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Prog Semi Final #1 - Yes v. Pink Floyd
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Yes by a hair.
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Pink Floyd for me, with just a dash of Yes.
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Don't like YES at all except for few tracks.Pink Floyd is my favourite band and probably will remain forever.
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Tough one for sure......we knew it though.
 
I always struggled with the Yes lineup issues, singers, drummers, keyboard players.......It's like for some reason they did not want to hang out for the long haul.
 
Pink Floyd had gigantic internal strife, but they seemed to stick it out, up till The Wall....but still post The Wall PF put out some excellent stuff...
 
I take Gilmour over Howe easily, Wright over Wakeman and Mason/White are pretty even.....The lyrics lean more to Pink Floyd for me, at least I can understand the meanings, Jon Anderson wrote some strange stuff, sometimes just bunches of words linked together in some prog-rap (TFTO), but non the less I do enjoy it, pretty thought provoking for sure.
 
If I listen to all Pink Floyd albums, The Endless River really seems to come to a better ending a much better finality to a great band. I think Yes needs to work on writing that final album, but I just don't know who that band would be.
 
I think overall I prefer Pink Floyd, a much much better cohesive career and catalog.
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Pink Floyd. I do not find their Barrett-era style and contents terribly interesting, but their 1970-2014 run has produced no fewer than four top notch albums, and only one that I find unlistenable. Whereas much of the Bugglerized Yes is useless. 
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I'm a fan of both but it's Pink Floyd
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I have to give it to the Floyd. They're the ones that got me into prog in the first place.
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the two best bands in the world (IMHO), but Yes takes the top spot from the Floyd for me. GOOOOO YYEEESSSSS!!!!!!!
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Yes.


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I hate this choice as I love both equally....I give it to Yes since they were the first concert I ever saw in 74.
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Originally posted by twosteves twosteves wrote:

Yes --easily for me---music is way more dynamic and interesting on every level. Need music with energy.Smile


yeah...  I can dig what Roger was getting at... even relate and agree... however this about the music and to me music is is about life. A soundtrack to it.

Not some muso musing on the world.. pfff.. LOL

life to me.. is sort of encapsulated by the music of Yes.  They sort of cover all the bases.. sh*t man.. they did all that in one glorious double album. So layered and dynamic.. one can.. and many have.. listen to it for YEARS and still make discoveries within the music. That is something no band.. indeed.. no album can match.


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Gimme Floyd
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Although I adore Yes I never thought of them as part of my favourite prog bands. Floyd to me is more than a band with albums.
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Pink Floyd by a mile

i appreciate Yes but i can only take them in small doses (like KC and ELP)
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Yes --easily for me---the classic period---music is way more dynamic and interesting on every level. Need music with energy.Smile

I mean PF is so easy to listen to and commercially one of the most popular groups in the world. Can this really be prog?Big smile


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Floyd

But probably Yes will win


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Oh, by the way, which one's Pink? I vote for Roy Harper.
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This is much harder than the other one, so I'll probably sit on it for a while. However, I do lean somewhat towards PF, and exactly for the reasons Rogerthat has expounded.
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Floyd gets my vote against any band, even Yes Wink
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Neither band could do what the other does. That's a given. Pink Floyd definitely has lyrics over Yes, but I love Yes's sound much more. Even the best PF albums like WYWH and DSOTM bore me at times with their little blues rock here and their little drawn out sound effect there. CTTE and Fragile on the other hand are just flawless. Just say YES!
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