The Doors vs. Pink Floyd
 

Which of these physcadelic hard rockin' bands do you prefer and why?

Tough call, i like alot of the doors but not everything and the same can be said for pink floyd, although i think pink floyds music is more orchastrated and better written. Id have to say for me, its pink floyd, songs like Hey You gives me chills when i hear them and can get me daydreaming whereas not many doors songs do that. The End is the closest that i can think of that even compares.

Definitely Floyd.
The rest of The Doors(except Jim Morrison) had to do a lot of ego-busting to be a read band. It's impossible to think of The Doors without thinking of Morrison. Pink Floyd had the talent, they had the chemistry as a band(well, not entirely true, there were huge rivalries), and they had the vision to produce, what was it, 17 albums, most of those being huge hits? I don't think it's a contest.

Meh, I say The Doors....
Floyd did have alot more albums...but its quality not quantity.
The Doors wouldn't have had any more albums even if Jim would've lived, because he hated his rock stardom after a while and wanted out, and he wanted to be a poet.
I dunno, I love both bands, but The Doors are it for me, Jim is a legend and always will be...he was/is the best frontman Rock has ever seen and probably ever will see....and he was a GREAT song writer.
Ray Manzerak was a good keys player...and it added originality to the band...
Robby Krieger had a very original guitar style, and made alot of The Doors songs sound really great like "Moonlight Drive"....
John Densmore wasn't that great so I wont say anything about him....

only prop i got to give him is that he had to pay attention to what jim was doing rather than playing the song, everytime jim improvised, he had to as well.

Yeah, but Waters had the vision to go anywhere he needed to go. He was only a bassist, but he basically became the frontman.
Wright could do anything Floyd needed him to do, so could Mason. And Gilmour was off the wall, he had the intensity to take Barrett's spot.
Though no one could truly take place of Syd Barrett, he was a poetic legend..

But still, just because they had 17 albums doesn't mean that most of them are dry rot. They're all worth listening to. People just like to pick favorites.

Floyd had much more of a vision, and Morrison was a drunken buffoon posing in front of an underground that loved him. He was a latter-day vomit puppet.

If you knew anything about Morrison, you'd think differently about him...
I have read 2 books on him...
Maybe you should read on him too before you go runnin' your mouth like that.

Ps. I am sure you probably saw the movie, but that doesnt really count for much...it was very inacurate.

I like the Doors, but it's gotta be Floyd. Shine on, Wish, Cigar, Money, Time, Gig, Dogs, Echoes etc so many awesome songs/albums

But yes undoubtedly some albums stand out more than others

floyd , floyd , and floyd

Oh holy crap The Doors. The doors were innovative and passionate, not to say that Floyd wasn't (by the way im getting sick of having to pre-emptivly ward off trite attacks) but the doors were on fire and Floyd you can sleep to.

Im not even going to bother to explain it, I just say the doors for miles.

This is A very hard question...The doors/Jim Morrison were sooo Creative.But FLoyd was even more creative id say....i think Jim Morrison and the doors had a more interesting life....but im going to have to hit up Pink Floyd as being better.....

morrison was a monster, i could and have listen to him all night not floyd, theyed put me to sleep. the big difference was morrison could really sing. he had a style of his own. break on through, roadhouse blues, riders in the storm,touch me,spanish caravan, just to name a few, can you imagine the doors without morrison, i don't think so. i listen to a local band play this stuff every thurs. wow they are great also, come to my town and see. later all. oh if i haven't mentioned it i am big on the doors.

couldn't agree more....the doors all the way....

Ahh, I won't try to say any thing.... but pink floyd, they're just too big, doors are wonderful, but floyd.

this is really hard becasue i love both of these bands. i would pick pink floyd because they truly are great and in terms of technical capability, they would totally whip the doors, but the doors had charisma and near total dominance of the west coast psychedelic scene in the late 60's

Pink Floyd by a long shot.

it's a tough call, but i gotta go with the doors just because of songs like "the crystal ship". but floyd's "wish you were here" is one of my favorite albums of all time, along with "piper at the gates of dawn" and "meddle".

