Led Zeppelin

[Led Zeppelin]

I just recently heard about this band, their songs are so fucking awesome!

My favorite songs by them, ranked by listening pleasure:

Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand (this is now my number one favorite song)

Led Zeppelin - Ten Years Gone

Led Zeppelin - No Quarter

Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven

Led Zeppelin - Over The Hills And Far Away

Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song

Led Zeppelin - Dazed and Confused

Led Zeppelin - Kashmir

Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song

[che's long lost daughter]

Just recently? They have probably been around before you were even born

[Led Zeppelin]

Yes, I know, but I heard of them just recently, like a month or 3 ago, and started listening to most of their songs like 2 weeks ago.

[Dyst]

Hear "That's The Way". Now that is a nice guitar tune. Very cozy. :lol:

[Invader Zim]

I can think of a lot of rock bands I prefer. I like Led Zep, but I don't rate them as highly as a lot of bands.

I also think that their influence is often exaggurated.

[redchrisfalling]

I'm glad you finally discovered Zepplins music. They are without a doubt one of the most groundbreaking and influencial bands ever. Disc 1 of physical graffiti has got to be my favorite CD but the song Battle of Evermore will awlays have a special place in my heart.

I can only assume you've heard of the beatles but some other bands from that era you should check out would be, Motorhead, the who, and the yardbirds. Also Robert Plant dose some amazeing solo albums, try pictures at eleven and principle of moments.

[Don't Change Your Name]

I also thought Led Zeppelin was the greatest band ever or so, but this band made me listen to a lot of other stuff which is sometimes better

I envy your current situation: you have lots of amazing stuff you havent heard yet.

Oh, and Led Zeppelin's debut rules.

[celtopunk]

Originally posted by [email protected] 10 2006, 10:57 PM
I can only assume you've heard of the beatles but some other bands from that era you should check out would be, Motorhead, the who, and the yardbirds. Also Robert Plant dose some amazeing solo albums, try pictures at eleven and principle of moments.
I like Motorhead, not crazy about them, but I think it is a HUGE leap to go from the Beatles or even Led Zeppelin to Motorhead.

As for Plant's solo work, amazingly bad is how I would describe it. I had a roommate who played that shit. Right up there with Phil Collins I'd say, talk about fucking TORTURE.

But he to each his/her own.

[Ian]

Pink Floyd are better, but Pink Floyd fan's are pretty bad

[Janus]

Pink Floyd is better
I agree.

But Led Zeppelin had major influences on all types of rock particularly heavy metal.


Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand
That is a great song though Stairway to Heaven is overrated.

[Orange Juche]

Originally posted by [email protected] 10 2006, 05:17 AM
Led Zeppelin - No Quarter
"No Quarter" is a hella awesome song X-D

[bolshevik butcher]

Originally posted by [email protected] 11 2006, 01:27 PM
Pink Floyd are better, but Pink Floyd fan's are pretty bad
Pinkk floyd have the worst fans. I probably preffer zep over them anyway.

[Hegemonicretribution]

Pink Floyd are cooler, and not all their fans are bad :P

Anyway, Led Zep are great, but as others have said you are lucky to have just discovered them, but if you like them then chances are you will prefer other stuff from the era that you also hear.

I used to be majorly into them, and I still play Stairway from time to time (always in guitar shops ;)), but for me much of the lead was a little to sloppy for studio, and their live shows often left a little to be desired. Still not knocking a band who were more than cool. Musically not the best, but they had things to compensate for that.

[Mujer Libre]

Ha, my dad's a Pink Floyd fan. :P (though also a Zeppelin fan)

I prefer Zep though. What do people think of Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation? I have to say that I like the album a lot.

[LoneRed]

Stairway is overrated, I agree, check out Babe Im Gonna Leave you, I wouldnt necessarily say Pink Floyd Is better, but check out the songs Time, Speak To me/Breathe, The Great Gig in the Sky, Another Brick in the Wall

[Ian]

But you know what I mean about pink floyd fans, they would probably get the prism rainbow thing tattoed on their face to look like a bigger fan than the next guy

[Janus]

they would probably get the prism rainbow thing tattoed on their face to look like a bigger fan than the next guy
Or their back! :lol:

Back tattoos (http://hydepark.hevre.co.il/hydepark/upload04/041024_170336-208_pink%20floyd%20album.jpg)

[celtopunk]

Originally posted by [email protected] 12 2006, 06:19 AM

they would probably get the prism rainbow thing tattoed on their face to look like a bigger fan than the next guy
Or their back! :lol:

Back tattoos (http://hydepark.hevre.co.il/hydepark/upload04/041024_170336-208_pink%20floyd%20album.jpg)
I'm not sure why this has became a pink floyd vs led zep thread, they are two totally different bands.

