is this another UK vs US canon example like on the Sabbath thread?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 6 April 2009 20:26 (fifteen years ago) link
The last time I was at Strictly Discs I found a used copy of the remastered In Through the Out Door and bought it. My least favorite clerk was like "Really? Out of all their albums?" I said "IT IS AWESOME." Just like that. He meekly replied "most people go for one of the others" and I raised myself to my full eight feet, unfurled my black leathery wings, and intoned ""I AM NOT MOST PEOPLE""
he got the hint i think
― Dimension 5ive, Thursday, April 12, 2007 5:52 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
haha love this guy
― Shawty Lo Collier (some dude), Monday, 6 April 2009 20:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I kinda feel like CODA is my favorite.
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Monday, 6 April 2009 20:28 (fifteen years ago) link
CODA is underappreciated
― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Monday, 6 April 2009 20:31 (fifteen years ago) link
i only got the complete works box set fairly recently so my opinion isn't fully formed but my rough pecking order is like:
Houses > IV > I > II > Presence > PF > Out Door > III
haven't really thought of where Coda would place, though. PF's got good stuff but the hitting percentage is way lower and i kinda feel like their songs are so epic in general that a double is just overkill.
― Shawty Lo Collier (some dude), Monday, 6 April 2009 20:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Presence > PG > Houses > IV > III > Out Door > I > II
some days I would switch III and IV
― WmC, Monday, 6 April 2009 20:40 (fifteen years ago) link
i think when i was 14-15 i played IV & Houses so many times it's hard to hear them now. and yeah, I turn the station when stariway comes on. but tbf i think i always did. wnet through a phase when i was partial to III, but I'm pretty sure I went with PG in this poll.
― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Monday, 6 April 2009 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link
the only ones i got bored with were I and III
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 6 April 2009 21:10 (fifteen years ago) link
III kills IV, I and II.
― Bill Magill, Monday, 6 April 2009 21:10 (fifteen years ago) link
hmmm
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 6 April 2009 21:25 (fifteen years ago) link
III is tops for me, followed by houses then IV.
― ian, Monday, 6 April 2009 21:27 (fifteen years ago) link
One of my early favourites I still listen to today....I used to vouch for I but now I'd go for Physical Graffiti or Houses.
― davek_00, Monday, 6 April 2009 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link
it's Houses > IV > III etc for me. still have a hard time figuring out The Crunge.
― sonderangerbot, Monday, 6 April 2009 22:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I bought PG recently, first ever LZ purchase.
Hmm, yeah. OK..
Don't think I'll go further to be honest.
― Mark G, Monday, 6 April 2009 22:27 (fifteen years ago) link
you are missing out
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 6 April 2009 22:46 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm all about III...I tend to like IV and Houses the most when they get closest to III's sound...
― jagged-electronically mäandernden underbody (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 6 April 2009 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link
III is also one of the reasons I voted for 70 on the 70-71-72 poll...
I also really like the first album...it seems the most Amon Dull II-acid-rock-ish of them all, thx to Dazed and Confused and How Many More Times...
― jagged-electronically mäandernden underbody (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 6 April 2009 22:57 (fifteen years ago) link
(though PG disc 2 could have it all over the first irt acid rock...been a long time since I gave it a spin)
― jagged-electronically mäandernden underbody (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 6 April 2009 22:59 (fifteen years ago) link
I must admit I tend to listen to disc 1 more
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 6 April 2009 23:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I liked "In my time", "Trampled", "Kasgmr" and "Boogie w/ Stu"
The rest passed without.
― Mark G, Monday, 6 April 2009 23:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I've been listening to PG for years and it just struck me today how fierce Page's guitar tone is on (the song) "Houses of the Holy." I want all guitar to sound like that all the time.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 6 April 2009 23:51 (fifteen years ago) link
i generally love the acoustic stuff on the other early albums, but for some reason III just leaves me cold.
― Shawty Lo Collier (some dude), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 00:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Physical Graffiti won, what else do you want? Justice was done. I would personally like to see Presence higher in the tally, but you can't have everything, I guess.
― To Float Away On A Lifelong Song (Bimble), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 02:23 (fifteen years ago) link
"Night Flight"
― crab ringgoon (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 02:30 (fifteen years ago) link
also "The Rover"
― crab ringgoon (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 02:35 (fifteen years ago) link
How the fuck did zoso or the first album not win this?? fuck ilx contrarianism.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 02:51 (fifteen years ago) link
the debut only got FIVE votes?? you gotta fucking be kidding me.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 02:52 (fifteen years ago) link
oh come on, i'm sure most of the people who voted for houses, IV and graffiti still REALLY LOVE the debut. they just don't think it's THE BEST.
