It just takes me some place no Beatles song can, Do you know any with such feeling as that Floyd Masterpiece?

I dare ya?

Thanks Daza:music:

hey jude comes close for me

the Long and Unwinding road...

Caveat: I consider side 2 of Abbey Road to be one song, so with that in mind - I prefer side 2 of Abbey Road.

the Long and Unwinding road... :yes:very clever I know I made a error in spelling and it appears maybe an error in judgement, I think your choice of song comes very close to being better(But not quite):no:

Daza.

Uncomfortably.. Numb?


How about Eleanor Rigby.

A Day In The Life

most beatles songs are way easier to dance to, that i know for sure.

This is the second thread in a week or so comparing Pink Floyd and the Beatles (the other being about DSOTM vs. Rubber Soul). What is with the sudden need to compare these 2 bands? Something got in the water supply? :headscrat

There are Beatles songs I like as much, but I'm not sure if any put me in quite the same mood as (Un?)comfortably Numb. Mostly very different styles (e.g., Get Back, Day Tripper). More apples and oranges, or perhaps figs and steak.

I don't get it myself.

The Beatles and Pink Floyd are such completely different types of music you might as well compare Dolly Parton and Diana Krall

The Beatles for the most part were Pop music meant for AM radio Pink Floyd is more or the mind bending thought provoking psychedelic album music.

Uncomfortably Numb ? Ok, howzabout "I Don't Wanna Hold Your Hand"? Or maybe "Please, Don't Please Me"?

This is the second thread in a week or so comparing Pink Floyd and the Beatles (the other being about DSOTM vs. Rubber Soul). What is with the sudden need to compare these 2 bands?

It's entirely pointless and that seems to be the point.

In a way, "Tomorrow Never Knows" comes close.

i'm seeing double

200 years from now music scholars will be studying the works of Lennon and McCartney, just as Bach, Beethoven and Mozart are today. I doubt very much Pink Floyd will be in the cirriculum.

200 years from now music scholars will be studying the works of Lennon and McCartney, just as Bach, Beethoven and Mozart are today. I doubt very much Pink Floyd will be in the circulum.

No, I think those same scholars will be studying Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart. The Beatles and Pink Floyd are rock bands, but I don't think anything can be said that elevates one above the other musically (I guess the Beatles made more money). They are not even in direct competition as far as I am concerned, different styles for the most part. I never cared for the early Beatles stuff nor the really early or abstract Pink Floyd. I will say this, I rarely listen to Beatles entire albums, mainly songs I like, whereas with bands like Pink Floyd and even newer bands like Radiohead, I listen from start to finish.

I don't get it myself.

+1 :no:

There are no Beatles songs that can compare nor come close to David Gilmour's brilliant guitar solo on Comfortably Numb.(Footage 2.05 to 2.36)
This solo is full of expression and emotion.Gilmour can say more with a few notes on his guitar that others cant say with 100 notes.
The Beatles said it more with Lyrics then with music.
IMHO

I think I Am The Walrus comes close. The only thing missing is the guitar solo.

A day in the life is my favorite Beatles song.
Although these are 2 completely different variances of "rock and roll", either one has some very good music that will be listened to for many more decades to come. :music:

If I had to pick one it would by While My Guitar Gently Weeps but that's just me. This does seem pointless. Why would you want them to be similar?

No song can be compared to CN. One of the best guitar solos of all time. The Beatles: Just an annoying group of Brits playing POP Music, and Ringo one of the worst drummer of all times. Now if taken by himself I must say that John Lennon is one of the greeates musicians.
Sorry, just my opinion

Honestly, why does there need to be a song that came close? Did PF ever do a song that came close to, say, "Norwegian Wood"?

Sorry, just my opinion

agreed, sorry opinion

Uncomfortably.. Numb?


How about Eleanor Rigby.

I'll second that.

This is the second thread in a week or so comparing Pink Floyd and the Beatles (the other being about DSOTM vs. Rubber Soul). What is with the sudden need to compare these 2 bands? Something got in the water supply? :headscrat

There are Beatles songs I like as much, but I'm not sure if any put me in quite the same mood as (Un?)comfortably Numb. Mostly very different styles (e.g., Get Back, Day Tripper). More apples and oranges, or perhaps figs and steak.

:ntwrthy: Ha! I feel the same way!!!
I would like to propose switching this topic to: Do you find the Patridge Family "Sound Magazine" album better or equal to Uriah Heep's "Look At Yourself" album. They're from the same time period - so we should compare the artistic merits of both. By the way, how do we all feel about DSOTM?:scratch2:

For the sake of the discussion, I will select She Said She Said, especially after listening to the rest of the album preceding this cut:



She said "I know what it's like to be dead.
I know what it is to be sad"
And she's making me feel like I've never been born.

I said "Who put all those things in your head?
Things that make me feel that I'm mad
And you're making me feel like I've never been born."

She said "you don't understand what I said"
I said "No, no, no, you're wrong"
When I was a boy everything was right
Everything was right

I said "Even though you know what you know
I know that I'm ready to leave
'Cause you're making me feel like I've never been born."

