I skipped to the end/front and don't think I agree with #1, but I guess I'll try to read through the entire list before getting worked up.
You know what? It's just a list, and I'm not going to get worked up at all.
Re: Getting the Led out
Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2015 6:01 am
by rass
OK, I lied.
Forget about the ranking, but Your Time is Gonna Come is misogynistic? If so, has there ever been a jilted lover/break up rock song that isn't?
Re: Getting the Led out
Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2015 6:11 am
by rass
Hot Dog at 28?
Re: Getting the Led out
Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2015 6:20 am
by rass
Jeez.... This guys HATES Bonzo...
A year after the release of In Through the Out Door, the band's seventh studio album, drummer John Bonham died, choking to death on his own vomit after a heroic day of drinking at Jimmy Page's mansion. It was a fitting end for this not-quite-human.
Re: Getting the Led out
Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2015 12:19 am
by MaxWebster
i actually hate 3 of the "top 5" - and i like Zeppelin.
(...i think...?)
Re: Getting the Led out
Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2015 5:22 am
by Pruitt
MaxWebster wrote:i actually hate 3 of the "top 5" - and i like Zeppelin.
(...i think...?)
"Hate" might be a but strong, but that top 5 is very predictable.
Love Zeppelin, think my favorite comes in at #34 - weird to me, because "How Many More Times" is more than just a speaker-shredding epic... it is the blueprint for what made them one of the greatest bands of all time.
Re: Getting the Led out
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 9:41 pm
by MaxWebster
can't stand Kashmir. Whole Lotta Love is terrible, one riff, a lot of kinda-cool but now tough to listen to studio effects, an admittedly great solo, then the same old boring. Dazed and Confused bores me. my "I think...?" was me questioning whether i actually do like the band.
but then i see 39 What Is And What Should Never Be and goddammit everytime i put that vinyl on that's the song that f'ng kills me. possibly because if it were released today you'd never have to reach for the volume knob because it would be compressed to shit and all those sweet quiet parts would be just as loud as when Bonzo kicks it. That song is easily in my top 5 Zep. when you get into the list down in the 30s, 40s, 50s... some of my faves.
but i'm not anti-single by any means. e.g. Good Times Bad Times - killer.
Re: Getting the Led out
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 10:23 pm
by DC47
I loved the early guitar riff songs and the blues done Zep style. But my list would push up half the songs on Houses of the Holy to the top 15. This is just a personal reaction, but that's what lists are.
I experienced that album as a real surprise. It was a change of artistic direction that worked -- in a domain where change usually means serious decline if not artistic bankruptcy. This album was much more sophisticated than early Zep. There were more interlaced parts that made the whole of each song, rather than a reliance on heavy riffing (as great as it was).
It was metaphorically like moving from listening to Zep on the radio or a cheap one-piece stereo, to listening to them on a state-of-the-art stereo system. The metaphor was actually the reality for me. It could be that I couldn't have dug Houses without having spent my college money on a killer stereo set-up. A few more years of listening to rock music helped too. I might not have taken to Houses earlier.
In any event, while I don't think Houses is uniformly great, the best half of those songs stand up well with the usual Greatest Hits list of power-riffing and mad drumming.
Oh, I also hate Kashmir.
I recall my deep disappointment that they couldn't continue combining a more sophisticated approach to music with recording something that had rock and roll soul. That was pretty much it for me appreciating new Zeppelin material. It was not a bad thing that they wrapped it up when they did.
Re: Getting the Led out
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 11:09 pm
by Rush2112
DC47 wrote:
Oh, I also hate Kashmir.
You guys really need to smoke more dope (it's not in my top 10, but I can't say I haven't enjoyed it.)
Max, What Is... is the shite...I also love Fool In The Rain and All of My Love, but for memory specific reasons.
Re: Getting the Led out
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 12:42 am
by DC47
I did my share. And it was no doubt part of my connection to the inner workings of Houses of the Holy. But it would have taken harder stuff for me to really get behind Kashmir. Hate is too strong. But I was deeply disappointed. Like when the Eagles, who I dug from the first album (and who opened at the first rock concert I saw), went all disco and ballady. Okay, not quite that bad.
Re: Getting the Led out
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 5:43 am
by Pruitt
Like "Kashmir" and used to love it.
How about that "Achilles Last Stand?" I may still be able to put a solid ten minutes on the air guitar to that epic.
Re: Getting the Led out
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 8:46 am
by Shirley
I'm with Max on What Is... Great song. Zeppelin II has always been my favorite Zep album. Just great from start to finish, that takes you up and down, loud and quiet. As a kid, Ramble On was always my favorite Zeppelin song, but Bring It On Home has always been a secret favorite as well. I love that you never hear it on the radio.
Re: Getting the Led out
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 8:59 am
by Jerloma
Bring It On Home makes me want to jump through a fucking wall. Definitely in my top 10.
Kashmir - not so much.
Re: Getting the Led out
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 11:01 am
by sancarlos
Many favorite Zeppelin songs aren't that highly ranked. My two favorites are The Rover, and Rock and Roll. Not a big Kashmir fan. I never turn the radio away from certain other songs, like Trampled Under Foot, Communication Breakdown, Over the Hills and Far Away, Song Remains the Same, Boogie with Stu, Houses of the Holy...
Re: Getting the Led out
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 11:31 am
by DaveInSeattle
My fave LZ song (The Rain Song) came in at #27.
That list is a traveshamockery.
Re: Getting the Led out
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 7:41 pm
by DC47
Pruitt wrote:Like "Kashmir" and used to love it.
How about that "Achilles Last Stand?" I may still be able to put a solid ten minutes on the air guitar to that epic.
I once could. But I think I'd need to go with the air bong to do it today.
A_B wrote: ↑Fri May 22, 2020 8:01 pm
My top ten zep songs would probably be different from day to day.
Fair point but black dog has to always be in there somewhere.
Weirdly my top two are when the levee breaks and going to California but black dog is probably a solid 3.
Agreed. Black dog isn’t hands down #1 but it’s too good and always comes through.
D - my top 3 are stairway (has to be), black dog and a mix of 5-6 that rotate - like AB intimated above.
Re: Getting the Led out
Posted: Fri May 22, 2020 8:12 pm
by teeteebee
Also Kashmir lost appeal to me when they let Combs use it but it such an awesome song.
Re: Getting the Led out
Posted: Fri May 22, 2020 8:17 pm
by mister d
As a serious devotee to another band(s) I don’t at all want to detract from the nerdery here ... but does it bother you all that Stairway is the song? I feel like if I loved Zepplin I’d be furious that’s what non-fan dickheads like me first thought of.