Best Led Zeppelin Album?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6917449.stm

Page should sit in with Metallica in a new band called "The Establishment".

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44022000/jpg/_44022510_jimmpagetvgrab203.jpg

"The legitimate part is where fans trade music, but once you start packaging it up and you do not know what you are getting, you are breaking the rules legally and morally.

"There are some of these recordings where it is just a whirring and you cannot hear the music.

"If you have something like this that appears legitimate then it is just not right."

this seems like a perfectly legit position to me

hey man, if someone wants to uncover one, I'd gladly buy a recording of Gonzaga '68 which didn't sound like whirring!

Why did II do so badly?

I would have expected II to get a whole lotta love but evidently it got trampled under foot.

16 people need trampled on ;)

man this is some bullshit, PG ain't even top 4 for me

yup

I think these days I would lean toward Physical Graffiti but I is my usual favorite, and it too got the shaft.

is this another UK vs US canon example like on the Sabbath thread?

The last time I was at Strictly Discs I found a used copy of the remastered In Through the Out Door and bought it. My least favorite clerk was like "Really? Out of all their albums?" I said "IT IS AWESOME." Just like that. He meekly replied "most people go for one of the others" and I raised myself to my full eight feet, unfurled my black leathery wings, and intoned ""I AM NOT MOST PEOPLE""

he got the hint i think

― Dimension 5ive, Thursday, April 12, 2007 5:52 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha love this guy

I kinda feel like CODA is my favorite.

CODA is underappreciated

i only got the complete works box set fairly recently so my opinion isn't fully formed but my rough pecking order is like:

Houses > IV > I > II > Presence > PF > Out Door > III

haven't really thought of where Coda would place, though. PF's got good stuff but the hitting percentage is way lower and i kinda feel like their songs are so epic in general that a double is just overkill.

Presence > PG > Houses > IV > III > Out Door > I > II

some days I would switch III and IV

i think when i was 14-15 i played IV & Houses so many times it's hard to hear them now. and yeah, I turn the station when stariway comes on. but tbf i think i always did. wnet through a phase when i was partial to III, but I'm pretty sure I went with PG in this poll.

the only ones i got bored with were I and III

III kills IV, I and II.

hmmm

III is tops for me, followed by houses then IV.

One of my early favourites I still listen to today....I used to vouch for I but now I'd go for Physical Graffiti or Houses.

it's Houses > IV > III etc for me. still have a hard time figuring out The Crunge.

I bought PG recently, first ever LZ purchase.

Hmm, yeah. OK..

Don't think I'll go further to be honest.

you are missing out

I'm all about III...I tend to like IV and Houses the most when they get closest to III's sound...

III is also one of the reasons I voted for 70 on the 70-71-72 poll...

I also really like the first album...it seems the most Amon Dull II-acid-rock-ish of them all, thx to Dazed and Confused and How Many More Times...

(though PG disc 2 could have it all over the first irt acid rock...been a long time since I gave it a spin)

I must admit I tend to listen to disc 1 more

I liked "In my time", "Trampled", "Kasgmr" and "Boogie w/ Stu"

The rest passed without.

I've been listening to PG for years and it just struck me today how fierce Page's guitar tone is on (the song) "Houses of the Holy." I want all guitar to sound like that all the time.

i generally love the acoustic stuff on the other early albums, but for some reason III just leaves me cold.

Physical Graffiti won, what else do you want? Justice was done. I would personally like to see Presence higher in the tally, but you can't have everything, I guess.

"Night Flight"

also "The Rover"

How the fuck did zoso or the first album not win this?? fuck ilx contrarianism.

the debut only got FIVE votes?? you gotta fucking be kidding me.

oh come on, i'm sure most of the people who voted for houses, IV and graffiti still REALLY LOVE the debut. they just don't think it's THE BEST.

yeah that album might be the biggest bridesmaid of them all

otm (x-post)

my order goes something like this:

1. Houses Of The Holy
2. IV
3. Physical Grafitti
4. II
5. In Through The Out Door
6. I
7. Presence
8. III
9. Coda

they really were just on some other shit with Houses....just these incredible tones and textures Page was putting together with all the layers of guitar, less blues-based than the earlier stuff but still real hard rocking. i don't even like "D'yer Maker" that much but when you put it on an album with "The Crunge" I kind of get the whole spirit of it, stretching out and incorporating different sounds.