The Beatles vs. Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd, no contest

wellsfargo wrote: Zombywoof wrote:   mister nobody wrote: Have Beatles ever composed a song as good as Shine on? Or Echoes? Or Dogs? Have they ever thought of concepts such as Dark Side? Or the Wall? My vote would go to the obvious.   Nope. The Beatles composed trivial pop nonsense.

Some of these comments are rabid. A comparison can't really be drawn on sensible lines because without the Beatles there would be no such thing as Pink Floyd or any other band. It's not just about what place bands arrived at (such as Pink Floyd) it's about how they got there in the first place, and anyone who doesn't understand that piece of history either arrived recently on earth in a time capsule or is truly bonkers.

Anybody who thinks 'Revolution', 'Helter Skelter', or 'I am the Walrus' are too polite simply...doesn't have a similar taste in music to me at all.

Who do I prefer from an emotional perspective? Pink Floyd. Who do I think was the more creative force? The Beatles. I guess that, at the end of the day, I'd vote Pink Floyd, but if you forced me to include all solo/post-group projects from either side of the fence, it wouldn't be fair at all. 

Dayvenkirq wrote: claugroi wrote: Yes, indeed. Besides, I've seen many people who actually like both bands saying "I really like The Beatles, but I'm going to vote for Floyd" or "The Beatles are simply fantastic, but I'm going with Floyd on this one". I mean... where's sense in all that ?? Hahaha... There still may be some sense. Some people just choose not to explain why Floyd, but that's fine with me.

claugroi wrote: Dayvenkirq wrote: claugroi wrote: Yes, indeed. Besides, I've seen many people who actually like both bands saying "I really like The Beatles, but I'm going to vote for Floyd" or "The Beatles are simply fantastic, but I'm going with Floyd on this one". I mean... where's sense in all that ?? Hahaha... There still may be some sense. Some people just choose not to explain why Floyd, but that's fine with me. Well, not to me... I think everything has a reason, even if we don't know it. So, to me, if somebody votes for a band, there's got to be an explanation for that. Even being the most fanatic beatlemaniac I've known in my entire life, I have arguments to support my option, it's not simply pre-conceived bias... but I do know some people just don't want or feel the need to explain.

It is not so difficult to state why one likes a particular band but harder to state why one likes a band more than another.   Doesn't help that one risks offending fanboys in trying to articulate an opinion elaborately.

What! The Beatles loosing a poll on PA?!

Josef_K wrote: Never found The Beatles that interesting. Sure they began challenging and developing music on all sorts of levels after a few albums but the actual result was never that impressing imo. I would like to say that they were simply not good enough musicians, and most of all nowhere near the songwriting capability of many other artists, Pink Floyd among these.  Floyd on the other hand had great songwriters in their own right all over the place. One randomly chosen Syd Barrett song is more interesting to me than the whole Beatles discography. David Gilmour and Rick Wright wrote some great stuff as well (Narrow Way, Fat Old Sun, Paintbox, Remember a Day mostly) but were at their best when helping the master composer Roger Waters imo. Now, these guys were all obviously influenced by The Beatles, that is something to take into consideration of course. However, I've never been a fan of arguing that music should be seen as better just because it was influential.  Again, I can respect The Beatles for being innovative in developing music, but I cannot find much interest in their actual music. Pink Floyd also developed music in many ways, but their actual music is also in itself simply masterpiece after masterpiece.

NYSPORTSFAN wrote: [QUOTE=Josef_K] In terms of melody, arrangements, composition and going to sonic places where no rock band has gone before the Beatles easily takes it over Pink Floyd. Most of the Beatles songs even the early ones like "I Want To Hold Your Hand"  are ripe for discussing odd chord usage.   .

The Beatles have never trod the paths that Floyd trekked.  Take, for instance, Set The Controls........live - I've never heard The Beatles play dark, Farfisa organ driven Middle-Eastern scales of immense profoundness as Floyd.  Perhaps Floyd have taken some basic ideas from The Beatles, but John and Paul and George and Ringo never ventured into the musical depths the Floyd did.  Don't take it the wrong way, as there are many Beatles tracks I love, but as a musically adventurous band, they only hit the mark occasionally.......I'm not opposing their odd chord usage as they did this aplenty......