I’ve always enjoyed their music, but I’ve never really listened to them until a while ago. I had Pandora going and this song came up, and I really dug it. I’m started to get into them and I’m starting out with Led Zeppelin I. Are there any albums in particular you would recommend I listen to (aside from the obvious IV)?
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
[quote]Dustin wrote:
Anywho, Achilles is also my favorite Zep song. This live version is the best one I’ve ever found.
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You hear Plant introducing the song as “The Wheelchair Piece”. Presence was recorded after Plant had a major auto accident. They’ve said he basically recorded the album vox sitting in a wheelchair with a huge cast on his leg.[/quote]
Wasn’t that the crash he had when trying desperately to reach “tax exile” status?
lol
[quote]Haavik wrote:
I’ve always enjoyed their music, but I’ve never really listened to them until a while ago. I had Pandora going and this song came up, and I really dug it. I’m started to get into them and I’m starting out with Led Zeppelin I. Are there any albums in particular you would recommend I listen to (aside from the obvious IV)?[/quote]
Start with I and just go in order. You hear them evolve over time.
I’m partial to II, Houses of the Holy, and Phys.Graffiti.
I have to admit that I’ve heard “Stairway to Heaven” enough. I know that’s their ‘iconic’ song, but far from one of my favorites, or even one of their best songs (IMO).
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
I have to admit that I’ve heard “Stairway to Heaven” enough. I know that’s their ‘iconic’ song, but far from one of my favorites, or even one of their best songs (IMO).[/quote]
Spoken like a true Zep Head.
I can tolerate some live versions of it, but if I hear the opening chords of it on the radio I turn the station.
[quote]Dustin wrote:
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
[quote]Dustin wrote:
Anywho, Achilles is also my favorite Zep song. This live version is the best one I’ve ever found.
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You hear Plant introducing the song as “The Wheelchair Piece”. Presence was recorded after Plant had a major auto accident. They’ve said he basically recorded the album vox sitting in a wheelchair with a huge cast on his leg.[/quote]
Indeed, this is true.[/quote]
Minute 2:38 is pure gold Dustin. That is one of my alltime favorite “make you tingle moments” in any song by any band. That little fill gets the hair on the back of my neck to stand up every time. Thank god my older sister’s had good taste in music cause I was raised on this stuff.
[quote]bond james bond wrote:
[quote]Dustin wrote:
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
[quote]Dustin wrote:
Anywho, Achilles is also my favorite Zep song. This live version is the best one I’ve ever found.
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You hear Plant introducing the song as “The Wheelchair Piece”. Presence was recorded after Plant had a major auto accident. They’ve said he basically recorded the album vox sitting in a wheelchair with a huge cast on his leg.[/quote]
Indeed, this is true.[/quote]
Minute 2:38 is pure gold Dustin. That is one of my alltime favorite “make you tingle moments” in any song by any band. That little fill gets the hair on the back of my neck to stand up every time. Thank god my older sister’s had good taste in music cause I was raised on this stuff.
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There was a funny but true statement made in the comments section on this youtube video where someone said, “Bonzo is pillaging villages in this song”.
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
[quote]Haavik wrote:
I’ve always enjoyed their music, but I’ve never really listened to them until a while ago. I had Pandora going and this song came up, and I really dug it. I’m started to get into them and I’m starting out with Led Zeppelin I. Are there any albums in particular you would recommend I listen to (aside from the obvious IV)?[/quote]
Start with I and just go in order. You hear them evolve over time.
I’m partial to II, Houses of the Holy, and Phys.Graffiti.
I have to admit that I’ve heard “Stairway to Heaven” enough. I know that’s their ‘iconic’ song, but far from one of my favorites, or even one of their best songs (IMO).[/quote]
Man, “Stairway” is a great song and should stand on it’s own, but it kinda gets pushed to the back because of it’s status. It’s like it being cool makes it uncool. But, I will say that it’s not in my top 10 of Zep songs. I’ve always kinda thought that with any great band their truly good stuff isn’t what you hear on the radio, it’s what you gotta go find. Zep proves that, at least to me.
[quote]WolBarret wrote:
Whoa, whoa, whoa…
Whiteflash likes Rock Music? WTF?!
What’s next, you play Golf?[/quote]
Haha. Not well. Also, your av is awesome.
