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I still listen to it, I still like all the songs. I purchased this CD as a replacement for the one that was lost in the old CD player that was not working to release my CDs. I have always liked this CD/album (as I had the vinyl version back in the early 70's.
Every song on this album is great,the musicianship is great,and the delivery of the lyrics is great and that's why i give it 5 stars. It's typical Led Zeppelin for this era. Professional musician D.H. It's a great album. Some of the best British blues-rock out there that doesn't include Eric Clapton.
History has spoken and every Led recording will be listened to 1000 years from now. The object was to make a WHOLE LOTTA $$$ and along the way LZ made history.Buy LZII, or mp3 it, web snag it, but know this recording. Alright you critics, face the fact, Led Zeppelin rules. I got a whole lotta love for LZ.LZII is classic, in terms of artistry and money. You will understand the true masters of rock and roll history. Beatles were first, Jimi came to the top, but LZ = Mozart in equivalent music history terms.I could cite a whole lotta facts and every inch of my knowledge but when you crank it up, Led music is the legendary best rock and roll ever produced, period. Measure it in money or R&R dynamics, LZ is kingWho else could lay down power-blues like Jimmy and Robert, or thunder drums like John, or keyboard/bass like John Paul.
I HATE THIS FIGGIN GROUP PERIOD. Never suggest this to ME EVER. This group is the MOST OVER PLAYED FIGGIN GROUP ON THIS PLANET. I hope they never do a reunion tour.
I'm shocked, SHOCKED." Her reaction though suggested that she might not even have ever heard those accusations (since qualified and considerably downplayed by the man himself, I understand) that Jimmy Page bought into Aleister Crowley's beliefs (as oppose to just buying his house). (I wasn't figuring Clapton into the equation, since by that time, his own Yardbird stint seemed like ancient history).Moreover, I felt that Led Zeppelin's first two albums were the kind of post-Cream excess that was not a healthy development. Whatever the case, I would imagine that most fundamentalist former Zep fans would be repenting like sixty these days: not my co-worker though. And certainly as legit as sampling is in this day and age.Trying to remember if I had an immediate issue with all the Hobbit stuff being thrown in. A few weeks back a colleague of mine at work revealed that she had been a Led Zep devotee back in the day.
I can listen to this record and hear it as innovative (in many ways), exciting (much of the time) and nearly always sonically interesting. Yeah, that's probably it: the first two Zep albums inaugurated HEAVY and moved us out from and beyond trippy. Personally, I had to be dragged kicking and screaming.But that's all water under the dam now. I kinda wrote them off back in the day.
If there really was a battle of the ex-Yardbird guitar whizzes, I came down squarely in the Jeff Beck camp. Since I think I could fairly describe this forty-something mom as a somewhat conservative, very religious soccer mom (not that there's anything wrong with that--really), I couldn't help but kid her a bit, "What. I think I read THE HOBBIT and that was the last Tolkien for me. It was the 60s after all, so what could you expect. Unlike some critics of the era, I didn't have a problem with their exploiting blues readymades (lyrics AND riffs), since I was just getting into the genre myself. Lawsuits notwithstanding, their musical tips of the hat to the old blues masters seems respectful enough even to this day.
Now quoting beat poets or something of that order: THAT would have caught my attention (and spoke to my pretensions). I remember finally hearing some of the technical trickery on "Whole Lotta Love" over at a friend's house.
But I think the real problem was that I had been hoping less riffing and more "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" trippiness. It's more fun than I remembered, and it DOES sound good on a good system.
Oh, and I had an issue with drum solos, so "Moby Dick" didn't bowl me over, despite the literary title. You actually listened to those Satanists.
But I was moving away from all that stuff even at 17 or so. "Oh, that's kinda trippy, I guess." I did find Robert Plant's vocals kind of mincing--distinctive certainly, but mincing--which is odd because I became a fan of his solo work in the '80s.
It was what it was apparently, and she had no regrets.I sometimes have regrets, though, when it comes to the band. Actually, I still wonder about that, since their particular heaviness, while still skillful and chop-laden, was soon followed by the sludge-and-scream bands that haunt us to this day on "classic rock," reality television and other venues.These days, I wonder if I would have become a bigger Zep fan if I'd but had a better sound system.
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