Two of the ultimate classic rock double LP.

Which do you prefer?

In one corner we have the very experimental white album &in the other we have the also experimental but more RNR side to Physical Graffiti.

Which do you think was the better album? and why?

And before some smartass come's in here and say's ''The Wall'' or ''London Calling'' or one of those. I get that there are other great classic rock LP but this one is specific on White album VS PG

The White Album, just because it's messy and ambitious as hell. The Beatles' high point, IMO. Sorry Four Fab heads.

Sexy Sadie, is a cool song.

The White Album because of "I Will".

Both albums are a bit patchy but I give the nod to The Beatles. Physical Graffiti is good but not as consistently good. For me it pales a bit when compared to the five albums that preceded it.

Tough comparison, because I have known the White Album my whole life, and only got PG about five years ago.

They are both really fantastic albums. The White Album feels like more than a double album to me. Each disc has like 17 songs on it! It's a tougher listen for more conservative Beatles fans, but still full of classic tracks. It almost feels like a bootleg collection.

PG is less all over the place, and disc one is classic Zeppelin. Disc 2 is more experimental, but still quite easy to listen to IMO. When people dismiss Zeppelin as mere ripoffs of the real blues artists, I refer them to Night Flight, and ask which Willie Dixon song they stole that from. Kashmir is the essential Zeppelin sound. If they did nothing but covers & ripoffs, I would still call them one of the greatest bands of all time.

I would say that for range, and classic songs, I would go with the White Album. To think the same man sang Helter Skelter and I Will, and the same man wrote Good Night and Revolution 9, and that they are all on the same album is something I don't think we've ever seen the likes of before or since.

But I am biased. And in the end art is not a competition. Physical Graffiti is an awesome achievement.

rialb said:

Both albums are a bit patchy but I give the nod to The Beatles. Physical Graffiti is good but not as consistently good. For me it pales a bit when compared to the five albums that preceded it.

Exaxtly this^^^ the first 5 Zep albums are awesome, PG onwards they lost it IMO, The White Album is pretty good, when it's good it's amazing. It's better than Physical Graffiti.

Both are great...but I'm going with "The White Album". I used to lose myself in that record when I was a kid. The songs are great and I think the "free form" vibe set the way for many artists to just let loose and not worry about the "pop charts"...(even though there were some great hits off

of this record).

Everything from classic pop rock/acoustic ballads/blues/avant garde/prototype heavy metal/vaudville/children's songs....it's all here. And you can't beat the lyric poster and 4 solo portrait pictures.

I always dug the weirdness of "Wild Honey Pie". That's Paul playing everything.

NDRU said:

Tough comparison, because I have known the White Album my whole life, and only got PG about five years ago.

They are both really fantastic albums. The White Album feels like more than a double album to me. Each disc has like 17 songs on it! It's a tougher listen for more conservative Beatles fans, but still full of classic tracks. It almost feels like a bootleg collection.

PG is less all over the place, and disc one is classic Zeppelin. Disc 2 is more experimental, but still quite easy to listen to IMO. When people dismiss Zeppelin as mere ripoffs of the real blues artists, I refer them to Night Flight, and ask which Willie Dixon song they stole that from. Kashmir is the essential Zeppelin sound. If they did nothing but covers & ripoffs, I would still call them one of the greatest bands of all time.

I would say that for range, and classic songs, I would go with the White Album. To think the same man sang Helter Skelter and I Will, and the same man wrote Good Night and Revolution 9, and that they are all on the same album is something I don't think we've ever seen the likes of before or since.

But I am biased. And in the end art is not a competition. Physical Graffiti is an awesome achievement.

Agree completely. PG is great to be sure, but The Whie Album is genius, IMO.

Physical Graffiti.

THE WHITE ALBUM

Graffiti is the most overrated double-album of all time ; it has some big classics, but it just doesn't work as adouble album, is not ambitious/experimental/varied enough, in fact, it's full of filler, in my opinion

the White Album is what double-albums are supposed to be: madcap, varied, even schizophrenic, they have to justify the 18-28 different songs...otherwise it's just a big ass bunch of some good songs+filler...

for me, TWA , SITKOL (Stevie) and SOTT are the best double-albums of all time

I tell you what would've been a hell of a challenge....