As for the tatoos(body painting really), I'm partial to the dark side one, that's where my eyes are drawn anyway. It took me a bit of time to realize that the others were pink floyd album covers too.

[Floyd.]

Pink Floyd are fucking shit always have and always will be and Roger Waters is a wanker always has and always will be. Syd Barret was the most respectable one of the group artistically as he's the only one that did anything half decent and that was the solo stuff. I can respect Dave Gilmour as a session competent to talented muso basically but that's it The ret of the band and the songs are fucking awful wank and if you like them you're either on drugs, too trendy for your own good, a fucking daft sheep or incredibly stupid with fucking shit taste in music.

That said though I'm a but biased from fuckheads saying 'bet you'reparents liked Pink Floyd eh Pinky'

DIE! I was not named after a fucking shit band that I detest.

ITo make a broad sweeping generalization prog-thepostrockbits-jethrotull-supertramp=allshit.

'Oh but you've got to respect Waters for the fucking flowers piece of wank he made starring that git Geldof it was all groundbreaking and shit and we were on acid and the stage show and visuals man it was just...'

DIE!

Pink Floyd are shit always have been and always will be.


Led Zeppelin are a bit of alright though not too shabby on the anthems even some of the proggy wank like Dazed and Confused is listenable and good. The big songs are generally big for a reason and the better ones. Fuck all you Physical Graffiti guys though and Houses of the Holy is over rated as are the Zep in general. They've got great moments and were a good point let me stress that though. Plant's solo stuff has been total wank and he's lost his range which is a pity that he can't maintain his once quite good impersonation of Gerry Humphries.

He heardone or tw o songs by a relatively internationally inknown Australian band called The Loved Ones and then suddenly the kid had this powerful and delivery out of the blue and was singing totally different. Nobody but me seems to acknowledge the fact that Plant stole his voice and method. It's easier to impersoante than to conjure originality and I won't hold it against the guy. Good singer really shows it in stuff like Kashmir too once his stage presence was developed to the point of being the real deal by that stage just tops it off.

What was I on ab9out again?

Sorry if that's kind of long winded and listless.

[zero_ware]

I like zeppelin a lot. One of the best rock bands, I think. Pink Floyd and Zeppelin are two different bands, Pink Floyd is classic rock, kind of ambient, zeppelin is harder rock.
I'm not sure which one I like better though, tough decision.

[Hegemonicretribution]

That is probably the longest, and funniest anti Floyd rant ever!

what is wrong with listening to music on drugs? Plugging yourself into a room with surround sound, putting on DSOTM and chilling back with a few shrooms, trips, or joints is pleasurable, and needn't be anything more than that.

Led Zepplin would havebeen better if their moments were more frequent, or the guitar playing (for the most part) more coherent, and less botched.

[Floyd.]

Nah there's nothing wrong with at all mate it just that I think Pink Floyd were more theatrics, lights and conceptual wank than they were music let alone good music and that it's not all 'grrovy and psychedelic' and shit without the drugs. It's just annoying rubbish. The big thing with Pink Floyd that I've heard from old hippies and noticed as the recurring theme amongst their dicky fans is that you have to be out of it to enjoy it or the firsst time you enjoyed it you were out of it.

If I want a good drug album I'll listen to The Pod by Ween and it's just as awesome straight unlike boring fucked wank like Pink Floyd.

[7189]

Can't stand Led Zeppelin.

The Doors are my favourite band.


Pink Floyd are fucking shit always have and always will be and Roger Waters is a wanker always has and always will be. Syd Barret was the most respectable one of the group artistically as he's the only one that did anything half decent and that was the solo stuff. I can respect Dave Gilmour as a session competent to talented muso basically but that's it The ret of the band and the songs are fucking awful wank and if you like them you're either on drugs, too trendy for your own good, a fucking daft sheep or incredibly stupid with fucking shit taste in music.

