I love this album, every bit of it. But yeah, every bonus disc in this series has been of little interest to me.
Has there ever been an explanation as to why the track Houses of the Holy wasn't on the album of the same name?
I love this album, every bit of it. But yeah, every bonus disc in this series has been of little interest to me.
Has there ever been an explanation as to why the track Houses of the Holy wasn't on the album of the same name?
I quite like 'D'Yer Maker'. 'The Crunge' on the other hand, screams 'throwaway'.
With the exception of 'Stu' the rest of the leftovers on here never struck me as being inferior tracks.
'In Through The Out Door' was the one album notably compromised by leaving off material. 'Wearing and Tearing' in particular should have been on there.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
As much as a love Zeppelin, I find that they very much stuck to one particular type of music. Like the Stones in many ways.
I mean that, you could take a track off Zep 3 and stick it on Presence without it affecting the tone of the album.
I know Zep only really had a 6-7 year life span, but in the 70's this is like light years in terms of musical progression,
and I don't think Zep kept up with other bands around them (prog bands anyway)
They were an amazing band, and I would have to toss a coin between them and The Who as to who would come next after The Beatles as the greatest band ever.
I just would have liked more diversity and ambition in what they did. 'Friends', 'Crunge', 'Evermore' etc...are all unusual and dynamic tracks, but they're still distinctly "Zep".
I could never see Zep making The Wall, which is a shame.
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"Dem Glücklichen legt auch der Hahn ein Ei."
I think in the later Zep albums there was an exploration of funk (The Crunge, Trampled Under Foot, Royal Orleans. South Bound Saurez), an infamous reggae misstep, pop (Houses of the Holy, Night Flight, Candy Store Rock, All of My Love. Fool in the Rain), and country/rockabilly (Down by the Seaside, Hot Dog). Add to that the usual amounts of blues, hard rock, Fifties rock n roll, bits of psychedelic, and folk it was a pretty diverse run for only eight studio albums. Not to mention the number of times they melded a few styles in one song. It's no wonder that most of their imitators stuck to just cranking out stop-time hard rock riffs and ignoring the rest. Not many bands have that much of a reach.I find that they very much stuck to one particular type of music.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
They did prog as well, by the mood...the intro to HotH, sounds like guitar symphony...Rain song, with it's fancy harmonies..Carouselambra, three-parted mini-epic..
And Stairway as well..not yer common folksy ballad, isn't it..Many consider Achilles as prog..Yeah, well, being a hard rock act predominently, they had something to offer to the prog crowd.
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