Battle of the Bands Deep Purple VS Pink Floyd

[Far Rider]

I had no idea some of these votes were going to be this close, dividing TTR members into two camps,
and I wonder how often the two sides are similar for each vote.

I voted Pink Floyd here. While I give the slight edge in musical virtuosity to Deep Purple, that's not what rings my bell.
Thematically, lyrics, the 1970's period gave us the rise of the progressive rock concept album, after The Beatles,
The Stones, the Who, pioneered the format. While Floyd was deep into psychedelic music during that same period,
it can be argued they didn't release a full-on concept package until DSOTM. But after that, 1973, they were unstoppable,
and untoppable, by their musical peers of the time.

It takes a little more gumption, drive and artistry to forge a conceptual album, storytelling via an audio movie, and allowing
us to kick back with the cans for a side at a time, to enter a completely new world. Pink Floyd did it extremely well, giving
us a mix of ballads, and rockers, always stylistically diverse and extremely creative.

Dark Side of the Moon along is a modern musical masterpiece, and the total sum of Deep Purple's work pales against it.

Again, Alan Parsons had a strong hand in DSOTM, which I feel I need to mention. He's like the unmentioned fella who
deserves much credit for helping pull it together, and Floyd took that engineering/production style, expanded on it, and
it became their formula for continued success later on

I only hope we can all still be friends after this. Passions have been running a little high at times.

 

[Don O]

I only hope we can all still be friends after this. Passions have been running a little high at times.

 

[Clockworkmike]

Follow the money, your own. Go count the number of albums and CDs you own for each band from that time era. We voted with our $ back then, no mp3 or Spotify.

Yeah and AC/DC broke the bank lol

 

[CoyotesGator]

I only hope we can all still be friends after this. Passions have been running a little high at times.

Don't taze me Bro!

 

[bea]

Without giving any vote: its about the roots of prog rock. In the 70s, prog was well established, and even groups like Uriah heep played prog (Magician's Birthday, for example). Even Lemmy played prog rock at that time ;-)

Back to Purple: the original lineup was very much engaged in prog rock, and lineup II went into "classic rock" and hard rock.

Pink Floyd came earlier...

As for the output: both Purple and Pink Floyd had times where their musical output "peaked". And weaker times of development and of decay. I would not dare to rate one over the other, and if i needed to i would say "Yes" or "Gentle Giant". And there are many others, sometimes less well known bands with similar importance. Independent of style. Maybe Wishbone Ash or Renaissance. Maybe some of the earlier Krauts, say Kraan or Can.