My personal favorite Floyd album is "Animals", where Gilmour's solo on "Pigs" starts with one note held, bent, vibratoed, and bent some more for about 8-10 bars while the chord progression changes around it. He then launches into melodic, not complicated, but beautiful steps upward (I don't know the terminology, maybe arpeggios?). It's so simple, yet moving...I fell in love with that solo when I was a kid of 13 and still love it today at 45.
Jack White, what I've heard of him, sounds like a cheap imitation of Thurston Moore and Sonic Youth, which I never thought much of either. I hate that "art" rock sound...the whole "if I sound bad and dissonant enough, maybe everyone will think I'm doing it on purpose and think I'm brilliant". You find that a lot in post-MTV guitarists, those who saw videos first, then decided they wanted to play guitar.
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My personal favorite Floyd album is "Animals", where Gilmour's solo on "Pigs" starts with one note held, bent, vibratoed, and bent some more for about 8-10 bars while the chord progression changes around it. Animals is my favorite too, but my favorite moment is on "Dogs", on the solo just after Waters' vocals.