Determining whether "Stairway to Heaven" clinches the title of the "greatest" song is subjective. Nonetheless, its indisputable musical excellence, poignant lyrics, and enduring cultural impact make a compelling case for such recognition. Why this 1971 masterpiece can genuinely stake a claim as the greatest song ever..??
You know, there is no unanimity, everyone has their own personal taste. For me it is the most beautiful piece of music I have ever heard, along with Beethoven 9th Symphony. Two different musical genres that awaken in me a torrent of inexplicable emotions …someone said that Stairway is not the best song ever recorded, it is the best spell ever cast because more than half a century later it still enchants people…and STH’s magnificent solo was voted by Guitar World as the best of all time (I agree!) 😊
@@MusicMinutes1 well one thing I can say, it is consistently voted number one, on Classic Rock countdowns. Those countdowns of top 200 to 500, rarely has Stairway dropped to number two, & the people vote on the countdown list. For the July 4th weekend countdown 2024, Stairway once again was voted number one. Matter of fact, Led Zeppelin had more songs on that list, then any other band, including The Beatles as a band. The Beatles if including solos, only had two more then Led Zeppelin.
@@MusicMinutes1 There can be no dispute whatsoever that this song is #1 on the Rock genre, by the least. Everyone knows this song! As soon as it begins, I want to cry bc I know the greatest song ever is playing and it is so fucking beautiful 😍
@@joannlabbe3437 it’s made many cry, males & females, that’s the amazing emotions Led Zeppelin can bring out in people. They always take you on some kind of journey, the put so much passion into their music, you know they really love what they do.
I think that if the song had slowed down after Jimmy's solo it would have been boring and too long but what grabs my attention every time is when Robert comes back with that heavy rock sound and beat after Jimmy's solo. It's the perfect transition for me anyway. It gets me every time. It's my favorite part. Especially the last verse "To be a rock and not to roll". I interpret that verse as saying you need to stand strong and not run away from your problems.
In my 72yo opinon, as a boomer it was pure magic in the sense of its composition, the lyrics were interesting ad curious, so its a hypnotic song that keeps the mindset wondering of its meaning, but its meaning is up to the listener, and it still that way today. I was hearing it as a young man and today it has the same feeling today. My opinion of course.
Jimmy, Im so happy for you that after a that effort, to have Robert come by and put the lyrics you agree go with the tunes you have produced! You said, you'll never forget him standing t h ere against the wall when he writes 90 percent of the lyrics that you both put in motion. A commitment and compliment to your work must be thoroughly rewarding!
I know I have read that Jimmy said that Robert made-up 40% of the lyrics on Houses of the Holy off-the-cuff. He just had that gift, they were a band that just jelled completely, much more than the sum of their parts.
A beautiful Classic Ballad I listened to everyday, since my 14 yr. old brother bought a Double Neck yeas ago, and taught himself Stairway. I was lucky we liked the same music. He played by ear since he was self taught and couldn't read music. Most people I knew in the early '70's always learned Stairway then Pink Floyds Epic Tunes. Led Zeppelin is still the most played or listened to!! Jimmy's solo's, I can hear in my head. The Rain Song is another fave, I love it!! ❤ 🇬🇧 🎸 🎶 🔥 👍
Jimmy Page’s guitar solo on Stairway to Heaven and David Gilmour’s guitar solo on Comfortably Numb are by a distance the 2 best guitar solos ever recorded.
Mick Taylor - Winter; Steve Howe - Starship Trooper; Steve Wilson - Dark Matter; Steve Rothery - Easter; Danny Kirwan - Future Games; Joe Walsh - Take a Look Around; Billy Simmons - Prisoner; Steve Hackett - Fly on a Windshield; Alex Lifeson - Necromancer; Jerry Garcia - Gomorrah; Andy Summers - Message in a Bottle; Dave Gilmour - You Gotta Be Crazy; Jimmy Page - Ten Years Gone; Eric Clapton - High; Toy Caldwell - You Don't Live Forever; Dicky Betts - Win, Lose or Draw; Wayne Perkins (w/Stones) - Worried About You; Pete Townshend - Dreaming From the Waist If you can rank those, you're an expert hair-splitter.
James Patrick Page + Robert Antony Plant + John Richard Baldwin + John Henry Bonham, the juggernaut of Valhalla, best band EVER. Greetings from Danmark 🤜 🇩🇰 🤛
Stairway To Heaven is A Perpetu Mobile of Love Feeling!❤️ It just goes on and on keeping ONE 1️⃣ in it’s Grip! Very Very Very Well Done Led Zeppelin!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Thanks A Lot for that Masterpiece!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻😎🇫🇮
I'm 62 ( yes I'm saying my age) and I have heard many great songs and been to many concerts in my time. Unless some other genius like Jimmy Page is born or is training right now, it's VERY doubtful. The composition of that some is a masterpiece!!!! He didn't just put any notes down, he knew where he wanted to go from the start!.. That's hard on a 8 minute song! I'm just so happy I have had so many years of listening to Led Zeppelin!!!! Thanks guys!!!💖
Jimmy Page is my all time favorite musician and guitar genius! I love Led Zeppelin! Robert Plant's voice is by far the best male vocalist there has ever been and John Paul Jones was so gifted and John Bonham was phenomenal.. Led Zeppelin is my all time fav band ever...I'm thankful to them for sharing their talents and gifts with the world.
