# 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:** 8
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### Author:  [@nevermore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevermore)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-like-better-led-zeppelin-or-pink-floyd/405644/81 "2007-05-29T21:18:37Z")
[QUOTE=DfrntBreign]
This is like asking me who I love more; my Mother or my Father.
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I could not more emphatically second this comment.
(aka, EXACTLY.)
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### Author:  [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-like-better-led-zeppelin-or-pink-floyd/405644/82 "2007-05-29T21:22:49Z")
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> Gotta be Zep for me. I love the “tight but loose” sound on the heavy stuff, and the rootsy sound on their acoustics.
See when i want tight and heavy I go for Scorpions, Ratt, Judas Priest, AC/DC, Dio, Metallica, or Alice Cooper. I want roots I go for Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters, Koko taylor, and pinetop Perkins. If I want to sit back and enjoy, I go for Pink Floyd or something orchestral like Stravinsky. All very different genre’s but I have no problem getting around Led Zepplin. They aren’t heavy, they aren’t blues, they aren’t relaxing, and they aren’t structurally interesting. I can find nothing they do that someone else doesn’t do better. YMMV of course.
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### Author:  [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-like-better-led-zeppelin-or-pink-floyd/405644/83 "2007-05-29T21:30:11Z")
Led Zeppelin is my pick. Pink Floyd does nothing for me.
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-like-better-led-zeppelin-or-pink-floyd/405644/84 "2007-05-29T21:34:52Z")
[QUOTE=Yookeroo]
I agree they are pretentious, but I don’t care.
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They’d be pretentious if they had to pretend. Considering they really _were_\* as good as they thought they were, I don’t think it counts.
You can pry my PF out of my cold, stiff hands when I’m dead.
(I just saw Roger Waters in concert less than a week ago, btw. It was the second time I’ve seen him on this tour. It was awesome.)
\*yes, I know that is just my opinion, but it’s my very firmly held opinion and it isn’t likely to change anytime soon. You don’t have to agree.
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-like-better-led-zeppelin-or-pink-floyd/405644/85 "2007-05-29T21:38:45Z")
Annnd I continue reading the thread and see that AHunter3 beat me to my point. (curse youuuuu!)
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### Author:  [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-like-better-led-zeppelin-or-pink-floyd/405644/86 "2007-05-29T22:11:18Z")
I don’t relate to Floyd like I used to when I was heavy into marijuana. I don’t relate to Zeppelin like I did when I was heavy into alcohol.
Of the two, I much prefer Led Zeppelin. While both bands did some really heavy music, a lot of Zeppelin’s earlier bluesey stuff had a great beat. After a while Pink Floyd’s introspective stuff can get boring and stuffy. As a matter of fact, both bands had been overplayed so much that around 1987 I was pretty much burned out on both.
After a few years’ break from both bands, I like the more extroverted sound of Zeppelin and their strong base in blues rhythms.
And Physical Graffiti is a solid album, all the way through both disks.
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### Author:  [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-like-better-led-zeppelin-or-pink-floyd/405644/87 "2007-05-29T22:40:12Z")
[QUOTE=OpalCat]
(I just saw Roger Waters in concert less than a week ago, btw. It was the second time I’ve seen him on this tour. It was awesome.)
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June 15th in Irvine, man! I can’t wait! This’ll be my 4th time seeing RW solo. 🆒
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-like-better-led-zeppelin-or-pink-floyd/405644/88 "2007-05-29T23:28:02Z")
[QUOTE=Astroboy14]
June 15th in Irvine, man! I can’t wait! This’ll be my 4th time seeing RW solo. 🆒
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I saw Pink Floyd just once, in 1975 (no, not for 20 minutes). This was about five or six months before _Wish You Were Here_ was released. The first hour of the show was all unreleased material: they opened with “Raving and Drooling” and “You’ve Got to Be Crazy” (prototype versions of “Sheep” and “Dogs” respectively), and then an extended “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” with “Have a Cigar” in the middle. After an intermission, they played all of _Dark Side of the Moon_, and encored with “Echoes.”
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