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I removed that from my post in order to bring up a wider discussion in the official PT thread. Maybe merge. Cheers.

i like them both, they are music for the wandering mind, and that can relate to alot of people i think. but pink floyd has alot more publicity and pizzaz to their music. very psychedelic

It's not fair to compare DT to Pink Floyd. DT is Progressive Metal. PF is progressive rock. Pink Floyd is also a much more well known band

Edit:

I love both bands alot. I have to say though as far as songs go, I find I like more DT songs than PF

PF: Comfortably Numb, Time, The Turning Away, SOYCD, ABIW are pretty much all I like

DT: The Glass Prison, Under a Glass Moon, Forsaken, Panic Attack, Octavarium, Stream of Consciousness, As I Am

I'm 21 Btw

I prefer Dream Theater, though Pink Floyd is damned great.

No. Obviously you are in the wrong board. Maybe even the wrong forum. And btw, if you actually took the time to listen to Dream Theater instead of going by what your other dork friend tell you, you'd realize that Dream Theater's music has changed quite a bit sense they started. And by your definition of Progressive Music, they would be classified as such.

Keep up the good work champ

That post was made before we had a prog forum , and I have every right being here being a fan of Psychedelia and a couple of prog bands , and more importantly Pink Floyd who this thread also happens to be about

I have heard about as much as I can tolerate of that band thank you and that was my own decision nobody else was involved in making me laugh everytime I hear this band.

So? Why should I care the basics are still the same , dull stadium rock with excessive soloing , cheesy lyrics and a frontman who still thinks it's 1987.

Why? what's progressive about a 10 minute guitar solo?

Only if you keep being a fanboy sonny :thumb:

I LOL at the 11 people who voted for DT.

10 of those votes are all from Don's IP *























































*May or may not be true

Believe it or not a lot of people actually like Dream Theater.

There may be a lot who like Dream Theater, but those who voted for them over Pink Floyd are just plain stupid.

Ugh, Pink Floyd hands down.
It's ridiculous to even compare the two.

I definitely prefer the music of Pink Floyd, although I think Dream Theater are the more talented musicians. Bands can be fast, technical, be as tight as they come, but there was an emotion behind the music of Pink Floyd, that is completely void in the music of Dream Theater. Do I still like DT? You betcha...

dream theatre are technically brilliant but that does not make it good music. They are unemotional and lackluster songwriters.
Pink floyd on the other hand can write songs, the primary pursuit of most bands.

^This.

that one is rather tough for me, i really enjoy both bands. naturally i would go with dream theater for personal speacial reasons - but i am gonna go with pink floyd.

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metal vs stoner rock? ahh im gonna go with Pink Floyd stoner rock is better.

Pink Floyd isn't stoner rock, not even close. I would say a few songs of theirs are space rock, but there's no Floyd album that comes close to being called a stoner rock act.

lol genres

I had to say something. He was asking for it.

You can get stoned to almost anything. On the contrary, PF is very trippy.

pink floyd

and yeah
its 2 trippy 2 trip 2
4 sure
they are acid rock

PF!!!!!! definitely. good classic stuff with a uncomfortable yet accepting feeling? weird to describe, but meh :P

i remember since i was in high school,it was cool to be a dt fan. I had a few cds, a shirt which i usually wore at school, and i always talked about how ignorant was anybody who didn't knew a change of seasons,metropolis,a scene from a memory and etc.i even went to a concert to see them in toronto when i was there on holiday and i felt i was complete...now i can even listen to a single song of theirs...they are just showing off...and the truth is they always did.come on,who needs 4 minute guitar or drum solos?!?!?!?yes,they are a few of the most talented musicians out there,but they lack essence.
as for Pink Floyd...i don't know...right now i feel they are if not the best,they are definitely one of the best bands ever,who captured their time and era perfectly.they produced few of the greatest recordings ever and they influenced fans and musicians for 40 years.
so yeah, i voted pink floyd

Pink Floyd....with out a doubt.

Or Stepping on a Pile of **** In Flames VS Getting Laid while listening to Deep Purple

very well put :thumb:

Thats no contest. It's like comparing a fine, tender, "melt-in-your-mouth" steak to Mickey D's ground beef. No competition.

Now I'm hungry, dammit...

aw yeh

Hmn, I pretty much agree with everyone on Pink Floyd. Sorry to the DT-fanboys, but maybe this thread would have been better off if you had picked a group more on DT's level to compare with (AKA Symphony X or maybe Redemption).

I do give Dream Theater the credit, however, of giving birth to both Images and Words and Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, which in my opinion were impressive efforts from an otherwise boring group of musicians. It's just a shame Awake, Scenes of a Memory Pt. 2, and their other 6 studio albums are fairly lame in comparison to those two. :(

At this point, I think John Petrucci should just go join some other band and knife LaBrie through the back before he goes...:love:

Give me Fates Warning anyday.

Amen to that (generally). :)

Pink Floyd is one of my favourite bands ever so I'm not going to go against them.

However, I do like Dream Theater too but it's not much of a comparison. I can't really get in-depth but Pink Floyd just seems more creative and different.

I never heard of Dream Theater before today. Time to jump over to the punk forum.

Agreed, DT have no chance against Pink Floyd!

Dream Theater is prog...?

And, I really like Dream Theater, but is this even a contest? I don't know how 11 people mustered up the balls to vote against Pink Floyd when they're obviously better.

There are at least 11 idiots in this forum...

I'm probably one of them.


I think I agree with ihateguitarists in that Dream Theatre's style kind of gets very obnoxious at times.

Pink Floyd FTW.