Author Topic: Led Zeppelin Appreciation Thread (Read 61248 times)

LudwigVan · « **Reply #70 on:** March 16, 2011, 01:02:52 PM »

Quote from: TAC on March 16, 2011, 11:30:29 AM

LV, I can't remember if I had read this previously, but I enjored it! About time you take a stand on something.
Now we just have to get you to do a Top 10 LZ songs and Top 3 LZ albums list!

I love this line:
Quote from: LudwigVan on August 11, 2010, 06:29:06 PM
Led Zeppelin manages to satisfy my craving for so much that I ask for in my music.

In many ways this sums up how I feel about Dream Theater. They take the best of all I love about music and bands and wrap it up nicely into one package.

Glad you caught it on the rebound! It's too difficult for me to do a top 10 songs list, but I will say that my favorite albums are II, Zoso, PG and Houses.

One writer made an interesting point that never occurred to me (at least in a conscious way). Of course they were one of the progenitors of 'cock-rock', but Led Zeppelin's music also contains a lot imagery that refers to journies and travels in both a physical and meta-physical sense. Rambling on...going to Kashmir/California/Chicago...stairways... Misty Mountains...over the hills...to castles and oceans. Their music just takes me with them.

sneakyblueberry · « **Reply #71 on:** March 16, 2011, 11:19:24 PM »

Achilles Last Stand came on the radio today. I was like 'Yes please.'

What a killer song.

SPNKr · « **Reply #72 on:** March 16, 2011, 11:20:46 PM »

^ Killer song.

lateralus88 · « **Reply #73 on:** March 16, 2011, 11:21:14 PM »

Never been a huge Zeppelin fan, but I've always had appreciation for them as musicians and for their music. But recently I've been in love with Zeppelin I. What a fucking cool album.

sneakyblueberry · « **Reply #74 on:** March 16, 2011, 11:28:22 PM »

^ Killer album

Birch Boy · « **Reply #75 on:** March 18, 2011, 06:35:24 AM »

Favorite albums in loose order:

1. Houses Of The Holy
2. Led Zeppelin I
3. Physical Graffiti
4. Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin IV

Fluffy Lothario · « **Reply #76 on:** September 25, 2011, 04:11:07 AM »

I recently bought LZIII (and completed my collection of the LZI through PG run).

Damn, what an album. Bar the last track, it's pretty great all the way. And the electric side/acoustic side idea works so well, particularly because, IMO, the quality of the two sides is really balanced. I always felt Foo Fighters' In Your Honor would've worked a lot better if they'd limited themselves to five or six songs off of each side and made it a single disc, and listening to LZIII really shows you why.

At this point, I'd probably rank the first six:
IV
PG
III
I
II
HOTH

Although LZI might make a comeback and beat off III for 3rd position.

I still need to check out Presence at some point, and I think I'll also hunt down the BBC Sessions eventually.

Jirpo · « **Reply #77 on:** September 25, 2011, 04:24:28 AM »

The last two songs on III are some of my least favourite Zep songs. The rest of the album is pretty spectacular.

jingle.boy · « **Reply #78 on:** September 25, 2011, 12:08:44 PM »

Bron-Y-Aur Stomp is kinda fun actually. Hats Off to (Roy) Harper on the other hand is painful. Easily my least favorite Zeppelin song ever. If that had been replaced with Hey Hey What Can I Do, then this would be my favorite Zeppelin album ever, and probably Top 3 album of all time. Hats Off is just that bad.

MasterShakezula · « **Reply #79 on:** September 25, 2011, 01:02:59 PM »

I like III a lot.

The electric side is awesome. The other side isn't, but it has an awesome song in Gallows Pole.

Jaq · « **Reply #80 on:** September 25, 2011, 03:24:34 PM »

I went through a period back around the time they did the O2 show that I went absolutely MAD for Led Zeppelin after years of just accepting them as one of the standards of classic rock and a hugely influential band. Mainly it was because, not so much their studio albums, although I did buy all of them, but their bootlegs. I have heard something in the area of 100 Led Zeppelin concerts, and even their sloppiest messes from the 1977 tour are fascinating to listen to. I would spend days just focusing on an individual tour, playing two or three shows in a row and just being amazed over and over when the band was ON and clicking on all cylinders. Sometimes the self-indulgence would get a bit much, like the 1975 North American tour versions of Dazed and Confused that got over 40 minutes long, but there's a lot of magic to be found in Zeppelin concerts. Especially from 1969 to 1973, they were fantastic on stage before Plant finally blew his voice out and Page started getting really sloppy on stage.

tl;dr: studio Zep is great, live Zep was amazing at times but always interesting.

