Led Zeppelin: Classic Or Dud?

makes total sense

xp

But fwiw, Taurus doesn't even contain the same "opening notes" as stairway, just the same first-five chords

Guys Led Zeppelin is so awesome, III is killing it right now

I always forget how kick ass Celebration Day is

Out on the Tiles!

"Out on the Tiles" and "Celebration Day" both underrated tunes. Haven't listened to all of III in forever ....

Ah man, Out on the Tiles is my jam.

I'm just a simple guy, live from day to day

I haven't heard Led Zep III since I was like 15 for whatever reason. I ordered the reissue, as well as LZ I, which I never owned on cd oddly.

sounds so nice.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/robert-plant-fires-back-at-jimmy-page-have-a-good-rest-20140605

"It’s really a celebratory record, but it’s very crunchy and gritty, very West African and very Massive Attack-y," Plant said. "There’s a lot of bottom end, so it might sound all right at a Jamaican party, but I’m not sure it would sound all right on NPR."

haha this guy, you gotta love him

III keeps climbing my personal ranking of their albums. I had it at #4 way back during the LZ ballot poll; I'd put it second behind Presence now.

"not sure it would sound all right on NPR"
that description suggests it would sound exactly right on NPR

otm

III's easily my favorite. the acoustic stuff puts it over the top ahead of PG.

Yeah III has been my favorite since college.

why don't you make like Skid Row and gtfo

― Neanderthal, Thursday, June 5, 2014 11:18 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sweet burn

should see a doctor for that then

why don't you make like skid row and evolve into thin lizzy?

#oooohshiiiit

III's my favourite after PG. Am doubtless gonna end up getting the double CD reissues eventually. Kind of coveting the deluxe boxes, for the book as much as the vinyl, but money's too tight.

I've never owned Led Zep I on cd before (just vinyl that I stole from my father years ago). how does this remaster compare overall? sounds great to my ears but I dunno what it sounded like before really.

But fwiw, Taurus doesn't even contain the same "opening notes" as stairway, just the same first-five chords

I've actually written out the notes on this board to try to make this point. I'm not sure we're going to sway people at this point.

I mean, if you count A-C-E as the opening notes, you could argue that they're the same. In that case, Spirit owe a pretty nice sum to the inventors of the minor triad.

Pythagoras wants his fuckin royalties

Man, Page's tone is so sick on the '69 live set.

Any word on when they might release the reissues on the rest of the catalog?

I think they're doing 3 every three months, so September and December for the next two batches. Just in time to release a box set for Christmas.

so pumped to hear how the remaster affects Presence

I'd like the bonus track for that one to be a version of Achilles Last Stand that starts with the basic tracks and adds an overdub every chorus

I heard they were spreading these out more...no more until early next year? I kind of like that idea. It's a lot to sit with, also $heesh

They pushed them back? That sucks. Initial plans were every three months.

FYI, I don't know when it's coming, but I've been told that the bonus content on the reissue of IV will be a previously unheard alternate mix of the entire album. Not a rough mix, but an actual finished version of IV that was scrapped in favor of the released version.

Color me interested.

Stoked on behalf of you guys, I only really liked the "Houses of the Holy" album

I wonder if the Coda reissue will be the revised box set version with "Hey Hey What Can I Do", "Traveling Riverside Blues" etc. which explain them being left off the new remasters?

yeah both those are far superior to any of the extra studio stuff so far

Irritated (already!) that "Sugar Mama" isn't one of the bonus tracks on the I or II reissues - not much of a song, but a nice little funky groove thang

"La La" is fun but I'm kind of happy that right now the only deluxe one I'm tempted to buy is LZ I for the live set.....I can def save some money on II and III (which I already bought the single LP)

I wonder if the Coda reissue will be the revised box set version with "Hey Hey What Can I Do", "Traveling Riverside Blues" etc. which explain them being left off the new remasters?

I would hope so. The original album was only 33 minutes.

And I have a sinking feeling that, once all the reissues are out, they'll put out a "complete" box with material not on any of the reissues.

Man, have I been on a serious Zeppelin kick since these threads started getting revived!

I have a bunch of Zep LPs at my dad's place I'm going to need to pick up this weekend, I haven't listened to that stuff in YEARS. Yesterday I was blasting youtubes of "Immigrant Song" and "Fool in the Rain".

so when are IV-Houses of the Holy-Physical Graffiti getting reissues??

Just burned through the Hoskyns book, and man, this is OTMFM:

the last couple years of the band go down in bad vibes like the end of goodfellas

― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, May 28, 2014 10:00 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The sad part is, it was so insanely and completely avoidable. I mean, yeah, there was some sketchy shit with Grant and his gangster buddies, but I didn't realize the beginning of the downturn would be summed up in a single quote of Page's: "I wanted to see if heroin would make me more creative. That was a mistake."

Yeah, it got hard to read when the shit started hitting the fan.

Oof, that heroin quote is rough. What a bummer.

Jimmy Page being very talkative about the remasters, LZ history, etc. Good stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpLBdUyhS-w

Was just talking to someone about the '70s, about how that decade was a such a perfect storm of post-'60s availability (sex and drugs) and pre-'60s naivete (sex and drugs). Girls lined up down the hall, literal piles of cocaine on the table, everyone was partaking and participating (except Rush, apparently) and there was apparently no standard of transgression or established moral threshold, since everyone was still in '60s rebellion mode. But somewhere that rebellion turned to abject, demonic hedonism for its own sake, which of course got really ugly, especially by the '80s, but that ugly quality only seems to have been ascribed in retrospect. Was it on this thread or somewhere else that someone noted how famous men no longer boast about the number of women they bedded, surely because they realize how few of those assignations were consensual by contemporary standards. And think of how many countless millions were spent on coke, and how many fortunes were destroyed or flushed down the toilet. Kind of mind-boggling, really.

Well, yeah.

Major league DUD except for all the sick bands they inspired

A+ contribution, would FP again

I listened to III today for the first time, and it was pretty enjoyable. I realized I haven't really sat down and listened to a full album of theirs since I was an idiot teenager who brushed off III because it had acoustic guitars in it. (Pretty sure I've only really heard I and II in full.) I like the hobbit rock vibe they have on this, and it's striking my inner T-Rex fan in all the right ways!