Best Led Zeppelin Album?

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Houses of the HOly is like surprisingly mindblowing

― Surmounter, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I voted for Physical Graffiti because I wanted to

The last time I was at Strictly Discs I found a used copy of the remastered In Through the Out Door and bought it. My least favorite clerk was like "Really? Out of all their albums?" I said "IT IS AWESOME." Just like that. He meekly replied "most people go for one of the others" and I raised myself to my full eight feet, unfurled my black leathery wings, and intoned ""I AM NOT MOST PEOPLE""

he got the hint i think

― Dimension 5ive, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link

fuckn record store clerks

Okay, I'm reviving my old "rank anything" thread for this.

― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Trampled Under Foot FTW

― Hans Rott, Thursday, 12 April 2007 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link

or Dazed And Confused (but really, like the beatles and the stones and bowie, theres LOADS to choose from.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link

IV. It has "Stairway To Heaven" and also a couple nice acoustic numbers. But most of the others have their moments too.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 12 April 2007 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link

this thread has encouraged me to get drunk & listen to Physical Grafitti so right on this thread

― Hans Rott, Thursday, 12 April 2007 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link

house of the holy! all the good stuff about both the early blooze stuff and the later period epic 10 minute stuff rolled into one.

― Emily Bjurnhjam, Thursday, 12 April 2007 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

The 1st 6 are pretty much perfect.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 13 April 2007 00:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Which one was the "metal" one again? That one.

― NYCNative, Friday, 13 April 2007 00:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm actually surprised that there's much disagreement on the issue. Houses of the Holy is, to my mind, easily best. Best song: the Song Remains the Same.

― professor ganson, Friday, 13 April 2007 01:40 (seventeen years ago) link

― funny farm, Friday, 13 April 2007 01:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Which one was the "metal" one again? That one.

That will be II. III is seen as the folk one.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 13 April 2007 01:59 (seventeen years ago) link

1. Whole Lotta Love
2. What Is and What Should Never Be
3. The Lemon Song
4. Thank You
5. Heartbreaker
6. Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)
7. Ramble On
8. Moby Dick
9. Bring It on Home

Right. II it is. \m/

― NYCNative, Friday, 13 April 2007 02:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I wonder how many votes None of them, I Don't Like Led Zeppelin will get? Since Sabbath got 6 votes for that option.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 13 April 2007 02:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Jeez, the ONLY Led Zep studio opus I've never considered my favourite at one time or another is HOTH! (But just give it time, and...). I like M@tt's answer - that third disc spotlights Zep at it's longest and widest. But I think I'm gonna be perverse and say I - if II is their "metal" album and III is their "folk" album, then I guess I is their "psychedelic" album.

Never thought I'd say this but I estimate no more than 30-35 listenings to "Stairway" will be enough to make me sick of it forever (unless I'm high on something). Fuggin' JACK-FM...

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 13 April 2007 03:05 (seventeen years ago) link

So so (ZOSO) close btw "Houses" and "In Through the Out Door", but Houses it is I think. "Dancing Days"!

― President Evil, Friday, 13 April 2007 03:12 (seventeen years ago) link

HOWEVER right now i am listening to "achilles last stand" and this song alone makes a serious case for "presence". oh man. oh man.

but i still stand by HOTH.

― Emily Bjurnhjam, Friday, 13 April 2007 03:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Achilles Last Stand is definitely one of my most favourite tracks EVER.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 13 April 2007 10:36 (seventeen years ago) link

But fuck me, The Rover is sooooooooo good. Played that a few times in a row this morning.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Tough poll. Went for II in the end but it could easily have been I or III or IV or Graffiti.

― onimo, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:20 (seventeen years ago) link

HOTH is seriously let down by 'd'yer maker'. although 'over the hills' makes up ferrit.

― m the g, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Might have gone for HOTH too. Particularly because of "D'yer Maker", which is GREAT!

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I know there's backlash against "Stairway" for being the most played song in the history of ever, but there's no denying that it's just an astonishing piece of music.

stairway was the last zep song i heard as a teenager - had all the other albums, left IV till last cos it was supposed to be the best, and i was much more canon-respectful then. i hate stairway.

PG/III for me. but they're ALL good.

― stevie, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:52 (seventeen years ago) link

IV is a great singles album. All of the songs on it are good and catchy, but none of them are really favorites of mine (maybe Black Dog).

III is my favorite, because its the album I enjoy the most all the way through, and because it opens with Immigrant Song and has Out on the Tiles.

Phys. Graffiti might be tied with III for me if the fat were cut and it were collapsed into a single album.

I and II are a bit played out for me and Houses of the Holy might be my favorite if Dyer Maker and The Bridge were replaced with better songs (though the latter is fun).

― Hurting 2, Friday, 13 April 2007 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link

that rhythmic trip bit in 'black dog' still makes my jaw drop every time. just genius. 'stairway's never been a favourite, and not through over-exposure. I've just never really been fond of the drippiness of the first half. I always skip that and 'battle of evermore'.

III I don't get on with so much. best opening track of any album ever, but I've never been that keen on LZ's quieter, folkier side (although 'celebration day' and 'gallows pole' are great). but 'since I've been loving you' is just too overblown and sickly for words.

this thread is making me put on 'how the west was won'. right...NOW.

― m the g, Friday, 13 April 2007 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I believe Page's favorite album is Presence. That's the one where he recorded all the guitar overdubs in a week-long heroin haze...

