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Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA
Since I told someone yesterday that I don't really like Led Zeppelin because their songs seem heavy on guitar noodling and low on melody, I thought I should listen to some of their music again and decide if that's really true.
As coincidence would have it, this morning while filling up the car with gas a Led Zeppelin song was playing over the loudspeaker, and with an internal sigh I realized that I kinda liked the song, destroying my dignified, sweeping statement of distaste.
I think a fair assessment of my feelings about Led Zeppelin is that I like around ten of their songs but don't love any of them. Their songs usually sound too gritty, rambling, and unmelodious for my tastes, and chafe me like auditory sandpaper.
Below, however, I'll share some of the Led Zeppelin songs that I do like.
But first, I must chuckle at the name "Led Zeppelin," because the cutesy spelling of "lead" reminds me of the name of Rodrick Heffley's metal band "Löded Diper" (from the Wimpy Kid book series, which is hilarious):
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The problem you`ve got is that about a million people have already told you just how great and brilliant this band actually is, meaning that you`re going to look for the faults in their music. Because they were so popular they have been exposed to death, had they been some long forgotten and unknown band then you`d find them a lot easier to like.
I think if you really want to get into Led Zeppelin start and really absorb the first album, its an absolute classic, but most importantly you have to listen to the band in the context of their era the late 60s to the mid 70s, by and large both music wise and stage wise, they were blasting most of the competition out of the water. To really appreciate how great they were you really need to line them up against the other hard rock bands of that era.