Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy poll

Plant looks weird holding a hatchet.

Erm not sure if you're being serious here but Killers is one of the two albums Zep recorded with original vocalist Alice Cooper

Corgan played all the parts anyway

Was it the tour for this album that they filmed for Stop Making Sense? It's such a gas watching Plant dance around in the big suit, but it's a total bummer watching his padded shoulders slump the moment he realizes the Hell's Angels have been murdering random audience members (even if he does gamely continue dancing through his despondency while mumbling 'Does anyone remember slaughter?' into his headset mic).

Voted Big Log cuz uh well I had to go

Many think that track was a misstep but for a song constructed of nothing but samples of fart sounds it's a pretty astounding achievement.

I mean, it was a little weird when JPJ later replicated the main fart track on the keyboard for 'Carouselambra' but if you're going to steal, steal from the best.

xxxp - No dude, he says: “Does anybody remember Laughner?” — he was asking if there are any Rocket From the Tombs fans in the crowd.

IIRC this album was first released in the US with the title Glass Houses of the Holy.

It opened with "You May Be Right."

I can't believe the thread has got this far without anyone mentioning the album cover, with its iconic photo of Giant Haystacks in Northern Ireland.

IIRC it was just a collage drawn from this image:

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They should never have let the naked kids frolic atop him.

Hang on, 'Fly by Night' wasn't on this one!?

Music from 'The Elder' iirc. It's part of a song cycle which includes 'La Grange', 'Come Sail Away' and 'Ghostbusters'.

What year did the Zep Saturday morning cartoon start? I assume it was sometime in the latter half of the '70s because of the disco outfits they always wore and the fact that Gabe Kaplan did the voice of Bonzo.

Yeah, it was around that time iirc. 'Are You Gonna Go My Way' was fucking huge. I mean huge!

Forgot "The Grunge," the band's RHCP tribute

(Plant's asking if anyone's seen the bridge from "Under the Bridge," in an appropriately funky way)

Ooh, that was near the end of their career. Their smack phase was proper grim, as such things have a tendency to be.

Yeah, things started to get a bit d'yer

The thing I love most about ShakerMaker is the version with the "toasting" section from DJ/reggae star Super Cat.

Are these the soundtrack versions from the film Roy Harper made of Jim & Bob burning their cashmere sweaters by Loch Ness?

xpost Ohhh, right. Ha ha. I forgot Super Cat guested on 'ShakerMaker'. That explains why I always confuse it with 'Smell Yo Dick (ft. MC Skat Cat)' on Physical Rififi.

lol

I LIKE THE REGGIE ONE

Wanted to play some cuts from this LP in a jukebox, but I had No Quarter

I believe this record started the Crunge movement of the 90s. The guys from Stone Mud Jam heard the Fool in the Rain Song and were inspired to write Tween Spirit.

I feel like such a poseur fan for having never watched their Woodstock performance. That four-hour version of 'Sister Ray' with Sha Na Na on backing vocals is supposed to be shit-hot.

Are these the soundtrack versions from the film Roy Harper made of Jim & Bob burning their cashmere sweaters by Loch Ness?

this is a bit of a furphy - yes, they burnt the sweaters they took up, but it was a promo stunt for an Inverness shop that supplied them with cable-knit jumpers to wear in the film.

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Has anyone read Plant's novel, The Lord of the Rings? Is it supposed to be any good?

"i'm in the mood for a melody" is the best echo chambers brothers' cover JPJ sang at terrastock '99 karaoke iirc

Never mind, guys. I only this minute learned on Wikipedia that Lord of the Rings is just a compilation of LZ's song lyrics. So embarrassed that I thought it was a novel all these years.

I can't believe the thread has got this far without anyone mentioning the album cover, with its iconic photo of Giant Haystacks in Northern Ireland.

― Gavin, Leeds

when did haystacks calhoun wrestle there

Was this the album after JPJ had his solo hit with "Love Is in the Air"?

