Led Zeppelin are probably better than the Beatles

marky · Post by **marky** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 5:12 pm

Led Zeppelin was a case of a UK band imitatinng American style and bloody getting away with it.

I really mean it, I'm not joking here. If you don't have the Led Zeppelin album "Presence" then you have not yet lived in the skin of Led Zepplin to properly understand the world, you must understand that as an aglophile, Led Zep fucked America till it's sexual appetite was satiated.

marky · Post by **marky** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 5:15 pm

Yeah right, I dare you, if you've not heard Led Zeppelin's "Presence" album to tell me you know what good sex is. Not a bloody chance, mate. If we can't listen to Robert Plant sing to American blues music and the guitar of Jimmy Page then we need to rethink where we are in life.

Jesus loves you, or something like that.

marky · Post by **marky** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 5:19 pm

DON'T YOU KNOW THOSE BRITS TOOK AMERICAN MUSIC AND MADE IT BETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LED ZEPPELIN "PRESENCE" FOREVER

"Tea For One" the last song on the album, god. This was 1976, punk was only beginning, and god Led Zeppelin take my heart, more than the Who.

marky · Post by **marky** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 5:22 pm

Fuck it, if you don't like it, I"ll just play reggae.

marky · Post by **marky** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 5:24 pm

But God if you could ignore Led Zeppelin's Presence album, then you are a bigger person than I could manage. Don't you understand that, even more than the blessed Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin were the paradise of UK - American collaborations. Only they were English. Which made me fall terribly in love with them in the end. All these ignorant Americans out in the middle of nowhere listening to Led Zeppelin, but yet they were actually terribly English . English in the end, it was like a dream to me that they were English in the end.

My fondest dream is that the UK and US fuck each other forever.

Tommy Martyn · Post by **Tommy Martyn** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 8:42 pm

That's pretty much my fondest dream too.

Post by **mccutcheon** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 11:03 pm

tommy gets laid and goes soft.

Tommy Martyn · Post by **Tommy Martyn** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 11:52 pm

I'm on a roll. I went out with another woman last night.

marky · Post by **marky** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 12:01 am

Hahahaha

I don't remember any of this you know, all I remember is the beginning of Led Zep's "Achilles Last Stand" which I'm going to play again right now.

I drank all my alcohol! Oh the tragedy!

Go Tommy!

I'm serious though cause when I was in high school I hated Led Zep because all the rednecks listened to them. Then later when I got into them I realized they were so deliciously English and all the best songs were not played on the radio.

Okay it's 5 pm I usually sober up about this time, but I've still got $8 in my pocket, what should I do??

marky · Post by **marky** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 12:14 am

Okay I'm going to go get some beer quick here.

"Presence" is really the most fun Led Zep album when you've heard them all, and tired of most of them.

marky · Post by **marky** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 12:56 am

Man, you listen to Led Zeppelin' Presence and you wonder why inferior bands even exist. You wonder. Who wants to be bothered by the amateurs when you've got Zeppelin? Baby!

marky · Post by **marky** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 12:59 am

How many bands have a drummer as good as Bonham?

Remember disco was just getting off the ground in 1976. I daresay they attempted it with the end of "For Your Life".

I really do love Led Zeppelin, please quote me on that.

marky · Post by **marky** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 1:02 am

I REALLY DO LOVE LED ZEPPELIN, PLEASE QUOTE ME ON THAT

marky · Post by **marky** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 5:16 am

As a tribute to the other message board, which is still down, the reason Led Zeppelin's Presence works much better than most of their albums now is this, as someone else on the other board noted, he said something like "Why is it that when you play Led Zeppelin's Presence it seems like the best thing on earth but when you aren't playing it, you never remember how the songs go"

I'm paraphrasing, but that's the gist of what he said and it captured my feelings entirely. It's the one Led Zeppelin album with no well known overplayed-on-the-radio songs, that alone makes it distinctive. It seemed like a bit of a slight step down, actually from the quality of their earlier records when I first got into them ten years ago. But now I've changed my mind about it. By not being able to REMEMBER the songs between plays, it cheats the tragedy of the "overplayed" Led Zeppelin phenomenon. It transcends their entire career. For that reason alone.

Though I'll stop short of saying I sense they "got" punk at all. They were just off in a weird world with this album. It didn't fit in anywhere.

marky · Post by **marky** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 5:19 am