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Poll Question: Which do you prefer?
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Points: 733 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 19 2014 at 10:10
Me as being the original poster,just making an observation here.The poll is going as i expected with Led Zep in the lead,but on the other hand TE is hanging in there doing better that i actually expected. Thanks for everyone's input & vote's so far.
"Nobody's Gonna Change My World That's Something To Unreal"   Lyrics that i live my life by-from Black Sabbath's Technical Ecstasy's track You Won't Change Me
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Interesting poll.  Two okay albums showing each band in decline.  I've never really liked either one, but feel that Presence is a little better than TE. 
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I read somewhere that Page always liked Presence the best of the ones they did.....you'd think he would have chosen 4 or Physical Graffiti. Interesting.....
One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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Points: 12608 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 20 2014 at 14:03
Originally posted by snowsnow snowsnow wrote:

Presence by a fair bit - it has 3 belters:
Achillies
Tea for one
Nobody's fault but mine ( my fav track - great track to get the blood pumping!)


Oh yeah, I remember enjoying "Tea for one" too. On the other side, I have not been able to warm up to "Nobody's fault but mine"... at least not the album version, though the live version on the "Unledded" album is really wonderful and I love it.
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Points: 1458 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 20 2014 at 19:07

Led Zeppelin Presence
When he rides, my fears subside.
For darkness turns once more to light.
Through the skies, his white horse flies.
To find a land beyond the night.
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Points: 1127 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2014 at 08:48
I prefer Sabbath over Zeppelin in general.
But TE is my least favourite  Ozzy Sab album.
Presence has my favourite Zep tune in Achilles.
So in this poll, Presence it is. 
Shake & bake.
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Points: 1719 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 22 2014 at 17:42
I'm surprised Presence isn't ahead by more. Technical is really a bore overall.
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I find both albums to be great. Never did understand why everyone gets in line to join the negative.

The only beef I have with Technical Ecstasy is the ballad She's Gone. Ballads are not really a good idea for Ozzy's voice (best as demented howl set against the huge Sabbath harmony structures and wall of sound, a bit like, er, audio graffiti. With She's Gone the strings bog it down - a bit like the strong Arrnagemnts on Steve Howe's Beginnings. A ligter touch perhaps and used sparingly.

It's Alright was a pleasant surprise with Bill Ward demonstrating his reasonable baritone. Black abbath being daring, progressive and not settling for a formula (remake Master Of Reality endlessly), all courtesy of Tony Iommi.

Presence also gets a hard time. Achilles is greta, Nody's Fault has such a killer guitar sound. The laid back but intense desperation underlying the intent of Tea For One are the obvious points. But the rhthm section really comes to the fore on the catch him out playfulness of Royal Orleans. Candy Store Rock is 50s rock and Roll updated (sic) in the 1970s and Hots On For Nowhere catches some internal Zeppelin strife lyrically but has a certain urgency and dignity naking it anothe runique number. For Your Life is the heavy blues number with yet another out standing solo from JP. Monumental album recorded quickly and under duress.

I did read recently that many of the tracks are criticised as great hook / riff numbers in search of a tune which is the clsoest I have really found as to a reasonable is negative analysis as aoposed to the rhetorical negative views.

Maybe this is really Page's first solo album with his band members' guesting (given that the only writing really comes from him and RP.





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