Is led zeppelin the best rock band ever?

hmm pretty hefty statement ya got there, but straight up rock band, you just might be right but its hard to say, personal preference really but yes they are the shit
 
I'd say Led Zeppelin is overrated. Bands that define their own genre like Pink Floyd are much better.
 
regardless of whats best and whats worst, which is truly just a futile title, it is the zeppellin, plant page bonham the other guy, you are incapabable of understanding but no one will critisize you for trying, but you cant even touch
 
just b/c floyd defined a genre doesnt mean they're much better. zeppelin def defines classic rock better than floyd, if you were to put them in the same genre, which they are not. also, greater is different than better.

i passed this idea on my buddies almost a year ago, when i was in a zeppelin phase. i didnt say they were my favorite, but the greatest rock band ever. my reasons were not only that they rock the fuck out and were extremely good at what they do, but they shows for hundreds of thousands of people at a time, much bigger shows than floyd ever had. i put this into account for greatest band, best band or favorite band is judged using different criteria.
 
i took this from somewhere else; i think it sums it up well...

Over a 10-year, nine-album career from 1969-79, Led Zeppelin was the most popular rock group in the world, ultimately selling more than 50 million records in the U.S. alone (more than 200 million worldwide), developing the blues-based power trio-plus-lead singer archetype in many directions including mystical English folk-rock, Middle Eastern-influenced exotica, quirky pop and every manner of heaviness. They also came to symbolize the Dionysian excesses of the rock lifestyle.

Their ubiquity on classic rock radio formats and the aforementioned excesses have led many to dismiss the band as overrated and symptomatic of the decline of rock ‘n’ roll in the '70s. The super value collection “Early Days and Latter Days: Best of Vols. 1 and 2” (two discs) prove that, if anything, the band’s musical greatness is still underappreciated, due to the previously mentioned resentments and the fact that the band had no greater cultural impact — they didn’t much stand for anything except pure Rock n Roll.Jimmy Page, who had led the last incarnation of the Yardbirds and had been an extremely successful session guitarist (Who, Kinks, Them, Donovan, Joe Cocker), formed the band in 1968 with veteran session bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, 19-year-old singer Robert Plant and Plant’s friend, drummer John Bonham. Commenting upon Page’s low expectations for the success of the band, Keith Moon suggested the name “Led Zeppelin.”Plant’s vocals reached levels of deranged ecstasy matched perhaps only by Little Richard on lyrics typically either oozing with sexuality or derived from Anglo-Saxon myth and/or the occult. Bonham (whose accidental death in 1980 broke up the band) pounded his drums relentlessly like a nimble elephant dancing through the house. Jones’s bass and strategic keyboards glued the disparate elements together. And Page, who did most of the writing and production, played some of the most fundamental and memorable guitar in rock history — from the heaviest crunch to the most delicate acoustic finger picking.

Proving the band’s vast enduring popularity, the band’s live two-DVD set “Led Zeppelin,” released last May, has sold more than 600,000 copies.
 
In my opinion, yes. There's a quality and genuity to their music that is completely unrivale, except by Pink Floyd, but still, I say Zepp
 
they were undoubtedly one of the best, defintely instrumentally. but the beatles were much more influential.

i dont think zep would have been the same if it wasnt for the beatles.
 
no, its the beatles.

there would BE no rock if it weren't for them.

but zep is right up there fo sho.
 
But then you could say there would be no beattles without Chuck Berry, and there would be no Chuch Berry without Robert Johnson, and so forth and so forth all the way back to Bach. It pretty much started with J.S. Bach.
 
bullshit!!!!

rock would still be rocking even if the beatles didnt exist. the beatles just made it more mainstream. beatles were great, but saying that they are the sole reason that rock exists is just craZy,
 
Arguing about the best rock band is pointless. There will always be someone whos like "Zep RULE!" then there will be someone who says "Pink Floyd was innovative and original... and therefore are the greatest band" Everyone has their own opinions, so you can never decide on the "best rock band ever." Stop trying.
 
The beatles had a lot to do with every single rock band, and pretty much just every single band out there, and you cannot compare floyd to zeppelin, it just shouldnt be done. And floyd has played in as big of stadiums as zeppelin, look at floyds 94 tour, or just watch the pulse dvd.
 
are you saying that Zeppelin doesnt define a genre? because they do much more than that.

They define a whole generation of rebelion and expiramentation.
 
the Beatles did have alot to do with pretty much every single rock band, that would make them the most INFLUENTIAL band, not the greatest. yes the pulse dvd is very good. however their shows were not nearly as big as zeppelin. zeppelin played for 100,000+, floyd's biggest show was maybe around 40,000 or somethin.
 
how can u mention nickleback in same sentence as the beatles unless u are completely flaming nickleback. nickle back suck.

led zeppelen are an awesome band, def one of the best bands period, however, there are too many great bands to call any one the best.
 
i say yes. john bonham was an insane drummer, jimmy page...jesus christ, hes a god. john paul jones never gets off beat and can play pretty damn fast, definitely not one of the best bass players ever, but he ties it all together. and robert plant is just badass
 
actually jpj wrote alot of the music and was a key part in the bands sound, him and jimmy page wrote 90% of their music, and if you see some of their early stuff he can really rip, he just chilled out after a while. also played keyboard/organ, no one gives him enough credit.
 
fuck all you beatles aficianados, if thats the right use of that word, the beatles were cool, but they didnt start rock and roll and they were truly quite fruity by all your peoples standards, unless your standard is the beatles, in which case your a fucking tool, and im crazy
 
TO ANYBODY THAT SAYS ZEP IS NOT THE BEST ROCK BAND EVER: OK, first, John Bonham, easily has to be the best drummer and percustionist ever, aside from Keith Moon. Next, Jimmy Page. only one word to describe that dude. Godlike!!!!! Third, Robert Plant, is not only the original cock rocker, but that dude has the craziest, coolest set of pipes in the history of everything. And last, John Paul Jones topped everything off with his amazing bass. What else could you ask for? Knock me all you like, but this is my view on this subject, and I think I'm mostly correct.
 
The yardbirds are definately the best band of all time. No question. Their members provided some of the biggest acts of the twentieth century.
 
I think it's is very possilbe that they indeed are. I think the Rolling stones are a close second but I just don't think that they are as consistantly good as Zepplin. They have some good songs and some shitty one. Zepplin doesn't really have any bad songs just songs I don't really listen to.
 
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