Ranking Led Zeppelin's 8 Studio Albums - Progressive Rock Music Forum

1) Houses of the Holy (The Song Remains the Same / Over the Hills and Far Away / No Quarter)

2) IV (The Battle of Evermore / Going to California / Stairway to Heaven)

3) III (Since I`ve Been Loving You / Tangerine)

4) II (Whole Lotta Love / Thank You)

5) Physical Graffiti (Kashmir / Bron-Yr-Aur)

6) I (Dazed & Confused)

7) Presence ----

8) In Through the Out Door ----

Héctor Enrique

dr wu23 wrote:

I think Graffiti has some mediocre tracks and some filler and would have liked to see Achilles last Stand and Nobodys Fault from Presence on it rather than several of the other tracks on side 2.

I'm pretty much with you there - my playlist of Physical Graffiti discards all the leftover filler, apart from the two decent tracks left off Houses of the Holy, thus:

Custard Pie / The Rover / In My Time of Dying / Houses of the Holy / Trampled Underfoot / Kashmir / In the Light / Ten Years Gone / The Wanton Song / Sick Again

which at a running time of 63 minutes I find to be a much more palatable listening experience.

Edited by Progishness - August 16 2023 at 13:51

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Saperlipopette! wrote:

All these discussions about In Through the Out Door and Coda - I guess I need to relisten to them first. They've been largely unplayed ever since I got I-IV for Christmas and puchased the rest of their CD's myself in ninth grade. Of course I've listened to Carouselambra and I'm Gonna Crawl since (love both) and all in all the former album is probably worthy of 2,5 stars...

So I relistened to In Through the Out Door. I had forgotten (or not noticed) that In the Evening and All My Love are very nice tunes. I like them a lot actually. So worthy of 3,5 stars and I now prefer it to Presence.

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IV (perfection)

I

Houses of the Holy (it's got a few of my favorite songs of all time, but The Crunge ain't one of them)

III

II

Physical Grafitti

In Through the Out Door

Presence

Edited by Saperlipopette! - August 16 2023 at 14:27

1. Physical Graffiti

2. Led Zeppelin III

3. Presence

4. Led Zeppelin IV

5. Led Zeppelin II

6. Led Zeppelin

7. Houses of the Holy

8. In Through the Out Door

They technically did 8 studio lps...with Coda as a later release of left overs classed as a compilation.

I think Graffiti has some mediocre tracks and some filler and would have liked to see Achilles last Stand and Nobodys Fault from Presence on it rather than several of the other tracks on side 2.

In Through The Out Door is by far my least favorite of the studio lps......not sure what they were doing with that one but it lacked balls.

If I could only keep one it would be either the debut or #4......tough choice for me.

Edited by dr wu23 - June 05 2023 at 15:39

One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
Haquin

and Achille's Last Stand is also a great song.

II

IV

III

I

Physical Graffiti

Houses of the Holy

Presence

In Trough the Out Door

Edited by Moonshake - June 02 2023 at 15:15

1. Presence

2. Led Zep II

3. Physical Grafitti

4. Led Zep IV

5. Houses of the Holy

6. Led Zep III

7. Led Zep I

8. That one I haven't listened to in over a decade

Coda was basically Zeppelin product for Xmas - there were promotional events at record shops around the USA right around Thanksgiving of 1982 to launch the "new" album.....of course, it sold immensely immediately, then copies laid on shelves for months before being shuffled off to discount bins. For me, Side 1 was five-star material, especially considering it was the first dip into the Zep vaults.....unheard prime Zep! Side 2 was a different story - I couldn't sit thru it after the first spin. That'd make a cool thread - albums you wore out one side of but left the second virtually untouched (and Chicago albums don't count!).

The three-CD rerelease has done wonders for Coda - to me, it was by far the best of the latest round of Zep rererererereleases. The Bombay Orchestra stuff; the classic A/B sides, Traveling Riverside and Hey Hey; the primal Zep '68 track; the late 60s live tracks......the deluxe Coda suddenly becomes a key component in the cataloge.

I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....

All these discussions about In Through the Out Door and Coda - I guess I need to relisten to them first. They've been largely unplayed ever since I got I-IV for Christmas and puchased the rest of their CD's myself in ninth grade. Of course I've listened to Carouselambra and I'm Gonna Crawl since (love both) and all in all the former album is probably worthy of 2,5 stars...

-but Coda?...

I've only thought of that as a collectors only/short compilation of songs that didn't make it to their studio albums. For good reasons. I could never consider it an actual studio album, because an album recorded between early 1970 / late 1978, released two years the band disbanded* and their drummer had died - simply isn't. But appearently Coda has grown into a one and a half hour long monster and all of a sudden it's supposedly good - or even great? How did that happen? I need to find out.

*due to contractual commitments to Atlantic Records.

Btw: the 30 minutes of cold leftovers on Coda sold over a million records in the US alone. The biggest selling album of 2021 (Adele - 30) has sold about half the amount of that - worldwide.

Edited by Saperlipopette! - June 03 2023 at 03:37

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