Sadly...
As I've got older I've realised that Prog. Music is pretty awful in the main with a few distinctive albums justifying the whole tedious genre. There are so many terrible albums with just a few shining examples that are worthy of longevity. Prog. is basically a schizophrenic music form where rock musicians attempt jazz, classical, ethnic or whatever in an inferior way to the real exponents. There have never been any classical prog. compositions that resemble in any way the genius of the great classical composers The modern take on Prog. is even worse where tunes are abandoned in favour of short blasts of musical non-sequitors showing technique over content, although this trait existed to a lesser extent early on. To sum up, I find prog. rock depressing in the main and reel at the fact I actually believed it ever meant anything. Crimso, Genesis and a few others really did do something worthy but wading through musical settings of Jon Anderson's inane and utterly empty headed ramblings never did anything for me then or now.
Gawd help me!
Martin