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Posted: October 14 2009 at 19:28
No match. Stairway still amazes me with its beauty and immaculate song construction. Child is nice but there's not all that much there beyond the gonzo vocal.
People would appreciate Stairway even more had it not suffered so much from radio overkill.
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Posted: October 14 2009 at 19:29
Finnforest wrote:
No match. Stairway still amazes me with its beauty and immaculate song construction. Child is nice but there's not all that much there beyond the gonzo vocal.
People would appreciate Stairway even more had it not suffered so much from radio overkill.
Joined: April 05 2006
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Posted: October 14 2009 at 19:45
I much prefer the track "Bombay Calling" that inspired "Child in Time" by It's a Beautiful Day (and Beautiful Days' was an adaptation of the be-bop jazzer Vince Wallace's "Bombay Calling": Great riff.
Anyway, I'm voting for "Stairway to Heaven" though it's not a Zep favourite partially because of over-exposure. Give me "In the Light", "No Quarter", "Carouselambra", "Four Sticks" etc.
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Posted: October 14 2009 at 20:02
I choose Child in Time, though if it had been something like Achilles Last Stand or Battle of Evermore in place of Stairway Zep would have won. I've just never been a huge fan of Stairway to be honest.
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Posted: October 14 2009 at 20:11
As a Deep Purple fanboy, I'll vote for Child in Time, but got to admit it tends to vary since I'm not much of a appreciator of this tune specifically, but neither I am of Zep's.
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Posted: October 14 2009 at 20:22
Funny how time alters things , was ahuge Stairway fan , saw it live and even sang it ona a few demos back in the 70s (no contract!) but recently I really am getting off on Child in Time. Both are undisputed classics.
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Posted: October 14 2009 at 23:44
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Posted: October 15 2009 at 01:16
Is there someway to make a tie here? Stairway to Time? Child in Heaven? I voted Stairway. I'm much more of a Purple-peep than a Zep-head, but Stairway to Heaven is such a great song, so well constructed. Overall, a much better composition.
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Stairway to Heaven vs Child in Time
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Finnforest wrote:
I voted Stairway. I'm much more of a Purple-peep than a Zep-head, but Stairway to Heaven is such a great song, so well constructed. Overall, a much better composition.
