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Posted: July 21 2014 at 14:45
From years 20-35, it would have been Zappa without a question. But it would have always been close. Today, and for the majority of my life, it's a slam dunk for Floyd. I got so immersed in Zappa culture and got quite close up views of many of the personalities involved in the Zappa empire, and I've just lost most of my taste for it. Part of it is I associate FZ with a fairly difficult period of my life that I'd like to distance myself from. I have met some wonderful people from that world though. And it is like a separate world.
So, Floyd. I've loved them since my preteen days, and never lost my taste for them.
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Posted: July 21 2014 at 14:49
Pink Floyd no question about it. This said, I have most of Zappa's discography and while I'll occasionally spin Zoot Allures or The Grand Wazoo, for example, Zappa's music doesn't have the same emotional hold over me like Floyd's music. Zappa's music is also technically very impressive, but it's short on substance IMHO and not music I return to very often.
Edited by Mirror Image - July 21 2014 at 14:55
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Posted: July 21 2014 at 15:30
Well, the question at the top is "who is the most popular", on that basis it has to be Pink Floyd, as they have 3 albums in the PA Top 100 and Zappa's highest album is number 36, but then you've confused things by saying "Please vote for your favorite " so now I don't know which to vote for. If the question were "who do you prefer" then I would go for Zappa over the rather soporific Floyd.
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Posted: July 21 2014 at 15:43
PF is obviously more popular.
FZ is (probably) obviously my favorite.
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Posted: July 21 2014 at 16:04
chopper wrote:
Well, the question at the top is "who is the most popular", on that basis it has to be Pink Floyd, as they have 3 albums in the PA Top 100 and Zappa's highest album is number 36, but then you've confused things by saying "<span style=": rgb248, 248, 252;">Please vote for your favorite " so now I don't know which to vote for. I</span><span style="line-height: 1.2;">f the question were "who do you prefer" then I would go for Zappa over the rather soporific Floyd.</span>
Ok Chop. I changed it to 'who do you prefer'. After all, we not going to change the world with this poll.( At least I don't think we will.)
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Posted: July 21 2014 at 17:25
Xonty wrote:
Both are over-rated though
Ah, come on! Are any progressive rock band that gains any kind of success considered overrated in your view? For me, any band that creates progressive music is underrated by an automatic default because they're already choosing music as an art form over fame and fortune.
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Posted: July 21 2014 at 17:46
LSDisease wrote:
Pink Floyd. Frank Zappa was a great character, some funny songs, not agreat composer.
You may be able to have an opinion, but this statement here is completely false.
Zappa by a mile on this one. Ain't no one style the man can't master, create a disaster, satirize, and completely make his own. In terms of "progressive", hard to name another artist that more aptly fits the term. An advocate of free speech and a pioneer in self awareness, a personal hero of mine.
Floyd is Floyd. The gap between their most creative output and their lowest point is too close for me to deem them anything other than slightly above mediocre.
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Posted: July 21 2014 at 17:51
It's been since a long time here that I've been surprised about so much love for virtuosism, but I shouldn't feel this way, given the fact I'm finding out it's been always present in prog. Virtuosism has bored me quite a bit times, I think it's because of the level of importance given to it in a composition. Could it be just the reason why I never managed to enjoy FZ music? I don't know, maybe. However just the opposite happens to me with S.Hackett music. Anyway, another curious fact is that most of the virtuosists of the Classical Music that I knew quite rarely bored me. OK, people would advise me to go away to a CM forum: this is not a clever advice, thanks to PA there is a lot of prog I happened to become a fan and a lot of it still to be known.
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