Epic Decisions: Pink Floyd Vs Yes

M27Barney wrote: J-Man wrote: progkidjoel wrote: YES. No real competition for me... That's what I thought you would say, Joel Floyd ? - A pop band who did ONE BRILLIANT album - WYWH and one excellent track - Echoes and thats all folks. DSOTM - a well produced pop album nothing more. Floyd could and should have forgotten about the shekels and produced some REAL prog - instead they did pop that sold ZILLIONS !!!! Yes - Well CTTE is A dogs sense of smell and DSOTM is the sense of smell in an octogenarian smoker from smolensk - thats the gulf in class....

While Dark Side doesn't appeal to me as much as other people, a POP album?!?!?!?! Pink Floyd may not be the most complex band, but they are surely progressive.

Floyd should have ONE album in the top 1000 prog albums - and thats WYWH.

J-Man wrote: M27Barney wrote: J-Man wrote: M27Barney wrote: J-Man wrote: progkidjoel wrote: YES. No real competition for me... That's what I thought you would say, Joel Floyd ? - A pop band who did ONE BRILLIANT album - WYWH and one excellent track - Echoes and thats all folks. DSOTM - a well produced pop album nothing more. Floyd could and should have forgotten about the shekels and produced some REAL prog - instead they did pop that sold ZILLIONS !!!! Yes - Well CTTE is A dogs sense of smell and DSOTM is the sense of smell in an octogenarian smoker from smolensk - thats the gulf in class.... While Dark Side doesn't appeal to me as much as other people, a POP album?!?!?!?! Pink Floyd may not be the most complex band, but they are surely progressive.  Right on brother - How many people who loath progressive rock think that DSOTM is good? How many copies did it sell? WYWH was symphonic prog and so was Echoes and some of Animals - but good production, sound effects and short tracks do not make a truly progressive album. comparing DSOTM with CTTE, TFTO, SEBTP, Foxtrot, Nursery Cryme or any of the Flokis efforts is like comparing Real Madrid with a Sunday league pub team CTTE, TFTO, SEBTP, Foxtrot, Nursery Cryme, and the Flokis are ALL SYMPHONIC PROG!! Pink Floyd is Phychadelic/Space Rock. They should not be compared, being that they are two completely different types of prog. Death is considered prog. Pink Floyd is considered prog. Frank Zappa is considered prog. Tool is considered prog. Yes is considered prog. Should we compare Pink Floyd to Opeth? Not at all! You cannot listen to Pink Floyd expecting something in the vein of Yes.

Petrovsk Mizinski wrote: Pretty much all the PF stuff > Yes for me. I was never a fan of Howe's soloing style on electric guitar, always struck me as cold and mechanical sounding, whereas I feel a sense of warmth in Gilmour's solos.

Dark Side of the moon, or close to the edge? Dark Side Of The Moon

Wish you were here or I've seen all good people? Wish You Were Here

Hey you, or Heart of the sunrise? Heart Of The Sunrise, Yessongs Version

Echoes or the Gates of Delerium? Echoes

I like both bands, but in this instance Pink Floyd wins.

I'd prefer Floyd in general. Yes were really only electrifying for me in the Fragile/Close To The Edge period. Floyd have four or five truly great albums. In addition, Floyd had some of the greatest lyrics in rock music ever, Anderson's were usually doing something, and occasionally brilliant, but he's still not close to Waters in terms of emotional power.

Answering the questions: Close To The Edge, Wish You Were Here, Heart Of The Sunrise, Echoes.

M27Barney wrote: Floyd should have ONE album in the top 1000 prog albums - and thats WYWH. Matter of opinion of course - but Floyd are simply far too liked by non-proggies - It may be inverse snobbery but Id like to think that your average boy-zone fan would rather die than listen to Monsters and Men, however that same fan would also not mind Floyd...........

Why did I not think of these points before.......what a genius.

J-Man wrote: progkidjoel wrote: YES. No real competition for me... That's what I thought you would say, Joel

I am quite the YES fanboy

progkidjoel wrote: Dark Side of the moon, or close to the edge? Wish you were here or I've seen all good people? Hey you, or Heart of the sunrise? Echoes or the Gates of Delerium? Anyone care to take a guess what I chose?

No prizes for guessing correctly, I presume, Joel?

As regards the thread, you simply cannot compare the two bands, and, as ever, the responses depend upon personal tastes.

Both are seminal bands whose influence will last well beyond the grave. People will either be playing their music, or making music influenced by them, for many years to come, the mark of truly great artists. I will not bother choosing, I think they are both crucial and great.

BTW - M27Barney's post that PF are a POP band? I've seen some ridiculous comments in my time, but this easily gets first prize. You may as well call Yes a pop band for releasing, amongst others, Wondrous Stories.

Prog bands ARE ALLOWED to have commercial success, you know.

It's like asking "is it better John Mc Laughlin or Eric Clapton?". Very technical the first, sometimes too much and very intuitive and introspective the second. They simply can't be compared, and I like both the two, as well as I like both Floyds and Yes, in different moments of the day, of course.