LZ vs PF

[oh oooh]

I wouldn't normally steal an idea from BCB, much less from erstwhile nemesis Matthew 'Rolling Stone' Wilson, but the results of their poll are so surprising to me I wanted to see if we could draw a more sensible conclusion.*

So - vote, comment, do what you will.



*_{and yes, I suppose Piper will skew it in Floyd's direction a bit....}

[Reactionary Rage]

Zep all the way. Not even close despite Piper

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Floyd probably. There's a bit more to 'em.

[Reactionary Rage]

I'll tell you what, I'll take Plant talking about the juice running down his leg than Waters droning on about the pressures of the modern world or, god help us, animal farm fucking allegories.

[oh oooh]

Of course.

[osgood]

Zep by some distance.

Edit: let me sort together the albums I like from each band

IV

TDSOTM

III

I

Meddle

Piper

WYWH

Houses of the Holy

Physical Graffiti

II

Presence

Animals

That's 7 albums from LZ and 5 from PF. Assigning to each album the usual score (12, 11, etc.) still Zep wins 45/33

[loveless]

They've gotten a roughly equivalent amount of turntable time in my life for the past 35 years. If they didn't each (to my mind) excel at such uniquely specialized things, I'd endeavor to muster a vote.

As it is, a defense of either (much as I treasure them both, to a point) feels oddly adolescent, despite their endurance in my own personal pantheon.

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I love Piper, I like or tolerate most Pink Floyd albums on a very wide scale. The Wall and everything after sucks.

Led Zeppelin runs away with this.

How's BCB voting, like I'd be surprised?

[oh oooh]

It's last week's thing now, but Floyd absolutely walked it.

[quaco]

I voted PF because they speak to me (!) personally, but I accept that LZ is of equal calibre, though not as musically varied. LZ never released a bad song. I could say the same about PF if they had stopped when Waters left the band. But alas they didn't, and Pink Floyd without Waters is almost as bad as Waters without Pink Floyd!

EDIT: Oops, forgot about "Not Now John" on the otherwise excellent The Final Cut. That track was shit.

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Zep.

Every. Single. Fucking. Time.

PF post-Syd are a snooze-fest for me. Literally.

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Zeppelin connects with me personally. Floyd, post Syd, always seemed very aloof. Syd's songs are so open, he lets you in. I can appreciate Pink Floyd, but I always feel like they're waving to me from the window. Zeppelin is more immediately engaging.

[Sneelock]

Abstain-a-vous.
Zep rules but I think Floyd did something very important.
They made a few records that are designed to be listened to from beginning to end.
Newer fans still listen to those records that way.
I’m “an album guy” so this is no small thing.

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Mar 1, 2020 0:32:06 GMT Sneelock said:

Abstain-a-vous.
Zep rules but I think Floyd did something very important.
They made a few records that are designed to be listened to from beginning to end.
Newer fans still listen to those records that way.
I’m “an album guy” so this is no small thing.

My guitar teacher was telling me that young people still ask to learn Floyd songs more than any other classic rock group.

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Both are comfort food. I would love for Zep to do an elaborate Pink Floyd Early/Later Years series of boxes. But Page has too much of his self image/esteem wrapped up in Zep to ever allow a warts and all series.

I love Floyd's '68-'72 era, RickFloyd, when Rick Wright did most of the improvisational heavy lifting. It is not all successful, but it's a nice searching of the melodic with a balance of consonance and dissonance. Floyd were a very British institution ( they were not beguiled by America in the way Zep were/had to be), and allowed to flounder and meander in those '68-'72 years that would not be allowed for any major label band post 1972.

And then there is the wonder that is SydFloyd, all chaotic acid drenched paisley and ever so brief, only really touched by Hendrix.