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

Well, the albums and hates are getting revealed tomorrow, so if more Tracks ballots come in between noon and, say, 10 p.m. Eastern, I'll count 'em. Deadline is still noon for parts 2 and 3.

I'm sad, but not entirely surprised, that there haven't been any female voters yet.

I would vote were it not for the fact that up until around three years ago I totally and completely hated LZ. I don't anymore. In fact, once I realized just how wrong I was I realized that I sort of love them but it's a new found love and that's still being cultivated and I don't feel comfortable choosing favorites just yet.

If you have favorites, no reason not to stand up and be counted! Even if it's a top 5 or whatever.

Ditto to Shakey's wife!

Eep - when are they due?

WMC I was going to vote but you told me on outloud that I shouldn't because I am an admitted LZ dilettante!!
I can submit the list of songs I like if you insist, though ;)

Favorite songs: tomorrow by 10 p.m. Eastern. Tomorrow by noon if you want to do the favorite albums/least favorite songs parts.

LL, I remember saying something stupid like that. Please feel free to disregard that mess and send a ballot!

Okay I know this is opening a whole can of worms here but, screw it, I wanna toss this out there. Out of morbid curiousity, I listened to one of the Black Country Communion (supergroup with Glenn Hughes, Joe Bonamassa, Bonham's kid, and Derek Sherinian) albums on Spotify. I have to say, I kind of feel like these guys do a pretty good job of hitting some of the same sweet spots as Zeppelin. Some pretty great drumming and heavy riffs mixed (oft times awkwardly, but, then again, I often felt the same wrt Zep's incorporating of "Middle Eastern" themes and ideas) with lots of keyboards and some interesting twists and turns. The biggest stumbling block being that Hughes will never ever be as powerful as Plant was, so you end of up kind focused on the instrumental work which can be a little guitar store dude wanky at times. Anyway, not claiming these guys to be "the next Zep" or even a band really worth spending a lot of time on, but a quick listen revealed them to be surprisingly closer to the spirit of Zeppelin than I expected.

xps I'd laugh if it turned out your two ballots didn't overlap at all with the other 43

xpost -- enthusiasm is not worm-can-opening! I might give it a listen while I tally votes.

I guess I'm just hesitant to raise people's expectations too high here.

just sent my ballot, pretty unsatisfied with my tracks but had to do it quick! just realized i left off "black dog" :(

You have until tomorrow! No need to be unsatisfied yet. Of course, you could spend many hours more and still be unsatisfied.

Also, I think, of all the polls so far, being a dilettante of this band is perfectly OK. I for one am pretty interested in seeing the results with exactly those kinds of ballots included, as just which songs resonate with someone that hasn't loved them since like 1984 is pretty informative and cool.

I went strictly with the sentimental/songs that I have a personal connection to angle - made my list surprisingly easy actually

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LET'S BEAT PAVEMENT Y'ALL

How many songs have yet to receive a vote?

two of my fav things in the world currently:

1) when the band kicks in on "over the hills and far away" and goes BA-DUM..BA-DUM...that's like the most joyous thing in music

2) in the live version on "how the west was won" when plant goes "and a pocketful of gold.....ACUPULCO gooooold" is so cuet 70s stoner <3

Yeah, the best part of filling this ballot out was revisiting all of those cool moments in specific songs, none of which I had forgotten, but many of which I hadn't heard in a long time. "Over the Hills and Far Away" has a few (love the outro as well), "The Song Remains the Same" has a few, and listening to Bonham's footwork on "The Wanton Song" still astounds me all these years later. Dorky on my part, but I just can help it, I get a stupid goofy grin on my face every time I listen to that song. I can remember being 12-15 ...

man listening to the old box set on my ipod and tangerine just popped up. shoulda put this on my ballot, what a nice 70s country rock ballad

these guys could do it all, literally

"Over the Hills and Far Away" has a few (love the outro as well)

I used to jam on Houses Of the Holy on the old AC Delco tape deck that came with the '86 Cavalier. Some of those songs, like the outro to OTHAFA or the first part of "No Quarter" were just silent to my ears. It wasn't until I was a DJ playing this stuff and hearing it through headphones that I realized so many of these song portions were quiet.

