POLL LOTTA LOVE - ILM Artist Poll #6 - Led Zeppelin

OK, let's start the next one!

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Rank your top 20 Led Zeppelin tracks. No solo Plant, Plant/Krauss, Page/Plant, The Firm, "It Might Get Loud" soundtrack, none of that mess. Just Led Zeppelin tracks. I'll post an alphabetical list of songs shortly.

normal scoring: 1:40, 2:36, 3:33, 4:30, 5:28, 6:26, 7:25, 8:24, 9:23, 10:22, 11:21, 12:20, 13:19, 14:18, 15:17, 16:16, 17:15, 18:14, 19:13, 20:12.

Parts 2 and 3, both optional:

2. Include your ranking of Led Zeppelin's five best albums from among the band's 12. (Nine studio albums and three live albums -- The Song Remains the Same, BBC Sessions and How the West Was Won)

3. Send a ranked list of your three MOST HATED Led Zeppelin tracks, with #1 being most hated. The votes from this ballot won't negatively affect the point totals for tracks -- I'll do a separate "most hated" countdown, probably a Top 10.

Send your ballots to me at wmcrump AT gmail.com, or via ILXmail. Deadline is noon Eastern Daylight Time, one week from today -- August 23rd.

Cliffs:
1. Ranked ballot of TWENTY (20) Led Zeppelin tracks
2. Ranked list of FIVE (5) favorite Led Zeppelin albums
3. Ranked list of THREE (3) most-hated Led Zeppelin tracks
4. Deadline in ONE WEEK
5. Enjoy the hot dinosaur rock action!

putting "d'yer mak'er" at no. 1 just to be that guy

Where can I place "Tall Cool One"?

1. Ranked ballot of TWENTY (20) Led Zeppelin tracks
3. Ranked list of THREE (3) most-hated Led Zeppelin tracks

what are the odds Stairway takes both number 1 spots

Totally going to take part in this one!

what are the odds Stairway takes both number 1 spots

pretty high, I'd say

Love Led Zeppelin. Don't think I can get to 20, but their 10 matches up with almost anybody's 10 for me.

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Achilles' Last Stand
All My Love
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Baby Come On Home
Black Country Woman
Black Dog
Black Mountain Side
Bonzo's Montreux
Boogie With Stu
Bring It On Home
Bron Yr Aur Stomp
Bron Yr Aur
Candy Store Rock
Carouselambra
Celebration Day
Communication Breakdown
Custard Pie
Dancing Days
Darlene
Dazed And Confused
Down By The Seaside
D'yer Mak'er
Fool In The Rain
For Your Life
Four Sticks
Friends
Gallows Pole
Going To California
Good Times Bad Times
Hats Off To (Roy) Harper
Heartbreaker
Hey Hey What Can I Do
Hot Dog
Hots On For Nowhere
Houses Of The Holy
How Many More Times
I Can't Quit You Baby
I'm Gonna Crawl
Immigrant Song
In My Time Of Dying
In The Evening
In The Light
Kashmir
Living Loving Maid
Misty Mountain Hop
Moby Dick
Night Flight
Nobody's Fault But Mine
No Quarter
Out On The Tiles
Over the Hills and Far Away
Ozone Baby
Poor Tom
Ramble On
Rock And Roll
Royal Orleans
Sick Again
Since I've Been Loving You
South Bound Suarez
Stairway To Heaven
Tangerine (Page)
Tea For One
Ten Years Gone
Thank You
That's The Way
The Battle Of Evermore
The Crunge
The Lemon Song
The Ocean
The Rain Song
The Rover
The Song Remains The Same
The Wanton Song
Trampled Under Foot
Travelling Riverside Blues
Walter's Walk
We're Gonna Groove
Wearing And Tearing
What Is And What Should Never Be
When The Levee Breaks
White Summer
Whole Lotta Love
You Shook Me
Your Time Is Gonna Come

Being able to keep almost 1/4 of the list feels weird. But there you go.

actually I'll bet Levee takes #1

Can I get a dealwithit gif for Stairway because haters are going to need to be put in their rightful place when it makes top 3.

I don't hate "Stairway", it's a good song, I just never, ever, ever, ever need to hear it again in my lifetime.

whereas I never get bored of "The Rain Song."

mellotron and all

Weirdly enough, my absolute favourite Led Zeppelin would be parts of two songs I won't vote for: the first couple of minutes of "How Many More Times" and the last minute of "The Ocean."

