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The Whistler 
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Posted: March 21 2008 at 03:58 |
Ah, Aqualung Jr.! Seriously, it's the same album. Just lamer. But, hey, lame Tull is like good Led Zep, right? Heh, right...?
Oh well. Even though this record is hardly Draculung, it's still pretty good by Zep standards. In fact, very good. Might be the best marriage of diversity with consistency they ever got (though I haven't heard III, but I'm not setting my hopes too high).
So now that I've said I rather like the quintessential Los Zepplins de East London, lemme do you one worse, and admit, totally, royally, on my kness in shame...that the best song here is "Stairway." "To Heaven." The friggin' ELEVATOR SONG. Yeah. I know. But that solo is one of Page's absolute best. And did you know it's impossible to not headbang along at the end? I try and stop myself, honestly I do.
So, no "Stairway," it's "Levee." That's some spooky, proggy blooz, mang. Almost...Doors-like. Uh, you didn't hear that.
If no "Levee," then, heh, "Rock 'n Roll." Damn but that's such a cool number. Sorry.
Everything else can bite the big bazonga as far as I care. Well, "Dog" and "California" are both nice, but while "Evermore" and "Mountain" could have been cool, they're both far too long, and the potential in "Sticks" takes too long to be really realized as well.
But, yeah, freakin' "Stairway." Sorry.
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tuxon
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Posted: March 21 2008 at 04:54 |
It's a great album all together.
personally I think Battle of Evermore is the best, but you are right it's a bit too long. so therefor I'll have to go for Rock and Roll afterall, that's great heavy riffing in a great rock song, sure like the intro, with heavy fast drums, Live it's unbeatable.
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Atavachron
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Posted: March 21 2008 at 05:07 |
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oi, their most uninteresting yet appealing record, I guess 'Battle' but there's just so little really inspired music on the album.. there are moments of greatness, plenty of energy and the production was first-rate but when compared to any of the other releases it seems, well, kinda empty
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: March 21 2008 at 07:22 |
Misty Mountain Hop! By the way, I think there should be a law against rock n roll songs about rock n roll.  And speaking as someone who's had a few IVs stuck in him by this point in my life, I resemble that remark.
Edited by Slartibartfast - March 21 2008 at 07:24
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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The Whistler
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Posted: March 22 2008 at 01:56 |
 Slartibartfast wrote:
Misty Mountain Hop!
By the way, I think there should be a law against rock n roll songs about rock n roll.
And speaking as someone who's had a few IVs stuck in him by this point in my life, I resemble that remark.
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What? And loose "Too Old to Rock 'n Roll?" "Long Live Rock 'n Roll?" "Just a Singer in a Rock 'n Roll Band?" About half the songs ever recorded in the 1950's?
Edited by The Whistler - March 22 2008 at 01:57
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tuxon
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Posted: March 22 2008 at 02:34 |
I am the god of hell fire and I'll see you burn.
Fire
Fire
you're gonna burn
burn
burn
burn
ahhahahhahahhahhahhahhaha
Fire
Edited by tuxon - March 22 2008 at 02:38
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ghost_of_morphy
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Posted: March 22 2008 at 05:45 |
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I voted for Misty Mountain Hop, but the whole second side is brilliant. Anything afterwards might get might vote on another day.
Edited by ghost_of_morphy - March 22 2008 at 05:46
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debrewguy
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Posted: March 22 2008 at 09:31 |
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As a delightful aside, have you noticed that Stairway to Heaven lost its' place as the number one rock song some years ago ? In America, Kansas' Carry On My Wayward Son was next, but in the U.K. Oasis & Queen seem to have a lock on the No. 1.
It's almost like a generational shift. Now I'm wondering what the next Top rock song of all time will be - Pearl Jam's Alive, Nirvana's Teen Spirit, Oasis' Wonderwall or Champagne Supernova. OF course, there will still likely be the split between the North American & UK/Europeen tastes. I just learned today that Bryan Adams has a bigger following nowadays in Europe than the U.S. . Indeed, his last album wasn't even put out in America.
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Abstrakt
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Posted: March 22 2008 at 18:41 |
1. Misty Mountain Hop 
2. Going to California 3. When The Levee Breaks
Yeah, i do like Stairway to Heaven aswell!
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The Quiet One
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Posted: March 22 2008 at 19:18 |
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I love all of em, except Four Sticks but well.
All time fave When the Levee Breaks
2 - Misty Mountain Hop
3-Battle of Evermore
4-Stairway to Heaven
5-Going to Calfornia
6-Black Dog or Rock and Roll (they've never done me much)
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WaywardSon
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Posted: March 22 2008 at 19:43 |
I was listening to this album just the other day
Stairway to heaven, followed by Going to California
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micky
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Posted: March 22 2008 at 20:39 |
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for the umpteenth time... Battle of Evermore...
fascinating, haunting, brilliant.. the only Zeppelin song that still sounds fresh today to me..
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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jammun
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Posted: March 22 2008 at 23:06 |
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Levee for me. Something about Bonzo's drumming on that song...
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The Whistler
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Posted: March 23 2008 at 02:59 |
tuxon wrote:
I am the god of hell fire and I'll see you burn.
Fire
Fire
you're gonna burn
burn
burn
burn
ahhahahhahahhahhahhahhaha
Fire
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...was that song about rock 'n roll?
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tuxon
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Posted: March 24 2008 at 01:32 |
That';s a burning question, but why shouldn't it be.
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Logan
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Posted: March 24 2008 at 02:09 |
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"Four Sticks." I haven't listened to this album in about twenty years, and wasn't sure if it was Misty Mountain Hop or Four Sticks that I had particularly loved, but a visit to youtube confirmed that "Four Sticks" was the song that used to really get me, and it got me again. Takes a while to get to the really good stuff, but at about the three minute mark starts one of those musical parts that used to give me shivers, and I felt it again. Suddenly I was transported to another time and place... It wasn't any of my friends favourite song, but I used to rewind my tape again and again to listen to it on my walkman. I just got back into Zep. Time to find those old cassettes, and start with the first (hope I still have them).
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Posted: March 24 2008 at 04:23 |
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Black Dog has one of the coolest riffs ever, but Stairway to Heaven is still my favourite.
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Roskisdyykkari
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Posted: March 25 2008 at 09:16 |
I would really like to vote for the underrated "Battle of Evermore", but damn it, Stairway to Heaven IS a perfect song!
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And the sand-castle virtues are all swept away
in the tidal destruction the moral melee.
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jammun
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Posted: March 25 2008 at 22:50 |
Roskisdyykkari wrote:
I would really like to vote for the underrated "Battle of Evermore", but damn it, Stairway to Heaven IS a perfect song! |
Zappa does it better.
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The Whistler
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Posted: March 26 2008 at 01:57 |
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Really? Where; I think I NEED to hear Zappa's version...
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