PinkCigarette

It really didn't do much for me. It was still better than Coda, though.

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I love that album to bits but I do miss the prog and electronica elements. I guess that period is over for them.

I think it's pretty mediocre save In The Evening.

It's like they were trying to do a White Album kinda thing, experimenting with other genres of music, but it just doesn't work, and while I love Zeppelin's folk and eastern side. Here they really found their limitations. They try everything, reggae/samba (Fool in the Rain), rockabilly (Hot Dog), soft rock (All My Love) and prog (Carouselambra) but they all fall flat on their face, they just sound boring and lifeless, pale imitations of the real thing. In The Evening suceeds because it's the one moment where they're just being themselves.

I actually think Coda is better, it at least sounds like Zeppelin and the tracks are at least decent if nothing remarkable.

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I think "Fool in the Rain" and "All of my Love" are very good songs. I agree with Carouselambra and Hot Dog and also think "In the Evening" is very good.

The comparison to the White Album is one I've heard before and one I like. I don't think it was as much a success as the Beatles effort, but I feel their greatest failing was their inability to connect the individual songs into one amalgamation.

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I feel like Physical Graffiti is much more like the White Album. Just look at the difference between Kashmir, Down By the Seaside, Bron Y Aur, Trampled Underfoot, The Rover, In My Time of Dying, etc.

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Coda's like a rarities/unreleased compilation, that's why.

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xTevinx

Lead Sails Paper Anchor by Atreyu. They went soft. Didn't completely sell out though. But not as good as they used to be.

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boo boo

Yeah but they pulled it off with Physical Graffiti. The songs weren't too radical a departure and they were genres that Zep already dabbled with in the past. Folk, Country, Funk, Eastern music. So it wasn't too drastic a change for them to expand on something they were already hinting at with previous albums. And they did their own take on those styles instead of trying to directly imitate them. I feel that's what they were doing with ITTOD.

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gunnels

I know I say this alot, but...

Really, WHAT THE FUCK happened?
I was hoping that they'd go back to their hardcore roots, but I recently heard the single for the new upcoming album. Looks like it's gonna be more.

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Zer0

Yeah that album was the final nail in the AFI coffin for me

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FaSho

I have said this many times, but decemberunderground is a perfectly good album. Just because it doesn't sound like Pre-Art of Drowning doesn't make it bad, it just makes it different. Afi's entire discography has something to offer for everyone, I just like all of it.

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