Led Zeppelin

I'm discovering this great band,never cared so much about them, but i was wrong, they are good . Made a compilation CD to put in the car

Heartbreaker
Thank You
Dazed and Confused
Over the Hills and Far Away
Inmigrant Song
The Battle of Evermore
The Rain Song
Stairway to Heaven
Kashmir
Achilles Last Stand
In the Evening
In the Light

Good tracklist? Bad? What you guys think about the band?

I absolutely love Led Zeppelin as a live unit and as an overall sound, but fucking oddly enough - I'm probably only into about 1/10th of their songs, numerically speaking. The others I can take or leave.

Outstanding group! They are my 2nd favorite band ever. The power & energy the brought to both the studio recordings & the stage were unmatched by anyone except for Queen & The Who IMHO. And no, I don't want to start a debate on who else matched their prowless. They changed the way bands were treated & paid while touring. Before Zeppelin bands took a small percent of the income a show/tour would generate. By 1970 they were taking the lions share of the take. This was unheard of at the time & a lot of the credit goes to their manager Peter Grant. Like him or despise him, he took care of that band like he would his own son. For all his gruff toughness, when Bonzo passed he was devistaed & heartbroken & walked away from the business. Anyway, enough of that. I would suggest:

How Many More Times, I Can't Quit You Babe, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You (one of the best examples of "Light & Shade"), The Lemon Song, Ramble On, Whole Lotta Love, Since I've Been Loving You (possibly Page's best solo ever), all of side 2 from Zep III, When The Leeve Breaks, The Crunge, No Quarter, The Ocean, In My Time Of Dying, Ten Years Gone, The Rover (killer opening), Bron-Yr-Aur, The Wanton Song (great unexpected show opener for the 1995 Page/Plant tour), Nobody's Fault But Mine, Hots On For Nowhere, Candy Store Rock, Tea For One, South Bound Suarez, Hot Dog, All My Love, I'm Gonna Crawl, Darlene, We're Gonna Groove, Wearing & Tearing.

Some of you may agree, some may disagree but either way, you can't go wrong with any of these songs. Anyone have anything to add? My advice is to go & buy the 2003 Led Zeppelin Dvd release, clear 5 hours from your schedule & prepare to be blown away!

my own personal zep-likes?

ITTOD - despite Page's unreliability and general absence - i love this album - it's a nice close-out of the zep story with some typical zep variations in style. all of my love, in the evening, carouselambra, south bound suarez, hot dog all very good tracks with i'm gonna crawl and fool in the rain the standouts for me
"physical" - is a flawless album. no need to discuss further.
the first four albums 0 they never put a foot wrong - all excellent. there are tracks i always considered filler, that when i go to "skip" them - i stop and listen and hear stuff i never heard before.

four commensurate musicians and songwriters - for the whole 12 years of the bands life - remained at the top of their game - Page's '79 absences apart.

JPJ - not just an excellent bass player - he made the band tick and kept things together when outside events took hold.
Bonzo - probably the best rock drummer ever
Page - when on his game certainly in the top five guitarists
Plant - i know the freddie fans will dissent loudly - but there are times when plants vocals are better - generally he's a top notch singer

Brenski summed it up perfectly. Even their "fillers" are head & shoulders above most other bands stand out tracks. It's easier to list songs that arent very good than it is to list all the good/great ones.

some of the vocals in[b][i] "fool in the rain"[/i][/b] are simply amazing.
but then, factor in the actual subject matter of [i][b]"all of my love"[/b][/i] (for those that don't know - google is your friend) and this really is the most unbelievably heartfelt/heartbroken song you will ever hear (even more so than [b]Clapton's [i]"Tears In Heaven"[/i][/b]) - makes these vocals even more impressive.
but vocally, for me - as exceptional as those two are - there's little in the Zep catalogue (for me) that is sung as well as [i][b]"I'm Gonna Crawl"[/b][/i] - breathtaking and simply perfect....the final Zep track on the final Zep album is the perfect close-out to a a recording career that reached zenith early on - and stayed there until the very end.
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enjoy!

ps - a lesson for queen - in how NOT to sh*t on your own legacy - there has been NOTHING Zep-wise since 1980 that either embarrasses or shits on their past. msg to Dr May: "this is how to respect a legacy and maintain self-respect and dignity.

Glad to see some love for In Through The Out Door, especially 'Fool In The Rain' and 'Carouselambra'.

"ps - a lesson for queen - in how NOT to sh*t on your own legacy - there has been NOTHING Zep-wise since 1980 that either embarrasses or shits on their past. "

Two words mate: LIVE AID

^ yeah, but after they realised they were shit, they didn't allow it to be released as an embarrassment lol.

[QUOTE] [b]inu-liger wrote:[/b]

"ps - a lesson for queen - in how NOT to sh*t on your own legacy - there has been NOTHING Zep-wise since 1980 that either embarrasses or shits on their past. "

Two words mate: LIVE AID[/QUOTE]

yes, but that was a one-off charity gig. if you look at what they have done - product-wise since '80, there's nothing to be ashamed of...no shitty remixes, no crappy collaborations, no selling the soul for filthy lucre - being the best and maintaining some dignity must go hand in hand it seems?

Errm, Page and Puff Daddy ,.. ?

Plant and Coca-Cola.

(The amusement value of that clip is too high for him not to have taken the cheque, but still - by definition it's naff).

The Atlantic records tribute concert they played was as bad as Live Aid. As far as the impact they had. Their first album owes so much to Truth by Jeff Beck, which came out a year before Led Zeppelin1, and sounds like a blue print for most of the Zep album, the rest was heavily "borrowed" from slightly obscure American blues artists who page was very into at the time.

Bonham is always regarded as the best rock drummer ever. But that covers a very narrow field as he had problems trying to play anything that wasn't in 4/4. Their are plenty of drummers who can play better and in a more varied style than John Bonham, including his son Jason and Roger Taylor for that matter.

Having said that I'm a huge fan of the albums 4 through to In Through The Out Door

ouch^^
wasn't everything 60-70s derivative of either rock n roll or the blues?
as for Bonham's versatility - yeah there may have been time/signature issues (allegedly) but he had such a varied style
and was way ahead of his time - listen to songs like
immigrant song/gallows pole/d'yer maker/custard pie/kashmir/nfbm/southbound suarez/ carouselambra and in the evening

there's some very interesting and varied styles there

I don't disagree with 60's and 70's music being derivative of Rock n'roll and the blues. But if you listen to the Truth album Rod Stewart does so many of the things, vocally, that plant then did. Also the way Becks rhythm playing locks in with the drums is very Page like, quite a few of the songs sound very like they belong on Zep1.

On a number of other songs Page Blatantly rips of lesser known old black blues guys.

I agree with your song choices too, but the truth is that Bonham nicked a lot of ideas from Gene Krupa and other big band drummers from the 20's and 30's. And as good as he was within Zeppelin he couldn't have joined any of Zappa's touring bands from 68 to 88 for instance. Or Jammed with Queen on Im In Love with My Car or the Police on Walking on The Moon or Rush Vital Signs. The list goes on. . . . . .

I guess what I'm driving at is. led Zeppelin best band in the world in the 70's? Quite possibly. John Bonham best drummer? I'm sorry I can't buy into that, though I think he was brilliant at what he did.