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Re: Led Zeppelin Appreciation Thread
« Reply #245 on: August 20, 2013, 09:35:40 PM »
As a matter of fact, I listened to III today while not having listened to Zep for a good while, and it's Plant's birthday today.

It's ALWAYS a good time to listen to Zeppelin.  If not for Hats off to (Roy) Harper, III would be my top Zeppelin album.  Replace it with the Immigrant Song b-side (Hey Hey, What Can I Do?), and it would be hands down.
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Re: Led Zeppelin Appreciation Thread
« Reply #246 on: August 21, 2013, 03:41:07 AM »
Hats off is good, and III is a great album overall. I think I even like it better than II, maybe even IV.

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Re: Led Zeppelin Appreciation Thread
« Reply #247 on: August 24, 2013, 07:32:12 PM »
I was just thinking earlier today about what it must have been like when the first Led Zeppelin album came out and how unabashedly primal it is.

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Re: Led Zeppelin Appreciation Thread
« Reply #248 on: October 15, 2013, 11:54:56 PM »
I was recently at a downtown Manhattan dive bar called The Patriot shooting some pool with unsavory types and inhaling pitchers of cheap beer when some genius hit the jukebox for a string of Zep tunes. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.
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Re: Led Zeppelin Appreciation Thread
« Reply #249 on: October 16, 2013, 05:59:39 AM »
And on the subject of III, its also got Since I've been loving you, which is probably a top 5 LZ song for me.

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Re: Led Zeppelin Appreciation Thread
« Reply #250 on: October 16, 2013, 02:09:48 PM »
Led Zeppelin is awesome.

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Re: Led Zeppelin Appreciation Thread
« Reply #251 on: October 16, 2013, 02:22:54 PM »
And on the subject of III, its also got Since I've been loving you, which is probably a top 5 LZ song for me.

Probably my all-time favorite LZ song. It's either that or No Quarter.
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Re: Led Zeppelin Appreciation Thread
« Reply #252 on: October 16, 2013, 02:25:37 PM »

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Re: Led Zeppelin Appreciation Thread
« Reply #253 on: October 16, 2013, 02:35:06 PM »
I was recently at a downtown Manhattan dive bar called The Patriot shooting some pool with unsavory types and inhaling pitchers of cheap beer when some genius hit the jukebox for a string of Zep tunes. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.

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Re: Led Zeppelin Appreciation Thread
« Reply #254 on: October 16, 2013, 10:00:51 PM »
I was recently at a downtown Manhattan dive bar called The Patriot shooting some pool with unsavory types and inhaling pitchers of cheap beer when some genius hit the jukebox for a string of Zep tunes. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.

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I'm just an old DTF fogey who, not to brag, has a 1st pressing of Led Zeppelin III which has the words 'Do what thou wilt' etched into the vinyl (as instructed by Jimmy Page).  :)
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Re: Led Zeppelin Appreciation Thread
« Reply #255 on: October 16, 2013, 10:15:50 PM »
Wow, I have a really old copy of Led Zeppelin III, but I've never heard about the etching.  I should look.

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« Reply #256 on: October 16, 2013, 10:35:13 PM »
Wow, I have a really old copy of Led Zeppelin III, but I've never heard about the etching.  I should look.

Check it! A copy in good condition fetches a decent price on eBay. Not that I'd ever sell it.

