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Whoever decided that Stairway to Heaven was a great song?
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Well, I believe many people did. I'm not one to support mainstream music, but the sheer technical aspects of the song are worth being noticed. The enchanting (even said to be satanic) lyrics, the guitar solo, the emotion, the length of the song, everything is outstanding to many people, including myself. When a song hits mainstream, it can either be garbage, or popular for a reason. I think Stairway became a mainstream song because it was a fantastic song to many people. Not mainstream because a bunch of twits think they looked cool or felt different when they listened to their music.
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Why not mention all their good (rock) songs? Black Dog, Communication Breakdown, Dazed and Confused! That said, Led Zeppelin, like every other 'classic' rock band, is vastly overrated.
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I'm not too sure if I adressed this point, but great rock songs aren't the best songs. Songs on my list aren't even songs that I favor that much. They are songs that captured the generation, the time. I own every Zeppelin album, and I do agree. They have many great songs, actually countless great songs. Once in a while, there is a single that can capture a whole time, for no reason. For example, Britney Spears "hit me baby". Good song? Not really. Any meaning? I'd say no again. Great songs usually fall back on timing. Whenever our generation becomes bored of the same ****, anything different becomes a phenomenon.
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How ironic is that Smells Like Teen Spirit is considered such a rock classic?
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You see, Smells Like Teen Spirit is hardly an impressive song, and, ironically (like I said before, now here's why!) it was exactly the one song that Kurt Cobain completely hated.
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I think even this song can relate to the Britney Spears analogy. It was new, it was different at the time. Nobody looked like that (or at least people were exposed to). When that song came out it was 'the 90's'. It was all the rage. You can't think 90's without STP, NIN, Nirvana, ect...I am guilty of loving that song, it being one of my favorite songs.
I am also guilty of anti-new music. yeah, shoot me. I don't see mutilizing, sell-out guys drowned in make-up gracing Pop Beat as serious. I don't see strumming a few power chords with tweaked out amps to be considered a good guitar player. I'm not shallow, I don't think I'm better because I don't listen to it, I'm just not fond of it.
I personally cannot help but to fall back on statistical, classic rock songs because not only did I grow up on it, but it's hard to find music today that can match up to it. You can't find guitar players, song writers or anything that would compare. You're lucky if somebody screams for more than 4 minutes to please 10 yr old goths.
I am in no way justifying you're opinions, while reading your post I was interested in some points you brought up. Again, nobody is right or wrong. I'm not putting you under the spotlight.