Tangerine's so great; the little feint after the first chorus when it should go back to the verse but they take it to the solo instead, man

Tangerine is on my ballot.

xpost My problem with all of the various Page LZ offshoots is how close they come to LZ, which always seemed a little ... shameless to me. Like, we know what you did, Page. We know what band you were in. No need to try so hard. Do something different than, say, hiring another golden maned British belter. Bonham is an even more egregious case. We know who your dad was, dude. Now make a name for yourself doing something that sounds different than what he did. Look at what Uncle John Paul Jones has been up to. He's been all over the place. He worked with Diamanda Galas. He did the strings on "Automatic for the People." He recorded for Fripp's label. He collaborated with Nickel Creek and the Toad the Wet Sprocket guy. He seems, like Plant, I guess, totally at ease with his legacy.

"Tangerine" will be high on my ballot, but you don't know this song 'til you've heard the original version that Page did with the Yardbirds, "Knowing That I'm Losing You" (still bootleg only - it was almost included on "Cumular Limit"). I think I like it better - it has Mellotron and an entirely different melody and lyrics on the chorus. Keith Relf uncredited as a cowriter on the Zep version incidentally - he wrote the first verse.

My ballot is mostly in place but there's a few songs I need to relisten to, mostly side 4 of PG and on Coda, that I can't quite recall. I'm sure I'll rememeber them by 3 seconds in but Zep confuses me with all the song titles that don't appear in the song.

I need to choose the 3 hate songs too. I don't hate any of them - Zep really never really had any all-out stinkers (I can't say the same about the Beatles), but they're a certainly a few that do nothing for me. And one of them is on my favorite album....

And, of course, JPJ produced the Butthole Surfers ("Independent Worm Saloon"). Gibby and Diamanda vs. David Coverdale, hmmm

that one song on "outrider" by jimmy page with plant singing on it was pretty good, or so i thought at the time, haven't heard it since i was a zep obsessed kid

Has anyone listened to the whole Page/Plant album that came out in the 90s? I remember hearing some songs on the radio when it came out that sounded surprisingly good, probably the best Page stuff I had heard since the Zeppelin days.

Yeah, it was pretty good all round. Don't think I'd heard the full LZ catalogue by then though, so it's been crowded out in my memory.

"Emerald Eyes" Page's only real moment of brilliance on Outrider, and even that takes awhile to really get going. A few decent if unspectacular hard-rock songs, largely forgettable.

Cool xpost, thanks. I'll add it to the list.

What do any of you guys think of that live album Page did with The Black Crowes? I'll admit that I'm one of those rare birds that actually rates the Crowes as being worth anything, but I thought it was actually a lot better than it had any right to be. Defintiely needed a better drummer, but it wasn't too bad.

I heard "Ten Years Gone" off that album on the radio once & thought it was pretty good! then I went home & listened to PG & it was even better!

Well, yeah, of course! :)

weird I had never even heard of (much less heard) this before

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

not particularly great, more of a curio

I'm sad, but not entirely surprised, that there haven't been any female voters yet.

there weren't for the beach boys poll either. but this is a sorta aspie game on a site w/ a significant male majority. (also it's led zep.)

Somebody get Tori Amos on the horn...

That's a very insensitive remark!

I think there were 3/30 female votes in the documentary poll. As per High Fidelity, I think the list/poll thing is a very male mindset. Why, I don't know--and don't think I want to know, because I'm sure the answer doesn't reflect well on males.

U2 got two, plus quite a few Nicks/Jamies/etc whom I choose to believe are girls.

It's weird, because in my experience females like to organize and schedule everything--they just don't seem interested in organizing lists of songs and films.

(Clemenza has now entered the Witness Protection Plan for his own safety.)

in my experience women tend to concentrate on useful sorts of organisation

How many songs have yet to receive a vote?

― Ismael Klata, Monday, August 22, 2011 3:02 PM (1 hour ago)

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He seems, like Plant, I guess, totally at ease with his legacy.

While I agree Jones and Plant have kept pushing themselves, why would Page's insistence on choosing projects that sound like LZ signify unease with his legacy? Maybe that's all he knows.

I've got (90s album) No Quarter on just now. It's interesting texturally with north african influences and so forth, though the tracks are a bit long. There's also little evidence of Page as Page 'til Since I've Been Loving You - the effect is of a completely assured Plant solo project.

"Baby Come On Home" sounds alot like "Long Time Comin'" Plant's solo 45 from 1966

Just sent my ballot. I'm not very satisfied with my lists but don't think I'll ever be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evQFCiTNoZ0

This is what Percy could have sounded like throughout his career had he not crossed paths with Page!

u r the sunshine in my growing

Thinking of doing a Barry White or Lou Rawls poll just to bring in the chicks

Interestingly, I'm not really sure that my songs list backs up my albums list. I might need to reconsider how I rank things.