Yes quite...


On another note, IV used to hold the most appeal to me, until I really started to properly listen to their first three albums, all of which have qualities which are much better than IV, although IV still has the best first three song combination of any zeppelin album imho.

Physical Graffiti :)

Led Zeppelin is part of the reason i love music

Well... yeah, their first 4 albums were the best

This is probably the best Led Zep performance I've seen:

YouTube - Led Zeppelin - Dazed and Confused (London 1969)

I must admit, led zeppelin was what got me really researching music. i listened to kashmir, and i wondered if i had been miising out, now i have nerly every album, plus 300 other great and classic rock songs

Ive had the Led Zeppelin Early Days & Latter Days since I was like 13 or so but Ive come to appreciate them more in the past couple of years. I have since discovered Robert Plant's solo work which I prefer to Led Zeppelin, check out the albums 'Pictures At Eleven' & 'Fate Of Nations'. I also have self titled 'Led Zeppelin' album (the one with 'Black Dog' & 'Rock & Roll' on it) + 'Mothership' which is another compilation. I also downloaded Physical Graffiti but havent got round to listening to it yet (have heard a few tracks on the PlanetRock station though).
After recentley discovering Robert Plant's album 'Pictures At Eleven' I would rather listen to Robert Plant's solo works than Led Zeppelin anyday.
Dont get me wrong though, Led Zeppelin ****ing rock, especially on the song 'Rock & Roll' ;)

zep is almost a religion to me. i have almost 100 zep songs on my ipod and i have 5 zep album on vinyl IM ADDICTED, alwas have ben alwas will be

Physical Graffiti is a great album, but Plants voice had noticeably weakened due to constant touring. IV is their diverse and well rounded masterpiece, but I love I and II. The bottom end, riffs, and Plant singing at full force are going to make those classics hold up forever.

I just watched "The Song Remains the Same" again. That's strong stuff.
Led Zeppelin was one of the most powerful and unique bands in the world.
The music stands the test of time.

My favorite songs and why:

#1
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Even though they didn't write this song... they sure as hell sound like they did. The intensity that Robert Plant sings this makes my heart race at times. And the genius guitar work by Jimmy doesn't hurt things one bit. The transitions that take the soft parts into the loud choruses just pause enough make you want that intense chorus so bad. God I love it. And something tells me Robert Plant used this line on a few women in his day hehe.

#2
Hey Hey What Can I Do
The lyrics are completely what sold me on this song. Robert makes you feel for him in this one, because hey hey what can he possible do? He loves the woman, but, she's just a good ol fashion skank and thats all there is to it

(Not the whole song just the best part)
Sunday morning when we go down to church
See the menfolks standin' in line
Don´t say they come to pray to the Lord
but when my little girl, looks so fine
In the evening when the sun is sinkin' low
Everybody's with the one they love
I walk the town, Keep a-searchin' all around
Lookin' for my street corner girl

I got a woman, wanna ball all day
I got a woman, she won't be true, no no
I got a woman, stay drunk all the time
I said I got a little woman and she won't be true

In the bars, with the men who play guitars
Singin', drinkin' and rememberin' the times
My little lover does the midnight shift
She fool around all of the time
I guess there's just one thing left for me to do
So I pack my bags and move on my way
Cause I got a worried mind
Sharin'what I thought was mine
Gonna leave her where the guitars play

#3
I Can't Quit You Babe
I will repeat the beginning of this song over and over. When he shouts AWWWWWWWWUHAAAAAAAAWWWWWW.... I CAN'T QUIT YOU.. BABE.... and the music just bursts in, it is a very statement-making beginning. I blare this one out on my speakers on the school bus all the time. People argue back and forth that Led Zep wasn't blues, and I agree that they were not exclusively blues but a good mixture of things including it. Because if you don't think this song is blues, then you gotta be crazy.

#4
What Is And What Should Never Be
Such beauty. The beginning is so gentle and sweet and then it takes a turn with that intense chorus that I love so much that takes the song to a whole....notha......level. The lazy drifty guitar bit that Jimmy plays around the middle just makes me melt.

#5
Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp
An odd choice, I know. But this just makes me so proud of Led Zeppelin because it shows that they can do about anything, and do it well. Very upbeat and feel-goody. Especially the part where Plant sings Hear the wind within the trees,
Telling mother nature bout you and me.
That opening guitar is fantastic. Jimmy had to have tore that poor guitar to shreds after this number. He definitely got the cobwebs out, thats for sure. Oh and its LIVE.

overrated. They may have been a huge influence but i will never listen to any of their songs again.

