Beatles Vs. Stones Vs Led Zep Vs. Doors Vs. Pink Floyd

And Beatles is obv the answer even though Pink Floyd were also amazing.

The Doors? What are they doing there?

Opening.

Beatles by default.

Zeppelin<Floyd
I could quite happily live without hearing the Beatles, Stones or Doors (esp. the Stones) ever again, but take Led Zeppelin I-IV or Wish You Were Here from me and I would be disgruntled.

But then I was born in the last year of the Baby Boom according to the wikipedia definition.

Where's The Carpenters? Definitely more popular than The Doors or Pink Floyd at the time.

This is even a question? The Who trounce all decisively.

otm

Gooooooo Kinks!

Beatles by default.

-- Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 10:30 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Surely The Eagles deserve to be on this list ahead of The Doors? Or are The Doors really that popular in Norway?

The Rolling Stones.

Voted Beatles. The order that Geir listed them up there is pretty much how I'd rank them.

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Zeppelin any fucking day although if the Stones had packed it in after Some Girls it'd be them

SaraX3 def OTM.

o. nate otm

J0hn D basically otm, but I'd give them through Tattoo You or maybe Undercover

zeppelin

I was buying beer yesterday at the local liquor store and the guy behind the counter was playing the White Album. "Haven't listened to them in a while, but they really were the best, weren't they?" he said. "Them and Led Zep are my biggest influences." What they have influenced him to do, I know not.

Their influence on liquor peddling and selling lottery scratch off tickets is immense.

floyd in a second.

Who is missing?

Exactly.

hahahahaha

next poll: bob dylan vs. neil young vs. van morrison vs. tom waits

Girls Aloud vs Frank vs Mania vs Gabriela Climi morelike

sonic youth vs. men without hats

Andrew WK vs Dismemberment Plan vs Annie From Norway vs teddybears shtml

haha i'll rank em for you:

stones
led zep

pink floyd
beatles

doors

Beatles
Zep
Stones
Doors
Floyd

Floyd are probably 'better' than the Doors, but me and a mate had a brief 'get stoned and listen to The Doors' phase when we were 17 so I've some fond memories of them. They could put together a decent pop song when they weren't being side-tracked by ten minute organ solos and appalling beat poetry.

Stones
Beatles

Floyd
Led Zeppellin

way
way
way
way
way
way
way
way
way
down

Doors

The Doors never did much for me.

Beatles/Stones/Zep/Floyd

floyd
zep
doors
stones
beatles

Beatles
Zep
er...
that's it.

where are the who, they should be on this list

btw i really kind of hate the who, but they seem like they belong.

Sara Sara Sara OTM. Count this as another write-in ballot for the Who. If this poll is about baby boomer favorites then what no Motown?

too black, too strong

"the sixties", a decade which lasted long past 1975

Led Zeppelin

ha, i kept thinking about doing a similar poll. but i feared the inevitable "you left out X" complaints.

tho my list was the same except i had the who in place of the doors....(tho i kinda like the doors)

the answer is Zep.

I voting for the underground: the Lizard King!

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zeppelinstonesbeatlesfloyddoors.

People have asked what if the Stones cut it short at the end of the '70's . . . but what if Morrison hadn't croaked?

While as it stands they can't hang with the other four, I think even detractors would admit that the Doors had room for growth.

Count this as another write-in ballot for the Who.

And the thing is, all of those bands desperately wanted to be the Who at one time or another:

- Beatles: "I Feel Fine," "Helter Skelter," plus McCartney's admission in 1966 that "Dylan and the Who are two great influences."

- Stones: upset that the Who so dramatically upstaged them at their "Rock & Roll Circus"

- Led Zeppelin: Keith Moon coined the name, as the original lineup was to be Moon, Entwistle, Page and I forget who else -- so Page tried to get his own Moon in John Bonham.

- Doors: Morrison challenged Daltrey to a drinking battle backstage at the Isle of Wight; not only did Daltrey drink Morrison under the table, but Roger immediately thereafter sang a 2 1/2 hour set.

- Pink Floyd: Barrett owes the majority of his guitar-freakout vocabulary to Townshend, and Waters was/is a stone Townshend freak.

The Who made a fair amount of good or better music that I don't give a shit about

Despite all the people that say the Doors are quite good,
the Doors are actually quite good.

I voted Stones however.

I like all of these bands more than I do M.I.A., LCD Soundsystem, Radiohead, Arcade Fire, or Kanye West.

