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.
You’re saying Presence isn’t absofuckinglutely amazing?
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.
Pink Floyd. No comparison in my book, although I do like both.
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.
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
Jesus Christ, this is the question that Mia Wallace should have asked Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction, “not Beatles man or Elvis man.”
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!
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.
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!
Well, which one is it?
I do like the Pink but I loves me some Led.
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).
Well, there are two paths you can go by. But in the long run I’ll take … Floyd.
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.
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.
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.”
Pink Floyd by a million.
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.
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.
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?