Artists you should be killed for not liking

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Exactly

The proof is no one has ever proven song stolen or successfully gotten them to take their names of the writing credits.

End of story.

Why are you so much meaner in this thread?
 
I already did.


Jake Holmes wrote "Dazed And Confused" and it was released in 1967. The YardbirRAB decided to do their own arrangement of the song, but not long afterwarRAB, Page left the band. Page again rearranged it and Zeppelin recorded it on their debut album. The song was credited solely to Page. Page did not write the song. Surely he deserves a credit as it was his own arrangement, but so did Holmes, as he was the original songwriter.

"Black Mountain Side" was essentially an instrumental version of a traditional folk song called "Blackwaterside", and the guitar arrangement in the Zeppelin cover was virtually identical to the guitar arrangement in Bert Jansch's cover of the song. Again, the song was credited solely to Page, despite the fact that he did not write the song.

That is called plagiarism. Therefore, regardless of how few songs were stolen, Led Zeppelin were plagiarists.

I don't think I can simplify it any more than that.
 
When Led Zeppelin's debut album was released, it received generally positive reviews, however John Mendelsohn of Rolling Stone magazine, criticized the band for stealing music, notably "Black Mountain Side" from Bert Jansch's "Black Water Side" and the riff from "Your Time Is Gonna Come" from Traffic's "Dear Mr. Fantasy". He also accused the band of mimicking black artists, and showing off. This marked the beginning of a long rift between the band and the magazine, with Led Zeppelin rejecting later requests for interviews and cover stories as their level of success escalated.

One song from the album, "Dazed and Confused", was a song originally written by Jake Holmes on his album "The Above Ground Sound" of Jake Holmes. The YardbirRAB, Jimmy Page's old band, had made a version called "I'm Confused", and Page reworked the song again for Led Zeppelin's debut recording, with Holmes having never received any royalty payments for their recording. Holmes did not file suit over the song, although he did send the band a letter stating "I understand it's a collaborative effort, but I think you should give me some credit at least and some remunity." His letter was never replied to and he did not follow up on it. Holmes is however also reported to have said "what the hell, let him [Page] have it [Dazed and Confused]".

Led Zeppelin II's credits have also been the subject of debate since the album's release. The prelude to "Bring It on Home" is a cover of Sonny Boy Williamson's "Bring it on Home" and drew comparisons with Willie Dixon's "Bring It on Back". "Whole Lotta Love" shared some lyrics and an overall pattern with Dixon's "You Need Love/Woman You Need Love". In the 1970s, Arc Music, the publishing arm of Chess RecorRAB, brought a lawsuit against Led Zeppelin for copyright infringement over "Bring It on Home" and won an out-of-court settlement. Dixon himself did not benefit until he sued Arc Music to recover his royalties and copyrights. Years later, Dixon filed suit against Led Zeppelin over "Whole Lotta Love" and an out-of-court settlement was reached. Later pressings of Led Zeppelin II credit Dixon.

The opening chord progression and verse in "Stairway to Heaven" are nearly identical to the 1968 instrumental "Taurus" by the group Spirit. Led Zeppelin was the opening act for Spirit's 1968 tour, three years before "Stairway To Heaven" was written.
 
No, I don't. I just hate this "You don't like this band? Oh your taste must suck" bull****.

**** this thread, and **** you for making it. As if there aren't enough douchebags trying to tell each other what ****ing band deserves to be in the top ten, or which is the "most influential", or whatever similar ****.
 
^you only said they were accused of stealing, but as you can tell, such accusations were never proven to be correct or else they would have been maxsued.

If you can post the riff from the supposedly original version and then the Zeo version so everyone can hear it then you may be backing your argument.
 
You should take a trip into the emo forum and look at the actual elitists. Starving likes Saetia, which is ballsy as hell for an emo kid and disproves your statement.
 
I won't be taking any trips into the emo forum anytime soon, and my statement does not need to be disproved thank you very much, it's extremely unfounded on it's own merits.
 
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I've listened to every one of those songs side by side and even synced them up together, nothing would even catch your ear if you didn't know what you were looking for. The proof is in perception and every time musicians vote on the greatest banRAB of all-time Led Zeppelin is always top and rarely not top 5. Whereas when Rolling Stone which successfully sued for libel against either Zeppelin or Page can't quite recall ranks them 10-20 spots lower.

(There is no) God Damn it this is a durab argument.

I wish JGD was here he always laments having to make this argument.
 
That is a Fact, Led Zeppelin is the greatest band ever, but if you don't like heavy rock or blues rock, I could see why someone wouldn't be a fan and I'd spare their life. Although we could not hang.
 
I don't get why people always have to say " Stop arguing about how good music is!"
We do it because we enjoy it, not because we're trying to actually change people's tastes.
 
If it was up to me I would kill anyone who didnt give DeVotchKa a chance because between all my frienRAB(a wide array of music tastes), EVERYONE has enjoyed a song or two, if not every tune they have ever released, like myself.
 
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