Which version of "Whole Lotta Love" is better?

[Badger]

Having actually wasted a minute and half of my life listening to this:

Oh, god, emoviolence is even worse than I imagined it would be.

[Badger]

Having actually wasted a minute and half of my life listening to this:

Oh, god, emoviolence is even worse than I imagined it would be.

Hmmm I recall you talking about how one should not write off entire genres...

If this song is presented as a good, or even average quality, example of the genre, I'm cofortable doing so, thank you.

[Badger]

Did you know that, like a lot of Zep songs, Whole Lotta Love is a rip off an older blues number by Muddy Waters (written by Willie Dixon)?  The original M. Waters number and the "inbetween" song by the Small Faces You Need Loving.

Zep's version is the best of all of them, of course.

(the wiki on it

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Of course. I don't object to covers, just bad ones.

[Badger]

Having actually wasted a minute and half of my life listening to this:

Oh, god, emoviolence is even worse than I imagined it would be.

Hmmm I recall you talking about how one should not write off entire genres...

If this song is presented as a good, or even average quality, example of the genre, I'm cofortable doing so, thank you.

As stated above it's a quite diverse genre. And a single track that happens to be a cover which was also recorded in a basement and appeared only a band's demo tape is the never the best example. Compare to these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maihcCjGQe0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sRwHHo90i0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFv2jtHaeY0

Well, that's about 15 minutes of my life I'll never get back.

The musicality actually isn't bad, but the constant guttural throat singing isn't "diverse" or "an interesting contrast" so much as "annoying as hell". The persistent disconnect from the rest of the song (with some variation on Portrait's piece), was grating.

Time and place for throat being torn out singing. I can't imagine full 40 minutes album of that.

[Badger]

The best version of Whole Lotta Love is from Dread Zeppelin's debut album, Un-Led-ed, circa 1990.  No doubt about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXKSQEecR0A

Dread Zeppelin was awesome.  Elvis impersonator doing Zeppelin songs to a reggae beat.  Genius.  Brick House (of the Holy) and Black Dog were my favorites.

Your Time is Gonna Come was also transcendent.