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Prog Wars: Pink Floyd vs. RUSH

Pink Floyd VS. RUSH

  • Pink Floyd

    Votes: 99 39.8%

  • Rush

    Votes: 113 45.4%

  • Carrots!

    Votes: 37 14.9%
  • Total voters
    249
#23
This is the first time I've ever heard anyone try to say that Floyd is not prog... interesting. I'd vote for a tie. I like Rush's heaviness and bass work more... but I think Floyd has a lot more variety (not that Rush isn't varied, just that Pink Floyd is more so.)
 
#25
I can't see how this is a good comparison. Pink Floyd is the more progressive of the two bands. Rush has the better musicians. Both have great songs, and not so great songs.

They are two legendary bands, and I can't imagine a world without both of them.

CARROTS.
 
#29
30 years ago it would have been 70/30 Rush over PF. As the years have passed that has inverted. A large part of it is that I have lost all my affection for NP as a drummer. I find his parts to be stiff, over-wrought and joyless. I've always felt that way about his lyrics. The only thing that really keeps my interest with Rush anymore are AL's guitar parts. I don't dislike Rush, I'll still turn up anything off of Moving Pictures when it comes up on rock radio but at home when I reach for a C.D., it's PF much more often than Rush.
 
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#30
Pink Floyd played with non-traditional instruments; used non-traditional arrangements; incorporated sound effects; did concept albums...

... how can anyone, with a straight face, try to claim they were not PROGRESSIVE? The were one of the most progressive bands of all time! Sure, they did their share of straight ahead stadium rock, and started out pretty much psychedelic, but even their psychedelic music was somewhat progressive. It sure outlasted all the other psychedelic music of the time! I'm not aware of anything Rush did, musically, that Pink Floyd didn't do before them. Don't get me wrong; I LOVE Rush, but Pink Floyd had thematic albums, fifteen minute songs, and unusual time signatures before Rush had done anything beyond straight up blues/rock.

I guess since the thread is called "Prog Wars," I have to change my vote from "Carrots" to "Pink Floyd," as I just made the case that Pink Floyd was FAR more progressive than Rush. Rush had "Caress of Steel," "2112," "A Farewell to Kings," and "Hemispheres." Those were the only truly progressive albums they ever did.

Pink Floyd had "Ummagumma," "Atom Heart Mother," "Meddle," "The Dark Side of the Moon," "Wish You Were Here," and "Animals," all of which are progressive, and really, "The Wall," as mainstream as it was, should be considered progressive as well, as it certainly had a lot of progressive elements to it.

Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?
 
#31
Definitely said:
Yes came before PF, Yes is a million times more progressive than PF!
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Yes, King Crimson and Jethro Tull are probably more progressive than Pink Floyd or Rush, but that's not what the thread is about.

And I would hardly say "a million times more progressive." I think that's silly. Yes's most progressive piece, "Close to the Edge," is quite comparable to "Echoes."
 
#32
I have to go with Floyd as well. I've been listening to them for 40 years and started listening to Rush in '76. At the time, I liked Rush better because Geddy's playing knocked me out. But over time, Floyd's music has much more staying power to me. Sure, Rush has now done it longer, but their sound is very sterile to my ears. Floyd flows through like a brook followed by a tsunami followed by a warm sunny day. And Rush keeps plodding along mechanically without a groove to be heard. Virtuosos? Certainly.
 
#39
mellowinman said:
Yes, King Crimson and Jethro Tull are probably more progressive than Pink Floyd or Rush, but that's not what the thread is about.

And I would hardly say "a million times more progressive." I think that's silly. Yes's most progressive piece, "Close to the Edge," is quite comparable to "Echoes."
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Yes' most progressive piece was not Close To The Edge by any means, Tales From Topographic Oceans' four epics outweigh Close To The Edge on an experimental level. That album is one of my winners for prog albums of all time, with Hemispheres alongside it. Nothing has touched me musically the way those two albums did, Cygnus Book II had me imagining the story as a movie every time I listened, even Circumstances still makes me picture things, not sure what it is but that album is just everything to me. TFTO is a close second, but in a Rush vs. PF thread that is why I take Rush. PF may have moody stuff, but it just doesn't hit me like Rush's mythical fantasy concepts.
 
#40
Pink Floyd for me. They did all the prog-type things before most bands. And unlike most other bands, they managed to make it sound musical to everyone. Most people didn't realize they were listening to a band be experimental, they just knew it was good. Rush didn't have that ability, except for Moving Pictures.
 

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