What's better?

Zep is good, but no one, NO ONE, can touch the Beatles. The Beatles could
superbly do ANY genre of music, and do it
better than other groups who specialize in the art form.

It's not even close----BEATLES by far!!

Here's my experience. People know that the Beatles are better, but listen more to Led Zeppelin. Led Zeppelin sates a primal need.

lmao!!!!! nelson. This people has 4500 Files on the Zune, & i just realized not 1 Beatles Song. This is coming From a Beatles Fan. I just simply couldnt hear norwegian wood 1 more time or id shoot myself! LOL!!! BUT I HAVE EVERY ZEPPELIN ALBUM, & ROBERTS SOLO STUFF.... ROCK FANS KNOW, THE BEATLES ARENT EVEN IN THIS CLASS.... LED ZEPPELIN MY PICK FOR THE GREATEST ROCK BAND! LOOKS LIKE ITS BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE YOU GUYS ROCK & ROLLED!!!!

Nelson its 9 p.m. are u in yur pjs. good, nitey nite. i once had a girl or should i say, she once had me. get back! get back! get back to where you once belonged... Strawberry. SERIOUSLY, How can You even Compare the 2 Bands. If Your Talking ROCK & ROLL, LED ZEPPELIN WOULD BE VOTED IN AS THE BEST, BY THE BEATLES.

That's why I ask. Beatles are an intellectual favorite.

I prefer LED ZEPPELIN. It is stronger like Expresso Cafe Beatles is just for my Granmother, too soft, something like American coffee.

Zepelin, I loved the Beatles back when, but find listening to them boring now. Zep rules.

Zeppelin is the best band in the history of the world!!! nothing beats them, definately not the beatles!!

Okay, Led Zeppelin is just amazing.
But! The Beatles, the first rock ever.
No one can touch them, they are the best.
Led Zeppelin by second.

Zeppelin is the best band in the history of the world!!! nothing beats them, definately not the beatles!!

karli, I'm afraid you're very incorrect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alex my friend, indeed you're incorrect!!
THE BEATLES!!!!!!!!!! ROCK.
Your going down like a Zeppelin!

THE WHO

for fuc*s sake how can you compare the nurserys rymes of the beatles to Led Zep. They played fr 25 mins live, Led Zep 3 fkn Hrs!! A decent band yes but a complete product of the media, Led Zep in a different league, the btles, do not forget were very very average musicians....Led Zep were gifted this cannot be challenged!

200 years from now the songs written by
Lennon/McCartney and Harrison will be covered and listened to by that generation. Some of
the time they'll even go back and listen to the
the original. Something we can't do to, say,
Mozart.
You might find some small faction of folks
who'll listen to Zep, but not many.
I do think Zep was amazing.
Beatles were the best of the century.

hey bill hope your well. I think your comments are without merit. 20m hits on the Led Zep web site when reunion concert announced, I million actually applied for 18,000 tkts. If world tour goes ahead estimated gross figure generated 1.4billion. This from a band who never released a single in the UK and did not do the media thing (unlike the beatles who would not have survived without it) so "the small faction of folks" comment is complete nonsense. Stairway vs help come on get real...I await your response.

Had it not been for the Beatles, there would have been no Zepplin. The Beatles explored many different genres including what became Led Zepplin type rock. However, the Beatles never stayed with one "style" long enough to master it and had a short-lived live career. Zepplin created a sound and stuck with it to present much like the Stones etc.

For me "The Beatles"

Had it not been for the Beatles, there would have been no Zepplin. The Beatles explored many different genres including what became Led Zepplin type rock. However, the Beatles never stayed with one "style" long enough to master it and had a short-lived live career. Zepplin created a sound and stuck with it to present much like the Stones etc.

For me "The Beatles" ... and let's compare "Stairway" with "St. Peppers" or any number of the Beatles "best" if we are going to compare with the one Zepplin song that everybody knows ... :)

It isn't really a question of "Who's better?" you know. Both groups were great in their day. Had The Beatles not revolutionized rock music with albums like REVOLVER and SERGEANT PEPPER the chances are that Led Zeppelin would never have happened. On the other hand, without Chuck Berry and Little Richard and Elvis you wouldn't have had The Beatles.