More ‘proto punk/metal’:
1970 Royal Albert Hall concert is one of my faves.
I ache for Led Zep
Can anyone seriously name me a better 5 stretch of albums?
Physical Graffiti is pure peak
Sick Again is the sort of tune you would hear in a strip club while you’re being used as a human battering by the bouncers for trying to cop a feel of a strippers tit
[quote]Haavik wrote:
I’ve always enjoyed their music, but I’ve never really listened to them until a while ago. I had Pandora going and this song came up, and I really dug it. I’m started to get into them and I’m starting out with Led Zeppelin I. Are there any albums in particular you would recommend I listen to (aside from the obvious IV)?[/quote]
Let’s narrow it down by stating what albums I don’t recommend.
another powerhouse example of feel, groove, rhythm and dynamic musicianship from everyone. Half the goddamn song feels syncopated sometimes. And of course Bonham shows why he has the most famous right foot in rock music.
My favorite band of all time.
[quote]Haavik wrote:
I’ve always enjoyed their music, but I’ve never really listened to them until a while ago. I had Pandora going and this song came up, and I really dug it. I’m started to get into them and I’m starting out with Led Zeppelin I. Are there any albums in particular you would recommend I listen to (aside from the obvious IV)?[/quote]
Depends on what kind of music you like because there are some Zep albums you wouldn’t think its them because the songs are so different. If you like I, then you will probably also like II and IV. I think you should listen to them chronologically (thanks Wikipedia). You capture their maturity and development.
* Led Zeppelin (1969)
* Led Zeppelin II (1969)
* Led Zeppelin III (1970)
* Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
* Houses of the Holy (1973)
* Physical Graffiti (1975)
* Presence (1976)
* In Through the Out Door (1979)
* Coda (1982)
Enjoy…
^^^ Just wanted to say that “Coda” was a collection of outtakes from various sessions, not an actual album. Bonham died in '80.
A LITTLE TRIVIA
Anyone who loves Stone Temple Pilots know that Zep is an influence to guitarist Dean DeLeo.
Listen to their song “Bi-Polar Bear” from the “Shangri-La Dee Da” album.
Go to 2:46 on the track and tell me what Zep song is played as an homage in the guitar solo.
(Sorry, there’s no YouTube video available)
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
^^^ Just wanted to say that “Coda” was a collection of outtakes from various sessions, not an actual album. Bonham died in '80.[/quote]
That’s correct.
Incidentally, the Willie Dixon song “I Can’t Quit You Baby” is just so damned smokin’ on CODA. WAY better than the one on LZI.
Any Zep fan should have “It Might Get Loud” their DVD collection. Simply awesome.
[quote]binky wrote:
Any Zep fan should have “It Might Get Loud” their DVD collection. Simply awesome.[/quote]
I’m a lifelong huge Zep fan, but if that lame hack Jack White is involved, I’m fucking outta there.
[quote]binky wrote:
[quote]Haavik wrote:
I’ve always enjoyed their music, but I’ve never really listened to them until a while ago. I had Pandora going and this song came up, and I really dug it. I’m started to get into them and I’m starting out with Led Zeppelin I. Are there any albums in particular you would recommend I listen to (aside from the obvious IV)?[/quote]
Depends on what kind of music you like because there are some Zep albums you wouldn’t think its them because the songs are so different. If you like I, then you will probably also like II and IV. I think you should listen to them chronologically (thanks Wikipedia). You capture their maturity and development.
* Led Zeppelin (1969)
* Led Zeppelin II (1969)
* Led Zeppelin III (1970)
* Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
* Houses of the Holy (1973)
* Physical Graffiti (1975)
* Presence (1976)
* In Through the Out Door (1979)
* Coda (1982)
Enjoy…
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Also, check out the BBC Sessions. Disc one perfectly captures the raw, punk-type, early heavy metal-type sound they had right from the start. Disc two is a concert from '71 at the Lyceum that features some great shit from the first three albums, plus some of the earliest known live recordings of Black Dog, Stairway to Heaven and Going to California. These were recorded well before IV came out.
How the West Was Won (cd and dvd) is essential as well. Three discs with a great live version of The Ocean (a personal favorite) from '72. Again, some very early live versions of the stuff from Houses of the Holy since the album would not come out for several months afterward. The Song Remains the Same is really good, although I wouldn’t say the film is essential, just the album.