VS.

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JoeTyler said:

THE WHITE ALBUM

Graffiti is the most overrated double-album of all time ; it has some big classics, but it just doesn't work as adouble album, is not ambitious/experimental/varied enough, in fact, it's full of filler, in my opinion

the White Album is what double-albums are supposed to be: madcap, varied, even schizophrenic, they have to justify the 18-28 different songs...otherwise it's just a big ass bunch of some good songs+filler...

for me, TWA , SITKOL (Stevie) and SOTT are the best double-albums of all time

Never could get into Physical Graffiti. It just doesn't have that much variety on it. It does have its experimental and out there moments, but I don't get what the hype is about that album.

silverchild said:

JoeTyler said:

THE WHITE ALBUM

Graffiti is the most overrated double-album of all time ; it has some big classics, but it just doesn't work as adouble album, is not ambitious/experimental/varied enough, in fact, it's full of filler, in my opinion

the White Album is what double-albums are supposed to be: madcap, varied, even schizophrenic, they have to justify the 18-28 different songs...otherwise it's just a big ass bunch of some good songs+filler...

for me, TWA , SITKOL (Stevie) and SOTT are the best double-albums of all time

Never could get into Physical Graffiti. It just doesn't have that much variety on it. It does have its experimental and out there moments, but I don't get what the hype is about that album.

the "double" album thing

the iconic front cover

some of the biggest songs of their career (Kashmir being the most popular)

but yeah, it's not an easy double-album to listen to, it doesn't flow, in my opinion, it could have been their ultimate 9 songs album...anyway who cares at this point?, lol the album is considered a classic, and sold very well, everybody loves Kashmir, ... lol

but I prefer II or IV...

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I also wanted to add that The White Album is probably the best-produced album of the 60s, it sounds TIMELESS.

JoeTyler said:

silverchild said:

Never could get into Physical Graffiti. It just doesn't have that much variety on it. It does have its experimental and out there moments, but I don't get what the hype is about that album.

the "double" album thing

the iconic front cover

some of the biggest Zep songs of their career (Kashmir being the most popular)

but yeah, it's not an easy a double-album to listen to, it doesn't flow, in my opinion, it could have been their ultimate 9 songs album...anyway who cares at this point?, lol the album is considered a classic, and sold very well, everybody loves Kashmir, ... lol

but I prefer II or IV...

Yep, better yet...I rather listen to House of Holy than PG as that fits everything Led did effortlessly in a tight package, including ambitious moments...

silverchild said:

JoeTyler said:

the "double" album thing

the iconic front cover

some of the biggest Zep songs of their career (Kashmir being the most popular)

but yeah, it's not an easy a double-album to listen to, it doesn't flow, in my opinion, it could have been their ultimate 9 songs album...anyway who cares at this point?, lol the album is considered a classic, and sold very well, everybody loves Kashmir, ... lol

but I prefer II or IV...

Yep, better yet...I rather listen to House of Holy than PG as that fits everything Led did effortlessly in a tight package, including ambitious moments...

Houses is a tremendous album , and a bit "underrated" (despite the 13 Diamond certifications )

but it's kinda odd that they wrote the (excellent) title-track for the next album lol

silverchild said:

I tell you what would've been a hell of a challenge....

VS.

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Besides from Something/Anything, Here, My Dear, Songs in the Key of Life, Sign O' the Times and Life After Death, most double albums don't seem to do much to me, it depends on how good the music to hold on. I'm afraid Led Zeppelin and the Beatles would've both lost me midway through hearing their stuff on double albums.

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JoeTyler said:

silverchild said:

Yep, better yet...I rather listen to House of Holy than PG as that fits everything Led did effortlessly in a tight package, including ambitious moments...

Houses is a tremendous album , and a bit "underrated" (despite the 13 Diamond certifications )

but it's kinda odd that they wrote the (excellent) title-track for the next album lol

Shame about the silly Brown homage, The Crunge, wore thin after a few listens. Still my favourite Zep album though.

silverchild said:

I tell you what would've been a hell of a challenge....