ANY answer to the question will be subjective...based on the respndant's own personal preference. In MY case, I liked Led Zeppelin well enough but The Beatles werte my first love and, if pressed, I would say that in MY opinion THEY were the BEST.

But that's only my opinion. It does not have to be YOURS.

hi all, gr8t to have a debate like this and the last respondent is correct its subjective! so live and let live, but may I add that in my opinion if you actually listen to both bands then for me there is actually no comparison The Zeps are gods...the btls were safe radio music and wrote what they knew would sell, Zep did no write for anyone but themselves. Total respect due!

I really have to debunk the total inaccurate ignorant thingssimmons and brennan and some others have said about The Beatles on here.

Even, Ozzy Osbourne said in an online 2002 Bender Magazine interview that The Beatles Are The Greatest Band To Ever Walk The Earth! He's been a huge fan since he's been a teenager and he says not loving The Beatles is like not loving oxogen! The Rolling Stones were very good friends and fans of The Beatles and Mick Jagger was at 4 Beatles recording sessions and Keith Richards was at 2 of them with them! Also,The Beatles even wrote one of The Rolling Stones first hits with the song,I Wanna Be You're Man in late 1963. As for the other inaccurate comments that some people say The Beatles didn't even stay together for 2 decades,well they didn't have to because they did about 50 years worth of innovative,creative,diverse,prolific great critically acclaimed popular songs and albums in just a remarkable 8 year recording career!

The Beatles are in The Song Writing Hall Of Fame & The Vocal Hall of Fame,and As The All Music Guide says in their excellent Beatles biography,"So much has been said and written about The Beatles and their story is so mythic in it's sweep that it's difficult to summarize their career without restating cliche's that have already been digested by tens of millions of rock fans ,to start with the obvious,they were the greatest and most influential act of the rock era ,and introduced more innovations into popular music than any other rock band of the 20th century." "As vovalists John Lennon & Paul McCartney were among the best and most expressive in rock and the groups harmonies were intricate and exhillirating."

And music critics as well as brilliant classical composer Leonard Bernstein called John & Paul the most brilliant song writers of the 20th century when they were still a band . As for The Beatles playing live,they sounded pretty good playing live considering that when they were playing in 1963,1964,1965,and 1966 the sound systems back then were very limited and primitive,they only had 100 watt amplifiers,no feedback monitors so they couldn't even hear themselves play and sing,yet they amazingly played in tune and in sync anyway,and at the August 1965 Shea Stadium concert which was the first big outdoor rock concert with over 55,000 fans,they were plugged into the PA system that they announce baseball games with plus the screaming crowds drowing out their great music! Can you imagine The Rolling Stones and The Who playing on these very limited primitive sound systems? They wouldn't have sounded much better! Thats why they gave up touring,because they were serious music artists,composers,and musicians and they wanted their great music to be heard and valued. It would be like Beethoven playing on these limited primitive sound systems and screaming crowds! Also they were now writing music that was too complex to reproduce on stage at that time.

On the roof top concert in The Let It Be Film,they sounded great,because by January 1969 the sound systems had improved somewhat(although not anywhere near the 1970's,1980's,1990's and especially today's!) and they had changed and people had changed so there were no more screaming crowds so they could be heard.When I was a teenager I met 3 people who saw The Beatles in concert two of them were teachers who saw them in 1966 and he and she told me they were great,and my cousin saw them at age 16 at The Baltimore Colsieum in 1964 the year before I was born,and she said they were great.

Former Kiss guitarist and grammy winning producer Bob Kulick who made the heavy metal Beatles tribute album Butchering The Beatles last year,says in an online interview,that he saw The Beatles at Shea Stadium in 1966 and that he could only make out pieces of the songs because of the screaming,but he could make out the songs Baby's In Black and Paperback Writer and he said they sounded amazing! He also calls The Beatles The Greatest Rock Band Ever! George Harrison at only age 14 would stay up playing his guitar until he got all of the chords exactly right and his fingers were bleeding! And One of The Beatles engineers Geoff Emerick says that in early 1966 when The Beatles were recording John's song I'm Only Sleeping,George Harrison played backwards guitar the most difficult way possible even though he could have taken an easy way,and it took him 6 hours just to do the guitar overdubs! He then made it doubly difficult by adding even more distorted gitars and Geoff says this was all George's idea and that he did all of the playing!

