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

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)

In an interview, the band's members talk about the title of the album, saying that when you first look at the LP, you read "Kingdom Come", then, as you move your eyes downwards, you read "In your face". They laugh and say: "Kingdom come ... in your face, get it?", making an obscene joke of it.

I gotta be honest: I hadn't heard it for 20 years till just now, but I think I still love Kingdom Come's "Get It On." "It's not that easy doing what we do"--that line killed me in 1988, and it still does. There's just such hurt and sacrifice behind those words.

There's just such hurt and sacrifice behind those words.

forgive me but I lolled

i like their pipe organ though

All the '80s Zep rips remind me of this classic Christgau take on the Cult's "Electric:" "Rick Rubin meets the doom fops of the former Southern Death Cult and concocts the metal dreams are made of--Zep for our time, supposedly. One reason it's a great joke is that in 2087 almost nobody will be able to tell it from the real thing. The other reason it's a great joke is that right now almost anybody can. "

Forgot how fierce "Sick Again" and "Out on the Tiles" are.

Out on the Tiles will make my ballot

Nine ballots in so far -- thank to all the early voters!

Now I want to see a poll of Led Zeppelin samples.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_dIibJZ11w

"Rhymin & Stealin" would have to be No. 1.

listening to "Nobody's Fault But Mine" (for the first time AFAIK) is kind of making me lol

very, very different from the spiritual arrangement one of my groups does

I definitely need to revisit the first album - I know straight away what my favourites are from all the others, not so much with that one.

My ballot's likely to be very Houses-heavy.

"Good Times Bad Times" is a tremendously good opener; when the drums first come crashing in; that riff! those fills! a "songs of experience" type lyric; that spazz of a solo! the last 30 seconds or so where the parts all intertwine. I feel a bit dopey considering putting the first song on a band's first album as my #1 but there you go.

to go along with the "I have no idea what half these songs are named" conversation, I just now realized which song "Over the Hills and Far Away" is

all these years I've been all "why is everyone so on Houses of the Holy's jock" and now I realize it's because half of my favorite Zeppelin songs are on it

Yeah, its hard to deny how great "Good Times Bad Times" is. Defintiely going to be on my ballot.

As I'm crawling through the discography today, I'm realizing just how much I don't like the more blues-based stuff they did on the first few albums.

I mean, I realize its all pretty blues based, but the ones that actively engage in all the tropes that go along with that aren't doing as much for me anymore.

I know what you're saying about those songs---listening to "You Shook Me" right now & feeling it---but the remedy always is: turn it up louder because the drums, especially the way they're mixed, just kill.

can I vote for Travelling Riverside Blues?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSht5j3Cnh0&ob=av2n

Its on the list, I was thinking it'd make my ballot.

Oh hell, you've just reminded me xp that I've forgotten How Many More Times?

man when I was a kid we'd get so excited when the radio'd play "Traveling Riverside Blues", there was no other way you could hear it (unless you taped it off the radio or I guess had a bootleg) & so it was an ~event~ to hear it.

will brook no discontent with "Dazed & Confused" obv, that song is the terrible beast of the north come to carry your children into despair

(that's a compliment, obv!)

fyr it IS on the list! totally missed it underneath all the 'The...' songs!

'How Many More Times' is Zep's fuck you to the Jeff Beck Group.

I think I have an involuntary reflex that makes me say "awwwwww yeahhhhhh" when "Communication Breakdown" comes on

(the versions on the BBC Sessions are godhead btw)

ohhhhhhhh SUCK

Sudden flash of the worst Zep: "Living Loving Maid." Dag, that song is garbage.

Just listened to the 2nd album again and uggghhhh I dislike it so much.

xpost hahaaaaa

Yeah, II and III are likely to be the least represented albums on my ballot.

"Friends" and "Celebration" are contendas.

Ugh no I hate "Friends" so much.

I stan for "Friends". Probably my #1. Also repping for "Carouselambra", "The Rain Song".

and YES, the BBC Sessions compliment/obliterate Led Zeppelin II

If we were voting for "best side" it'd be "Houses -> Trampled -> Kashmir", right?

I think Living Loving Maid is great. It's like a Guided By Voices song with a killer bass measure.

II is probably the casual fan's fav? The singles are Zep's massivest.

"What Is & What Should Never Be" is a good song, prob gonna make my ballot, but it has the best title of any Zep song.

Except if GBV had done it, the title would've been "Purple Umbrella and 50¢ Hat".

xp

I thought IV was the casual fan's go-to, what with it having "Stairway" and "Black Dog" and "Misty Mountain Hop" and "Going To California" and "Rock and Roll"

right now every track from IV is on my ballot, lol

Owen, I'm with you re. the best side.

I like III quite a lot, but the first two I've never warmed up to.

I'm definitely voting for "Tangerine" from III, and "Immigrant Song." At least. from "II" ... maybe just "Ramble On."