Best Led Zeppelin Album?

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Is that because you have heard all the others too many times and are a bit sick of them?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 16 April 2007 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link

"That's The Way" is my fave Zeppelin song, Ryan! (though "The Song Remains the Same" is very close) And I had the same reaction you did when I got into them - "I never thought they did anything that sounded like that!"

― Bimble, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 01:48 (seventeen years ago) link

What album do you think will win?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link

"Physical Graffiti". I still think the first two are best.

― Tom D., Tuesday, 17 April 2007 11:43 (seventeen years ago) link

"That's The Way" is my fave Zeppelin song, Ryan! (though "The Song Remains the Same" is very close)

Same here, though in reverse order.

― professor ganson, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 11:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that because you have heard all the others too many times and are a bit sick of them?

No. I simply don't like them as much.

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

III over Physical Graffiti by a hair. If the first disc of Physical Graffiti was a separate album, though, I'd go with that.

― Brent, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Last day of voting.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Blew my introductory order from BMG on Led Zeppelin within the last nine months, finished up (1975 on) just two months ago. Always been a hater in the past but figured it was time, I finally get it.

Not feeling Presence, taking my time on III and voted for Houses of the Holy.

― Bee OK, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:18 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't think presence is a very likable album. there's great stuff on it, but i don't dig the dark mood of it so much.

― stevie, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't think it will be a surprise winner. (III might be though)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:05 (seventeen years ago) link

oh man...killer moment off of Physical Graffiti that I had forgotten about: the bridge in "Down By the Seaside" when Plant sings "Do you still do the twist, do you find you remember things that well" right as Bonzo fucking hammers those vistalites with two killer quadruplets and the boys just explode....that brief 10 second outburst is still sublime to me.

Physical Graffiti FTW

― Chaucer Arafat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link

its all about 'in my time of dying'.

― stevie, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

or 'when the levee breaks'. i love when jimmy plays bottleneck.

― stevie, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

so far i love:

all of presence (this one is just epic)
the first disc of physical graffiti and "ten years gone"
all of houses of the holy, esp the first and last tracks
III except for a couple of tracks on the first side

this is an impossible choice!!

― ryan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

honestly the sheer number of great songs by them is sort of overwhelming.

― ryan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

the "dark mood" of Presence is what makes it so great. I love "Tea For One"

― Stormy Davis, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I heart "Hots On For Nowhere" and "Royal Orleans" so fucking much. I'm glad they never EVER get any radio airplay. I can't decide who owns Presence more, Pagey or Bonzo. And I don't care.

Jeez, maybe I shoulda voted for it.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 19 April 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

"Hots On For Nowhere" is totally one of my fave Zeppelin tracks, probably top 5 for me. especially the smacked-out Page solo. but yeah I think Bonzo owns Presence -- probably his best overall performance of any of the albums.

― Stormy Davis, Thursday, 19 April 2007 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link

So how many are going to vote they didn't like Led Zep? The same 6 as Sabbath?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, "That's the Way" and SRTS are two of my all-time favourites too, so beautiful they make me want to be sick. (And, yeah, I've always really really loved "The Rover.") OK, I think IV-HOTH-PG are the best but it's so hard to choose from them that I just might not after all. If I find the time, I'll try to listen to them all in the next day and pick one. All the albums are really good but with I and II, I don't think Page was as good as he was later (either in terms of orchestrating and layering guitar parts or in developing melodies for the solos or even just in terms of playing as tightly.) Also, I think the compositions got better later, more interesting rhythmically for sure. I actually prefer the original versions of some of the songs they redid on the first two (esp. Jake Holmes' "Dazed and Confused" - and that's saying something.) "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" is awesome though. Plant's screaming on the earliest albums can also be a little tiring if I'm not in the mood (even if it's just because he couldn't scream as much later.) III is awesome and is a serious contender. There are just a couple of songs on it that I don't love quite as much. The last two albums are very good but they still seem like crazy choices to me, given the rest of LZ's output. Presence has great playing but it just doesn't have the sprawling range that I love about the middle period and the tunes aren't nearly as memorable for me, although I sometimes think "Achilles' Last Stand" is the single best thing they did.

― Sundar, Thursday, 19 April 2007 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Fuck! I really like In throught the Out Door.

I like how Chas and Dave supported them at Knebworth too.

― Keith, Thursday, 19 April 2007 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link

None of them, I Don't Like Led Zeppelin 16

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I really like In throught the Out Door.

It's a nice album but I truly can't fathom what anyone's rationale would be for e.g. picking it over Houses of the Holy.

xpost The fuck? Is it the 20th in the UK? Ah well, justice prevailed anyway.

― Sundar, Thursday, 19 April 2007 23:23 (seventeen years ago) link

See, that's why you don't include stupid options like that, Brigadier. Anyway, I'm kind of surprised IV placed that highly, considering that only a couple people actually talked about voting for it on the thread. I guess a lot of the silent voters like that one the best.

― Jeff Treppel, Thursday, 19 April 2007 23:25 (seventeen years ago) link

None of them, I Don't Like Led Zeppelin 16
II 7

Travesty.

― NYCNative, Thursday, 19 April 2007 23:26 (seventeen years ago) link

6 people vote they don't like Black Sabbath.
16 people vote they don't like Led Zeppelin. 9 votes more than II got.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 23:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm actually sort of curious what the result would have been over at the Blue Oyster Cult thread for "I don't like Blue Oyster Cult." I sort of suspect it would have been the number one option.

― Jeff Treppel, Thursday, 19 April 2007 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I just wish those people would post why they don't like them and join in the chat rather than just voting.
But I do think people should include the I Don't Like Option in polls. It's fair enough. But they could just explain what it is they don't like.

