Jethro Tull vs Led Zeppelin - Progressive Rock Music Forum

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There is a difficult choose between Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull. In the days of my youth Tull and Zeppelin was a two bedrocks, but Tul still untouchable in my mind. And Zeppelin... Yes, I love them, but Tull is more important for me. Both "Aqualung" and "Thick as a Brick" I like better than "Led Zeppelin II" or "Physical Graffity". Ian is like my god, hi's a genius composer, and I prefer him as a singer.

You say Tull has three genial albums and other their records are bad? What are this three? "Aqualang", "Thick as a Brick", "Passion Play"? Or "War Child", "Minstrel", "Heavy Horses"? Or "This was", "Too Old to Rock and Roll", "Songs from the Wood"? All of them contains great stuff and all still important to rock music.

Tull gets my vote. Objectively Tull more intellectual and more elegant than Zeppelin. So, I'm going with Tull.

Apropos, I think both Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull are essentially one person bands: In Jethro Tull this person is Ian, and in Led Zeppelin this is Jimmy. So the comparison is correct.

Edited by charles_ryder - April 19 2014 at 06:07

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Jethro Tull easily. I can't stand Zeppelin those damn plagiarists.

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Going for Tull but only cos theres more to choose from

Now if you're going to argue Led Zep, this is the song/video to use (I, myself, voted for Tull).

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If I had a time machine my first stop would be a Tull concert in 1974.

I like both, but absolutely Zepp.

Both, because I really like both pretty equally. But if you made me choose, it'd probably be Tull

Edited by bloodnarfer - October 24 2013 at 12:08

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I pick Jethro Tull..although I wasn't fond of their musical input after Songs From the Wood..except for Stormwatch having some fine moments..but the band seemed to grow weaker with creativeness. Their inability to ever produce albums like Thick As A Brick, Minstrel In the Gallery, Stand Up, A Passion Play again..felt alienated at that point in time.

Led Zeppelin were not stylistically based around the more technical sounding arrangements of Jethro Tull. Jimmy Page was a fine acoustic player. He had fine skills in that area using open tunings , creating strange chord voicings, and writing songs with an atmosphere underneath the music. He was a good writer,but he wasn't going for a style that lifted long extensive note passages every measure. He desired sticking to a harder edged Rock sound for the band. He was a mysterious character that had an interest in the underworld. That prevails in their music.

Poll Question: who is tour favourite band
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Jethro Tull	92	[52.87%]
Led Zeppelin	61	[35.06%]
both	21	[12.07%]
This topic is closed, no new votes accepted