I am 48.
All albums are full of songs. But from what I'm reading here, DT records, are often meant to be consumed as a whole, not necessarily created for singles releases/radio play. I've noticed that about Floyd, Porcupine Tree, Rush, etc,
I didn't grow up listening to music like that...or even that genre. This is a recent taste sensation for me. The rock i grew up with was what i heard on the top 40 radio, which included a lot of different types of music but not much direction to huy entire albums. As i mentioned, my music was on 45s, not LPs.
As an adult my preference was jazz, classical, Latin, vocalists (Luther Vandross, Chaka Khan, Sarah Vaughan, Bonnie Raitt, Michael Jackson, Sting, Prince), as i am a singer, and fusion - Chick Corea, Jaco Pastorious, Lenny White, Marcus Miller, etc. And Santana. My crowd didn't listen to the type of music chatted about here, that's why I'm enjoying myself so much.
One should never have a closed musical mind.