My Led Zep issue

[Tynee]

I'm with you, but it doesn't help anything that around here, if you trun on a radio to anything other than a country or top 40 station, you're gonna get Zepplin at least once an hour. Its like radio programming stopped somewhere around '75... sheesh. I like 'em, but I can't listen to an entire album all the way through. And I certainly can't listen to the same 3 or 4 songs every day.

BTW, I have the same sort of aversion to some other bands that I actually like, just not in steady doses. Guns & Roses comes to mind.

[R_of_G]

for starters, might i suggest listening to something besides a greatest hits compilation?

greatest hits compilations are not the way to listen to a band like zeppelin that made at least five stellar albums. do yourself a favor and listen to them in context, the way band intended them to be heard, not the way the record company decided they could make extra money off of the casual fan that only knows a few songs.

as for watching them on dvd, i've owned "song remains the same" for so long now and had it on vhs before that. to be honest with you, after the day the other led zeppelin live dvd came out, i never watched it again. "song remains the same" is kind of a joke contrasted with the newer live double dvd. watch that thing and you may see what people see in zeppelin. you may not too. everyone has different tastes but that one is much more the feel of live zeppelin than "song remains the same" ever will be.

there's my 2 cents plus a couple of dollars more.

[Heywood Jablomie]

I suppose music is like a joke - if you don't "get it", all the explaining in the world doesn't much help. Led Zep has always had limited appeal for me, despite those who thought they were the second coming. AC/DC is another ridiculously popular band that I don't "get" - garbage as far as I'm concerned (don't dare say that to a rabid fan). I used to sort of wonder what I was missing, but decided to just go with my tastes despite what others were saying. I'm a Steely Dan fan, and I've noticed that a lot of the hard rock/metal folks hate 'em. And so it goes.........

[MichaelE]

As they say "different strokes for different folks"

I was never a rabid fan Led Zeppelin or AC/DC, or most other bands while growing up in my teens. Sure I like 'em, but I don't collapse and die if I don't get a daily fix.

There are very few bands/musicians I truely like, and just like someone not 'getting' Led Zep, AC/DC or a host of other bands, they probably wouldn't see what I like in my choices of music either.

I do like Steely Dan though.

[Tig***]

for starters, might i suggest listening to something besides a greatest hits compilation?

Led Zep's greatest hits have been over played and over played some more. I usually avoid listening to them much these days. I grew up on them, and Page was an incredible writer and guitarist, but I'm just tired of them now.

That said, I still love to listen to a few of their lesser played songs, like "Ten Years Gone" or "Sick Again". Better yet, listen to the Jimmy Page & Black Crowes "Live At The Greek" album for a fresh, energetic collection of Led Zeppelin.

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