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Snow Dog ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 23 2005 Location: Caerdydd Status: Offline Points: 32995 |
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^Night Flight is awesome
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dreadpirateroberts ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 27 2011 Location: AU Status: Offline Points: 952 |
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My second fav cut on the album. Love the James Brown vocals toward the end. |
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Snow Dog ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 23 2005 Location: Caerdydd Status: Offline Points: 32995 |
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It astounds me to see it described as "dreck"
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GoldenGod2112 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: August 30 2011 Location: Tacoma, WA Status: Offline Points: 351 |
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All excelent tracks, but I had to go with Robert Plant's favorite, Kashmir.
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The future's uncertain and the end is always near. - Jim Morrison
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dreadpirateroberts ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 27 2011 Location: AU Status: Offline Points: 952 |
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Yeah, I agree, I dig it - it's got a loose feel but still ends up a nice little rocker that could've been a single - maybe not a amazingly successful one (nor was that LZ's style of course) but it's a quality track for me nonetheless! |
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Triceratopsoil ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: April 03 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 18016 |
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So is Boogie With Stu |
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Snow Dog ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 23 2005 Location: Caerdydd Status: Offline Points: 32995 |
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True.
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HarbouringTheSoul ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: May 21 2010 Status: Offline Points: 1199 |
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Sorry but I can't stand "Night Flight" at all. It's an uneasy cross between sissy-ish pop and uninspired boogie rock. You hear that guitar track in the chorus? That's the most generic rock & roll guitar lick in existence. Now that wouldn't be so bad if they at least stuck to a regular blues pattern (which is was the lick was originally meant for), but instead they decide to superimpose it on a totally unrelated chord progression. The results are catastrophic to my ears. It's fine by me if you like it, but I consider it a failed songwriting experiment and probably the worst song on the album.
As for "Boogie With Stu", the name says it all. It's just a generic boogie jam with awfully stereotypical lyrics. "I don't want no tutti-frutti, no lollipop" makes me cringe. Musically, there's absolutely nothing interesting going on in this song. Anybody could have improvised it. |
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Triceratopsoil ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: April 03 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 18016 |
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Both tracks are 95% about aesthetics, and if you don't understand the concept of aesthetics in music then I pity you.
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HarbouringTheSoul ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: May 21 2010 Status: Offline Points: 1199 |
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"Aesthetics" is a cool word to throw around, but what does it really mean? At the end of the day, it's more or less synonymous to "beauty" (at least in this context), and I see the beauty of music in the enjoyment I get out of a good melody. If not a melody, then anything else that grabs my interest. "Boogie with Stu" is really just a generic boogie that anybody else could have performed, and the players being talented and Robert Plant having a good voice isn't enough to grab my interesting, because that's true for every Led Zeppelin song in existence. I can see why one would find enjoyment in "Night Flight", but for the reasons I outlined above, I think that the different elements clash.
Of course I understand the concept of aesthetics in music. Music is 100% about aesthetics. In the end it all boils down to whether you enjoy a given track or not. |
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Triceratopsoil ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: April 03 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 18016 |
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No, that isn't at all what I meant by it, actually. See, I was right. |
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Anthony H. ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() Joined: April 11 2010 Location: Virginia Status: Offline Points: 6088 |
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Don't be intentionally obtuse and then criticize the guy for not understanding you. |
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HarbouringTheSoul ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: May 21 2010 Status: Offline Points: 1199 |
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I don't go by what you mean by it, but what I mean by it. And my definition seems to line up pretty well with what the rest of the world thinks. But if it's so important, then why don't you explain? Edited by HarbouringTheSoul - November 20 2011 at 05:00 |
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Intruder ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: May 13 2005 Status: Offline Points: 2206 |
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"I don't want no tutti-frutti, no lollipop/c'mon, baby, just rock, rock, rock," yeah, Boogie with Stu may be a generic jam, but Plant wails....and a great cameo from Stu!
Speaking of aesthetics with Zep is overintellectualizing the most anti-intellectual band I've ever heard. Zep is all about the corporal.....put on some Florian Fricke if you want to navel gaze, put on Zep if you want to boogie your arse off.
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I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
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Alberto Muñoz ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: July 26 2006 Location: Mexico Status: Offline Points: 3577 |
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No vote since i like all!
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Dayvenkirq ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 25 2011 Location: Los Angeles, CA Status: Offline Points: 10970 |
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HolyMoly ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin Joined: April 01 2009 Location: Atlanta Status: Offline Points: 26138 |
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Voted for Ten Years Gone. One of my favorites. And Physical Graffiti is my favorite Zeppelin album.
I've never really tired of Kashmir either. When I was a kid, I remember how badly I wanted a copy of Physical Graffiti - but being a double album it was a large investment at the time. A couple of times, I called up the radio station asking them to play Kashmir, and they never would, because the song was too long and they couldn't fit it in. In light of this, it's a little ironic that it's now considered an "overplayed" song by some.
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Sagichim ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: November 29 2006 Location: Israel Status: Offline Points: 6632 |
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I'm glad to see such appreciation for Ten Years Gone, it's my pick too. It's something about that mellow beginning that always gets me. Beautiful stuff! And excellent selection of songs Snowy!!
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Barbu ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 09 2005 Location: infinity Status: Offline Points: 30850 |
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It's between In The Light and Ten Years Gone...Humm.
Ten Years Gone. |
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