I had this at #41 too, but I absolutely believe it should at least be in top 20. We have failed.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 21:53 (ten years ago) link
incredible song
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 21:53 (ten years ago) link
Here's the first track we've seen from the hit-packed #4 LP on our albums' poll...
http://i.imgur.com/1wEbnjt.jpg
42. Boston – Peace of Mind1123 points, 13 votes
― some dude, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 21:56 (ten years ago) link
Regret not voting for this more than any other song I didn't vote for.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 21:56 (ten years ago) link
TOOLOW
― Jeff, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 21:57 (ten years ago) link
Yeah should have voted for Funk #49, I don't know what I was thinking.
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 21:57 (ten years ago) link
although I've heard Funk #49 on the radio, I never knew the title, who the band was, or that Joe Walsh was involved
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:00 (ten years ago) link
I had Peace of Mind at #12, but I should have gone higher. I was just having trouble ranking two songs by the same artist in each tier of 10, and I already had another Boston song in the top ten.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:00 (ten years ago) link
I need to start a separate Sandy's Stories of CLASSIC ROCK thread
THIS MUST HAPPEN.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:00 (ten years ago) link
'peace of mind' was my #2, the chorus just builds and builds better than anything i can think of
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:01 (ten years ago) link
glad to see those two .38 special tracks place, utterly classic
fwiw if i voted i would likely have put funk #49 at #1
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:03 (ten years ago) link
oh mannnnn things are picking up seriously. "Peace of Mind" is not my favorite Boston song by a long shot (it's kinda rambling, compositionally, and doesn't have the same perfect emotional formation as their bigger hits) but it still has pretty much everything you go to them for sonically, especially that combination of gentle acoustic strum undergirding chunky ultra-precise sandpaper guitar transmissions in the riff - - - and super clean, laser-show action for the solo. The former basically obviates the whole existence of Rush for me - why go there when I've got these guys - and appears most perfectly in the opening of "Don't Look Back." The latter, well, we'll get more of that in upcoming songs (I can only assume!). TAKE A LOOK AHEAD! TAKE A LOOK AHEAD! LOOK AHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:03 (ten years ago) link
Actually I was thinking of Walk Away. It's Walk Away that I should've voted for, reminds me of Hot Burrito #2
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:04 (ten years ago) link
no joke there's so much truth in 'POM'
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:05 (ten years ago) link
Every song on that first Boston album is a classic-rock staple. Amazing.
― Lee626, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:11 (ten years ago) link
peace of mind is great!!!
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:12 (ten years ago) link
We have a little tradition here at The Aorta, I've heard that other stations have tried to copy us, but they never quite get it right. But you know what band you're about to hear when I say the words BRING THE ZEP OUT!
http://i.imgur.com/YUNz5L7.jpg
41. Led Zeppelin – Kashmir 1132 points, 16 votes
― some dude, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:13 (ten years ago) link
and a big raspberry to all of you saying you should have voted for funk 49
I FUCKING TOLD YOU
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:13 (ten years ago) link
Rush >>> Boston
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:14 (ten years ago) link
i like kashmir but i like immigrant song better. i dont know why i think of them together but i do
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:14 (ten years ago) link
I must have heard Kashmir hundreds of times in my life but I don't think I know a single word, unless you count DA-DA-DUN-DUN-DA
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:15 (ten years ago) link
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, July 30, 2014
gtfo with this nonsense
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:16 (ten years ago) link
i'd refer you to dave q's "good prog/bad prog" rant but i don't want to jinx "stone in love" itp
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:17 (ten years ago) link
Diddy ruined Kashmir for me.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:17 (ten years ago) link
that combination of gentle acoustic strum undergirding chunky ultra-precise sandpaper guitar transmissions in the riff
^^ this
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:18 (ten years ago) link
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, July 30, 2014
OTM and only OTMer the older i get
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:18 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md7k5xH7HbI
Ruined
― Jeff, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:18 (ten years ago) link
kashmir is the heaviest thing Zep ever recorded and it RULES
(yes i have heard "when the levee breaks")
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:19 (ten years ago) link
"The Spirit of Radio" is like a Boston song with good drumming
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:21 (ten years ago) link
I would definitely take Boston's worldview, however
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:22 (ten years ago) link
didn't Page play this with him live at one point? or was it just a bad dream?still can't ruin this song for me.
― campreverb, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:22 (ten years ago) link
side 2 of physical graffiti is one of the best album sides in all of classic rock (and the fact that its songs probably get less airplay than the songs on a lot of other classic album sides has probably helped it in the long run). i only voted for the middle of the three songs, but all indisputably classic.
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:22 (ten years ago) link
xp i think on snl
or maybe an awards show, but it definitely happened
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:23 (ten years ago) link
snl, yes
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:24 (ten years ago) link
SNL, May 9th 1998
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:24 (ten years ago) link
a day that will live in infamy
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:25 (ten years ago) link
"Kashmir" another one I just can't hear the way I heard it when it was new to me. Seemed fucking massive and magical, relentlessly marching forward and then the sky opens up with this cascade of guitars-as-churchbells. Now I just tired before it's halfway over. Hate to say it, but it'd be better if it wasn't eight and a half minutes - there's just not enough new territory to discover over the long journey. Knock off three, even two minutes and they'd really have had to make some choices and shape it up. So much bloat with these guys - I don't really notice if I'm listening to the album, but in the context of CR radio it's tough.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:25 (ten years ago) link
Page also showed up for the "Come With Me" video, presumably to deflect rockist claims that Puffy was "stealing" great riffs and lazily rapping over them. It didn't really help, mainly because the song is ridiculous, but I do like that at one point he seems to chastise himself, declaring sadly, "Bad rap."
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:26 (ten years ago) link
Dr. C have you considered smoking more weed?
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:31 (ten years ago) link
Does that help with enjoying Led Zeppelin?
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:33 (ten years ago) link
i have no complaints about kashmir. especially not its length
thats what she said fnnaarr
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:34 (ten years ago) link
its not bloat
its the MAJESTY OF ROCK
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:35 (ten years ago) link
Whenever I hear Funk #49 or Walk Away, I am instantly 14 years old again, and my friends and I are wearing our bell-bottoms and tube tops and smell of Love's Baby Soft and we are riding around aimlessly, being driven by some older guy that my cousin knew, crammed in the back seat drinking Boone's Farm strawberry wine.
Oh GAWD I am starting to sound like a Kid Rock song, I need to shut up.
Also: Peace of Mind TOO LOW, it was my #4.
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:38 (ten years ago) link
xpost according to my calculations it appears very likely...
"black light led zeppelin" About 5,070,000 results (0.37 seconds)
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:38 (ten years ago) link
The Foghat Principle! Come On!
― campreverb, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:39 (ten years ago) link
sandy you almost made it but the Boone's is really on the nose (but hey fwiw i'll stand by Devil Without A Cause)
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:40 (ten years ago) link
"Come With Me" was by Puff Daddy featuring Jimmy Page. he was in on the whole thing, studio recording included. i have very little reverence for "Kashmir" so i kind of perversely enjoyed it. Puffy's drummer on SNL killed it.
― some dude, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:44 (ten years ago) link
here it is on some kind of russian youtube, complete with david duchovny introduction:http://rutube.ru/video/ba3b883d77570736255287f1f4509ac2/
― some dude, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:47 (ten years ago) link