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BUTT said:
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.
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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 

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!
 
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