Flower Child

Thats just what I will get then. And if you end up getting it too, well we will just have to compare our thoughts on it. I'll try to review it in this journal.

Bulldog

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If you have trouble trying to find it, I just found a good rapidshare link to it a few seconds ago (depending how you feel about downloading of course).

Flower Child

Actually, I'll be going to Kansas City this Thursday (should be able sniff one out there) and I'm just gonna buy the cd the old fashioned way. Its been so long since I've actually bought a cd so I'm due. Besides if I have to download something on this computer it takes a good week (yes, dial-up internet)

Flower Child

My favorite songs and why:

#1
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Even though they didn't write this song... they sure as hell sound like they did. The intensity that Robert Plant sings this makes my heart race at times. And the genius guitar work by Jimmy doesn't hurt things one bit. The transitions that take the soft parts into the loud choruses just pause enough make you want that intense chorus so bad. God I love it. And something tells me Robert Plant used this line on a few women in his day hehe.

#2
Hey Hey What Can I Do
The lyrics are completely what sold me on this song. Robert makes you feel for him in this one, because hey hey what can he possible do? He loves the woman, but, she's just a good ol fashion skank and thats all there is to it

(Not the whole song just the best part)
Sunday morning when we go down to church
See the menfolks standin' in line
Don´t say they come to pray to the Lord
but when my little girl, looks so fine
In the evening when the sun is sinkin' low
Everybody's with the one they love
I walk the town, Keep a-searchin' all around
Lookin' for my street corner girl

I got a woman, wanna ball all day
I got a woman, she won't be true, no no
I got a woman, stay drunk all the time
I said I got a little woman and she won't be true

In the bars, with the men who play guitars
Singin', drinkin' and rememberin' the times
My little lover does the midnight shift
She fool around all of the time
I guess there's just one thing left for me to do
So I pack my bags and move on my way
Cause I got a worried mind
Sharin'what I thought was mine
Gonna leave her where the guitars play

#3
I Can't Quit You Babe
I will repeat the beginning of this song over and over. When he shouts AWWWWWWWWUHAAAAAAAAWWWWWW.... I CAN'T QUIT YOU.. BABE.... and the music just bursts in, it is a very statement-making beginning. I blare this one out on my speakers on the school bus all the time. People argue back and forth that Led Zep wasn't blues, and I agree that they were not exclusively blues but a good mixture of things including it. Because if you don't think this song is blues, then you gotta be crazy.

#4
What Is And What Should Never Be
Such beauty. The beginning is so gentle and sweet and then it takes a turn with that intense chorus that I love so much that takes the song to a whole....notha......level. The lazy drifty guitar bit that Jimmy plays around the middle just makes me melt.

#5
Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp
An odd choice, I know. But this just makes me so proud of Led Zeppelin because it shows that they can do about anything, and do it well. Very upbeat and feel-goody. Especially the part where Plant sings Hear the wind within the trees,
Telling mother nature bout you and me.
That opening guitar is fantastic. Jimmy had to have tore that poor guitar to shreds after this number. He definitely got the cobwebs out, thats for sure. Oh and its LIVE.

jackhammer

Not a big Zep fan but my top 5 would be:

Trampled Underfoot
No Quarter
Dazed and Confused
The Battle Of Evermore
Since I've Been Loving You.

Love your description for track 4. Passion for music is greatly admired in my book.

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Flower Child

Respectable choices there, Jackhammer. Doesn't "Trampled Underfoot" have great explosive energy? I put it on my dad's boxing c.d. and I think its gone over well. "Since I've Been Loving You" would be my number 6 easily. Such drama in that one.

jackhammer

Outside of the usual signature songs Trampled Underfoot was one of the first Zep songs I heard. The guitar/keyboard combo along with that big drum sound just makes it such a feel good bouncy number that always fills me with a smile when I hear it because of the time and place that I first heard it.

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Flower Child

Its amazing how things you correlate with a song can make it or break it for you, no matter how good or bad the song is.

Son of JayJamJah

That's exactly what I hated about music when I was younger and love about it now. A lot of people can read and play music, a lot of people can market and promote themselves, a lot of people get lucky, none of that matters to an individual listener and their individual experience.

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If you're posting in the music forums make sure to be thoughtful and expressive, if you're posting in the lounge ask yourself "is this something that adds to the conversation?" It's important to remember that a lot of people use each thread. You're probably not as funny or clever as you think, I know I'm not.

My Van Morrison Discography Thread

Gavin B.

Flower, I think you'll love this one. This a version of Just Dropped In done by Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, a old school R&B band from NYC. The arragement has a real Memphis feel to it like an old Stax or Atlantic soul single from the late Sixties or early Seventies. The song works well with the old Soul Train dance line video clip.

Another psychedlic bro was Glen Campbell who was a stoner session guitarist who played on most of the Monkees albums because they couldn't play their instruments that well.

When Brian Wilson had a breakdown in 1965, Campbell got an offer from the Beachboys to tour with the band and he did. When it was pretty clear that Brian was going to sit in a sandbox for the next five years, the Beachboys wanted to make him a permanent replacement for Brian. Campbell walked away because he wouldn't get an equal cut of song royalties. While he was between gigs after the Beachboys Campbell sang and played guitar with a short lived psychedlic pop group called Sagittarius. Sagittarius was one of those bands of studio players that never went on the road and toured but one of their songs made the lower reaches of the Billboard Hot 100.

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