# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/21 "2017-08-08T15:58:44Z")
> [@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. Hilarious. Yes, these types of threads are fucking silly. “XYZ sucks and la, la, la, can’t hear you.” Hey, thanks for that. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/22 "2017-08-08T16:23:20Z")
If a band are are widely considered to be one of the most successful, innovative, and influential bands in the history of rock music ; plus they’ve sold over 200 million albums - then they are **not** overrated. What kaylasdad99 meant was “Although Led Zeppelin are hugely popular and highly-rated, I personally don’t like them much.” ---
**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, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/23 "2017-08-08T16:36:25Z")
No, what he meant was “That other thread was dumb, so now I’m trying to be funny to point that out.” I bet **kaylasdad** likes Led Zeppelin. If not now, he did back in the day (bet he had stoner friends who called them “Zep”). ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/24 "2017-08-08T17:24:34Z")
> [@digs](#): > > 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. Must you Ramble On so? ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/25 "2017-08-08T17:35:40Z")
Led Zepplin are almost as overrated as Pink Floyd, The Who and The Beatles. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/26 "2017-08-08T21:45:11Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Led Zepplin are almost as overrated as Pink Floyd, The Who and The Beatles. Blasphemy. Don’t include The Floyd in that overrated group of bands. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/27 "2017-08-08T22:16:29Z")
> [@China\_Guy](#): > > You obviously never saw them live. I was about to post that I too have always found them to be overrated, and now I’ll add that I saw them in September 1970, San Diego Sports Arena, promoting their second album. The experience reinforced my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/28 "2017-08-08T22:17:51Z")
Might I ask which thread spawned this travesty\*? 😃 \*I do like parody threads. I also think Zeppelin rocks. Decisions, decisions. ---
**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, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/29 "2017-08-08T22:20:58Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Might I ask which thread spawned this travesty\*? 😃 > > \*I do like parody threads. I also think Zeppelin rocks. Decisions, decisions. [The Beatles were overrated.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=832847) ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/30 "2017-08-08T22:33:45Z")
It’s like he wanted a warning. Join date doesn’t line up with his behavior though. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/31 "2017-08-08T22:51:59Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > It’s like he wanted a warning. Join date doesn’t line up with his behavior though. I think someone recently activated a couple of dormant socks. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/32 "2017-08-14T01:12:18Z")
Led Zeppelin is the best band ever and everyone who has ever heard them agrees. Even people who haven’t heard them agree. _Now_ Led Zeppelin is overrated. Before the above statement was made, we couldn’t be so sure. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/33 "2017-08-15T14:00:05Z")
I’m reminded of an evening dinner when my conservative step-father announced that playing Led Zeppelin music backwards gave Satanic chants … yes, I had the nerve to point out that playing Led Zeppelin music _forwards_ gave Satanic chants … indeed we did ruin step-father’s turntable the follow week spinning it backwards … then step-father had us perform The Great Breaking of Led Zeppelin Records Behind the Shop Whilst Step-Father Read Psalms Aloud … [sigh] … Led Zeppelin was the first to do what they did … many came after and perhaps did it better … but Led Zep was the first … ETA: It’s spelted “overratted” … although I’m not sure what rats have to do with this … ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/34 "2017-08-15T14:45:08Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Led Zepplin are almost as overrated as Pink Floyd, The Who and The Beatles. All of those groups are overrated except for the Beatles. Floyd is boring, Zeppelin is grating, and the Who are actually good but it’s not like they are Queen or anything. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/35 "2017-08-15T15:56:43Z")
> [@Steophan](#): > > Led Zeppelin were a decent blues covers band. Even if they did steal “Killing Floor” and “Goin’ To Mexico” to make the lemon Song and then failed to give due credit to the real composers. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/36 "2017-08-15T15:58:55Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > I was about to post that I too have always found them to be overrated, and now I’ll add that I saw them in September 1970, San Diego Sports Arena, promoting their second album. The experience reinforced my opinion. Is that the one where Page was so fried he couldn’t even play his own damn songs? ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/37 "2017-08-15T15:59:07Z")
They may or may not be overrated, but I still like their music. They didn’t revolutionize the use of the guitar or anything but they had a nice bluesy rock thing goin on. I think a lot of the musicians of the 1960s and 70s influenced and borrowed from each other. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/38 "2017-08-15T16:00:09Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > I’m reminded of an evening dinner when my conservative step-father announced that playing Led Zeppelin music backwards gave Satanic chants … yes, I had the nerve to point out that playing Led Zeppelin music _forwards_ gave Satanic chants … indeed we did ruin step-father’s turntable the follow week spinning it backwards … then step-father had us perform The Great Breaking of Led Zeppelin Records Behind the Shop Whilst Step-Father Read Psalms Aloud … [sigh] … > > Led Zeppelin was the first to do what they did … many came after and perhaps did it better … but Led Zep was the first … > > ETA: It’s spelted “overratted” … although I’m not sure what rats have to do with this … Too bad there was no Slayer yet 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/39 "2017-08-15T17:43:01Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Even if they did steal “Killing Floor” and “Goin’ To Mexico” to make the lemon Song and then failed to give due credit to the real composers. And many, many more: _[List of Led Zeppelin songs written or inspired by others - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Led_Zeppelin_songs_written_or_inspired_by_others)_ ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064/40 "2017-08-15T17:50:51Z")
But I still listen to them, and as a kid trying to learn guitar, I stole the hell out of THEIR stuff. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-zeppelin-is-overrated/793064.md?page=3)