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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsOut of my 3 favorite Rock Groups from the 1970's
What is their worst song and why? Pink Floyd-Seamus, Emerson Lake & Palmer-Benny the Bouncer or Led Zeppelin- The Crunge?
PeteSelman
(1,508 posts)They just have varying degrees of greatness.
Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)I'm here to tell ya, they have two bad songs:
"Carouselambra"
"Four Sticks"
Other than that, it's all greatness, in varying degrees. The Beatles, Stones, Who, and Pink Floyd have exponentially more bad songs in their catalog.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)ArnoldLayne
(2,066 posts)I did not say Chicago or Blood Sweat & Tears.
OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)The Crunge and Benny The Bouncer are both good toons.
ETA: If you are asking what the worst song by these three groups are, I'd have a hard time answering:
Pink Floyd: Jeeze..you have whole albums not hitting on much, such as Atom Heart Mother.
ELP: Same as Pink Floyd. Nothing on Love Beach is all that hot.
Led Zeppelin:As I noted above, there are two candidates for this honor. All of their albums are great -- even Coda, which is essentially a collection of songs that didn't make it onto prior albums (as was most of Physical Graffiti). Four Sticks is, for all practical purposes, a filler song on the otherwise-completely-brilliant untitled 4th album (sometimes called "Runes" or "Zoso" . It is the thing that doesn't belong with the others. On their final studion album In through the Out Door, Carouselambra may rank as the worst Zep tune. It is a sort of techno-disco tune that I suspect was a partial product of Page & Bonham's constant absences from recording combined with a desire to fill time on the album so that it could be released.
FWIW, Page and Plant have both indicated that they aren't crazy about All of My Love. Fans have clearly thought otherwise.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)ELP? Probably one of the "joke" tracks like "Benny." Or something from 'Love Beach.'
Zeppelin? Excluding the last two albums - which aren't completely terrible, mind you - probably "The Crunge" or "In the Light." The former is annoying as hell, the latter does nothing in particular and never seems to end (almost 9 minutes???).
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)But the OP was about those bands' whole catalogs, or so I thought.
Really, I can't think of any 70's Floyd that sucks, though "Welcome to the Machine" and some of the 'Wall' tracks are a little ridiculous.