Stairway To Heaven or Bohemian Rhapsody and why?

[ArnoldLayne]

[lastlib]

1. Stairway. Nothing comes close!

(only Hendrix' "All Along The Watchtower" is even in the same league.)

Bohemian Rhapsody is minor-league.

[In_The_Wind]

9. I gotta agree with you.

and

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. Stairway to the Hotel Freebird.

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not exactly but, close enough ... it is The Reverend ... be healed

[malthaussen]

5. How about "Stairway to Gilligan's" n/t

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. Little Roger and The Goosebumps -

[Tom_Foolery]

14. That's genius! n/t

[Tuesday Afternoon]

16. yeah, pretty much -

spooky cool.

[malthaussen]

17. If you liked that, you'll love this:

-- Mal

[kentauros]

37. And this little gem: Elvis Hitler - Green Haze

[Manifestor_of_Light]

43. That's hilarious!!

[Rhythm]

3. Rhapsody... and for the silliest of reasons...

That's a 'go to' song for a bunch of us at work on karaoke night!
There are 4 of us who will sing that one together, the lead taken by a bouncer who sings for a local band!

We're all ridiculously over-dramatic...

[malthaussen]

4. "Laundromat" Montreax '75.

I'm in a Rory Gallagher mood.

"Full of win," I believe the kids say today.

-- Mal

[dawg]

7. Let's just split the difference and go with Roundabout.

[In_The_Wind]

8. My favorite has always been Stairway to Heaven.

[Paulie]

10. Bohemian Rhapsody

[OriginalGeek]

11. Srairway

because Led Zeppelin was my first and still my favorite band.

Although, StH is probably only in my top 20 of favorite Zep songs.

[Tom Ripley]

12. Sister Ray

because it is better

[Xyzse]

13. Apples to Oranges... But...

Stairway... I think most guitar hopefuls learn that song first.
Heck, it is the first song I learned in the guitar.

Bohemian Rhapsody is fun, I just can't memorize it.

[malthaussen]

15. Not "Smoke on the Water?"

Most of the guitar hopefuls I knew wanted to master that one.

I told 'em to try "Johnny B. Goode" first.

-- Mal

[Xyzse]

18. Well, I was a teen in the 90s

I think a bunch of us was trying that during that time.

[Iggo]

29. Note about Smoke On The Water.

At the time I was learning to play the guitar, 100% of the players I ever saw playing it were playing it wrong.

We were playing standard two-string 5th chords when we should have been playing inverted 5ths.

[kentauros]

38. Nash The Slash - Dopes On The Water - 1980

[Blue_In_AK]

24. Apples and Oranges?

https://m.

[kentauros]

39. and Oranges and Lemons

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[kwassa]

19. Both suck for extreme overplay on radio stations for too many years.

Right up there with Hotel California.

[NoGOPZone]

20. ^this nt

[orleans]

22. nah--because hotel california really does suck. n/t

[KamaAina]

35. Freebird is more overplayed than Hotel California

[Populist_Prole]

36. True. Familiar to the point of contempt

I hate to be one of those people that think as soon as Mr/Ms Mainstream like a song, then the song automatically sucks....but I gotta be one of those people. Anyhow, Stairway is so overplayed that I've met scores of people where that's the only LZ tune they've ever heard.

[hunter]

42. Bohemian Rhapsody was a D.J. "I have to pee" song.

Back before radio stations were automated.

[eShirl]

21. The Prophet's Song (same album, same side, as Bohemian Rhapsody)

[Lizzie Poppet]

31. Wow...I'd forgotten how magnificent that song is.

[mopinko]

23. only one could have been played

by heart at the kennedy center to make yoyo ma rock out.

[jmowreader]

26. Karn Evil 9

[ArnoldLayne]

27. I forgot about Karn Evil 9, that would have been been my pick over the other two even though it's

more in the Progressive Rock category. Like Echoes, Set The Controls For The Heart of the Sun, Suppers Ready, Lazy and Close to the Edge.

[Iggo]

28. Both, for different reasons.

Stairway To Heaven for the guitars. Bohemian Rhapsody for the vocals.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

30. Queen.

Because I thought Led Zep sucked the first time I heard them in 1969, and my opinion has not changed. Led Zep uses too much distortion.

You think you can compare STH to Bohemian Rhapsody, which has something like 90 overdubs??? Skill level, anyone?

Secondly: Look at my avatar. The guy's a fucking genius and doesn't use too much distortion.

So sue me.

[Fearless]

32. Bohemian Rhapsody for its complexity.

And because Queen was the greatest live show of all time.

[mulsh]

33. Stairway to Heaven -best song about shopping, ever.

those crazy kids sure knew a thing or two about ladies who like to shop. I've always felt fortunate to live during the time when their creative juices coalesced into such an awesome anthem to dedicated shoppers everywhere. I just wish it hadn't taken me years to figure out the meaning of this song. It was obvious from the first verse to the final line.

[KamaAina]

34. Bohemian Rhapsody

because it's slightly less overplayed.

Also, Wayne's World. Party on, Wayne! Party on, Garth!

[kentauros]

40. Autobahn (Kraftwerk)

Why? Because I absolutely abhor "classic" rock, even though I was born in the early 1960s

[Boom Sound 416]

41. Stairway - no chorus