Round 1 (early 1970s) - #5 Pink Floyd vs #12 Grateful Dead

[dnc]

The Grateful Dead is awful.

You guys are just turrible on this subject. They were basically one the first bands to ever not give a shit about selling albums and if the process became forever GRATE.

Major props to them on this.

It's smart to not care about selling albums when you make shitty music.

 

[YellowSnow]

The Grateful Dead is awful.

You guys are just turrible on this subject. They were basically one the first bands to ever not give a shit about selling albums and if the process became forever GRATE.

Major props to them on this.

It's smart to not care about selling albums when you make shitty music.

Black Crowes - 30,000,000
Smashing Pumpkins - 30,000,000

 

[BearsWiin]

Empty Spaces and When the Tigers Broke Free are better than anything the Dead evar put out, and they didn't even make it onto the fucking album

You know that Trucking topped the charts in Turlock in 1970, right? Thought you'd have a little more respek.

Shit music for a shit town

So serious question - would the Dead be getting slaughtered like this on a Cal message bored or might they get a bit more support?

You'd have a few annoyingly vocal Deadheads but most would go for Floyd. The Cal hippie reputation is overdone. The only concert I've ever been high at was Floyd at the Oakland Coliseum, which was packed. The Dead could never fill a stadium, even in the East Bay.

A football fan site is definitely not the demographic. I'm surprised though about them not being able to fill a stadium in the East Bay. I mean they were selling all of their shows in the 90's. They played the Oakland Coliseum like 6 times in '94 and 3 in '95.

Shows at the Greek, sure. A couple thousand. Maybe they got bigger after I left, but when I was a student, it was cool to say you liked them, but I rarely heard people actually listening to them.

Floyd is Floyd. The Dead don't compare, even in the Bay Area. They may have played the Oakland Coliseum 6 times in 1994, but they played to the same fucking crowd every time because the same people go again and again. It's a small rabid fanbase.

 

[RoadDawg55]

Glad this one is a blowout.

 

[Tequilla]

I voted purely because of Walton ... otherwise Floyd easily

 

[YellowSnow]

The Dead played Memorial Stadium in June of'94 and '95. As a teen boi living on Queen Anne at the time, it was funny and horrifying to see the hophead aging hippie mob take over the area.

I remember driving right next to the tent cities at like 13 years old wondering what the hell was going on.

More cartoons DNC?. There's pussy out there dude, really. Empty your stones in a hot beaver instead of a tissue for once. Chicks dont dig dudes who watch cartoons 24-7. Let that Peter loose...let er flap free in someone else's hand...it feels kinda nice

 

[LebamDawg]

only an asshole would pit these two agin each other

 

[IPukeOregonGrellow]

I still have nightmares about a couple of trustafarians singing along to Touch of Grey in the 13th Avenue Taco Bell.