How do you make these songs...?

[alienelvis]

I think think your right. Work is the right key to the right door etc...

I would like to add that I mean no disrespect to the almighty Zeppelin. I'm just saying "there's nothing new under the sun".
Every note has been played.You could say the same thing about any band.

When Freddie Mercury wrote Bohemian Rhapsody he didn't pretend he invented opera. He heard something he liked and came up with his own version. He brought an old sound to a rock format. With dynamics that go from piano ballad to opera to loud rock and back again.

It's also interesting that both songs involve death or some form of nonexistance as a welcome release from the struggles of modern life.

 

[Roktuk]

An additional 2cents on the sex analogy.
sane woman = good sex
insane woman = Great sex
My point being, insane womans mood swings = emotional diversity.

Alot of songs I hear seem, for lack of a better word, monotone. Hmm...the term monotone. I think of these songs kind of like this.
You've got a 4 minute long hallway. Hear comes a door (bridge) you open it and... yippee! a closet. Boo! Back to the hallway. Here comes another door (chorus)...surely this is not another...closet. d'oh!

To use the same visual analogy, Bohemian Rhapsody is an ornate room moving to ornate room. It's taking you somewhere.
Zepplin's Stairway is just that! A stairway. Climbing and Climbing.

That's my 2cents, if it makes any sense.

 

[Cyrokk]

Interestingly, I've heard that while "Stairway to Heaven" does musically resemble a stairway, the last song on the album, "When the Levee Breaks" can be thought of as its antithesis: a stairway winding downwards. It's got a number of levels just like Stairway, and it is also the last song on the corresponding side of the album. I don't think it was really intended specifically in that way, but it's a pretty neat comparison just the same.

Cy