Customer Rating: 
Summary: Maybe the Greatest Rock Album of All Time
Comment: Led Zeppelin is the greatest rock band of all time and this may be their greatest album. It is very near the pinnacle of rock music. Buy it and enjoy.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Zeplin Rocks
Comment: Led Zeplin is it. Zeplin is old school. The best rock in my opinion.
My previous Physical Graffiti CD broke. & I thought Amazon will get me a new one fast.
Thank you Amazon.
Customer Rating:
Summary: New style, but is that a good thing?
Comment: Physical Graffiti is a great album and it is definitely a classic. Sure, it's overrated but what classic album isn't.
Anyway the first song that should get honorable mention here is `In My Time of Dying'. It is a powerful song traditionally arranged by Zep from the `deep south of America' as Plant puts it. The song is epic, no doubt about that, a bit overlong, yes, but defiantly a great jam session for the boys. This and `Trampled Underfoot' are both great jams. Put this is what people don't understand about Zep. They are a great jam band, and two songs out of the 15 on this album show their love for jamming. To me length in a jam is justified if a band is good.
`Kashmir' is pretentious but it's so hard NOT to like this song. It's epic, it's full of energy and has great hooks courtesy of JPJ on string arrangement and Jimmy Page's classic riff. The drums are powerful. The singing is great too. When Plant wails "Ooo Ooo Yeahy-yeah" it's a hook is it not!? It's fantastic.
`In the Light' I immediately loved since I first heard it. It's dark but it has a sense of hope toward the end of the song. It's a shame they never played this live. The riff is one of my all time Zep faves, and the way those middle eastern style keyboards are played by JPJ are incredible. `Ten Years Gone' took some time for me to get used to. It lacks a great melody but it does have a good one. The lyrics in the song are a bit odd because Plant tries to incorporate the sexual innuendo with a touching ballad and it doesn't work. But I can get past it.
The best parts of this album to me are actually the so called "filler" so many people complain about. I love `Bron-Yr-Aur', `Down by the Seaside', and `Black Country Woman'. `They are so much fun to listen to for the most part. Night Flight' is the worse filler on here tough that song sucks. To me, songs like 'Bron-Yr-Aur' and 'Black Counrty Woman' seem to be what Led Zep want to play and dabble in, but they're so fixated on pleasing their fans that they didn't want to get away from all the hard rock that made them famous. Which brings us to the bad side of album.
Jimmy Page's production seems to take a turn for the worse when it comes to the new hard rock numbers. `Custard Pie', `The Rover', `The Wanton Song', and `Sick Again' all seem to have the same dirty production quality that make the album consistent, almost too consistent. So consistent that makes this album, more than any other Zep album hard to listen to in one sitting (length too but that's not as big a factor as people seem to think). `Custard Pie' offers nothing new to the Led Zep catalogue other then the fact that the production and the guitar effect is different. This new distortion sounds dirty, but not huge like it once used to be.
Needless to say all the hard rock songs on here are what bring the album down as opposed to songs like `Immigrant Song', `Black Dog' and "Whole Lotta Love' which were the highlights of yesteryear. What happened to Led Zep between 73 and 75? How come Page forgot how to produce hard rock songs? So sure, these songs aren't as good as the great epics of Led Zep's first four albums but they aren't that bad for the most part. There's something about `Custard Pie' and `The Rover' that I can't get enough of, and that's the energy. Jimmy may have simply been trying out a new sound, didn't work for me, but it's the energy coming out of these songs that make it bearable. Of all these hard rock songs `The Wanton Song' is my favorite, the energy here is brought up to the fore and it is felt. The song itself is "bad@$$" for lack of a better term. "Sick Again' though is the worse offender. Bonzo's drums are killer here, but the song seems forced like `Night Flight'. The beginning of the song was lazily recorded and it's a bad ending track in general, leaves one feeling under whelmed.
Overall this is a great album and anyone who's a Zep fan should own it no question.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Classic
Comment: I love amazon mp3's. This Zep. CD is a must have. Great rock band and great drummer.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A Classic
Comment: When I was younger, this band had a poor reputation among adults. As time
has gone by Led Zeppelin has become the standard by which many bands are
judged. This CD will not disapoint you. The full range of the band's
talents are on display in this two CD set. This CD has influenced much of
the current music we hear now. This was truly the golden age of rock music and the proof is that 30+ years later the music is still fresh and
exciting.
|