Harsh words Floyd. I agree though that Syd Barrett was the best and I love his solo stuff too (I have both "The Madcap Laughs" and "Barrett" and I reckon they're great albums) but saying all Pink Floyd is 'crap' is a bit far-fetched. Piper, Saucerful of Secrets, More, Atom Heart Mother, Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, The Wall, and Relics among others were outstanding albums in different ways, and obviously you have a right to disagree but I think branding them collectively 'shit' or 'wank' just makes you sound like a bell-end.

[that1guy435]

Nirvana saved music from the shithole it was turning into. Music has now started to suck ass again...

[Don't Change Your Name]

Originally posted by Pink Floyd+--> (Pink Floyd)and if you like them you're either on drugs, too trendy for your own good, a fucking daft sheep or incredibly stupid with fucking shit taste in music.[/b]

I'm not guilty of any of those 4 charges.


Originally posted by PINK Floyd+--> (PINK Floyd)If I want a good drug album I'll listen to The Pod by Ween and it's just as awesome straight unlike boring fucked wank like Pink Floyd.[/b]

There is no way The Pod can defeat WYWH, DSOTM, Meddle or Animals, or even Piper... and Ummagumma's live. Sorry.

It seems your hatred towards PF exists because of your name and because of their "pothead fans" and "theatrics, lights and conceptual wank".


[email protected]
Piper, Saucerful of Secrets, More, Atom Heart Mother, Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, The Wall, and Relics among others were outstanding albums in different ways, and obviously you have a right to disagree

More? Atom Heart Mother? Nah.

The Wall is pretty overrated though, I hate it in fact.


that1guy435
Nirvana saved music from the shithole it was turning into. Music has now started to suck ass again...

False

[coda]

Zep & Pink Floyd were both intact touring bands when i first started listening to them---and thus the constant soundtracks of my fucked up wayward youth. Also, most likely had all my first time drug/sex experiences to one or the other, as everybody did in the last years of the 70's. About a decade after that even borrowed the song "Thank You" as my wedding/indentured servant song. So, they both are probably, among 8, the biggest influences in shaping my musical tastes. But, Whereas, when i was 12 i would have went for Trampled Underfoot and Down by the Seaside.. now I generally prefer the blues based stuff, Since I've Been Lovin You and the Willie Dixon covers, You Shook Me and I Can't Quit You, Babe (hmmm.. wasn't that a tag-line in a recent movie?), etc. and also the acoustic Bron-y-aur, Black Mountain Side. Anyway, I think their most interesting album is LZ 1.

[Don't Change Your Name]

Originally posted by [email protected] 13 2006, 04:04 PM
Anyway, I think their most interesting album is LZ 1.
Yeah. Dazed And Confused is their best song and that version of You Shook Me rules. Communication Breakdown is great and Babe I'm Gonna Leave You is probably better than Stairway to Heaven. I think the I Can't Quit You Baby cover kinda sucks though.

[coda]

Hey, El Infiltrado, Have you ever heard The Yardbird's (Page's previous band before LZ) version of Dazed and Confused -- a bare-bones version of the song by Jake Holmes before Page reworked it for Led Zeppelin which in the early days was called "I'm Confused." It's on the album 'Live Yardbirds featuring Jimmy Page."

also on that album "White Summer" an early version of "Black Mountain Side"

[Don't Change Your Name]

Originally posted by [email protected] 13 2006, 07:14 PM
Hey, El Infiltrado, Have you ever heard The Yardbird's (Page's previous band before LZ) version of Dazed and Confused -- a bare-bones version of the song by Jake Holmes before Page reworked it for Led Zeppelin which in the early days was called "I'm Confused." It's on the album 'Live Yardbirds featuring Jimmy Page."
I know about it but the only stuff I know by the Yardbirds is Having A Rave Up.


also on that album "White Summer" an early version of "Black Mountain Side"

Is that related to the one that comes as a bonus track with the shitty Coda?

[LoneRed]

Babe I'm Gonna Leave You is probably better than Stairway to Heaven.


True and True :D

[Mujer Libre]

Originally posted by [email protected] 15 2006, 01:24 AM

Babe I'm Gonna Leave You is probably better than Stairway to Heaven.


True and True :D
Absolutely.

I need to get more Yardbirds!

[coda]

<<Is that related to the one that comes as a bonus track with the shitty Coda? >>

yup, that&#39;s the one&#33;

Ha ha.. Yeah, the bonus tracks are better than the whole Coda album.

[Invader Zim]

Originally posted by [email protected] 11 2006, 02:55 PM
Pink Floyd are better, but Pink Floyd fan&#39;s are pretty bad
Well, a lot of them my mothers age.


