I'm going to start out by just coming out and saying that Led Zeppelin is the bomb. They're a legendary band with a well-deserved unforgettable reputation, and they had four of the greatest musicians of all time, notably Robert Plant and Jimmy Page.
I do have a few criticisms of Led Zeppelin and the album we listened to last week.
Led Zep is one of those artists that you need to have playing in the background sometimes on their more heavy songs. I can take twenty seconds of "babe" being sung over and over, but I can't take four minutes of just devoting all of my attention to "babe" being sung over and over.
People always say that Stairway to Heaven is an overrated and cliche song, which it might be, but it's personally one of my favourites. Just a thought.
While I admire Led Zeppelin for their musical talent, I do not admire them for some of their behaviours that they exhibited. It's well-known that not all rock bands were exactly clean when it came to alcohol, drug use, and general behaviour off stage, which is to be expected. But this group participated in some sexually explicit activities, and I'm not talking about intercourse, I'm talking about several incidents involving subjecting a female to extreme pain, and others than involve a red snapper and an octopus. Hearing about those incidents made me cringe, and lose a little bit more respect for the band.
All in all, they're one of my favourite bands, but sometimes their music is ruined for me when I think of the red-snapper incident. I'm not a prude by any means, and while I think it gave the band character and made them unique, I still don't think it was a very classy thing to do.
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