Best Led Zeppelin Album?

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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

IV for blackdog

that song alone makes it the best album...

― wesley useche, Saturday, 14 April 2007 08:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the 1st 4 albums are possibly the ones most people get sick of. PG for some reason doesn't (despite having Kashmir on it).

Fave current track of the last few days - In The Evening. Blasted that out a lot.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 14 April 2007 12:42 (seventeen years ago) link

"I think the 1st 4 albums are possibly the ones most people get sick of."

Yeah, some of the songs seem to get more complex on Houses and PG, so they reward revisiting. (Think of the song Song Remains the Same.)

― professor ganson, Saturday, 14 April 2007 13:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I revisit them all anyway. But you're right about PG. That's the one I tend to play.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 15 April 2007 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link

i voted for III cuz it rules!!!! okay, they all rule. my faves are I, III, IV. though i do love them all. whenever i play the third album i can't stop thinking that life is unbelievably beautiful and that anything is possible.

― scott seward, Sunday, 15 April 2007 00:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I finally picked [i}In Through The Out Door[/i].

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 15 April 2007 00:40 (seventeen years ago) link

i can't help but think that picking in through the out door makes you a little crazy. and i love that album too! still...
how much do i love i'm gonna crawl? a lot.

― scott seward, Sunday, 15 April 2007 00:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Does anyone else like Carouselambra on In throught the out door? I still enjoy hearing that every few years. This was the first Zep album I heard; I must have been 10 or 11 years old. I loved it. I still own the 8-track-- the only one I have. Of course, I have no way to play it.

― professor ganson, Sunday, 15 April 2007 01:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh yes, I've gone on and on about Carouselambra here on other threads. It was quite literally the song that made me finally give them an honest try despite being a band I had been determined for years not to touch with a ten foot pole.

Sigh. I'm still feeling guilty that I didn't vote for Presence. Maybe we can do this again next year? In other news, as of today I am finally the proud owner of PG on VINYL. Thanks to the ILMer named sleeve for the inspiration!

― Bimble, Sunday, 15 April 2007 02:19 (seventeen years ago) link

"Carouselambra"'s so good it has its own thread -- http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=42934

― Rock Hardy, Sunday, 15 April 2007 03:33 (seventeen years ago) link

did anyone vote for I?

― Charlie Howard, Sunday, 15 April 2007 08:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I wish that all the people who voted II and IV had voted I.

― Bimble, Sunday, 15 April 2007 08:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I is still the album I least play out of the 1st 6. Even if I wanna play Dazed And Confused I generally will listen to the amazing bbc sessions version.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 15 April 2007 13:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I had forgotten all about that other thread http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=42934. Thanks for the reminder.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 15 April 2007 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Damnit "3"'s a good choice too. Tbh they're so consistent, it comes down to extramusical things, like "Houses" kinda shows them being all versatile, "ITTOD"'s all disco and it's an odd not v canonical or whatever choice, "PG"'s a double. Whatevs. Good band.

― President Evil, Monday, 16 April 2007 08:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Good? Just good?

Also, In Through The Out Door is not "all disco" but you're right about it being an odd choice.

― Bimble, Monday, 16 April 2007 08:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Tbh they're so consistent

That's what I find amazing about such a big band. Plus 6 amazing albums in 6 years. Hardly anyone, nevermind big bands, makes an album every year. Bands are lucky if they have 2 or 3 albums in that time.
Maybe all bands should just record and record while they have high creativity.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 16 April 2007 10:26 (seventeen years ago) link

this thread inspired me to go out and buy ALL their albums for the first time.

― ryan, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link

III for me. but on another day it could've been I II IV or H-of-H.

― m coleman, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Go, Ryan!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

haven't had time to really listen to them all the way through yet, but III is gorgeous, especially "That's the Way" and basically the whole second half--had no idea they did any songs like that!

And "Achilles Last Stand" owns the entire recorded output of Mars Volta.

― ryan, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link

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