Nirvana saved music from the shithole it was turning into.

Err... Nirvana saved nothing and produced nothing new. They were not origional and nor were they spectacular. there are plenty of older and beter grunge bands before Nirvana who were much better. Bands around the same time, before and after Nirvana were also much better. To take some examples: -

The Stone Roses
Manic Street Preachers
Blur
Pulp
Suede
Elastica
James
Echo and the Bunnymen - part of the 80&#39;s UK indie scene
The Smiths - part of the 80&#39;s UK indie scene
The Cranberries
Happy Mondays
The Charlatans
Paul Weller - of the Jam
The La&#39;s
Radiohead
The Verve
Ride
My Bloody Valentine


With a few exceptions, most of these bands were part of the Anti-US scene and evolved seperatly from the Nirvana craze and were all much much better than Nirvana. Others in the list were part of another scene around the same time, before or after.

I have settled with only post-punk or heavily post-punk influenced, (nevermind the huge list of metal (Maiden), electro (Numan, New Order, etc) UK or Irish bands for this list, I could go into US bands but I would be here all day.

Nirvana are OK, I liked some of their songs, but they are given an exceptional amount of very unwarrented praise. Indeed all they did was dent the singles charts a little harder than most other good bands of the period.

[Wiesty]

The Ocean is a good song

[Floyd.]

1) Britpop was shit and awfully thin compared to Nirvana as it was just a pissweak continuation of the already overplundered mod scene. More stle and scen than content.
2) Thom Yorke has publicly admitted that Sigur Ros shaped his sound and prior to that Nirvana shaped their sound. Just look at a larg part of Pablo Honey and you see what Yorke was trying to do albeit without a great deal of success.

[Invader Zim]

1) Britpop was shit and awfully thin compared to Nirvana

For a start not all the bands I listed were brit-pop, in fact at least half of them aren&#39;t/weren&#39;t. But if you want to go that way, most of the brit-pop artists were much better, in my opinion, than Nirvana.

Secondly your opinion is based on nothing. Lyrically Nirvana were crap, their music with the exception of a few songs and about half of the Nevermind album was boring and had no substance to it. Hell the only sensational thing that Nirvana did was ride on a wave of rebellion towards shit music and have their lead singer kill himself. They produced little artistically that was new, nothing lyrically that was hugely impressive and nothing musically that was sensational.

Everything they did had been done before by other grundge bands of the time.


More stle and scen than content.

I think were going to have to disagree on that, especially when we consider the comparison; Nirvana...



Thom Yorke has publicly admitted that Sigur Ros shaped his sound and prior to that Nirvana shaped their sound. Just look at a larg part of Pablo Honey and you see what Yorke was trying to do albeit without a great deal of success.

He also cites about a dozen other artists and bands as influence, bands from the Smiths to Pulp (I guess you think that they are just another shitty brit-pop band :rolleyes: ). Ironically Nirvana ripped off the pixies to a large extent who, though being a US band, where much bigger in the UK and had a vast impact upon bands like Radiohead, etc.

And pablo honey, like all Radioheads albums, is much a much better album than anything Nirvana released.

[Led Zeppelin]

Pretty funny how this thread degenerated.

Btw, anyone have any remarks on the song Achilles Last Stand?

[Hegemonicretribution]

Originally posted by [email protected] 16 2006, 05:01 AM
Just look at a larg part of Pablo Honey and you see what Yorke was trying to do albeit without a great deal of success.
Although off topic...it is a little unfair to knock the success of this album as it is generally accepted by all as their weakest, and was far below what radiohead were capable of. Bring on the new album&#33;


Pretty funny how this thread degenerated.
I would prefer to say evolved ;) but you are probably right.


Achilles Last Stand?
I like it, although I don&#39;t think it stands out amazingly.

[Janus]

I like it, although I don&#39;t think it stands out amazingly.
I think that it is one of their best songs in addition to No Quarter. Everyone likes Stairway to Heaven though I think that it overrated.

[socialistpunk]

[QUOTE]Britpop was shit and awfully thin compared to Nirvana

exactly it was shit although there was a band that were exelent (blur). they were the only band from the 90s that was any good oasis were a bag of shit and nirvana lost ther singer in 92 or was it 93. so in many ways the brit pop out lasted nirvana but i still prefer old punk bands like the sex pistols and ramones and the clash they kick ass. ;)

[Gunman]

Originally posted by [email protected] 16 2006, 02:06 PM
Pretty funny how this thread degenerated.

