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Zeppelin for the win.

Love The Who and Stones, have seen them both live. I have seen McCartney twice.

But Zep best Rock band ever...and it's not close.
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To each his own. As far as who I like to listen to, Zep isn't even in the top 30. Always hated Plants screech of a voice. Bonham was just too much on too many songs. And how many LoTR references do we need in a catalog of songs?

Recognize their musicality, save Plant, and their stature among rock music. Not my cup of tea in the least. Never like heavier music and Zep kind of started all of that genre. No thanks.

I always love the statements that go: here's my opinion and it's not even close. Like no one else's opinion is valid or matters.
 
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With the caveat that I almost never listen to Stones/Who/Beatles anymore, not because they are no good, but because I probably have heard all their songs about 10,000 times:

Thought some more about comparing music of The Who

I will argue that Can't Explain, Kids are Alright, Substitute, and of course Mmmmy Ggggeneration, have aged a lot better than many of the Beatles work from the mid 60s. Then, go on to Baba O'Riley, Won't Get Fooled Again, Behind Blue Eyes, The Real Me, Punk Meets the Godfather, Pinball Wizard, See Me/Feel Me, Pure and Easy, etc. and I am going to say their best stacks up as good or better than the Beatles. Especially now that 50 years have passed and we can evaluate more for lasting quality rather than the unquestionable impact the Beatles had at the moment they landed in the US.

PS: Pearl Jam has played Kids are Alright and Baba O'Riley in concert for years, which I take as rightful homage.
 
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Interesting that only one song from Tommy, which made the Who huge. IMO, Tommy << Quadrophenia. The Real Me is my favorite Who song. I tried for years to learn the bass part and eventually had it down but, damn, Entwistle was a bass guitar god.
 
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Tskware said:
With the caveat that I almost never listen to Stones/Who/Beatles anymore, not because they are no good, but because I probably have heard all their songs about 10,000 times:

Thought some more about comparing music of The Who

I will argue that Can't Explain, Kids are Alright, Substitute, and of course Mmmmy Ggggeneration, have aged a lot better than many of the Beatles work from the mid 60s. Then, go on to Baba O'Riley, Won't Get Fooled Again, Behind Blue Eyes, The Real Me, Punk Meets the Godfather, Pinball Wizard, See Me/Feel Me, Pure and Easy, etc. and I am going to say their best stacks up as good or better than the Beatles. Especially now that 50 years have passed and we can evaluate more for lasting quality rather than the unquestionable impact the Beatles had at the moment they landed in the US.

PS: Pearl Jam has played Kids are Alright and Baba O'Riley in concert for years, which I take as rightful homage.
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They also do a cover of “You’ve got to hide your love away” as well.
 
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gamecockcat said:
Interesting that only one song from Tommy, which made the Who huge. IMO, Tommy << Quadrophenia. The Real Me is my favorite Who song. I tried for years to learn the bass part and eventually had it down but, damn, Entwistle was a bass guitar god.
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See me/ Feel Me is from Tommy
 
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gamecockcat said:
To each his own. As far as who I like to listen to, Zep isn't even in the top 30. Always hated Plants screech of a voice. Bonham was just too much on too many songs. And how many LoTR references do we need in a catalog of songs?

Recognize their musicality, save Plant, and their stature among rock music. Not my cup of tea in the least. Never like heavier music and Zep kind of started all of that genre. No thanks.

I always love the statements that go: here's my opinion and it's not even close. Like no one else's opinion is valid or matters.
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That is more than fair, I should have prefaced my thought with IMO.

I am in 100% agreement with to each his own.
 
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Dean Martin Doc- Nothing new but confirmed he was as a good dude, really nostalgic look back, was a feel good watch
Beatles- Just watching 60 minutes piece, the clarity of video and audio is really impressive, I will watch.
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Peter Jackson's crew spent four years taking the original mono audio track and using computers to separate all the instruments and vocals and then make it sound like it was recorded recently. They certainly found the right man to put this together.
 
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Having watched all 3 parts here are some thoughts:
  • What they were trying to do really was ambitious for a band on the verge of imploding.
  • Yoko sucks. I don't think she broke up the band but she sucks and her shrill during some of their jam sessions made me want to rip my ears off.
  • It's amazing how they sounded just fooling around playing other people's songs.
  • It was pretty surreal that while everyone is sitting around arguing about where to do the show, George and Paul were sitting there playing the beginnings of Let It Be (one of the best songs ever).
  • Imagine if Epstein hadn't died.
  • The Beatles reading the tabloids about themselves was hilarious.
  • Pretty neat seeing them working on songs that would go into Abbey Road and their solo albums.
  • The rooftop concert was really epic. Loved the multi picture views of everything that was going on during it.
  • MVP was Billy Preston. He really changed the mood of the whole thing when he got there.
  • Runner up was the old chap that was asked during the concert if he would be ok if his daughter married one of the Beatles and his answer was "he wouldn't mind because they have money."
After all that chaos they turned around a couple months later and recorded arguably the greatest album ever as a swan song in Abbey Road.
 
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I have nothing to offer.. but Lennon seemed punchable and he has the worst Christmas song of all time. Not even Charlie Brown was that depressing.
 
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You can find different versions that say It was a big city but the first Beatles record played in the United States was played on a small Southern Illinois radio station. George's sister lived about 60 miles north of Paducah and she took the records around. George came over to see if they could make it. She married an American airman.
 
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My favorite band is Pink Floyd but I would say Led Zeppelin is actually now the biggest band from that time frame. Followed by the Osmonds.
 
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gamecockcat said:
I always love the statements that go: here's my opinion and it's not even close. Like no one else's opinion is valid or matters.
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When it comes to musical taste, it really doesn't matter. As is proved with this thread. I don't care one lick about anyone else's opinion when it comes to my choices of music (or food or anything else subjective). Will i listen to or eat something based on a recommendation, sure. But in the end, anyone else's opinion is pretty much irrelevant and the choice is my own.

I don't listen to The Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin aside from a maybe a song or two from each catalogue. If i was ranking these in terms of my taste...Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles.

Doesn't mean they aren't good, just not good for me. Now, the bands that i think are great for my own listening enjoyment would most certainly bring laughter, disdain and ridicule from others that like these bands and many others i don't listen to or can't stand.

Still fun to discuss, though.
 
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