Led Zeppelin

Why couldn't they write their own songs and be original like Pink Floyd and other 70s rock bands?

Rush is better than both of them.

This

Still really good preformers

Bowie's definitely the best 70s artist though.

No way. Led Zeppelin's best albums like Houses of the Holy and Led Zeppelin IV can't be touched by Rush.

the Zeppelin-hate meme is a Generation X meme perpetuated because punks were resentful and could never reach that level (name one punk band that could ever compare, even on different terms)

it's known to anyone familiar with 60s bands (from the era that Zeppelin emerged) that rock bands of that era constantly covered other bands and utilized borrowed bits from other songs. this was inherited from blues and jazz, and how people would constantly cover standards - or relevant popular current songs their peers made. it derives a lot from folk approaches, and in that case partly came from that that black approach going back to call-and-response field hollers etc.

you still see this constant borrowing of hooks and phrases back and forth between artists and tracks in hip-hop.

and it's weird something as derivative of punk, which also largely stuck to and passed around the same basic rock and roll structures and riffs would be so butthurt about Zeppelin. it's literally the lamer, less talented losers hating on their genetic and spiritual betters ! ! !!!

Hating on ZEPPELIN is essentially the bespectacled Christgaus of the world screeching "DAMN THOSE TALENTED BIG DICKED LONGHAIRED GENIUS I HATE THEEEMMMM!!! ! !!"

haters just have a bustle in their hedgerow.

The fact that you still think led zeppelin stole songs just goes to show how far you have to go before being a serious listener to music. Led Zeppelin's interaction with the musical tradition, reminiscent of the pre-recordings blues scene, transcends the binary cover/original concept, and rather curates from an existing palette of musical ideas and, in their own way reinventing them through the filter of an upclassed london blues scene sound, blends their own ideas with those of the past to create a new music, more important than banal songwriting credits. The music belongs to them, because even if they used existing musical ideas and might be obligated to pay them money, there is a complete newness to the music they made. Unlike many other bands they didn't do pastiches, but rather used the tradition in the same way grain can be made into bread.

this guy knows, to an extent