ITT: a band's biggest contribution to rock music Led Zeppelin:

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The Indian influenced use of time signatures, maybe

>>74270016
yeah introducing the sitar to the west alone should get them in the books

>>74269821
>Never heard Miserlou by Dick Dale

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>>74271450
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU59kIbNMEs

>>74269821
nah Led Zeppelin's biggest contribution was loudness. Blues Rock may have verged on metal before Led Zeppelin, but no one had given it as much bombast and eroded the barriers of noise and composition to the pop masses like they did. Psychedelia aside, Led Zeppelin were not making avant garde noise rock, they were making noisy noise for people to dance to. I think that is a bigger deal than people give credit for.

>>74271563
The doors were playing hard rock in 1964, Jimi hendrix came next with get that feeling in 1967. LZ definitely brought a more metal feel to rock music and brought similar genre bands like ACDC and sabbath to the mainstream.

>>74271704
jimi was using all sorts of distortion and feedback though, he was literally reinventing the guitar. and the doors were doing stuff in the psychedelic vein as well, which is why I was saying psychedelic stuff aside.

LZ were just playing blues standards turned up to 11 in a pop format. using things like tempo, vocal distortion (screeching, screaming, moaning, etc), tension and release, and expansiveness had all been done, and would later be beaten to death by metal bands. But Led Zeppelin perfected it before all of them and couldn't be pegged down to any specific genre while still having a unique sound.

it's not hard to see why they're one of the best bands ever

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Making Synths cool again after seattle faggots tried to kill them.

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>>74270016
relying on the band members themselves to write music

>>74270001
Lol