The Batlord

Led Zeppelin

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Frownland

Everybody say goodbye to Led Zeppelin.

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Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.

Pet_Sounds

Sabbath

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Everybody's dying just to get the disease

The Batlord

Aw, you're cute.

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Unknown Soldier

Led Zeppelin

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Metal Wars

Power Metal

Pounding Decibels- A Hard and Heavy History

Chula Vista

Sabbath.

IV's the better all around album even though I understand that Sabbath has to win this.

*slinks off in defeat*

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Thelonious Monkey

Sabbath

Chula Vista

Black Dog - Heavier, sexier, more complex, and down right more rocking than anything on Paranoid.

Rock and Roll - Awesome homage to the music that laid the foundation.

The Battle of Evermore - Would Peter Jackson even have made TLOTR without hearing this song?

Stairway to Heaven - Laugh all you want. Still the greatest classic rock song of all time. With the greatest classic rock guitar solo.

Misty Mountain Hop - Hippy Dippy to the max. A lot of the 90s grunge thing used this song as a template.

Four Sticks - Way before Sting and Peter Gabriel, Zep was doing "world music". First time millions heard a raga.

Going to California - Zep smokes a joint with Joni Mitchell and CSN&Y.

When the Levee Breaks - The drum beat that's been sampled a million times. Such a relentless and heavy groove. If you haven't f*cked to this I pity you.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Frownland

we know all about your hard on for Zeppelin Chula, you don't need to wave it in our faces again.

Maybe if it was Presence or their debut I'd go for Zeppelin over Sabbath, but IV doesn't hold four sticks to Paranoid imo.

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Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.

Chula Vista

Paranoid is a seminal album for sure. But put next to each other, and judged song for song, LZIV kills it. I'll be OK with a Sabbath win though. I understand why they pretty much have to win this division.

Black Dog and When the Levee Breaks are both heavier than anything on Paranoid for sure though. You're drinking kool aid if you don't agree.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”