Thread: what are you listening to???

I'm at a place where I'm seriously considering Zep > Beatles.

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

I'm at a place where I'm seriously considering Zep > Beatles.

Now go listen to The Beatles.

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

I'm at a place where I'm seriously considering Zep > Beatles.

Blasphemy.

Well she was just 17

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

I'm at a place where I'm seriously considering Zep > Beatles.

I will not ridicule this.

Let's do it for real. Lay out the criteria Hawg. It's possible.

But I swear to god if I hear “Prince” in the next few pages I will rip Abe a new one.

Originally Posted by MOtorboat

But I swear to god if I hear “Prince” in the next few pages I will rip Abe a new one.

Today is the anniversary of his death. I remember where I was when I heard the news.

RIP Sweet Prince.

I was 3/4 through Houses of the Holy (album) and I realized the first five Zep albums were of such uniformly superlative quality that they might be the best band ever. I came to Zep later--college vs. pre-teen for Beatles. By that point it was just obvious that the Beatles were the best band. I never listened to Zep with the notion they could supplant the Beatles.

What really made me think it was that on a per-song basis, Zep holds me a little tighter than the Beatles. At this point in my life.

How to 'determine'? Well, I listened to the entire Zep body of work. Right now I'm kinda convinced they are just better. Their worst release, Presence, is still at least as consistent as The White Album--ok, maybe not, but you get the idea.

So I'm listening to the entire Beatles body of work. And we'll see what I think. It has a lot to do with the uniform quality and emotional power of each song--let's pretend each is an engine of soul--which engine does the most 'work' during it's pull?

I'm done with Please Please Me, and I think that album doesn't move me anywhere near the way Zep 1 does. It actually makes me think a lot of Allah Las for some reason. A kind of clean guitar, gently scuffed boy band meets family-friendly desperados sound. It's good, but PPM never really did much for me--then or now.

With The Beatles is stronger. But early Beatles never did the heavy lifting for me.

So maybe it goes something like this. I listen to each, and count how many times I feel like hitting the FF button, which would happen if I get to a song that has never done anything for me. Then each good song gets +1 and each FF gets -1, and the higher score? Idk.

I keep coming back to “Hey, Hey What Can I Do” today.

It was like a Holy Grail song for me as a teenager. It’s not on any Zeppelin album release, though it’s been added to CODA in the most recent years, digital, deluxe and remastered versions. I heard it on the radio once when I was just getting into Zeppelin when I was about 15. I think it took me two years to find it. I believe it was a Best Buy and it was the B Side on a CD single with Immigrant Song.

That song is so ******* brilliant.

Originally Posted by MOtorboat

I keep coming back to “Hey, Hey What Can I Do” today.

It was like a Holy Grail song for me as a teenager. It’s not on any Zeppelin album release, though it’s been added to CODA in the most recent years, digital, deluxe and remastered versions. I heard it on the radio once when I was just getting into Zeppelin when I was about 15. I think it took me two years to find it. I believe it was a Best Buy and it was the B Side on a CD single with Immigrant Song.

That song is so ******* brilliant.

That and Travelling Riverside Blues are two of my very favorites.

That Page interview was sick, I realized I didn't know much about him and I underestimated him.

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

That and Travelling Riverside Blues are two of my very favorites.

That Page interview was sick, I realized I didn't know much about him and I underestimated him.

Wait. What interview?

Originally Posted by MOtorboat

Wait. What interview?

Maybe interview is the wrong word. Monologue. The one you shared.

Hard Day's Night comes across as a major 'level up' album for the Beatles to me. The first two have moments, but as studio albums they don't move me as much as others. Well, they don't move me much period.

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

Maybe interview is the wrong word. Monologue. The one you shared.

Oh ... gotcha. I was rereading all your posts, lol.