my tears, they fell like rain
― mookieproof, Sunday, 29 July 2007 01:22 (sixteen years ago) link
The acoustic stuff will probably get the votes around here, but I am going for "Since I have been Loving You" as I love when Led Zep played slow blues numbers like this one or "Tea for One" or "I Can't Quit You Baby".
"the segue between "Friends" and "Celebration Day" is killer"
From what I understand that segue was put there because the engineer on the recording screwed up the first few seconds of the drums on Celebration Day erasing some of Bonzo's tracks.
The thing on LZ II is I find it hard to believe they left "Hey Hey What Can I Do" off the record. That song is great.
― earlnash, Sunday, 29 July 2007 01:51 (sixteen years ago) link
"Immigrant Song" is one of my favorite songs of all time.
― HI DERE, Sunday, 29 July 2007 01:51 (sixteen years ago) link
hangman...hangman...
― m coleman, Sunday, 29 July 2007 01:51 (sixteen years ago) link
actually the whole first side ROOLZ
― m coleman, Sunday, 29 July 2007 01:52 (sixteen years ago) link
my fave lz lp
SIBLY, for sure--"I open my front door hear my back door slam!"
― iago g., Sunday, 29 July 2007 02:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh my god this album. It's hard to choose one, even though I have. Makes me sad I can't choose more tracks.
― Bimble, Sunday, 29 July 2007 03:23 (sixteen years ago) link
It was a tough choice but I had to go with Bron Y Aur Stomp. I love that tune. Tough choice though, since That's the Way is probably Zep's best song lyrically, and Since I've Been Loving You is their best blues number.
― ablaeser, Sunday, 29 July 2007 04:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Always loved the string arrangement on "Friends"...
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 29 July 2007 04:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Celebration Day, dude.
― Handsome Dan, Sunday, 29 July 2007 05:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Out On The Tiles
― Hurting 2, Sunday, 29 July 2007 07:16 (sixteen years ago) link
This thread is making me wish I voted for III in the Zep album poll.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Sunday, 29 July 2007 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link
"Immigrant Song". It is the sound of the hammer of the gods being lifted high, ready to smite. But the smiting would have to wait another record.
― Euler, Sunday, 29 July 2007 19:47 (sixteen years ago) link
This is the toughest one yet. This is the only LZ album that I would never skip a song. My vote goes to Since I've Been Lovong Yo.
― nate woolls, Sunday, 29 July 2007 20:05 (sixteen years ago) link
hat's off, but its all good.
― stevie, Sunday, 29 July 2007 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link
"Immigrant Song" is the only Led Zeppelin song to refer to an Arkansas city by name.
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 30 July 2007 02:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Naw, that bit in "Achilles' Last Stand" is talking about Albion Township in White County.
― Rock Hardy, Monday, 30 July 2007 02:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I know "Immigrant Song" is the answer, but voted for "Friends"
― Dominique, Monday, 30 July 2007 03:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Albion Township isn't a city, R. Hardy.
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 30 July 2007 04:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Out on the Tiles, it's so fucking joyful!
― President Evil, Monday, 30 July 2007 05:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Definitely the best Led Zep album. My vote goes to "Gallows Pole."
― call all destroyer, Monday, 30 July 2007 13:30 (sixteen years ago) link
this is a very tough one, because i find the better tracks to be really quite even in quality. i love the slow blues of 'since i've been loving you' and dig the haunting acoustics of 'friends' and 'that's the way'. hmmm, then there's the undisputedly classic paen to valhalla, 'immigrant song'. very difficult choice indeed
um...immigrant song.
― Charlie Howard, Monday, 30 July 2007 13:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I do love "Friends," but c'mon -- there is absolultely no argument. "Immigrant Song" EVERY. DAMN. TIME.
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 00:54 (sixteen years ago) link
someone had to say it. thank you alex for being that someone.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 01:00 (sixteen years ago) link
There's plenty of argument.
― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 03:14 (sixteen years ago) link
DOWN WITH LED ZEPPELIN
― Tape Store, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 03:16 (sixteen years ago) link
whatever
― Dominique, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 03:19 (sixteen years ago) link
i refuse to choose.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 03:34 (sixteen years ago) link
If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice...
― ablaeser, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 04:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I respect your refusal to choose. Now go vote "Immigrant Song".
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 05:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Tangerine.
― SeekAltRoute, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 11:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Fuck an immigrant song. I just see little viking kitties whenever I hear it now. "Friends" is where it's at.
― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 13:36 (sixteen years ago) link
as if there's something wrong with little viking kitties, you heartless bastard.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 14:18 (sixteen years ago) link
"That's The Way."
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 14:20 (sixteen years ago) link
here's 'nother Tangerine, then!
― t**t, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 15:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Fuck an immigrant song. I just see little viking kitties whenever I hear it now.
That first sentence makes absolutely no sense in light of the second sentence.
