I get it, these threads are all about "I like!" as opposed to anything objective or quantifiable, but some time in the future, this thread will be the example of the fanboy-ism of Rush fans. There is no "Rush" or "Caress of Steel" in the Zeppelin catalogue.
Well...a decent argument could be made that "Rush"
is a Led Zeppelin album, so I disagree with that. As far as Zeppelin having no Caress of Steel, I would compare it favorably to Presence. Presence features what is, in my opinion, Zeppelin's best song (Achilles), but the rest of the album just goes through the motions. Nothing on Caress is as good as Achilles, but it's overall a far stronger album.
And as good as Moving Pictures and Hemispheres are, there's no Zofo in the Rush catalogue.
Well...it's certainly true neither Rush nor almost any other band has an album that sold as many copies as ZOSO, but these polls aren't about raw sales figures (and keep in mind that sales of "Jagged Little Pill" and the soundtrack from "Grease" are in the same range as those of ZOSO, so....). I could listen to Hemispheres and/or Moving Pictures on a loop for the rest of my life. As good ZOSO is, I have to be in the right mood to listen all the way through.
My 16-year old went to a dance about a year ago and the final song was "Stairway to Heaven". There was no dancing to Rush songs in that dance.
I remember the glory days of dancing to Jacob's Ladder and the marathon sessions of dancing to side 1 of 2112 (my moves during the Presentation guitar solo were legendary). Seriously, though, I don't think anyone really considered danceability in responding to this poll, and the there's no debate that Stairway is a more culturally significant song than any Rush song.
I think even Alex and Geddy would concede that there was a Zeppelin without Rush, but there would be no Rush without Zeppelin.
Probably so, but does that then mean that, in a poll that pitted Zeppelin against Spirit or Jake Holmes (or any of the myriad Blues artists Zeppelin plagarized), only Zeppelin "fanboys" would choose Zeppelin?