― calstars, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Physical Graffiti. That first six-song disc is just a marathon of world-crushing awesomeness.

― unperson, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

II is killer all the way through

― gman, Friday, 13 April 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Physical Graffiti. That first six-song disc is just a marathon of world-crushing awesomeness.

Agreed!

I always skip that and 'battle of evermore'.

Battle Of Evermore is great!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 13 April 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Physical Graffitti has to be one of the best drumming albums ever. The guy just pummels throughout. cf. "In My Time of Dying".

― Bill Magill, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

"Living Loving Maid" can eat whatever dick it wants, as long as it ain't mine. THREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

― David R., Friday, 13 April 2007 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I vote for "Destroyer"

― Stormy Davis, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

mmm. wolverhampton rock city.

― m the g, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Someone else can do the best bootlegs poll..

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link

"Battle of Evermore" is one of my favorite zeppelin tracks. Positively epic.

― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Rock And Roll is my fave on IV. Strangely I've never got tired of hearing that one.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Chrysler commercials just about destroyed that one for me.

― Rock Hardy, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Despite claims above and in a book I wrote once that I prefer a different title, I went with Physical Graffiti (both quality and quantity.) (I did consider picking In Through the Out Door for its underratedness, however.)

― xhuxk, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry! Didn't mean to put words in your mouth. I just figured that, since you rated it as the number one metal album of all time in said book, you might like it somewhat.

― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link

He changed his mind about lots of things in that book though.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I DO still like it somewhat! (Actually, more than somewhat.) (And all their other albums, too.)

― xhuxk, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:40 (seventeen years ago) link

This thread has caused me to reconsider my previously held belief that I was forever burnt out on Led Zeppelin, take out my old CDs, and discover that I am not, in fact, burnt out on Zeppelin at all. Thank you.

― Jeff Treppel, Saturday, 14 April 2007 01:34 (seventeen years ago) link

You're welcome! I do also hope you will now go dig out some Funkadelic albums !

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 14 April 2007 01:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Believe it or not, I don't have any Funkadelic albums, mostly because I never knew where to start. I suspect that the results of that particular thread will be quite useful in that regard.

― Jeff Treppel, Saturday, 14 April 2007 02:05 (seventeen years ago) link

early and mid period would be the best for you.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 14 April 2007 02:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Zep enthusiasm is self-rejuvenating, like virginity.

― Rock Hardy, Saturday, 14 April 2007 02:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Personal fave, and my vote: HOTH. But with Zep, I really can't argue with any of the choices.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Saturday, 14 April 2007 02:58 (seventeen years ago) link

My mind wants so bad to say Presence, but my heart slaps me on the face and says "you know better": Physical Graffiti.

I wish I could get excited about Houses of The Holy...despite the fact that it contains two of my absolute fave songs by them, it's ruined by some tracks that have just been played too many damn times on the radio etc...I also happen to feel that II and IV suffer from the same affliction. I guess I just feel lucky that PG somehow came through all that with some purity. I kindof wish the soundtrack to the Song Remains The Same could have been a choice here. But I quite like III as well.

― Bimble, Saturday, 14 April 2007 04:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Why do you "kind of" wish the soundtrack to The Song Remains The Same could have been a choice here? In the interest of democracy? Or because it was a serious contender? A SERIOUS contender? No, I mean a S-E-R-I-O-U-S contender.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Saturday, 14 April 2007 06:42 (seventeen years ago) link

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Love the crispness of the drums, the excitement, and the middle section of "we're gonna groove." Favorite b side, besting the formula of "traveling riverside" and ultimate banality of "hey hey what can I do"

― calstars, Thursday, 6 April 2017 15:26 (seven years ago) link

is there a studio version of that? only one i've heard is from the live DVD @ albert hall

― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 6 April 2017 15:28 (seven years ago) link

Yes on Coda

― calstars, Thursday, 6 April 2017 15:53 (seven years ago) link

the albert hall version is the one on Coda…only difference is vocal and guitar overdubs…

― veronica moser, Thursday, 6 April 2017 17:37 (seven years ago) link

it's been a long time since the book of love

― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 8 April 2017 00:13 (seven years ago) link

making vows, just can't work right
OH YEAH
open yours arms [Xhowever many time motherfuckers], let me love come running in, oh yeah
it's been a long time

― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 8 April 2017 00:16 (seven years ago) link

who isn't robert plant?

― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 8 April 2017 00:21 (seven years ago) link

it's a super close race butI is my favorite most of the time. they got deeper and more majestic later on but the first album is such a solid explosion of rock power, with lots of neat quiet parts too.

― a but (brimstead), Saturday, 8 April 2017 00:33 (seven years ago) link

oh i haven't really listened to the three albums after Physical Graffiti

― a but (brimstead), Saturday, 8 April 2017 00:35 (seven years ago) link

'Achilles Last Stand' from Presence is so classic it isn't even funny, and may be their best ever track. It's certainly my favourite thing they've ever done - the rest of the album could never have possibly lived up to it. The highest point of Led Zeppelin, IMO.

― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Saturday, 8 April 2017 00:45 (seven years ago) link

Achilles gets a lot of love in this household. Definitely an all time Page production.

― PURE, BEAUTIFUL OIL (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 8 April 2017 02:33 (seven years ago) link

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