"Stairway is music to be enjoyed with all your senses: ears, heart, skin, mind... let yourself be enveloped by the opening chords, float in the lightness and delicacy of the flute, absorb all the nuances of the vocals, let your heart beat to the heroic rhythm of the drums, delight in the intricate melodic web woven by the Lord of the Strings, and feel the full glory as you reach ecstasy at the climax when you touch the heavens."
I had been responding to the comment made first bc it was so smart and sthing there's no denying. No matter what your own interpretation the dream archetype is there for all to enjoy😊
@@joannlabbe3437 Hi Joann, I edited because there was a typo. I just described what I feel when I hear STH. This song is my anthem, I was born listening to it, it’s my “umbilical cord” with Zeppelin and even having heard it thousands of times, I feel totally enveloped by the timeless beauty created by four absolutely genius men ❤
The Best Song Ever!❤ From The LEGENDARY BAND❤ Led Zeppelin 🎉🎉🎉❤❤😂 LOVE THEM ALWAYS ❤ GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS 😇🥰 (RIP) JOHN BONHAM 😢 Rock On😊 Stairway is my favorite song still to this day❤
Still kicking that ass...The Mighty Led - Zeppelin!. I been rocking their music for 50 yrs personally. I don't know what I want to hear when I get in my truck...screw it! I will start with Zep can you cant go wrong putting on some zep and putting it in drive. :)
It's OUR anthem-belongs to all of us-anyone,we all read into it from the perspectives of our own lives. It's become an immortal song, interpreted differently by each generation uniquely chiming with their experience. It's become a classic piece of music forever, other ages , times will have theirs. I'd love to hear the "rightful successor " to Stairway to Heaven, it's unlikely I will,but I'm grateful to have absorbed this masterpiece so many times & many more!
@@GSDjrbites in my youthful times I would play my records or 8tracks or cassette then back to my records but I would play all other records first because when I played zeppelin there wasn't anything else I wanted to hear. No joke.
@@david-w6t6c Understood David...I get it. Life has a soundtrack and Led Zeppelin is star of my soundtrack. Dont get me wrong; I listen to all kinds of music but rarely anything newer than 1990 and usually I will set a playlist hand picked and mostly late 60's to late 70's. I find that the talent in those years was authentic and no autotune crap.
@@GSDjrbites I too enjoy a lot more music than I did in my youth, as the conversations were going I thought to put my 2 dense in anyway . I think as you do really my interests in rock and roll goes 50s to 80s for the most part. Cool jazz have a nice day.
a long time ago my friend played this for his really uptight country music loving father . they were one the front porch and he was on acoustic and singing. by the time he finished his dad was over there crying. told him that was the most beautiful song he had ever heard. im not sure if he ever told him he didnt write it. lol. always remember that.
Just take this song in and enjoy it! The combination of music and lyrics take you on an 8 minute roll coaster of ecstasy. The ebb and flow of emotion leaves you exhausted but then happy. Such a wonderful experience….every time!
Stairway is beautiful & brilliant, though I’ll admit that for awhile I was over it, it was so overplayed. The live at MSG, made me love it again, & appreciate its beauty. They also have some other beautiful & brilliant original songs, that were very rarely played on the radio, that deserved the praise like Stairway. All four were/are masters at their gifts, & are The GODS Of MUSIC! John Bonzo Bonham, is still missed so much by fans, even after all these years.
@Guitarplayer724 you stole my reply! Ten Years is just beyond superlative! For me it is their greatest, the solo is almost unJimmy like, quite sparse, very lush.
Led Zeppelin' album IV is the best album of all time, I love its mysterious cover and the most beautiful song on the planet Stairway to Heaven. Thank you.❤️❤️
Imagine being so confident that you release an album with no band name or album name on the cover. Everybody knew what it was though, no words necessary. And, In my opinion, Houses of the Holy topped it, and Physical Graffiti topped that. Nobody will ever come close to the string of great records that they made, each one better than the previous ( mostly ). If the only song they ever recorded was Kashmir, people would still be talking about it. Or Stairway. Or Dazed and Confused. Etc. Etc.
@PaulFormentos Poor Tom, seventh son, Always knew what's goin' on Ain't a thing that you can hide from Tom There ain't nothing that you can hide from Tom
When I started experimenting putting sound... great sound systems into cars in the late 60s and early 70s, Zeppelin was the go to test music. Sure there was the Who, Grand Funk, Tull, of course the Stones & the Beatles, Yes, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and all the rest of the very best. What I am saying is that "Stairway to Heaven" made it a pleasure to go thru the complete rainbow of sound frequencies over and over. Sometimes, I would catch myself listening to their Stairway rather than testing the sound system.... and that was before I smoked one!😬 Now wasn't that one heck of a God blessed época? Thank you Led Zeppelin!
The song is a Masterpiece but so is Battle for Evermore and Kashmir, Thank You is another. I saw a sign in a Winery once " The Best Wine is the One you like" it applies to music too. Cheers.
Wrote the greatest song ever and he has stayed as gorgeous as ever. This song always takes me back in time to when I was young without a care in the world.
