Led Zeppelin?

@Metalideth: Rod Stewart (and Jeff Beck) got famous playing in Jeff Beck Group, and Jeff Beck Group played nothing but covers. They sold entire full-length albums that were just different takes on other groups' hits. They in fact even played some reworked versions of Led Zeppelin hits. "Truth", which is a really famous (and influential) album, was nothing but covers.

And it's still not as bad as what happened in the 50s, where labels sometimes literally took black musicians' recordings and billed them as done by a white guy. Like, they didn't even have the white guy rerecord it, they just put out the black guy's version and said that the black guy wasn't the artist.

They've always stayed one of my favorite bands for as long as I can remember, while other things come and go. Led Zeppelin is timeless. I couldn't call any one song my favorite, but I'll name three - Achilles Last Stand, Thank You, Going to California.

They are the greatest band to ever exist.

Good studio band pretty underwhelming live.

@Jams said:

Once I found out a ton of their popular songs are covers, I couldn't look at them the same way again. I can't believe they would play blues songs and then act like they came up with it (they never credited the original artists).

Jimi Hendrix did loads of covers, does that make him bad?

I started listening to them just for John Bonham but I've grown to appreciated their music in general. 

@Jonny7892 said:

Good studio band pretty underwhelming live.

@Jams said:

Once I found out a ton of their popular songs are covers, I couldn't look at them the same way again. I can't believe they would play blues songs and then act like they came up with it (they never credited the original artists).

Jimi Hendrix did loads of covers, does that make him bad?

I didn't grow up in that time, but from what I gather, if Hendrix covered a song, he gave credit where credit was due. You don't see anyone suing the Jimi Hendrix estate. Led Zeppelin never cared. They would credit lyrics and music to themselves and claim they never heard a song (even though everything is the same). I'v only been playing gigs for a year or so now and just started getting paid for it. If we didn't take off and 10 years down the line I hear one of our songs and they claim they made it up, I'd be pretty upset about it. I'd personally never record some one elses music without authorization first and I would NEVER claim that it was mine. Just the thought of some one doing it makes me sick. Just the blatant disregard for other people causes me to have a hard time enjoying Led Zeppelin anymore.

And just in case you guys didn't know. You can legally record a cover song if you get authorization from their record company first. You also have to credit them on the record as the original artist. Led Zeppelin did non of those things.

EDIT: Some songs are literal rip offs of lyrics and arrangement while some are just used riffs and chord progressions which aren't as bad. I think Stairway is just a used chord progression with different lyrics which is fine by me. Reusing lyrics and calling them your own is what really gets me.

zeppelin is awesome, but when i hear certain songs i cant help but think of the other songs where it was sampled.
  

You can legally record a cover song if you get authorization from their record company first.

Perhaps the most overrated of the 'dad rock' bands.

@captain_clayman said:

@VelvetLore04 said:

Perhaps the most overrated of the 'dad rock' bands.

dad rock. really? bands you listen to will be dad rock bands when you're a dad. is dad rock supposed to have a negative connotation?

Sounds better than classic rock because classic conjures up the image of something worth listening to.

motherfucker's singing about lord of the rings
 
  

I've long-held the standing that anybody who's sole opinion of one band is, "one of the greatest to ever exist [usually under any circumstance]," has no musical background or listener/history training to really be throwing around a heavy-handed statement like that. Most people tend to jump on the bandwagon and piggyback the popular opinions of others without much forethought, and I've always felt this way for the Led Zeppelin super-crazy and somewhat delusional ultra-superfans. It's the one band they discovered somewhere in their teens when they were mega-impressionable, and most of them haven't grown much beyond that. 

Can we talk about how awesome Accept is, or how amazing and consistent Motörhead are, instead? Led Zeppelin just isn't very interesting. It's the dead horse that's been beaten, the "living legends that altered the course of history forever, and shaped the lives of every human being," this sort of ultra-pandering, God-like worship of the band that is just creepy.

One of my all-time favorites.

They are fucking awesome.

I'd probably had to say I'm a pretty big fan

@chrismafuchris said:

What do you think of Led Zeppelin? I think they were highly talented and hugely influential, but a guy I know says they suck. What do you think?

You are right. He is ignorant.

TheVeteran13 said:

Their songs are good but they made them in a way they couldn't replicate in a live performance so seeing them live was never as good as people anticipated

Err, no. They were a fucking great live band and the live versions were ofter superior to the originals. Kashmir, Rock n Roll, Whole Lotta Love, Thank You, Achilles Last Stand etc. ... all of them better as live versions.

To not like them is one thing, but to say they suck is moronic.

@TheVeteran13: Not knowing stuff doesn't stop you from talking bullshit about it. Too bad.

They're an awesome, talented band that performs great live and have good songs on great albums that are good to listen to from start to finish. I would rank them just a notch below the original Black Sabbath lineup in terms of my favorite bands.

I think they're great, they're one of the few responses I accept for "greatest band ever" (a title that, for me, requires having more than one or two albums you really like, even if you really, really like them.)

I think they're extremely overplayed. No matter how good a band is or isn't doesn't matter when 1/4 times a rock station is playing their song, they get annoying.

Everytime a song of theirs comes on, I either switch the radio station, or put on a cd.

Every person I've known to like them has been some super lame dad-rock nerd. I was at a party a few months back where someone decided to change the music from stuff people enjoyed, and could kind of dance to, to Led Zeppelin and it was the worst thing ever. Total mood killer.

Every person I've known to like them has been some super lame dad-rock nerd. I was at a party a few months back where someone decided to change the music from stuff people enjoyed, and could kind of dance to, to Led Zeppelin and it was the worst thing ever. Total mood killer.

@TheVeteran13: You obviously know shit about music. Fine with me.

Also, what you said was just plain wrong.

As a bass player, I'm pretty much required to love Led Zeppelin.  Check out this fatty, for reference.
  

@TheVeteran13: Are you always so wrong?

@VelvetLore04 said:

Perhaps the most overrated of the 'dad rock' bands.

This.

I can't stand any of it.

@TheVeteran13: What's your explanation for talking out of your ass?

I never really like them, even when I was really into classic rock.