I s'pose I'll relisten to the records for this (it's been a while) but I'm fond of the directness of the debut. Until Houses of the Holy their albums tended to meander & squander their impact, particularly on sides 2.

Rain Song is so so amazing

Joe Perry STILL can't figure it out

As much as I feel like I know the songs backward and forward (did I really buy my first LZ record 32 years ago?), I'm going to relisten to some stuff before I vote.

Done.

Oh fuck, I've missed In My Time Of Dying.

yeah i am re-listening, esp to the first two and the last two. iii through houses are burned into my brain. (and i dont want to load my list down exclusively with sings frim them.)

my phone hates me: singles from them.

the first two are the only ones I never listen to.

phys graf, too, though i rarely listen to it.

Heard Ten Years Gone for the first time in quite a long while the other day. Love that song.

Just gonna submit the track listing of "Physical Graffiti" in order.

Got your ballot, Ismael, but you can redo it if you want. I won't start entering data for a few days.

Don't tempt me. Do it instantly, then look for'ard to the results, that's the way.

Could "White Summer/Black Mountain Side" be treated as one song (as featured on the 1990 boxset)?

I was looking at the song list and pondering that question this morning. I'd say yes.

i also take it "official" live versions are out?

(Nine studio albums and three live albums -- The Song Remains the Same, BBC Sessions and How the West Was Won)

i meant for the songs list.

Oh, I gotcha, I misread that initial post.

Well, the song list is what it is -- if it's the awesomeness of the 26:53 live version that puts "Dazed and Confused" on your ballot, so be it. But there shouldn't be a differentiation on your tracks ballot between a studio version and a live version of the same song.

does anyone remember lol

Weirdly enough, my absolute favourite Led Zeppelin would be parts of two songs I won't vote for: the first couple of minutes of "How Many More Times" and the last minute of "The Ocean."

― clemenza, Tuesday, August 16, 2011 11:52 AM

Mmm, I am voting for "The Ocean" strictly because of that last minute. Also, I urge you all to keep in mind the glorious evil of "Sick Again."

I say live songs and studio cuts should be counted as the same thing for these lists. God help any asshole who attempts a Grateful Dead poll.

actually I'll bet Levee takes #1

Vegas has installed Levee as the frontrunner

What are Kashmir's odds?

Since this is ILM, I imagine Carouselambra will be ranking pretty high.

Ha yes, couldn't resist!

It's getting a vote from me!

Not #1 though. Haven't decided which of two songs from III (!) will take the gold.

am half-assedly considering an all-acoustic ballot lol

Bonham's opening roll or salvo or whatever it's called in "Misty Mountain Hop" takes me an hour to untwist my spine from.

I was basically obsessed with Led Zeppelin in my teen years but I really haven't listened to them much in the last decade or so but thinking about my ballot I can't believe how many ballads are going to be on it -- Rain Song, Ten Years Gone, That's The Way, et al. I guess I am just a teary sap.

Man I wanted to get started on a discography relisten before I put my ballot together but I don't have any of the albums on my iPod right now and they are a glaring omission on Spotify right now.

I'm counting on "Trampled Under Foot" as a dark horse candidate for the top few finishers.

oh no...

"D'Yer Maker" not only personifies the whole "What is the title to this song?" prank Zep pulls frequently, but when you finally read the label, you still don't know how to pronounce it.

YOu don't know how many DJs I worked with that backsold this song as "Dire Maker".

It's actually a pun on "Jamaica".

There's hilarious audio of Plant talking about how Americans not hip to the Jamaica pun will say to him (in an exaggerated American accent), "I really like DIE ER MAKE ER."

Q: how many R's in the word 'Jamaica'?

A: none.

For a while I thought maybe it was about

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The band X?

Still not sure how to say "Bron-Yr-Aur" either, but that song never gets played on the radio anyway.

"I really like DIE ER MAKE ER."

That was me, from the time it came out until--well, I think I still instinctively say it that way the one time every five years I have cause to say it, even though I did learn about the pun somewhere along the way.

I always said it in my head as "Do Ya Make Her" which I thought was pretty punny and kinda made sense until I realized that it was Jamaica. I am not voting in this poll btw, clearly just too over my head.

I'll pay attention to the results thread though.