I grew up to listening to led Zeppelin love the every bit of it always want to see him in concert even try to get one of my guitar signed by one of them life fantasy I'll be so so so so so grateful if I was to ever be able to get one of my guitars signed by both Robert plant Jimmy Page or even just one of them it would be awesome!!!!
Hello, I can say this I play guitar I was into the music only for a long time. Put on a set of good headphones and listen you will hear instruments you don't even realize are there. I didn't even care about the words but as I grew older and listened and learned the words along with the music the songs became greater and more beautiful with feelings Stairway to Heaven, Comfortly knum, nothing else maters, songs like that. It doesn't matter learn the words and your songs will come to life. Sing along.
It was the first song I learned on my guitar. After that I had to paint the song but the most important event was when I heard the song at the funeral of a colleague who had the song as his last wish (he died of cancer in his early 40s and left behind 2 children). No song has ever touched me more.
Quite simply: its beauty is in its lyrics and its music that builds which allows us the listener to attach on to the ride, hold on, and be thrusted into the musical heavens! The song is open to interpretation. Reminds me of the experience of riding a roller coaster for the first time. You experience the ride with all the twists and turns not wanting the ride to end.
I had pondered the meaning of this (my favorite) song for years until one day I was watching a reaction video to the song, and the viewer started to try to dissect its meaning. It suddenly occurred to me that the key to the meaning of the lyrics was the line "and it makes me wonder". The most repeated phrase in the song.
Robert Plant himself has said there is no overall meaning to the song. "It started out about a woman who gets everything she wants. It softened up after that. Probably because of the the morrocan dope." - Plant
The lyrics to me seem a superposition of traditional British folk stories and Tolkien's magnificent Middle Earth myths, which are themselves from there same place. This is poetic thinking and expression that transcends the notion of "What does it mean?" -it means nothing to those absent the background to appreciate it. To those who incorporate that background of cultural knowledge, this is a truly moving composition that is as fresh and poignant today as it was 50 years ago. And the music is something one James Page can be immensely proud of, a composition for the ages. As a musician, what he has crafted is iconic. Comparing it to other works to determine which is the best song is as ludicrous as trying to decide if the Pieta is better than the Mona Lisa or Beethovens Symphony #9. There are many expressions in the same or similar genre, but this is special.
Saw Zeppelin live in 1977 at Riverfront in Cincinnati Oh. Seen over a hundred concerts but not one approaches that experience. If you dont think Zeppelin is the greatest band ever you're just wrong.
Jimmy .. you are by far a musical Genius in this world.. 🌎 I pray that in your last minutes of life left on this earth that you get your soul right with the one and Only God of all living and material things ..Amen
This was the first epic rock song and set the example for all future "epicness" in rock. There are other bands who later did similar things and I always say, "oh that's their Stairway."
Not to take anything from "Stairway", since I agree that it could be the GOAT. But, I think of "Nights in White Satin", which came out in 1967, as being the first epic rock song.
@@beawsbiz O! At last, First mention of DP in this commentary. People is speaking here about bunch of groups & guitarists I hardly know - and nobody even mentions Ritchie Blackmore and the whole DP stuff. Isn't it strange?
Hmmmn, in your opinion. For me Ten Years Gone is their best. The actuality is there is no best, just personal favs. There is the power of Zeppelin, from day to day you change to another song, another journey!
Maurice Ravel a déjà fait ça avec son Bolero ❗ Sinon, depuis 50 ans, c'est un de mes titres préférés, comme tout l'album, je l'ai mis en sonnerie de téléphone 💗💕
Plant has expressed displeasure about his lyrics in it. He said musically it's "Peerless", and wishes he came up with more worthy lyrics, saying he felt like there was a chance to "really say something, and I didn't."
I know my analogy is silly but for me it’s like tubing on a gently flowing river,you are totally immersed in the slow movement of the water,as you progress down the river it begins to move faster and faster, you know it’s happening but you can’t see what and where it will take you until you reach the boiling rapids bouncing among boulders and waves of water constantly being drawn into an invisible flow until finally being thrown into the calmness of the widening channel,spent and exhilarated.This is my interpretation and totally mine and yes you may borrow it free of charge.
"Stairway" is not an eight minute song. It's a four minute song wreaking havoc with space and time. Which is why my watch shows eight minutes each time I heard it ❤
While i don’t think it’s the greatest song ever written, i do think it’s in the top three and certainly one of the finest pieces of music ever put down on tape. Great video and well done. I would like to add that they could very well be the front runners for the 2nd greatest rock band ever, the greatest band of all time has been given to the Beatles already. Led Zeppelin could definitely be the 2nd tho.
@@gsxrkz bro the Beatles are already known as the greatest rock group of all time, no point in disagreeing. You may not like it but that’s the way it is.
@@gsxrkz good for you. I also disagree that Elvis is the king of rock, ain’t gonna do a thing to stop him being known as the king of rock. See how that works?
I believe Robert sometimes thinks those days were somewhat immature and it is a great tell of someone's character to look back reflect and mature into the great singer he is even today! Perhaps it was the partying or seeing things much differently as you grow. For me, I think the lyric "If there's a bustle in your headrow, don't be alarmed now" is a GREAT lyric, Robert not so much. Great Robert research! Thanks!!
