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Posted: June 24 2013 at 06:33
Snow Dog wrote:
ArturdeLara wrote:
Snow Dog wrote:
^Pink F;oyd are mainstream too.
I said mainstream garbage (some of their earlier stuff is alright though). Anyway, Floyd and Stones are both mainstream, but for very different reasons...
A bit unfair to call the Stones garbage.
Well, it depends on your musical taste. I personally can't stand most of the songs i know from them. I know they had an earlier psychedelic/baroque phase and I've listened to Their Satanic Majesties Request which is a nice and quite underrated album. I've also listened to some really good songs from Between the Buttons. But after that earlier phase, they just became uninteresting and shallow IMO. The use of the word "garbage" was obviously an exaggeration though
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Posted: June 24 2013 at 06:23
ArturdeLara wrote:
Snow Dog wrote:
^Pink F;oyd are mainstream too.
I said mainstream garbage (some of their earlier stuff is alright though). Anyway, Floyd and Stones are both mainstream, but for very different reasons...
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Posted: June 24 2013 at 06:17
Snow Dog wrote:
^Pink F;oyd are mainstream too.
I said mainstream garbage (some of their earlier stuff is alright though). Anyway, Floyd and Stones are both mainstream, but for very different reasons...
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Posted: June 23 2013 at 02:49
Stones v Beatles
Queen v Pink Floyd
Genesis v Yes
Led Zep v Black Sabbath
those match ups make more sense to me
There are Stones tracks I really like. Ruby Tuesday tends to be overlooked but that is as good as any Beatles songs. Paint It Black is another I like.
Jagger/ Richards wrote The First Cut Is The Deepest which was the first solo hit for PP Arnold who of course had the prog connection with The Nice who started as her backing band.
I'm a Floyd guy for sure. No question. Also, it's hard to measure or compare the success of these 2 bands because both have done so well on so many levels, especially financially.
I'm not really familiar with the Rollers except for some of their hits, but I'm very familiar with Pink Floyd. And I think Floyd's music has more depth to it. However I wouldn't play any of their songs at a party, but the Rolling Stones can often fit in those situations.
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Posted: June 21 2013 at 14:45
I like 'em both but I've listened to Floyd more. Although I listen to the Stones more nowadays. Also I wouldn't call either the greatest. I wouldn't really call any band the greatest but if I was forced to I would say "The Beatles", just because there are enough people who really believe that to do the arguing for me so it saves me the effort of arguing the point one way or the other.
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Posted: June 21 2013 at 09:31
Both have sold albums by the lorry load, but to be frank I never liked the Stones at all. There's are probably about four stones tunes that I can tolerate, and even they get annoying due to crap vocals.
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