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Pink Fkoyd
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04-28-2005, 08:53 PM
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I recently have had a debate with a few of my friends and we were thinking on who is better, Pink Floyd or Metallica? I know that this has already gone across the u.s but I also want some other anwsers with this question also. I personally like Pink Floyd, I don't like Metallica beacuse it is way overrated and in my oppion is a no good band. I have listened to many of their songs and I haven't found one that I have liked. Maybe I am listening to the wrong albums? But Pink floyd actually has a better sound, nick mason, roger waters, david giloure (sp?) and syd barret know what they are doing. And metallica doesn't realy imho. Any comments
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04-28-2005, 09:01 PM
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Pink Floyd all the way. I don't like all of their stuff, but definately better than Metallica. Metallica, I can relate to a few of their songs, but just a few. They're just another metal band you know? Pink Floyd is Floyd man. You can't go anywhere else for Floyd. 
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Pink Floyd, hands down!
They will be like the Beatles or the Stones.. still remembered when Metallica is but a mote in a dust storm 
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I don't like any of them, but regardless of my personal taste in music, I do think Pink Floyd was more musically creative and more novel in their style. Whereas Metallica were typical of their genre, I don't think they added much to it, but I do think Pink Floyd contributed more to music in the sense that they were part of a movement that added new elements.
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Originally Posted by C Elegans I don't like any of them, but regardless of my personal taste in music, I do think Pink Floyd was more musically creative and more novel in their style. Whereas Metallica were typical of their genre, I don't think they added much to it, but I do think Pink Floyd contributed more to music in the sense that they were part of a movement that added new elements. | Most of wich is what I have thought CE.
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04-28-2005, 09:43 PM
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errr....didn't they define their genre?
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Originally Posted by CM errr....didn't they define their genre? | Pink Floyd sure as heck did!!! Metallica is just not all to great as pink floyd, I don't think anything is.
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Originally Posted by CM errr....didn't they define their genre? | That was before my time. No friggin clue.
Anyways, who likes Foghat? You know...the guys who did "Slowride"? Come on..... I know someone out there has to. 
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Originally Posted by Magrus That was before my time. No friggin clue.
Anyways, who likes Foghat? You know...the guys who did "Slowride"? Come on..... I know someone out there has to. | ... sounds oddly familiar.
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Originally Posted by Magrus That was before my time. No friggin clue.
Anyways, who likes Foghat? You know...the guys who did "Slowride"? Come on..... I know someone out there has to. | Foghat was a good band. A good, blues based rock band always gets me going.
As far as Pink Floyd VS Metallica, IMO they're so far apart on the music scale it's pointless to wonder who's better. I love them both, but the styles are so different it's too hard to compare the two.
As far as Metallica goes, they may not have originated the sound, but they were instrumental in progressing it from simple thrash at full speed to a place where it was ok to incorporate melodic touches and slower tempos. Songs like Fade to Black and Sanitarium were a part of that, and a lot of people were nervous when Metallica decided to put Fade to Black out for fear they'd be seen as selling out.That said, I much prefer pre Load Metallica to anything beyond that CD.
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Originally Posted by Bloodstalker Foghat was a good band. A good, blues based rock band always gets me going. | Love my Foghat.
Sanitarium and Fade to Black were two of my favorite songs of there's to be honest. It's something I can personally relate to. Something with real, human emotion involved with it. A lot of metal I don't get into because a lot of it, is just blah blah blah, we make noise and think up nonsense. Yeah, they're aggressive, but no true, emotional, real life attachment to what lyrics are in the song you know? I find that important in music.
Your right about Floyd and Metallica being so far different to be compared easily.
Metallica was a band that was crucial to making metal mainstream around when I was born. That's a simple fact. However, if they hadn't been around, someone else would have stepped in easily and done the same thing. I'm not so sure about Floyd they. They blazed a path in my opinion for music. Metallica just set up signs saying "here's a new path, try it out", they didn't invent really, or do anything new, just made what was new popular. Floyd has a certain unique flare to it don't you think? Quote: |
Originally Posted by Darth Zenemij ... sounds oddly familiar. | They did "I just wanna make love to you" too if that helps.
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I don't listen to neither Metallica nor Pink Floyd, and I don't personally care much for either  | | |
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Originally Posted by Xandax I don't listen to neither Metallica nor Pink Floyd, and I don't personally care much for either | Same here. Though if I had to choose between the two, I'd say Pink Floyd was less run-of-the-mill, more genre-important than Metallica.
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If you had asked this question in 1995 or so, it would have been an awful choice to make; both bands defined a genre. Floyd created a whole new type of music (seriously- what kind of band performs a concert in a venue with no fans? Crazy stuff!). Metallica redefined heavy metal. I am still a huge fan of both bands...
...but asking the question today- after that whole Napster thing, I kind of lost respect for Metallica. They started out as the quintessential underground band, but complaining about intellectual property rights made them seem greedy, old, and out of touch with their fans. It was kind of sad actually- these hardcore icons looked like whiny sellouts 
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Originally Posted by Xandax I don't listen to neither Metallica nor Pink Floyd, and I don't personally care much for either | I don't exactly remember where but in the northern u.s there was a pole; Pink Floyd v.s. Metallica.
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