pick a side hippy <3
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 20 November 2016 16:15 (seven years ago) link
^^^ which way the pressure lies
― dustalo springsteen (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 20 November 2016 16:34 (seven years ago) link
I love you guys
I love LZ and these songs but especially MMH
I LOVE MUSIC!!
:)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 20 November 2016 22:01 (seven years ago) link
What I like about both of these and why I think of them as a pair is that they have a good dose of LZ chordal weirdness hidden beneath their ostensible melodies. It's what gives MMH its undercurrent of doom and what makes DD so slinky and weird. I'd love to see a dissection of the main MMH riff. I feel like there are at least three melody lines there masquerading as one.
― calstars, Sunday, 20 November 2016 22:32 (seven years ago) link
And the guitar tone on DD is so...metallic? Abrasive? I can't think of any other song by anyone that has that sound. It's almost like a horn - brass of some kind.
― calstars, Sunday, 20 November 2016 22:34 (seven years ago) link
I remember reading in some book about their mood when they put DD together. They were conscious of the fact that Stairway was something very special, and that they had proved themselves and were kind of on top of the mountain, confident and relaxed.
― calstars, Sunday, 20 November 2016 22:39 (seven years ago) link
TO ALL
GET IN LINE
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 20 November 2016 23:38 (seven years ago) link
otm
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 21 November 2016 00:40 (seven years ago) link
I'm a bit sick of most of the 4th album that isn't "Four Sticks," so "Dancing Days," but the unrepaired tape drag during the intro on modern remasters is unforgivable. I don't understand why they didn't patch in from another source if the master tape is that damaged... If you have never noticed, once heard it can't be unheard.
― lingereffect (Kent Burt), Monday, 21 November 2016 02:42 (seven years ago) link
Kent, yes, it has always bothered me, too!
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 21 November 2016 03:17 (seven years ago) link
dancing days by a light-year, there are few things in music i love more than the way that guitar sounds
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 21 November 2016 03:31 (seven years ago) link
the droney repetitiveness of the riff bugs me (i do like the sound tho); I get further bugged by the way plant's phrasing of the verses mimics the riff; also the way he sings "you know it's ALright" etc.
it's like an earworm created in a lab designed to burrow into my head & annoy me forever
i can't
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 November 2016 04:23 (seven years ago) link
Weird. Dancing Days is my favorite Zep groove. It makes sense to me that they made it while at their most confident. Plant's best phrasing outside Kashmir.
― gospodin simmel, Monday, 21 November 2016 04:54 (seven years ago) link
i will fight u
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 November 2016 05:15 (seven years ago) link
it's just kinda boring, imo
― a but (brimstead), Monday, 21 November 2016 05:33 (seven years ago) link
(dd)
misty mountain hop you can kinda headbang to & flail about in a happy way & it has a lot of fun parts
HAY BOY DYA WANNA SCOOOHOOORE
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 November 2016 05:44 (seven years ago) link
he said that his friends would all drop by-y
WOOO HOOO!!!!!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 21 November 2016 08:45 (seven years ago) link
this thread inspired me to make a "best zep" playlist in spotify w at least one song from each album, it is very good
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 21 November 2016 14:17 (seven years ago) link
shameful sidebar:when I saw the temple of the dog reunion last week, they played Achilles Last Stand & i had no idea what it was, I'd never listened to late-period Zep
i thought it was Rush!
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 November 2016 16:38 (seven years ago) link
ok i was on your side until then
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Monday, 21 November 2016 16:43 (seven years ago) link
whaaaaat
xp
― Οὖτις, Monday, 21 November 2016 16:45 (seven years ago) link
Yeah Veg, you should dig into those later Zep albums! Play them loud, at night. Some amazing rocking, though generally the songwriting gets less tight, except on the oddball genre experiments and one-offs. On the big heavy numbers they start to excel more at feel and texture than anything else. IOW, see the title of the Presence thread.
― dustalo springsteen (Doctor Casino), Monday, 21 November 2016 16:46 (seven years ago) link
it took me awhile to get into the post-Physical Graffiti, they do seem like they become a bit of a different, more metallic beast (I want to say that's due to a production shift towards harsher textures - slapback echo, digital synths, chorus effects etc.) I do prefer the earlier stuff but the later albums all have amazing material on them.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 21 November 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link
Late Zep is also a function of Robert's voice gone ragged.
― dinnerboat, Monday, 21 November 2016 16:57 (seven years ago) link
They also just get less, idk, song- or singles-oriented? Like okay they didn't really do "singles" ever, but Zep IV's entire tracklist didn't become FM staples for no reason - they are basically all compact, radio-ready verse-chorus-verse things with very legible, killer hooks. Not saying they lost interest in that entirely, but I definitely don't listen to the latter half of their career the same way.
― dustalo springsteen (Doctor Casino), Monday, 21 November 2016 16:58 (seven years ago) link
Yeah I will def dig into the later stuff nowSorry for letting you all down lol :/
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 November 2016 17:11 (seven years ago) link
hahahaha no worries no presh, it's just that you have rockin' taste and have helped introduce me to some kick-ass 70s music!
― dustalo springsteen (Doctor Casino), Monday, 21 November 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link
:D
i definitely have a lot of weird gaps in my fandoms, like entire catalogs of obvious stuff that i just got lazy about or ignored etc
gives me a good excuse to learn more!
(but mama... that's where the fun is)
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 November 2016 17:50 (seven years ago) link
MMH, but I Dancing Days is great too. Just MMH is one of those hall of fame, this-is-what-rock-music-means-to-me kind of jams.
― Dominique, Monday, 21 November 2016 17:53 (seven years ago) link
I want to know how Bonham learned of the Purdie shuffle
― calstars, Monday, 21 November 2016 17:55 (seven years ago) link
Misty Mountain Hop
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 21 November 2016 17:56 (seven years ago) link
I really did not expect so many people to pick "Misty Mountain Hop". It always seemed like a lesser Zep IV track to me.
― Spiritual Hat Minimalism (Sund4r), Monday, 21 November 2016 19:57 (seven years ago) link
(Obv a lesser track from one of the greatest albums of all time is still v good!)
― Spiritual Hat Minimalism (Sund4r), Monday, 21 November 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link
2016 was crazy enough w/o finding out that multiple ppl in this world think dancing days is "boring"
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 21 November 2016 20:04 (seven years ago) link
i probably just haven't heard it in the right environment, just don't get much of a vibe from it.
― a but (brimstead), Monday, 21 November 2016 22:09 (seven years ago) link