Xanadu or Stairway to Heaven?

Both are great, but Xanadu blows Stairway to Heaven away.

someone_else wrote: Both are great, but Xanadu blows Stairway to Heaven away.

C'mon, man.

I guess Rush.

Love them both but give me the Stairway to Heaven.   I know it's overplayed but that's not the songs fault.

Edited by omphaloskepsis - December 07 2016 at 09:46

omphaloskepsis wrote: Love them both but give me the Stairway to Heaven.   I know it's overplayed but that's not the songs fault.

An actual vote from me that is not for the Rush song.  As overplayed as Stairway may be, it has still been one of my favorite songs for a long, long time. 

Compare these two songs is rather strange. They are different beast IMO. No vote here.

DeadSouls wrote: WTF is Xanadu.

It's the Olivia Newton John/ ELO stitle song of a roller-disco movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb4WLZHXcds which Samuel Taylor Coleridge based his poem Kubla Khan on:

"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
   Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round;
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery...."

Anyway, I voted for "Stairway to Heaven":

"Stairway to Heaven" by Alison Hawthorne Deming


"The queen grows fat beneath my house
while drones infest the walls

reconnaissance to feed her glut,
wood ripped from studs and joists.

I’ll pay to drill the slab and ruin
her pestilential nest. How to find

the song in this day’s summons?
I’ve been accused of darkness

by my inner light. My brother sits
in the chemo chair another long day

of toxic infusion, the house of his body—
bones, brain and balls gone skeltering.

I sit in my parked car listening
to Robert Plant recall how the English

envied the Americans for getting
the blues, getting all of it, into song...."

Edited by Logan - December 07 2016 at 17:36

Oh my god I think that's the guy from The Warriors