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[King Kamala]

December 4, 1980: The Last Day of Led Zeppelin

The band was on the verge on a North American comeback tour when John Bonham's untimely death ended the dream. Do you remember the last days of Led Zeppelin?

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Today is 40th Anniversary of Led Zeppelin's breakup.


Discuss and debate the definitive classic rock band ITT.

 

[Epic Springs]

III is one of my all time favorite records.

I still regret not seeing Page & Plant in the late 90s.

 

[BUTT]

Stairway warrants its length but most of the other epics would be better cut in half, especially Kashmir. These lilies have been gilded enough. Sabbath was better.

 

[BUTT]

Whitesnake’s 1987 album is better than almost all the Zeppelin records.

 

[Gary]

Stairway warrants its length but most of the other epics would be better cut in half, especially Kashmir. These lilies have been gilded enough. Sabbath was better.

I agree that Sabbath is better, but I can't imagine most of their longer songs being shorter-especially "Kashmir", which has such a great use of Mellotron. The lengthy songs in general are a part of their mystique-they aren't these complex Prog Rock epics, but to shorten something like "Rain Song" is a terrible idea.

 

[Dandy]

Led Zepellin is the greatest studio band in the history of studio bands. Anyone that says differently should drop a pin to their current location so I can drive to them; beat them until I am tired; and have my balls crest just above their open mouths.

Take some time to listen to some of their songs that are not typically thrown out as their best in conversations to find some gems.

 

[Lazgistics Supervisor]

Super important and influential band, but holy shiiiiiiiit are they boring compared to so many of their contemporaries, and not even as important in general as bands like Black Sabbath and Deep Purple (whose work literally invented an entire musical genre).

Still, though, when a Zep song fucking rips? It RIIIIIIPS.

 

[King Kamala]

You can tell that 3/4ths of the band sold their soul to the Devil because they were the only white band to make a tolerable reggae rock song.

 

[Lazgistics Supervisor]

I was about to chime in with the Who, but that was more of a funk rock song.

 

[AA484]

You can tell that 3/4ths of the band sold their soul to the Devil because they were the only white band to make a tolerable reggae rock song.

Hot take: D'Yer Mak'er is one of their worst songs and the Clash is the correct answer for "only white band to make good reggae."

 

[Valeyard]

Zep are much more sentimental favorites (I'll defend "Fool In The Rain" forever), but they were fucking great. The good is very good. My problem is that, objectively, I think of the lesser stuff first. "Stairway" deserves the praise but I can only listen to it every few years. Sabbath was better by far, though ("Planet Caravan" does Zep better, for the record). I love Zep but their limitations were very easily exposed.

No one should be doing reggae.

 

[Dandy]

So my favorite song of theirs has always been “Over the Hills and Far Away.” Discuss.

 

[Epic Springs]

The day where Led Zeppelin became instantly uncool.

EDIT - My older brother was a senior in high school when "Come With Me" came out and he used to tell me all of his friends (all metalheads and/or classic rock nerds) were exceptionally pissed and were even more put off that Page endorsed it. They called Zeppelin sellouts, etc. The hot takes of 1998!

 

[King Kamala]

No one should be doing reggae.

You racist piece of trash!!!

 

[Valeyard]

You're from Maine.

 

[King Kamala]

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Hide the wine, Mox.

 

[tekcop]

Hide the wine, Mox.

She's pregnant you sexist piece of trash!!!

 

[King Kamala]

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Can’t get prosecuted for statutory rape when you’re dead.