Quote Originally Posted by Gawain of Orkeny
Right here. Listen to the lyrics in the Whos music(all of which they wrote themselves) it blows Zeps away. The Who always had a message Zep had none. Keith Moon was a better drummer, Entwistle a far better bass player and Daltry arguably had the best voice in Rock and Roll. The only place their better is on lead guitar but Towsend plays better rythm guitar and his power chords cant be beat. The Who are a far mor intellectual band than Zep with a much more variety a greater writting talent. Ill take Whos Next over any Zepplin album. Zepplin arived at the end of an era and cashed in on all that had done before them.



YUp. I love dazed and confused the best. However even as this type of music goes give me Cream anyday. The real rock/blues band .
I agree that Moon and Entwistle were superior to their counterparts in Led Zeppelin and I would also put forward the statement that Townsend was a better lyricist than Plant however...

What is this bunk about which is the more intellectual band?!? We're talking about rock and roll, hardly the medium for intellectual material! And who the hell cares what a musician has to 'say'? If an incredibly profound and moving message is set to awful, eardrum piercing, mind meltingly bad music then nobody but flaky beatniks, coffee shop intellectuals and modern art flunkies will possess the tolerance, let alone the patience required to listen to such music for an extended period of time.

Music is about the music, not the message or the verse. On the other hand poetry and literature are completely about the message and the verse. Ode To Joy, the highlight of Beethoven's 9th Symphony, has some seriously cheesy lyrics about brotherhood and whatnot, most of which were literally grafted from beer hall songs of that era! Imagine if those same lyrics were matched to music composed by some gimpy halfwit who specialized in Albanian military marches instead of by a musical genius of the ages?

Message my foot, if a tune isn't catchy nobody is going to give a damn about the message.