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Poll Question: Which do you think is best?
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4 [11.43%]
4 [11.43%]
2 [5.71%]
7 [20.00%]
5 [14.29%]
10 [28.57%]
1 [2.86%]
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Originally posted by Jaketejas Jaketejas wrote:

I’ve actually played quite a bit of their music at one time or another, so I wouldn’t categorize myself in that way. Nevertheless, I’m afraid that I do not share your perspective. For all of the actual musical qualities that I detailed earlier, Zoso is for me their peak. Perhaps you overplayed the album? That’s what it sounds like from your post, and I have admittedly done that with some albums - in some cases, so much so that I never want to hear them again. Let's see what the poll shows.

Oh I overplayed it alright, but I also overplayed ll,lll, Houses and Phys.   Somehow now the fourth just sits there as a listener, and one sees how much they matured musically by 1973.
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Houses of the Holy. Side 1 of LZIV is superb, but side 2 leaves me cold.
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When I haven’t heard it in a while and I go back and listen to it, “Going to California” always hits me squarely in the gut. Something evocative about that song in particular.
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All Zepp is overplayed, even by people who are not fully into them. The first 5 albums have been on constant FM classic rock rotation for the past 30 yrs......Especially LZ IV.
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Interesting results so far. Fairly evenly spaced. I would like to hear the justification for the one person who selected In Through The Out Door. Granted, everything is subjective, but the original question was what was the best Zeppelin album, not your favorite. If one were being objective, I'm not sure how you could quantify ITTOD as the best album Zeppelin ever released.
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THREE for me

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I'm surprised only 20 people have voted in the poll.....there must be a lot of Zep fans here.

Went with Zoso....mostly due to 3 tracks...Battle, Stairway and Levee....like the first 7 though and almost went with the first due to it's bombastic debut. Also think Houses to be very good other than those two strange diversions into 'funk'.
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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Interesting results so far. Fairly evenly spaced. I would like to hear the justification for the one person who selected In Through The Out Door. Granted, everything is subjective, but the original question was what was the best Zeppelin album, not your favorite. If one were being objective, I'm not sure how you could quantify ITTOD as the best album Zeppelin ever released.

It's kind of tricky for LZ. One could easily say that CTTE is the best Yes album even if it isn't their personal favorite. Another example might be Moving Pictures for Rush. The line between what one considers to be the best and what is their personal favorite can get blurred quite easily. For LZ it would most likely be(imo) 2, HotH or 4 but even those albums all have some stuff that could be considered a bit weak. 


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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Interesting results so far. Fairly evenly spaced. I would like to hear the justification for the one person who selected In Through The Out Door. Granted, everything is subjective, but the original question was what was the best Zeppelin album, not your favorite. If one were being objective, I'm not sure how you could quantify ITTOD as the best album Zeppelin ever released.


No accounting for taste. I find Presence and ITTOD to be fairly boring myself but my guess is someone voted for it as a joke.

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For me it's Physical Graffiti followed very closely by both III and Houses of the Holy.

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Houses of the Holy slightly over II.
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Interesting results so far. Fairly evenly spaced. I would like to hear the justification for the one person who selected In Through The Out Door. Granted, everything is subjective, but the original question was what was the best Zeppelin album, not your favorite. If one were being objective, I'm not sure how you could quantify ITTOD as the best album Zeppelin ever released.

It's kind of tricky for LZ. One could easily say that CTTE is the best Yes album even if it isn't their personal favorite. Another example might be Moving Pictures for Rush. The line between what one considers to be the best and what is their personal favorite can get blurred quite easily. For LZ it would most likely be(imo) 2, HotH or 4 but even those albums all have some stuff that could be considered a bit weak. 

