Getting into the Beatles...

Don't ever ask Keith Richards about Zeppelin. Hates them to this day, calls them frauds.

 

Teh bloggers are right!!1!!11

 

I pretty much agree with him, although Page and Plant's late career recordings - Plant with Allison Krauss and Page with the Black Crowes - has made me respect them a little more.

We had a huge thread about this one time. I think Plant's Zepellin lyrics are absolutely ridiculous at times. All the garbage about the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and such.

 

That's the killer for me with Zeppelin, too. The lyrics are often just comically awful, in a way that's impossible for me to ignore.

 

So much other good music at that time from the UK. The Who; the Kinks; Spencer Davis/Yardbirds/Cream/Traffic; the Animals; even a lot of the Dave Clark 5's music sounds great today, with their "wall of sound" effect.

 

You don't deserve ears.

 

Then again, "obla-di, obla-da, life goes on, bra" may have some 'splaining to do, too. Not a big Zepp fan, but just sayin'

 

Then you need to buy "Exile on Main Street."

 

Your argument is going to be that John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison were not good lyricists?

Is this really the argument you want to make?

Really?

 

No, they're among the greatest. I was saying that judging merely upon lyrics might not be a complete picture.

 

The Sex Pistols wrote the majority of Never Mind The Bollocks at the age of 20.

As far as Zeppelin are concerned, yeah...crap lyrics..but my god...Bonham and Page working in tandem in a live setting had a lot more power than the Beatles or Stones could ever imagine. Straight up alpha rockers.

 

That's a great song, but it's "Pokerface" compared to "Since I've Been Lovin' You."