You cannot dislike STH it's just way to great of a song. The melody, the lyrics, the solo and the crescendo simply make this song way too good for competition. There are lots of other really great songs out there but how can any of them possibly top "Stairway To Heaven?" It just is way too good.
Bob Carruthers is mistaken, Stairway is in Aminor, not C sharp, & he made it appear that the intro Is lifted note for note from a classical.piece- yes its a common, logical descending progression in Am, but he misrepresented there
Fortunately for me I had been listening intently to Yes before buying Zoso and listing to Stairway. So ambiguous lyrics were no issue, just take another toke and let it flow.
Its up there with the best of them. Child in Time by Deep Purple is up there. Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen has a place. Just thinking of songs with "arrangements". Just my thoughts.
I've often wondered whether "And You and I" by Yes was inspired by stairway to heaven. Starting with the soft acoustic guitar, then Having Rick wakeman alloweed yes to create a more classical middle section. But the theme, structure , mood and andersons usual metaphorically obscure lyrics make the two compositions quite similar.
OK this is my steward of Heaven blurb first time I listened to stairway to Heaven and I think this is so cool I was six years old and they used to play with my fathers a track player not the recording at the music tapes and he had Led Zeppelin fourth album he said the third album in the first, so no I went by the covers and I always bypass that one. The guy with the bunch of sticks on his back on this day I threw in inside from the beginning so first thing I heard on it I heard black dog I think that was the first song and they listened always do it to heaven my mother found me and she said why are you crying? I was so embarrassed a little boy and I didn’t want to be seen crying over something like music I couldn’t even speak because I was afraid I was gonna my voice is gonna crack, so I just clean my mouth shut, looking at her and the music playing in my ears and I’m reading my mother’s lips. Why are you crying and I pointed at the headphones she reached out and took the headphones to listen to it. She goes to make you sad I said no, she said oh you really really really like it? Yeah OK it’s a good thing, but the headphones back on that was that I was playing it from beginning to end by the age of 12 oh my Guitar
Determining whether "Stairway to Heaven" clinches the title of the "greatest" song is subjective. Nonetheless, its indisputable musical excellence, poignant lyrics, and enduring cultural impact make a compelling case for such recognition. Why this 1971 masterpiece can genuinely stake a claim as the greatest song ever..??
You know, there is no unanimity, everyone has their own personal taste. For me it is the most beautiful piece of music I have ever heard, along with Beethoven 9th Symphony. Two different musical genres that awaken in me a torrent of inexplicable emotions …someone said that Stairway is not the best song ever recorded, it is the best spell ever cast because more than half a century later it still enchants people…and STH’s magnificent solo was voted by Guitar World as the best of all time (I agree!) 😊
@@MusicMinutes1 well one thing I can say, it is consistently voted number one, on Classic Rock countdowns. Those countdowns of top 200 to 500, rarely has Stairway dropped to number two, & the people vote on the countdown list. For the July 4th weekend countdown 2024, Stairway once again was voted number one. Matter of fact, Led Zeppelin had more songs on that list, then any other band, including The Beatles as a band. The Beatles if including solos, only had two more then Led Zeppelin.
@@MusicMinutes1 There can be no dispute whatsoever that this song is #1 on the Rock genre, by the least. Everyone knows this song! As soon as it begins, I want to cry bc I know the greatest song ever is playing and it is so fucking beautiful 😍
@@joannlabbe3437 it’s made many cry, males & females, that’s the amazing emotions Led Zeppelin can bring out in people. They always take you on some kind of journey, the put so much passion into their music, you know they really love what they do.
I think that if the song had slowed down after Jimmy's solo it would have been boring and too long but what grabs my attention every time is when Robert comes back with that heavy rock sound and beat after Jimmy's solo. It's the perfect transition for me anyway. It gets me every time. It's my favorite part. Especially the last verse "To be a rock and not to roll". I interpret that verse as saying you need to stand strong and not run away from your problems.
It is a masterpiece that cannot be denied
THE GREATEST BAND EVER HANDS DOWN !!!!❤😊
Beatles, Yes, Pink Floyd, Rush 🤷🏽♂️
In my 72yo opinon, as a boomer it was pure magic in the sense of its composition, the lyrics were interesting ad curious, so its a hypnotic song that keeps the mindset wondering of its meaning, but its meaning is up to the listener, and it still that way today. I was hearing it as a young man and today it has the same feeling today. My opinion of course.
So many great rock guitarists to mention, but Page will always hold the #1 spot for me!!
I feel the same.
I have undoubtedly played Stairway through my stereo over a thousand times. It's like hearing it for the first time, every time.
How many times reversed to hear the brilliant backmask?
Time machine song 😀
@@PaulFormentos I stopped listening to songs backward when I heard "Hillary Clinton is God" from The Door's, Riders On The Storm playing backwards.
Please I’m thinking more like 983 times 🙄
@@stanjohnson7849 Some of those listening sessions were undoubtedly while in some state of mental alteration, so you are probably correct 🙂
Jimmy, Im so happy for you that after a that effort, to have Robert come by and put the lyrics you agree go with the tunes you have produced! You said, you'll never forget him standing t h ere against the wall when he writes 90 percent of the lyrics that you both put in motion. A commitment and compliment to your work must be thoroughly rewarding!
