The Beatles vs. Pink Floyd

Floyd every time, against anyone

No wait....

The Beatles are bigger than Jesus, I forgot!

The Beatles of course were a bigger influence, and made better pop songs, but we're on a progresive rock site, so Pink Floyd has to be the winner out of the two, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and The Wall, are all time prog classics.

Easy. Pink Floyd is the best band ever. Beatles bigger and more important. But - for me - not as good.

Beatles is good for beginning. A good starting point to climb Pink Floyd mountain.

This is, I presume, some kind of joke?

You know what, the thing with judging the Beatles is the fact that the Beatlemania still lives in the hearts of millions of people, so they judgment of Beatles's music is distorted. Let us see some 50 years from now when all the people who were alive in the 60s are dead, and let's see how the new generation will rate the Beatles and the Floyd.

But then again, to some people on this forum Radiohead is better than the Floyd, so you never know...

There isn't a Beatles song that was ever recorded that can make put me into another world like old Floyd can and does.

Originally posted by maani ten years after:   "However, the Beatles represent so much more than just music. They are nostalgia, history, politics, fashion, comedy, movies, growing up, drugs, front page news, biography, religion and love. They are larger than life. They are John, Paul, George and Ringo. They are the single iconic representation of an entire decade.  Pink Floyd can't compete with all that."   Superbly put!   Overmatik:   "You know what, the thing with judging the Beatles is the fact that the Beatlemania still lives in the hearts of millions of people, so they judgment of Beatles's music is distorted. Let us see some 50 years from now when all the people who were alive in the 60s are dead, and let's see how the new generation will rate the Beatles and the Floyd."   Actually, you have it exactly backward.  It is almost a certainty that 100 years from now, 200 years from now, 300 years from now, The Beatles' music will still be played - like Bach, Beethoven, Mozart - while Pink Floyd (as amazing as they are) will be a distant memory (like....Frescobaldi...LOL)   Peace.

Wow, I didn't know you had the ability to preview the future?  Just because you think that way doesn't mean it will happen, you know that, right?

What I can guarantee you is that 100 years from now Kanye West, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry won't be remembered, but that one is easy to foresee...

What I can guarantee you is that 100 years from now Kanye West, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry won't be remembered, but that one is easy to foresee...

Kanye and Katy? No. Gaga, possibly. We still remember Micheal Jackson and Elvis don't we. They were the pop monarchs of their day. And Elvis was over fifty years ago, who's to say he won't last another fifty?