Led Zeppelin Or Pink Floyd [Archive] - Green Grass Forums

kaneda7777

04-16-2006, 05:37 PM

Hey guys and gals.

Well as you can see from the title 2 of the greatest bands ever both legends in their own right!

My question to you is......

Which do you Prefer?

And Why?

Me im with Led Zeppelin all the way! in my opinion the greatest band the world has ever saw!

Id LOVE to like pink floyd but i just cant get it i dont see what you all like about them???

Feedback welcome Guys!

Peace :)

Gothen

04-16-2006, 05:49 PM

I'm definitely more for Pink Floyd. I mean, Zeppelin has some aMAZING guitar riffs and solos but I've just always been more into Floyd, I don't know why but Floyd puts me on a little sailboat and kicks me out to sea. lol It just relaxes and mellows me out, high or sober. I like Floyd's lyrics more, too.

BTW, I like your Berserk avatar. =)

Bong30

04-16-2006, 05:49 PM

Depends on my mood..... lately Pink Floyd

Time is showing how good they are......timeless

kaneda7777

04-16-2006, 05:51 PM

i dont know man ! im a really open person with music!
but seriously i dont see what the big deal is. i appreciate them but come one.....

Maybe i can say i think that musically pink floyd really did something different! and it will be timeless your right

but think of the Lyrical masterpieces robert plant produced!
I mean cmon :P

kaneda7777

04-16-2006, 05:52 PM

Shit you like floyds lyrics more give me a few songs to check out maybe im listening to the wrong ones lol

Skink

04-16-2006, 05:54 PM

Pussycat

04-16-2006, 05:56 PM

Pink Floyd definately, I've got this CD with something like dark side of the moon I think, don't know any of the names but I like the sound, but it's got really scratched and jumps

kaneda7777

04-16-2006, 06:04 PM

heatherhatesyou

04-16-2006, 06:08 PM

these bands always get compared to each other and i think its completely ridiculous. they may have both been associated with the psychadelic scene but they were two COMPLETELY DIFFERENT bands. incomperable, in other words.

but to answer your question, everyone who said pink floyd was better is musically retarded. pink floyd is a lame novelty band that goth kids swear are cool because they saw their oh-so-trippy dark side t-shirt at their local hot topic. their music is like a lukewarm bath...boring, tepid and stale. how many of you guys have seen pink floyd live? if you did in the 70s, you might have noticed that they BARELY EVEN PLAYED THEIR INSTRUMENTS. most of the time they just got fucked up and mock-played to a backing track. that's fucking britney spears bullshit. just because some bald guy likes to whine about how we "dont need no education" and add some ambient keyboard noises doesnt make the song revolutionary or even vaguely talented. sorry.

led zeppelin, on the other hand, pure musical ecstacy. each and every member of that band was the master of their fucking craft, dominating their instruments, playing songs that left an IMPACT and felt IMPORTANT. you listen to a pink floyd and think "hmm, that's interesting, so what?" and then you hear jimmy page's spine-melting riffs and start orgasming compulsively. NO FUCKING COMPARISON. not to mention the band's collective sexiness, do i even need to mention the slithering, shiver-inducing robert plant? they may have stolen all of their material from 90 year old blues artists without giving them any credit, but there was more talent in john bonham's pinkie finger than all of fuckin' pink floyd combined.

and if you want to argue about it, just remember this: you're wrong.

Cooler Then Jesus

04-16-2006, 06:19 PM

how about Black Sabbath?

rhino44

04-16-2006, 06:31 PM

Led Zeppelin for me. I like the immigrant song . Not the hugest fan of either though.

CrAzYpOtHeAd

04-16-2006, 06:32 PM

Pink floyd, because they just kick ASS :D

But both bands kicked ass. So... i don't know really, but i listen to pink floyd more than zep.

Reefer Rogue

04-16-2006, 06:34 PM

i really really cant believe how many of you are saying Pink floyd!

have you guys not heard the amazing likes of

Immigrant Song
Bron Yr Aur
Friends
Kashmir
Dazed and Confused
Build A Levee
Stairway to Heaven
Whole Lotta Love?

WOW!!!!!

Ever heard of these albums?