'The first pressings of the album included the phrases "So mote be it" (not to be confused with "So mote it be".) Then later on included the phrase "Do what thou wilt", inscribed on the lacquer itself by engineer Terry Manning during the final mastering process.[citation needed] This phrase is identical to one in the core tenet of Aleister Crowley's philosophy of Thelema: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Love is the law, love under will. There is no law beyond do what thou wilt." But it also the same as a portion of a variant of the Wiccan Rede. Page was a scholar of Crowley's work, once owning a private collection of Crowley manuscripts, artwork and other ephemera, and in the 1970s even bought one of his residences, Boleskine House on the shores of Loch Ness in Scotland.'
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Re: Led Zeppelin Appreciation Thread
« Reply #257 on: October 16, 2013, 11:16:30 PM »
Led Zep was my first ever favorite band, and although I admit that I killed most of their songs through ridiculous overplaying, they will always hold a special spot in my heart.  :heart

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Re: Led Zeppelin Appreciation Thread
« Reply #258 on: October 17, 2013, 12:20:09 AM »
There was a gentlemen at the grocery store today who got a call in the same isle as me and his ring tone was the sick riff from Bring It On Home. I had to go over and shake his hand.

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« Reply #259 on: October 17, 2013, 07:17:11 AM »
That's pretty cool!  :lol

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Re: Led Zeppelin Appreciation Thread
« Reply #260 on: October 18, 2013, 07:08:54 PM »
I was recently at a downtown Manhattan dive bar called The Patriot shooting some pool with unsavory types and inhaling pitchers of cheap beer when some genius hit the jukebox for a string of Zep tunes. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.

That doesn't ever happen anymore...even in New York.

Closest I've come to that in the last few years was watching my son's friend play a Zeppelin show at School of Rock a few years back.

Maybe it's just me, but I never really like to listen to Zeppelin alone. One of those bands that should be enjoyed with friends.

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Re: Led Zeppelin Appreciation Thread
« Reply #261 on: December 13, 2013, 11:30:39 AM »
Bumping this thread.

Well, I've tried doing the Zeppathon where you listen to all of Led Zeppelin's studio albums in one sitting.  Sadly, I stopped at Presence, yesterday, since it was so late, but I'm listening to the final two right now.  Along the way, I've grown to really understand and appreciate and enjoy some of the deeper cuts of the catalog.

Also, In Through the Out Door was a good album, especially considering what the band was going through at that time.

Edit: Oh and yeah, Led Zeppelin's 1st six albums are out on Spotify, right now, while the rest will come in the upcoming days.

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Re: Led Zeppelin Appreciation Thread
« Reply #262 on: December 13, 2013, 10:22:11 PM »
I do Zep A Thons a lot at work. I usually skip presence though.

In Through The Out Door has got to be my fav :metal
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Re: Led Zeppelin Appreciation Thread
« Reply #263 on: December 14, 2013, 08:43:13 PM »
I do Zep A Thons a lot at work. I usually skip presence though.

In Through The Out Door has got to be my fav :metal

You're doing it wrong. Presence is far too underrated.
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Re: Led Zeppelin Appreciation Thread
« Reply #264 on: December 15, 2013, 12:31:31 AM »
I love Achilles... Just never got into anything else.
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Re: Led Zeppelin Appreciation Thread
« Reply #265 on: December 15, 2013, 12:49:26 AM »
Achilles Last Stand might be my favourite Zeppelin song ever. Hard to say for certain though.

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Re: Led Zeppelin Appreciation Thread
« Reply #266 on: December 15, 2013, 12:55:39 AM »
I would love to see Iron Maiden perform that track. No one can say that wouldn't be epic!
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Re: Led Zeppelin Appreciation Thread
« Reply #267 on: December 15, 2013, 01:52:21 AM »
Achilles Last Stand might be my favourite Zeppelin song ever. Hard to say for certain though.

Same. Which is funny because I've never been able to get into the rest of that album.
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Re: Led Zeppelin Appreciation Thread
« Reply #268 on: December 15, 2013, 07:01:25 AM »
Presence is a tough one.  "Achilles Last Stand" is great, and I've always admired how they can keep up that driving, frantic pace for ten minutes, but after all these years, I'm finally starting to find it a bit repetitive, a bit overlong.

As others have said, the rest of the album is harder to get into.  It has a very "dark" feel to it.  I've always thought that that was by design.  "The Object" which is the focal point of all the pictures, seems to represent the presence of darkness in our everyday lives.  All these happy pictures of people, and "The Object" -- literally dark and twisted -- is just... there.

