressive metal.

Opeth - Still Life was what got me to accept the heavier side of things.

 

[USDHead]

Barclay James Harvest - Early Morning Onwards
Beggar's Opera - Waters Of Change
Family - Music In A Doll's House

....in addition to "the usual suspects" already mentioned by others

 

[johan68]

The three first LP's I ever bought were...

Genesis - Foxtrot
Yes - Yessongs
Deep Purple - Shades of Deep Purple