The Wall
Darkside of the moon
Animals
Wish you were here
Pipers at the gates of dawn
A saucerful of secrets
Medal
Obscured by clouds
More
Atom heart mother
The final cut
Ummagumma (meh, don't expect u 2 like it)
Division Bell

I've said it many times and I'll continue to say it:
Floyd > Zep :stoned:

CrAzYpOtHeAd

04-16-2006, 06:41 PM

ahhh, animals. Gotta love it :D Wish you were here kicks ass too. Fuck it, floyd rocks the fuck outa zep ;)

xblackdogx

04-16-2006, 06:43 PM

Led Zepellin is greater than Pink Floyd [both in my top 5]

reasoning: the amount of albums by Zepellin that are amazing exceeds those of Pink Floyd and both have equally good live stuff out.

fav ALBUMS: Meddle, IV, Houses of the Holy, Physical Graffitti, Wish You Were Here, Dark Side of the Moon

[btw: the doors fucking rock too]

LIP

04-16-2006, 06:45 PM

I'd probs choose Zeplin, cos my bands covered a few of their songs when we was new...

And i can play almost every song they've done on bass...

alonepsycho

04-16-2006, 06:48 PM

yeah, my personal favorite Pink Floyd song is "Dogs." And I would definitely tip my hat to Pink Floyd over Led Zeppelin. Grateful Dead and the Beatles are up there too.

alonepsycho

04-16-2006, 06:54 PM

Pink Floyd-- one of my top three favorite bands of all time, along with the Grateful Dead and the Beatles. My personal favorite song is "Dogs"-- be warned, it is 17 minutes long, but it's a journey!

geonagual

04-16-2006, 06:54 PM

I like both
and have been fucked up and listening to them for years

Hello.
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone home?

Come on, now.
I hear youâ??re feeling down.
Well I can ease your pain,
Get you on your feet again.

Relax.
I need some information first.
Just the basic facts:
Can you show me where it hurts?

There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant shipâ??s smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I canâ??t hear what youâ??re sayinâ??.
When I was a child I had a fever.
My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now I got that feeling once again.
I canâ??t explain, you would not understand.
This is not how I am.
I have become comfortably numb.

Ok.
Just a little pinprick.
Thereâ??ll be no more --aaaaaahhhhh!
But you may feel a little sick.

Can you stand up?
I do believe itâ??s working. good.
Thatâ??ll keep you going for the show.
Come on itâ??s time to go.

There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant shipâ??s smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I canâ??t hear what youâ??re sayinâ??.
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now.
The child is grown, the dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb.

Ae...

04-16-2006, 06:54 PM

I've been listening to Zeppelin a hell of a lot lately, so I'll go with them for this thread. It's just good music that you can just turn up and walk or ride around town with or something...

heatherhatesyou put it nicely, Pink Floyd is kind of boring to me. They just kind of wander off in the song trying to create atmosphere...I just lose interest in it. Although I very much enjoy Pipers at the Gates of Dawn, after that album I just can't really enjoy the music without being in a mood for it. Besides most people I've talked to about Floyd have never even listened to Piper. It's always Animals, Dark side of the Moon, or The (fucking) Wall.

RaoulDuke45

04-16-2006, 08:00 PM

i dont like piper at the gates of dawn, some of the stuff is good, but i love david gilmour, he has some amazing solos, comfortably numb and time are probly my 2 favorite songs

WhiskeyGirl

04-16-2006, 08:05 PM

Lily420

04-16-2006, 08:31 PM

Zepplin, yup.
But i still love flyod.

Frivolous248

04-16-2006, 09:30 PM

Blah blah blah blah blah, I'm a moron with a bad opinion of music. Blah blah blah blah

Hmmm, I'mma have to go with Zeppelin just cause I usually have to be in the mood for Floyd since its real soft and all.

ERBA

04-16-2006, 09:48 PM

Ohhhh maaaan they both are INCREDIBLE. Basically, if im sober, its Zeppelin, but when im baked, no contest im choosing Floyd. Piper at the Gates of Dawn and Saucerful of Secrets are both unbelievable. :stoned: :stoned:

Funkamander

04-16-2006, 09:58 PM

I haven't heard Saucerful of Secrets yet, I'll have to steal it from the internet.

Personally, I think Dark Side is overrated. Yeah, it's good. But it isn't even CLOSE to their best. Same with The Wall, at least the song by itself. I love the movie, but still, it's not their best.

The best of the best is, yes, Animals, but also Momentary Lapse of Reason. I love that album so very very much. Learning to Fly, Dogs of War, One Slip, Sorrow, fuck! Every song on that album is fucking golden!

And Zepplin's really good too, but I'm nowhere near as familiar with them.

HIYAR

04-16-2006, 10:03 PM

both.....
SUX!

kaneda7777

04-16-2006, 10:41 PM

You sad sad person ! lol

MaryJaneScott

04-16-2006, 10:44 PM

I'd probs choose Zeplin, cos my bands covered a few of their songs when we was new...

And i can play almost every song they've done on bass...

