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Originally Posted by Frownland
I still think that Dark Side and Wish You Were Here were both overwhelmingly psychedelic despite having elements that you might subscribe to a prog band, and I guess you could say those are their most progishest albums. However, I've always thought that Animals was the most inappropriately deemed prog album because I just don't think that concept albums and lengthy tracks belong only to prog.
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I consider
DSotM and
WYWH both pretty distinct from their earlier definitely psychedelic albums. The rootsy underpinnings and 60s pop rock sensibilities of psychedelic music were gone by that time—replaced by more a intricate and controlled style, a wider range of influences, heavy use of synths, big concepts, the occasional odd time signature, etc.
Animals was moving more in the direction of the art rock that followed—and was a deliberate response to punk on their part—but still had long tracks with multiple movements, a noticeable jazz influence, heavy use of various keyboards, etc.
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Originally Posted by Frownland
I say that Pink Floyd is to prog as Alice in Chains is to grunge. Both are very widely regarded as such, but both seem to miss very key elements of the genre that they're supposedly a part of.
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I'd say the bigger similarity is that both are very vaguely defined genres.