10 Bands That Never Made The Same Album

When Pink Floyd were first getting their feet wet in the music industry, most people didn't have the faintest clue as to what prog rock was really about. As the band first started, they were nothing more than another psychedelic band trying to expand your musical comprehension. They may have had a unique beginning, but the band not only ended up defining prog, but also transcending the genre altogether.

After losing founding member Syd Barrett, the band continued on with David Gilmour and Roger Waters taking the reigns. Going from one record to the next, the songs became much more complex, with albums like Atom Heart Mother containing tracks that eclipsed the 20 minute mark. While it did seem a tad bloated on the surface, Floyd were carefully constructing each track to become musical masterpieces.

This led to a long run in the '70s of letter perfect musical compositions with albums like Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here. The songs were still really long, but the actual track length was more or less an afterthought than a drawing point. Going onto epics like the Wall, Pink Floyd turned in some of the most theatrical and ambitious tunes in the entire rock canon.

There were also rumors going around of the band making an instrumental album with household objects, but given their track record, Pink Floyd could put something like that out to the public and still make it sound amazing.