"For Your Life", "Nobody's Fault But Mine" and "Tea For One" are all oppressive, like Zep let their dark, brooding side take over and maybe gain a bit too much power.  The lighter songs, "Royal Orleans", "Candy Store Rock" and "Hots on for Nowhere" break things up, but overall don't seem to quite do enough to alleviate the feel of the album.

Led Zeppelin have some great songs that are heavy and dark, but Presence is what happens when you get too much of one kind of music on the same album.  I'm sure it resonates with some people, but it's always been one of my least favorites from their catalogue.  By time I got to it, my life was starting to look a bit less bleak, and Presence made me feel like maybe I was outgrowing Led Zeppelin, or something.  I wasn't; I just wasn't in a mental frame to appreciate the album, and really haven't been since.

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Re: Led Zeppelin Appreciation Thread
« Reply #269 on: December 15, 2013, 08:50:54 AM »
Hard to believe that Presence was their only album to chart up to #1.  Took me a long time to appreciate the album.
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« Reply #270 on: December 24, 2013, 03:36:32 PM »
Hard to believe that Presence was their only album to chart up to #1.  Took me a long time to appreciate the album.

It's been a slow burner for me too. I quite like it although it's been a while since I put it on.

The last Zeppelin album I listened to was the BBC Sessions from about a month ago.

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Re: Led Zeppelin Appreciation Thread
« Reply #271 on: December 24, 2013, 04:15:54 PM »
Inspired by this thread, I'm playing Presence now.  We'll see how it feels.

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« Reply #272 on: December 24, 2013, 06:33:02 PM »
As much as I love Jimmy Page, I think Presence suffers from too much Page and not enough of the other 3 members. By this time, they weren't really writing together anymore, especially with Plant being out of commission from a car accident.  It's the closest thing to a Jimmy Page solo album in Zep's discography. Still a good album though.
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Re: Led Zeppelin Appreciation Thread
« Reply #273 on: December 24, 2013, 07:12:46 PM »
Let me start by saying I love Led Zeppelin, so much so that I have basically overheard all their songs, and I want to find new Led Zeppelin songs to listen to.

Because of that, I have this reoccurring dream that I don't have one of their albums, and it's this jazz influenced album with really long songs that wasn't well received by the public. Damn, I want to track that album down so bad. I just wish it existed any place outside my head.

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« Reply #274 on: December 24, 2013, 11:45:39 PM »
Well, Presence was good, about the same as I remember it.  Anything by Led Zeppelin is at least good, much of it is great.  There wasn't anything I felt the urge to skip or anything like that, and of course some songs even have parts that are kinda catchy.  It just doesn't thrill me.  It's "only" good, not great.

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« Reply #275 on: December 25, 2013, 03:59:08 AM »
I love Presence, it's probably their heaviest album and has a fine balance of slow, dark songs, and slightly more cheerful upbeat tunes. I still have a problem with For your life, though, it really doesn't do anything for me...

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Re: Led Zeppelin Appreciation Thread
« Reply #276 on: December 25, 2013, 05:46:33 AM »
Achilles Last Stand is my fav Led Zeppelin track even though I never listen to LZ anymore.

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Re: Led Zeppelin Appreciation Thread
« Reply #277 on: June 10, 2014, 11:26:09 AM »
Zeppelin I, II, and III remasters are up on Spotify.  Gonna be getting these discs pretty damned quick (perhaps a Father's Day gift).  This is how they were meant to be listened to.

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« Reply #278 on: June 10, 2014, 11:50:20 AM »
How's the quality of the remasters? Are they worth getting?

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Re: Led Zeppelin Appreciation Thread
« Reply #279 on: June 10, 2014, 11:51:34 AM »
No other song on this planet will make me as giddy as Tangerine. Something about it will always give my soul a boner. I just wanted to say that.  :tup :hat :-*

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