Eric Clapton said in a 1992 interview when he and George were asked what they admired about each other during their Japan tour,that George is a fantastic slide guitar player. He and George were very good friends and they obviously admired and respected each others guitar playing and George played guitar on Cream's song Badge. Roger McGuinn of The Byrds says The Beatles used unusual folk rock chords in their early music and that they invented folf rock without even knowing it! He started to play a 12 string guitar after he saw and heard George Harrison playing one in The Beatles great film A Hard Day's Night in early 1964. In an online Eric Clapton interview called,Eric Clapton In His Own Words he says that John Lennon was a pretty good guitar player and he would have known since he played live in concert with John as a member of John's 1969 Plastic Ono Band!

On an excellent site called,The Evolution Of Rock Bass Playing McCartney Style by Dennis Alstrand Stanley Clarke,Will Lee,Billy Sheehan,Sting,George Martin,and John Lennon are all quoted saying what a great,melodic,influential bass guitar player Paul McCartney has always been! The 1992 Rolling Stone Album Guide calls Paul a remarkable bass player and rightfully calls John &Paul the 2 greatest song writers in rock history! Both Phil Collins and Max Weinberg both Beatles fans and both praise Ringo's drumming and Phil Collins says that Ringo's great drumming on A Day In The Life can't even be repeated even by him! Also on Rankopedia The Beatles are # 1 Greatest Rock Band,# 1 Greatest Most Innovative Rock Band,John &Paul are # 1 Greatest Rock Song Writers,John &Paul are on The Greatest Rock Male Vocalist list,and Paul McCartney is # 2 after John Enwistle as Greatest Rock Bass Players,John Paul Jones is # 6,and Bill Wynman is # 20! And on Digitaldreamdoor where many musicians post,The Beatles are # 1 Greatest Rock Artists,John &Paul are # 1 Greatest Rock Song Writers,they are both on The Greatest Rock Male Vocalists list,and Paul McCartney is # 8 out of 100 Greatest Rock Bass Players,John Paul Jones is # 21,and Bill Wynman is # 95! George Harrison is # 54 On The Greatest Rock Guitarists out of over 100.

And there are many music professors teaching music courses at good universities on the brilliance of The Beatles especially of John &Paul,including by award winning music professor and composer Dr.Glen Gass,who has been teaching a course on The Beatles and rock music at Indiana University since 1982. On his web site for his course it says the main purpose of this course is to get students to have a better appreciation of this extraordinary group and their remarkable recordings. Dr.Gary Kendal's Beatles course is the most requested course at North Western University. And a music professor by the last name of Heinonen teaches a Beatles course at JYVASKYLA University in Finland,and the university of California also teaches a Beatles course etc.

Also check out Keno's Classic Rock n Roll Site he also runs a Rolling Stones &John Lennon fan site. And he made a Top 10 List and voted and the fans voted. He voted John &Paul # 2 after Bob Dylan as Greatest Rock Song Writers,the fans voted them # 1! He voted Paul McCartney # 2 after John Entwistle as Greatest Rock Bass Player,the fans voted Paul # 3. He voted John Lennon # 2 after Keith Richards as Greatest Rock Rhythm Guitarist,and the fans voted John in a tie with Jimi Hendrix and Brian Jones at # 4 ! He voted John Lennon # 1 in a tie with Elvis as Greatest Male Rock Vocalist and the fans voted John # 1,he voted Paul # 6 and the fans voted him # 7. Ken says Darn The Beatles were one great group in his review of The Beatles album 1967-1970,and he also says that John on Get Back showed why he should have played lead guitar more often because he did such a good job! He also said that John on their hard rocking great 1968 single Revolution,played one of the first and best acid guitar parts.And he also said that John played a pretty good slide guitar on George's For Your Blue. And he says in his review of The Beatles 1962-1966,that if you don't love or at least like The Beatles and their music than you are not a true rock fan and more than likely will never get it.And Brian Wilson said on a 1995 Nightline TV Beatles tribute show,that Sgt.Pepper is the single greatest album he ever heard,and he played With A Little Help From Friends on the piano and he said I just love this song. He also said he thinks John Lennon &Paul McCartney were the 2 greatest song writers of the 20th century! He also said when he first heard The Beatles great 1965 album Rubber Soul,that he was blown away by it,he said all of the songs flowed together and it was pop music but folk rock at the same time,and this is what he couldn't believe. He said this inspired him to make Pet Sounds. Elton John said in a 1991 CBS morning news show,when he was asked who he musically admires,he said You can talk about your Rogers &Hammerstein but for the quality of quanity songs that Lennon & McCartney did in that short period of time,they were the 2 greatest song writers of the 20th century! Most music artists want to believe and want the public to believe that *their* the greatest so when they say other music artists are the greatest it really means a lot! The Beatles are also the most covered music artists of all time with everyone from Motown,jazz,classical,and even heavy metal music recording their great diverse music!

