The TPL review of it is amazing. Even tho it barely mentions my favourite.https://nobilliards.blogspot.com/2011/06/led-zeppelin-houses-of-holy.html
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 25 January 2024 19:20 (three months ago) link
I think this poll mostly gets it right, but I can't stand Dancing Days - I find it dull and plodding, and it sounds like they tried really hard to write a single. The short harmonized guitar solo/bridge is probably the only thing that saves it for me.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 25 January 2024 20:16 (three months ago) link
I like it but you can't dance to it
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 January 2024 20:17 (three months ago) link
I think I could sign off if The Ocean and Dancing Days were swapped. DD is still better than Crunge - which is kind of a throwaway - and Dyer Maker, which is deeply irritating at this point.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 25 January 2024 20:22 (three months ago) link
I like "Dancing Days". I don't like either "The Crunge" or "D'yer Maker", despite Marcello's best efforts.
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 January 2024 20:52 (three months ago) link
i think a big part of the problem with D'Yer Maker is the lyrics sound like Sting wrote them
― Deflatormouse, Thursday, 25 January 2024 21:01 (three months ago) link
Agree about Unledded, it was a current release when i was getting into this band and i think the second LZ-related album i bought (after IV) or maybe even the first. i haven't heard it in years but i listened to the studio recording of No Quarter over the summer with the Unledded version in mind and it was disappointing. I wish there were more classic rock dudes who were trying to be Najma Akhtar.
― Deflatormouse, Thursday, 25 January 2024 21:05 (three months ago) link
Sting couldn't have written them b/c the song has no awkward polysyllabic word.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 January 2024 21:14 (three months ago) link
― brimstead, Thursday, 25 January 2024 21:21 (three months ago) link
Not uniquely, no.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 25 January 2024 21:26 (three months ago) link
I’m the biggest fan on my block but I have 0.0 pct interest in hearing Clarksdale or Unledded
― calstars, Thursday, 25 January 2024 21:29 (three months ago) link
both are duds
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 25 January 2024 21:39 (three months ago) link
I forgot about the Page & Plant version of Rain Song, and also forgot that I have the Gallows Pole CD single with Rain Song as a b-side.
That middle eastern version of Four Sticks kills me.
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 25 January 2024 22:04 (three months ago) link
I just listened to this album and Over The Hills And Far Away is indeed a worthy winner.
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 January 2024 22:14 (three months ago) link