Easy question. Sorry, Pink Floyd is not part of this contest for obvious reasons.
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Its like Abbey Road v. Sgt. Pepper's v. Revolver...why choose? Nonetheless, Back in Black is better tonight, if I hit play on the OP Zep youtube post I'd probably change my vote.
Heavy duty stuff here. I'm going with Back in Black. If the question were Led Zeppelin I or Back in Black, then there's no contest.
Just to stir the pot a little, I'd take Van Halen I over Back in Black or Zep II.
Just sayin'
Meh. AC/DC are great, but they are a bit two dimensional. Hard Rock and Hard Blues. They are very good at those. But that would be like drinking the same beer every day for a week! Sometimes I want to trade in my IPA for a Stout, or a Belgian Wit, or Brown Ale or something.
I vote AC/DC. Overallin this vote, I prefer AC/DC because they're more visceral and tend to be more fun for partying, kicking a$$ and taking names.
Although nobody asks, my favorite 10 bands of the 70s list is:
1. Pink Floyd
2. Queen
3. Yes
4. Rush
5. AC/DC
6. Jethro Tull
7. Led Zeppelin
8. Aerosmith
9. The Who
10. ELP; Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Mm... Yeah, stairway toheaven sucks balls. I didn't know that song is on that album, hehe, but yeah, that makes the choice an absolute no brianer.
I vote AC/DC. Overallin this vote, I prefer AC/DC because they're more visceral and tend to be more fun for partying, kicking a$$ and taking names.
Although nobody asks, my favorite 10 bands of the 70s list is:
1. Pink Floyd
2. Queen
3. Yes
4. Rush
5. AC/DC
6. Jethro Tull
7. Led Zeppelin
8. Aerosmith
9. The Who
10. ELP; Emerson, Lake and Palmer
70s bands for me goes
1. Zeppelin
2. Floyd
3. The Boss
4. Rush
5. Queen
6. The Who
7. Sabbath
8. Deep Purple
10. Jethro Tull
And the mystery #9 band is????
And the mystery #9 band is????
Personally. I think we're doing an apple and oranges comparison here. While the two bands may have shared an era, they are different styles of music.
If forced to make a choice though, I gotta go with Zeppelin. AC/DC, while a good time band, was a bit simplistic and meaningless; lyrically not much better than the ghetto gangster rappers of today.
Zeppelin was far more complex with their composition and arrangements.
I could take or leave Plant, but I don't think any band could ever match the Page/ Bonham combination and creativity.
Unfortunately, as mentioned above, Stairway saturated the airwaves and kind of burned-out many people on Zeppelin, as well as detracted from some far superior but less-played songs (Kashmir, Babe I'm gonna Leave You, Over the Hills and Far Away, The Immigrant Song, Thank You, Travelling Riverside Blues, Four Sticks, Tangerine, Gallows Pole, No Quarter, The Battle of Evermore, When the Levee Breaks, and Going to California).
No love for thin lizzy?