And in 2001 VH1 had a panel of well known musicans and music critcs,that voted The Beatles The Greatest Rock Band Ever,and in 2004 Rolling Stone did the same thing and several people said on message boards that Rolling Stone had a recent pael poll like this and The Beatles were voted # 1 again and for darn great reasons too! Nobody created as much innovative,creative,quality,critically acclaimed,popular diverse songs and albums in such a short amazing period of time as The Beatles and thats why most people know that The Beatles Are The Greatest Rock Band That Ever Was Or Will Be!!!! Oh and A Day's Night is a great pop rock album!!!! And even Bob Dylan said decades ago about The Beatles early music,that their chords were outrageous,and the harmonies were wonderful and they were doing things in music that nobody had done before,and music critics of The London Times were praising their interesting and unusual chords that they used even in early songs like She Loves You & I Want To Hold Your Hand. Which were not as simple as they seemed and had clever subtleties in them.Infact Bob Dylan said in a Rolling Stone interview this Spring that he's in awe of Paul McCartney and he said he's the only one he's in awe of. He said that Paul has the melody,he has the rhthym and he can sing the ballad very good,and he can play any instrument.

He also said there were no better singers than John Lennon &Paul McCartney and he said if George wasn't stuck in the shadow behind John &Paul and he said who wouldn't get stuck,he would have emerged as a great song writer in his own right anyway.

And by the way I have read some people saying on message boards that they don't think The Rolling Stones were the best technical musicians,and many even some fans have said they haven't done anything good in 35 years, and that their overrated and I have also found many people saying they hate or don't like The Rolling Stones and many people say the only Rolling Stones song they like is Paint It Black! Oh and by the way,in every major poll of The Beatles vs The Rolling Stones,The Beatles always win as # 1 even on sites and message boards that are not Beatles fan sites! And when we look at the solo career comparison of Mick Jagger's and Keith Richards solo careers with John,Paul & George's,the facts are John Lennon's first brilliant solo album,and his second great album Imagine are rightfully critically acclaimed, and I love John's Walls & Bridges album and Paul McCartney's first solo album McCartney is very good,and he played every instrument all by himself at age 27,and he played so many different instruments great! Wings 1975 Venus &Mars is a great rock album too!

And he and Denny Laine are the only musicians on Paul's great 1973 Band On The Run album,which is critically acclaimed and popular,and he played every instrument by himself again on McCartney 2 in 1979,and most of the instruments on his 1997 Flaming Pie album,and his 2 recent acclaimed popular albums,Chaos And Creation In The Backyard,and Memory Almost Full.And John Paul Jones,David Gilmore,John Bonham &Pete Townsend all played on 2 songs with Paul and Wings on the last Wings album Back To The Egg, in 1979,and they played in the last Wings concert too in December 1979. You know I have found over 50 former Beatles haters on many message boards and web sites that are noe HUGE Beatles fans and many say they are now their favorite band and that they were the Greatest Band Ever! I didn't communicate with these people but they said in their posts that they had a lot of inaccurate misperceptions of The Beatles and they hadn't even heard most of The Beatles great songs and albums!

Most people don't hate The Beatles in the first place,most people of all ages all around the world love or at least like their music,but it's really something for former haters to turn into big fans and it just goes to show how Great The Beatles music is!!!!

