Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy poll

sic I can't believe you of all people misspelled Def Leppard.

Dazed & Confused seems a long time ago.

This gave me my best laugh of the day so far (still have a therapy sesh tonight tho so we'll see what happens) so I thank you.

Not sure if I can pick between "Break On Through", Jonesy's keyboard riff is awesome & "Start Me Up" but Page & Bonham really kill on this one, Plant is obv great on everything

Tough one

fuckin "big log"

why is this thread not called Houses of the POLLy is my main question

Wish Godzilla had guested on more tracks, tbh. His rhymes were always the freshest.

She Is Only Three Years POLL And It's a Real Fine Way to Start

This was the album when David Coverdale joined the band, wasn't it?

i came to FP, i stayed to lol

Eric Clapton on ukulele, iirc.

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POLLy shit i did not even look at the actual polly options, would vote for Shakermaker

http://tvquotes.co/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/South-Park-I-have-no-idea-whats-going-on-right-now-meme-2-206x300.jpg

opened up this thread all ready to argue with ppl who said that dancing days wasn't a good song

'Dancing Days' was on their next album, the Death Wish II soundtrack.

I'll take any chance to vote for Big Log

I thought Phil Collins's drum work was a little lazy on this.

His vocals on 'Stairway' make up for it imo (although I could've done without the hyperexaggerated Jamaican accent tbh).

Houses of the Holey = cheezy album

Do U like their final release – “Gouda”?

"Hats Off To Harper" is best bc its acronym is the same as the album's

i can't believe you left the fucking title track off the poll!

Wish I was an artist so I could have a song called Puff Daddy (feat. Godzilla)

Lots of people mistakenly believe that the title track was on HotH but it was actually on the EP they released simultaneously under their Chris Gaines pseudonym.

by the way, which one's Led?

The balding bespectacled one who always wore the tweed suitjackets and looked like a guidance counselor.

He was like their Bez, mostly played the rainstick.

https://i.imgur.com/ztWFChd.jpg
ooh babe, ooh babe, aw aw aw aw aw aw aw yeah yeah

They were truly golden gods in their heyday but I have to say they've aged admirably:

http://www.alexrox.com/wp-content/uploads/cr-3-1.jpg

aww king’s

It's love that holds it all together iirc.

killer album

No, no, Killer was the album Zep did with Marilyn Manson. I thought y'all were supposed to be some serious music heads up in this piece.

Dude, Killers is totally a Zep joint:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Iron_Maiden_Killers.jpg/220px-Iron_Maiden_Killers.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Iron_Maiden_Killers.jpg/220px-Iron_Maiden_Killers.jpg

Plant looks weird holding a hatchet.

My love is in league with the freeway
Its passion will ride, as the cities fly by
And the tail-lights dissolve, in the coming of night
And the questions in thousands take flight

My love is the miles and the waiting
The eyes that just stare, and the glance at the clock
And the secret that burns, and the pain that won't stop
And its fuel is the years

My love is exceeding the limit
Red-eyed and fevered with the hum of the miles
Distance and longing, my thoughts do collide
Should I rest for a while at the side

Your love is cradled in knowing
Eyes in the mirror, still expecting they'll come
Sensing too well when the journey is done
There is no turning back, no
There is no turning back
On the big log circling around in the bowl

Victor & Alison Krauss:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFg1vS7OXdU

I did it all for the nookie
Come on
The nookie
Come on
So you can take that cookie
And Stick it up your, yeah!
Stick it up your, yeah!
Stick it up your, yeah!

'Whole Lotta Love'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj1XVUsXnvI

this is surprisingly fun

Intense deja vu on "Plant looks weird holding a hatchet."

Led Zeppelin: Forbidden Thoughts

Plant looks weird holding a hatchet.

Erm not sure if you're being serious here but Killers is one of the two albums Zep recorded with original vocalist Alice Cooper

Corgan played all the parts anyway

Was it the tour for this album that they filmed for Stop Making Sense? It's such a gas watching Plant dance around in the big suit, but it's a total bummer watching his padded shoulders slump the moment he realizes the Hell's Angels have been murdering random audience members (even if he does gamely continue dancing through his despondency while mumbling 'Does anyone remember slaughter?' into his headset mic).

Voted Big Log cuz uh well I had to go

Many think that track was a misstep but for a song constructed of nothing but samples of fart sounds it's a pretty astounding achievement.

