The Battle of Evermore, Zeps Greatest work?

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I think it is, and I have come to this conclusion only after a lot of reasoned thought and emotional soul searching. But I am torn when I consider 'steal away' and 'thank you'

― lukey (Lukey G), Thursday, 18 March 2004 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

FOUR STICKS!

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 18 March 2004 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Well actually BOE is like my least loved song on 4, so y'know ANY SONG! RAOR!!

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 18 March 2004 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

raor?

― lukey (Lukey G), Thursday, 18 March 2004 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Guttural rockin call

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 18 March 2004 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

So maybe a bit like "ROAR" only less coherent then?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 18 March 2004 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

It's quite lovely, but I don't think I'd call it their "greatest work". My bid for that title would be either "In the Evening" or "How Many More Times?", but that's me.

Ever hear the Lovemongers (i.e. Heart)'s version of "...Evermore"?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 18 March 2004 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Less coherent more rockin

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 18 March 2004 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, it would be, wouldn't it?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 18 March 2004 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 18 March 2004 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

My point in a nutshell.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 18 March 2004 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

So maybe a bit like "ROAR" only less coherent then?

http://www.pazsaz.com/pic/roar.gif

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 March 2004 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Sssssh Ned! There are people trying to sleep!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 18 March 2004 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

embarassed, I cant believe I called 'How many more times' steal away, I wish the ground would open up and swollow me.

― lukey (Lukey G), Thursday, 18 March 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Bron-Yr-Aur is the best thing Page ever did.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 18 March 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

yes gygax, but Zp is a collective of equally important elements. And I do agree that it is amazing, but I gave this a lot of thought before I posted.

― lukey (Lukey G), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

john paul jones IS led zeppelin.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm just saying that cause he gets no credit at all. obviously bonham is the shit, etc.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 18 March 2004 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Their greatest drumless track ever. Dulcimer and guitar strings plucked and struck again and again like longbows, cascades of notes falling from misty skies like a hailstorm of pine needles. It starts to subside, so you leave your shelter, but then it returns. "Bring it back, bring it back"

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 18 March 2004 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

lukey you convinced me this was great by playing it to me when i was half-asleep and badly hungover. it made a good soundtrack to my lucid dreams of storms gathering over some avalonian paradise, big tents and massed armies etc. MARTIAL! had i been awake/sober, i may have been less enthusiastic.

― pete b. (pete b.), Thursday, 18 March 2004 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Going To California > BOE

― Daniel DiMAGGIO (Daniel DiMAGGIO), Thursday, 18 March 2004 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Battle of Evermore -- my least favourite Zep song.

― Jaromil (Jaromil), Thursday, 18 March 2004 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

If more use was made of Sandy Denny on this track it might well be Zep's greatest. There's something limp and tired about, it's got a worldweary tone which is probably down to the echoing mandolin. That's a good thing, but i find it bizarre wondering (for Zep) what it would be like with a bit more 'oomph'. (Haven't heard live versions). The lyric is dross, which probably hampered the musicmaking.

― pete s, Friday, 19 March 2004 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow, it's pretty good, but I wouldn't call it their BEST. To me that category belongs to 'The Rain Song,' 'Dazed and Confused,' and 'Ramble On.'

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 19 March 2004 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)

"in the evening," "kashmir," "carousselambra," and "the immigrant song"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 19 March 2004 02:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Since I've been loving you
Kashmir
Nobody's fault but mine
Thank you

regards,

REB

― Rik E Boy (Rik E Boy), Friday, 19 March 2004 04:29 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

"Throw down your plough and hoe and REVIVE!"

While I still don't think this is the band's greatest work, I listened to it on my walk to work this morning, and it transformed dreary 6th Avenue into roiling fields of medieval carnage, the skies blackened with the leathery wingspans of Wraith-ridden dragons. I verily slew a gaggle of porcine orks before I crossed the threshold of my office door and let out a barbaric yawp.

Incidentally, I highly recommend Erik Davis' book on Led Zeppelin iV in the 331/3 series by Continuum. It's greatly entertaining.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

I drop this on every jukebox

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

My friend Brent used to make it a point to load up the jukebox with as many airrings of "Stairway to Heaven" as his change could muster before making a hasty exit from the bar. Oh how we laughed.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Does Plant transform by the end into the voice of Sauron? "Bring it back, bring it, bring it. . . ." "It" being the One Ring. Cuz in the beginning we're led to believe that Sandy Denny is the Queen of Light, and Percy's the Prince of Peace. Or something like that. Great fucking song anyways.

― nervous tic motion of the head, Monday, 21 November 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

I always thought the "bring it back" was regarding "the balance."

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

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