Subj: I Have To Add This Post Too
Date: 12/20/2007 9:09:12 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: Carolynmhoff
To: MeanMrMustard116@aol.com


And I and many people understandably feel that John Lennon had the best rock voices ever! George Martin said John's voice was one of the best he ever heard,and in May 1967 when The Beatles were recording their song,Baby You're A Rich Man,two recording engineers said they were always fascinated with the sound of John Lennon's voice,and they always wanted to record it live and when they heard him singing this song live they said they couldn't believe how great his voice was and that anyone could sing that well live.

And there are many people on message boards saying they can't stand the sound of Robert Plant's and Mick Jagger's voices,and Bruce Springteen has one of the worst voices I have ever heard,he sounds like he's throwing up to a music backing! I have to turn the radio off as soon as he's on,and the same thing with Tom Petty,he has a terrible nasally bad voice! Bob Dylan has never been considered to have a good voice but I can tolerate him!


Also,The Beatles were *NEVER* a boy band at all not even in 1963,1964 and 1965,and they were Mostly a Great *ROCK* Band from the start! They started out playing 8 hours a night for two years in a row playing in the sleazy strip clubs of Hamburg Germany wearing tight leather black pants and jackets,cursing and smoking on stage,and taking speed pills to awake,and going to bed with many young women groupies.The cleaned up image was a fake joke that their manager Brian Epstein created which John hated and resented the most.

There were a lot of rough thugs who came into those clubs,and if they played bad live,they would have beaten the crap out of them playing 8 hours a night for 2 years! Instead they became the most popular successful group in these German clubs even with all of the competition from other groups from England and Germany! They also played live in The Cavern Club for several years.They worked very hard to get where they got!

The Beatles wrote many great rock songs that were pretty rocking for the time,John's great song You Can't Do That from early 1964 which he played lead guitar on for the first time,Paul's great blues rocker,She's A Woman from late 1964,John's I Feel Fine from late 1964, with the first use of feedback guitar,and one of the first songs to have a great guitar riff,a year before The Rolling Stone's Satisfaction came out,Paul's screaming hard rocker especially for 1965,I'm Down which they played even louder and more screaming at the August 1965 Shea Stadium concert,plus Day Tripper,Paperback Writer,She Said She Said,And You're Bird Can Sing, Taxman,all with heavy electric guitar sounds,John's 1968 hard rocking single Revolution,Yer Blues,Birthday,Back In The USSR,While My Guitar Gently Weeps,Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me & My Monkey,plus Paul's Helter Skeklter which as many people have pointed out was the first heavy metal songs,plus John's I Want You She's So Heavy on Abbey Road which many people have also pointed out was one of the first heavy metal songs,plus his great rocker Come Together,Paul's Oh Darling,You Never Give Me Your Money,and the hard rocking jam of Paul,George,and John on the song The End,etc!! So anyone saying The Beatles were not a rock band You Are Wrong!!


The Rolling Stones were very good friends and fans of The Beatles and Mick Jagger was at 4 Beatles recording sessions and Keith Richards was at 2 of them with them! The Beatles even wrote one of The Rolling Stones first hits with the song,I WAnna Be You're Man in late 1963.

Mick Jagger was such a big Beatles fan that when The Beatles were recording their song,Baby You're A Rich Man in May 1967,he came there and stood on the sidelines just to watch and listen to them record it and his name was on the tape box because he likely sang at the end verses.

The Rolling Stones could also be considered a pop band since they too were very popular,had many hit songs and albums and some of their songs could be classified as pop,Ruby Tuesday,Angie,She's A Rainbow,Lady Jane,As Tears Go By,Waiting On A Friend,Emotional Rescue, their whole Sgt.Pepper rip off Their Satanic Majesties Request and they also put out many greatest hits albums.

Led Zeppelin has had commercial hits like Stairway To Heaven played a lot on the radio too!

I also have too say,that I have always totally hated Led Zeppelin they truly sound like one of the worst groups I have ever had the misfortune of hearing! They along with Queen and Pink Floyd are the only 3 groups that I have to get up off of my chair even if I'm very tired and turn off immediately!

The Who,The Rolling Stones,and Jimi Hendrix are all a million times better! And The Beatles are Certainly a ZILLION times BETTER!!!!

