Great story. What a fantastic memory. Other than the car wreck, obviously, but that does add to the story!
Two words: LIVE QUAD (which inspired more than quad, live).
That’s a lot of coin for a cover band.
It's always subjective and although they were not the only ones pushing the technical boundaries in recording and live performance they were certainly at the forfront. Also pushing the boundaries of integrating moving lighting fixtures, film, large PA systems and stage architecture and engineering. Read up on Mark Fisher (Stage Engineering) and Storm Thorgerson (Album Art), just to name a few. From my recollection they were one of the key drivers of the Album Oriented Rock (AOR) stations across the country. Again not the only ones, but certainly one of the major drivers. They and again along with others, also led the way in lyrics addressing topics of mental health, isolation, corporate greed, war and emotional pain, the pain and pleasure paradox, mostly to the credit of Roger Waters and written about Syd. Musically they just had a way of making space in the music that I'm not sure anyone else has ever accomplished to the same degree certainly debatable. I attribute most of this to Richard Wright and David Gilmore. Even David Gilmore's most recent recording work seems to still capture some of that kind of writing and arranging, but it's easy to hear the impact of Richard Wright's passing. The drummer Nick Mason wrote a book Inside Out that tells the story quite well and if you think about other things happen in the rock industry along the same timelines it will give you a pretty good perspective of where they fit in.
Numbers from what?
And it's funny how those 'prog' albums are labelled....'Psychedelic/Space Rock'
You raise a very good point. DSOTM flows from song to song as well as any album ever made. For me it’s impossible to hear the end of one song without hearing the beginning of the next one in my head. That was not uncommon in the days of vinyl, but few albums did it better.
Reaction videos are almost always exaggerated with positivity & surprise. This is done for "clicks". This renders them mostly insincere and fake. Even if they do like what they're reacting to.
That may be the case, but how often are reaction videos made to entire albums? From what I've seen, it seems to be mostly single songs.Top hit songs to get more clicks, of course.
This is an aggregate list that seems to compile favorites of a certain age demographic. Those albums are all from the 1970's. There are surely more prog albums than "Thick As a Brick" & "Animals" (which I love btw, but no way is that a top 10 prog album). The only one I'd certainly agree with on that list is "Close to the Edge". That is the #1 prog album of all time.
I didn't even look at the videos. Don't really care about them. But I stand by my impression of the album wrt flow of the music.
I don't disagree with you.
I was just stating an observation. I'm sure the website is a good resource, but that list is just an aggregate (for example: In no objective world is "Animals" more prog than Dream Theater's "Images & Words"). I only view CTTE as the #1 prog album of all time. After that, it doesn't matter to me. My favorite PF album is "The Division Bell".
