I have a deep, intense love of their music, and Richard Wright is probably my single biggest influence as a musician. Jethro Tull and Pink Floyd were my two primary introductions to progressive rock, and those are my second- and third-most-listened-to acts, respectively, according to my Last.fm profile, trailing only The Beatles.
The second-most successful prog act is Genesis, with roughly 100 million sales and significant non-prog output. Their global sales tally somewhere between 200 and 250 million records since their debut in 1965, placing them eighth all time among recording artists. Pink Floyd is the most commercially successful progressive rock act by a wide margin. The context in which albums were made is important, and that is an element often missed in a ranked list. I’m opting to explore albums chronologically, as opposed to a ranked-list format. I’ve included a TL DR and ranking of albums at the end. Welcome to another installation of Deep Dive, where I take a look at the extended studio discographies of some of the biggest names in progressive rock.
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