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'75 to '82: Black Sabbath vs Led Zeppelin
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Poll Question: Considering only albums released '75 to '82...who's your favorite?
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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

I have to flip from Sab to Zep for this period.

As mentioned, PG and Presence were two of their best imo. Coda, while not a "real" album, is filled with songs that still never fail to get me hot and bothered.  I love Coda. And, finally, as live works go, Song Remains blows the doors off of Live Evil. 

Sabotage is great and the two Dio albums are fun, but not enough to topple PG/Presence/Coda. 

So I pick Sab on the early titles and Zeppelin on the mid/late era. 

The rare Coda fan.   Wonderful farewell, 'Poor Tom', 'Darlene', and of course the staggeringly good 'Bonzo's Montreux'.   Plus the drunken live versions of We're Gonna Groove and ICQYB gave listeners a taste of the band live & raw that they didn't get from SRtS .   Those critics who thought the album was cobbled together for contractual reasons show their ignorance, as by then Zep had their own label (SwanSong). 





David...another Coda fan! Cool. That brings our number up to 37 then, worldwide. LOL  Ozone Baby and Wearing Tearing are amongst my favorite Zep air guitar songs.

On a personal note, I was at the peak of my Zeppelin fan fury at that Coda moment. Naturally, being too young to have witnessed Zep in their moment, I knew that I had missed the party. Thus, Coda was a very special acquisition to me. It was as close as I ever got to the excitement of "new" Zep material, and I knew there would not be anything else for me.  Loved it then and still do. 

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Still Sabbath for me.
I did go through the whole Zepp phase for years but they never really stuck with me over the years. Sabbath on the other hand......
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^ It is a gem.   I pity the fools who don't see that.
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Also a fan of Coda! Thumbs Up
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Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

I have to flip from Sab to Zep for this period.

As mentioned, PG and Presence were two of their best imo. Coda, while not a "real" album, is filled with songs that still never fail to get me hot and bothered.  I love Coda. And, finally, as live works go, Song Remains blows the doors off of Live Evil. 

Sabotage is great and the two Dio albums are fun, but not enough to topple PG/Presence/Coda. 

So I pick Sab on the early titles and Zeppelin on the mid/late era. 

The rare Coda fan.   Wonderful farewell, 'Poor Tom', 'Darlene', and of course the staggeringly good 'Bonzo's Montreux'.   Plus the drunken live versions of We're Gonna Groove and ICQYB gave listeners a taste of the band live & raw that they didn't get from SRtS .   Those critics who thought the album was cobbled together for contractual reasons show their ignorance, as by then Zep had their own label (SwanSong). 



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As much as I love Sabotage, after that meh.  

Zep's Presence is my favorite album by them.  I still remember the first time I heard Achilles's Last Stand in a jeep on a dirt road in the middle of the Blue Ridge Mountains getting ready to go "tubing" down a river.  It has blown me away ever since.  The rest of the album just fits so well together IMHO, no songs are weak.  Nobody's Fault but Mine also another standout to me.  PG goes without saying...

So Zep for this period.
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I have to flip from Sab to Zep for this period.

As mentioned, PG and Presence were two of their best imo. Coda, while not a "real" album, is filled with songs that still never fail to get me hot and bothered.  I love Coda. And, finally, as live works go, Song Remains blows the doors off of Live Evil. 

Sabotage is great and the two Dio albums are fun, but not enough to topple PG/Presence/Coda. 

So I pick Sab on the early titles and Zeppelin on the mid/late era. 
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In the related poll, Black Sabbath has a narrow lead over Led Zeppelin considering their albums up to 1973.  Both bands took a year off and came back with new albums and in many ways new directions beginning in 1975.  As with most bands that transitioned from the '70's to the '80's, many changes were coming, some good, some not so good and one band wouldn't survive.  

Based only on their albums from '75 to '82, which band do you prefer?

Black Sabbath
Sabotage '75
Technical Ecstasy '76
Never Say Die! '78
Heaven and Hell '80
Mob Rules '81
Live Evil '82

Led Zeppelin
Physical Graffiti '75
The Song Remains the Same '76
Presence '76
In Through the Out Door '79 
Coda '82
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