Reply #5: I'm curious, because that comment could go either way

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Are you saying that The Wall killed prog by being a really bad version of prog rock, or that it killed prog by being really good art rock and making prog unnecessary, or that it killed it being good, capturing all the momentum, and heading it down a dead end road, kind of like Disco after the BeeGees? (Not that disco was ever inspiring, but it got even more mechanical after the BeeGees made it popular and everyone started trying to do it that way.)

I have no opinion, actually, I just wasn't sure which you meant. I thought at first you meant that The Wall was so bad that it killed PR, but I couldn't quite understand how a bad album could make people not want to hear a good one, so then I was lost. Especially since I can't think of The Wall as a bad album.