― Al (sitcom), Monday, 16 May 2005 00:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 May 2005 01:34 (eighteen years ago) link
An unmentioned song I still go back to: the beautiful synth ballad "Thru With The Two Step" from Principle of Moments. Man, I wish he'd locked into that sound/vibe and just stayed there....
― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Monday, 16 May 2005 05:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 16 May 2005 06:24 (eighteen years ago) link
I like Robert Plant's first three records (the Robbie Blunt trilogy) a lot, and appreciate the effort on Plant's part to make them NOT sound like Zeppelin. Which would've been a mistake, considering how his voice has deteriorated over the years - couldn't hit the high notes anymore. His next few weren't very good at all, although sampling the Beastie Boys was a clever move. "Calling To You" and "Tie Die On The Highway" were pretty spacey. (Incidentally, what the heck was up with those ultra-arcane song titles, anyway? Were they dope-inspired? pulled at random out of a hat? i-ching toss-results? or just inside jokes? Dunno; but one of the few that made sense: "Mystery Title"!
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 16 May 2005 06:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 16 May 2005 12:32 (eighteen years ago) link
He has since irritatingly renounced said efforts, alas.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 May 2005 13:33 (eighteen years ago) link
Actually I didn't even know there was one!
I have to say I kinda regret not getting The Principle of Moments back when I heard "Big Log" and "In the Mood" on the radio in upstate New York -- both reasonably big hits and spun quite a bit. I was 12 then and had I picked up the album and really gotten into it, it would have been interesting to see how I viewed Led Zep and much else in retrospect.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 May 2005 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link
I think Zeppelin's cover art is/was unfairly derided...most of it is really good. Obv. it was Page (the former art student), who was in charge of hiring Hipgnosis.
― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 04:04 (eighteen years ago) link
One of the Hipgnosis guys (most likely Storm Thorgerson) proposed artwork for Houses Of The Holy with a picture of a tennis match on the cover. When asked what it meant, he said "Don't you get it? Racket!" and that was the end of that.
― Deluxe (Damian), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 10:45 (eighteen years ago) link
Funny that PIL ended up doing Kashmir live
I saw them do as their opening number on the Album tour....only the band played it before Lydon took the stage (releaving him of the burden of singing it).
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:07 (eighteen years ago) link
I can't belive how many times I've heard the latest single in the last six weeks; it's not something that would make me search out this album, but the one acoustic track I did hear was surprisingly good. How many songs on the album are like that?
― Vic Funk, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 12:41 (eighteen years ago) link
Oh, the pumping irony.
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link
100 Best Album Covers
If these are the 100 best, rock and roll is a very boring beast.
I recieved this book as a gift a few years ago, and man, is it pretentious and dull. Here is 2% of the list:http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000025NCI.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004YS2O.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
That's right. Yer lookin' at TWO OF THE ONE-HUNDRED BEST ALBUM COVERS OF ALL TIME.
Some of the list is some of the hundred best, but there's a lot of stinkers in there, too. I would only suggest reading this at the bookstore while waiting for your mate to finish shopping.
(I would've put this on another thread, but A.) Storm Thorgerson's name has already been dropped in here like he was Candyman and B.) This is an Alex in NYC thread, so album cover talk shouldn't be discouraged.)
Take a wild guess which LZ cover they liked the best?
http://www.starland.com/sf-sc/sf01/images/Monolith/Monolith.jpg
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link
Funny that PIL ended up doing Kashmir liveSomeone, somewhere HAS to have a copy of this...?
― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 18 July 2005 02:44 (eighteen years ago) link
I'll have more to write when I've absorbed it, but this proves that the man was NOT coasting (I checked this album's sales, just as a by-the-way; it's his lowest-selling '80s album, and the Zep fans didn't forgive him until he made Now & Zen.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 21:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 21:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 22:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link
Not sure about BAD - quite possible, given the man's eclectic tastes. One of his main inspirations around this time was Peter Gabriel.
― Deluxe (Damian), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 23:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 29 May 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link
a shame that there was no Youtube when i originally posted in this thread, about how 80s cheesy the video for "sea of love" is. here it is, in all of its Zorba-the-Greek/Frank-Zappa-lookalike-standing-around-a-xylophone-and-wearing-a-speedo glory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9-026ZCKR8
― there can be only but steam that smells of shit and weaklingness (Eisbaer), Friday, 19 February 2010 05:27 (fourteen years ago) link
hey so fate of nations is actually an outstanding fucking record just fyi
― Twink Will Ferrell (J0hn D.), Friday, 2 April 2010 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I liked "29 Palms" at the time. There aren't many Plant solo moments I haven't enjoyed, actually.
― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 April 2010 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah it's like even the ones that don't seem good at the time come to sound pretty awesome if you just set 'em aside to ripen
― Twink Will Ferrell (J0hn D.), Friday, 2 April 2010 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Back in '06, Rhino boxed all his solo stuff; I reviewed it for the Voice. (Please ignore the clumsy placement of the parenthetical about Phil Collins; yes, I know he didn't drum for Led Zeppelin.)
http://www.villagevoice.com/2006-11-28/music/whole-lotta-universal-love/
― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Friday, 2 April 2010 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
a "colonalist Paul Simon way"?!
― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 April 2010 15:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry – I know this ain't the Vampire Weekend thread.
― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 April 2010 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link
need moar talking about how amazing his videos were --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImpSyGTzot0
― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 10 April 2010 08:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I am so in love with that 'In the Mood' vid
― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 10 April 2010 08:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Did he ever say exactly why he dislikes those early solo records?
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Saturday, 10 April 2010 08:51 (fourteen years ago) link
*does* he dislike them? where did you ever get that impression?
― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 10 April 2010 08:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I may be under the spell of xhuxk's interview/review of Now & Zen, but so what: the album sounds great now.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 31 July 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
I remember being a kid and hearing "In the Mood" and just feeling like it was so wonderfully from outer space. Classic for all time.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 31 July 2011 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry, "Tall Cool One" is entirely awkward and embarassing.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, November 4, 2003
as usual so wrong
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 August 2011 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
you were pumping iron while i was pumping irony
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 03:11 (nine months ago) link
Heaven knows!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 03:13 (nine months ago) link