POLL LOTTA LOVE - ILM Artist Poll #6 - Led Zeppelin

Ha yes, couldn't resist!

It's getting a vote from me!

Not #1 though. Haven't decided which of two songs from III (!) will take the gold.

am half-assedly considering an all-acoustic ballot lol

Bonham's opening roll or salvo or whatever it's called in "Misty Mountain Hop" takes me an hour to untwist my spine from.

I was basically obsessed with Led Zeppelin in my teen years but I really haven't listened to them much in the last decade or so but thinking about my ballot I can't believe how many ballads are going to be on it -- Rain Song, Ten Years Gone, That's The Way, et al. I guess I am just a teary sap.

Man I wanted to get started on a discography relisten before I put my ballot together but I don't have any of the albums on my iPod right now and they are a glaring omission on Spotify right now.

I'm counting on "Trampled Under Foot" as a dark horse candidate for the top few finishers.

oh no...

That's my #1.

i'm doing this but i am terrible at remembering most led zep song titles

Wait, are we counting Billy Squier's "Lonely Is the Night" or no?

hahaha

buzza, good thing there's a list of song titles near the top of this thread!

i know, i plan on using that and youtube to tell me which ones i like

i grew up on zep thanks to my siblings but i don't own much except for a handful of tunes

one i know for sure is "in the light" (probably my #1)

yeah Zep is tough to track by song titles, i didn't know the names of some of my favorite radio staples until i got the box set a couple years ago.

want to participate in both the side-polls but i'm really having a hard time thinking of any Zep songs i HATE enough. there are some i'm a little sick of but still see merit in, and a good number of songs i think of as kind of unmemorable or boring (mostly on III and Physical Graffiti) but i dunno if i hate any of them.

scratch that, there are a couple i just realized there are a couple that i know i'm going to loudly groan if they place high on the poll

haha "stairway" will definitely be my no. 1 most hated and yet weirdly it might actually place in my top 20 as well

One ballot came in with a couple of nice blistering putdowns to go with their hated tracks...going to have to work those in to the results thread.

sent in my ballot!

Wait, are we counting Billy Squier's "Lonely Is the Night" or no?

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, August 16, 2011 6:33 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

haha, the first time i heard that i thought it was a zep song! then i looked up 'lonely is the night' on the internet and got results for Air Supply and was like, whoa, i need to rethink my definiton of soft rock

Is that a wedding band on Page's finger?

Pretty sure it is The One Ring.

It's not challopsy to say Houses of the Holy >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> IV, right?

HOTH has been the canonical Zep for the AOR krew since I was a rock tot.

Nah, that doesn't even register on the challopmeter. xp

really none of the first 6 albums being your favorite is a challop (Houses is totally my fave too)

Don't want to be too spoilery, but Presence is my favorite by such a wide margin it's not even funny.

i repped for it on my fave albums list

Nobody's Fault But Mine is a megajam but I never really got the album o/w. Pointers?

Harshness, cruelty, surgical precision...it's the Human Centipede of Led Zeppelin albums.

loool

Presence is the sound of a band that doesn't need to prove anything insisting that they have something to prove.

This thread title reflects my experience:

Can we talk about why Presence by Led Zeppelin is the best album ever made when you're actually listening to it, but it's easy to forget about when you aren't listening to it?

In other news, "Bonzo's Montreux"=This Heat outtake.

Harshness, cruelty, surgical precision...it's the Human Centipede of Led Zeppelin albums.

post-of-the-week status.

houses has always been my fave. a couple heavy jams, a couple chill jams, a couple novelty jams, and fin.

when i got the box set and started really hashing out which songs are on which albums, i got to Houses and was like all my friends are here!

heh...when I ripped the box sets into itunes on my desktop machine, I retagged everything back into their original album formats.

physical graffiti never seems to get enough love but everybody who rides for houses is otm, it's just fuckin excellent

heh...when I ripped the box sets into itunes on my desktop machine, I retagged everything back into their original album formats.

Me too.

i got the complete studio recordings one where each album is its own disc, so that was never a problem (although with like the Steely Dan and Police box sets where all the albums are squeezed onto 3-4 discs i did retag to the orig albums).

I never ever ever understood the decisionmaking that went into the Box 1/Box 2 track selections.

Wait, are we counting Billy Squier's "Lonely Is the Night" or no?

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Might crack my top 15 if we do.

Y'all really want to open that can? Really?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6ao_fBm8EE

SB man u gotta put some kinda warning on that

Wrong song!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq1tpCkAecI

(Unembedded, to spare anyone any undue trauma.)

Not to forget this, either:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-PxCWwu5kQ

o_0

kashmir was gonna be my easy #1 but it's like damaged goods now. I'm not sure I can even listen to it again after that.

(that's in reference to the kingdom come track obv, not schooly d)

I heard that joke in some old British movie on TCM about POWs set in a castle during WWII. Can't think of the title at the moment.

I really wish I wasn't so hasty with my picks.
I can't believe I ranked 'Battle of Evermore' so highly and forgot to give 'Houses of the Holy' any love

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Two hours left to vote!

Sent my ballot in last night. It was a great excuse to re-listen to tracks I hadn't heard since high school & to find out how ingrained they were almost, ahem, 30 years later. Reflecting old listening habits nearly all my selections were from I through Houses. I burned out on Zeppelin before getting too far into PG or the later ones.

― that's not my post, Tuesday, August 23, 2011 1:04 AM (18 hours ago)

Just in case you're reading this, tnmp, I don't think this ever arrived!

Voting is closed -- final ballot count is 65!

PAVEMENT RULES!!

Now the the polls are closed, I'm going to lock this one. Results are rolling out at
ILM GONNA CRAWL — Led Zeppelin poll RESULTS THREAD

xpost lol