59. Stairway to Heaven vs. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Posted: Tue November 14, 2017 12:43 pm
Red Mosquito
59. Stairway to Heaven vs. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
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Re: 59. Stairway to Heaven vs. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Posted: Tue November 14, 2017 12:45 pm
Easy vote for Stairway
Re: 59. Stairway to Heaven vs. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Posted: Tue November 14, 2017 12:59 pm
Im in the camp that Stairway has circled back around to being socially acceptable. But BIGLY is so damn good.
I especially love this alternate take. Rawer vocals, heavier drums..
SO GOOOOOD
I especially love this alternate take. Rawer vocals, heavier drums..
SO GOOOOOD
Re: 59. Stairway to Heaven vs. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Posted: Tue November 14, 2017 1:42 pm
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow
Re: 59. Stairway to Heaven vs. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Posted: Tue November 14, 2017 2:44 pm
BIGLY is so much better than STH it's not even funny
Re: 59. Stairway to Heaven vs. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Posted: Tue November 14, 2017 2:46 pm
bigly
kp
kp
Re: 59. Stairway to Heaven vs. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Posted: Tue November 14, 2017 3:19 pm
bigly, easy.
Stairway is LZ's version of In My Tree for me. Everyone else loves it, I think it is vastly overrated.
Stairway is LZ's version of In My Tree for me. Everyone else loves it, I think it is vastly overrated.
Re: 59. Stairway to Heaven vs. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Posted: Tue November 14, 2017 3:24 pm
Well shit.
Re: 59. Stairway to Heaven vs. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Posted: Tue November 14, 2017 3:34 pm
Bigly, gotta be bigly, it’s the best.
Re: 59. Stairway to Heaven vs. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Posted: Tue November 14, 2017 3:36 pm
It’s Stairway by a massive margin.
Re: 59. Stairway to Heaven vs. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Posted: Tue November 14, 2017 3:37 pm
PHATJ wrote:It’s Stairway by a massive margin.
Re: 59. Stairway to Heaven vs. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Posted: Tue November 14, 2017 5:47 pm
koopee27 wrote:bigly
Re: 59. Stairway to Heaven vs. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Posted: Tue November 14, 2017 7:04 pm
"Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" is a powerhouse performance of a relatively dull, cliched folk-blues song, one of the stronger tracks on an album where a blurb advertising powerhouse performances of relatively dull, cliched folk-blues songs could be a sticker on the front cover. I like it a lot but the overall build and sweep of "Stairway" eclipses it in every possible way -- melodically, lyrically, structurally. In my view this is the point in the competition where these blues songs (even "Levee," if I'm being honest) should start dropping -- I personally feel that there is too much musical ingenuity in what remains of the catalog, none of which comes at the expense of strength of performance or interpretation, for these well-executed but still highly derivative songs to still be in the conversation. Easy vote for "Stairway."
Re: 59. Stairway to Heaven vs. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Posted: Tue November 14, 2017 7:25 pm
Kevin Davis wrote:"Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" is a powerhouse performance of a relatively dull, cliched folk-blues song, one of the stronger tracks on an album where a blurb advertising powerhouse performances of relatively dull, cliched folk-blues songs could be a sticker on the front cover. I like it a lot but the overall build and sweep of "Stairway" eclipses it in every possible way -- melodically, lyrically, structurally. In my view this is the point in the competition where these blues songs (even "Levee," if I'm being honest) should start dropping -- I personally feel that there is too much musical ingenuity in what remains of the catalog, none of which comes at the expense of strength of performance or interpretation, for these well-executed but still highly derivative songs to still be in the conversation. Easy vote for "Stairway."
But Communication Breakdown is so much more than the blues, for the record.Re: 59. Stairway to Heaven vs. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Posted: Tue November 14, 2017 7:28 pm
If I ever have a podcast, you're gonna be a frequent guest on it.Kevin Davis wrote:"Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" is a powerhouse performance of a relatively dull, cliched folk-blues song, one of the stronger tracks on an album where a blurb advertising powerhouse performances of relatively dull, cliched folk-blues songs could be a sticker on the front cover. I like it a lot but the overall build and sweep of "Stairway" eclipses it in every possible way -- melodically, lyrically, structurally. In my view this is the point in the competition where these blues songs (even "Levee," if I'm being honest) should start dropping -- I personally feel that there is too much musical ingenuity in what remains of the catalog, none of which comes at the expense of strength of performance or interpretation, for these well-executed but still highly derivative songs to still be in the conversation. Easy vote for "Stairway."
Re: 59. Stairway to Heaven vs. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Posted: Tue November 14, 2017 10:49 pm
What Kevin said.
Stairway!
Stairway!
Re: 59. Stairway to Heaven vs. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Posted: Tue November 14, 2017 11:44 pm
Yeah, I definitely wouldn't saddle every song on the album with that label, but it's certainly a recurring theme.tragabigzanda wrote:Kevin Davis wrote:"Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" is a powerhouse performance of a relatively dull, cliched folk-blues song, one of the stronger tracks on an album where a blurb advertising powerhouse performances of relatively dull, cliched folk-blues songs could be a sticker on the front cover. I like it a lot but the overall build and sweep of "Stairway" eclipses it in every possible way -- melodically, lyrically, structurally. In my view this is the point in the competition where these blues songs (even "Levee," if I'm being honest) should start dropping -- I personally feel that there is too much musical ingenuity in what remains of the catalog, none of which comes at the expense of strength of performance or interpretation, for these well-executed but still highly derivative songs to still be in the conversation. Easy vote for "Stairway."
Re: 59. Stairway to Heaven vs. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Posted: Wed November 15, 2017 1:33 am
Wait, people consider BIGLY to be one of Zep's "blues songs?" I don't hear that at all.
Re: 59. Stairway to Heaven vs. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Posted: Wed November 15, 2017 2:16 am
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Wait, people consider BIGLY to be one of Zep's "blues songs?" I don't hear that at all.
Yeah, isn't it a Joan Baez folk cover?
Re: 59. Stairway to Heaven vs. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Posted: Wed November 15, 2017 2:24 am
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_I% ... _Leave_You
To me it's a folk song with a lot of prominent blues DNA -- the structure and especially the lyrics ("Gonna leave you woman, I've got to ramble," etc. etc.) are straight from that late-50's-early-60's coffeehouse lineage, where the lines between the two genres were very blurry. Zeppelin obviously give it a crushing rock arrangement, but at some point in the competition something's gotta give. I love both songs. But "Babe" is Zeppelin playing with inherited conventions; "Stairway" is Zeppelin establishing conventions for others to inherit.
To me it's a folk song with a lot of prominent blues DNA -- the structure and especially the lyrics ("Gonna leave you woman, I've got to ramble," etc. etc.) are straight from that late-50's-early-60's coffeehouse lineage, where the lines between the two genres were very blurry. Zeppelin obviously give it a crushing rock arrangement, but at some point in the competition something's gotta give. I love both songs. But "Babe" is Zeppelin playing with inherited conventions; "Stairway" is Zeppelin establishing conventions for others to inherit.