Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd?

Pink Floyd were a great band whom I like a lot, but I prefer Led Zeppelin.

Probably not the fairest poll on this site, but I go for Floyd as well. If Zeppelin had stopped after Physical Graffiti, it might have been closer, but the last two albums were exceptionally weak. I also saw them at Knebworth in their last UK gig before Bonham died, and found them utterly dreadful. Floyd doing the Wall, in contrast, were God like to these teenage eyes and ears.

Prefer Floyd by a wide margin. Not that I don't like Zep, but Floyd is.....Floyd

I'm going with Pink Floyd.  They're my favorite.  Led Zeppelin's my third favorite, my second being Rush.

All the Zeppelin albums were different and consistent. PF, pretty close. Graffiti and WYW Here in the same year... Kashmir, In The Light, No Quarter, Carouselambra were pieces on albums that extended their music, Floyd had albums that extended their music... Zeppelin could be delicate and their acoustic music featured very little basic strumming whearas Floyd had some fairly basic chord structures ( that they used VERY well...)
Zeppelin's influence ended with them. Anyone Zep influenced sounds it... They closed the book. Floyd influence is much the same (PRR and Mostly Autumn derivatives) and a good inspirati0on for the most important band in the past nearly 20 years - Porcupine Tree. Page was unbelivably progrtessive with his bowed solo (almost RIO like- Heresie from UZ and Dazed don't sound unrelated)...

Thankfully we had both bands.

I've got the DVDs of Zeppelin at Knebworth and thought they were pretty damn brilliant... I've plenty of boots of both and have to say that pound for pound Zeppelin (when en song) were far superior in performance consistency. They could improvise better as well. PF more intellectual but Zeppelin could be both visceral as well as intellectual; they could be witty as well.

Gilmour is one of the great slow guitarists - it's hard to top Comfortably Numb but Page has more variety in ideas, developments and tended not to repeat his solos.  PF have Echoes and that is a cornerstone of prog music.

Nick Mason is nowhere near as bad as some say (IMHO), whatever is wrong with Saucer or his timing and feel on SOYCD? Yes he is up against Bonham but so is everyone else. Jones is a superior bassist to RW and probably more adventurous than Wright. He also wrote 1/3 of Zeppelin's music...

No one's holding a candle to Plant in the Floyd camp....

TDSOTM vs Stairway... I would think comparing the Fourth album to TDSOTM more relevant. Zeppelin could acieve great acoutic set imtimacy in huge stadia, Waters preferred PF in arenas (as we all know). The negative aspects of The Wall (70s era rock stars moaning about their lot really annoys the hell out of me - Zeppelin's worst effort at that was Sick Again). Only that wasn't a gripe just - more a grope (about groupies really)

No record co exec took Page to task about his efforts unlike what happened with Gilmour. I wonder what the earlier version of Momentary Lapse was like? Sorrow is fantastic but only Wright's number on Division Bell lifts that unfortunate beast out of the mire...

On points... Led Zeppelin. But thankfully we have both these great bands and artists.

uduwudu wrote: Thankfully we had both bands.

to your whole post.

I am in love with neither band...however, for consistency, I would pick Zeppelin. When they were on track, they put out nothing but solid, solid albums. 

For pure quality, however, I would put the Floyd. Animals and The Wall beat out any of Zeppelin's work in terms of creativity and emotionality (if not necessarily musicianship). 

Both too important to pick

I'm well familiar with both and voted Zeppelin. 

At the time of my post there were nearly three times the votes for Floyd.  Interesting though; I wonder, if fans of another genre were polled would it be the other way around?  Anyhow, Zeppelin the no-doubter for me (though it's odd - I don't really otherwise like blues, which is undeniably what they were based in).

Both were groundbreaking, innovating acts, but Floyd a bit more IMHO.