I have also found many other people who hate Led Zeppelin and feel they are one of the worst bands ever too,and even some people on heavy metal sites

Brennan, songs such as In My Life,Come Together,I Want You She's So Heavy,

Let It Be(which was about a dream Paul McCartney had about his nurse midwife mother Mary who had died 12 years before from breast cancer when Paul was only 14 and he saw her as if she was real and alive in this dream and she told him just to accept things as they are,When I find myself in times of trouble mother Mary comes to me,speaking words of wisdom Let It Be,and in my hour of darkness she's standing right of me) and he says in authorized biography Many Years From Now,that when he woke up he thought how wonderful it was to see her again.),Eleanor Rigby,For No one,Strawberry Fields Forever,A Day In The Life,Revolution,Helter Skelter,Here Comes The Sun,etc etc are NOT "nursery rhymes" !!!!!

Either is any of The Beatles music including early beautiful gems like And I Love Her,If I Fell,I'll Be Back, I'm A Loser.No Reply etc !

Oh band I have also read many people on music boards saying that Led Zeppelin's lyrics are simple,and not good!

if ozzy said the btls are the best then they must be ha ha ha ha! my life is far to busy to spend THAT much time talking about this I'm off to listen to loads of Zep 2day and I await the news of a reunion, which of course be bigger than recent tours by the stones (crap band also and which Zep outsold by 2:1 in the 70's) and U2..to add...McCartney is a complete tit!

12/21/07
14:07:21
Led Zeppelin's 'Mothership' Tops Euro Sales Charts
Led Zeppelin fans have given the reunited group the best Christmas gift - a chart-topping album.

..who's the daddy of them all??

In the wake of Led Zeppelin's reunion concert at London's O2 Arena on Monday, NME reported Wednesday that the band's album sales have increased 500% in the United Kingdom. Additionally, music retailer HMV told NME that the recent compilation album by the group, Mothership, had risen by 50% in the first night after the concert and was the "biggest selling album in HMV stores". NME also notes that the increase in sales of Led Zeppelin products is not limited to music. An HMV spokesman told the magazine "this demonstrates the enduring appeal of Led Zeppelin as the definitive rock band. Their music is now connecting with a whole new generation of fans, who are discovering its brilliance for the first time."

This is like asking which is better, an apple or an orange, and then trying to settle the question by referring to nutritional charts. (One has more vitamin C; one has more fiber.....) It can't be done. And it misses the point.

The two bands were doing different things in the same medium - rock music - just as Mozart and Beethoven did different things in the medium of classical music.

The Beatles, like Mozart, composed social-situational music that often described inter-personal relationships. ("She loves you yeah, yeah, yeah," and Mozart's "A little night music.") It's feel good, bubble-gum stuff. Safe for screaming 12-year old girls just beginning to distance themselves from mom and dad; risqué enough for vacuous society ladies to get a naughty feeling without really going out of bounds.

By contrast, Led Zeppelin's music, like Beethoven's, can be described as geo-political, music that describes the human condition and what it means to be alive; not just in love. (Consider "Kashmir" and the fourth movement of the 9th symphony.) Their music transcends time and geography.

(Interestingly, the Beatles are at their best in their later years, when they start to go beyond heartbreak, young love, teen angst and fun party songs to delve into the human condition.)

Ultimately it's a matter of preference, of course, but the greater human achievement, it seems to me, belongs to Led Zeppelin and Beethoven.

Led Zepplin!! all the way.You may ask why??
1)Jimmy Page = Rock God
2)Zepplin mere masters at impov. They made half of their stuff up on stage
3) Zepplin has better more intriguing& and complicated guitar riffs
4)Some people just like the beatles because they are "cute"
5)The beatles werent rock... they were pop
6)Stairway to Heaven maybe the most influencal song in history
7) All the beatles wrote about is love

Please read this......

I play the guitar, Im fairly good at it. But I cant tell you how little musical talet it takes to play a beatles song, they are pathetic. Their music is about love and peace, but the world just isnt a place for love and peace anymore. If you want to look at some good classic rock look at Led Zepplin, the Stones, Aerosmith, or the Yardbirds. These are actual good bands who have talent. Also THE BEATLES DIDNT CREATE ROCK!!!!, they created a MTV stlye of pop music. So stop listening to the beatles who talk about the same thing in each and every song, realize that there is suffering in the world, and listen to good musicians.....like i dont know maybe jimmy page, eric clapton, jonny cash,or jimmy hendrix.

