Also, amusing to see 'The Piper at the Gate of Dawn' increase in rank while the other Pink Floyd albums have gone down.
The trend-setting part is the real distinction here. You don't know what ends up being a dead end and what ends up being foundational to entire new genres of music until enough time has passed to see how things turned out. You need to wait enough time to see it all shake out. E.g. the first jazz and rock'n'roll musicians (who were all black) were not remotely appreciated in their time as much as they are now.
Meanwhile, that station, despite very much being a modern rock station that would blast Nirvana and various other 90s rock bands all day long, nevertheless still had real DJs who would occasionally play older "classic" rock songs like those by Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin, and those songs fucking rocked. So a few good representative songs from them led me down the rabbit hole of listening to those artists' entire catalogs N times over. Funny how Radiohead, which I actually lived through, I wasn't into at the time, but I did immediately appreciate the older classic rock. People like me are exactly the reason that Radiohead is moving up the list over time but classic rock bands aren't; they've already gotten their due for decades now. Now it's Radiohead's turn.
Guess never be upset about interview rejections.
But maybe it's just the demise of traditional rock music