Zeppelin, Purple or Sabbath?

Zeppelin comes first because I enjoyed most of their albums.  bits of II and In Through the Out Door, and IV were not my favorites, but they had a few enjoyable songs. Listening to Zeppelin though is amazing.  Always fresh and makes me want to jump around and jam.  I was listening to Physical Grafitti the other day.  Such an amazing album from start to finish.  The band was really tight on that album.  Same with on the BBC sessions. 

I love Black Sabbath.  In fact, I liked all their albums from Black Sabbath to Mob Rule.  However, a couple songs here and there were not up to par.  I like Sabbath's big rounded sound.  Zeppelin had a lot of emphasis on the bass and drums, and Purple was heavy on keys and guitar, but Sabbath had this thick wall of darkness and power in all sections.

Deep Purple is sort of hit or miss for me.  I like them, but I guess I get a little bored sometimes with Shades of... and the later albums.  I think the last one I liked of theirs was Stormbringer.  Still great though. 

Deep Purple comes very close, but I'll have to go with Zep. 

I prefer the Italian band called IBIS!!!

IRON BUTTERFLY!!!

Ghost Rider wrote: andu wrote: I see this poll belongs now to the proto&related lounge. Does this mean anything new for Sabbath, like a submission acceptance? No, it just means two out of three of the bands in the poll question are in PP/PR... Unfortunately, BS were rejected for admission in several polls, so their induction doesn't seem very likely, I'm afraid - at least in the near future.

andu wrote: Wow, The Whistler's post makes sense and hide no trick or scam... He's lost it... Let's shoot him!   Anyway, I was not advocating anything, just amusing myself to the thought of the increased posting rate on the forum that will follow my own post, in this somewhat lazy, beautiful morning.

Black Sabbath - Their first 4 albums (without them the heavy metal genre probably would have been much different) and the albums with Dio are all classics.

Sabbath, SLIGHTLY over Purple.

Deep Purple pre '73. Quite simply, the best, most musical, tchnically proficient, and, above all, Groovy, of the "big" '70's bands!

Purple-hued applause!