After neary 30 years I've pretty much heard it all when it comes to rock/ pop now, and I think 99% of "classic rock" is overrated. Sure a lot of it *is* great, but most of the stuff released in the 60s and 70s was rubbish. I think we tend to over revere the early bands, giving them almost mythical status.

For what it's worth I used to be a Beatles fan, but I rarely listen to them now. Sure I respect them and all that, but they're not really my cup of tea anymore. I tried to get into Led Zeppelin. I've heard all their stuff and I bought nearly all their albums, more out of a sense of duty than genuine fandom. But if I'm being honest with myself, I never actually liked them much. It's not that I don't like hard rock ( I was a big Black Sabbath fan at one point, and still listen to Motorhead), they just never appealed to me that much.

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The Beatles are the best band on the face of the earth... but Zeppelin is without a doubt the second greatest band ever... I love Zeppelin, but no one is better than the Beatles.

The Beatles are the best band on the face of the earth... but Zeppelin is without a doubt the second greatest band ever... I love Zeppelin, but no one is better than the Beatles.

um by far led zeppelin. the beatles w/e. zeppelin blows them out of the water. robert plant sings way better than any of the beatles. jimmy page. lol. no comparison. john bonom(if not spelled right never been able too) no comparison. john paul jones no comparison.

Led Zeppelin, no questions asked. Are any of you going to seriously tell me that anyone from the Beatles was a better singer than Robert Plant? ARe any of you seriously going to tell me that Ringo is better than Jon Bonham? And are any of you seriously going to tell me that Lennon or McCartney are better guitarists than Jimmy Page? You're completely insane if you think so. And beyond that, Jon Paul Jones is simply one of the greatest swing men ever - great keyboards, good bass, and the man even played the mandolin. The Beatles were much better lyrical songwriters, but Zeppelin had better songs -- the latter's delivery and sound was much better. Zeppelin's sound has lasted much longer than the Beatles. More bands imitate Led Zeppelin than the Beatles. The Beatles often sound like something stuck in the Ed Sullivan generation -- Led Zeppelin sound like the best rock band ever.

Also, The Who are much better than the Beatles. Just thought I'd confirm that too.

Led Zeppelin = Rock and roll awesomeness! Beatles = nighty night storys.. And for you people who think the beatles are untouchable and are a great rock and roll band. You DO NOT KNOW ROCK! I REPEAT DO NOT KNOW ROCK!

Also as John said more people imitate Led Zeppelin! The bands who imitate know they'll have more fans than the people who imitate crappy bands such as the BEATLES yes i said it! On the other hand Led Zeppelin + The Who + Black Sabbath + Queen = Legends

Add Rolling Stones too

I hate when people get all self-righteous about comparing musicians so I certainly wont do that...but I think when you get to the level of The Beatles vs. Led Zeppelin it starts to become a bit...meaningless.

The Beatles were absolutely brilliant innovators...but they never really wrote anything as serious (to me) as Stairway to Heaven or Kasmir or The Rain Song.

Though...if we are going to compare the Beatles to Led Zeppelin why not include the other English heavies such as Genesis and Yes.

The Who was great, but the albums were more inconsistent to me.

The Stones? Nah. Even less consistent, though still epically great in the scheme of things.

Zep did imitate the Beatles somewhat... ref:Oh! Darling and Time is on my Side. The style is the same, showing us that both bands went into the same genre, and since the Beatles were around before, Zep had to market to those fans as well. The fact is, the more modern a band, the more they are appreciated in the short term. ie: jazz's widespread success in early 20th century, wheras most people hate it nowadays. Also, no one group can make a genre. Elvis is credited for this, but hinsight dictates that jazz actually started everything that came after it. Therefore, considering that both bands existed in separate times more or less, only clashing in the late 60s(?) we see that both bands changed the genre, but not at the same time anyway. The Zep had to take something from btles to market appropriately to a beatle audience. Simply, the rise of Zep and the Stones has made us think that both bands are better than the btles, but they are really just as good for their time with the exception of Zep being better than Stones at their respective times. One thing Btles have going for them in this fight is that they gave the genre new ways to make music, whether they used it well or not.

Also consider the fact that Beatles cannot continue producing music, something the Zep can continue in theory. Therefore, seeing as both bands are equal, Hendrix should be given first place!