# Who do you like better: Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-like-better-led-zeppelin-or-pink-floyd/405644
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 26, 2007, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-like-better-led-zeppelin-or-pink-floyd/405644 "2007-05-26T21:50:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2007, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-like-better-led-zeppelin-or-pink-floyd/405644/61 "2007-05-27T21:17:28Z")
I was never a big fan of Dark Side of the Moon. I prefer Animals, Atom Heart Mother (If I have time the sweet is good.), The Wall, Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Saucerful of Secrets, Meddle and Obscured by the Clouds.
I was never a big fan of Wish You Were Here either.
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### Author:  [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2007, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-like-better-led-zeppelin-or-pink-floyd/405644/62 "2007-05-27T22:01:57Z")
[QUOTE=Snarky\_Kong]
Led Zeppelin. Their 6 first albums are all absofuckinglutely amazing.
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You’re saying **Presence** isn’t absofuckinglutely amazing?
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### Author:  [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2007, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-like-better-led-zeppelin-or-pink-floyd/405644/63 "2007-05-28T21:19:57Z")
I guess it depends if I’m in the mood to Rock out, or Zone out.
Now I’m Seeing the imagery from ‘Run Like Hell’ to the strains of ‘The Immigrant Song’.
Thanks for twisting those synapses.
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### Author:  [@Boggette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boggette)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2007, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-like-better-led-zeppelin-or-pink-floyd/405644/64 "2007-05-28T21:33:47Z")
Pink Floyd. No comparison in my book, although I do like both.
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### Author:  [@brownsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownsfan)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2007, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-like-better-led-zeppelin-or-pink-floyd/405644/65 "2007-05-28T21:54:57Z")
Never saw LZ live, but went to PF Animals and Division Bell concerts at the old Cleveland Muni Stadium. They were far and away the best concerts I’ve ever attended, and I’ve been to hundreds. It’s almost like seeing God; words don’t suffice. The shows were so huge that I felt sorry for the folks with seats close to the stage. You had to be at least beyond the 50-yard line to take it all in.
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### Author:  [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2007, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-like-better-led-zeppelin-or-pink-floyd/405644/66 "2007-05-28T22:02:44Z")
They were the Rock band and the first New Age band. Floyd never rocks like Zep. Floyd was always good, but they were never rock. Advantage: Zeppelin
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### Author:  [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2007, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-like-better-led-zeppelin-or-pink-floyd/405644/67 "2007-05-28T22:27:58Z")
Jesus Christ, this is the question that Mia Wallace should have asked Vincent Vega in _Pulp Fiction_, “not Beatles man or Elvis man.”
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### Author:  [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2007, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-like-better-led-zeppelin-or-pink-floyd/405644/68 "2007-05-28T23:53:42Z")
Love 'em both, but gotta give the edge to Floyd.
I’m with the “radio station changing” crowd. Floyd comes on, _no one_ touches the tuning buttons!
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-like-better-led-zeppelin-or-pink-floyd/405644/69 "2007-05-29T00:13:23Z")
I may have no taste at all, but I like Floyd and Zep equally. I can’t choose, I’ll happily listen to a Zep album, followed by a Floyd album, or even both groups shuffled together. I don’t see how Zep and Floyd can be incompatible in any way. I’ll even listen to post-Waters Floyd.
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### Author:  [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-like-better-led-zeppelin-or-pink-floyd/405644/70 "2007-05-29T18:22:56Z")
I enjoy them both for very different reasons. I see no need to make a choice - but I am glad that the OP, who is new to both bands, finds it worthwhile to explore them both.
Zep makes me want to play guitar and rock out.
Floyd makes me want to sink into the sonic experience they create.
What’s not to love?
And at least we have a different discussion compared to the regular “Beatles vs. Stones” type of discussion - to which, again, I must answer: Both!
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-like-better-led-zeppelin-or-pink-floyd/405644/71 "2007-05-29T18:29:00Z")
[QUOTE=DfrntBreign]
This is like asking me who I love more; my Mother or my Father.
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Well, which one is it?
