Procol Harum vs Black Sabbath

 in this poll it is important to focus on the whole aspects of the band, musicianship, longvidaty, album quality, song-writing

which band features the best musicianship, drumming, guitars, vocasls, bass, contrast in dynamics between light and dark in the music, what contrasts the two bands

like which band has the best drumming, the drummin by B.J Wilson and Bill Ward

who is the best guitarsists, Iommi or Trower/Mick Grabham

Brooker or Ozzy/DIo


i notice one thing, both bands like to play dark music, moody music, powerfull music, Black Sabbath is the founder of heavy metal, the doomy type of metal, but Procol Harum have a certain darkness to theri music that i would name doom ish,

Procol Harum are a British rock band, formed in 1967, which contributed to the development of progressive rock, and by extension, symphonic rock. Their best-known recording is their 1967 single "A Whiter Shade of Pale".^[1] Although noted for its baroque and classical influence, Procol Harum's music also embraces the blues, R&B and soul.

Genres Baroque rock, art rock, psychedelic rock, progressive rock, symphonic rock, blues rock

Black Sabbath are an English rock band, formed in Aston, Birmingham in 1969 by Ozzy Osbourne (lead vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Geezer Butler (bass guitar), and Bill Ward (drums). The band has since experienced multiple line-up changes, with Tony Iommi the only constant presence in the band through the years.Black sabbaths deep sound comes from the blue scale which has the Diminished fifth or also known as the tritone Originally formed in 1968 as a heavy blues rock band named Earth and renamed to Black Sabbath in 1969,^[1] the band began incorporating occult and horror-inspired lyrics with tuned-down guitars and achieving multiple platinum records in the 1970s. Despite an association with occult and horror themes, Black Sabbath also composed songs dealing with social instability, political corruption, the dangers of drug abuse and apocalyptic prophesies of the horrors of war.

Genres Heavy metal

Procol Harum.  I like the Ozzy Sabbath a bunch though. But Procol at their best (e.g Shine on Brightly thru Broken Barricades) are almost untouchable.

(btw, I'm not judging by musical ability; that's not too relevant for me personally)


Edited by HolyMoly - April 17 2012 at 10:20

Black Sabbath are in my top-5 so that's an easy choice

I could understand comparing maybe the Moody Blues to Procol Harem but Sabbath? It's like comparing Richard Simmons to Mike Tyson. I dunno. Sabbath I guess.

Osbourne.

Procol Harum

I don't really know much Procol Harum other than that one song that was really famous, so I won't vote. But I do love Sabbath's Master of Reality.

I do like Procol Harum in large doses, but I have actually overdosed on Sabbath many times.

Easy for me - Sabbath.

Black Sabbath on the basis of overall consistency. I love Procol Harem, but their albums are very inconsistent IMO.