The greatest Zeppelin song of all time (rock, great songs, album)

Piss Me Off · 07-09-2008, 02:02 PM

Dazed and Confused
If they made more songs as good as that i'd be a happy chappy.

spark10036 · 07-09-2008, 02:41 PM

Going to California,Kashmir and Tangerine

jackhammer · 07-09-2008, 03:26 PM

I am not the biggest Zep fan but my faves are:

Trampled Underfoot
No Quarter
Dazed And Confused
Battle Of Evermore

TheaterDreams · 07-12-2008, 07:10 PM

Stairway is my favorite. But I love Dazed and Confused, How Many More Times, Fool in the Rain, Kashmir

ProggyMan · 07-12-2008, 07:39 PM

When The Levee Breaks and Trampled Underfoot.

lucifer_sam · 07-12-2008, 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by ProggyMan

When The Levee Breaks and Trampled Underfoot.

WTLB is probably their most overengineered recording. Granted, it's a Memphis Minnie cover and it sounds absolutely badass, but I don't think they needed to overproduce it. They only played it 2-3 times live (out of over 300 possible performances), and it was really difficult for them to do. For one, the strange time signature and phasing on the main guitar riff is incredibly difficult to duplicate live, both in terms of mechanical ability (guitar playing) and technical ability (soundboard operator). Another strange idiosyncracy is the drums. To duplicate the feeling of being battered by rain and wind, they used massive reverb and staggered echo effects (which weren't available at the time of the recording). So they told Bonzo to play it at the bottom of a three-story stairwell and record it from a mic at the top. Pretty brilliant, but immensely difficult to produce the same effect on the senses in a live performance.

I do like WTLB. Prob the most solid Zeppelin outro on any album, and certainly one of their best hard blues-to-rock ports.

Ghostrider · 07-13-2008, 04:59 PM

Black Dog
Kashmir
Whole Lotta Love

Hey Lucifer_Sam didn't Zep do a song that the drum tracks were recorded in an empty swimming pool? It was a long long time ago, but I think I read about it in Rolling Stone article many years ago. And another trivia bit, David Gilmour has Bonzo's drum kit in his home studio, Mustaine mentioned it in an interview when Megadeth recorded one of their albums at Gilmour's mansion.

lucifer_sam · 07-13-2008, 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Sasquatch

Black Dog
Kashmir
Whole Lotta Love

Hey Lucifer_Sam didn't Zep do a song that the drum tracks were recorded in an empty swimming pool? It was a long long time ago, but I think I read about it in Rolling Stone article many years ago. And another trivia bit, David Gilmour has Bonzo's drum kit in his home studio, Mustaine mentioned it in an interview when Megadeth recorded one of their albums at Gilmour's mansion.

Not one to my knowledge. Might have escaped my unnatural obsession with Zeppelin...

I think Bring It On Home is really starting to grow on me. It's such a natural set-ender and really outperforms the original blues version. Tea for One is a favorite of mine as well.

Davey Moore · 07-13-2008, 05:32 PM

That's The Way
Bron-Yr-Aur
White Summer/Black Mountainside
The Rain Song
Ten Years Gone
Going To California
Your Time Is Gonna Come
Down By The Seaside

Can't name a favorite though the ones I slightly prefer more are at the top. The most obscure Led Zeppelin songs are usually the most tender and sweet things, yet their most popular songs are usually straight up Classic Rock stuff. Kashmir is an exception to that though.

Molecules · 07-13-2008, 05:43 PM

This should have been a poll.
Personally, 'Trampled Underfoot' / 'Dazed and Confused'.

'kashmir' can go **** itself

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Piss Me Off Moodswings n' Roundabouts Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: At the corner of Dude and Catastrophe Posts: 4,470	Dazed and Confused If they made more songs as good as that i'd be a happy chappy. __________________ Last FM Rate Yr Music Muxtape

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Davey Moore The Great Disappearer Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: URI Campus and Coventry, both in RI Posts: 462	That's The Way Bron-Yr-Aur White Summer/Black Mountainside The Rain Song Ten Years Gone Going To California Your Time Is Gonna Come Down By The Seaside Can't name a favorite though the ones I slightly prefer more are at the top. The most obscure Led Zeppelin songs are usually the most tender and sweet things, yet their most popular songs are usually straight up Classic Rock stuff. Kashmir is an exception to that though. __________________ The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

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Ghostrider Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 131	Black Dog Kashmir Whole Lotta Love Hey Lucifer_Sam didn't Zep do a song that the drum tracks were recorded in an empty swimming pool? It was a long long time ago, but I think I read about it in Rolling Stone article many years ago. And another trivia bit, David Gilmour has Bonzo's drum kit in his home studio, Mustaine mentioned it in an interview when Megadeth recorded one of their albums at Gilmour's mansion.

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Molecules daddy don't Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: the Wastes Posts: 2,577	This should have been a poll. Personally, 'Trampled Underfoot' / 'Dazed and Confused'. 'kashmir' can go **** itself __________________ [SIZE="1"]Eff em tumble her