I know I have read that Jimmy said that Robert made-up 40% of the lyrics on Houses of the Holy off-the-cuff. He just had that gift, they were a band that just jelled completely, much more than the sum of their parts.
Music Minutes? Did you send an audio msg?
You mean 'complement' not 'compliment'. Please be accurate.
A beautiful Classic Ballad I listened to everyday, since my 14 yr. old brother bought a Double Neck yeas ago, and taught
himself Stairway. I was lucky we liked the same music. He played by ear since he was self taught and couldn't read music. Most people I knew in the early '70's always learned Stairway then Pink Floyds Epic Tunes. Led Zeppelin is still the most played or listened to!! Jimmy's solo's, I can hear in my head. The Rain Song is another fave, I love it!! ❤ 🇬🇧 🎸 🎶 🔥 👍
The Rain Song is my favorite song to play on my acoustic.That,then Wish You We’re Here.🎸👍😍✌️
Jimmy Page’s guitar solo on Stairway to Heaven and David Gilmour’s guitar solo on Comfortably Numb are by a distance the 2 best guitar solos ever recorded.
Nesmith solo on Monkees Theme tune a close third, or Harrison leads on Yesterday
Not even close to Larry chariltons kid chamerange..on steely Dan's royal scam album
Really ?
😂🤣😅
Mick Taylor - Winter;
Steve Howe - Starship Trooper;
Steve Wilson - Dark Matter;
Steve Rothery - Easter;
Danny Kirwan - Future Games;
Joe Walsh - Take a Look Around;
Billy Simmons - Prisoner;
Steve Hackett - Fly on a Windshield;
Alex Lifeson - Necromancer;
Jerry Garcia - Gomorrah;
Andy Summers - Message in a Bottle;
Dave Gilmour - You Gotta Be Crazy;
Jimmy Page - Ten Years Gone;
Eric Clapton - High;
Toy Caldwell - You Don't Live Forever;
Dicky Betts - Win, Lose or Draw;
Wayne Perkins (w/Stones) - Worried About You;
Pete Townshend - Dreaming From the Waist
If you can rank those, you're an expert hair-splitter.
Have you listened to Steve Lukather and Larry Carlton's live album? Two consummate musicians playing off each other.
Will never get tired of this song.❤️❤️❤️❤️
When the song begins, I immediately feel like crying bc its' so fucking beautiful.😊
Stairway To Heaven is a Masterpiece.
James Patrick Page + Robert Antony Plant + John Richard Baldwin + John Henry Bonham, the juggernaut of Valhalla, best band EVER.
Greetings from Danmark 🤜 🇩🇰 🤛
One of my favorites over my 72 years😊❤
Stairway to Heaven is the only song that I will never get tired of listening over and over. The best song ever written.
Stairway To Heaven is A Perpetu Mobile of Love Feeling!❤️
It just goes on and on keeping ONE 1️⃣ in it’s Grip!
Very Very Very Well Done Led Zeppelin!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Thanks A Lot for that Masterpiece!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻😎🇫🇮
I'm 62 ( yes I'm saying my age) and I have heard many great songs and been to many concerts in my time. Unless some other genius like Jimmy Page is born or is training right now, it's VERY doubtful. The composition of that some is a masterpiece!!!! He didn't just put any notes down, he knew where he wanted to go from the start!.. That's hard on a 8 minute song!
I'm just so happy I have had so many years of listening to Led Zeppelin!!!! Thanks guys!!!💖
Its just the greatest song ever. Edge is so cool . jimmy is a master writer of music.
Jimmy Page is my all time favorite musician and guitar genius! I love Led Zeppelin! Robert Plant's voice is by far the best male vocalist there has ever been and John Paul Jones was so gifted and John Bonham was phenomenal.. Led Zeppelin is my all time fav band ever...I'm thankful to them for sharing their talents and gifts with the world.
Thanks Zep your music means SO!much to 100,s of millions no other
band is even close
Absolutely a masterpiece❤️❤️. A favorite of mine always.❤️👍
Iconic, and Forever a Classic!!
Thank you
"Stairway is music to be enjoyed with all your senses: ears, heart, skin, mind... let yourself be enveloped by the opening chords, float in the lightness and delicacy of the flute, absorb all the nuances of the vocals, let your heart beat to the heroic rhythm of the drums, delight in the intricate melodic web woven by the Lord of the Strings, and feel the full glory as you reach ecstasy at the climax when you touch the heavens."
I had been responding to the comment made first bc it was so smart and sthing there's no denying. No matter what your own interpretation the dream archetype is there for all to enjoy😊
Marcia? It says, one hour ago, edited. Can that be true?
@@joannlabbe3437
Hi Joann, I edited because there was a typo. I just described what I feel when I hear STH. This song is my anthem, I was born listening to it, it’s my “umbilical cord” with Zeppelin and even having heard it thousands of times, I feel totally enveloped by the timeless beauty created by four absolutely genius men ❤
Actually not many realise, the opening is not a flute, JPJ is playing a recorder, the type we all had to learn in primary school!
