Pink Floyd vs. Led Zeppelin

FragileDT wrote: eduardossc wrote: I was about to write a text with more than a few arguments. But...why bother?¡. Let´s just compare both bands´ most representative and best songs:  Stairway to heaven, Kashmir, No quarter.............mmhh, yeah, that´s it.    Vs  Set the controls to the heart of the sun, Let there be more light, Atom Heart mother, Echoes, Money, Any colour you like, Shine, wish you were here, Dogs, Comfortably numb, Run like hell, In the flesh, HIgh hopes.  Pink Floyd beats Zeppelin also in creativity and feeling.  IMO there are more Zep songs that are great, prog and serious (since it seems that you've written down the serious, prog ones.) But you can't judge Zeppelin as a prog band. I don't really think these two bands are comparable but if I had to chose one it would be Zeppelin. BTW, you should definitely add Achilles Last Stand to your list. That's for sure.

 Yes, there are many more great songs by Zeppelin. The main problem with them , is that they all seem to be a remake of "Whole Lotta Love", "Communication Breakdown" and "dazed and confused". Which are "one idea songs". Plain rock.

 I don´t mean classic, simplistic, repetitive plain rock is bad. Classic rock is meant to be listened in a different way. However...I would never try to find a reason why something like "Black dog" is better than "Shine on you crazy diamond". Would you?.

 Nevertheless, "Stairway to heaven" is an absolute masterpiece, something many many well regarded prog bands wish they had composed. Like Caravan, CAN, Magma, Focus, Ange, Ossana, Quatermass, etc....

Led Zep easily.

Floyd were only progressive in style, but Zep were progressive in substance.

Zeppelin have nothing on Floyd, their music is bland for the most part and theyre painfully overrated already. Pink Floyd just needs a greater level of understanding to enjoy fully, and its stregnth is in its thoughtful composition, cutting lyrics etc. rather than impressive but quite superfluous drum solos or double necked guitar-work. I dont mind Led Zep but even the fourth album dosnt compare to any of Floyds work post Piper and pre Momentary lapse of reason. And the other Led Zep albums are barely worthy of mention!


PINK FLOYD ALL THE WAY

Zeppelin is "stairway to heaven", "Kashmir" and "No quarter" plus a bunch of songs that all sound as either "Rock and roll", "Black dog", "Dazed and confused" and "You shook me".

 It will always be easier to mention 15 some songs by Zeppelin because they last for only 4 minutes or less. Plus, Pink Floyd were much more diverse, created a much wider range of styles, concepts, sounds, moods and textures. They also presented way better songwriting than Zeppelin. I really don´t care about Zeppelin´s drumming if it is presented in such a narrow variety of styles.

 Also, what do you think about Zeppelin´s closest attempt (apart from "Stairway" and "Kashmir" which were succesful attempts) at prog with "Carouselambra" from the album "In through the aout dooor"??....Oh man ¡¡...what a patetic piece of music. What is that cheesy keybord repeating all around the song?. They even managed to make it last for as long as 10:34 minutes. HAHAHA ¡¡. that keyboard reminds me of a video game after making enough points for a "bonus life".

 Anyway... I really don´t understand the result of this poll. Pink Floyd has some albums among the first 10 places in the overall prog list. When compared against other band they usually win. But one day a simplistic-one idea-per song-conventional rock-band comes and kicks their butt.... 

Pink Floyd (early!!)

ie. BEFORE they sold out

FLOYD, but it's all a matter of opinion.