LATTER FOUR Led Zeppelin albums vs. LATTER FOUR Black Sabbath albums (of each's first eight)

Zep, easy. This isn't even fair.

Zep. Because of "Houses Of The Holy" alone.

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Sabbath, easy. Even though Graffitti is good, probably great, SBS and Sabotage slay just about anything. And Never Say Die makes ITTOD sound like the Shaggs.

^^^yup

Sabotage is the one that keeps this even a contest, but yeah Physical Graffiti and Houses means a walk for zeppelin.

I also LOVE in through the out door, zep could have become a real strange band in the 80s, esp. when you consider plant's solo output, they were going for some strange synth pop/dino rock hybrid....

i can't really fuck w/presence for drugggz induced grunge stupor either

offhand I'd say Zep (again) easy, but I do not know all of this latter period Sabbath stuff so I should probably keep my mouth shut

I do love me some Dio

Never Say Die is a sadly underrated album. I love it. I burn it for anyone who says the Sabs are just a bunch of knuckledraggers. And here and the debut are where the jazz really shine through.

This is even more of a Sabbath cakewalk than the other thread.

Personally - I'd like to see that later ozzy-fronted Sabbath records taken back in time to their more-hungry, non-coked-up, tighter Sabbath of old ... that said - I voted for the zep, cause Physical Graffiti is just such a fave.

Sabbath wins again. There is no four album stretch where I can see Zep beating Sabbath actually.

Admittedly I don't care about the last two Sabbath records so this is mostly a reflection of SBS and Sabotage being the best records on this list by a huge margin.

I actually voted Sabbath on the other thread, but this is LZ easy. So much of my favorite Zep shit on these albums.

Yeah, the other thread is a real contest, but all four of these Zep albums rule, especially the first two. Presence and Out Door are awesome and underrated. I love SBS and Sabotage, but not enough to forgive the two later ones.

Never Say Die crushes Presence.

yeah WTF almost every sabbath album with ozzy is better than any zepplin record with the exception of Houses of the Holy which is pretty amazing.

Never Say Die crushes Presence.

In Through The Out Door, too

Heh, for me, THIS is the real battle. (I love 1-4 for both Zep and Sabbath. None are below 9.5, but except for the Zep's fourth which is a 10, the others are 9.5's. the ONLY Sabbath that isn't a 10 is Vol 4., hence Sabbath wins easily for me there, all reverence to all eight albums there nonetheless.)

SBS >>> Houses Of The Holy

Both are fun albums, but Houses doesn't end with "Spiral Architect", nor has some a stomper as "Looking For Today".

Sabotage > Physical Graffiti

Side 2 of Sabotage is more dilute than the super solid Side 1, sure... PG has many great tunes, but it's a bloated double-album though. "Symptom Of The Universe" == "Kashmir" as far as the amazing epic. Sabotage wins on good editting.

Technical Ecstasy <<< Presence

Presence wins here easily mainly because Technical Ecstasy is the most forgettable album of the eight. (although both #7 for Zep and Sabbath are their respective weakest.). Presence is really dirty sounding, as in literal dirt, not "naughty" dirty. Technical Ecstasy is too dilute, although I really like "It's Alright", which most people hate on.)

In Through The Out Door < Never Say Die!

JUUUUUST BARELY, Never Say Die! edges this out, mainly because I think NSD was the first orig. Ozzy-era Sabbath album that was a move to change their sound, whether by choice, by drugs, or both. I love the horns on NSD. It's a grower, that one, but severely underrated. ITTOD is a great album though, damn. "I'm Gonna Crawl" I love (another song many hate on.)

it's all about the match-ups, isn't it

I am the kind of stoner who will always vote respective Sabbath over Zep.

Well, except for #8, each of these pairs had same-year release dates, so I figure they're worthy of matches.

I eat cannibals OTM as far as what will be half of the popular sentiment

Zep has the song Achilles Last Stand which is the best song on any of these albums, so they win. The first four goes to Sabbath for The Wizard though.

Symptom of the Universe makes Achilles... sound like Row Row Row Your Boat.

"Houses Of The Holy" is the best thing Led Zeppelin did because it's their most musically varied, trying out a lot of non- hard rock styles that actually worked _better_ than their hard rock material.

"D'yer Maker" is - well, along with "Stairway To Heaven" - the best thing they ever did.

dire mocker

Oh my goodness.

D'yer Mak'er is the worst song recorded by anyone, ever.

A pox on you, vile heretic!

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Crazy results.

How many people voted for Zep that have never heard the Sabbath 5-8?

Nonsensical results.

I voted for Sabbath here, but the results are hardly nonsensical.

I stand by what I said.