What are you listening to, right now................
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@dogmeat said in What are you listening to, right now................:
hmm surprised you haven't got Whole Lotta Love despite it being thrashed on rock radio
I'd also being considering Rock and Roll and Immigrant Song.
If you wanted a folksy one Battle Of Evermore
Two notable omissions that could easily be there.
What a fucken great band they were.
Whole lotta love is a cool song but not as good as the others I don’t reckon.
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@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Whole lotta love is a cool song but not as good as the others I don’t reckon
gets a bit lost with the psychedelic bit in the middle, but the start and the end are fucking incredible.
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@MN5 i went through a phase in my late teens when they were my favourite band. Now I rarely listen to them. When I do it's always a blast but in small doses.
I prefer my listening to be a bit more nuanced in general but if you want a driving rhythm section over the top singing and a guitar wank fest - they're hard to beat and I don't mean that in any derogatory way
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@dogmeat said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 i went through a phase in my late teens when they were my favourite band. Now I rarely listen to them. When I do it's always a blast but in small doses.
I prefer my listening to be a bit more nuanced in general but if you want a driving rhythm section over the top singing and a guitar wank fest - they're hard to beat and I don't mean that in any derogatory way
Yeah I hear ya, it’s a bit of a nostalgic thing but when my mate put Houses of the Holy on vinyl at a BBQ at his place a few months back it was absolutely awesome.
Fuck, The song remains the same is a huge omission. I love that track !!!
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@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
The song remains the same
Saw the movie three times in two days when it first came out.
Drugs helped TBH.
Movie was such a steaming pile of self-indulgent shit it on its own justified the rise of punk.
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@dogmeat said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
The song remains the same
Saw the movie three times in two days when it first came out.
Drugs helped TBH.
Movie was such a steaming pile of self-indulgent shit it on its own justified the rise of punk.
100%.
At least Purple Rain had Appolonias tits.
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@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@dogmeat said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
The song remains the same
Saw the movie three times in two days when it first came out.
Drugs helped TBH.
Movie was such a steaming pile of self-indulgent shit it on its own justified the rise of punk.
100%.
At least Purple Rain had Appolonias tits.
And rather magnificent they were too.
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Achilles Last Stand
No Quarter
Kashmir,
hell, anything on Physical Graffiti…When punk rock icons Ian MacKaye and Henry Rollins swear watching them perform Kashmir in ‘76 was the single greatest, most amazing mind-blowing musical experience of their lives, I believe them.
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Jody.
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I can’t explain my thoughts on Zep without contradicting myself.
For me, as a band, they aren’t even close to the greatest. I’ve listened to all their albums and I can’t think of any time I’ve thought let’s put some Led Zepp on. I can’t say the same for the Stones or even the Beatles. I regularly play a few Stones albums snd frequently play Abbey Road and Sgt Peppers. I’ve got LZ, stones, Ozzy, Fleetwood Mac and now, Macca concerts on my sky box. The only one I’ve never watched in full is LZ …
But yet I know they are the band I want to have existed. My main music genre was basically invented by them. Tool, Metallica, PJ etc would all be very very different without Zepp. Plants voice is epic, Page guitar is one of, if not the best of all time, as well as being one of coolest live guitarists ever.
(People generally wax lyrical about Jones / Bonham here but in my view they’re playing has been surpassed by many).
So yeah. Not for me.
But I don’t know why.
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@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
I can’t explain my thoughts on Zep without contradicting myself.
For me, as a band, they aren’t even close to the greatest. I’ve listened to all their albums and I can’t think of any time I’ve thought let’s put some Led Zepp on. I can’t say the same for the Stones or even the Beatles. I regularly play a few Stones albums snd frequently play Abbey Road and Sgt Peppers. I’ve got LZ, stones, Ozzy, Fleetwood Mac and now, Macca concerts on my sky box. The only one I’ve never watched in full is LZ …
But yet I know they are the band I want to have existed. My main music genre was basically invented by them. Tool, Metallica, PJ etc would all be very very different without Zepp. Plants voice is epic, Page guitar is one of, if not the best of all time, as well as being one of coolest live guitarists ever.
(People generally wax lyrical about Jones / Bonham here but in my view they’re playing has been surpassed by many).
So yeah. Not for me.
But I don’t know why.
About the only thing I agree with here is Bonham, he’s excellent but not the god he is made out to be.
Page was also a bit ‘sloppy’ at times.
I would never be able to sit through a Beatles or Stones album.
I do sort of get what you mean though. I regard Hendrix as the best ever but listen to him very rarely
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@Kid-Chocolate I've often heard people say that if you only listen to one LZ album it should be "Physical Graffiti" because it showcases everything LZ were.
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If you are a completist (hands up!) the BBC Sessions 3-cd set released a few years ago from early when Zeppelin were unknowns is excellent. Much of it had been available on bootlegs and trader tapes for decades, but the clean versions are awesome, the acoustic set especially. Zeppelin are not my fave band by any means, but I have over the course of many decades listened to every live recording of the three songs I listed above in an effort to whittle down to the Most Definitive versions, and while I still haven’t solved the riddle, after thousands of plays (again - live audience bootleg-quality audio), I’ve never grown tired of them.
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Speaking of epic bootleg quality, I was just re-listening to this one today, from imho one of the greatest bootleg vinyl ever released, top drawer for too many reasons
Unreleased song, in any capacity;
Audio quality for an early 70’s boot is excellent;
Lowell George’s priceless introduction about a Sunset Blvd hustler cruising for a hippie chick;
Explodes into hard rock a-la The Mothers, a little like Zep meets Allmans, with soaring tone and sustain, harder than anything LF did in the studio;
Segues into a congaline drum ‘n bass salsa;
Then a short, manic Richie Hayward drum solo;
Reprise and out.13-minute hard rock instrumental, the kind you never hear on a radio.
This is why nutjobs come to record shows. Rock and Roll Heaven!
This from the same bootleg, same ‘73 Santa Monica show, is another never-released original, for all intents this song doesn’t officially exist, in any capacity. But here it is, mining the same source material as Zeppelin and the Stones, and imo stronger than either. Crusing time.
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Re Plant as a singer. I love him in the studio but I find his vocals cringeworthy live, to the point where I just can't listen to them live. Bowie is the same. Maybe they fuck with the melodies too much for me to enjoy?
