Freebird or Stairway to Heaven?

[pokerfan]

Why not both?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLsEMtEXFe8">Stairway to Freebird

[Pierre.Suave]

1. Freebird

Led Zeppelin ripped off stairway to heaven...

[Forkboy]

2. I hate them both.

But that video is funny anyways. :)

[MissMillie]

5. yep

:thumbsup:

Skynard sucks

[kwassa]

3. Suck, or Suck Harder?

[DarkTirade]

4. Gah... guitar... out of tune...

ouch.

[OmahaBlueDog]

6. Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know, your stairway lies on the whispering wind

Stairway to Heaven. Incredible song. Incredible artists.

I heve nothing but respect for Lynyrd Skynyrd, but Stairway wins, hands down.

[KamaAina]

7. Other: A manhole cover to the side of my face

Ahhhhhhhh. That felt good!

[GirlinContempt]

8. Or I could poke myself in the eye with a sharp stick and get it over with

[Bennyboy]

9. This version of Freebird rocks it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32jEcI6n-Rc Phish, Sam Bush, Wynonna Judd,Ronnie, Robb and Del McCoury and Ricky Skaggs.

Phish also does a hilarious acapella version of Freebird with vocal parts emulating the insturments....

[littlebit]

10. My southern white trash

truck driver background makes me more inclined to like Freebird more than Stairway to Heaven.

[OmahaBlueDog]

11. You are a bitter, gun clinging fanatic, aren't you??

[littlebit]

12. No I don't think I am.

I don't own a gun.

[OmahaBlueDog]

13. I think Obama was misquoted

"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them.And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not."

"And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to LYNYRD SKYNYRD'S FREEBIRD or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

See ... it wasn't really the guns and religon thing everybody says -- he meant to say Freebird. ;-)

[littlebit]

14. It all makes sense now

I finally understand.:)

[old mark]

24. No, that's me...

...and I prefer Stairway, or would if I hadn't heard it 12,000 times.
I wish radio would play other Zep material, but they really seem to like the Stairway...

No wonder I'm bitter.
Fucking old, too.
mark

[greenbriar]

15. Freebird

but they are both good

[mwooldri]

16. I like Rolf Harris's version of Stairway... hit #7 in the UK singles chart. nt

[Hippo_Tron]

17. Freebird, only because of this

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28086

I went to two high schools and I had one of these kids in both of my classes.

[kentauros]

18. Freeway to Stairbird

by the Rev. Billy C. Wirtz :P
Freeway to Stairbird

From the "Stairways to Heaven, Stairways to Hell" - 101 versions of the song that doesn't remain the same

[Oeditpus Rex]

20. I have that on 'Pianist Envy'

Which, along with "Backslider's Tractor Pull," are the hell-I-gotta-have-that CDs from the First House of Polyester Worship and Horizontal Throbbing Teenage Desire, Our Lady of the White Go-Go Boot, Lord of the 40-Watt Undulating Lava Lamp, Apocalyptic No Pizza Take-Out After 12, Shrine of the Rasslin' JEEsus, Achy-Breaky Love Tabernacle from Chromosome, N.C. (Can I get an ay-men?)

[ghostsofgiants]

19. Freebird simply because it brings to mind The Devil's Rejects.

[Kutjara]

21. Stairway is just blah, but Freebird makes me...

...want to rip my own face off.

When I was in college in the mid 80s, there was a crowd of hippies who had colonized one corner of the student bar since about 1970. Most of them were post-post-post-post-grads whose theses were taking longer to write than "Remembrance of Things Past." Ten times per day, every day, one of them would emerge from a cloud of pot smoke, shamble over to the jukebox and load it with quarters. Then they'd select Freebird twenty times in a row. When the last rendition finished, they'd repeat the process, over and over and over. The rest of us had to keep the jukebox stuffed, just so only every fifth song would be Freebird. Now that miserable song is burned so deeply into my brain, it'll never leave.

As for why I spent such an enormous amount of time in the student bar, well that's another matter altogether.

[lligrd]

22. I Love Both But Freebird

wins.

[harmonicon]

23. wow, that sucked NT

[av8rdave]

25. Stairway....Freebird was one of the Skynyrd's worst songs, IMO

They had so many great ones.

[noonwitch]

26. Teen lovers rarely off themselves to "Stairway To Heaven"

So I'll go with that. Plus, it was the last song they played at the dance at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, and right after, the counselors would let you neck with your boyfriend for about 5 minutes before separating girls and boys back to their sides of the camp.