You know that part of Led Zeppelin's "Fool in the Rain" where they come out of the silly Latin section back into the main piano riff and there's like a steadily rising drum roll and

Bonham doing his Pretty Purdie impression and page’s super fuzz on the solo make this one great, ham-fisted whistle interlude aside

ho, baby

just don't seem to stop when i'm thinking it over
o tired of the light, but i just don't seem to find
have you . . . wait? get away. i see it in my dreams
but i just don't seem to be . . .

I've always thought of this track as Led Zep trying to do Steely Dan.

this video came up in my sidebar a few months back and it shows you the actual stave notation for fool in the rain, which kinda opened up my third eye or something:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvOm2oZRQIk&t=7m35s

The meta-ness of Plant singing "I watch the people go shuffling downtown" while Bonham is playing the half-time shuffle had never occurred to me until tonight.

^I was wondering recently if there’s a thread for that kind of thing (songs where an aspect of the music “expresses” something in the lyrics), but don’t really know how to search for it.

Oh, you kind of took another thread in that direction (here: The meta lyrics thread)

Would that include songs like "On Broadway" or "Late in the Evening" where the lyrics mention playing guitar and the guitar goes widdly widdly in a suddenly conspicuous manner?

Or ones where the drummer acts out lyrics involving knocking on a door or using a six-gun? ("1999," "I Fought the Law")

The meta-ness of Plant singing "I watch the people go shuffling downtown" while Bonham is playing the half-time shuffle had never occurred to me until tonight.

xpost There's definitely a thread for that, or at least, I'm pretty sure we've talked about it in some thread.

I got to see this special benefit show, which ended with Pearl Jam backing Robert Plant for iirc his only ever performance of "Fool in the Rain."

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