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    ^ True. But, they did it on their debut, which is amazing.

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    I suppose they'll have to revoke my Musical Snobbery Card of Smarmy Critiques, but I've always enjoyed Led Zeppelin. I would say Physical Graffiti is my favorite, with IV and III following. The only album I really don't care for is In Through the Out Door, and I feel secretly that John Bonham actually died of chagrin after making that album.

    I would not expect anyone to understand, nor do I feel it necessary to explain it to you. They were simply one of the greatest rock and roll bands.

    All I would like to add is that in the 70s, it seemed if you were out and about and conscious at about 4:00 in the morning, you were certain to hear "When the Levee Breaks". At least from what little I recall.
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    But I want to understand the phenomenon that surrounds them, why so many people think they are the peak of rock'n'roll. So please help me understand.
    Personally, I think you have to be a bit of a metal fan to understand Zeppelin. They were pioneers of heavy guitar rock. The songs were great, the musicianship was great. I'm referring to the studio albums mainly. Even when they were acoustic there was a heaviness in their music. Very powerful, groovy band. They can't please everyone but they pleased enough of us.

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    Good point. Even half the acoustic songs still rumble with a primal power. Bonham was capable of laying back but obviously on those numbers Page wanted him swinging for the fences.
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    I think IV is my favorite LZ album after it's all said and done. It was my gateway to metal and blues. It was the first of their albums I ever bought or heard. It was a sledgehammer to the chest. And yet, it was Celtic and folky in spots.

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    I was never a big fan of Page's productions. IV was one example that, IMO, had too much mid-range and buried JPJ's bass.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Adm.Kirk View Post
    I think Physical Graffiti and In Through The Out Door are the most varied. Those two albums had a little of everything.

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    TBH, that's definitely not what I'm looking at in an album... I'm looking for a directions, even if it meanders a bit, but I'm really not keen when it goes left; right, centre and nowhere, just for the sake of "variety"

    To me, Graffiti is an amalgam of bottom of drawers, extra tracks that didn't make it on previous albums and a few new tracks.
    It was all put (should I say "thrown") together without much thoughts as to construct something that made sense... Outside some longer tracks (Kashmir, In The Light, My Time Of Dying and 10 Years Gone and the short Bron, most of PG, I'd like to forget I ever heard them. Of course, you'll tell me that those five tracks mill a full disc, and maybe that selection would make a more coherent album.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ronmac View Post
    I was never a big fan of Page's productions. IV was one example that, IMO, had too much mid-range and buried JPJ's bass.
    I never noticed that. It was heavy to me. Black Dog blew my mind the first time I heard it, at 12-13 years old. It was heavy, riffy, and sexy as hell.

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    They're frickin great. I don't know how to describe them. I think you either get them or you don't. There's no magic formula. Its subjective. It just so happened they clicked with alot of people, including me. I would try Physical Graffiti then go to LZ III. Then IV and after that II and I. There is something to love in all their albums but don't tell my wife that. She doesn't get it.

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    Yesterday I actually read the lyric to Kashmir to see if Led Zeppelin could help me understand what was going on in that region of the world (I didn't really expect it would). The lyric didn't help, but it was interesting to read it as opposed to hearing it.

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    Not a big fan of the blues, so i'm not really a big fan of Zeppelin, but i can't say i don't like them.
    I understand why they are an important band.

    Songs like Achilles Last Stand, Immigrant Song, Kashmir i really like.Other bluesier songs bore me to tears.

    I always preferred Deep Purple or Sabbath from that era of heavy/ hard rock.

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    Kashmir is actually inspired by a road trip to southern Morocco that Plant took. Kashmir worked better in the lyrics than Morocco.

    And then there's this:

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    The thing about Zep was that they turned me on to blues and prog. I liked the extended, longer material and I wanted to seek out more of that which took me to bands like Yes, Uriah Heep, King Crimson, Yes, Deep Purple and so on. At the same time, I wanted to know who that Willie Dixon guy was that wrote You Shook Me. That took me not only to Willie Dixon but to Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Son House and many others.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jerjo View Post
    Kashmir is actually inspired by a road trip to southern Morocco that Plant took. Kashmir worked better in the lyrics than Morocco.
    Then why in the world not use "Tangier?" It's the same rhythmically and even rhymes similarly...
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    ^^ artistic license
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    ^^ I thought it was about a sweater

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sturgeon's Lawyer View Post
    Then why in the world not use "Tangier?" It's the same rhythmically and even rhymes similarly...
    Tangier's a city, not a region; hardly somewhere you'd go for an epic trek. Well, maybe...

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    Plant is still making music that's interesting. I caught his Sensational Space Shifters on Austin City Limits and it was a really cool concert with interesting renditions of some of Zepplin's older songs and others.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sturgeon's Lawyer View Post
    Then why in the world not use "Tangier?" It's the same rhythmically and even rhymes similarly...
    To avoid confusion with "Tangerine"?

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    To avoid confusion with "Tangerine"?
    I was going to say that and then I remembered Bron-yr-Aur and Bron-y-Aur Stomp.

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    OK, so while recovering from surgery I have sometime (less than I would've expected) to listen to music and actually pay attention. I'm hearing three musicians who clearly have mastery of their instruments, playing some good-time rock'n'roll. Three musicians: but not a band. TO me, it just isn't coming together.

    Ah, well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sturgeon's Lawyer View Post
    Then why in the world not use "Tangier?" It's the same rhythmically and even rhymes similarly...

    You can't smoke Tangier, but smoking Kashmir was a real treat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fictionmusic View Post
    You can't smoke Tangier, but smoking Kashmir was a real treat.
    But can you smoke Marakesh?

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    But can you smoke Marakesh?
    You can if you take the express.

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