Top 10 Reasons Why Led Zeppelin Is Better Than the Beatles

The Top Ten
1 Even though Ringo Starr is a great drummer, John Bonham nails it.

Ringo was possibly the smartest drummer of all time.
His singular job was to keep proper time and beat with the Lennon/McCartney [and later Harrison] compositions, by far the greatest ever in the pop/rock style.
Any of the flashy drummers, whether John Bonham, Ginger Baker, Keith Moon, etc, would have tried to make it about them, and not the phenomenal music.
Ringo was THE perfect choice for the greatest band of all time.

2 While The Beatles are fantastic, they overshadow many other great bands.

And that's a derogatory thing? Zeppelin is "better" because they don't overshadow others as much? Oh, Monty, you made me laugh

Lol, if you love both bands, why make the list? But I do love both bands as well.

No Led Zeppelin song is that original

3 Led Zeppelin can sometimes express more feeling into their songs.

Let my explain something. both bands were great. while led zeppelin might have been a better band live, and was better with their instruments, but the beatles were mostly known for their vast influnce. there have been better bands than the beatles(see also:radiohead), but all of them have taken a large part of their playbook from the beatles. what i'm trying to say is that differnt bands are good at differnt things, and for the beatles, their influence is unrivailed plus, if you want heartfealt music, there's an album called blue(joni mitchell) that I'm listening to right now that you should listen to

4 Even though McCartney is a good bassist, John Paul Jones is a better Bassist and has more experience to it

Paul was way better he and John Lennon were the best#gobeatles Led Zeppelin sucks

5 The Beatles' guitar solos are short and sweet, Led Zeppelin's guitar solos have more feeling put into them.
6 Even though Lennon is good, he never even took lessons on a guitar.
7 Led Zeppelin lasted for 12 Years, The Beatles Lasted For Ten

Well, if it were like that, then the Insane Clown Posse would be better than both of these artists combined.

Actually, their Still going! Robert and Jimmy Page are still playing!

Backstreet Boys is better than both going by that logic.

8 When performing live, Led Zeppelin was more fun to watch since they moved around more. The Beatles were fun to watch due to their charming personalities, but during concert they usually just stood still.

Zeppelin was known for their bloated, self-indulgent, incomprehensible live performances that sounded very little like their recorded output. The Beatles were so popular, the screaming drowned out anything you could hear, and the band were in constant danger of psychotic crazies, or simply being over-run by stampeding fans.
I'd call that a tie.

9 Led Zeppelin is never recalled for bad songs, but The Beatles are constantly insulted about songs like Revolution 9 and Obla-Di-Obla-Da.

This is laughable. Have you ever heard of Hot Dog? Hats off to Roy Harper? Poor Tom? Led Zeppelin wrote some laughingly bad songs. Plus Obla-di-oblada is a great song.

10 The Beatles did do many genre's of music in their songs, but Led Zeppelin had done more genres.

Incorrect: The Beatles did more genres in one album than LZ did in their entire careers.

The Contenders
11 Jimmy Page is better guitarist than George Harrison, Paul McCartney and John Lennon

Possibly. I prefer George's sound.

12 They had better membership

I disagree. The Beatles had some differences between them, and some conflicts as most people spending so much time together in a small group in such unique situations, but there is no question or doubt that they all had a special affinity and Love and Respect for each other, overall and through most of their lives

13 Jimmy Page is a better band leader than John Lennon
14 Even though John Lennon is a good singer, he was a child abuser, Plant was not a child abuser
15 Robert Plant was more energetic than John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and was a better performer

I'm probably more energetic than John and Paul, but not more energetic than Robert

16 Led Zeppelin had better hit songs
17 Robert Plant is a better singer than McCartney and Lennon
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