Worst Led Zeppelin Song?
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Steel Icarus
an attempt was made
It's a thread about the worst Zep song. I merely opined that I find the entirety of their recorded output equally bad, which is completely in the spirit of the thread
Don't know about worst. I don't like all the hippy flowers in your hair, acoustic ones TBH. Agree about D'Yer Mak'er though. Hamfisted, rubbish.
Presence though. Not their greatest album by any stretch but I can't help liking the production. It was produced relatively quickly and I like the live, in the room with the band, feel of it. Some have criticized the apparent weak vocals. Which is a bit harsh, given that owing to a car accident, Plant had to sing from a wheelchair.
Presence though. Not their greatest album by any stretch but I can't help liking the production. It was produced relatively quickly and I like the live, in the room with the band, feel of it. Some have criticized the apparent weak vocals. Which is a bit harsh, given that owing to a car accident, Plant had to sing from a wheelchair.
ElizabethofYork
Old Crone
Spod
Well-Known Member
I know this thread is about least-favourite ones but I love the acoustics at least as much as the rockers. Jimi Hendrix is the best electric/blues guitarist ever but Jimmy Page is my favourite guitarist as he did acoustic folk as well as rockier stuff
I like the guitar on a lot of those acoustic numbers but the liris put me off. Which is true of a lot of music for me.
Rosemary Jest
Wrong and Unstable
Same here, I tend to listen to the voice in terms of an instrument and often ignore the lyrics in many bands, unless they have something to say.
Warren Zevon is a great lyricist for instance, whereas Plant's "if there's a bustle in your hedgerow" leaves something to be desired. But then Led Zep are mainly about the 3 instruments for me.
Saying that, loads of 70's rock lyrics are cringey really, I mean Deep Purple and Sabbath weren't much better. I listened to Wishbone Ash's Argus the other day and the lyrics are all about swords and shit. Great guitars though.
hash tag
Lighting the blue touch paper
In the right is well up there with the best. It's dark, moody, haunting.
i would also plump for moby Dick; a 2 hour drum solo
But it gave you a break from the headbanging, a chance to get a beer and skin up, so it has it moments.
hash tag
Lighting the blue touch paper
I wonder if there was some sort of in joke/informal competition between Bonzo with Moby Dick and Ian Paice with The Mule? Moon never did drum solo's, just battered hell out of them whereas Carl Palmer tried to go down some weird experimental route with them. Ginger Baker often played drum solo's but never quite so scripted like Bonzo or Paice and would insert them anywhere into the middle of a gig, I think and never quite such epic proportions.
Spod
Well-Known Member
"Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses"
Ozzie isnt exactly William Wordsworth is he.
Just like witches at black masses"
Ozzie isnt exactly William Wordsworth is he.
Saying that, loads of 70's rock lyrics are cringey really, I mean Deep Purple and Sabbath weren't much better..
danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
Unless I'm missing your meaning somewhere, aren't you referring to the composer of Toad, the instrumental of which more than 13 minutes is drum solo. Toad, the track that spawned the entire cacophony of heavy rock drum solos that followed? Toad, the drum solo track that made drummers think people might put up with this stuff?
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
nothing wrong with led zeps lyrics generally - they scan, they can be evocative, they work with the music and plant sings them with conviction. Song Lyrics don't have to make sense, or mean anything definable - its can be just be about the emotions and images and ideas they evoke.
Stairway to Heaven on one level is a load of sub-tolkein, pseudo mystical/mythical mumbo jumbo - but it totally works. "there's a feeling i get when i look to the west - and my spirit is crying for leaving" - despite not actually meaning anything concrete (its probably some sort of LOTR reference) - it effectively evokes a sense of yearning and melancholy that fits perfectly with the music.
The problem is stoned knobbers searching for profundity and inner meaning in the words - when the people who wrote them, if asked what they're about, would almost certainly say "dunno - they just kind of sounded like they worked".
If you want shit lyrics - I think this is particaurly dire -
"It's no use, he sees her
He starts to shake and cough
Just like the old man in
That book by Nabakov"
(the police - dont stand so close to me )
A clunky forced rhyme ("cough") crowbared in so that Sting has something to rhyme with "Nabakov" and thus parade his literary credentials. And the charterer refereed to (presumably Humbert Humbert in Lolita) isn't an "old man" and Im pretty sure he is not noted for his shaking and coughing either. Oh - and the whole song is about about a poor school teacher who cant stop himself from nonceing up a pupil.
Give me "A springclean for the May Queen" any day of the week.
Stairway to Heaven on one level is a load of sub-tolkein, pseudo mystical/mythical mumbo jumbo - but it totally works. "there's a feeling i get when i look to the west - and my spirit is crying for leaving" - despite not actually meaning anything concrete (its probably some sort of LOTR reference) - it effectively evokes a sense of yearning and melancholy that fits perfectly with the music.
The problem is stoned knobbers searching for profundity and inner meaning in the words - when the people who wrote them, if asked what they're about, would almost certainly say "dunno - they just kind of sounded like they worked".
If you want shit lyrics - I think this is particaurly dire -
"It's no use, he sees her
He starts to shake and cough
Just like the old man in
That book by Nabakov"
(the police - dont stand so close to me )
A clunky forced rhyme ("cough") crowbared in so that Sting has something to rhyme with "Nabakov" and thus parade his literary credentials. And the charterer refereed to (presumably Humbert Humbert in Lolita) isn't an "old man" and Im pretty sure he is not noted for his shaking and coughing either. Oh - and the whole song is about about a poor school teacher who cant stop himself from nonceing up a pupil.
Give me "A springclean for the May Queen" any day of the week.
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seeformiles
Lost in the wood
Nice to see that when they briefly reunited in 2005, he’d whittled it down to about 10mins - concise, much less anti-social than the original and actually quite listenable.
Chilli.s
mingling jets and statuettes
I always used the drum solo as time to get a bar run etc, but do remember seeing Ginger Baker once play what I consider the best of any drum solos. A complete musical contrast to the band, Hawkwind that he was playing with.
SpookyFrank
Don't swallow the cap
Also the stress in 'Nabokov' should be on the second syllable. Not that it was in any danger of scanning anyway.
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