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Originally Posted by JayJamJah
Correction you were the biggest Zeppelin fan here.
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Yeah, I can't really claim to be a bigger Zep fanboy than you.
Oh well. I still have the title of biggest Pink Floyd, King Crimson and Yes fanboy. For the time being.
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And I make my argument for them over the Beatles as follows. As time has continued to pass since the end of both groups epic runs the music that the Beatles have inspired (pop music) is the scourge of the earth whereas the Zeppelin influenced hard rock and metal seems like the last the best stuff going today within the publics collective conscience.
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Well Zeppelin didn't invent hard rock as much as they made it harder. The Who, Cream and Hendrix had the blue prints, Zeppelin just expanded upon their ideas, made it heavier, sexier and more theatrical. Still, Zeppelin shouldn't be given all the credit for heavy metal, no way. Sabbath are obviously more important in that respect, and other bands like Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, UFO, Blue Oyster Cult, Thin Lizzy, AC/DC and to some extent even Queen have made important contrubitons to the heavy metal sound, though you could say that Zep paved the way for them.
The Beatles however, have layed out blueprints for almost every sub-genre of rock music. Including Psychedelic rock (Revolver), Prog (Sgt Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour) and Metal (Helter Skelter, I Want You).
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In addition I feel the Beatles have far more bad music produced then Led Zeppelin.
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Yeah, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da and Yellow Submarine is more grating than anything Zeppelin have ever done.
But The Beatles never had a bad studio album. Zeppelin had In Through The Out Door, which aside from In The Evening was pretty mediocre.
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Also Zeppelin seems more revered by musicians
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Zeppelin are more revered by musicians, The Beatles are more revered by songwriters.
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Most respected awards source in music and the Toto clause is why it's one of many criteria.
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But most awards sources in music suck, thats what I'm saying.
Creed won a Grammy for goodness sake.
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Once again I remind you thats #51-100 are not ranked in any particular order.
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My bad.
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What's the sense of doing my own list if personal preference is not brought into play. I will by the end of this list have shrunk it to the least significant element but still everything else being equal I'll take the band I like better.
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But its confusing. I can't tell if you're trying to do an unbiased greatness list (which you implied by including artists you don't even like) or a personal preference list. You can't have your cake and eat it too, its either one or the other.