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 15:52 (sixteen years ago) link
"That's The Way" for me... I love the open D and the guitar solo.
― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 16:07 (sixteen years ago) link
You're right, Dan, I just thought I'd try out a big dumb blustery post -- they're out of character for me, but I do them every now and then to stay in practice.
― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 17:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Friday, 3 August 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Saturday, 4 August 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Yammy! I love it that teh Tangerine is so high up on the approved menu.
― t**t, Saturday, 4 August 2007 23:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I was listening to III this morning and isn't there a later 70s Pink Floyd song that uses this lick? See approximately 2:07-2:15. I think it's on the Wall, but I don't have a copy of that to reference. Anyone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkjv9SscotY
― frogsclovetofu (beachville), Friday, 27 April 2012 13:41 (twelve years ago) link
the greatest thing you ever can do nowis give a smile to someone who's blue now
― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Friday, 27 April 2012 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
kinda sounds like In The Flesh maybe?
― caulk the wagon and float it, Friday, 27 April 2012 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
OOTT
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Friday, 27 April 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think I'm thinking of In The Flesh. Feel like it's something slow and smouldering like SIBLY, but not as bluesy. I'll have to try and find some Wall samples to listen to when I get home.
― frogsclovetofu (beachville), Friday, 27 April 2012 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/led-zeppelin-iii-19701126
Their albums refine the crude public tools of all dull white blues bands into something awesome in its very insensitive grossness, like a Cecil B. DeMille epic. If I rely so much on visual and filmic metaphors, it's because they apply so exactly. I've never made a Zep show, but friends (most of them the type, admittedly, who will listen to anything so long's it's loud and they're destroyed) describe a thunderous, near-undifferentiated tidal wave of sound that doesn't engross but envelops to snuff any possible distraction.
lol
― j., Friday, 27 February 2015 20:44 (nine years ago) link
Pretty good review tbh, I disagree with it but it makes that particular case pretty strongly.
― intheblanks, Friday, 27 February 2015 22:12 (nine years ago) link
I can't believe this song won. Braun-Y-Aur Stomp all the way.
― Poliopolice, Friday, 27 February 2015 22:57 (nine years ago) link
The thing with Zeppelin is that with them, it's not as simple as "they were a blues band/folk band/hard rock band" ... they may not have been a prog rock band in the typical way one thinks when they hear the term, but Zeppelin were a seriously progressive outfit that tied a lot of things together and fused together a lot of things in very creative ways. Yes, they may have lifted things, but their sound was all their own - so many have tried to imitate Zeppelin and get it spectacularly wrong.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Monday, 20 November 2017 20:17 (six years ago) link
It's also remarkable that John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page were session guys prior to Zeppelin, but I don't get any kind of real "session guy" vibe from any of Zeppelin's stuff. These guys really liked making and playing music and you can tell from the tracks they're totally vibed on what they're doing. Of course, it totally helped that both John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page were so musicianly, but in Zeppelin nothing ever felt "academic", even when they threw in odd time signatures etc.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Monday, 20 November 2017 20:22 (six years ago) link
they may not have been a prog rock band in the typical way one thinks when they hear the term, but Zeppelin were a seriously progressive outfit that tied a lot of things together and fused together a lot of things in very creative ways.
Iirc, Page did refer to them as a progressive rock band in Light and Shade.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 20 November 2017 20:24 (six years ago) link
If Pink Floyd hadn't so clearly demarcated "RULES" as the default answer to all attendant criticisms, I'd just stamp LED ZEPPELIN RULES about 300 times over Moka's recent posts.
― cosmic brain dildo (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 20 November 2017 20:26 (six years ago) link
I listened to Led Zeppelin II amongst a bunch of stuff that came out in the late '60s, and production wise it just wiped the floor with pretty much everything I listened to that day from the same period. Everything else just sounded weedy by comparison.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Monday, 20 November 2017 20:27 (six years ago) link
remarkable all the more considering the haphazard nature of the recording and the speed at which they put it together.
― cosmic brain dildo (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 20 November 2017 20:29 (six years ago) link
Absolutely! Sometimes I wish all quickly recorded albums from the '60s sounded as good as Led Zeppelin II does sonically, but I guess it wouldn't be as special if everyone had figured out how to do it.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Monday, 20 November 2017 20:43 (six years ago) link
Page was brilliant as a producer right from the go.
― cosmic brain dildo (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 20 November 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link
He had some great engineers working on those records who don't get as much credit as perhaps they should - people like Glyn Johns who engineered a lot of great sounding records. Page may have known what he wanted and have been no slouch in the studio, but he didn't achieve those results alone!
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Monday, 20 November 2017 20:58 (six years ago) link
I should have known that Johns worked on them. Makes perfect sense.
― cosmic brain dildo (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 20 November 2017 21:03 (six years ago) link
You guys should check out pagey’s interview with Jeff koons at the 92 st Y.
