Can, with Pink Floyd as a close second.
Can: they were experimental but also extremely smart. All the member were western art music students, but they never lost their time trying to make Rock music akin to Classical or bring Classical conventions into Rock (unlike that godawful E.L.P. group). Instead they merged a truck load of genres in into one package taking into account all the properties of rock music: simplicity, repetition, minimalism.
Pink Floyd: Because they were the less prog of all the english prog bands. And actually had a good songwriter. Ignoring the post-Syd, pre-Darkside period they always knew how to trim the fat and drop all the pointless demostration of "talent" in over long, over the top compositions. I do love Echoes and Carefull with that Axe, Eugene.
I guess I'm not to big on prog.
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