>Band is normally known for making average modern prog
ELO is definitely NOT prog, most of what they did was, as Jeff Lynne always happily admitted, trying to create music that he imagined The Beatles would have been making if they didn't break up.
I'm replying here to avoid cluttering the other thread .
Christ, everything about The Wall was so masturbatory.
As much as I like the album I agree. Rog really needed to be told to get the fuck over himself on multiple occasions, but alas he decided to fuck up the band with his masturbation fest. I do like looking up the songwriting credits and realizing my three favorite songs from the album are the ones Gilmour co-wrote (Young Lust, Comfortably Numb, Run Like Hell).
It doesn’t help that, being a double album, The Wall ends up being a bloated mess. If they weren’t restricted by the format, they could have pared things down to three sides worth of music to the albums benefit.
Very true. Aside from my first listening, I don't believe I've ever listened to the entire album start to finish like with every other Pink Floyd album*, I just pick the good songs to listen to.
Playing the real weird prog at work, especially when everyone else barely ventures outside of rap, is the funniest thing ever. The game is to figure out how to progressively ramp up the unconventional, without any sustained harsh tones or overtly offensive lyrics, before getting asked to cut it out.