-- nicky lo-fi, Thursday, May 8, 2008 2:59 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link

what is even the point of this post? even mentioning those artists here is like bringing a knife to a gunfight.

The Doors are rather huge in terms of back catalogue sales, but it may be that they are more of a band who has been discovered afterwards and appealing to a younger fanbase. They did have two US #1 singles though, in spite of being a typical albums band.

This has me envisioning a diff version of the Big Chill: They don't listen to Marvin and CCR, but early Floyd, the Doors, etc. Full blown LSD orgies in their quaint, little beach house or wherever they were hanging.

tom d. we're kind of on the same page, xcept i need zep before the doors 4 sentimental reasons. i think, tho, that if i revisit the doors, this might change.

The Doors are awesome...even the crap albums are awesome crap...glitz'n'glitter on the surface, and completely hollow underneath, poetry so rancid that it's oblique, ideas so over-the-top and stupid-arty that they manage to be years ahead of their time...as opposed to the crap albums by the other bands mentioned which tend to be either pompous (Dark Side, Physical Graffiti) or samey (hello Rubber Soul) or just uninspired (really the question is what the hell are the Stones doing here???).

Also the Doors were part of the LA scene in the 60s which is I think prolley the coolest scene ever* (except for maybe London in the 1590s)

*no I am not forgetting about Manson...Capt. Beefheart cancels Manson out.

plus the Doors are the only band on here that influenced the Stooges...

(though really if you ask me it oughtta be Can vs. Capt. Beefheart vs. Dick Dale vs. The Yardbirds vs. Black Sabbath)

Nobody gave a shit about the Doors outside of Los Angeles until...

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Sabbath ftw in everything

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lol!

(btw nobody gave a shit about the doors until his psthumous nose-flared appearance on a Rolling Stone cover in 1981??? Weird.)

posthumous

(btw nobody gave a shit about the doors until his psthumous nose-flared appearance on a Rolling Stone cover in 1981??? Weird.)

Yeah outside of the Jim Ladd/KMET axis the Doors were kinda second-tier pop culture also rans - about as much attention as say The Kinks. That changed all around when "The End" was used in Apocalypse Now. This was a significant Big Deal at the time - not just for baby boomers but also for non-punk kids in high school who had plenty of alienation to spare, but couldn't deal with Joy Division, punk, what have you because it was too British, too intellectual, and not jock enough. Jocks and teenaged alcoholics needed something to come down to after that Van Halen album and the Doors albums were perfect for that. Teenaged pot smokers had Floyd. (at least until Moving Pictures came out)

Also in 1980, the local music press (and Manzarek himself) would NOT SHUT UP about what a Big Deal/legitimate/blahblah it was for Manzarek to produce those first X albums. I love X, but I wished to Cthulhu that someone would have stuck Manzarek in a pig or something.

The second single, "Light My Fire", became a smash hit in mid-1967, sold 1 million records and reached #1 on the Billboard Charts.
...
The band began to branch out from their initial form in their third LP, because they had exhausted their original repertoire and began writing new material. It became their first #1 LP and the single "Hello, I Love You" was their second and last US #1 single.
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1969 started with a sold out show at Madison Square Garden in New York on January 24 and with a successful new single, "Touch Me", (released in December 1968), which hit US #3.
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The Doors staged a return to form with their 1970 LP Morrison Hotel. Featuring a consistent, hard rock sound, the album's opener was "Roadhouse Blues". The record hit US #4 and revived their status among their fans and the rock press.
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The band continued to perform at arenas throughout the summer. Morrison faced trial in Miami in August, but the group made it to the Isle of Wight Festival on August 29. They performed alongside artists such as Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Joni Mitchell, Miles Davis and Sly & The Family Stone.
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The third post-Morrison album, An American Prayer, was released in 1978. It consisted of the band adding a musical track to recently rediscovered spoken-word recordings of Morrison reciting his poetry. The record was a commercial success

plus the Doors are the only band on here that influenced the Stooges...

'Cause it was only after the Stooges broke up that Keith Richards became Iggy's acknowledged hero.