I mean, it was a little weird when JPJ later replicated the main fart track on the keyboard for 'Carouselambra' but if you're going to steal, steal from the best.

xxxp - No dude, he says: “Does anybody remember Laughner?” — he was asking if there are any Rocket From the Tombs fans in the crowd.

IIRC this album was first released in the US with the title Glass Houses of the Holy.

It opened with "You May Be Right."

I can't believe the thread has got this far without anyone mentioning the album cover, with its iconic photo of Giant Haystacks in Northern Ireland.

IIRC it was just a collage drawn from this image:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61MBC1FTRTL._SY355_.jpg

They should never have let the naked kids frolic atop him.

Hang on, 'Fly by Night' wasn't on this one!?

Music from 'The Elder' iirc. It's part of a song cycle which includes 'La Grange', 'Come Sail Away' and 'Ghostbusters'.

What year did the Zep Saturday morning cartoon start? I assume it was sometime in the latter half of the '70s because of the disco outfits they always wore and the fact that Gabe Kaplan did the voice of Bonzo.

Yeah, it was around that time iirc. 'Are You Gonna Go My Way' was fucking huge. I mean huge!

Forgot "The Grunge," the band's RHCP tribute

(Plant's asking if anyone's seen the bridge from "Under the Bridge," in an appropriately funky way)

Ooh, that was near the end of their career. Their smack phase was proper grim, as such things have a tendency to be.

Yeah, things started to get a bit d'yer

The thing I love most about ShakerMaker is the version with the "toasting" section from DJ/reggae star Super Cat.

Are these the soundtrack versions from the film Roy Harper made of Jim & Bob burning their cashmere sweaters by Loch Ness?

xpost Ohhh, right. Ha ha. I forgot Super Cat guested on 'ShakerMaker'. That explains why I always confuse it with 'Smell Yo Dick (ft. MC Skat Cat)' on Physical Rififi.

lol

I LIKE THE REGGIE ONE

Wanted to play some cuts from this LP in a jukebox, but I had No Quarter

I believe this record started the Crunge movement of the 90s. The guys from Stone Mud Jam heard the Fool in the Rain Song and were inspired to write Tween Spirit.

I feel like such a poseur fan for having never watched their Woodstock performance. That four-hour version of 'Sister Ray' with Sha Na Na on backing vocals is supposed to be shit-hot.

Are these the soundtrack versions from the film Roy Harper made of Jim & Bob burning their cashmere sweaters by Loch Ness?

this is a bit of a furphy - yes, they burnt the sweaters they took up, but it was a promo stunt for an Inverness shop that supplied them with cable-knit jumpers to wear in the film.

https://i.redd.it/43nc90s5k5w01.png

Has anyone read Plant's novel, The Lord of the Rings? Is it supposed to be any good?

"i'm in the mood for a melody" is the best echo chambers brothers' cover JPJ sang at terrastock '99 karaoke iirc

Never mind, guys. I only this minute learned on Wikipedia that Lord of the Rings is just a compilation of LZ's song lyrics. So embarrassed that I thought it was a novel all these years.

I can't believe the thread has got this far without anyone mentioning the album cover, with its iconic photo of Giant Haystacks in Northern Ireland.

― Gavin, Leeds

when did haystacks calhoun wrestle there

Was this the album after JPJ had his solo hit with "Love Is in the Air"?

Huh, there's a shit ton of stuff I never knew about these guys. Pretty just know them as the band with the drummer with an extra arm

Even if you've never heard any of their album tracks, you're almost surely familiar with some of the dozens of TV theme songs they recorded under various pseudonyms (e.g. WKRP in Cincinnati, Small Wonder, The Fall Guy, Steptoe and Son, Muppet Babies, etc.).

when did haystacks calhoun wrestle there

Haystacks Calhoun and Giant Haystacks actually wrestled each other there in 1972 - Page was in attendance and wrote the song 'Better by You, Better You Bet' about a bet he'd made on the outcome.

It does need to be noted that while they were undoubtedly an innovative group, the way they appropriated without credit from such original blues artists as Elvis, Peter Green and Andrew Lloyd-Webber remains highly problematic.

Not to mention JPJ making entire backing tracks from presets left in the Yamaha GX-1 he bought from ABBA.

The Elvis issue was settled out of court when it was demonstrated that Presley actually got the melody for 'Clambake' from a tune that he'd overheard a young extra (by the name of Lil' Jimmy Page) humming during the filming of his 1958 vehicle Sugar Shack.

