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GasLightStreet
Led Zeppelin was the best at doing Led Zeppelin and inspiring future hard rock bands and certainly the essence of change, with their acoustic tunes, strings and all the different styles they did.
The Rolling Stones were the best at doing The Rolling Stones and inspiring future rock'n'roll bands and certainly the essence of change, with their fantastic middle eights, strings, choirs and all the different styles they did.
Zep's drummer died and so they stopped.
It's music, not boxing or football.
Look at this, it's interesting, and on one of them, Single Albums - All Time Top Shipments USA, the Stones aren't even listed!
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GasLightStreet
This is not me, it's the dude who said this, which is interesting, from that site:
"Regarding US album sales, the riaa currently says
Led Zep - 111.5 million
Stones - 66.5 million
This includes all those multi-disc sets. Taking these out, the audited actual number of albums shipped is
Led Zep - 89.46 million
Stones - 57.167 million
Using Certification dates and soundscan, it is possible to estimate the total shipments of both bands since 1969 and 1964 respectively
Led Zep - 103 million
Stones - 80 million
However, in some ways it is like comparing Chalk and Cheese. Their music is very different and The Stones were very much a singles band in a way Led Zep never were.
Research has shown that Led Zep appeal much more to younger buyers who tend to view the Stones as old-fashioned. They might go to one of their concerts out of curiousity but won't necessarily buy any of their albums.
While we don't have any way of accurately estimating Worldwide sales, logic, charts and touring indicate that Led Zep sold more albums than The Stones. I think if you double US sales to 206 million for Led Zep and 160 million for The Stones, then you have as good an estimate for Worldwide sales as it is possible to come up with.
Their Soundscan totals since 1991 are surprisingly similar - Led Zep have just passed 25 million and The Stones are likely somewhere between 26 and 27 million.
The real winners in the Soundscan Era are Pink Floyd."
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GasLightStreet
This is not me, it's the dude who said this, which is interesting, from that site:
"Regarding US album sales, the riaa currently says
Led Zep - 111.5 million
Stones - 66.5 million
This includes all those multi-disc sets. Taking these out, the audited actual number of albums shipped is
Led Zep - 89.46 million
Stones - 57.167 million
Using Certification dates and soundscan, it is possible to estimate the total shipments of both bands since 1969 and 1964 respectively
Led Zep - 103 million
Stones - 80 million
However, in some ways it is like comparing Chalk and Cheese. Their music is very different and The Stones were very much a singles band in a way Led Zep never were.
Research has shown that Led Zep appeal much more to younger buyers who tend to view the Stones as old-fashioned. They might go to one of their concerts out of curiousity but won't necessarily buy any of their albums.
While we don't have any way of accurately estimating Worldwide sales, logic, charts and touring indicate that Led Zep sold more albums than The Stones. I think if you double US sales to 206 million for Led Zep and 160 million for The Stones, then you have as good an estimate for Worldwide sales as it is possible to come up with.
Their Soundscan totals since 1991 are surprisingly similar - Led Zep have just passed 25 million and The Stones are likely somewhere between 26 and 27 million.
The real winners in the Soundscan Era are Pink Floyd."
they are similar in soundscan era bu think of zeppelin. no tours or new albums of material and they have not done countless hits packages
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Wild Slivovitz
Gimme a break! The Rolling Stones are light years better than anyone else!!
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GasLightStreet
Led Zeppelin was the best at doing Led Zeppelin and inspiring future hard rock bands and certainly the essence of change, with their acoustic tunes, strings and all the different styles they did.
The Rolling Stones were the best at doing The Rolling Stones and inspiring future rock'n'roll bands and certainly the essence of change, with their fantastic middle eights, strings, choirs and all the different styles they did.
Zep's drummer died and so they stopped.
It's music, not boxing or football.
Look at this, it's interesting, and on one of them, Single Albums - All Time Top Shipments USA, the Stones aren't even listed!
[www.ukmix.org]
i have a similar way of putting it, athough i think led zeppelin was a greater agent for change. they really helped spawn a lot of the heavier, metal music. the stones to me were the ultimate refinement of blues-heavy rock-n-roll. strings, choirs, middle 8's - they had all been done before. but the stones took it all to its logical conclusion and laid down the best interpretations of the form.
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whitem8
Zep a greater agent for change? Really? No. Historically speaking that just isn't so. The Stones pushed the boundaries, as did The Beatles, The Who, and The Kinks. The Stones showed that American Blues could be creatively interpreted and experimented with. They designed the modern rock tours. They did so much to influence Led Zep, and Zep did practically nothing to influence The Rolling Stones. The Stones were far more eclectic than Zep, with much more variety in their sound and music. I love Zep, but they copied most of what they created.
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whitem8
Zep a greater agent for change? Really? No. Historically speaking that just isn't so. The Stones pushed the boundaries, as did The Beatles, The Who, and The Kinks. The Stones showed that American Blues could be creatively interpreted and experimented with. They designed the modern rock tours. They did so much to influence Led Zep, and Zep did practically nothing to influence The Rolling Stones. The Stones were far more eclectic than Zep, with much more variety in their sound and music. I love Zep, but they copied most of what they created.
I agree with you, except this last bit. There was a lot of, er, "borrowing" with Zep, but the Stones did the same in their early days. And a band that can produce Dazed and Confused, The Lemon Song, Kashmir, Going to California, Fool in the Rain, etc., rank as pretty darn varied in my book.
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nightskyman
Er, I hate to say it...but even The Beatles?!
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Big Al
Dazed and Confused is a re-working of a song titled 'I'm Confused' by a musician called Jake Holmes. He supported the Yardbirds in 1967 and the soon-to-be Led Zeppelin version was put together by Page and Chris Dreja of the Yardbirds. The group performed the track on French television in 1968 and even when performed today in their bastardized incarnation, it's still 'I'm Confused' Jimmy Page still does not acknowledge the plagiarism.
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rob51
Zep was kinda boring live so to me the Stones are/were the better band.
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treaclefingers
That guy, Led Zeppelin...he's got a great voice.
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treaclefingers
That guy, Led Zeppelin...he's got a great voice.
You mean Fred...Fred Zeppelin had the great voice, just didn't have an extra jimmy lying around
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Shott
Zep had some good guitar riffs that captured the brown weed iron on t-shirt stoned in parent's basement early 70's. They are a long time gone and won't be played much in 30 years. I think one prominent critic last year called for permanently banning Stairway from airwaves.
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