Only 3 Floyd albums worth a damn....

Fragile wrote: Hmmmmmmm, I love alot of Floyd's output but cannot rave as others do on their earlier works.Yes DSOTM is very good album but I much prefer Wish you were here.I do not hold them as highly in the prog echelons as I do others.They are fine musicians but their music is not as complex or involved as other top proggers;nor is it as good.They were always more accepted by the radio djs and media for some reason.Don't know if that was luck or what.But I do know they escaped the great purge in the UK around 1977 that savaged Yes only a year after they,(Yes) had topped every poll imaginable especially the Melody Maker's.This has been a source of discontent for me from that time.I still hold them dearly as they give me great musical pleasure.I loved the Division Bell but I cannot put them at the top of the prog hemisphere.

Don't worry about Division Bell, it's nice but clearly not prog. They wanted to fully get rid of any of Roger's influence and by doing that they didn't include many new or creative ideas, just nice easy music. They showed that they can make good, not neccesarrily prog, music without Roger. Has it's prog moments though like on "Poles Apart".

i think pink floyd was amazing, all of their work.

they are a prog band with a few mainstream moments.

and you'll maybe want to notice that "money" is the only song i'll ever be able to think of, and probably the only song ever in the top 10 to be in 7/4 almost throughout.

now prog is not just odd times, but it does show that they weren' ordinary in the least.

pink floyd was progressive like it or not...and i'll agree with others stating that Dark Side of the Moon was much more progressive than The Wall, although I love both.

Don't get wrong for my picture, I'm a Floyd fan, but I don't say anything just to make them be good to anyone's ears.  There's something that seems to be wrong in your mentality: when something goes on radio with all other commercial stuff, does it necessarly means that it's dirt?  Who decided that Money and Another brick in the wall would be on the radio all the time??  Of course not Floyd when they composed...  And I'll say like others, early albums are excessively progressive, and The wall, though it's a good album, isn't that much.  Not because something is popular that it's noit good, don't forget that.  Personnaly, I don't really like VDGG albums, even if I see and know that they are really good albums when I listen to them but their music doesn't touch me that much... Could be the same for you, but you should see the material and the emotion that are in Floyd's music...

The wall is less progressive than Atom hearth mother, Medlle and DSOTM; Ummagumma

It's boring also.

If you can't stand Gentle giant and Genesis try with other styles, don't bother with prog

It's hard for me to think of Floyd as anything other than prog rock, even when it comes to their less 'progressive' albums like Division Bell.

Their entire output between 1967 and 1983 was most definately prog. It may have lacked the techical intricacies of Yes, Gentle Giant & co, but Floyd had broken the rules of popular music. Their experimentation, blended with their extended play and ability to conjure up atmosphere and feel totally alien to all other pop and rock music made them prog by default.

I think their best albums were Meddle and Animals..

Psychedelic is prog that’s why the band

Is on this web site. I believe that almost

All Flyod albums are progressive especially

Dark Side of the Moon. How is Meddle not

Prog?