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

How many songs have yet to receive a vote?

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

7

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.

Sund4r's ballot is a game-changer!

xp!

Mine didn't either, really. I was struggling with just how much weight I wanted to give the live versions of the songs, but in the end I decided that Led Zep meant the most to me via classic rock radio as a kid and getting the box set in high school, so I ranked the songs via the studio albums - even though I find the live albums to be the ones I like the most now.

I think it makes sense for the song and album lists to not match up. These songs exist in two forms for me. Heard on radio most of my life, or heard as part of a complete album (for better PG, or worse II) since whenever I got around to buying and listening to that one.

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

This is the Kashmir from No Quarter, which I reckon is pretty full and great. It's a really interesting backing for Plant to bed into - the guitars that come in a couple of times towards the end are fine and all, but the rest of the tapestry's so much richer. You can see why he's got no particular interest in looking back, let alone reforming for more than the exceptional occasion.

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.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, August 22, 2011 4:55 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

for a while radio played the version of "What Is And What Should Never Be" off that record and i always thought it was pretty awesome. but yeah i think of the Black Crowes as a pretty solid singles act.

while doing "research" for this poll I stumbled on this japanese dude's youtube where he uploads faithful note for note renditions of mostly LZ songs (including the solos) where the camera is POV on the guitar. His version of the Achilles Last Stand solo is really right-on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwIY46vuENQ#t=1m25s

[fwd to 1:25 if time stamp doesn't work]

Really made me appreciate how pretty a lot of Page's work despite being pretty complex.

Nice shirt!

Ha, I noticed he thematically changes them for all the songs.

Thanks, Steve, that's awesome (altho I hate him for being able to play like that!)--ALS was my #20, btw

Sent!

Hmm, haven't gotten yours yet, and it's not in the spam filter either. Did you sent to gmail or via ILXmail?

― L.P. Hovercraft (WmC), Monday, August 22, 2011 9:47 AM (13 hours ago)

via ilxmail

― peter in montreal, Monday, August 22, 2011 9:54 AM (12 hours ago)

lol, my asshole ISP just released this email after helpfully "quarantining" it for a while.

Sent via webmail.

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.

I love how their songs have unpredictable elements (like that weird right speaker left speaker thing in What Is and What Shall Never Be), rhythms (lots of choices but guitar-then-drum riff in the The Ocean stands out for me), or in-song evolutions (Over the Hills and so many others).

Sent mine! (to Gmail)

Sent mine (to gmail). I voted for tracks and albums, but not for most hated tracks.

Spottie, Arch and NoTime -- got yours.

that's not my post -- I didn't get yours. Did you send it gmail or ilxmail?

56

y'all my ballot is straight up comedy

I don't think I fully appreciated how deeply IV imprinted upon me until I started ranking songs

2.5 hours left for albums and least-liked/most hated

12.5 hours left for tracks/the main ballot

just sent via ilxmail!

I personally think IV is a tad overrated, but as an album it has an interesting minglong of vibes; some of it brings to mind Depression-era flophouses and some of it brings to mind forest sprites; the song I most regret cutting from my ballot is "Going to California" which seems like quotidian folk music, then all of a sudden Plant's goes into the higher register, and a confused jumble of half-heard images assail your ears--something about punching some one in the nose and (blood?) starting to flow and Plant thinks he might be sinking--I mean, you all know what I'm talking about, but what I'm saying is that all of a sudden this workaday folk song opens up, and you're seeing into it, you're peering through it, into another more vivid reality, and then suddenly the awake-dream subsides, and you're back with a man and his musings...

The whole album is a lot like that; the flashes of otherworldliness is enough to transmute the rhythm'n'blues naturalism into a mythical rock & roll idyll...

(xp to DJP)

c.a.d., got yours, thx

I think "Going to California" was the last song to get cut from mine. Great song, I was sad to see it go.

I watched that Japanese "Achilles Last Stand" this morning then turned on the radio, which for a split second I thought was playing "Achilles Last Stand" until I recognized it as Heart's "Barracuda." So I switched the radio to the next preset, which was literally in the opening seconds of "D'Yer Mak'er."

"Barracuda" better than "D'Yer Maker".

Just sent my ballot via Gmail

"D'Yer Maker" not only personifies the whole "What is the title to this song?" prank Zep pulls frequently, but when you finally read the label, you still don't know how to pronounce it.

YOu don't know how many DJs I worked with that backsold this song as "Dire Maker".

It's actually a pun on "Jamaica".

There's hilarious audio of Plant talking about how Americans not hip to the Jamaica pun will say to him (in an exaggerated American accent), "I really like DIE ER MAKE ER."

Q: how many R's in the word 'Jamaica'?

A: none.

For a while I thought maybe it was about

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The band X?

Still not sure how to say "Bron-Yr-Aur" either, but that song never gets played on the radio anyway.

"I really like DIE ER MAKE ER."

That was me, from the time it came out until--well, I think I still instinctively say it that way the one time every five years I have cause to say it, even though I did learn about the pun somewhere along the way.

I always said it in my head as "Do Ya Make Her" which I thought was pretty punny and kinda made sense until I realized that it was Jamaica. I am not voting in this poll btw, clearly just too over my head.

I'll pay attention to the results thread though.

That shouldn't discourage you from voting -- Zeppelin's a bit over my head too since I'm far from being a completist, but I still went through a Zeppelin phase just like everyone else, which is why I'm not surprised that the participation in this poll is so high (60 or so ballots received, about 2x more than the average artist poll).

drugs a money awesome post about going to california

i was thinking about that section of the song yesterday, it's such a weird chilling counterpoint to the pastoral hippieism

Another example of Plant being a very strong member of the band. He makes that song completely.

I always said it in my head as "Do Ya Make Her" which I thought was pretty punny and kinda made sense

^^^ this. Never realized the Jamaica pun until just now. Thx ILM!