I NEED to hear these covers.....

please. :)

Tmar.aLL.DaYmar

04-16-2006, 10:46 PM

pink floyd

The Colonel

04-16-2006, 10:51 PM

i really really cant believe how many of you are saying Pink floyd!

have you guys not heard the amazing likes of

Immigrant Song
Bron Yr Aur
Friends
Kashmir
Dazed and Confused
Build A Levee
Stairway to Heaven
Whole Lotta Love?

WOW!!!!!

im sorry but its not "Build a Levee", its When the Levee Breaks, last song off of Zeppelin IV :rasta:

The Colonel

04-16-2006, 10:54 PM

I'd probs choose Zeplin, cos my bands covered a few of their songs when we was new...

And i can play almost every song they've done on bass...

try playing Achilles Lasts Stand, its on Presence and is probably John Paul Jones' fastest bassline with zeppelin.

da haze meister

04-16-2006, 10:56 PM

i like pink floyd better

CrAzYpOtHeAd

04-16-2006, 11:16 PM

Yeah, pink floyd is deftinly trippier to listen to baked. But both great bands, but i think floyd is more unique, i've not seen one band that is anything like floyd, they are very original.

kaneda7777

04-16-2006, 11:21 PM

im sorry but its not "Build a Levee", its When the Levee Breaks, last song off of Zeppelin IV :rasta:

Good man your right sorry little stoned and i got mixed up with the Natalie Merchant song!

Thanks :)

Awesome song though !!! just awesome!!!

kaneda7777

04-16-2006, 11:22 PM

try playing Achilles Lasts Stand, its on Presence and is probably John Paul Jones' fastest bassline with zeppelin.

achilles last stand god what a riff!!!!!

eddievanzant

04-16-2006, 11:37 PM

And then Ed yells, "Irrelevant!"

NightProwler

04-16-2006, 11:38 PM

pink floyd of course. floyd is just way trippier, more complex, more intense, and just better all around.

LIP

04-17-2006, 12:15 AM

try playing Achilles Lasts Stand, its on Presence and is probably John Paul Jones' fastest bassline with zeppelin.

I can play virtually anything on bass, im in a signed band, and yes, i can play that song. :)

And Mary, i'll get you some from a live Album my band's got, dunno when though, we'll talk on msn ;)

Nochowderforyou

04-17-2006, 12:35 AM

I prefer Led Zep. over Floyd. Floyd is sleepy time music for me. It's just so dreamy and lazy. Led.Zep. rocks the blues and good rock n roll. Something you can really get into. Floyd doesn't progress I find. They just stay at the same beat, tempo, and nothing builds up. You wait for the rockin part...but the rockin part never comes.

OrangeKush

04-17-2006, 01:24 AM

I absolutely love both of these bands, in fact, they are in my top 5 with the doors, hendrix, and the who.

For me, there is simply nothing quite like Pink Floyd. The mixture of sounds that they have produced is amazing, and will NEVER be duplicated. They blazed their own path and went in directions no one else even knew existed.

Zeppelin is amazing in their own right, and I hold them in the highest regard, but their music simply does not have the power to move me like Floyd.

WhiskeyGirl

04-17-2006, 02:54 AM

beachguy in thongs

04-17-2006, 03:17 AM

There's nothing interesting about Floyd's chord-progressions and nothing challenging in their songs. It's only their decision on the placement of the notes, nothing innovative. I just felt like saying this.

Reefer Rogue

04-17-2006, 10:22 AM

these bands always get compared to each other and i think its completely ridiculous. they may have both been associated with the psychadelic scene but they were two COMPLETELY DIFFERENT bands. incomperable, in other words.

but to answer your question, everyone who said pink floyd was better is musically retarded. pink floyd is a lame novelty band that goth kids swear are cool because they saw their oh-so-trippy dark side t-shirt at their local hot topic. their music is like a lukewarm bath...boring, tepid and stale. how many of you guys have seen pink floyd live? if you did in the 70s, you might have noticed that they BARELY EVEN PLAYED THEIR INSTRUMENTS. most of the time they just got fucked up and mock-played to a backing track. that's fucking britney spears bullshit. just because some bald guy likes to whine about how we "dont need no education" and add some ambient keyboard noises doesnt make the song revolutionary or even vaguely talented. sorry.

and if you want to argue about it, just remember this: you're wrong.

Wow, how can one person be SO ignorant?