The Best Song Ever!❤ From The LEGENDARY BAND❤
Led Zeppelin 🎉🎉🎉❤❤😂 LOVE THEM ALWAYS ❤ GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS 😇🥰 (RIP) JOHN BONHAM 😢 Rock On😊 Stairway is my favorite song still to this day❤
Still kicking that ass...The Mighty Led - Zeppelin!. I been rocking their music for 50 yrs personally. I don't know what I want to hear when I get in my truck...screw it! I will start with Zep can you cant go wrong putting on some zep and putting it in drive. :)
@@GSDjrbites LOL! Big Log!
It's OUR anthem-belongs to all of us-anyone,we all read into it from the perspectives of our own lives. It's become an immortal song, interpreted differently by each generation uniquely chiming with their experience. It's become a classic piece of music forever, other ages , times will have theirs. I'd love to hear the "rightful successor " to Stairway to Heaven, it's unlikely I will,but I'm grateful to have absorbed this masterpiece so many times & many more!
@@GSDjrbites in my youthful times I would play my records or 8tracks or cassette then back to my records but I would play all other records first because when I played zeppelin there wasn't anything else I wanted to hear. No joke.
@@david-w6t6c Understood David...I get it. Life has a soundtrack and Led Zeppelin is star of my soundtrack. Dont get me wrong; I listen to all kinds of music but rarely anything newer than 1990 and usually I will set a playlist hand picked and mostly late 60's to late 70's. I find that the talent in those years was authentic and no autotune crap.
@@GSDjrbites I too enjoy a lot more music than I did in my youth, as the conversations were going I thought to put my 2 dense in anyway . I think as you do really my interests in rock and roll goes 50s to 80s for the most part. Cool jazz have a nice day.
Brings me back to great times for me. Always my favorite band
Il brano dei LED ZEPPELIN è il più grande e influente di tutti i tempi ❤❤❤
a long time ago my friend played this for his really uptight country music loving father . they were one the front porch and he was on acoustic and singing. by the time he finished his dad was over there crying. told him that was the most beautiful song he had ever heard. im not sure if he ever told him he didnt write it. lol. always remember that.
I always enjoy listening to this song,led zep is my favorite rock band ever, i am glad that the 3 members still existing, rocking more!!
Just take this song in and enjoy it! The combination of music and lyrics take you on an 8 minute roll coaster of ecstasy. The ebb and flow of emotion leaves you exhausted but then happy. Such a wonderful experience….every time!
Hands down the greatest song ever written!
When I first heard it I knew exactly what was being conveyed. When all is one and one is all. What more do you need to understand.
I was 11 when it came out and not into music so much and as i aged i found rock so Srairway grew up with me.
Amazing music 😢 it's you cry , it's you laugh, one cannot go wrong with a song like that 👏🏼. It's the truth song. Stairway to heaven 💟
Led Zeppelin does not
plug in to amplifiers
Led Zeppelin
plugs in to your Soul ❤
Stairway is beautiful & brilliant, though I’ll admit that for awhile I was over it, it was so overplayed. The live at MSG, made me love it again, & appreciate its beauty. They also have some other beautiful & brilliant original songs, that were very rarely played on the radio, that deserved the praise like Stairway. All four were/are masters at their gifts, & are The GODS Of MUSIC! John Bonzo Bonham, is still missed so much by fans, even after all these years.
Rain Song is a Masterpiece too
Ten years gone is another
@Guitarplayer724 you stole my reply! Ten Years is just beyond superlative! For me it is their greatest, the solo is almost unJimmy like, quite sparse, very lush.
This is my favorite song, then the battle for evermore best songs ever!!
The Best song ever made
Second only to Revolution 9
Nobody’s fault but mine !!!!!
@@PaulFormentos I'm gonna assume you're being facetious. If you're serious, you're truly f*cked up.
Led Zeppelin' album IV is the best album of all time, I love its mysterious cover and the most beautiful song on the planet Stairway to Heaven. Thank you.❤️❤️
Imagine being so confident that you release an album with no band name or album name on the cover. Everybody knew what it was though, no words necessary. And, In my opinion, Houses of the Holy topped it, and Physical Graffiti topped that. Nobody will ever come close to the string of great records that they made, each one better than the previous ( mostly ). If the only song they ever recorded was Kashmir, people would still be talking about it. Or Stairway. Or Dazed and Confused. Etc. Etc.
Well said!:-D
@@ryanjones4150 Poor Tom?
@PaulFormentos Poor Tom, seventh son,
Always knew what's goin' on
Ain't a thing that you can hide from Tom
There ain't nothing that you can hide from Tom
The greatest rock/[pop song ever written. I play it numerous times weekly
When I started experimenting putting sound... great sound systems into cars in the late 60s and early 70s, Zeppelin was the go to test music. Sure there was the Who, Grand Funk, Tull, of course the Stones & the Beatles, Yes, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and all the rest of the very best.
What I am saying is that "Stairway to Heaven" made it a pleasure to go thru the complete rainbow of sound frequencies over and over. Sometimes, I would catch myself listening to their Stairway rather than testing the sound system.... and that was before I smoked one!😬
Now wasn't that one heck of a God blessed época? Thank you Led Zeppelin!
Stairway to Heaven was magic when it was released & it has never changed its appeal for the listener, nor been equaled.
