Tchan909 said:

Tool is great and all but their sound is so narrow compared to the wide range of sonic territory explored by Floyd. Compare Piper at the Gates of Dawn to The Wall, then compare Undertow to 10,000 days.

I enjoy variety and ongoing development of musical technique. Tool apparently doesn't.

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My opinion is that Tool is kind of like "a child" learning the ropes of psychedelic rock,

and Pink Floyd is the creator

but I'm slightly biased.

Jufin said:

Tool's idea of music is more perfecting a certain sound rather than experimenting, even though they do experiment, just not as much as Pink Floyd.  I personally prefer the intensity, feel, and lyrics of Tool than Pink Floyd.

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Tool's sound is quite unique. Don't get me wrong, I actually kind of just discovered them and have been enjoying them a fair bit. I just really enjoy the open-ended experimentation of Floyd. I also thought that was what the "progressive" genre was all about, but I could be wrong.

sam420 said:

I think good bands don't get recognised as easily today.  Floyd would have got their break and got into a mainstream media channel such as radio, and then got huge.  Now the primary media channel is the internet people have so much choice available to them that bands don't stand out and grow as explosively.  Which means you have to look for good music and not just complain about the mainstream being shit when all the mainstream caters to is 12 year old girls.

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pfxtc said:

Very very true,

like I said in my first post ( I think ), the Internet is a reason why the emergence of could-be great bands is limited.

hopefully things don't stay this way,

but they're gonna get worse

fuck technology.

sort of.

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Jufin said:

I really like Piper at the Gates of Dawn, easily my favorite one.  DSOTM is good as well, but I never really got into the others.  They just don't do it for me like Tool do...

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Anyone who likes Piper is cool in my book

Most say they don't like Pink Floyd after listening to The Wall once or twice (I can't stand that album btw) and blow them off, when their best material is DSOTM, Piper, Wish You Were Here, and others..

Tool just seems a little too dark for me, don't really dig the vibes that much. Pink Floyd's music always had a secondary meaning to it in my eyes, DSOTM especially. Very spiritual feeling to it. IMO

sam420 said:

pfxtc said:

Very very true,

like I said in my first post ( I think ), the Internet is a reason why the emergence of could-be great bands is limited.

hopefully things don't stay this way,

but they're gonna get worse

fuck technology.

sort of.

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you're missing the point.  things are great.  all you have to do is turn off your tv and download some great music.  there's way more choice available to us now, it's total musical freedom.  in the 60's you had to listen to what capitalism provided you with.

if i LOVE listening to people meowing like a cat and playing the harp, if that's my bag i could probably find it on the internet

if i love a tiny tiny subgenre of a genre, i can explore it in detail

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haha, I have 15 gigs of music and I'm an avid Dead Kennedys fan (GET OFF THE AIR MTV!)

idk, I have a hard time finding music that I like nowadays, it just really doesn't compare in my eyes.

but I'm very very very picky