I do like the Pink but I loves me some Led.
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-like-better-led-zeppelin-or-pink-floyd/405644/72 "2007-05-29T18:44:19Z")
Pink Floyd. They are gods.
I just like Led Zep because of its good associations. It was always playing at parties. If not for that, I’d only ever listen to Stairway to Heaven (and that would happen about once every ten years).
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-like-better-led-zeppelin-or-pink-floyd/405644/73 "2007-05-29T19:00:16Z")
Well, there are two paths you can go by. But in the long run I’ll take … Floyd.
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### Author:  [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-like-better-led-zeppelin-or-pink-floyd/405644/74 "2007-05-29T19:08:52Z")
[QUOTE=enipla]
This would be traitorous to say in front of Zep Fans, but I kept thinking “Heart does Led Zeppelin better than Led Zeppelin does”.
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I think almost everyone covers Zep better than Zep does themselves. I think Zep is wonderfully crafted and original music, but with near universal shitty execution from Plant, Page, and Co.
This is nearly the opposite of Floyd, which at its root is musically pretty simplistic and trite, but with transendant execution and production that most other bands can only dream of.
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### Author:  [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-like-better-led-zeppelin-or-pink-floyd/405644/75 "2007-05-29T19:14:37Z")
Wow. Nobody else has made this point yet. For me, it totally depends on the situation. If I’m in a quiet, relaxed environment (especially if I’m feeling introspective), nothing beats Pink Floyd.
In the car on a road trip, I’ll be 30 seconds into a Pink Floyd song before I can even _hear_ it over the road noise. I far prefer listening to Zeppelin in the car, especially given how loud I usually crank it.
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-like-better-led-zeppelin-or-pink-floyd/405644/76 "2007-05-29T19:21:00Z")
Another vote for the Floyd. I don’t dislike Zeppelin, but I’m not a fan. Stopped buying their albums after the first three, and I no longer have even those.
Hipsters prefer the original Barrett-era Floyd; the general public favors the Waters-dominated era that began with **Dark Side of the Moon**. I prefer Pink Floyd from when they were a _band_ with no dominant personality. **Ummagumma** and **Atom Heart Mother** are the high points for me. What the world really needs is a DVD release of the 1970 KQED concert, or a complete-show live album of one of those space-jammed-out gigs from that period with the extended arrangement of “Embryo.”
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-like-better-led-zeppelin-or-pink-floyd/405644/77 "2007-05-29T20:07:20Z")
Pink Floyd by a million.
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### Author:  [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-like-better-led-zeppelin-or-pink-floyd/405644/78 "2007-05-29T20:45:11Z")
20 years I would have said Pink Floyd in a heartbeat over any band. But I have grown somewhat weary of them. I probably rate them ahead of Zep, but behind other bands.
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### Author:  [@Theodore\_Striker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Theodore_Striker)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-like-better-led-zeppelin-or-pink-floyd/405644/79 "2007-05-29T20:48:30Z")
Gotta be Zep for me. I love the “tight but loose” sound on the heavy stuff, and the rootsy sound on their acoustics. Technically, they can be a lot more sound as musicians when they try to be, but as far as blowing the doors off the place, LZ II in the CD player is a heckuva good start.
Not to say anything bad about Floyd, but I do have to be in the right state of mind to listen to most of their songs.
LZ comes off to me as more visceral, and PF more chilling. I guess it’s tough for me to explain it, but I would take the Mighty Led Zeppelin all day long.
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### Author:  [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-like-better-led-zeppelin-or-pink-floyd/405644/80 "2007-05-29T21:13:57Z")
[QUOTE=GargoyleWB]
I think almost everyone covers Zep better than Zep does themselves. I think Zep is wonderfully crafted and original music, but with near universal shitty execution from Plant, Page, and Co.
This is nearly the opposite of Floyd, which at its root is musically pretty simplistic and trite, but with transendant execution and production that most other bands can only dream of.
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A lot of Zep isn’t _original_ exactly - it is blues tunes re-made. Wasn’t there a lot of litigation over this at one point?
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