On Every Street made me love Dire Straits. Gradual tempo increase like in Stairway to Heaven.
I bought an LP of A Trick of the Tail by Genesis, first with Phil Collins and I found it very good, even better than the Gabriel era.
The reason why they became so terrible is that prog rock was no longer fashionable and they had to adapt to new genres, in the late 70's/80's: disco, punk, etc. All that crap. So did Yes and to lesser extent, Pink-Floyd.
Maaaaaaaarten said:
Maurice Ravel - Tocatta from le Tombeau de Couperin
hmm haven't heard it but usually as much as I love the impressionists in paintings, I don't really like them in music. Ravel's Bolero I find the themes lovely but the piece is too repetitive for me.