14:22 Amen.
The song is a Masterpiece but so is Battle for Evermore and Kashmir, Thank You is another. I saw a sign in a Winery once " The Best Wine is the One you like" it applies to music too. Cheers.
Definately the BEST Bann in the world. I mean still is today.
Thank you for allowi g us i nto yr brain as you say it was all very determined to be as it is, progressing more and more!
Wrote the greatest song ever and he has stayed as gorgeous as ever. This song always takes me back in time to when I was young without a care in the world.
I grew up to listening to led Zeppelin love the every bit of it always want to see him in concert even try to get one of my guitar signed by one of them life fantasy I'll be so so so so so grateful if I was to ever be able to get one of my guitars signed by both Robert plant Jimmy Page or even just one of them it would be awesome!!!!
Putting aside the lyrics for a moment, the music has everything. And the build is fantastic.
Hello, I can say this I play guitar I was into the music only for a long time. Put on a set of good headphones and listen you will hear instruments you don't even realize are there. I didn't even care about the words but as I grew older and listened and learned the words along with the music the songs became greater and more beautiful with feelings Stairway to Heaven, Comfortly knum, nothing else maters, songs like that. It doesn't matter learn the words and your songs will come to life. Sing along.
It was the first song I learned on my guitar. After that I had to paint the song but the most important event was when I heard the song at the funeral of a colleague who had the song as his last wish (he died of cancer in his early 40s and left behind 2 children). No song has ever touched me more.
Amazing! And wonderful
Quite simply: its beauty is in its lyrics and its music that builds which allows us the listener to attach on to the ride, hold on, and be thrusted into the musical heavens!
The song is open to interpretation. Reminds me of the experience of riding a roller coaster for the first time. You experience the ride with all the twists and turns not wanting the ride to end.
Im 65 and STILL my brain want to bring in the drums a few phrases early.
Jimmy recorded 3 solos and picked that one.
Love this ❤
Pip, spot on. Its all about greedy commercialism! From a Blue Coat Stourbridge, not a Crammer Grub like Robert! Totally Brilliant
Yesss …will be here in 500 years.
Pure love
I had pondered the meaning of this (my favorite) song for years until one day I was watching a reaction video to the song, and the viewer started to try to dissect its meaning. It suddenly occurred to me that the key to the meaning of the lyrics was the line "and it makes me wonder". The most repeated phrase in the song.
Robert Plant himself has said there is no overall meaning to the song. "It started out about a woman who gets everything she wants. It softened up after that. Probably because of the the morrocan dope." - Plant
It makes me wonder is the chorus. One single line
The lyrics to me seem a superposition of traditional British folk stories and Tolkien's magnificent Middle Earth myths, which are themselves from there same place. This is poetic thinking and expression that transcends the notion of "What does it mean?" -it means nothing to those absent the background to appreciate it. To those who incorporate that background of cultural knowledge, this is a truly moving composition that is as fresh and poignant today as it was 50 years ago. And the music is something one James Page can be immensely proud of, a composition for the ages. As a musician, what he has crafted is iconic. Comparing it to other works to determine which is the best song is as ludicrous as trying to decide if the Pieta is better than the Mona Lisa or Beethovens Symphony #9. There are many expressions in the same or similar genre, but this is special.
Saw Zeppelin live in 1977 at Riverfront in Cincinnati Oh. Seen over a hundred concerts but not one approaches that experience. If you dont think Zeppelin is the greatest band ever you're just wrong.
Four limbs of the same body. Best description I've ever heard of Zep.
Greatest For sure!!
Jimmy .. you are by far a musical Genius in this world.. 🌎 I pray that in your last minutes of life left on this earth that you get your soul right with the one and Only God of all living and material things ..Amen
Amen.😌🙏🏻❤️
LZ has so many great songs it's hard to pick just one. Then there's Pink Floyd too.
This was the first epic rock song and set the example for all future "epicness" in rock. There are other bands who later did similar things and I always say, "oh that's their Stairway."
Not to take anything from "Stairway", since I agree that it could be the GOAT. But, I think of "Nights in White Satin", which came out in 1967, as being the first epic rock song.
Child in Time a candidate?
@@beawsbiz
O! At last,
First mention of DP in this commentary. People is speaking here about bunch of groups & guitarists I hardly know - and nobody even mentions Ritchie Blackmore and the whole DP stuff.
Isn't it strange?
Sheer genius & magic
It is one of the best backmasking feats in music, right up there with best of The Beatles who rule at it
They cal The Rolling Stones the greatest band only because Led Zeppelin is done making music.🤘
I would never call Rolling Stones the best they may think they are but they arent
bustle in your hedgerow is an unexpected disturbance in your same old life, its time to clean everything up, a spring clean. one mans opinion.
Number one rock song of all time. But Zep’s best song is Kashmir.
Hmmmn, in your opinion. For me Ten Years Gone is their best. The actuality is there is no best, just personal favs. There is the power of Zeppelin, from day to day you change to another song, another journey!
i agree, kashmir is no
I totally agree with you.
Agreed
Rain song great also
Indelible. It is an important part of my memories
Producer: Jimmy Page. Don't forget that. That's taken for granted with this band, but it's very rare really. Ownership of creative vision.