― calstars, Monday, 20 November 2017 21:18 (six years ago) link
physical graffiti thread got me running through the discography again. prob a controversial challopsy opinion but this record is a quantum leap over the first two
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 12 March 2020 23:58 (four years ago) link
More challopsy to prefer the first two I would have thought? (I do, by the way).
― God gave toilets rolls to you, gave toilet rolls to you (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 March 2020 23:59 (four years ago) link
general opinion suggests this one is still kinda underrated somehow
"friends" is so mindblowing
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 13 March 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
“Friends” def in the POX.
― vmajestic, Friday, 13 March 2020 00:03 (four years ago) link
"Bron Yr Aur" didn't make the cut is insane. Some of Page's best picking.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 13 March 2020 00:39 (four years ago) link
This is still the lowest selling of their proper albums?
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 13 March 2020 00:48 (four years ago) link
i'm really fond of the version of "friends" by this flash in the pan prog band around 2000 called azigza, so great
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 13 March 2020 01:14 (four years ago) link
yeah, wow that bron yr aur was in a low tier. that's some of the best zep ever
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 13 March 2020 01:16 (four years ago) link
Keep a swinginKeep a coolin
― calstars, Friday, 13 March 2020 01:26 (four years ago) link
Out on the Tiles
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 January 2024 18:49 (three months ago) link
― peace, man, Thursday, 18 January 2024 19:06 (three months ago) link
fuck yes it is
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 18 January 2024 19:43 (three months ago) link
I love this album, it's def the most joyful zep record
"friends" / "celebration day" = "brain damage" / "eclipse"
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 18 January 2024 20:51 (three months ago) link
If they would have swapped Hats Off to Roy Harper with Hey Hey What Can I Do, this would have been a perfect album for me.
― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Thursday, 18 January 2024 21:06 (three months ago) link
I don't mind 'Hey Hey' not being on it, I don't think it would fit with the mood of the album. It's a perfect b-side tho
― calstars, Thursday, 18 January 2024 21:10 (three months ago) link
one of my favorite zeppelin stories is robert plant is the first person to have smoked up jon anderson
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 18 January 2024 21:13 (three months ago) link
never heard that one!
― calstars, Thursday, 18 January 2024 21:17 (three months ago) link
this is blowing the moral of the story, but here you go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGyu27tbtpc
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 18 January 2024 21:20 (three months ago) link
Still “that’s the way”, one of their most precious sounding songs.
I kind of wish Bonham would have featured in it, though. Playing bongos or something percussive like tapping on some plastic jug like he did on “ramble on” (not sure if it’s a plastic jug it just kind of sounds like it)…
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 18 January 2024 21:43 (three months ago) link
Oh apparently it was on an empty guitar case… should’ve googled before posting.
I can do a fair impression on my lap
― calstars, Thursday, 18 January 2024 22:19 (three months ago) link
looking for what you knew
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 18 January 2024 22:55 (three months ago) link
this record is a quantum leap over the first two
There's something about the production of those records that I mostly can't stand, maybe the reverb Page was using? It really dates them to the worst of 1969. The subsequent records have more atmosphere, room to breathe.
I kind of wish Bonham would have featured in it, though.
He plays the tambourine over the coda, it's brilliant to keep him out of the song till then.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 19 January 2024 22:49 (three months ago) link
The second one has always had a muddy, "underwater" quality to me, or it did at least until the release of the four CD boxed set. But, the quality of the songs transcends the production.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 20 January 2024 01:05 (three months ago) link
First two sound sludgy to me for sure. III sounds “green”. IV sounds sludgy ( again). The rest are a hodgepodge sonically until the last two ( not including CODA) which sound positively “shiny” compared to the rest of the catalogue.
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 20 January 2024 02:21 (three months ago) link
how often do you think eddie van halen succeeded in making his sound 'brown'
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 January 2024 02:39 (three months ago) link
Do any of these songs truly hold a candle to Tight Fit's Fantasy Island?
(Ofc they do. Friends would be my vote.)
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 20 January 2024 03:42 (three months ago) link
both I and II sound amazing, what are you all smoking
― brimstead, Saturday, 20 January 2024 04:28 (three months ago) link
OTM
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Saturday, 20 January 2024 09:35 (three months ago) link
The sludgiest one is graffiti
― calstars, Saturday, 20 January 2024 11:12 (three months ago) link
I love 'em all! It's just how I hear them.
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 20 January 2024 11:13 (three months ago) link
I'm feeling "Friends" this morning.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 January 2024 11:17 (three months ago) link
OTM again
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Saturday, 20 January 2024 11:57 (three months ago) link
bron-yr-aur stomp really does stomp. the harmonies are great, the castanets that come in near the end, the pure daffy love lyrics, and another acoustic miniature masterpiece of riffing from page
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 20 January 2024 12:33 (three months ago) link
― Halfway there but for you
Oh it’s true! I take that back
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 20 January 2024 12:59 (three months ago) link