What's so great about Led Zepplin?


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07/27/2003 12:21 pm
I'm not so well acquainted with the rock history and its heroes that made em'. Heck, I only found out about Guns and Roses after reading posts saying how great Slash is. So name some good Led Zepplin classics for me to marvel at :)
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07/27/2003 4:26 pm
Hmm.. hardest question I've ever had to answer. :roll eyes: Any song by led zepplein is kick a$$. I'd go with anything off of the "Led Zepplelin IV" album, just because every song on that album is a hit. Stairway to heaven, Whole Lotta love, Dazed and Confused, The Lemon Song (great bass and guitar work). I'm not gonna bother listing anymore cause the list won't end.
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07/27/2003 4:49 pm
Some people don't like thier style buy "stairway to heaven" is a song everyone like, and it has a great solo.
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07/28/2003 7:33 pm
But Stairway isn't there best song. I think Dazed and Confused beats alot of songs, and their version of "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" is awesome.
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07/28/2003 11:17 pm
Black Dog, baby... Black Dog...
Some cool mellow stuff to stone out to .... "Going to California", Definitely "The Lemon Song"

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Whole Lotta Love

Damn there are a ton of them... Hell pick an album, it doesn't matter which one you pick, they're like Oreos, they're all good...
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07/29/2003 1:59 am
well john has got to be one of the top 5 best drummers ever jimi page is one of the best guitar players ever and nobody can come close to singing like robert plant but u guys missed a really good song to list "MOBY DICK" is one of my fav zep songs and on the live cd with the 15min drum solo is great
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07/29/2003 4:54 pm
Nice to hear you guys think Zep rock but you're all forgetting the question.....whats so great about them? The way they inspired the generations that came after them, the way they had stage presence few others could match and the way they could work together on stage effortlessly and create music that sounded like nobody elses and 30 years on from their first record people are still discovering their music and talking about the on internet forums.......

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07/29/2003 8:16 pm
Your right, they are just good.
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07/29/2003 9:56 pm
They pretty much started the whole Hard Rock thing. You gotta remember before '68 the Beatles were the thing. And although they were great they weren't exactly hard rock and they didn't have that "ATTITUDE". That's what I think made them legendary. You gotta remember things that they laided down in the late 60's and 70's is still being used today. Not too many bands have influenced music the way Led Zeppelin did.
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07/29/2003 11:27 pm
Exactly, Led Zeppelin were the first and only (at the time) hard rock band.
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07/30/2003 6:27 pm
I'm not a fan of Jimmy's "Shredding" solos, but I like the more meaningful stuff they produced.

Personally, i don't think they are that great, but just a good band.
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08/01/2003 5:11 am
I thought you were basically going to say that Led Zepellin aren't all that,Andy,and get into the trouble I got into when I came here and said The Beatles weren't all that.I was walloped,though I'm soooo argumentative folks just got tired of arguing and left the "slipknotkid"(as ponyone would call them)alone.
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08/01/2003 2:12 pm
Led Zeppelin=Mother of Hard Rock
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10/06/2003 7:21 pm
I wouldnt say Led Zeppelin invented hard-rock. Long before they appeared in scene, the Beatles and other bands had been creating that "new sound".
However, it is true that Zeppelin was the first hard-rcok band ever, that is, the first band that really got into hard-rock.

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10/06/2003 8:02 pm
I don't really like them at all, I think they're boring, and they sound like ****.

However, I don't like hardly any blues rock. So there.
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10/06/2003 8:16 pm
Blues rock? Thats not Zepplin at all. You have probably only heard maybe a few songs from them. I would check them out a little more before you say that. My favorite song by them is Thank You.
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10/06/2003 9:58 pm
Originally posted by metalisbest
My favorite song by them is Thank You.


Yeah. On the BBC Sessions cd, the solo page plays on that song is fricking awesome!
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10/06/2003 10:25 pm
Blues rock? Thats not Zepplin at all. You have probably only heard maybe a few songs from them. I would check them out a little more before you say that. My favorite song by them is Thank You.


I have the first four Led Zeppelin albums (given to me), what other ones do you suggest?

Although they are not straight blues rock, its very blues influenced.
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10/06/2003 10:35 pm
Well I guess your kind of right. Nope, those are the best albums pretty much. Their last stuff wasn't that great.
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10/06/2003 10:38 pm
I always liked Presence. A lot of people say they don't like it but you have to sit and listen to it a ton of times to really appreciate the bareness of it and what the guitar is doing to fill in the holes.
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