CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL: THE RESULTS

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!

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41. Led Zeppelin – Kashmir
1132 points, 16 votes

and a big raspberry to all of you saying you should have voted for funk 49

I FUCKING TOLD YOU

Rush >>> Boston

i like kashmir but i like immigrant song better. i dont know why i think of them together but i do

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

Rush >>> Boston

― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, July 30, 2014

gtfo with this nonsense

i'd refer you to dave q's "good prog/bad prog" rant but i don't want to jinx "stone in love" itp

Diddy ruined Kashmir for me.

that combination of gentle acoustic strum undergirding chunky ultra-precise sandpaper guitar transmissions in the riff

^^ this

no joke there's so much truth in 'POM'

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, July 30, 2014

OTM and only OTMer the older i get

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md7k5xH7HbI

Ruined

kashmir is the heaviest thing Zep ever recorded and it RULES

(yes i have heard "when the levee breaks")

"The Spirit of Radio" is like a Boston song with good drumming

I would definitely take Boston's worldview, however

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.

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.

xp i think on snl

or maybe an awards show, but it definitely happened

snl, yes

SNL, May 9th 1998

a day that will live in infamy

"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.

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."

Dr. C have you considered smoking more weed?

Does that help with enjoying Led Zeppelin?

i have no complaints about kashmir. especially not its length

thats what she said fnnaarr

its not bloat

its the MAJESTY OF ROCK

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.

xpost according to my calculations it appears very likely...

"black light led zeppelin" About 5,070,000 results (0.37 seconds)

The Foghat Principle! Come On!

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)

"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.

here it is on some kind of russian youtube, complete with david duchovny introduction:
http://rutube.ru/video/ba3b883d77570736255287f1f4509ac2/

I never liked Kashmir. I was just talking with one of my friends the other day about how our friend David (RIP lovely boy) threw my 8-track (!!!!) of Physical Graffiti out of the car window because Kashmir came on right after Trampled Under Foot and Trampled was so great and Kashmir was so plodding and it made us all SO ANGRY, but you couldn't rewind 8-tracks, so out the window it went.

Stairway to Heaven was my senior class song. Ugh. I campaigned heavy for "Won't Get Fooled Again" but I went to school with a bunch of wealthy future Republican kids who did not understand rebellion.

I'm all about sprawling tracks and the majesty of rock... just, at a certain point Kashmir flipped over to where it just felt like endless flipping between A and B sections.

Sandy's last story makes me feel like a kid wishing "they'd lived in the Sixties," but, yknow, in the Seventies. Kinda Dazed & Confused like, seems like hell in some ways but everybody at least looks a lot better than when I was a teen.

"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, July 30, 2014

tbf once you get over the puffy arrogance the "come with me" track is huge

kashmir wasn't even on my ballot but y'all are making me wish i'd voted for it twice

its not bloat

its the MAJESTY OF ROCK

So not bloat but gout.

Many Xposts but I remember curt kirkwood saying in an interview in musician magazine in about 1986 that billy gibbons got all those crazy squeal harmonics by playing guitar with the edge of a peso... Is that true?

Actually, Gibbons was using an old Texas expression that originated from bad investments in foreign currency.

"You're really playing with the edge of the peso, there" = "You're taking a dangerous risk that likely won't pan out."

That is one of my new favorite pieces of music trivia and I have no idea how false it might be.

Either way it's totally apt

classic rock = full of mystery & wonder

Many Xposts but I remember curt kirkwood saying in an interview in musician magazine in about 1986 that billy gibbons got all those crazy squeal harmonics by playing guitar with the edge of a peso... Is that true?

― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, July 30, 2014

the trail of tone-blarney Gibbons leaves in his wake is legendary. it's a good story and it might even be true. brian may is known to play with a sixpence.

playing guitar with a thick piece of metal is just o_0

I remember reading that Robbie Krieger switched from fingerstyle to using a quarter in the early 80s when Versions came out. (Might not have lasted, I dunno.)

Gibbons definitely a legend, both in the authentic and the self-styled sense.

Do pesos have serrated edges like American quarters or are they smooth like a nickel?

jimmy buffett plays guitar with the shard of a conch shell he found lodged in his arm when he woke up passed out on a beach.

I'm trying to find that kirkwood interview but stuff from Musician is not easy to find online. I remember he also talked about his love for Steve Miller and Jerry Garcia's use of heavy processing as well. It was after mirage and before huevos.