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Post by The Ocean on Feb 17, 2021 21:58:57 GMT
As for Zep, they also have awesome music, and Stairway To Heaven is deservedly top ten, but not the greatest rock song of all time. You gonna take a crack at that?
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Post by marty on Feb 17, 2021 22:48:01 GMT
As for Zep, they also have awesome music, and Stairway To Heaven is deservedly top ten, but not the greatest rock song of all time. You gonna take a crack at that? Good point. I dunno...maybe Born To Be Wild, Light My Fire, Hey Jude, DFTR, Satisfaction....
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Post by CAPTAIN on Feb 17, 2021 22:58:29 GMT
Stones IMO were great and will always be great to me.I liked Zep first four or five records and In Thru The Out Door but some of Plants wailing hasn't aged well for me.Floyd has some moments but overall a lot of their supposed great work does zilch for me.Hey Martso The Hollies were ALWAYS great even after Nash left(well by then they had a shitload of great material anyway). Any band would kill to have recorded the albums that the Stones or Floyd did. I would say that the Stones' albums from 1968 to 1972 were arguably the best run of 4 albums by ANY band of the rock era ( Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street). Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here are classics (WYWH is one of my Top Ten albums of all time). I do agree with Lauren that much of their subsequent output was overrated. Now Led Zeppelin is a trickier assessment and I agree with sirrastus that Plant's wailing has not stood the test of time. I've also thought that Page's live work was occasionaly sloppy and redundant. But the power of their first 4 albums was seismic. CORRECT
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Post by The Ocean on Feb 17, 2021 23:03:40 GMT
Any Stones Record that Brian Jones or Mick Taylor were a part of are totally worth it. Ron Wood always felt like he never lived up to the prior two, to me.
I will say, however, that one of my favorite Stones songs is Rock in a Hard Place.
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Post by agent on Feb 18, 2021 15:30:06 GMT
Pink Floyd Animals and The Wall would outweigh my love for WYWH and DSOTM. I haven't listened to a complete PF Album in a while, but if forced, it would be ANIMALS...
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Post by edog40 on Feb 18, 2021 16:41:57 GMT
Stones IMO were great and will always be great to me.I liked Zep first four or five records and In Thru The Out Door but some of Plants wailing hasn't aged well for me.Floyd has some moments but overall a lot of their supposed great work does zilch for me.Hey Martso The Hollies were ALWAYS great even after Nash left(well by then they had a shitload of great material anyway). Now Led Zeppelin is a trickier assessment and I agree with sirrastus that Plant's wailing has not stood the test of time. I've also thought that Page's live work was occasionaly sloppy and redundant. I've found that their solo work insists upon itself.
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Post by The Ocean on Feb 18, 2021 16:51:06 GMT
Now Led Zeppelin is a trickier assessment and I agree with sirrastus that Plant's wailing has not stood the test of time. I've also thought that Page's live work was occasionaly sloppy and redundant. I've found that their solo work insists upon itself. I love a lot of Plant's solo work. Much of it i like better than some of the stuff he did with Zeppelin. Tall Cool One, Big Log, Tye Die on the Highway, his covers of Sea of Love and If I Were a Carpenter, his remake of Down by the Seaside with Tori Amos, the album he did with Alison Krauss. Just adore it. Page on the other hand... the Black Crows album he did was great, but otherwise meh. John Paul Jones, his albums are weird and strange and beautiful. Zooma is heavier, The Thundertheif a lot more diverse with a song I especially love called Ice Fishing At Night. And the Them Crooked Vultures album he did with Josh Homme and Dave Grohl is excellent, too, IMO.
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Post by zenman on Feb 18, 2021 17:32:55 GMT
I love a lot of Plant's solo work. Much of it i like better than some of the stuff he did with Zeppelin. Tall Cool One, Big Log, Tye Die on the Highway, his covers of Sea of Love and If I Were a Carpenter, his remake of Down by the Seaside with Tori Amos, the album he did with Alison Krauss. Just adore it. I agree with that. Band of Joy was my favourite (I'm a huge Buddy Miller fan).
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Post by mary on Feb 18, 2021 20:26:04 GMT
I like some of the songs that Jimmy Page did with The Firm, like this one "Satisfaction Guaranteed".
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Post by sirrastus on Feb 18, 2021 22:14:18 GMT
I've found that their solo work insists upon itself. I love a lot of Plant's solo work. Much of it i like better than some of the stuff he did with Zeppelin. Tall Cool One, Big Log, Tye Die on the Highway, his covers of Sea of Love and If I Were a Carpenter, his remake of Down by the Seaside with Tori Amos, the album he did with Alison Krauss. Just adore it. Page on the other hand... the Black Crows album he did was great, but otherwise meh. John Paul Jones, his albums are weird and strange and beautiful. Zooma is heavier, The Thundertheif a lot more diverse with a song I especially love called Ice Fishing At Night. And the Them Crooked Vultures album he did with Josh Homme and Dave Grohl is excellent, too, IMO. He had the good taste to cover my fave Ben E King song Young Boy Blues.Tho it didn't hold a candle to Kings version.
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Post by edog40 on Mar 17, 2021 15:59:19 GMT
Not music related but I'm bringing this thread back: Jared Leto's Joker was just as valid as any other, but not as good as most.
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Post by The Ocean on Mar 17, 2021 17:08:13 GMT
Not music related but I'm bringing this thread back: Jared Leto's Joker was just as valid as any other, but not as good as most. His Joker was.... something.
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Post by edog40 on Mar 17, 2021 17:47:28 GMT
Not music related but I'm bringing this thread back: Jared Leto's Joker was just as valid as any other, but not as good as most. His Joker was.... something. Leto's Joker was more of a criminal, compared to Leger's Joker who was more a philosopher or warrior/poet.
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Post by edog40 on May 7, 2021 19:14:51 GMT
Anyone else ever consider that Dobie Gray’s ‘Drift Away’ was a suicide note or a goodbye letter?
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Post by wrax on May 7, 2021 23:25:23 GMT
Today's unfavourable opinion. There are large segments of prog (I still shudder when I see a band described as "neo prog") which sounds exactly the same. Metal for that matter too. When did the last truly unique sounding new band appear? Lots of music out there but you get the sense some time it's all one song with variants.
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