Someone explain Ten Years Gone to me, please. I see it cited variously as the highlight of Physical Graffiti, as *the* Zep classic, and occasionally as the most beautiful song of all time. But to me it's an unnecessary mix of Rain Song noodling (my least favourite Zep mode), Plant at his blandest, and too much repetition, with Dear Prudence draped all over it. I can see that it's nice enough, but what am I missing?
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)
its about remembering lost love. i don't know, i love the melody, the words, and the slow build to the crescendo-esque final chorus, all the multi-tracked harmonies and ever-rising sad guitars.
― stevie, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)
lost first love, as plant clarifies on some bootleg i have somewhere. i think there's something very vulnerably, very happy-sad nostalgic about it, whimsical but heavy too somehow. i think i prefer it to 'rain song', but would never want to choose between the two.
― stevie, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 21:31 (eighteen years ago)
the verse into the solo into the bridge is one of the best moments into their catalog.
― Puff Daddy, whoever the fuck you are. I am dissapoint. (Steve Shasta), Friday, 26 August 2011 17:29 (fourteen years ago)
shasta otm
― buzza, Friday, 26 August 2011 17:34 (fourteen years ago)
Just posted that on the other thread. Indeed.
― grandavis, Friday, 26 August 2011 17:39 (fourteen years ago)
the post-bridge solo I don't like as much as the pre-bridge solo.
― Puff Daddy, whoever the fuck you are. I am dissapoint. (Steve Shasta), Friday, 26 August 2011 17:39 (fourteen years ago)
Yeah, get that. It is more a guitar-symphony Pageism, not a real solo. Pretty, but as essential, just works for me really well leading into the pause and the monumental return to the verse riff.
― grandavis, Friday, 26 August 2011 17:41 (fourteen years ago)
That was meant to say "not as essential" as the actual pre-bridge solo.
― grandavis, Friday, 26 August 2011 17:42 (fourteen years ago)
A rare, very direct and unambiguous Plant lyric. No arcane references to bustles in hedgerows or Tolkien or tarot decks. Just an elegy to a lost first love from ten years earlier.
― Lee547 (Lee626), Saturday, 27 August 2011 07:20 (fourteen years ago)