Old Lunch on fire itt

Even if you've never heard any of their album tracks, you're almost surely familiar with some of the dozens of TV theme songs they recorded under various pseudonyms (e.g. WKRP in Cincinnati, Small Wonder, The Fall Guy, Steptoe and Son, Muppet Babies, etc.).

― Things To Do For Dinner When You're Dad (Old Lunch)

not to mention the "be all that you can be" jingle for the us army

This band certainly did a lot of touring considering they only ever traveled by dirigible.

To think of the great things they may have done had their tourblimp not spectacularly exploded in 1936, killing all but one of the original lineup. As I understand it, Page gave up his seat because he wanted to stay behind and get his hair permed.

Some of Jimmy Page's finest guitar work since he was in The Byrds alongside Joe Beck

I just remembered that godawful The New Zeppelins tv show that NBC cobbled together on the heels of LZ's resurgent popularity in the late '80s (after Nick at Nite started rerunning old episodes of the classic Led's Get It Started! sitcom from the previous decade). Because Zeppelin fans were really hungering to see the wacky hijinks of four nobodies (except for Pauly Shore, obvs, who surprisingly took off afterwards) pretending to be the band. The fact that it was inexplicably set in space was almost the least disastrous thing about it.

Some of Jimmy Page's finest guitar work since he was in The Byrds alongside Joe Beck

Beck did some interesting songwriting in the 90s when he combined hip-hop and indie rock but his early blues-rock is what I'll always love most. The band he formed with Mick Jagger actually prefigured the first Zep album (Paranoid).

Wait, I'm confused. Do you mean J.S. Beck or C.P.E Beck?

Joe S. Beck, of the Byrds, as noted above. Not to be confused with Sebastian Beck of Slik Toxik.

Carl was a shredder, though! I like his Chuck Berry rip on "Surfin' UAE".

The Beck family tree is a veritable who's who of music history. Little known fact: both Plant and Jones are Becks by marriage (not to mention the band's touring harpist, Becky Beck).

(Given that pedigree, you'd think her subsequent assemblage of family talent, Becky Beck and the Beck-ish Bunch, would've amounted to more than a glorified novelty act.)

You may also be familiar with their distant cousin Beck Hanson, who founded Hanson.

And whose dad, Glenn Beck, was the VJ hosting 120 Minutes when Led Zeppelin gave their first television performance after they'd served their time for that savings and loan scam in '89. Wheels within wheels!

hence the rather on-the-nose title of that tour, Steel Wheels Within Wheels.

It's still amazing to me, after everyone had predicted that tour and their reunion in general would be an utter failure, that 'Dads R Gonna Rock (And the Kids R Gonna Like It!)' wound up being the biggest single of the year in, what, like eight different countries? Those dudes never lost their touch, imo.

that was the one that they hired the Chemical Dust Brothers to produce right?

wrong. it was another producer, also called the Chemical Dust Brothers. christ

I mean, it's an easy mistake to make. There were, I believe, four or five different people producing music under the moniker Chemical Dust Brothers at that time. They were all producers who worked solo, too, so the plural implied by the name just made it that much more confusing.

Chemical Dust Brothers of Canada was who I was thinking of, sorry for the confusion

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Not a lot of people know this, but that's actually a very young Gaz Coombes playing flute on Stairway.

It's a good thing I hadn't already voted!

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

chasing down a hoodoo there

I never really "got" Big Log until I saw G G Allin do it on stage one time.

Wow, I can't believe it took me this long to realize you omitted 'PopoZão' from the tracklisting. The entire third side of the LP!

my big log for you
my big log for you
my big
my big
my big
my big

you omitted 'PopoZão' from the tracklisting

this was taken from the original Scottish pressing, where post-war stimulus regulations still required one side of every album to carry an engraving of the Queen.

Yeah, I've been trying to track down a copy for ages. That's also the edition with the octuplefold sleeve that you can reconfigure into an actual little House of the Holy. I guess it makes sense that they got the best version of the album since the entire band is from Scotland.

except for Bono Dog, who was expelled there (at age nine, for reasons still withheld against FOI requests).

my big log for you
my big log for you
my big
my big
my big
my big

My favourite Nirvana song.

It's easy to forget that the Zeppelin version of 'Big Log' was just a cover. And that Nirvana's career began in the late '60s.

I feel like an idiot because for a long time I conflated it with the Buckley Lindsingham song "Big Big Log."