Jirpo · « **Reply #81 on:** September 25, 2011, 08:44:07 PM »

Tangerine and That's the Way are amazing!

TempusVox · « **Reply #82 on:** September 26, 2011, 03:00:49 PM »

Love Zeppelin. Probably my favorite band of all time.

Goin' To California
Immigrant Song
When the Levee Breaks (greatest drum beat/riff intro of any song ever)
Ramble On
Gallows Pole
Battle of Evermore
The Rain Song
Kashmir
That's the Way

Jirpo · « **Reply #83 on:** September 26, 2011, 07:37:30 PM »

Going to California number one? Thats interesting. Love all those songs. Probably Kashmir and Battle of Evermore would make my top 10, maybe Levee too.

TempusVox · « **Reply #84 on:** September 26, 2011, 10:01:23 PM »

Quote from: Jirpo on September 26, 2011, 07:37:30 PM

Going to California number one? Thats interesting. Love all those songs. Probably Kashmir and Battle of Evermore would make my top 10, maybe Levee too.

They weren't in any particular order. Sorry. Should have mentioned that. Ramble On or Galows Pole probably vie for #1 in my book.

EDIT: Scratch that.

Just remembered.... Since I've Been Loving You, as well as No Quarter, Black Dog, and In The Evening.

Damn! I love this band..

Jirpo · « **Reply #85 on:** September 27, 2011, 12:04:41 AM »

Yep, too many good songs...

Achilles is my favourite, closely followed by Stairway

Mladen · « **Reply #86 on:** September 27, 2011, 04:20:24 AM »

Stairway is my number one. It's interesting, Zeppelin might be the only band whose most popular song is my personal favorite.

Jirpo · « **Reply #87 on:** September 27, 2011, 04:23:12 AM »

Stairway is underrated because so many people tend to overrate it.

dbrooks22 · « **Reply #88 on:** September 27, 2011, 08:19:26 AM »

Achilles = powerhouse. Nobody's Fault but mine also great... Presence is a really sweet album.

Zep was the soundtrack of my pre-adolescent years. I love all their stuff.

LudwigVan · « **Reply #89 on:** September 27, 2011, 09:31:33 AM »

Quote from: Jaq on September 25, 2011, 03:24:34 PM

I went through a period back around the time they did the O2 show that I went absolutely MAD for Led Zeppelin after years of just accepting them as one of the standards of classic rock and a hugely influential band. Mainly it was because, not so much their studio albums, although I did buy all of them, but their bootlegs. I have heard something in the area of 100 Led Zeppelin concerts, and even their sloppiest messes from the 1977 tour are fascinating to listen to. I would spend days just focusing on an individual tour, playing two or three shows in a row and just being amazed over and over when the band was ON and clicking on all cylinders. Sometimes the self-indulgence would get a bit much, like the 1975 North American tour versions of Dazed and Confused that got over 40 minutes long, but there's a lot of magic to be found in Zeppelin concerts. Especially from 1969 to 1973, they were fantastic on stage before Plant finally blew his voice out and Page started getting really sloppy on stage.

tl;dr: studio Zep is great, live Zep was amazing at times but always interesting.

Yeah, the thing I love about live Zeppelin is that you can really see the creative process at work during their extended jams and improvs. Oftentimes you would hear them tooling around with old blues riffs and motifs, inverting chords and whatnot, playing snippets and snatches of new ideas, some of which are fleshed out into full-fledged songs on their later albums.

This is the main difference between studio Zep and live Zep, something which some fans have a difficult time reconciling. In the studio, they crafted their songs for maximum impact, whereas the live show was about maximum self-indulgence with freedom to experiment and meander. Almost like 2 different bands at work, depending on the setting.

