Which song is better and why Comfortably Numb or Stairway To Heaven?

[ArnoldLayne]

[wysimdnwyg]

1. Wish You Were Here

Better than both. /end of argument

[WhoIsNumberNone]

6. +1

[CBGLuthier]

10. and Beethoven's 9th beats everything else ever written or recorded

but that isn't really fair is it.

[aikoaiko]

2. CN for me because of a powerful lyric (at least to me)...

The children is grown,
the dream is gone.


STW is just

[bluedigger]

3. Stairway to Heaven.

Slow Dancing.

[LynneSin]

4. I am the biggest die-hard Led Zeppelin fan here at DU and I have this to say

Stairway to Heaven SUCKS

Comfortably Numb rocks!

[Systematic Chaos]

5. Definitely 'Comfortably Numb'.

But, at least when LZ did 'Stairway', they plagiarized from the best!

[kwassa]

7. Both bore me to tears.

Dumb and dumber. Why compare?

[ArnoldLayne]

8. Whaaaaat!! And why not...Oh Enlightened One.

[CBGLuthier]

9. CN because it was not plagiarized

[Dr. Strange]

13. This is the correct answer.

[Wait Wut]

11. Too different to compare.

They both have their place. There are times when CN is appropriate where STH would ruin the mood.

[begin_within]

12. Between those two, I would say

Stairway to Heaven, even though we've all heard it a zillion times, and technically we're all "sick of it," the beginning part with the flutes is still evocative, when played at the right time such as the last hour of daylight, when long gold beams of sunlight come in through the window. Then you "feel it again" and remember why you liked it the first time. By contrast, Comfortably Numb just sounds like a wall of gray fog to me.

[HopeHoops]

14. Comfortably Numb - easier to directly relate to.

Then again, Stairway to Heaven makes a better slow dance - it's long.

[Populist_Prole]

15. Comfortably Numb

Reason: It's a good tune and 'Stairway To Heaven' is much much too cliche and overplayed ( even if it's technically a good tune too )

[JVS]

16. Floyd beats Zep.

[Arkansas Granny]

17. Comfortably Numb - because -

I've seen it live and I was in that state of mind when I saw it. What an experience.

[KamaAina]

18. Comfortably Numb

because it's not so overplayed it's become a parody of itself. Srsly. I once heard a parody rock DJ say "Zep. Stairway."

[hifiguy]

19. "Comfortably Numb"

The lyrics are something I can really identify with, and Dave's guitar solo is every bit as good as Pagey's and much longer. They're both great songs, though.

[TrogL]

20. I don't like taking Comfortably Numb out of context

It's part of The Wall and relates to its themes of alienation and insanity.

STH pales by comparison.

[Scuba]

21. Comfortably Numb...

... because I haven't heard it 6 zillion times!