― ian, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 04:19 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah that album might be the biggest bridesmaid of them all
― Shawty Lo Collier (some dude), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 04:28 (fifteen years ago) link
otm (x-post)
my order goes something like this:
1. Houses Of The Holy 2. IV 3. Physical Grafitti4. II5. In Through The Out Door 6. I7. Presence 8. III9. Coda
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 04:37 (fifteen years ago) link
they really were just on some other shit with Houses....just these incredible tones and textures Page was putting together with all the layers of guitar, less blues-based than the earlier stuff but still real hard rocking. i don't even like "D'yer Maker" that much but when you put it on an album with "The Crunge" I kind of get the whole spirit of it, stretching out and incorporating different sounds.
― Shawty Lo Collier (some dude), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 04:43 (fifteen years ago) link
??? almost everybody in the normal world calls Houses of the Holy the best all-around LZ album, don't they?
― Just one thing I was thinking about as I was getting on the copter (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 04:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I agree with Bee Ok
1. Houses Of The Holy2. IV3. Physical Graffiti4. II
^ The only ones I've paid for. Also the order I would rank them based on which ones I listen to the most.
― CaptainLorax, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 05:00 (fifteen years ago) link
not sure what 'normal world' is in this case but it's always seemed to me that out of the more popular half of their catalog Zoso is the biggest and the default consensus pick.
― Shawty Lo Collier (some dude), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 05:01 (fifteen years ago) link
One of the things I love about III is that "Out on the Tiles" and "Tangerine" never got played on the rock radio where I live(d), so when I finally got III, it was "WTF! these songs rock!"
I don't think any other band has such a high percentage of radio songs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
almost everybody in the normal world calls Houses of the Holy the best all-around LZ album, don't they?
it seems like it's always II and IV as the undisputed , but Houses is it for me. and "Houses" is often my favorite song by them, and I don't know why they didn't put it on the album, because they seem like a band that reading the history would diminish it (opposite of The Who)
― james k polk, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 05:04 (fifteen years ago) link
my theory about that has always been that it's a little bit similar to "Dancing Days" and so they decided only one could be on the album and had to ditch the would-be title track because "Dancing Days" is the shit
― Shawty Lo Collier (some dude), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 05:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't think any other band has such a high percentage of radio songs.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 11:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Trying to work your way through "Physical Graffiti" is a chore. Maybe it's just the pressing I've got, but is it supposed to sound so muddy and indistinct?
― Sacco, Vanzetti, Passantino... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 11:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, I'd describe the 2CD set I have as 'clear as a bell'.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 11:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe that's it, I don't think I've ever been able to listen to that album all the way through, I always bale out at some point
― Sacco, Vanzetti, Passantino... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 11:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Guys the fourth record is not called "Zoso," come on.
I can only cluster them into groups, even the least of these is Godhead
1. III/Physical Graffiti/Presence
2. IV/Houses of the Holy
3. I/II/In Through The Out Door
I wonder if people who voted for one of the first two records fall into a different, less enthusiastic category of fans than boosters of III or Physical Graffiti? By that I mean the kind of late-adapter (I've done this w/ other bands) who by default is listening for what he's been led to expect — in this case purplish, OTT blues ripoffs...?
Which is not to say they didn't continue to do that over the years but the influences were subsumed into their own sound, e.g. "In My Time of Dying" is more representative of "Led Zeppelin" to me than "You Shook Me"...
― Hadrian VIII, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 12:09 (fifteen years ago) link
No
― Sacco, Vanzetti, Passantino... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 12:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Ha but if you never listened to PG all the way through you are basically my case study
― Hadrian VIII, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 12:25 (fifteen years ago) link
I voted for Physical Graffiti because I wanted toThe last time I was at Strictly Discs I found a used copy of the remastered In Through the Out Door and bought it. My least favorite clerk was like "Really? Out of all their albums?" I said "IT IS AWESOME." Just like that. He meekly replied "most people go for one of the others" and I raised myself to my full eight feet, unfurled my black leathery wings, and intoned ""I AM NOT MOST PEOPLE""he got the hint i think― Dimension 5ive, Thursday, April 12, 2007 5:52 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
d-damn...
― through hellfire and aspergers (cankles), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 12:25 (fifteen years ago) link
I've been listening to them since I was 7 years old though! (xp)
― Sacco, Vanzetti, Passantino... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 12:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Ok, but come on you are definitely in the "less enthusiastic fan" category for not even being able to stomach what many/most fans consider their magnum opus
― Hadrian VIII, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 12:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Fair enough, I wouldn't particularly call myself a Led Zeppelin fan anyway
― Sacco, Vanzetti, Passantino... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 12:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Only means you still have something left to live for.
― Hadrian VIII, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 12:38 (fifteen years ago) link
chill out, it's fun to call it that informally now and again.
― Shawty Lo Collier (some dude), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 12:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I call it I-Vee
― Sacco, Vanzetti, Passantino... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 12:42 (fifteen years ago) link