Best Track on Led Zeppelin III

I love this album, it's def the most joyful zep record

"friends" / "celebration day" = "brain damage" / "eclipse"

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.

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

one of my favorite zeppelin stories is robert plant is the first person to have smoked up jon anderson

never heard that one!

this is blowing the moral of the story, but here you go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGyu27tbtpc

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)…

Oh apparently it was on an empty guitar case… should’ve googled before posting.

I can do a fair impression on my lap

looking for what you knew

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.

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.

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.

how often do you think eddie van halen succeeded in making his sound 'brown'

Do any of these songs truly hold a candle to Tight Fit's Fantasy Island?

(Ofc they do. Friends would be my vote.)

both I and II sound amazing, what are you all smoking

OTM

The sludgiest one is graffiti

I love 'em all! It's just how I hear them.

I'm feeling "Friends" this morning.

The sludgiest one is graffiti

OTM again

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

He plays the tambourine over the coda, it's brilliant to keep him out of the song till then.

― Halfway there but for you

Oh it’s true! I take that back