re: Led Zeppelin vs. Pink Floyd

I'd agree that Rubber Soul as a whole has a psychedelic tinge to it.

Just reading a little bit about, the Beatles were doing tape feedback and having sitars and talking about drugs (Day Tripper) in their songs as early as '65

That's when most other bands that become "psychedelic" (Byrds, Beach Boys, etc) were still covering blues songs or writing silly pop songs and the Dead were still called the Warlocks and the acid tests had just started to be a thing

If thats Dylans influence on the Beatles I dunno probably, but they were definitely the first to do it

See i just dont consider the byrds or beach boys psychdelic. If you wanna be technical like that, bob dylan invented if not, it was the beatles and pink floyd.

If a sitar makes something psychedelic, then ravi shankar and his predecessors are the fathers of psychedlic music by a longshot

Floyd is more original,, LZ rocks harder, there is no "better" though.

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Posted by danman6336 quote: If a sitar makes something psychedelic, then ravi shankar and his predecessors are the fathers of psychedlic music by a longshot I think think's a fair thing to say The Beat generation was into Eastern music like that, and they were the precursors to "psychedelic rock" in the mid 60's

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We need to make a "sitar inspired music" thread. Triumviraye sponsored of course

To everyone that came in and put forth effort good job - the winner of this threas is pink floyd, the inventors of psychedelic rock.

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However such different music styles both are great, however none greater than Zeppelin for me.

I would tend to go with Zeppelin but then I listen to this LINK and I go back to Floyd.

Zeppelin would win in a walk if it weren't for the existence of Robert Plant and his histrionic vocals that make me want to build a time machine and strangle him in his infancy.

Floyd is very hit and miss for me, and that middle period after Piper and before Dark Side is pretty bad (I know true Floyd fans love those albums, but Ummagumma is tedious as hell). The Wall could probably stand to be a single record instead of a double, cutting out the filler. and Shine on Your Crazy Diamond doesn't need to be nine parts and 20 minutes. If they were a writer, I'd say they need an editor. But really, it's a band that famously hated one another, and their inability to work well together causes a lot of sprawl and bloat on their albums (have to pin this on Waters, who seems to be one of the more difficult people in music).

Zep wins because their rhythm section is unimpeachably awesome. JPJ and Bonzo are the bedrock of the band, and any band would kill for that duo. From that era, maybe only Yes has as great of a rhythm section.

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Shine on Your Crazy Diamond doesn't need to be nine parts and 20 minutes

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Shut your whore mouth. And the live side to Ummagumma is fantastic.