Orbert · « **Reply #90 on:** September 27, 2011, 10:33:29 AM »

Quote from: Mladen on September 27, 2011, 04:20:24 AM

Stairway is my number one. It's interesting, Zeppelin might be the only band whose most popular song is my personal favorite.

I still love that song. The studio version is a masterpiece. Yeah, it's been played to death on the radio. This bothers me not at all because I have a functional brain, therefore I can separate how popular a song is from how much I like it. Sometimes it turns out that popular songs really are quite good, and this is one of those times.

jonny108 · « **Reply #91 on:** September 27, 2011, 11:39:53 AM »

These and Dream Theater are my favourite bands.

This was when I first had it done about two years ago.

jingle.boy · « **Reply #92 on:** September 27, 2011, 12:41:08 PM »

Very nice jonny. Here's mine engraved 21 years ago.

Jirpo · « **Reply #93 on:** September 27, 2011, 07:25:33 PM »

Quote from: Orbert on September 27, 2011, 10:33:29 AM

Quote from: Mladen on September 27, 2011, 04:20:24 AM
Stairway is my number one. It's interesting, Zeppelin might be the only band whose most popular song is my personal favorite.

I still love that song. The studio version is a masterpiece. Yeah, it's been played to death on the radio. This bothers me not at all because I have a functional brain, therefore I can separate how popular a song is from how much I like it. Sometimes it turns out that popular songs really are quite good, and this is one of those times.

Well said!

And nice tattoos

Nel · « **Reply #94 on:** September 08, 2012, 10:59:09 AM »

On the band's FB page they have put this up. If it means what I think it means... welp, holy shit.

theseoafs · « **Reply #95 on:** September 08, 2012, 11:01:22 AM »

Saw that too. I'm not really sure what to think of it at this point.

Mladen · « **Reply #96 on:** September 08, 2012, 11:12:48 AM »

I have no idea what it means...

The King in Crimson · « **Reply #97 on:** September 08, 2012, 11:32:35 AM »

Quote from: Mladen on September 08, 2012, 11:12:48 AM

I have no idea what it means...

Color me ignant as well.

Though I am, of course, intrigued.

Metro · « **Reply #98 on:** September 08, 2012, 12:09:07 PM »

There's been a few rumors going arond that the Reunion concert back in 07(Five years ago) is gonna be released on DVD this year.

But if this really is Led Zeppelin V, then color me excited

Mosh · « **Reply #99 on:** September 08, 2012, 12:09:34 PM »

Reunion show on DVD perhaps?

I'd be very surprised if this was for a new album.

Nel · « **Reply #100 on:** September 08, 2012, 12:45:17 PM »

Quote from: Metropolaris on September 08, 2012, 12:09:07 PM

There's been a few rumors going arond that the Reunion concert back in 07(Five years ago) is gonna be released on DVD this year.

But if this really is Led Zeppelin V, then color me excited

Yeah, i read that too, so now I'm trying to keep my expectations low. But I mean, when they put FIVE in that font, the first thing I'm going to think of is "Oh mah gah Led Zeppelin IV existed so now Led Zeppelin V!" not "Oh, well, five years ago blah blah blah...".

Still though, this could be anything, so I'm going to try and not get too excited.

jjrock88 · « **Reply #101 on:** September 08, 2012, 01:27:24 PM »

I can't believe that reunion show hasn't been released yet

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #102 on:** September 08, 2012, 02:52:52 PM »

Quote from: sneakyblueberry on March 16, 2011, 11:19:24 PM

Achilles Last Stand came on the radio today. I was like 'Yes please.'

What a killer song.

Favorite LZ song, hands down. LOVE it.

Orbert · « **Reply #103 on:** September 08, 2012, 03:00:48 PM »

I found a pretty good quality boot of the O2 concert on the net shortly after, and still have it. I figured it would hold me until the official release that was sure would happen. Like everyone else here, I'm amazed that it hasn't happened (yet).

jingle.boy · « **Reply #104 on:** September 08, 2012, 04:07:53 PM »

Quote from: Orbert on September 08, 2012, 03:00:48 PM

I found a pretty good quality boot of the O2 concert on the net shortly after, and still have it. I figured it would hold me until the official release that was sure would happen. Like everyone else here, I'm amazed that it hasn't happened (yet).

Ditto. Dimeadozen had a good boot that I was able to grab.

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