Led Zeppelin Or The Who?

The Who have had some amazing albums, but I think overall Zeppelin takes the cake. 

I liked The Who but Led Zeppelin is much more powerful!

none in particulary, but I like both aswell

The Who, but it is a close call.

Overall Zep's power wins the day--but like Quad and Tommy a lot--

moshkito wrote: Hi,   When one take in consideration the body of work and its value in literary/artistic terms, it's ahrd to think that The Who was not more valuable and important. But radio/media doesn't care about intelligence and beauty, it only cares about sales and numbers, and Led Zeppelin walked all over The Who, specially in America, although the value of The Who and their work is much more important and their last album pretty much showed that Led Zeppelin was just another band, whose meaning was ... no meaning ... just a rock'n'roll band!   And a damn good one!

Zep for me.  The Who had some fantastic moments in their early days, but these seemed to dwindle away as they just kept slogging along way too long.  They diluted their greatness with too many reunion tours and too many uninspired albums when they were far past their prime.  Zep OTOH started good but kept getting better and better until Bonzo's death.  Kinda funny, both bands lost their drummers just as their careers were a little past their highest point and starting to droop...for better or worse, Zep called it quits and cemented a legacy of greatness where the Who kept flogging the dolphin and tarnishing their reputation.

I really like Zep, but since I'm not as familiar with The Who's catalog, I feel like my vote would be unfair, so I'll pass.

jude111 wrote: moshkito wrote: Hi, When one take in consideration the body of work and its value in literary/artistic terms, it's ahrd to think that The Who was not more valuable and important. But radio/media doesn't care about intelligence and beauty, it only cares about sales and numbers, and Led Zeppelin walked all over The Who, specially in America, although the value of The Who and their work is much more important and their last album pretty much showed that Led Zeppelin was just another band, whose meaning was ... no meaning ... just a rock'n'roll band!   And a damn good one! Certainly the Who predates Zeppelin, and they were there at the first British Invasion of the US. By the way, the Who were huge in the US, and one was liable to hear on American radio Baba O'Reilly, Won't Get Fooled Again, Pinball Wizard, Behind Blue Eyes, See Me Feel Me - just as much as any Led Zep song. American critics loved the Who, and didn't have much time for Led Zep (or for Floyd, Genesis, or Tull, etc.).

This is the unfortunate truth--  music journalism (and everyone else) loved the Who, whereas the press bashed Zeppelin almost any chance they got.   And why not; to their ears, Zep were no more than a prefabricated group pushing ersatz-Hendrix pablum and selling way too many albums in the process.   No, the press wouldn't have it.   In fact the Who were one of the bands ~ along with Hendrix, Jeff Beck Group and Cream ~ that Zep were accused of impersonating.   And to be honest, in the context of the early 70s, it is fair criticism.   It was only later when Bonzo died that people outside their fanbase realized how great they were and what had been lost.   Then the press jumped on board.

The Stones kick both of their asses