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Stairway to Heaven or Bohemian Rhapsody? PART II


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  1. 1. Which song took more talent to write and perform?

    • Stairway To Heaven
    • Bohemian Rhapsody


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More talented? I don't understand the purpose of this question. Both bands are obviously massively talented. Apples and oranges.

 

I would say Led Zeppelin's music has a stronger center of gravity. Everything they do is pulled back to blues music. Queen is floating all over the place.

 

Both processes have their strengths and weaknesses. Let personal preference sort it out.

 

Oh yeah, I can happily go about the rest of my life and never hear either song again.

 

Color me stupid you condescending boob..

 

 

 

Edit: My apologies, RR, but I do get tired of those in the know forgetting that some of us aren't of the same caliber. My question may not have had a purpose to someone like you, but it did to me.

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But Segue has NAILED my feelings of Stranger things by the way, lol

 

Mick

 

Everything you felt about season 1 I feel about season 2....doubt I am gonna finish it.

 

Yawn!

 

Really and truly?

 

:laughing guy: :laughing guy: :laughing guy: :laughing guy: :laughing guy: :laughing guy: :laughing guy: :laughing guy: :laughing guy: :laughing guy: :laughing guy:

 

i'm sorry bud......just.....lol

 

Mick

 

Season 2 is just...its plateaud. Then again I have been watching Hannibal and that is a much better show haha

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More talented? I don't understand the purpose of this question. Both bands are obviously massively talented. Apples and oranges.

 

I would say Led Zeppelin's music has a stronger center of gravity. Everything they do is pulled back to blues music. Queen is floating all over the place.

 

Both processes have their strengths and weaknesses. Let personal preference sort it out.

 

Oh yeah, I can happily go about the rest of my life and never hear either song again.

 

Color me stupid you condescending boob..

 

:laughing guy: :laughing guy:

 

You know. i have missed this place. when my life calms down i will be back more.

 

Mick

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oh and i stand by what i said. it is a strange question. both are talanted. of course they are. i just Spin Queen LOADS amore than i do Zep.

 

it's very rare i'm in a Zeppelin mood honestly.

 

Mick

 

Why is it a strange question?

 

which one is more talanted. maybe it's just me.....but two TOTALLY different bands stylistically. each masters of their music. So it really is subjective.

 

Mick

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oh and i stand by what i said. it is a strange question. both are talanted. of course they are. i just Spin Queen LOADS amore than i do Zep.

 

it's very rare i'm in a Zeppelin mood honestly.

 

Mick

 

Why is it a strange question?

 

which one is more talanted. maybe it's just me.....but two TOTALLY different bands stylistically. each masters of their music. So it really is subjective.

 

Mick

 

Well, to me they are the same. They are musicians, and they all are talented, but some are lazy and others really exercise their talent to the max. Jimmy always struck me as someone always able to do and be more but rested on that he had already accomplished. Queen, on the other hand, were more professional and serious. In my opinion.

 

Keep in mind I am not a musician and know nothing about the technicalities of music. My question may seem dumb to those who do, but for me, it was a sincere question - which song took more talent to write and perform?

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oh and i stand by what i said. it is a strange question. both are talanted. of course they are. i just Spin Queen LOADS amore than i do Zep.

 

it's very rare i'm in a Zeppelin mood honestly.

 

Mick

 

Why is it a strange question?

 

which one is more talanted. maybe it's just me.....but two TOTALLY different bands stylistically. each masters of their music. So it really is subjective.

 

Mick

 

My thoughts exactly...and whose to say which song took more or less talent? Different approaches altogether!

 

And I prefer Led Zeppelin. There are very few bands I would choose Queen over.

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oh and i stand by what i said. it is a strange question. both are talanted. of course they are. i just Spin Queen LOADS amore than i do Zep.

 

it's very rare i'm in a Zeppelin mood honestly.

 

Mick

 

Why is it a strange question?

 

which one is more talanted. maybe it's just me.....but two TOTALLY different bands stylistically. each masters of their music. So it really is subjective.

 

Mick

 

Well, to me they are the same. They are musicians, and they all are talented, but some are lazy and others really exercise their talent to the max. Jimmy always struck me as someone always able to do and be more but rested on that he had already accomplished. Queen, on the other hand, were more professional and serious. In my opinion.

 

Keep in mind I am not a musician and know nothing about the technicalities of music. My question may seem dumb to those who do, but for me, it was a sincere question - which song took more talent to write and perform?

 

oh don't think i was calling it a dumb question. it wasn't it just kind of threw me for a loop.

 

but it's a legit one.

 

Mick

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More talented? I don't understand the purpose of this question. Both bands are obviously massively talented. Apples and oranges.

 

I would say Led Zeppelin's music has a stronger center of gravity. Everything they do is pulled back to blues music. Queen is floating all over the place.

 

Both processes have their strengths and weaknesses. Let personal preference sort it out.

 

Oh yeah, I can happily go about the rest of my life and never hear either song again.

 

Color me stupid you condescending boob..

 

 

 

Edit: My apologies, RR, but I do get tired of those in the know forgetting that some of us aren't of the same caliber. My question may not have had a purpose to someone like you, but it did to me.

No apology needed. I can absolutely be a boob from time to time (or all the time). I just think both bands are incredibly talented. I do think more time and work went into the recording and producing of Bohemian Rhapsody.

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God, I love Stranger Things. Both seasons. Just sayin' :D

 

Re the poll, I love both songs, but I voted for Stairway, purely because Zep could play it live right through, whereas Queen never could with BR, for obvious reasons. I realise that isn't relevant to the talent involved in writing either song, but performance was also mentioned so . . .

 

Plus I was 9 years old when BR was number 1 here in the UK for weeks and weeks and I hated it and them at the time (mainly because they were my cousin's favourite band - we were very competitive and never got along!). It was only after Live Aid that I mellowed towards them, even went to see them on the Kind of Magic tour.

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And another resounding duh.

 

 

 

I do love Stairway though, but come on.

 

Come on what? i'm not a musician. I don't know which song took more talent to write. Just because something sounds good doesn't necessarily mean it's better.

 

Sorry, I shouldn't assume the difference in complexity is always obvious to everyone. To my ears as a musician, a great deal of skill and talent went in to the performance and execution and recording of both of these tunes, but Stairway had to be way easier to write, and that's the deciding factor.

 

The idea of Stairway is essentially a song that builds from a somber acoustic intro all the way to a euphoric blast of heavy metal and touches every base in between. Not necessarily easy to pull off, but easy enough to understand. Once you have the idea, it almost writes itself.

 

The idea of Bohemian Rhapsody is far less intuitive and requires a truly unique talent to imagine. It begins with an eery a Capella intro which fades seemlessly into a gorgeous piano power ballad. The ballad section escalates into a righteous guitar solo before crashing down into something more identifiable as opera than rock and roll. The opera section is thoroughly entertaining and dynamic, and ends with an astounding climax that immediately breaks into pure heavy metal thunder, which then slowly fades away (and how) into yet another gorgeous and somber piano led ballad section which closes out the piece with only a few lyrics and a perfectly placed gong. To even come up with this idea implies being some kind of madman musician who got carried away, but to make it work, to make it defy all expectations and actually touch the hearts of millions and become one of the most renowned songs of all time? That implies a genius musician who may have gotten carried away, but knew exactly what he was doing. That kind of compositional talent puts Freddie up there with Mozart and Beehtoven in my book. And the whole band are of course monstrously talented in actually being able to pull the thing off.

 

Slow clap. Especially in the Mozart observation. Both were geniuses and died far too young.

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