Led Zeppelin

i know very little of the tech side of music. but i know what i like.

for me it's pretty easy to say why i like something. it has to stand out - either individual elements or as a whole - it must have something that identifies it as different to the rest. this can be in any combination of facets - the writing, production, performance or arrangement.
Zep does that.

in their time, they sounded so different to the other bands around...

i remember when the NWOHM arrived round about 78/79...and all those bands - chevy. xero, dark star, chainsaw, grim reaper, jameson raid, quartz, praying mantis, trespass, demon, angelwitch, cryer, raven, diamond head, white spirit and zillions more besides all sounded like some other band we already knew well...so they came and went....how many of them made it big? NONE...because there was nothing different about them

What's NWOHM ?

it was a briefly passing trend - and it was pretty much a European/British thing round about 78/79
New Wave Of Heavy Metal - the British part was abbreviated NWOBHM

there were one or two big bands that came out of it; Lepps,Maiden etc
and some medium-success bands - Saxon, Magnum etc
but these generally were different - whereas the previous list i cited - every one of them sounded like a an already known band..

so as i said Zep worked (for me) because they were different to anything else around - they had something that made them unique

brENsKi, I seem to remember you saying you only liked maybe 10 Zep songs plus In Through the Out Door. Did something change? Relatedly, I've come around to Kashmir quite a bit.

My favorite song by the band is Achilles Last Stand. So beautiful.

[QUOTE] [b]waunakonor wrote:[/b]

brENsKi, I seem to remember you saying you only liked maybe 10 Zep songs plus In Through the Out Door. Did something change? Relatedly, I've come around to Kashmir quite a bit.

My favorite song by the band is Achilles Last Stand. So beautiful.[/QUOTE]

i appreciate them for what they are. unique and talented. most of what they do i'll never like. but i can recognise that it's top quality nonetheless.

i did have a period of time in the 70s when i liked them quite a bit....but these days there are about a dozen zep songs that i like enough to say they'd be on my desert island couldn't live without collection....the rest - i can listen to it (great as it it) but it generally doesn't move/inspire me....hard to explain properly - but i think you get the distinction i'm making between "like" and "like essential"

strange thing is.....queen have also been a lot like that to me lately....

[QUOTE] [b]Doga wrote:[/b]

I'm discovering this great band,never cared so much about them, but i was wrong, they are good .
Heartbreaker
Good tracklist? Bad? What you guys think about the band?[/QUOTE]
"heartbreaker" works better as a two-part with "livin' lovin' maid"

my own personal essential list?
good times, bad times
babe i'm gonna leave you
kashmir
all of my love
thank you
ramble on
gallows pole
i'm gonna crawl
when the levee breaks
rain song
fool in the rain
south bound suarez

Babe I'm Gonna Leave You is just sublime, as is Ramble On's bass line.

I can't say for sure if I have a limited appreciation for the band, song-wise, like others have expressed, as I've never really gotten around to listening through their whole catalog. I do like most of the stuff on their first four albums though, and I enjoy some of In Through The Out Door even though Plant's vocals just aren't that great there. I love some of Physical Graffiti - Trampled Under Foot is infectious, and I also quite like Wearing and Tearing off Coda. That's pretty much all I've heard, I really ought to get around the Houses of the Holy especially.

if you think "babe i'm gonna leave you" is sublime, then give "i'm gonna crawl" [from ITTOD] a proper listen....now that really is sublime
ps - turn it up loud for some amazing harmonics...the atmosphere in this song seems to create an aura all of it's own