# Led Zeppelin is overrated **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 8, 2017, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064 "2017-08-08T05:59:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/1 "2017-08-08T05:59:32Z")
In my opinion, Led Zeppelin is overrated. The fact that this is my opinion is pointlessly mundane. I have no interest in discussing it, either to justify my opinion, or to be told why I should adjust my opinion. It’s just something which I feel I must share. Y’all have a good time with this mundane and pointless thing I felt compelled to share for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/2 "2017-08-08T06:06:45Z")
Thank you for that. That must be cathartic. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/3 "2017-08-08T06:15:22Z")
Not as much as I would have expected, actually. If I’m honest, it was a little anticlimactic. ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/4 "2017-08-08T06:16:34Z")
At least they’re not [the most overrated band of all time.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20396546#post20396546) ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/5 "2017-08-08T06:24:18Z")
Where’s that Zoidberg gif… ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/6 "2017-08-08T06:59:19Z")
Is this a parody? Those are supposed to go in the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/7 "2017-08-08T07:14:59Z")
Moving this to the Pit since it’s obviously making fun of another user’s topic (and thus, a parody…and parodies go in the Pit). ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/8 "2017-08-08T07:15:28Z")
Oh good, now that we’re in the pit: your opinion is bad and you should feel bad. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/9 "2017-08-08T07:27:30Z")
I don’t feel bad about holding it, though. Just pointless. Thought I’d share an effective way of creating an MPSIMS thread that was fundamentally based on a subjective aesthetic opinion. Turns out that I wasn’t doing that. I suespect the reason is because there isn’t any way to craft a thread fundamentally based on a subjective aesthetic opinion in such a way that it will be suitable for MPSIMS. Lesson learned. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/10 "2017-08-08T07:54:02Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I don’t feel bad about holding it, though. > > Just pointless. Thought I’d share an effective way of creating an MPSIMS thread that was fundamentally based on a subjective aesthetic opinion. Turns out that I wasn’t doing that. > > I suespect the reason is because there isn’t any way to craft a thread fundamentally based on a subjective aesthetic opinion in such a way that it will be suitable for MPSIMS. Lesson learned. Actually, it was a parody of another poster’s thread and could be seen as holding the poster up for ridicule. Those generally get moved to the Pit, since it’s the place to ridicule other members. > [@Parody threads. In pit?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-threads-in-pit/714029/12): > > > [@Parody threads. In pit?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-threads-in-pit/714029/12): > > > > Waitaminnit… Somebody remind me: What was the rationale for the rule that parody threads go in the Pit? > > > [@Parody threads. In pit?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parody-threads-in-pit/714029/15): > > > > That’s the case when a parody of a thread by another poster (or the comments of other posters in such a thread). Because you are basically ridiculing other posters, it properly goes in the Pit. (It’s also why a link is required, so people know what is going on.) > > > > Other kinds of parodies don’t need to go in the Pit. They would probably go in MPSIMS (or if a literary work could go in Cafe Society). > > [QUOTE=Senegoid] > (I am reminded of [this classic parody thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=534691) (The Marmite Horror) that was posted in the Pit.) [QUOTE=Colibri] Just because it was a parody of Lovecraft doesn’t mean it needed to go in the Pit. I would guess it was put in the Pit because the OP was Pitting Marmite. [/QUOTE] [/QUOTE] [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18184733&postcount=15](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18184733&postcount=15) ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/11 "2017-08-08T10:24:44Z")
You know who else was overrated? [/godwin] ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/12 "2017-08-08T10:28:00Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > In my opinion, Led Zeppelin is overrated. The fact that this is my opinion is pointlessly mundane. I have no interest in discussing it, either to justify my opinion, or to be told why I should adjust my opinion. It’s just something which I feel I must share. > > Y’all have a good time with this mundane and pointless thing I felt compelled to share for some reason. I completely agree with you. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/13 "2017-08-08T11:17:47Z")
Saying popular things are overrated is overrated. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/14 "2017-08-08T12:38:31Z")
I was going to start a parody thread parodying parody threads, but other posters would parody it, and the public would spend all their free time posting to it and it’d go international and we’d all be so busy with talk shows and the movie rights… and overrated is so overrated. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/15 "2017-08-08T13:09:58Z")
Led Zeppelin were a decent blues covers band. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/16 "2017-08-08T13:10:50Z")
Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Who & Beatles are not over-rated. And Yes is greatly under-rated. My opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/17 "2017-08-08T14:15:18Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I don’t feel bad about holding it, though. > > Just pointless. Thought I’d share an effective way of creating an MPSIMS thread that was fundamentally based on a subjective aesthetic opinion. Turns out that I wasn’t doing that. > > I suspect the reason is because there isn’t any way to craft a thread fundamentally based on a subjective aesthetic opinion in such a way that it will be suitable for MPSIMS. Lesson learned. So this _wasn’t_ a parody thread? You were attempting a boilerplate MPSIMS thread just cuz? Even though you wanted no reaction, you got it. “Don’t throw me in that tar pit”-type statements really do work. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/18 "2017-08-08T14:17:21Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > In my opinion, Led Zeppelin is overrated. You obviously never saw them live. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/19 "2017-08-08T15:01:46Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Who & Beatles are not over-rated. And Yes is greatly under-rated. My opinion. Yes. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/20 "2017-08-08T15:21:06Z")
> [@China\_Guy](#): > > You obviously never saw them live. T-shirt seen at a music festival this summer: \*\* “I might be old, but I saw all the cool bands.”\*\* [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064.md?page=2)