I thought you were banned? Hmmm, shame.

Great point and good post FC

I like very song really, but an especially appreciative nod for your number 2 selection, one of the only Zeppelin tunes not to make a final cut for a studio album, but a great tune nonetheless. The lyrics are fantastic: "Got a Woman stay drunk all the time" that's my favorite line.

Hahaha, it sounds like his woman does too. Great line.

Why this one didnt make the studio cut is beyond me

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This album will always be the best.

:love:

I bet none of your crappy metalcore bands have shoved dead fish parts up a woman's privates

It's great that you know the legend of the Red Snapper...

If the (non-)musical bands that you have in your signature are your favorite bands, saying Led Zeppelin is an overrated band doesn't say too good about your criteria.

¿"Bullet for my Valentine"? WTF

My big 5:

#1 Stairway to Heaven (sorry for being too original)
#2 Ten Years Gone
#3 Battle of Evermore
#4 All my love
#5 Your time is gonna come

I love Physical Graffiti, and IV. I love every album, in fact.

III is a highly underrated album. It beats both PG and HotH IMO.

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Would you consider led zeppelin to be metal??

I came across a "Top 100 Metal Songs List" some one had compiled, and they had listed several Zeppelin songs on this list implying them to be a metal band..

What is your opinion?

a handful of songs from the better part of a dozen albums worth of material hardly makes a band metal. doesn't mean the songs don't sound like precursors to the metal style though.

if you're looking at a majority of their work, no. while they did have a few tendencies towards it, they had many more dimensions to them than that.

Zeppelin was a pretty diverse band. They did some "metal" type stuff, but many other styles also (blues, country, rock-a-billy, psychedelic, etc..) That's why they are considered one of the best rock bands in the history of music.

Yes, I totally agree. If you listen to their songs in random order it's amazing to hear all the styles they play. You also have to see things in perspective. What's considered metal nowadays doesn't compare to the 70s but you sure hear where it's coming from. And many metal bands are inspired by bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.

Cool, I was very confused for a while. And yeah, they are one of the greatest bands of all time.

Yet they did none of them particularly well and blatantly stole most of their material.

No, much of their output is hard rock, but they aren't even close to being metal.

Wow the chorus to a song sounds simular to the chorus of another song boo hoo. They played covers like any other blues band.

yes, cause no one ever stole anything from anyone, ever.

This is going to be a long thread.

Close it. Now. I'm 96 percent positive theres another one.

I'm also 100% positive it had the Led Zep theft argument in it too.

issue being most other blues bands would give credit to the original artists prior to litigation.

Quote from Jimmy Page:

"The thing is they were traditional lyrics and they went back far before a lot of people that one related them to. The riffs we did were totally different, also, from the ones that had come before, apart from something like "You Shook Me" and "I Can't Quit You," which were attributed to Willie Dixon. The thing with "Bring It On Home," Christ, there's only a tiny bit taken from Sonny Boy Williamson's version and we threw that in as a tribute to him. People say, "Oh, 'Bring It On Home' is stolen." Well, there's only a little bit in the song that relates to anything that had gone before it, just the end"

You can't trust musicians.

I think they played most of the music they did well. What is not "particularly well"? Not authentic enough? You think they were "jack of all trades, master of none"? Something like that? I have no problem with the stuff they "blatantly stole" because the blues stuff they did was passed on to them just like it was learned, borrowed (or stolen) by the black folks who were not really sure where it came from to begin with. You don't seem to know what you are talking about. If you don't like Zeppelin, fine, but I don't think you know where they are coming from.

yes some of it was called 'traditional', although a lot of that is due to contentious claims by various people claiming to be the original authors. 'hey joe' and 'house of the rising sun' are other clear examples of 'traditional' songs with claims of ownership.

but i was thinking more in terms of them having to attach the name 'killing floor' to 'the lemon song' and adding credit to Memphis Minnie for 'when the levee breaks'. plus how can one call an uncredited addition to a song a 'tribute' to the original artist? if you don't name drop the artist or list them in the credits how are people who only know the details of the music from the liner notes of the album supposed to find out?

I thinked they assumed people would take it as a reference. It's my understanding that the UK didn't really have that Black/White culture that we have here. So it's quite possible that they would do something like that without realizing white artists had been stealing from blacks.