She said "you don't understand what I said"
I said "No, no, no, you're wrong"
When I was a boy everything was right
Everything was right

I said "Even though you know what you know
I know that I'm ready to leave
'Cause you're making me feel like I've never been born."

She said , she said "I know what it's like to be dead"
("I know what it's like to be dead")

I know what it is to be sad...

To me, this song has a similar tone and head trip. However, the main difference is that She Said She Said is a dialogue between two people, while Comfortably Numb is a monologue.

While Gilmour's impeccable playing still gives me shivers, I have always been impressed with Harrison's work on Revolver. Not to mention the LSD influence on Revolver parallels the idea of being Comfortably Numb, i.e. tripping.

It's like that "would you rather" game from elementry school. I like the Beatles. I'm not crazy about Pink Floyd. So sue me.

The Beatles: Just an annoying group of Brits playing POP Music, and Ringo one of the worst drummer of all times. Now if taken by himself I must say that John Lennon is one of the greeates musicians.
Sorry, just my opinion

Speaking of annoying...nice threadcrap.

You don't have to wait 200 years---musicologists have already been doing that for some time.


200 years from now music scholars will be studying the works of Lennon and McCartney, just as Bach, Beethoven and Mozart are today.

I like that one Pink Floyd song- the one that's really slow with the kind of shimmery guitars that's dark and moody.

Wait a minute...

No song can be compared to CN. One of the best guitar solos of all time. The Beatles: Just an annoying group of Brits playing POP Music, and Ringo one of the worst drummer of all times. Now if taken by himself I must say that John Lennon is one of the greeates musicians.
Sorry, just my opinion

Got to be the most inane comment on this or any other thread. If you ask other drummers, Ringo is the bomb. He pretty much created the model that all subsequent rock drummers followed. He was not a great drummer in the sense that Gene Krupa, Ginger Baker, or Neil Pert was/is-that is to say a virtuoso drummer-but he was very musical who could intuitively play the drums precisely as needed for the Beatles. Without Ringo, there would never have been a "Beatles."

As to the music, the Beatles were the single most influential band in rock and their songwriting ability has yet to have been matched in the genre.

Pink Floyd is great. I love pretty much everything they did between Umma-Gumma and The Wall, inclusive. Very musical, very imaginative, and very trippy. Fun to listen to but definitely lacking the legacy and impact of the Beatles on music.

To compare the two is-as was earlier stated-to compare apples and oranges. A more reasonable comparison to Pink Floyd might be King Crimson, Rush, or even the Moody Blues.

"Sorry, just my opinion."

To compare the two is-as was earlier stated-to compare apples and oranges.

The Beatles would be the Apples.

The Beatles would be the Apples.

Ow...missed that one. +10 pts.:D

Okay, but what about George Jones "He Stopped Loving Her Today?" Disregarding the current remuneration for poultry embryos in Cathay, of course.

Hey daza....

It's Comfortably Numb.

While My Guitar Gently Sleeps + many, many others.

This is making me....

Uncomfortably ______!

:D

"I've 'not' Got a Feeling" (from 'Let it Be') ?

John

Is there a Frank Sinatra song that can come close to Wagner's Ring cycle? :scratch2:

Is there a Sinead O'conner song that can come close to Waylon Jenning's Duke's of Hazzard theme song?
:D

I don't think the Beatles and Pink Floyd play in the same arena, so I don't think that one song can compare to another. But that's just my opinion. I like Pink Floyd a lot, and Comfortably Numb isn't even in my top 10 songs of theirs, to my ears. It's just so subjective, and I don't see the point.

There's a Wilco song that sounds to me like they ripped off Comfortably Numb, though, off of their last album. Whatever the single was, as that's the only song off of that album I've heard.

I Love both! (Beatles and Waters/Floyd) but I`ve never cried when listening to Waters/Floyd... I have done that many times (of joy) when listening to Beatles.. (weird, yeah... hope no shrink reads this) ;)

So I guess they hit a "special" nerve, with me anyways...

:music:

I`ve never cried when listening to Waters/Floyd... I have done that many times (of joy) when listening to Beatles..

I'm man enough to admit that I know exactly what you're talking about. Some of their best work is decieving. The first hundred times you listen to it you say "yah, that's pretty good". Then one day, out of nowhere, you say "ohhhh. I get it now. That's brilliant!"

Hey daza....

It's Comfortably Numb.
Thanks But I know :yes:

I Love both! (Beatles and Waters/Floyd) but I`ve never cried when listening to Waters/Floyd... I have done that many times (of joy) when listening to Beatles.. (weird, yeah... hope no shrink reads this) ;)

So I guess they hit a "special" nerve, with me anyways...

:music:

I'm the opposite. The subject matter on Floyd's The Final Cut almost brings me to tears. Maybe not even so much the music as the intensity of the delivery. A lot of people don't like this album, yet I listen to it more than any other Floyd release.