No worries, most of these scatological paeans are completely interchangeable in my mind.

whoa! I'd heard that Rundgren had to drop out of the latest reunion tour because of psoriasis, didn't realise he'd been replaced by Fever Ray

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MALrz3QG-rc

'Murica:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jun/21/facebook-reverses-ban-on-led-zeppelin-album-cover-featuring-naked-children

“Featuring”

these soundcloud rappers turn up everywhere!

Next up: Blind Faith

The Rain Song (Ft. (Just A) Lil Wayne)

does anybody remember $laughter?
https://soundcloud.com/deric-saint-slaughter

can't believe the theremin solo Axl Paul Bon Jovi drops on "November Rain (demo)" - but the original version of the song was better.

50 years old today.

It sure is! Richard Wright so good on this, especially closing Side 1. "Where's that confounded gig?" lol

The Wakeman/Clapton instrumental sparring on “Got a Quarter?” is rightfully legendary

am I the only one who vastly prefers the 1986 Arthur Baker remix with the horn overdubs? the original doesn’t really “go” anywhere

the girl who won percy's heart is now 53

Thanks for the update.

Oh I see

It sure is! Richard Wright so good on this, especially closing Side 1. "Where's that confounded gig?" lol

― pplains, Tuesday, March 28, 2023 6:53 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I thought he was saying "where's that confounded bridge?" in response to the cries of "take it to the bridge!"

but

Isn’t it?

Neil S is thinking of Graffiti Bridge, that was just an outtake on the box set

Why op didn't poll the skits?

Houses of the De La Soul-y

Thought maybe this might be bumped for the early "Rain Song" version Page posted yesterday. Apparently this was only found again after the most recent reissues:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n1Bxp-YfTs

My original idea for the opening tracks for ‘Houses of the Holy’ was that a short overture would be a rousing instrumental introduction with layered electric guitars that would segue in to ’The Seasons’, later to be titled ‘The Rain Song’. Again there would be a contrasting acoustic guitar instrumental movement with melotron that could lead to the first vocal of the album and the first verse of the song.

‘The Seasons’ was a memo to myself as a reminder of the sequence of the song and various ideas I’d had for it in its embryonic stage. I’d worked on it over one evening at home. During the routining of the overture now titled ‘The Plumpton and Worcester Races’, the half time section was born and the overture shaped in to the song, ‘The Song Remains The Same’. These rehearsals were done in Puddle Town on the River Piddle in Dorset, UK.

The first set of recordings were done at Olympic Studios with George Chkiantz.

We then came to record at Stargroves, Sir Mick Jagger’s country home, and, like Headley Grange, with the Rolling Stones recording truck.

‘The Song Remains The Same’ was played on a Fender 12 string, the same one used on Becks Bolero, with my trusty Les Paul number 1 on overdubs in a standard turning. The ‘Rain Song’ was an unorthodox tuning on acoustic and electric guitars. On live shows, it became a work-out feature for the double neck.

??? i don't even understand what band you're talking about? april fools is t for

not for 3 days dude

Pretty standard rundown but I was surprised to hear the ending solo guitar section played over the heavy part. Didn’t realize those two sections mesh together

https://i.imgur.com/J4MxD8R.jpg

Going to hold off posting in this thread until I hear the super deluxe box that's coming out in the summer. I think the Steven Wilson 5:1 mix will be an improvement on Carmine Appice's squeaky bass pedal.

Record Plant is where The Honeydrippers escaped their previously-radioactive firm and minted "The Rain Remains the Same" and "The Song Song", before creating a supergroup with Richey Edwards and Kurt Cobain.

I really like the version of Elton John's "D'yer Make'r D'yerk Chicken"

Prefecture, I believe you're thinking of "The Song Retains Cobain," after an incident where Butch Vig almost removed Kurt's vocal but then put it back in.

Nicely done!
I'm kinda surprised that a "turning point in rock" book has not been built around the generational change of 1991 represented by "Nirvana" being passed from Robert to Kurt

Over a decade late with this, kind of surprised how well this cover turned out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUPopbqeeyY

(And I actually thought it was going to be the Velvet Underground or Neil Young's song by the same name.)

Voters of “puff daddy (feat. godzilla)” aged like milk

Wish I was an artist so I could have a song called Puff Daddy (feat. Godzilla)

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, July 24, 2018 9:59 PM bookmarkflaglink

Lol

Still a great song title!

(And I actually thought it was going to be the Velvet Underground or Neil Young's song by the same name.)

Richard Hawley's also got one (maybe my favorite of the lot).

Shaker-dyer-mak’er