If there's a Beatles poll will anti-canon ilxors vote for I Don't Like Them so it actually wins it?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 23:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Kinda weird how the first four albums got staggered and stayed in descending order.

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 19 April 2007 23:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I really can't believe II did so badly.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 20 April 2007 00:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't vote in this poll, but if I had, "Don't like" would have been my pick. I haven't heard all of their catalog, but I've heard quite a bit.
Based on that, I'd say that their songs seem to be either filled with lots of boring, drug-induced guitar tinkering (and other uninspiring demonstrations of technical skill), or with these sucky vocal parts that confuse seriousness with meaningfulness. Sometimes both.

― Tape Store, Friday, 20 April 2007 00:33 (seventeen years ago) link

It's good to see someone saying actually why they don't like them.
Even though I don't agree :)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 20 April 2007 00:37 (seventeen years ago) link

That's 16 people who shouldn't be allowed to post anymore

― max, Friday, 20 April 2007 00:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Interesting that PG came in first. That was my favorite way back in high school, and I didn't know anyone who agreed with me on that. Like all Zepplin albums, it isn't consistently great all the way through, but its being a double album gives it some extra weight when compared with their other top albums. I still have to give the edge to Houses-- just so creative and expert.

― professor ganson, Friday, 20 April 2007 02:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I just wish those people would post why they don't like them and join in the chat rather than just voting.
But I do think people should include the I Don't Like Option in polls. It's fair enough. But they could just explain what it is they don't like.

OTM

Surprised that IV was number two. It's their true single album, I guess.

The top four all have over 20 votes, impressive. ILM is still king.

― Bee OK, Friday, 20 April 2007 03:33 (seventeen years ago) link

More votes than the Beatles poll.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:17 (seventeen years ago) link

HI DERE!

― The Amazing Randy, Friday, 20 April 2007 13:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyway, I'm kind of surprised IV placed that highly, considering that only a couple people actually talked about voting for it on the thread. I guess a lot of the silent voters like that one the best.

-- Jeff Treppel, Thursday, 19 April 2007 23:25

I voted for it

― Stormy Davis, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I like IV a lot so far, considering it's the album i knew the most songs from already, but honestly I feel like Stairway to Heaven just drags it down in the middle. not sick of it, just dont like it that much!

it would be really interesting to figure out why it become just a radio staple---bathroom break song for the dj?

― ryan, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

those 16 votes must be the results of sock puppet voting, representing a few individuals. Sure, there is no absolute principle about loving Zeppelin, but it just stands to reason that if you have a functioning auditory system and at least paramecium-level cognition that you'll recognize that they kick serious ass.

― Chaucer Arafat, Friday, 20 April 2007 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Obviously it was the stock answer of people who hate polls.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 20 April 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

"bathroom break song for the dj?"
Hahah...I hath colleged DJ'd, therefore I understand the meaning of "bathroom break" song. But I'd rather not talk about Stairway, to be honest.

I just wanted to say that as far as Physical Graffiti goes and all...someone upthread had said it was all about "In My Time Of Dying"...that song took so late to hit me...I'd already decided I liked the album as a whole but for the first few months after I got into the album, it was just another good song on the album for me, not really standing out. And then one day maybe 6 months after that, I suddenly realized that "In My Time Of Dying" seemed to be the most amazing thing I'd ever heard, etc. and it was all I wanted to listen to over and over and over, couldn't get it out of my head. And then the weird thing is I now remember hearing this song in a car with someone in my early 20's when I avoided Led Zeppelin and it meant nothing at all to me, then. Just nothing. And yet it was the same song. Crazy.

― Bimble, Saturday, 21 April 2007 02:46 (seventeen years ago) link

The ultimate college radio bathroom break song is, of course, "Dope Smoker." I had a DJ with a Saturday morning show who would put that in when he had a hangover and didn't feel like doing anything.

― Jeff Treppel, Saturday, 21 April 2007 02:49 (seventeen years ago) link

A shoutout to Ryan, wherever he is:

"Ten Years Gone" was my favourite song too when I first heard Physical Graffiti, indeed that was my first favourite Led Zeppelin song in the whole world or something. There's two more songs I like just a little bit more than that now, but it's still a very close third.

― Bimble, Saturday, 21 April 2007 03:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Are you talking about the album by Sleep, Jeff?

― Bimble, Saturday, 21 April 2007 03:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, the song, but since the song IS the album, yes.

― Jeff Treppel, Saturday, 21 April 2007 03:38 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah "In My Time of Dying" didnt really sink in the one time i have listened to it. but i'll definetly go back to it. I have to have become obsessed with "Friends" on III and im not listening to the other albums enough.

i really love the last minute or so of Houses of the Holy. I've also just discovered that "When the Levee Breaks" is fantastic. plant had a little more range than i realized.

― ryan, Saturday, 21 April 2007 03:41 (seventeen years ago) link

"When The Levee Breaks" was actually the first time I ever took any positive notice of Led Zeppelin, I'm serious. It was like 1991 or so, and I heard that and I was like "Wait a minute, Led Zep aren't so bad, listen to that drum sound on this song etc." and then soon after that shoegazing band Chapterhouse came along and ripped off the drum sound from that song for their popular single "Pearl". Wasn't it? And I said to my friend who was crazy about Chapterhouse "listen to this, this is where they got it from" but of course my friend didn't care or whatever.

― Bimble, Saturday, 21 April 2007 03:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey hey momma, whatssa matter here?

― Bimble, Saturday, 21 April 2007 03:49 (seventeen years ago) link

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