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MOST modern number one hits could fit into one of their guitar solos. Led Zeppelin returned to the stage last night with their first full set in 19 years — and younger members of the crowd had heard nothing like it. Manufactured pop is ruling the charts and young music fans are an impatient sort. Maybe that’s why the bars at the O2 Arena in Greenwich filled during some of the band’s winding rock epics. But their classics proved music doesn’t rock like it used to. Tracks like Whole Lotta Love and Stairway to Heaven had every one of the fans — who included Liam Gallagher and Sir Paul McCartney — on their feet and shaking their fists.
Fans of all ages had travelled from around the world to see the group and they weren’t disappointed – giving huge ovations and raving after the show. American Lisa Anderson, 57, said: “Everyone around me agreed it was an absolute triumph. “I saw them a few times when I was younger, but for me this was the best show they’ve ever done. “It was worth every penny.”
Support act Paolo Nutini, 20, told The Sun: “I wasn’t alive the first time around but I’ve seen the footage on DVD. “Now watching them live, I’ve been taught a true musical lesson.“They were just so intense and so tight, even after all these years. “I was just blown away.”
I was lucky enough to see them in the early days, and hoping to get lucky again.
Regarding #’s 1, 5, and 18, I think these allude to the concept that one’s taste in music is somehow related to one’s intelligence or sensibility. The insinuation is that a fan of Abba is stupid, or at best, ill-informed regarding the world of music available, whereas the Zep fan is worldy and has impeccable taste. The fact is, musical taste is a tremendously individual attribute. I personally enjoy BOTH Abba and Zep, and have most of the albums (and box sets) of each – the world of music is indeed vast, and enjoying each of these two groups – for their separate musical strengths – is not a mutually exclusive task. It would be nice if music reviewers – and blog commentators – would review the music, and not the listener. For those who were lucky enough to see the concert, I’m sure it was terrific. I hear Abba was offered $1 billion for a reunion (but turned it down); so apparently
SOMEONE out there has faith in their drawing power. Happy musical wishes to everyone – no matter WHAT your taste.
One of the biggest defilement ever was done by Diddy when he did a cover of Kashmere for the American version of Godzilla, plus Diddy had the nerve to call Jimmy Page a mediocre guitar player.
“Manufactured pop is ruling the charts and young music fans are an impatient sort.”
99% of what today’s American female pop singers sing is about these 3 things:
1.- I’m horny.
2.- I had a shitty childhood because my father is an a$$hole.
3.- My boyfriend dumped me but I don’t give a f*ck about it.
Hmmm, this trolling about Led Zeppeling music being bad makes me wonder…oh uh oh uh oh uh oh uh oh…and it maskes me wonder
#21 kinda makes you think why their recording studio in Sweden, among the biggest in the world, closed doors some years ago, huh?
#22 for all of them, there’s a dic*-in-a-box!
#10, Temple,
Nice list. I would suggest they’re very influential groups instead of “super groups” though. There are some , “Black Sabbath” and “Jethro Tull” for instance that I seriously question why they are on the list. Then there are some you missed such as “The Band”, “The Birds” and “Beach Boys”.
As with most things in life, one man’s perfection is another’s vomit excuse.
Ah, Led Zeppelin. No other band is considered so legendary, revolutionary, prolific, and long lasting that they get their own channel on XM Radio.
XM Led, channel 59, 24/7 Led Zeppelin tunes! I found this one and listened to it for three hours straight during a Thanksgiving road trip. Awesome stuff!
#21. It was meant as a joke. Comparing Led Zeppelin to Abba, is kind of like comparing Beethoven to N’Sync.
#26, McCullough,
Beethoven was pretty and could shuffle his feet? WOW, the things you learn here at DU.
I thought about The Band because of the Line Up, but I would Put them in the Category of Short on stamina, or Too Good For RockNRoll, artsy, we got better things to do than keep up with this charade of Rock and Roll. The Byrds Touched down – a little short on playlist time to have more than a passing influence, but great tunes for what’s there.
The Beach Boys? The Beach Boys?!!! You must still be smoken that weed #24. while for their time they had some hip arrangements – and they have had some staying power – I would Have to agree with Jimmy Hendrix:
“If I ever hear surf music again…”
The Beach Boys? The Beach Boys?!!! You must be on that Dope! They are not even in the same genre let alone MEN. They Are Boys,Beach Boys-and their music is for boys- will always be. Grow Up would You #24.
;} sheesh.
I never cared much for Zep. I tried to, but they didn’t offer me anything that other bands did. Of similar bands I, personally, preferred Black Sabbath, Queen and Rush (I might also include The Who, if they can be called similar). Black Sabbath did the power rock stuff better for me, and with more character than the blues derived stuff of Zep. Queen and Rush both did the “epic” slant better for me too.
The problems though with those bands lie in the fact that I think they just went on too long, and lost their youthful spark. Sabbath got bogged down in endless lineups post Osbourne, and Osbourne embarked on a somewhat cartoony and hard to take seriously solo career. I happen to like some songs from both post Osbourne Sabbath and Osbourne solo, but I think the average person on the street views Black Sabbath as Ozzy Osbourne’s old band, who did a couple of radio hits called Paranoid and Iron Man. Queen and Rush were great in the 70s but in the 1980s they became more synth infused and commercialised, meaning that they were harder to view as “rock gods” (Again I happen to like some of the 1980s stuff of both bands) Zeppelin in contrast, never changed members, (always a good point with fans identifying with them) and never got mired in the 1980s. I should point out that Plant and Page solo works are much worse than anything that Sabbath , Queen and Rush made in the 1980s, but as they didn’t have the name Led Zeppelin attached to them, people don’t class them as Led Zeppelin records.
So, overall I never got into Zep much. And today I like them less. I don’t listen to modern rock music these days so maybe Zep are better than todays bands. I don’t know, nor do I care much. My rocking days are largely over now- except for Motorhead :p
#28,
What is your beef with the Beach Boys?
Listen to the albums Smiley Smile, Wild Honey, Friends, 20/20, Sunflower, Surf’s Up, Carl and the Passions: So Tough, Holland, In Concert, Love You, and/or L.A. (Light Album), and/or Dennis Wilson’s solo album Pacific Ocean Blue, and I’ll bet your opinion on the Beach Boys will change.
And when Hendrix said “we’ll never hear surf music again”, he wasn’t even talking about the Beach Boys. He was mourning the ill health of surf guitarist Dick Dale (who got better and is still alive), one of his idols.
#10,
You’re forgetting not just The Beach Boys or the Byrds, but also Chicago, The Kinks, Bob Dylan…etc. etc.