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tiger fancini
Joined: 21 Mar 2006
Location: Testicles for Eyes
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1. The Stone Roses
2. The Beatles (yawn, I know, but its how I feel)
3. I am the resurection
4. Something |
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PaperTiger
Joined: 31 May 2005
Location: Ulaanbataar
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 3:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Hmm, you may have to admit that the Stone Roses best song is "This Is the One". Some LSD, this song, and high quality headphones will open your head big time. |
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tiger fancini
Joined: 21 Mar 2006
Location: Testicles for Eyes
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Hmm, you may have to admit that the Stone Roses best song is "This Is the One". Some LSD, this song, and high quality headphones will open your head big time. |
Understood, but I still think 'resurection' is ultimately better... And I mean the proper version, not the cut-to-three-and-a-half-minutes
radio-friendly job. |
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Woland
Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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Favorite band right now: Mor ve Otesi
Best of all time: The Beatles (I mean, really! Is there another option?)
Favorite Mor ve Otesi song: Dunya Yalan Soyluyor
Favorite Beatles Song: Very hard to narrow this down, but I'll go with Day Tripper |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Woland wrote: |
Favorite band right now: Mor ve Otesi
Best of all time: The Beatles (I mean, really! Is there another option?)
Favorite Mor ve Otesi song: Dunya Yalan Soyluyor
Favorite Beatles Song: Very hard to narrow this down, but I'll go with Day Tripper |
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Absolutely! Pink Floyd! |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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| SPINOZA wrote: |
| Woland wrote: |
Favorite band right now: Mor ve Otesi
Best of all time: The Beatles (I mean, really! Is there another option?)
Favorite Mor ve Otesi song: Dunya Yalan Soyluyor
Favorite Beatles Song: Very hard to narrow this down, but I'll go with Day Tripper |
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Absolutely! Pink Floyd! |
Yikes! Really? Explain yourself, Sir. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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The Floyd have done it all.....classical (Atom Heart Mother), acoustic (Meddle), electronica (Wish you were here), blues (Money), metal ('Run like Hell' off of 'The Wall'), punk (The Nile Song), Psychedelia (Syd Barrett era), dark spacerock Psychedelia (Saucerful of Secrets)...they've got an outstanding lyricist, a guitarist who's an all-time great and concentrates on the song and tunes rather than showing off, an excellent piano/keys player (not over-used, but used perfectly when used), a drummer with a totally distinctive style, and Gilmour/Wright/Waters sound great when they sing together on those huge Meddle/Dark Side of the Moon melodies. And their stuff is packed full of emotion and atmosphere, which is what it's all about.
The Floyd have done it all. I love the Beatles, but only Floyd can say they've clearly and directly influenced genres as varied as Metal and techno. |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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| SPINOZA wrote: |
The Floyd have done it all.....classical (Atom Heart Mother), acoustic (Meddle), electronica (Wish you were here), blues (Money), metal ('Run like Hell' off of 'The Wall'), punk (The Nile Song), Psychedelia (Syd Barrett era), dark spacerock Psychedelia (Saucerful of Secrets)...they've got an outstanding lyricist, a guitarist who's an all-time great and concentrates on the song and tunes rather than showing off, an excellent piano/keys player (not over-used, but used perfectly when used), a drummer with a totally distinctive style, and Gilmour/Wright/Waters sound great when they sing together on those huge Meddle/Dark Side of the Moon melodies. And their stuff is packed full of emotion and atmosphere, which is what it's all about.
The Floyd have done it all. I love the Beatles, but only Floyd can say they've clearly and directly influenced genres as varied as Metal and techno. |
That's fair. I just think they haven't got what the Beatles do on a very basic level of appeal, but my fave is Radiohead so I can't really say a thing about esoteric attempts at genre-bending/breaking/bouncing about. And hell, if basic appeal mattered at all there would be a few more votes for Brittney up there. |
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Woland
Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 6:00 am Post subject: |
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| SPINOZA wrote: |
| Woland wrote: |
Favorite band right now: Mor ve Otesi
Best of all time: The Beatles (I mean, really! Is there another option?)
Favorite Mor ve Otesi song: Dunya Yalan Soyluyor
Favorite Beatles Song: Very hard to narrow this down, but I'll go with Day Tripper |
(see bold)
Absolutely! Pink Floyd! |
| SPINOZA wrote: |
The Floyd have done it all.....classical (Atom Heart Mother), acoustic (Meddle), electronica (Wish you were here), blues (Money), metal ('Run like Hell' off of 'The Wall'), punk (The Nile Song), Psychedelia (Syd Barrett era), dark spacerock Psychedelia (Saucerful of Secrets)...they've got an outstanding lyricist, a guitarist who's an all-time great and concentrates on the song and tunes rather than showing off, an excellent piano/keys player (not over-used, but used perfectly when used), a drummer with a totally distinctive style, and Gilmour/Wright/Waters sound great when they sing together on those huge Meddle/Dark Side of the Moon melodies. And their stuff is packed full of emotion and atmosphere, which is what it's all about.
The Floyd have done it all. I love the Beatles, but only Floyd can say they've clearly and directly influenced genres as varied as Metal and techno. |
Interesting argument, Spinoza. From how you've put it, the comparison of The Beatles and Pink Floyd is a bit of a hedgehog and fox comparison.
The Beatles did one thing - pop music (overlapping with rock) - but did it better than any band in history (and to more widely recognized social importance).
Pink Floyd has done a wider range of stuff and very well, but you can't really say that they were as dominant in any of those areas as The Beatles were in pop/rock.
In short, they aren't really comparable, except that they were bands. And so it comes down to a matter of taste. I'll stick with the Beatles for a few reasons, all products of my personal tastes. First, my general musical preference is the pop/rock genre they dominate. Second, they were so consistently good. With the exceptions of Mr. Moonlight and Revolution #9, every song they made is not just listenable, but memorable (= sticks in the head); I can't say the same for Pink Floyd, though I like a lot of their stuff.
Just based on this second criterion, I would rank The Kinks above Pink Floyd. But, again, this is a reflection of my tastes. And the variation in tastes is what makes threads like this interesting.
Odd side note: Mor ve Otesi, which I list as my current favorite band, have obviously been influenced in places by Pink Floyd; it was one of the first things I noticed about them. But I wouldn't say it is a sole or overwhelmingly strong influence. The harmonies MvO employ are often like The Beatles, though. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 6:21 am Post subject: |
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| I would rank The Kinks above Pink Floyd |
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