Huh, there's a shit ton of stuff I never knew about these guys. Pretty just know them as the band with the drummer with an extra arm

Even if you've never heard any of their album tracks, you're almost surely familiar with some of the dozens of TV theme songs they recorded under various pseudonyms (e.g. WKRP in Cincinnati, Small Wonder, The Fall Guy, Steptoe and Son, Muppet Babies, etc.).

when did haystacks calhoun wrestle there

Haystacks Calhoun and Giant Haystacks actually wrestled each other there in 1972 - Page was in attendance and wrote the song 'Better by You, Better You Bet' about a bet he'd made on the outcome.

It does need to be noted that while they were undoubtedly an innovative group, the way they appropriated without credit from such original blues artists as Elvis, Peter Green and Andrew Lloyd-Webber remains highly problematic.

Not to mention JPJ making entire backing tracks from presets left in the Yamaha GX-1 he bought from ABBA.

The Elvis issue was settled out of court when it was demonstrated that Presley actually got the melody for 'Clambake' from a tune that he'd overheard a young extra (by the name of Lil' Jimmy Page) humming during the filming of his 1958 vehicle Sugar Shack.

Old Lunch on fire itt

Even if you've never heard any of their album tracks, you're almost surely familiar with some of the dozens of TV theme songs they recorded under various pseudonyms (e.g. WKRP in Cincinnati, Small Wonder, The Fall Guy, Steptoe and Son, Muppet Babies, etc.).

― Things To Do For Dinner When You're Dad (Old Lunch)

not to mention the "be all that you can be" jingle for the us army

This band certainly did a lot of touring considering they only ever traveled by dirigible.

To think of the great things they may have done had their tourblimp not spectacularly exploded in 1936, killing all but one of the original lineup. As I understand it, Page gave up his seat because he wanted to stay behind and get his hair permed.

Some of Jimmy Page's finest guitar work since he was in The Byrds alongside Joe Beck

I just remembered that godawful The New Zeppelins tv show that NBC cobbled together on the heels of LZ's resurgent popularity in the late '80s (after Nick at Nite started rerunning old episodes of the classic Led's Get It Started! sitcom from the previous decade). Because Zeppelin fans were really hungering to see the wacky hijinks of four nobodies (except for Pauly Shore, obvs, who surprisingly took off afterwards) pretending to be the band. The fact that it was inexplicably set in space was almost the least disastrous thing about it.

Some of Jimmy Page's finest guitar work since he was in The Byrds alongside Joe Beck

Beck did some interesting songwriting in the 90s when he combined hip-hop and indie rock but his early blues-rock is what I'll always love most. The band he formed with Mick Jagger actually prefigured the first Zep album (Paranoid).

Wait, I'm confused. Do you mean J.S. Beck or C.P.E Beck?

Joe S. Beck, of the Byrds, as noted above. Not to be confused with Sebastian Beck of Slik Toxik.

Carl was a shredder, though! I like his Chuck Berry rip on "Surfin' UAE".

The Beck family tree is a veritable who's who of music history. Little known fact: both Plant and Jones are Becks by marriage (not to mention the band's touring harpist, Becky Beck).

(Given that pedigree, you'd think her subsequent assemblage of family talent, Becky Beck and the Beck-ish Bunch, would've amounted to more than a glorified novelty act.)

not for 3 days dude

Pretty standard rundown but I was surprised to hear the ending solo guitar section played over the heavy part. Didn’t realize those two sections mesh together

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Going to hold off posting in this thread until I hear the super deluxe box that's coming out in the summer. I think the Steven Wilson 5:1 mix will be an improvement on Carmine Appice's squeaky bass pedal.

Record Plant is where The Honeydrippers escaped their previously-radioactive firm and minted "The Rain Remains the Same" and "The Song Song", before creating a supergroup with Richey Edwards and Kurt Cobain.

I really like the version of Elton John's "D'yer Make'r D'yerk Chicken"

Prefecture, I believe you're thinking of "The Song Retains Cobain," after an incident where Butch Vig almost removed Kurt's vocal but then put it back in.

Nicely done!
I'm kinda surprised that a "turning point in rock" book has not been built around the generational change of 1991 represented by "Nirvana" being passed from Robert to Kurt