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Roj 
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 Posted: February 10 2011 at 07:59 |
This is, I presume, some kind of joke?
Floyd by several light years.
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ten years after
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Posted: February 10 2011 at 04:20 |
I prefer Pink Floyd to the Beatles in the sense that i will play their music more often and, on balance, enjoy it more.
However, the Beatles represent so much more than just music. They are nostalgia, history, politics, fashion, comedy, movies, growing up, drugs, front page news, biography, religion and love. They are larger than life. They are John, Paul, George and Ringo. They are the single iconic representation of an entire decade.
Pink Floyd can't compete with all that.
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b4usleep
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Posted: February 10 2011 at 02:58 |
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Beatles is good for beginning. A good starting point to climb Pink Floyd mountain.
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Really don't mind if you sit this one out.
My words but a whisper, your deafness a shout.
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maani
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Posted: February 09 2011 at 18:54 |
Simple answer: You wouldn't even have PF without The Beatles, so...
The Beatles.
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Jarvig
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Posted: February 09 2011 at 17:19 |
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Easy. Pink Floyd is the best band ever. Beatles bigger and more important. But - for me - not as good.
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Greg W
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Posted: February 06 2011 at 16:41 |
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Jethro Towse
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Schindleria Praematu
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Posted: February 06 2011 at 16:39 |
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The Beatles of course were a bigger influence, and made better pop songs, but we're on a progresive rock site, so Pink Floyd has to be the winner out of the two, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and The Wall, are all time prog classics.
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CloseToTheMoon
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Posted: February 06 2011 at 14:40 |
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Beatles for song craft Floyd for album craft......and the fact that they actually toured.
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It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.
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thehallway
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Posted: February 04 2011 at 11:05 |
No wait....
The Beatles are bigger than Jesus, I forgot!
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thehallway
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Posted: February 04 2011 at 11:04 |
This poll is as massive in music as comparing Christianity to Islam!
I'm agnostic with this pair of fantastic bands.
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Stool Man
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Posted: February 03 2011 at 16:53 |
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Floyd every time, against anyone
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rotten hound of the burnie crew
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MonsterMagnet
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Posted: February 01 2011 at 09:07 |
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The Beeeeeeatles!
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HolyMoly
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Posted: January 31 2011 at 14:00 |
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Pretty much a tie. Both are very near the top of my list.
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My other avatar is a Porsche
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
-Kehlog Albran
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esky
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Posted: January 31 2011 at 13:39 |
 overmatik wrote:
ThinLizzy wrote:
Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath are my favourite bands.
However, i voted for The Beatles, because they were the most important/infuential band in the history of rock.
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I know that the Beatles are the most influential band of all time, but I don't agree that they are the greatest rock band ever just because they were the first. They were a great band, but there were so many bands that expanded their work. The Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Yes, Genesis etc...
Is the same thing with Black Sabbath/Iron Maiden. Everybody agrees that Black Sabbath invented hard rock, but the fact is that Maiden took the genre beyond and it is the greatest metal band ever.
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What? (done in the now classic Firesign Theater voice)
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esky
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Posted: January 31 2011 at 13:37 |
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What? (done in the now classic Firesign Theater voice)
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Bitterblogger
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Posted: January 31 2011 at 13:05 |
Catcher10 wrote:
Bonnek wrote:
I understand why Beatles are popular but I can't connect with their music. It has no sex. 
Pink Floyd however came close to a pagan orgy in the 60s!
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I could not have articulated this any better.....Bonnek is my new hero  |
 I can articulate it much better.
"If I Fell"; "Michelle"; "Girl"; "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"; "This Boy"; "Something", etc. Not to mention "Why Don't We Do It In The Road".
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Lark the Starless
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Posted: January 31 2011 at 11:40 |
Seems I had already voted 
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Lark the Starless
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Posted: January 31 2011 at 11:39 |
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Los Beatles
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ThinLizzy
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Posted: January 31 2011 at 10:26 |
overmatik wrote:
ThinLizzy wrote:
Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath are my favourite bands.
However, i voted for The Beatles, because they were the most important/infuential band in the history of rock.
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I know that the Beatles are the most influential band of all time, but I don't agree that they are the greatest rock band ever just because they were the first. They were a great band, but there were so many bands that expanded their work. The Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Yes, Genesis etc...
Is the same thing with Black Sabbath/Iron Maiden. Everybody agrees that Black Sabbath invented hard rock, but the fact is that Maiden took the genre beyond and it is the greatest metal band ever.
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Exactly. They were the most important band, not the best. As far as Black Sabbath and heavy rock are concerned, this is another complicated story.
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And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun
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overmatik
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Posted: January 31 2011 at 09:59 |
ThinLizzy wrote:
Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath are my favourite bands.
However, i voted for The Beatles, because they were the most important/infuential band in the history of rock.
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I know that the Beatles are the most influential band of all time, but I don't agree that they are the greatest rock band ever just because they were the first. They were a great band, but there were so many bands that expanded their work. The Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Yes, Genesis etc... Is the same thing with Black Sabbath/Iron Maiden. Everybody agrees that Black Sabbath invented hard rock, but the fact is that Maiden took the genre beyond and it is the greatest metal band ever.
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