Pink Floyd, Hands Down. 100% No contest......Basically everything Pink Floyd (Waters Gilmour, Mason, Wright) has ever done as a foursome. Gilmour/Waters Solo stuff isn't as good. Also Syd Barrett is a Genious.

Echoes > Everything

Pink Floyd is 10 times better than Dream Theater. (PF is my favorite band btw haha)

same here

Pink Floyd is slightly more bearable than Dream Theater.

how can you ask which is better? they are two completely different forms of music...However i do enjoy pink flyod much more, mainly when im just chilling out...i like Dt when I'm up and about, change of seasons hands down favourite song

Pink Floyd all the way.

Dream Theater are part of the reason that I chose the name "ihateguitarists" a while back. I can't stand that extremely obnoxious style of playing. Since when did playing the guitar become more of an athletic activity than a musical one? Just because you can play really fast doesn't mean you can write songs worth the crap. Dream Theater prove this.

Not to mention, Pink Floyd are awesome! <3

^^^

I like this mans style :D

Great point

Pink Floyd by a landslide.

I've always found Pink Floyd easier to listen to, plus their lyrical content and album themes were always good (excluding The Division Bell, I have no liking for that album).

Whenever I listen to Pink Floyd I'm always relaxed and loving the music. Which I find hard to do with Dream Theater because of the insanely long songs and often times boring lyrical content. I'm 19.

all members of dream theater are masters of their instrument.....but the lyrical content is really garbage....I mean i'm all for the 15-20-25 min EPIC songs, but once those lyrics kick in.......man that can make or break it.....And Echoes had Great Lyrics

Haha, couldnt agree with you more.

There's not very many of the 'Big Dawg's', That are in the same level as a unique talent, In comparison to Pink Floyd within the history of Classic Rock. Let alone, Bands that are hard to characterize what style of music they should be classified in. I would suggest 'Steely Dan' vs. 'Pink Floyd'? That would only be more fair to Dream Theater by all right's. Maybe, Dream Theater vs. Queensryche, or even better 'Winger'? (just kidding) go on with the main thread (subject).

VocalsBass makes an excellent point.

However, since I must choose, I'll go with Pink Floyd by far. I've listened to their music my entire life, and when I hear their amazing music it just means alot to me.

Do Dream Theater actually write lyrics or do they just hold open a copy of '1001 80s metal cliches' and stick a pin in it blindfolded?

Okay. Operation Mindcrime is like all of DT albums rolled into one tidy CD, minus the mindless solos. Queensryche demonstrated more creativity and originality on one album, than DT has over 9.

Oh....I agree with you 100% 'almauro'. Thats why I mentioned Winger also. I dont care much for DT myself. So someone that knows their music better than I, would be better at picking a band that would be a good match for DT. The thing is, people tend to twist or simply just misunderstand a statement (Post). I like Queensryche very much, I just mentioned them because they hit the music scene closer to the same time & decade as DT did. compared to the decade Pink Floyd hit the scene. It was the 70s or even sooner if I stand correct?

Well I'm 44 and DT is and has been my favorite band for several years. I grew up listening to PF and they aren't even in the same class as DT musically.

So you are an individual, with your opinion. You have your likes. & dislikes, Even if it isnt the same opinion as the majority vote. And so, (That should be respected). I do not hate DT, as a band, I simply have my own opinions, & favorites also. So I agree, D.T. is definatly! Not in the same class with Floyd.

I would agree that DT is much more talented instrument wise, but creatively they are def lacking compared to PF.

Dream who? ...

Both are talented bands, but I don't 'Feel' DT the way I do when 'Meddle' is on the turntable.
Techincal ability is on DT's side, but let's not forget that Dave is a pretty damn good guitar player.

(Strats and compressors baby!)

The guy who fixed my boiler has technical ability.
Doesn't mean I want to hear him sing though.

Thats a pretty crappy analogy. Weither someone is skilled at fixing boilers is irrelevant to weither or not he would be a good singer. If someone is skilled at singing, well, then that IS relevant, if the style of music demands a skilled singer.

Pink Floyd

that was a ridiculously easy choice.

Yet i'm still willing to bet boilerman can make better music than Dream Theater.

I think it's incomparable. I'll go for Pink Floyd :)

I wasn't talking about the 'skill' of singing.
My point is that you can be technical in music or in anything else , it makes no bearing on whether what you have to say is of any interest or not.

A handful of chords , a bit of originality & a purpose is all you need at the end of the day.

Returning to the premise of the thread..

When Pink Floyd started their purpose was to blow people's minds

The only purpose I can see in Dream Theater is to write really awful lyrics full of cliches over self indulgent twaddle and bore any non muso's to death.

LMAO.

You're my favourite member on here and all, but come on... that was a bad analogy. :D


By the way, I love the Damo Suzuki avatar. I met him earlier this year while he was touring and got his autograph. I chatted to him for a bit and he asked me for a cigarette. :D

I personally think that Pink Floyd is a better band and I like there music alot better, but Dream Theatre they are very talented and they are very good, but I like Pink Floyd better.

Dream Theater is talented as ****, but they don't hold a candle to the mighty Floyd.

I like pink floyd much better than dream theater mostly because their acoustics are better, they got more slow kinda fall asleepish songs, and the lyrics are really deep.. you cant really sit there for 30 minutes trying to understand what message DT is trying to portray. Another part (however small) is the time difference between them. I had a dad who was like the biggest pink floyd enthusiast in the world so im rather biased.. haha

They are just prog for two different types of people.

DT is for the angsty and alienated teens.

Floyd is for the pretentious and alienated teens.


Come on, you have to admit prog wouldn't have its -meager- popularity if it wasn't for 'the other kids.' This also goes for metal and indie (however taking the extremes of the above archetypes).
Punk and rock don't count because they are marshaled by pop-style exploitation, so they fall loosely in that category.



And just to let you know, I am not biased on this issue at all... I hate both bands equally.

...those are all sub-genres of rock.

I kind of mean the 'PUNK RAWK' and 'ROCK 'N ROLL ******' (good song btw) camps of popular music.

What was the point in this thread?
Pink Floyd are by far and away the best band...

Ditto.

Definatly Pink Floyd. Dream Theater may have the better musicanship and even though im a fan i dont think they have the albums to stand up to Pink Floyd's back catatlogue. Albums like Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, The Wall etc are timeless classics

Pink Floyd. I mean Piper was amazing, as were DSoTM, The Wall, Animals, Wish You Were Here, Saucerful of Secrets, Atom Heart Mother, and Meddle.

It's kinda hard to top that. And I'm 18

Pink Floyd are so much better

Pink Floyd were legendary, and wrote music that will still be remembered in 50 years. Dream Theater will die out soon after they stop recording. Nobody that doesn't play an instrument could sit through an hour of dream theater. Hell I'm an 8 year guitarist and bassist and i still get bored of that wanking ****e.