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which is your favourite Led Zeppelin album ?

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Presence and In Through The Out Door are my two favorite Zep albums. Of course my two favorite Sabbath albums are Sabotage and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath so what do I know?
 
stvn1974 said:
Presence and In Through The Out Door are my two favorite Zep albums. Of course my two favorite Sabbath albums are Sabotage and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath so what do I know?
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I don't have presence or ITTOD but you are correct about those Sabbath albums.
 
Houses Of The Holy is my favourite Zeppelin record, their debut and IV are also strong contenders. Frankly their catalog is pretty darn strong as a whole. However Houses has some absolutely amazing tracks, The Song Remains The Same is a phenomenal opener, The Rain Song is majestic and peaceful. No Quarter a progressive and eerie track. The Ocean a good rocker to close the album. It is strong from start to finish.
 
Zeppelin were my first #1 rock band, the one I learnt all discography by heart, talked about with my classmates, the first real love. I was saving up from my allowance to buy the 2003 DVD when it came out.

I still like and respect them, but over time not only has my general musical taste kinda shifted, but most of their albums seem uneven now (at least two to three songs on each I really don't get why they're there) and I have built up an allergy for Plant's vocals. There's just something to his tembre and general vocal approach that makes him particularly obnoxious (my wife said the same after we player IV on a car trip immediately followed by Made in Japan, where Gillan is doing his best to be somewhat obnoxious as well, yet his voice is sooooo less grating and more pleasant to the ear).

My fave remains PG, my very definitely favourite song would be Achilles.
 
I'm currently having some trouble trying to choose between the original vinyl version and the 2014 remaster of Led Zeppelin IV. Luckily, I don't have to worry about the logistics - I have 320 kbps MP3 rips!

Edit: The original seems to have a much warmer sound as compared to the remaster's stark artificiality. It's also easier to play at higher volumes. All I have to do now is test it on a stereo system.
 
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Has anyone else watched their film "The Song Remains The Same"? I watched the whole film this afternoon and ... well, I'd just be interested to hear what anyone else made of it :blink:
 
jazz from hell said:
www.theguardian.com

Plagiarism case over Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven finally ends

US supreme court rejects appeal relating to Spirit and their song Taurus, after verdict in favour of Led Zeppelin was upheld earlier this year
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Led Zep finally won. There seems to be some common sense left in the US.
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Hmm yes and no. Even Led Zep themselves have unofficially admitted this particular plagiarism (and many others too). There was a (cassette?) compilation made by late John Bonham I believe, with the originals and the Led Zep version, I have it somewhere. Taurus was one of the songs in that compilation.
 
Black Abyss Babe said:
Has anyone else watched their film "The Song Remains The Same"? I watched the whole film this afternoon and ... well, I'd just be interested to hear what anyone else made of it :blink:
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It's been a while since I've seen it. The film looks inexpensive but has great aspirations, and it's of its time, which is a good thing, but I can understand if people don't like it. The band is great.

____no5 said:
Hmm yes and no. Even Led Zep themselves have unofficially admitted this particular plagiarism (and many others too). There was a (cassette?) compilation made by late John Bonham I believe, with the originals and the Led Zep version, I have it somewhere. Taurus was one of the songs in that compilation.
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They might have heard Taurus, which *does* have the same chromatically descending bassline as STH, but that doesn't make any difference. You can find many, many examples for this all over music history for 400 years (for example in every "passus duriusculus", as they call it), as well as in many Jazz and Rock tracks.
 
jazz from hell said:
They might have heard Taurus, which *does* have the same chromatically descending bassline as STH, but that doesn't make any difference. You can find many, many examples for this all over music history for 400 years (for example in every "passus duriusculus", as they call it), as well as in many Jazz and Rock tracks.
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I think it’s more that that, check below links. Note that When the Levee Breaks is not even included in the first, which was direct rip off and they didn’t even bother to put credits, crediting it as Page/Plant/JP Jones/Bonham.
*Internet says Memphis Minnie is also included in credits, though I don’t remember such thing from my vinyl.

I never thought Taurus was a major rip off but there are plenty other in Led Zeppelin’s career. For instance my version of Led Zeppelin I says “traditional” for Baby I’m gonna Leave you, to name a blatant case.

There are also other cases as Rock n’ Roll that there aren’t considered (widely) as plagiarism, despite having great similarities with known numbers.


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Just How Much Of Led Zeppelin's Music Was Stolen?

