Beggars’ Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, and Exile on Main Street is the best 4 studio album run in history. LZ was tired and busted by the early 70s. LZ just cranked out over-blown, pretensious, self-indulgent nonsense like the Battle of Evermore, Black Dog, etc. No wonder the punks hated them so much.
LOL- lets forget about Zeppelin IV; none of the crap the Stone produced came close to Physical Graffiti, which was released in ‘74- nothing....
Kahsmir, Trampled Under Foot, In My Time of Dying, the WonTon Song....even on their best day the Stones could not write a song that would make it onto Physical, which was a double album...
funny thing about the “punks”- they fizzled...listen to any rock station and lets compare the number of Zeppelin songs played versus the rolling stoned...
btw- i always wondered if the guitars of Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood were actually plugged in when the Stones were playing....sort of reminded me of the chick who played keyboards for the Partridge Family...