Led Zeppelin is one of the base archetypes of the entire rock genre, no doubt.
What kinda irks me is the treatment LZ got from those radio stations of that "Classic Rock" format (you know, those radio stations that play the same 500 "album rock" baby-boom era songs over and over again...). LZ got SO overplayed (or at least 8 or 10 of their songs did, anyway), that it became something of, shall we say, less than a treat... Nothing can zap the "cool" out of a song more than playing the crap out of it over the radio for 30 years straight...
To really appreciate the innovativeness of LZ, I think you really have to play the old albums in their entirety. If you look beyond those tired old 10 or so songs they have, it's those more obscure nuggets that really show the depth of this amazing thing going on with this band.
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Sun Mar 09, 2008 9:44 am
I agree Gene ... some ofthe best Zep tunes never made the radio. You have to pop in the CDs and listen to the whole album to appreciate their greatness.
Gene wrote:
To really appreciate the innovativeness of LZ, I think you really have to play the old albums in their entirety. If you look beyond those tired old 10 or so songs they have, it's those more obscure nuggets that really show the depth of this amazing thing going on with this band.
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