[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

I've never been able to enjoy Led Zeppelin. I always enjoyed the music and instrumentation, but I could never get into Robert Plant. But lately, after picking up III and giving it an honest chance I find myself getting into it.. In fact, for the first time in my life, I woke up the other day actually craving to listen to that album! I was like, "for real?"

 

With Zeppelin I always defined myself by what I am not, but lately perhaps I can shift my perspective...

Any recommendations?

[SuperCreep]

this one and houses of the holy are the only zeppelin albums i can listen to these days. not saying they don't have any other good albums, but i'm just really burnt out on those.

[automatic bzooty]

I + III are probably the only zep i could still listen to straight through, no skips whatsoever...

[SONIC GAIL]

Robert Plant is the second best male vocalist the first being axl rose in my opinion

[ann ashtray]

Led Zep are one of those bands that can't be replaced, by anything. There is nothing else even remotely comparable to what that band was doing.

Picking a fav. album, with them, is for me no different than attempting to pick a favorite sunrise. There are some I listen to more than others (1 and Physical Graffiti)...but every one one of them has a special place depending on my mood.

[demonrail666]

It's weird, for a British band, LZ seem far more popular and important in the US than they do over here. When I was young, I even thought they were American. For whatever reason, I don't think they ever really resonated much with British culture.

[ann ashtray]

Originally Posted by demonrail666

It's weird, for a British band, LZ seem far more popular and important in the US than they do over here. When I was young, I even thought they were American. For whatever reason, I don't think they ever really resonated much with British culture.

Most people tend to dig music from other places....Hendrix was embraced over there LONG before he became popular in the US. Strange, but not really.

[demonrail666]

Totally, although I think most people in the UK who are drawn to LZ find the same kind of foreign exoticism in them that they would in an American band. They somehow feel American. Sabbath were also far more popular in the States than over here but they still 'felt' British. Whenever I think of LZ I think of big, American-style wide open spaces. When I think of Black Sabbath i think of saveloys.

[chicka]

Originally Posted by automatic bzooty

I + III are probably the only zep i could still listen to straight through, no skips whatsoever...

this is the only recommendation you need the rest all sound the same. The
only two songs that I can hear any time of the day are How Many More Times from I and Gallows Pole from III

[RanaldoNecro]

I always like Zep no matter how history or fashion will treat them.

[ann ashtray]

Originally Posted by demonrail666

Totally, although I think most people in the UK who are drawn to LZ find the same kind of foreign exoticism in them that they would in an American band. They somehow feel American. Sabbath were also far more popular in the States than over here but they still 'felt' British. Whenever I think of LZ I think of big, American-style wide open spaces. When I think of Black Sabbath i think of saveloys.

The thing I always liked about Zep (+ I can say the same exact thing regarding the Stones) was that they seemed to be a foreign interpretation of American blues...w/ tons of twists. Figures like Jimmy Page and Keith Richards sorta took the idea of the lonely/black/american/hard drinking/front-porch-playing bluesman and turned it into a rock n roll concept. Like, "don't feel sorry for these sort of guys...praise them...fuck them...get drunk with them...etc". They gave it an "image" that was, and still is, insanely sexy and still..even to this day...being ripped off. Even Patti + J. Thunders wanted to look like Keith. He was just as much so a proto-punk rocker as any Iggy Pop or James Williamson (who himself has mentioned Keith as being an influence many times over).

I should add...just to remain what I feel to be historically accurate...that many ideas regarding the american bluesman are WRONG. Those guys were not always sad/lonely/etc...Blues was often a form of rejoicing, even in those SOMETIMES sad lyrics. But, sometimes kick-ass ideas come from being wrong/mistakes/etc.


Some might say Elvis and the like already did the same thing here in the US...but, it was still WILDLY different. I like Elvis, but once he reached a certain chapter he lost ALL street cred. He was just too difficult to take seriously...kinda like where the Stones are now ('least they still have Keith...).

I don't think the same thing ever really happened to LZ. They knew when to call it quits as a band.

[Rob Instigator]

It's been a long time since I rock n rolled
it's been a long time since I did the stroll

[ann ashtray]

"In My Time Of Dying" off of Physical Graffiti....

If I ever came across someone that had never heard of rock n roll, and was looking for an introduction....THIS would be on whatever mixed CD I threw together for 'em.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhd3wEG4BXM

Trashy, sexy, every, everything real r'n'r should be.

[SONIC GAIL]

Been along time been a long time been long lonely lonly. Lonely time

[automatic bzooty]

 

jimmy page was fine as haaaaleeee.

[EVOLghost]

pfffffff II is where it's at!


ps Led Zeppelin rocks.

[EVOLghost]

one fo the classic rocks radio stations always play Heartbreaker then Living Loving Maid. I love it.

[dionysusundone]

Haven't listened to this band in forever, keep meaning to give them another go one of these days. Don't think I've ever heard one of their albums (other than IV) all the way through, just random tracks here and there. What's the best first one to listen to?

[atsonicpark]

I'm not really into them but I do think Jimmy Page is one of the best guitars ever, easily.

[SuperCreep]

any love for presence here? i always felt that one was pretty underrated. achilles last stand, nobody's fault but mine, and tea for one are some of my favorite zeppelin songs ever.