Greatest Songs Between Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath

This is gonna be a showdown, two of the greatest bands ever, in competition!
The Top Ten
1 Iron Man

I am Iron Man... Sabbath with Ozzy, the real thing. For me no comparison to Led Zeppelin.

2 Stairway to Heaven

Some People say that stairway is overrated and overplayed. Overplayed? definitely. Overrated? NEVER. The slow buildup from fingerpicked acoustic to the greatest guitar solo ever to a thundering ending with Plants howling vocals. the flute, acoustic, and 12 string interplay, with robert's wonderful lyrics over top(lotr referencing again) bring it all up to where the drums come in,("your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know"), and then jimmy's improvised solo, leading up to the gigantic finale. simply put, it's incredible.
and no, you @$$ metal-treasure, it wasn't ripped off just because it bears a passing resemblance to some other crappy song that no one's heard of. Don't believe everything you read on the internet, listen to the song they are supposed have ripped it off from. Then tell me what you think.

Nothing Sabbath has ever done comes close to this masterpiece (or any Zeppelin songs on this list) why are these bands even being compared...?

Best Led Zeppelin song? Best song between Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath? I would put this song at #1 for best song ever written

Best song ever... Beautiful lyrics, greatest guitar solo actually everything has perfect in this song!

3 Kashmir

Paranoid and Iron Man higher than Kashmir? What is this?
Besides, LED Zeppelin and Black Sabbath on one list? Is this a joke?
I LOVE Black Sabbath, they have inspired me so much, but LED Zeppelin is better than Sabbath to the point that they shouldn't even be on one list.
(Anyway, there are way too many people here in this list who like Sabbath more than LED)

I think this song is very good, but insanely overrated. It's not even top 3 for its album (behind In My Time of Dying, Ten Years Gone, In The Light, The Rover, Sick Again, and Trampled Under Foot), not to mention top 3 between two amazing bands. This song is great but definitely should not be this high.

There seem to be too many Black Sabbath fans here... Paranoid higher than Kashmir. Paranoid IS a badass song, but it doesn't beat Kashmir. In my opinion, Kashmir is better than Stairway to Heaven. I am glad to see Zeppelin on top though!

A lush, powerful epic. Plants' fantastic lyrics, Pageys' drones, an Arabic stringed orchestra and dominating the whole piece is Bonhams' sledge-hammer drumming.

4 Paranoid

Black Sabbath RULES! Unless you are a die hard Sabbath fan (Ozzy years) and know every song word for word, then you should not say there is a better band. EVERY album rocks! All songs are great. Not like most bands which have 2 or 3 great songs on one album, but Sabbaths albums all had great songs.

this song is awesoem, and I think black sabath is waay better than led zeppelin... no offence just my opinion

Second best classic rock song of all time second to StairWay To Heaven (best song of all time)

killer song, it'll never die and black sabbeth rockz more!

5 War Pigs

I'm 15, and this is the song that made me realize how good heavy metal is.

One of the best songs of all time, unbeatable. The outro is one of my all-time favourites.

It's not up for debate...

6 Black Dog

Very fine sexy riffs and an hard rocking solo makes it better than other

7 Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
8 Dazed and Confused

There's no comparison between this version and '67 offering, Zepp's version ROCKS and the guitar solo is faster and more intricate than anything sabbath did on their first album, and this was 2yrs early. Led Zep are the Heavy Metal originators, and this was the song that kicked it all off in '68. If it is deemed to be a copy/cover - it's the greatest remake of all time

The guy before me didn't explain the case very well. Led Zep have stolen this song from Jake Holmes - music, lyrics and even the song title. Led Zep literally did a cover of Jake Holmes' song.

Find on YouTube and be convinced: Jake Holmes - Dazed and Confused (1967)

Ok so its a led zepp rip off. Brilliant none the less.This is my favorite zepp song. And faeries wear boots by black sabbath is their most underrated.

9 Black Sabbath

First heavy metal song. Just legendary...

10 Good Times Bad Times

Children of the grave

The Contenders
11 Achilles Last Stand

OK, I like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin equally, but this song just rocks!

The best song of Led Zeppelin,the solo is emotional and perfect,the lyrics is beautiful,the drums are fast,great riffs...just perfect,just Led Zeppelin

12 When the Levee Breaks

It has become my favorite Led Zeppelin song. It deserves to be higher. It has very clever guitar work and the drum beat is spectacular.

13 Trashed
14 Computer God
15 Whole Lotta Love

This song is a proven rip off.
Check out these lists and be convinced:
Top 10 Songs That Led Zeppelin Ripped Off
Top 10 Led Zeppelin Songs That Were Ripped Off From Another Artist

Should be in top ten, has one of the best solos ever!

16 Heaven and Hell

This is the best Black Sabbath song and the best song on this list. Of course, I exclude the Led Zep songs that are ripoffs (haha, "their" best songs are ripoffs).

Why isn't this #2 behind ALS?

17 In My Time of Dying
18 Hearthbreaker

Heartbreaker is second only to Black Dog on this list!

19 Children of the Grave
20 For Your Life
21 Neon Knights
22 N.I.B

Its definitely one of the most underrated sabbath songs

23 Darlene
24 Immigrant Song

Love this song.

25 Die Young
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