This is hands down the greatest song ever.
It's one of them for sure.
It was not an arrangement, it was a composition. A composition of the highest degree.
Stairway can be equaled, but never surpassed as the greatest rock and roll song.
Maurice Ravel a déjà fait ça avec son Bolero ❗
Sinon, depuis 50 ans, c'est un de mes titres préférés, comme tout l'album, je l'ai mis en sonnerie de téléphone 💗💕
All I know is that when I’m checking out guitars at the music store, the employees get upset if I start playing Stairway.
Similar to Ravel's Bolero - start to finish. Starts like the first flakes of a snow fall when we know the storm's coming.
Plant has expressed displeasure about his lyrics in it. He said musically it's "Peerless", and wishes he came up with more worthy lyrics, saying he felt like there was a chance to "really say something, and I didn't."
I know my analogy is silly but for me it’s like tubing on a gently flowing river,you are totally immersed in the slow movement of the water,as you progress down the river it begins to move faster and faster, you know it’s happening but you can’t see what and where it will take you until you reach the boiling rapids bouncing among boulders and waves of water constantly being drawn into an invisible flow until finally being thrown into the calmness of the widening channel,spent and exhilarated.This is my interpretation and totally mine and yes you may borrow it free of charge.
"Stairway" is not an eight minute song. It's a four minute song wreaking havoc with space and time. Which is why my watch shows eight minutes each time I heard it ❤
While i don’t think it’s the greatest song ever written, i do think it’s in the top three and certainly one of the finest pieces of music ever put down on tape. Great video and well done. I would like to add that they could very well be the front runners for the 2nd greatest rock band ever, the greatest band of all time has been given to the Beatles already. Led Zeppelin could definitely be the 2nd tho.
No way Zeppelin surpass the beatles by a country mile.
@@gsxrkz bro the Beatles are already known as the greatest rock group of all time, no point in disagreeing. You may not like it but that’s the way it is.
@itslikethesamebutdifferent8020 totally disagree.
@@gsxrkz good for you. I also disagree that Elvis is the king of rock, ain’t gonna do a thing to stop him being known as the king of rock. See how that works?
No@@itslikethesamebutdifferent8020
I love Stairway to Heaven, but I’m going with Queens Bohemian Rhapsody. 💕🙏🏻
Me too, and Queen the biggest rockband ever.
I do believe that Robert, did have a very special and very deep emotional to that song Tucson part of his life I don't think I'll ever reveal it?
Plant said that the lyric " if there's a bustle in your hedgerow " means spring has arrived.
I don't know if it's the Greatest song of all time.
It's the Best song of my LIFES SOUNDTRACK!!
FREEBIRD AND BLACKBIRD IN THAT ORDER!!
I believe Robert sometimes thinks those days were somewhat immature and it is a great tell of someone's character to look back reflect and mature into the great singer he is even today! Perhaps it was the partying or seeing things much differently as you grow. For me, I think the lyric "If there's a bustle in your headrow, don't be alarmed now" is a GREAT lyric, Robert not so much. Great Robert research! Thanks!!
My second favorite band. I really enjoy Pink Floyd
I'm listening LZ all the time... What would we do without LZ ?
HAS to be the best rock song EVER
You cannot dislike STH it's just way to great of a song. The melody, the lyrics, the solo and the crescendo simply make this song way too good for competition. There are lots of other really great songs out there but how can any of them possibly top "Stairway To Heaven?" It just is way too good.
Bob Carruthers is mistaken, Stairway is in Aminor, not C sharp, & he made it appear that the intro
Is lifted note for note from a classical.piece- yes its a common, logical descending progression in Am, but he misrepresented there
Fortunately for me I had been listening intently to Yes before buying Zoso and listing to Stairway. So ambiguous lyrics were no issue, just take another toke and let it flow.
It’s like nothing else there ever was before or since
Its up there with the best of them. Child in Time by Deep Purple is up there. Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen has a place. Just thinking of songs with "arrangements". Just my thoughts.
I've often wondered whether "And You and I" by Yes was inspired by stairway to heaven. Starting with the soft acoustic guitar, then Having Rick wakeman alloweed yes to create a more classical middle section. But the theme, structure , mood and andersons usual metaphorically obscure lyrics make the two compositions quite similar.
Deep Purple - Child in Time...
OK this is my steward of Heaven blurb first time I listened to stairway to Heaven and I think this is so cool I was six years old and they used to play with my fathers a track player not the recording at the music tapes and he had Led Zeppelin fourth album he said the third album in the first, so no I went by the covers and I always bypass that one. The guy with the bunch of sticks on his back on this day I threw in inside from the beginning so first thing I heard on it I heard black dog I think that was the first song and they listened always do it to heaven my mother found me and she said why are you crying? I was so embarrassed a little boy and I didn’t want to be seen crying over something like music I couldn’t even speak because I was afraid I was gonna my voice is gonna crack, so I just clean my mouth shut, looking at her and the music playing in my ears and I’m reading my mother’s lips. Why are you crying and I pointed at the headphones she reached out and took the headphones to listen to it. She goes to make you sad I said no, she said oh you really really really like it? Yeah OK it’s a good thing, but the headphones back on that was that I was playing it from beginning to end by the age of 12 oh my Guitar