what song are you listening to?.... thread...

[Savy]

Well I don't know any band that sounds like them. A lot were influenced by them though afterwards but it's not really the genre I'm into (more of a hard rock than heavy metal guy myself). Some of the innovations were using weird time signatures like 5/4 time and whatever that almost no-one ever even would try.

Then listen to all the hard rock and blues bands influenced by them rather than the metal ones?

[Poopadoop]

Then listen to all the hard rock and blues bands influenced by them rather than the metal ones?

I think it was mostly metal bands that tried to take after them, and most of those sound a bit shit to me. Blues is kinda dead in rock since the 70s, apart from bands like the Stones who were more R&B than straight blues.

[Savy]

I think it was mostly metal bands that tried to take after them, and most of those sound a bit shit to me. Blues is kinda dead in rock since the 70s, apart from bands like the Stones who were more R&B than straight blues.

Ain't my style of music so I can't really suggest anything (all that comes to mind is wolfmother) but if you're interested I can guarantee thousands of websites that will have great suggestions on exactly this.

[Poopadoop]

Ain't my style of music so I can't really suggest anything (all that comes to mind is wolfmother) but if you're interested I can guarantee thousands of websites that will have great suggestions on exactly this.

Thanks I will check that out.

Tbf, it's kinda hard for a band to directly influence other bands much beyond their own decade. For example, no-one today would try to write a Beatles type song because it would just sound weird, even though they were insanely popular in their day.

The types of bands LedZep influenced for the good were AC/DC or Van Halen because they had songs that were melodic but with an edge. A lot of the bands just mimicked the edge part (metal bands) and that rarely worked imo.

[OngBonga]

The Who are fucking great, so much better than Zepp.

The Real Me is a great song, too.

[Poopadoop]

The Who are fucking great, so much better than Zepp.

I like them better than Zep overall as well. Townshend is literally a genius, if he had someone like Lennon or McCartney to collaborate with he would be put in their class as songwriters (if that makes sense).

The Real Me is a great song, too.

I think stylistically it's just too 'different' for my ears. But the musicianship is outstanding.

Who's Next is their best album imo.

[Savy]

Tbf, it's kinda hard for a band to directly influence other bands much beyond their own decade. For example, no-one today would try to write a Beatles type song because it would just sound weird, even though they were insanely popular in their day.

Nah it's not. To be fair I'd say 10 years after a band is big is probably like the peak time to hear the influence of that music from kids who were young teenagers to being in their mid twenties.

Also you have to remember that parents music is pretty influential on kids, people of my generation will have had parents who grew up at the time of Led Zeppelin and are still really into them.

[Poopadoop]

Nah it's not. To be fair I'd say 10 years after a band is big is probably like the peak time to hear the influence of that music from kids who were young teenagers to being in their mid twenties.

Also you have to remember that parents music is pretty influential on kids, people of my generation will have had parents who grew up at the time of Led Zeppelin and are still really into them.

Mostly I'm referring to the overall sound. A band that sounded like LedZep or the Beatles today wouldn't sell. Of course they can be influenced by them, but they're not going to copy their sound like bands in their own day tried to. E.g., the Beach Boys were pretty much the Beatles writing songs about surfing.

[MadMojoMonkey]

Mostly I'm referring to the overall sound. A band that sounded like LedZep or the Beatles today wouldn't sell. Of course they can be influenced by them, but they're not going to copy their sound like bands in their own day tried to. E.g., the Beach Boys were pretty much the Beatles writing songs about surfing.

I'm not sure you fully appreciate where pop/rock music was before the Beatles and after the Beatles.
The popularization of the 4-piece touring guitar band is almost wholly attributable to their success using this format.
There were 4-piece bands around prior to the Beatles, but they weren't the norm.

Look at the proliferation of {2 guitars, 1 bass, 1 drum set} bands out there for the past 60 years.

There's an argument to be made that this is nothing to do with the Beatles directly. The Beatles merely happened to be doing the whole band thing during the era of the rise of electronic music, and somebody was bound to stumble upon the whole "We're 4 guys w/ guitars and a drum set" thing. They happened to be the most popular during that era, and their popularizing the format is coincidental.

IDK. We'll never be able to go back and take away their electricity and see if the genre still grew to be as popular. We can't go back and take the Beatles out of the picture and see if the genre is still popularized by some other group. So we're left with these 2 facts: Before the Beatles, the 4-piece guitar band wasn't really a thing, and in the wake of the Beatles, it's dominating the music entertainment industry on a world-wide scale.