Has Led Zeppelin Dated Poorly?

to click or not to click?

(i do want to do some damned writing this am)

Amount-of-stuff-written / Interstingness-of-stuff-written

In Zeppelin's case, it's about a million to one. Not my favorite band in the world, but I like 'em, and I can't think of a band that I'm less interested in reading about.

So, finally I get a Zep albums box set (it even has all the InThrough alternate sleeves, finickity bunch..)

And the first is dull, the second has good bits but all were done better by the Small Faces..

The third is getting there, the fourth has the big ones and I can appreciate it if not love it.

Houses of the Holy. Now, then. This is the one where it all works! I know it has the two tracks the zep afich love to hate, but the whole thing works!

Phys Graf I have already, and about half of it I like. It seems those tracks are the "old" ones..

Anyway, I did Presence today, it's ok I guess but I won't be returning to it..

So, I have, um, SongRemains and InThrough and Coda to go.

I dunno, it seems like a slog. Are there riches ahead?

you've been through the best, InThrough is boring, SongRemains = meh live recording, Coda I haven't heard.

Houses of the Holy is my fav, but man seeing "first is dull" and "second has good bit" makes me wanna ;_;

Their only good song is All of my Love

I think I speak for everyone when I say that

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http://scienceblogs.com/aardvarchaeology/wp-content/blogs.dir/417/files/2012/04/i-ce3aadd3e91ba496c68df484bc256079-115973.jpg

*All my Love. I always mess up that title.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9XSDoHSsTg

InThrough is boring

lol waht

it is! I fuck with Presence but Out Door can succ it

And the first is dull, the second has good bits but all were done better by the Small Faces..

RONG

soo wrong that I cannot even begin to explain why

except just ;_;

Led Zep 2 is my fav of the first four. "Lemon Song" is the shit

The studio version of 'We're Gonna Groove' on Coda is great. But even better is the live version on the DVD.

Led Zeppelin through Houses of the Holy are all 5 star albums. it just takes a while to get to that point but it usually happens.

and than you get the double Physical Graffiti.

SongRemains = meh live recording

The original version, maybe, but the Rhino reissue is amazingly well remastered and includes a bunch of bonus tracks, and the whole thing is re-sequenced - now it's an amazing live album. Highly recommended, in fact.

will have to check it out. I actually only had a beat-up vinyl copy of it!

I : Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
II : Ramble On
III : Tangerine / Immigrant Song
IV : When The Leeve Breaks
Houses of the Holy : over the hills / rain song

Those songs alone give the albums at least 4 stars for containing them.

Let's Talk About The Led Zeppelin Epic Track- "Carouselambra"

moka otm

over the hills is my fave led zep, on certain days

SongRemains = meh live recording

The original version, maybe, but the Rhino reissue is amazingly well remastered and includes a bunch of bonus tracks, and the whole thing is re-sequenced - now it's an amazing live album. Highly recommended, in fact.

― 誤訳侮辱, Thursday, 4 July 2013 03:26 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I believe this is the version in the box..

And the first is dull, the second has good bits but all were done better by the Small Faces..

Agree with this mostly fwiw. Led Zep I to me is just Communication Breakdown + a load of boring hippy crap. It's not that I hate Led Zep, I like a lot of stuff from II-Physical Graffiti.

:((((((((

I do think you have to be picky with most of them tbh. I and II have filler. PG *might* but I've never quite got my head round the whole thing. Presence I used to feel, but it's a slog for me now (oddly, the two ten-minuters fly by). Coda you only need to flick through once.

But III, IV, HOTH and on a good day ITTOD are straight-through grand.

Intrigued about this SRTS edit though. It's always had good bits, but no way did I think there was a great album in there busting to get out.

I did presume "InThru" to be the last 'jewel' in the box, do have to 'slog' through SomgRemains (hey, that's a Stump song!) as rules is rules..

PhysGraf, I do consider one of the all time "great double album, but needs lots of playing before you know it" like the Beatles' white album, and "Sandinista" (I know,etc)

"Good Times, Bad Times" is one of the greatest Album 1, Side 1, Track 1s of all time. OF ALL TIME.

I'd skip Song Remains The Same and pay attention instead to the BBC Sessions

"Good Times, Bad Times" is one of the greatest Album 1, Side 1, Track 1s of all time. OF ALL TIME.

― This amigurumi Jamaican octopus is ready to chill with you (Phil D.), Thursday, July 4, 2013 8:16 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

Besides the opening vocal on "Bring It On Home" (II)- one of the few Plant vocals that I really dislike - the power of that track is ALL TIME.

A good place as any to post Marcello's outstanding review of Presence: http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/led-zeppelin-presence.html

I'd skip Song Remains The Same and pay attention instead to the BBC Sessions

Is not in't box.

What does the box look like?

A cube (I mean each side the same size), black, inside slides out..

http://www.toymania.com/columns/spotlight/images/s1hellraiserbox.jpg

No, more like http://image.blog.bitcomet.com/postpic/20081020/7954358_engcdf081020081511.jpeg

Isn't the version of We're Gonna Groove on CODA just the live take with overdubs?

Anyway, yes to BBC sessions and Lemon Song. Turns out that, contrary to my Jimmy Page-worshipping teens, every Zep song I truly love has JPJ's funk at its core: Lemon Song, Travelling Riverside Blues, How Many More Times, etc. etc.

Yeah, Royal Albert Hall recording w/overdubs. xpost

I know the OP is 5 years old now but I hear variations on this sometimes:

Jimmy Page's solos ("Heartbreaker" for one) were always ridiculously slapdash

Are there even any 'slapdash' moments after the first two albums, let alone ones that are ridiculously so? I definitely don't think this is a sensible thing to say about e.g. "Achilles's Last Stand".

The comments about the production seem insane too.

Hot dog solo is remarkably pathetic

OK, I don't listen much at all to that album, admittedly, and never thought of "Hot Dog" as more than throwaway filler. "Always" is pretty OTT though.

"Good Times, Bad Times" is one of the greatest Album 1, Side 1, Track 1s of all time. OF ALL TIME.

― This amigurumi Jamaican octopus is ready to chill with you (Phil D.), Thursday, July 4, 2013 8:16 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Also, "I'm Gonna Crawl" one of the most affecting Last Album, Side 2, Last Tracks of all time.

no

yes.

even if it wasn't intended to be their last album, but that's part of why it's so affecting for me.

"In Through The Out Door" was the only Zep album i'm old enough to rembember when it was new. I only listened to pop/top-40 radio at the time, and it sounded like nothing else I'd ever heard on the radio. It also didn't sound much like any other Led Zeppelin album. I still think it's underrated, at least compared to their other albums.

they sound a hell of a lot better to me now than they did in the 80s, so i figure they've dated rather well

Hot dog solo is remarkably pathetic

― the Spanish Porky's (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, July 4, 2013 6:26 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They really should have flown in James Burton to overdub that one. Jimmy was aiming for it, but the H was taking it's toll that day.

Eh, so his timing and articulation are off a bit. I still think "Hot Dog"'s a great little anomaly in the Crunge/D'yer Maker tradition.