IV: Before Zeppelin Needed IVs
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Topic: IV: Before Zeppelin Needed IVs
Posted By: The Whistler
Subject: IV: Before Zeppelin Needed IVs
Date Posted: March 21 2008 at 03:58
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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. ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
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Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: March 21 2008 at 04:54
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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. ------------- I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date 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 |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: March 21 2008 at 07:22
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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. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: March 22 2008 at 01:56
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? ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Slartibartfast wrote:Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: March 22 2008 at 02:34
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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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Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: March 22 2008 at 05:45
| I voted for Misty Mountain Hop, but the whole second side is brilliant. Anything afterwards might get might vote on another day. |
Posted By: debrewguy
Date 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. ------------- "Here I am talking to some of the smartest people in the world and I didn't even notice,” Lieutenant Columbo, episode The Bye-Bye Sky-High I.Q. Murder Case. |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date 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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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date 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) |
Posted By: WaywardSon
Date Posted: March 22 2008 at 19:43
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I was listening to this album just the other day
Stairway to heaven, followed by Going to California
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Posted By: micky
Date 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.. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: March 22 2008 at 23:06
| Levee for me. Something about Bonzo's drumming on that song... |
Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: March 23 2008 at 02:59
...was that song about rock 'n roll? ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: March 24 2008 at 01:32
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That';s a burning question, but why shouldn't it be. ------------- I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 24 2008 at 02:09
| "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). |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: March 24 2008 at 04:23
| Black Dog has one of the coolest riffs ever, but Stairway to Heaven is still my favourite. |
Posted By: Roskisdyykkari
Date Posted: March 25 2008 at 09:16
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I would really like to vote for the underrated "Battle of Evermore", but damn it, Stairway to Heaven IS a perfect song!
------------- And the sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction the moral melee. |
Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: March 25 2008 at 22:50
Zappa does it better.
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Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: March 26 2008 at 01:57
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Really? Where; I think I NEED to hear Zappa's version... ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: March 26 2008 at 07:35
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If we're talking Stairway it's on The Best Band You Never Heard album. I wouldn't consider it better though. His version of Purple Haze on that album is also pretty good. Both are done in a kind of campy style. And then there's Ring of Fire (ow, ow, ow) ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: A B Negative
Date Posted: March 26 2008 at 12:37
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was broke...  ------------- "The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time." |