Btw, anyone have any remarks on the song Achilles Last Stand?
Simply epic. It´s possible to see the influences this song had in nowadays Power Metal´s music and lyrics.

[Led Zeppelin]

I agree, as I said in the "favorite songs" thread; it is my favorite song. :D

[Invader Zim]

Originally posted by [email protected] 17 2006, 03:20 PM
[QUOTE]Britpop was shit and awfully thin compared to Nirvana

exactly it was shit although there was a band that were exelent (blur). they were the only band from the 90s that was any good oasis were a bag of shit and nirvana lost ther singer in 92 or was it 93. so in many ways the brit pop out lasted nirvana but i still prefer old punk bands like the sex pistols and ramones and the clash they kick ass. ;)
Britpop wasn&#39;t shit, and neither was early Oasis. Blur are excellent, Nirvana were tame and punk had its bands, but I wouldn&#39;t say its great.

[1984]

Led Zeppelin&#39;s music has played an important part in my life... it helped me to keep going... I&#39;m a fan and was an even bigger one in my teenage years... they were my passageway to actually enjoying - and living - good music.

(...)

Honestly I didn&#39;t think there would be many fans in this particular message board.

[Janus]

Honestly I didn&#39;t think there would be many fans in this particular message board.
Why not? They are a very well-known and respected band.

[Gunman]

Originally posted by [email protected] 4 2006, 10:05 PM

Honestly I didn&#39;t think there would be many fans in this particular message board.
Why not? They are a very well-known and respected band.
Janus is right, it´s pretty rare so see someone that doesn´t respect Led Zeppelin.

[Pawn Power]

Has anybody seen any live recordings of their shows?
The Song Remains the Same, DVD from their performance at Madison Square Garden in 1976 is one of the most amazing performances I have ever seen. The solos by Jimmy Page are insain and Robert Plant is extremly sexy. I couldn&#39;t imagine what it was like to be there.

[Janus]

Has anybody seen any live recordings of their shows?
Yeah, only online though. I saw Communication Breakdown. It was very good and Plant was awesome, as usual.

[The Grey Blur]

Whats you guys thoughts on &#39;All Of My Love&#39; by the Zep?

[Don't Change Your Name]

All My Love is decent and I saw a big part of the TSRTS video a week ago or so on TV. The performances are not too good and it was dissapointing although I had heard it wasnt a very interesting one before.

[1984]

Originally posted by [email protected] 4 2006, 08:06 PM

Honestly I didn&#39;t think there would be many fans in this particular message board.
Why not? They are a very well-known and respected band.
It&#39;s because they were a bunch of "decadent, self-indulgent burgueois rock-stars".

:P

Amazingly, Page and Plant went to see the DAMNED at the ROXY in January &#39;77. Plant returned to the club with Bonham a few days later.

I guess they were the only "mainstream" band from the previous generation that actually respected the punk rising - and dared to enter the Roxy&#33;

:lol:

PS - I told ya I&#39;m a big fan&#33; I know the stuff...

:rolleyes:

[Led Zeppelin]

Yes, I know, but I heard of them just recently, like a month or 3 ago, and started listening to most of their songs like 2 weeks ago.

HAHAHHA!!

This is my two year anniversary of discovering Led Zeppelin! :D:D:D

[ManyAntsDefeatSpiders]

Since I've Been Loving You...

[Led Zeppelin]

The sea was red and the sky was grey, wondered how tomorrow could ever follow today. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZRHkXjxZew)

[Pirate Utopian]

I love Zeppelin.

[Wanted Man]

HAHAHHA!!

This is my two year anniversary of discovering Led Zeppelin! :D:D:D
No offence, but it's not really a great discovery to make. Great band though.

[Led Zeppelin]

No offence, but it's not really a great discovery to make.

Yes it is!!!

By the way, answer my question here dude: Dire Straits appreciation thread (http://www.revleft.com/vb/dire-straits-appreciation-t68963/index.html?p=1145024)

[Plagueround]

My personal favorite of Zeppelin's (not a goddamned Rickroll, I swear): http://youtube.com/watch?v=yO_EgW1zxWQ

[Cymru]

What is and what should never be

[Svante]

the only song i know are Staiirway t o heaven.