Big time overrated. They were the band that essentially pilfered a ton of black music, sanitized and whitened it up and created stadium rock.
Page and Plant are legends for sure, but their sound (not to mention look) was custom built for the big crowds. They also are the reason Gene Simmons and KISS exist.:( Led Zep was the beginning of the "merchandise movement"...Simmons later perfected it.
You don't honkify the blues man, only a few guys have pulled it off without looking like total cakers.
Zyklon_Jay
PS...The Beatles are the original backstreet boys:p
corjay9
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Originally posted by Zyklon_Jay
Big time overrated. They were the band that essentially pilfered a ton of black music, sanitized and whitened it up and created stadium rock.
Okay so basically what you're saying is they made music that was completely different then what anyone else was making, and it became popular?
You bitch about bands not being original enough, but when a band does something original they are just 'honkifying' blues? Cmon man.
Truth is they are all incredible musicians. Bonham is a legend himself, he had incredible groove and did what most drummers these days do with a single bass drum. John Paul Jones was an incredible bassist, except no one noticed cuz Page and Plant commanded so much attention.
You can't call The Beetles, Led Zeppelin, or the Stones overrated IMO.
Zyklon_Jay
Of course they are amazing musicians. Why don't you look up all of the court cases against them for plagiarizing before you label them as original.
They were a manufactured band to make money. Even Page admits it. It turned him off music for a long time.
Zyklon_Jay
Zyklon_Jay
This is how white people should do the blues....i say this as someone who thinks the Beatles are possible more over rated than Elvis. All of these over rated band have great musicians...at the same time they were handcuffed by their own successes into feeding the money printing machine that the record business was in that era.
That riff and stop has been making women take their clothes off for a very long time. Both these efforts are easily better than anything the Beatles ever did. The Beatles mad mostly children story like songs with rhymes that a mongloid with tourettes could string together.
"
It's been a hard day's night, and I've been working like a dog
It's been a hard day's night, I should be sleeping like a log
But when I get home to you I find the things that you do
Will make me feel alright
You know I work all day to get you money to buy you things
And it's worth it just to hear you say you're gonna give me everything
So why on earth should I moan, 'cause when I get you alone
You know I feel okay
When I'm home everything seems to be right
When I'm home feeling you holding me tight,tight,yeah
It's been a hard day's night, and I've been working like a dog
It's been a hard day's night, I should be sleeping like a log
But when I get home to you I find the things that you do
Will make me feel alright
Owwww
So why on earth should I moan, 'cause when I get you alone
You know I feel okay
When I'm home everything seems to be right
When I'm home feeling you holding me tight,all through the night,yeah
It's been a hard day's night, and I've been working like a dog
It's been a hard day's night, I should be sleeping like a log
But when I get home to you I find the things that you do
Will make me feel alright
You know I feel alright
You know I feel alright...
"
...which i'm pretty sure inspired many epic songs like Owner of a Lonely Heart.
:p
McNasty
You guys are talking about overrated bands but i think one of the most underrated bands of that era were The Kinks. I have most of they're records from the 60's early 70's and they easily stand up to The Beatles and Stones and other contemporaries. Ray Davies was a great song writer and not to mention The Kinks were the first to actually popularize guitar distortion with "You Really Got Me" and the use of the sitar "Indian Influence" a couple of years before the beatles did with Norwegian Wood
WittyHandle
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Originally posted by Marcus007
the rolling stones
Have a seat over there.
Fran666
btw clapton is responsible for all this thread. :p
he's the one who brought sunny boy williamson in england and toured with him with the Yardbirds in 1963. Who inspired all the guitarists of all the groups you guys named. Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Pink Floyd, etc...
Clapton left the Yardbirds being pissed that they becamed commercial with "For Your Love"... he recommended Jimmy Page to replace him...
in 1966, Eric Clapton formed the first "Jam band" with 20+ minute tracks, the group Cream... which is still considered as the first Super Rock band or first Power band... For many they are also the origin of heavy metal.
The Yardbirds became Led Zeppelin few years later (1968) with the band splitting up but Page and manager Peter Grant had contracts for shows to furfilled in scandinavia with the yardbirds so they formed a new group... The New Yardbirds which became Led Zeppelin following a joke by Keith Moon from the Who, who said that the new yardbirds will fall like a Lead Zeppelin, so he wouldn't leave the Who for them.
So yeah Eric Clapton is the most underrated artist of all the British Invasion to me, he created it in a way, with his influence and taste for blues.
edit: Stones & Beatles = NKOTBSB version '65 lol only thing is they got so popular with time that they were able to push their own stuff rather than the commercial cover stuff they usually did.
Vermz
come on...you can hate The Beatles as much as you want, but you can't say they are overrated lol
Jay you're talking about the rock'n'roll era with a Hard Day's Night album...
albums like Magical Mystery Tour, Abbey Road, Let it Be and Sgt. Pepper's are epic classics, musical masterpiecessssss
