@tatermoog:
Hell of a four-year stretch from 1972-1975.
Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon/Wish You Were Here
Led Zeppelin: IV/Houses of the Holy/Physical Graffiti
Genesis: Foxtrot/Selling England/Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Yes: Close to the Edge/Tales from Topogra…ok, on that second one, never mind
Roxy Music: Roxy Music/For Your Pleasure (two of the best rock/pop albums ever)
King Crimson: Larks' Tongue in Aspic/Starless and Bible Black/Red
David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust/Alladin Sane/Diamond Dogs
Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Brian Eno: Here Come the Warm Jets/Taking Tiger Mountain/Another Green World (personal choice and only dubiously rock, so sue me)
Lou Reed: Transformer
Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run
Dylan: Blood on the Tracks
i could name more n that from TRU golden era
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@Nobodyman:
Eh, I don't know man. I honestly don't think I've come across any albums yet where there was a gross use of deliberate filler (well, except maybe those Rush albums, but even then I enjoyed the filler). I mean, hell, even The Beatles, I think, were guilty of using filler on occasion.
Beatles filler? like maybe the early albums, but that was when the whole idea of the "album" wasn't even really formed yet, because the beatles had yet to form it still lol
and then there's wild honey pie but white album was a double album so that's different
with phal collins it's like one or two songs and ten filler songs, normal albums might have three or so sort of half assed songs near the end, not ten
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@Wagomu:
Prog spans the spectrum between the freeness of jazz and the fully composed quality of classical. It gives birth to a lot of rich and strange pieces that are both complex and beautiful. Prog bands don't typically write anything short and anthemic (unless they've gone full pop as has been noted plenty) so they require a bit more patience and meditation. Listening to a prog album is like reading a long book. There can be a lot of complex vocabulary and confusing plot points, but it all comes together as a coherent piece by the end of it. Once the last page has been turned, it all starts to make sense, sink in and shine brightly.
Also, all of rock was best during the time of rock, which was forever since rock began and at least several years before it.
Prog's not the only art rock though, so it's not really patience that's my problem with it.
And again I gotta ask, are we defining Prog to include Krautrock or not? Because if we are that changes things. But if we aren't then…I dunno. British Prog's issue to me comes down to ingredients I think, I don't like Blues rock, and I hate 70's keyboards, and I think the sort of tingly classical esque stuff is really yawn. So lots of those bands are just ...beh. To me.
The Germans though are playing with much more...crazy stuff. It just is so much more engaging.
Also I just really hate British people.