For all the people who say Zeppelin are better, I really doubt you've listened to every album I listed earlier. There's so much more to Floyd then Darkside :/
You people owe it to yourselves to listen to every floyd album. Floyd have produced better albums then Zeppelin and that's just the way it is :D

Shine on > Stairway

wholapola

04-17-2006, 11:04 AM

Both are Great bands,however I have to go with Floyd. Also--If you get a chance go see David Gilmour live if you can. I saw him at Massey Hall in Toronto 4/9-EXCELLENT SHOW..anybody see him this tour? First half he played songs from his new album. Second half Pink Floyd, which included...Echoes, Wot's...Uh the deal and encored with Comfortably Numb. They were recording the show in 5.1 surround-expect a future DVD.
4/17 Oakland, CA
4/19 Hollywood
4/20 Universal City, CA
Then across the pond:
5/26 Manchester
5/27 Glasgow
5/29,30,31 London
Pay the scalper, worth it!!!

toke it up 420

04-17-2006, 02:35 PM

floyd man
no doubt
listenin to the great gig in the sky right now

kaneda7777

04-17-2006, 03:22 PM

hmmm i think you guys who are saying PINK FLOYD need to start thinking about how Talented Jimmy Page actually is and start thinking about how amazing deep Zeppelins Lyrics where!

Not to mention im pretty sure stairway to heaven has been rated the greatest rock song ever made!

:)

Peace

enthused

04-17-2006, 03:35 PM

floyd. i love david gilmours voice and guitar work. roger waters writes great lyrics. and syd barrett(when he was in it) had amazing songs. I like psychedelic music anyway, so it fits. I feel like I get more high. For parties though, I throw on zeppelin, with floyd at parties it seems everyone gets mellow and sleepy haha. plus i have all the floyd albums(a few vinyl!) and only like 4 zeppelin ones.

and to ^ stairway to heaven is awesome, but frankly im tired of it.

Fengzi

04-17-2006, 04:19 PM

Both Pink Floyd and Zepplin are among my favorites. Comparing the two is like comparing apples to oranges though. They're just so different. Both put out some absolutely incredible music. Just the fact that we're discussing bands that started 40 or so years ago is proof of that.

Fengzi

04-17-2006, 04:31 PM

these bands always get compared to each other and i think its completely ridiculous. they may have both been associated with the psychadelic scene but they were two COMPLETELY DIFFERENT bands. incomperable, in other words.

but to answer your question, everyone who said pink floyd was better is musically retarded. pink floyd is a lame novelty band that goth kids swear are cool because they saw their oh-so-trippy dark side t-shirt at their local hot topic. their music is like a lukewarm bath...boring, tepid and stale. how many of you guys have seen pink floyd live? if you did in the 70s, you might have noticed that they BARELY EVEN PLAYED THEIR INSTRUMENTS. most of the time they just got fucked up and mock-played to a backing track. that's fucking britney spears bullshit. just because some bald guy likes to whine about how we "dont need no education" and add some ambient keyboard noises doesnt make the song revolutionary or even vaguely talented. sorry.

and if you want to argue about it, just remember this: you're wrong.

A novelty band? Most "novelty bands" that I know of are forgotten 5-10 years after their "hit" songs come out. Dark Side is still considered one of the greatest albums ever and it was realeased 33 years ago! I actually have seen Pink Floyd live (have you?) and can tell you that they don't just get "fucked up and mock-played to a backing track" . Granted, they do do a lot with pre-recorded tracks but that's only because there's only so much that 4 guys can do when playing live. Just because they're music is a bit slower than Zep doesn't mean theyre not as talented, just different. Saying they're not "even vaguely talented" is like saying that Beethoven was shit and couldn't do anything with an orchestra to back him up.

beachguy in thongs

04-17-2006, 05:01 PM

Pink Floyd does not sing "Tangerine". They can't play music like it. I doubt they can even cover it correctly.

beachguy in thongs

04-17-2006, 05:02 PM

Granted, they do do a lot with pre-recorded tracks but that's only because there's only so much that 4 guys can do when playing live.
You have to see Rush in concert.

They do it all, in concert.

(Except, something like the female backing vocal in the bridge of the song "Time Stand Still".)

Cooler Then Jesus

04-17-2006, 05:16 PM

SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH!!

Fengzi

04-17-2006, 05:22 PM

You have to see Rush in concert.

They do it all, in concert.

(Except, something like the female backing vocal in the bridge of the song "Time Stand Still".)

I have :p

Actually this is a good comparison, what Geddy is doing with the synth isn't that much different from what Richard Wright was doing. Especially when you consider the differnec in the technology. It's not exactly like Floyd would just throw on a tape then wander out onto stage and pretend to play. Waters would play the bass lines, Gilmour would play the guitar, Mason would play the drums, and Wright would play the keyboards in addition to queing up the various pre-recorded effects.