Misty Mountain Hop vs Dancing Days

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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.

Kent, yes, it has always bothered me, too!

dancing days by a light-year, there are few things in music i love more than the way that guitar sounds

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

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.

i will fight u

it's just kinda boring, imo

(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

he said that his friends would all drop by-y

WOOO HOOO!!!!!

this thread inspired me to make a "best zep" playlist in spotify w at least one song from each album, it is very good

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!

ok i was on your side until then

whaaaaat

xp

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.

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.

Late Zep is also a function of Robert's voice gone ragged.

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.

Yeah I will def dig into the later stuff now
Sorry for letting you all down lol :/

hahahaha no worries no presh, it's just that you have rockin' taste and have helped introduce me to some kick-ass 70s music!

: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)

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.

I want to know how Bonham learned of the Purdie shuffle

Misty Mountain Hop

I really did not expect so many people to pick "Misty Mountain Hop". It always seemed like a lesser Zep IV track to me.

(Obv a lesser track from one of the greatest albums of all time is still v good!)

2016 was crazy enough w/o finding out that multiple ppl in this world think dancing days is "boring"

i probably just haven't heard it in the right environment, just don't get much of a vibe from it.