I love both bands, but....

Better Musicians = The Doors

Better Music = Pink Floyd

Preference = Pink Floyd

IMO :)

stop this thing with the fav band vs fav band
it sucks, really
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I'm afraid I will have to disagree with you..I don't believe Jim was the best frontman rock has ever seen. Just because the underground scene loved him to bits, doesn't mean everyone did. And you can't say 'ever will see' because we've seen better front men than him already. IMO and you can argue but I belive both Freddy and Alice better frontman than Jim. Freddy was also a better singer. Yes, he was a great songwriter but so was Barret, and Waters/Gilmour partnership. Pink Floyd win IMO, Floyd were just so innovative, an dtheir music like Felix said just gives me chills especially 'comfortbaly numb.' They were just made better, more accesible music.

i like pink floyds music better, alotta doors stuff sounds the same, though i love it all. and floyd had a better guitarist.

pink floyd.. innovative, zany, passionate and intricate. they pushed the boundaries with what they did. and be as consistent as they have for as long as they have takes something. the doors were good but really nothing special to me.

Pink Floyd were the better musicians...

Better guitarist, Waters was a great bassist. Mason solid drummer and both bands had great keyboard players. Tho wright used synth as well =/

pink floyd for sure. not because of their skill or any reason like that, i just prefer them to the doors.

Not sure if it even makes much sense to compare the two really: One basically set out as a blues based outfit that helped create a psychedelic musical environment that the other thrived and grew from. Both were groundbreaking and awesome, and while both made music that could loosely be described as psychedelic, it's arguable that they were playing on the same field, especially as the Floyd had a much longer / later career, allowing for more development and growth.

Maybe a better question would be - who was the greater psychedelic poet: Syd Barret or Jim Morrison?
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Not really...I would judge it like so.

Densmore >>> Mason
Manzerek > Wright
Krieger < Gilmour

I cant really compare bassists, since The Doors didnt have one, but i would consider them to be the more skilled musicians. Either way, i still prefer Pink Floyd and i consider them the greater band, so i vote for them.

I like Pink Doors the best. With gilmour, morrison, manzereck and mason.:)

Agreed. Though if i had to choose, i would say Floyd. Morrison's lyrics kick ass, and Gilmour's solos are awesome.

pink floyd.

though i really don't hear similarities between the two.

I'm with you on that one. Gilmour's solos are unique, and quite good despite the criticism you hear about how he favors the major scale during solos. I feel that the scales you play don't matter, it's all about how it sounds, and his solos sound awesome.
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He looks so respectable nowadays, it makes me laugh.

Gilmour is one of my favorites, and so is Krieger, i think Krieger is very VERY underrated.

gilmour is very well rounded

yeah i have the dvd of the making of the dark side, and its got all the members nowadays, except for barrett of course, and they are all so proper and respectable. I love watching gilmour play, and rick wright for that matter. I think that richard wright has the greatest musical grasp and knowledge of scales and progressions of anyone in the group, he is very knowledgable.

I don't know, what I have heard by the doors I don't see krieger's playing all that outstanding, maybe i'm not listening close enought. He came up with some good riffs and all, but I think manzereck is the musical genious of the group

i don't get the fascination with gilmour. i never found him to be well rounded, or really an innovative guitarist. but im still going to have to go with pink floyd. something about the doors makes me want to kill hippies. but floyd i can chill too.

I prefer the Doors. Mainly due to the fact my dad grew up in the 60's and has loads of their material, so ive heard more of their stuff and from what ive heard i think its better

Peace Frog has a fecking awesome riff, and his playing on LA.Women and Light My Fire is outstanding.

I like both, but I prefer the Doors.

The Doors are psychadelic and mellow without being overly bombastic.

i will have to get peace frog, and yeah l.a. woman is a great song, with really good drumming too. Another song that has some impressive guitar now that I think of it is spanish caravan, the opening part is beautiful.

The Doors for me.
I find pink floyd boring.