I would say Physical Graffiti, IV and II would be the most logical choices as their best (or I could come up with logical arguments for any of them), with HotH, I and III following in a 2nd tier. Although I personally like Presence, I don't think it's on the same level, and I think even less of Up the Down Escalator.
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Maybe some things about In Through the Out Door some folks here didn’t know :
There are several different scenes of the album cover photo (not the paper bag ha ha) and if one was to take a wet paint-brush to the inner sleeve it would ‘magically’ become colourful !
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^ Everyone who owned an original vinyl pressing knows it ... well most did, it was sort of a 'secret'.
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Originally posted by Jaketejas Jaketejas wrote:

When I haven’t heard it in a while and I go back and listen to it, “Going to California” always hits me squarely in the gut. Something evocative about that song in particular.

“Going to California” would be a great Zeppelin song for me except the absolutely stupid lyrical passage:

Seems that the wrath of the Gods
Got a punch on the nose and it started to flow
I think I might be sinking...

You've got this really excellent acoustic mood song going, then all of a sudden Robert Plant shrieks some utterly dumb lyrics. It annoys me every time I hear it.
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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Originally posted by Jaketejas Jaketejas wrote:

When I haven’t heard it in a while and I go back and listen to it, “Going to California” always hits me squarely in the gut. Something evocative about that song in particular.

“Going to California” would be a great Zeppelin song for me except the absolutely stupid lyrical passage:

Seems that the wrath of the Gods
Got a punch on the nose and it started to flow
I think I might be sinking...

You've got this really excellent acoustic mood song going, then all of a sudden Robert Plant shrieks some utterly dumb lyrics. It annoys me every time I hear it.

Let me guess. It makes you want to punch Robert Plant on the nose? WinkLOL
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^Plant was describing (in veiled terms) what the band had been through to that point--  by '71 they were gods, had been thoroughly battered by the press, and they all hated flying on airplanes which they had to do in order to tour.   Huge success and Peter Grant's relentless tour & recording schedule didn't help.

But yeah, those lyrics are far from his best.
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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Originally posted by Jaketejas Jaketejas wrote:

When I haven’t heard it in a while and I go back and listen to it, “Going to California” always hits me squarely in the gut. Something evocative about that song in particular.


“Going to California” would be a great Zeppelin song for me except the absolutely stupid lyrical passage:
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<span jsname="YS01Ge" style="color: rgb34, 34, 34; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">You've got this really excellent acoustic mood song going, then all of a sudden Robert Plant shrieks some utterly dumb lyrics. It annoys me every time I hear it.</span>


Agreed!    I love the ... I think it’s a mandolin ... on The Battle of Evermore, too. I’ve heard that there may have been some inspiration by Joni Mitchell on this album, but I don’t know if it’s true, or to what extent. I was amazed by how many artists have used the opening chord progression on Stairway: Bach, The Beatles, Spirit, and others less well known. Some have accused Page of plagiarism there, but I wouldn’t say that. And, what he does after that part is just as beautiful. That’s one song I have to be careful not to overplay. “No Stairway!” Wayne’s World
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Originally posted by Jaketejas Jaketejas wrote:

[ I was amazed by how many artists have used the opening chord progression on Stairway: Bach, The Beatles, Spirit, and others less well known. Some have accused Page of plagiarism there, but I wouldn’t say that. And, what he does after that part is just as beautiful. That’s one song I have to be careful not to overplay. “No Stairway!” Wayne’s World

Descending scales as found in the intro to Stairway to Heaven have been around forever. Which is why the whole Spirit lawsuit is a joke. Here, 17th century and in the public domain for a few hundred years:



Or another 400 year old folk song as played by The Modern Folk Quartet in 1963





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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Originally posted by Jaketejas Jaketejas wrote:

[ I was amazed by how many artists have used the opening chord progression on Stairway: Bach, The Beatles, Spirit, and others less well known. Some have accused Page of plagiarism there, but I wouldn’t say that. And, what he does after that part is just as beautiful. That’s one song I have to be careful not to overplay. “No Stairway!” Wayne’s World


Descending scales as found in the intro to Stairway to Heaven have been around forever. Which is why the whole Spirit lawsuit is a joke. Here, 17th century and in the public domain for a few hundred years:



Or another 400 year old folk song as played by The Modern Folk Quartet in 1963






My sentiments exactly!
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