VS.

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I just picked up Something/Anything a couple of months ago. Damn if that is not a fine album! Incredible set of songs.

Given the mostly-solo nature of it however, I might compare it more to:

NDRU said:

silverchild said:

I tell you what would've been a hell of a challenge....

VS.

[Edited 6/10/12 16:56pm]

I just picked up Something/Anything a couple of months ago. Damn if that is not a fine album! Incredible set of songs.

Given the mostly-solo nature of it however, I might compare it more to:

That's another double album that was a solid classic. Forgot to mention that one lol

elmer said:

JoeTyler said:

Houses is a tremendous album , and a bit "underrated" (despite the 13 Diamond certifications )

but it's kinda odd that they wrote the (excellent) title-track for the next album lol

Shame about the silly Brown homage, The Crunge, wore thin after a few listens. Still my favourite Zep album though.

yep, slighty lame attempt at "Plastic Funk", lol

Physical Graffiti. Hands down. Led Zeppelin fucking rules.

The Beatles can suck a fat nut.

The Beatles are THE most overrated band ever, in my opinion. Their songs make absolutely no fucking sense, they're just a bunch of British dudes that got high as fuck off their asses and hit record. Maxwell's Silver Hammer and Yellow Submarine have the be the stupidest fucking songs I've heard in my life! I would much rather listen to Nicki Minaj's Stupid Hoe before those 2 songs.

Sorry, one of my co-workers has been talking about the Beatles all week and I had to get this off my chest. No offense or disrepect to anyone, this is purely my opinion, but goddamn do I fucking hate the Beatles.

Anyway, yeah, Physical Graffiti is the shit, if not only for Trampled Under Foot alone.

I guess bold isn't <b></b> anymore edit.

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PurpleMusiq8 said:

Physical Graffiti. Hands down. Led Zeppelin fucking rules.

The Beatles can suck a fat nut.

The Beatles are THE most overrated band ever, in my opinion. Their songs make absolutely no fucking sense, they're just a bunch of British dudes that got high as fuck off their asses and hit record. Maxwell's Silver Hammer and Yellow Submarine have the be the stupidest fucking songs I've heard in my life! I would much rather listen to Nicki Minaj's Stupid Hoe before those 2 songs.

Sorry, one of my co-workers has been talking about the Beatles all week and I had to get this off my chest. No offense or disrepect to anyone, this is purely my opinion, but goddamn do I fucking hate the Beatles.

Anyway, yeah, Physical Graffiti is the shit, if not only for Trampled Under Foot alone.

I guess bold isn't <b></b> anymore edit.

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No need to apologise for your dislike of The Beatles but do Led Zeppelin's songs, specifically the lyrics, make sense? A lot of their lyrics are just "borrowed" from old blues songs or fantasy type gibberish, particularly in the early years.

Timmy84 said:

NDRU said:

I just picked up Something/Anything a couple of months ago. Damn if that is not a fine album! Incredible set of songs.

Given the mostly-solo nature of it however, I might compare it more to:

That's another double album that was a solid classic. Forgot to mention that one lol

Just think how good Use Your Illusion could have been if it was cut down to just the 1 double album instead of the 2, that would've been up there with the greats.

bigd74 said:

Timmy84 said:

That's another double album that was a solid classic. Forgot to mention that one lol

Just think how good Use Your Illusion could have been if it was cut down to just the 1 double album instead of the 2, that would've been up there with the greats.

I love both bands but just looking at the tracklist, I think I prefer Physical Graffiti. They gave a writing credit to Ritchie Valens mother on Boogie With Stu when they found out that she didn't receive any royalties from his music. Plus it's got In My Time Of Dying

Rococo said:

Sexy Sadie, is a cool song.

^

of course it is, and so is the rest.

White album / The Beatles....... is amazing and brilliant.

Much better than anything Led Zeppelin, (I am not a fan of them at all).

Number 9, number 9, number 9