Led Zeppelin often comes under fire for stolen music, but how valid is that claim? We go through the band's first four albums to find out.
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jazz from hell said:
It's been a while since I've seen it. The film looks inexpensive but has great aspirations, and it's of its time, which is a good thing, but I can understand if people don't like it. The band is great.
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Yes the band is great and I never said I didn't like it. It's just that everything official and semi-official I'd read had led me to expect something along the lines of Flight 666 - the weird fantasy sequences are only alluded to in fan reviews and even then no-one seemed to know quite what they were supposed to achieve or how they linked in with the rest. I'm sure the band members had fun filming them (especially Robert Plant :D).

I enjoyed it very much and I expect I'll watch it again at some point. It's just that sometimes I was left thinking "wtf am I seeing?!!?"
 
I think there is something wrong with me. I don’t understand how people can say Physical Graffiti is the best LZ album. I get there are some absolute monstrous songs on it (all hail ‘The Rover’), but it is made up of so many leftovers and it doesn’t feel like a cohesive album.

It is constantly voted as their best album. I would take any of the first four over it.
 
I agree. I would take, II, IV, and Houses of the Holy over it. Disc 1 is pretty solid but Disc 2 feels pretty close to a collection of bonus tracks at times.
 
Nah, for me Graffiti is possibly the only Zeppelin record where I don't hate a single song and it has both some of my favourite songs by them (the passionate blues of In My Time of Dying; Ten Years Gone - what a haunting atmosphere; Sick Again - what a driving riff; The incredibly catchy The Rover) and some of the experimentation that for once really suits them (the very proggy In the Light, the hilarious grandpa-ish Down by the Seaside, all the Stones send-up near the end etc). The quality stuff definitely outweighs the rest.

I suppose you could say the fourth LP side (from Night Flight onwards) is a little bit weaker than the rest, but still, in comparison with the whole album, it's a rather small portion.

But then again, I'm a sucker for double albums in general and I actually love Sandinista!, so there.
 
I don't think Physical Graffiti is perfect by any means - "Boogie with Stu" and especially "Black Country Woman" aren't my cup of tea - but there is something to its eccentric array of tracks, from monuments like "Kashmir" to nostalgic summer strolls like "Down by the Seaside" that I've always really been enamored by.

I don't know if it's still my favorite Led Zeppelin album, but it's a really strong record.
 
Ascendingthethrone said:
I think there is something wrong with me. I don’t understand how people can say Physical Graffiti is the best LZ album. I get there are some absolute monstrous songs on it (all hail ‘The Rover’), but it is made up of so many leftovers and it doesn’t feel like a cohesive album.

It is constantly voted as their best album. I would take any of the first four over it.
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I don't think it's their best album by any means, but I understand why people like it. It's packed with songs which are not always outstanding but are not bad either and it's very casual to listen to especially due to left overs. See below for more:

Diesel 11 said:
I don't think Physical Graffiti is perfect by any means - "Boogie with Stu" and especially "Black Country Woman" aren't my cup of tea - but there is something to its eccentric array of tracks, from monuments like "Kashmir" to nostalgic summer strolls like "Down by the Seaside" that I've always really been enamored by.

I don't know if it's still my favorite Led Zeppelin album, but it's a really strong record.
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I am listening to "Black Country Woman" as we speak and enjoying it greatly when I see new post from you, open it and what I see.
As of "Boogie with Stu" it's one of Led Zeppelin's songs I enjoy the most. And unlike many here I am quite indifferent to The Rover. It's the laid back feeling of songs like the above or In The Light, Bron-Yr-Aur, Ten Years Are Gone that make this album so special. Kashmir is certainly the centrepiece and Magnus Opus; the album has been built around it wonderfully.
 
@Ascendingthethrone Adding to the above, I just discovered an old post of JackKnife; dear friend and absolute Led Zeppelin fan, which says the same thing but with even more clarity:

Diversity & length are the keys. Add laid back, ultra casual feeling and there's why. The bolds inside the quotes are mine.

JackKnife said:
As an absolute Zepp fan I can hardly pick up an album saying it's my favourite since I love them all. Obviously IV is a masterpiece but I always considered III as good as IV although different. Presence is also absolutely great although underestimated album. What to say about Physical Graffiti, a double studio album showing how diverse the band was at the time?
Hummm.
Let's say I vote for Physical Graffiti, it may not be my favourite (can't make a definitive choice) but it's their longest! :lol:
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