I just dropped in to see what my o_0 was in ^

(Oh wait, I mean the quoted text)

Elvis Telecom OTM

Stones > Floyd > Zep > Beatles > Doors

but also

Stones > Floyd > Zep > Kinks > Zombies > Beatles > Doors

I like the Doors though

that rolling stone cover is ridiculous on about 20 different levels

this is all wrong anyhow.

boomer top 5: Beatles, Stones, Who, Beach Boys, Dylan

stoner top 5: Doors, Zep, Floyd, Hendrix, Sabbath

drugs u. money top 5: Can, Beefheart, Dick Dale, Sabbath, Yardbirds

big stoopid no duh on the Doors/Stooges connection, bcz it totally overlooks how the Ron Asheton and Dave Alexander took a high-school trip to Britain to meet the Beatles...who would have made a close second for my vote anyways since they invented dub (Rain) and techno (Tomorrow Never Knows) not to mention the second side of Abbey Road...

so yeah, sorry for being obnoxious, I get kinda excitable sometimes when I post.

(as far as the Stones go tho in relation to the Stooges, I think that every area where they had diverged/expanded from the Stones is pretty much everything I like about them, and pretty much what makes them relevant today)

Um anyways

a proper ranking for bands of the 70s and 60s goes as so

Floyd
Love
The Who
Nirvana (uk)
Pretty Things
David Bowie

-BIG GAP-
Led Zeppelin
The Kinks
Frank Zappa

-Big Gap-
Beatles
Rolling Stones

Why is everyone here rating Pink Floyd so high? They have like a couple good singles and a good soundtrack and the rest is fucking horrible. Stones and Zep may be the two best rock bands ever. Stones best moments are the best ever, Richards/Jagger's only rival as far as rock songwriting is Chuck Berry, but there is a ton of crap. Zeppelin has very little crap. Doors are great but not in the same league. Beatles great but I don't care about them much. Floyd horrible, just horrible.

Also in 1980, the local music press (and Manzarek himself) would NOT SHUT UP about what a Big Deal/legitimate/blahblah it was for Manzarek to produce those first X albums.

it's not like there's anything the least bit notable about the production on those albums. and he detracts significantly from the first x album with the silly-ass keyboard solo.

Why is everyone here rating Pink Floyd so high?

OTM. I have little use for anything by Floyd except for "Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2" - and that mainly because I like any rock song that features a childrens' choir.

"grocer jack, grocer jack..."

The Eagles maybe although I believe their audiences are the generation after the baby boomers first and foremost.

I agree, and I would say the same thing about Led Zeppelin.

Why is everyone here rating Pink Floyd so high?

Because the best music doesn't "rock"...

I agree, and I would say the same thing about Led Zeppelin.

By 1971, Led Zep were HUGE, and the generation after the baby boomers were just getting into buying singles, not even thinking about touching a typical album band like Led Zep.

In my mind, The Beatles are the fox (they do many things well), while the other four bands are hedgehogs (they each do one thing well).

So despite my personal preferences among these choices (early Stones trumps early Beatles; The Doors are far superior to Pink Floyd; while I like Zep, I'd rather have The Who), I'm gonna go with the fab four.

There's definitely some generational overlap in Zep fans. My parents were born in 1949 and definitely looked upon Zeppelin as something for the younger kids (though they were huge Beatles, Stones, Who, Doors fans...)

Led Zeppelin appealed to the generation that was too young for the Summer of Love, the younger siblings perhaps of those old enough to serve in Vietnam. The 16-year old in 1972 who was finally finding his own music after watching the Monkees as an 11-year old.

If anything, the Eagles might serve Boomers better since they became white-hot popular around the time that Boomers were beginning to turn 30 and listen to that crap.

I think of Led Zeppelin as being the Gods of all those "Dazed & Confused" bands that though they may be Boomers by age, appealed to that second-generation of rock n' roll fans much more.

out of these bands, i listened to a lot of led zep, doors, and pink floyd in high school. the only one i still put on is zeppelin.

The Stones own this poll. Just too many reasons to list.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Wow, big numbers!

Correct winner for once. Although Floyd would have deserved to be runnerup. :)

I stand by my earlier assertion. While I respect The Beatles I never listen to them, which is more than I listen to the Stones. Really, who can stand Jagger's horrible voice? Having said that I listen to both of them more than The Doors.

"Really, who can stand Jagger's horrible voice?"

At least 33 people!

Well obviously millions of people. But me, not so much.

The Doors? What are they doing there?

― Tom D., Wednesday, 7 May 2008 09:10 (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Opening.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 09:28 (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

solid

aw.

with the added layer of pun, love it

The Doors were LAST? How times have changed.

They'd be last in this poll now.

#strangedaysmono

otm

#whenthemusic'sover