The best Led Zeppelin opener!
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Topic: The best Led Zeppelin opener!
Posted By: Gandalff
Subject: The best Led Zeppelin opener!
Date Posted: September 04 2010 at 05:06
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I´m curious but that´s a bloody good selection!!!
My choice is Good Times Bad Times. This is The Opener of openers!  ------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
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Posted By: friso
Date Posted: September 04 2010 at 05:12
| Immigrant Song |
Posted By: zbida
Date Posted: September 04 2010 at 05:15
| Whole Lotta Love kills them all! |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: September 04 2010 at 05:16
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Very Tough I can't decide between Whole Lotta Love....Immigrant Song...and Achilles Last Stand. Needs thinking about. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: September 04 2010 at 05:28
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As far as I know them: Immigrant Song ------------- 
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Posted By: MonsterMagnet
Date Posted: September 04 2010 at 06:14
| I quite like "The song Remains The Same" |
Posted By: enigma
Date Posted: September 04 2010 at 06:23
| Custard Pie for me, the opener to their finest album (IMHO) |
Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: September 04 2010 at 06:24
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Have to give Achilles Last Stand a vote. One of Zeps really progressive tracks. May not be one of their more popular numbers, but there is a lot of very cool playing on this song. Song Remains the Same is a close second for me. Some of Page's most interesting playing.
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Posted By: Progist
Date Posted: September 04 2010 at 06:44
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I've always been a sucker for Black Dog meself!
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Posted By: Shevrzl
Date Posted: September 04 2010 at 07:14
| Either The Song Remains The Same or Achilles Last Stand. Since the latter is behind on votes, Achilles it is. |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: September 04 2010 at 07:33
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Well, best OR favourite? It' "best" in the thread title and "favourite" in the poll question. The best may be WLL, but my favourite will forever be "Good Times Bad Times". The opener of my first rock album. The beginning and the basis of my musical education. I don't consider Achilles' Last Stand an opener, it's a mini-epic put as first track on the album. |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: September 04 2010 at 07:45
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Very difficult choice, so I will think on it, but I would have plumped, I think, for In My Time Of Dying if it had been there.
------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: September 04 2010 at 08:01
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Immigrant Song - what a riff to open with! ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: September 04 2010 at 08:10
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Very difficult, all great songs. I picked "Song Remains the Same" because it encapsulates so much Zep in one spot. ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: unclemeat69
Date Posted: September 04 2010 at 08:27
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The Song Remains The Same
------------- Follow your bliss |
Posted By: Rune2000
Date Posted: September 04 2010 at 09:06
| Immigrant Song is an amazing album-opener that puts the rest of Led Zeppelin III to shame! |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 04 2010 at 10:03
| Achile's Last stand |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: September 04 2010 at 14:06
It's strange, but I still remember buying that album as a spotty 15 year old, really looking forward to it as I spent my money on all the albums by the great bands I could find. That's 30 years ago now, and I recall clearly hating the album on at least the first ten listens. It was, to those young ears, an incredible letdown after the majesty of I, II, IV, and Houses of the Holy. It wasn't until at least ten years later that I really started to appreciate it for the incredible folk rock album it is, and it has since become one of my favourite albums of all time, to be cherished and played at exactly the right time. This, BTW, is absolutely not a comment on yours or anybody elses tastes or opinion, just me ruminating after at least four bottles of Pedigree ale  ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Rune2000 wrote:Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: September 05 2010 at 22:31
| Achilles Last Stand all the way. One of my very favourite Zeppellin songs. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: September 05 2010 at 22:33
Wasn't "Since I've been Loving You" in that album too? I find it much better than Immigrant Song (though I like it too). However, I remember liking III quiet a bit, many good songs in it. |
Posted By: TheClosing
Date Posted: September 08 2010 at 04:29
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I had to go with "Good Times ..." It's the perfect introduction to Bonham, plus:  In the Evening would be my second choice. |
Posted By: Gooner
Date Posted: September 10 2010 at 21:43
Never a big Zep fan. I prefer the closer...CODA. I couldn't vote...there was no choice for me. 
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Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: August 01 2011 at 20:54
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The one from Houses Of The Holy. ------------- 
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Posted By: N-sz
Date Posted: August 01 2011 at 21:11
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Hm, is it, 'which opening song is the best', or 'which song is best as an opener'? I thought at first that it was 'which song is best as an opener', so I voted for The Song Remains The Same. If I'm expecting a good day, I may want that to be my opener for when I wake up! Immigrant song is a great opener too. But the best song out of all of these I think is Achilles Last Stand.
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: August 01 2011 at 21:26
Hear, hear I'm gonna say Good Times,Bad Times though barely a song, they almost never played it live (if ever, in its entirety) old thread  |
Posted By: Luna
Date Posted: August 01 2011 at 21:59
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Good Times Bad Times ------------- https://aprilmaymarch.bandcamp.com/track/the-badger" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: sydbarrett2010
Date Posted: August 02 2011 at 01:46
| whole lotta love - immigrant song - over the hills and far away |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: August 02 2011 at 03:44
| Achilles Last Stand. |
Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: August 02 2011 at 03:58
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The Song Remains The Same
Could almost have picked anyone of them, Zep is great music ------------- Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 02 2011 at 06:37
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Custard Pie - great riff, brilliant drumming and naughty lyrics. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: August 02 2011 at 07:24
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Achilles Last Stand ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: August 02 2011 at 08:14
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I have to say that "Black Dog" and "Rock and Roll" are the best one-two punch opener on any rock album. I recall hearing them for the first time and thinking, "Damn, now that's the way to start off an album!" ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: August 02 2011 at 17:35
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Posted By: clarkpegasus4001
Date Posted: August 02 2011 at 18:53
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Achilles Last Stand - it's my fave Zep track as well.
------------- Tony C. |
Posted By: cannon
Date Posted: August 03 2011 at 09:41
| Achilles. |
Posted By: jav1919
Date Posted: August 03 2011 at 15:20
| Immigrant Song is just too epic... Achilles Last Stand is the close second. |
Posted By: EchidnasArf
Date Posted: August 03 2011 at 15:31
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"Good Times, Bad Times" is just too good for a first track on a debut album not to vote for. Bonham's footwork on the song is also heavily influencing this decision. ------------- http://didyouseethosebats.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - Did You See Those Bats? (a few songs from my band's live radio show) 
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Posted By: king cameloyd
Date Posted: August 05 2011 at 02:25
| The Song Remains the Same and my second answer is Immigrant Song because of the screams in the beginning which makes the song great opener. |