I fail to understand Radiohead
and my entrails are devoured by jealousy and incomprehension at the inordinate, even obscene success of Led Zep over DP with
- a le(a)den, dragging drummer,
- a bassist you couldn't hear very well (and when he played keyboards, he didn't even wear a cape, stab the keys with a knife or tip the Hammond over),
- a terrible lyricist oooh-awing all over the place with nothing relevant, much less witty to say plus
- a sloppy lead guitarist with way too many suspended chords grating with my German-anal-retentive sense of musical order (it's either major or minor, jawohl!).
Let's not even start how they were never produced by Martin Birch and how Page's production sounds weird and all indirect, cavernous echo-y to me. I guess that hides inaccurate playing better.
My son, when he's trying to be (very) mean to me (his Page impressions are much better than his Blackmore ones), says that I simply don't hear the sex in Led Zep's music while DP is devoid of that and just cerebral and well-executed, but lacks "mojo". And the he adds that I play too many thirds when playing bass and if he made a bass for me he'd take the thirds out on the fretboard!
Radiohead is neither cerebral nor sexy to me. Not a lot of thirds either. Useless really.