That shouldn't discourage you from voting -- Zeppelin's a bit over my head too since I'm far from being a completist, but I still went through a Zeppelin phase just like everyone else, which is why I'm not surprised that the participation in this poll is so high (60 or so ballots received, about 2x more than the average artist poll).

drugs a money awesome post about going to california

i was thinking about that section of the song yesterday, it's such a weird chilling counterpoint to the pastoral hippieism

Another example of Plant being a very strong member of the band. He makes that song completely.

I always said it in my head as "Do Ya Make Her" which I thought was pretty punny and kinda made sense

^^^ this. Never realized the Jamaica pun until just now. Thx ILM!

I realized it when (years ago) some old fogey was arguing that by that time Zep had so perfectly mastered their ouevre that they just resorted to doing parodies of other genres - D'Yer Mak'er is reggae, Trampled Underfoot is disco, Fool in the Rain is... samba? I don't remember. Dude also insisted that 75% of their catalog was acoustic

can I vote for "D'yer Maker" as 'most-hated' three times?

Hmmm, may have done that myself ...

lol, no (xpost)

Voting is closed on albums and dislikes! Give me a little while to do the final ciphering on those (and also deal with some stuff with my paying job) -- results will start in a little while.

I chose not to do any hatin' but if I had d'yer maker would have been it.

Bron-Yr-Aur pronounced "brawner-uhr" or "brawn-ruhr" (sort of)

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Just a little cottage in Wales as seen above. Apparently most of the people who stay there nowadays are Zep fans making a pilgramage to their significant haunts.

When's the countdown going to start again? Super excited for this. And, its weird, I haven't been enthused enough to give a shit about Zep since How the West Was Won came out.

Dislikes within an hour, albums after that. Tracks start tomorrow, 3-day countdown.

Awesome. Thanks again for all this.

yay!

Yeah, this is gonna be fun. Great turnout already, with perhaps some last minute ballots still to come.

As in dislikes/album ballots need to be in within an hour, or they start within hour after poll closes tonite (midnite US EDT, which is I think 8pm UK, 3AM Wed in west coast US?)

Are dislikes going to be published before the last track ballot is going to be submitted? I don't want my hate songs to influence some poor sap to include his favorite playground song at No. 1 just because it got dissed.

Dislikes and albums voting is closed. Yeah, the reveal for dislikes will be finished before the tracks deadline ends. Chaos! But I'll recognize ballot box stuffing if I see it, and throw the whole thing out, and we can start over.

Argh -- Lee, ok, I counted your albums/dislikes. Luckily it didn't affect the countdown.

Albums were given these points: 10 for #1, 7 for #2, 5 for #3, 3 for #4, 1 for #5.

Hate points were handed out 5, 3, 1.

How many tracks will be in the dislike poll?

With hated tracks at 5, 3, and 1 I guess until you get to tracks with 1 point.

I totally missed this.

there's always one!

You can still vote for your top 20 tracks though!

OK sry abt that - will get my main ballot out in a few minutes then - I'm deciding which of my last 21 songs has to go.

Top 20 ballot on the way....

You won't believe what was the last song to be cut

Cool, must be over 60 ballots now I think.

Yeah, we're well over 60.

abanana, you have 9 hours to do a tracks ballot!

I like "D'yer Ma'ker." I'm not one of those Zep cod reggae haters, I guess.

what was the last song to be cut Lee? i want to believe it!

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The pun xps is part of an old British joke btw:

"My wife's just gone to the Caribbean"
"Jamaica?"
"No, she went of her own accord"

I'm here all week folks.

I heard that joke in some old British movie on TCM about POWs set in a castle during WWII. Can't think of the title at the moment.

I really wish I wasn't so hasty with my picks.
I can't believe I ranked 'Battle of Evermore' so highly and forgot to give 'Houses of the Holy' any love

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Two hours left to vote!

Sent my ballot in last night. It was a great excuse to re-listen to tracks I hadn't heard since high school & to find out how ingrained they were almost, ahem, 30 years later. Reflecting old listening habits nearly all my selections were from I through Houses. I burned out on Zeppelin before getting too far into PG or the later ones.

― that's not my post, Tuesday, August 23, 2011 1:04 AM (18 hours ago)

Just in case you're reading this, tnmp, I don't think this ever arrived!

Voting is closed -- final ballot count is 65!

PAVEMENT RULES!!

Now the the polls are closed, I'm going to lock this one. Results are rolling out at
ILM GONNA CRAWL — Led Zeppelin poll RESULTS THREAD

xpost lol