The thread about “bands that were better 20 years ago” reminded me of something. A few years ago, I was giving a ride to a co-worker, and I told him to look through my tapes and choose what he’d like to listen to. He picked up Dark Side of the Moon and said, “Does anyone not own this?” Since then, I’ve done some informal polling, and discovered that, with very occasional exception, everyone who listens to rock at all own DSOTM, Led Zep IV, and Sergeant Pepper. A show of hands, please: Does anyone here not own all three?
“His eyes are as green as a fresh-pickled toad,
His hair is as dark as a blackboard,
I wish he was mine, he’s really divine,
The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.”
I don’t think there’s a copy of Sgt. Pepper in my house. But my husband has a positively monstrous record collection (yes, records. Vinyl.), so I could be wrong. I know he’s got DSOTM and Zep IV, though.
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I’ve got two out of three. But while I’m certainly of the appropriate age and have an extensive music collection, I don’t have any Led Zeppelin. Don’t know why, but they just never struck a chord with me. What is perhaps surprising then is that I have pretty much every CD (including their early promo tapes) made by Dred Zeppelin. I also have the Encomium tribute CD.
I don’t own any of them. My parents have DSOTM, but my dad (who has something like 300 CDs - you can’t say he’s not into rock) hates Led Zeppelin and doesn’t really like the Beatles all that much, either.
I’m not sure if I own a copy of LZIV anymore, but I know I have DSOTM on tape. No Sgt. Pepper’s.
I must say I don’t own either of these on CD. The tapes are left over from HS years.
I’ve got Sgt. Pepper on cassette, CD and on two records, one of the vinyl records was the picture done into the vinyl itself. It is kinda cool to watch it go round and round.
My son, DJ, is the Led Zepplin fan, he forced me to listen to some, and they just yell too much. I don’t particularly like heavy metal, though I liked Metallica’s ‘No Leaf Clover’ and the hero song, but then it was the combination of the orchestra/band sound that I really enjoyed.
“Honestly now, Chaplain, you wouldn’t want your sister to marry an enlisted man, would you?”
“My sister IS an enlisted man, sir” the chaplain replied.
I’m guilty of all three, of course I own the entire works of ELO, with the exception of the first album, No Answer. Ahem, my birthday IS coming up, though…used vinyl is fine!
I have Dark Side of the Moon (I went through a period of listening to that album twice a day for 3 months, scary times) Sgt. Pepper,
but I dont have LZIV. I think Jimi Page is enormously talented, but Robert Plant sounds like he’s trying to shit in the middle of a bad hangover.
I also think that they never realised how to end any of their songs… but theyre OK other than that
I think music that is powerful and wont let me fall asleep while listening to it. Therefore, I would never buy albums slow rocking bands like Pink Floyd or AiC. I want to rock to music, not snore to it. The majority of their music is just too slow for me. The Pepper album is pretty groovy but I wouldnt buy it. Those lyrics, “Sergeant Pepper and the Lonely Hearts Club Band”, make me snicker. Then again, just mentioning the bands I like make most ppl snicker. Art is cool like that.
ooops I mean like instead of think.
By the way, whether singers are orgasmic screamers (Janis Joplin, Mariah Carey, Led Zeppelin), southern drawlers (Garth, Johnny Cash) , ballad crooners (90% of pop music today), loud yellers (Pantera), silver tongued talkers (Puff Daddy, Jay Z), gravel garglers (Joe Cocker, Sammy Hagar), or wooden stick poked angry wailers (Judas Priest, Ozzy), their still singers and, in each category, there is great talent.
I dropped out of Pink Floyd stuff just before Dark side, and Money and Stairway are two of my most hated FM standards. I do have a Pink Floyd collection that I got used that has it. I only have Zeppelin’s best of CD and fortunately Stairway is last on it. Sgt Pepper was my first stereo LP–those plastic black things you play with a needle.
