nigger i just fucking drove back from the gym and this was playing on my houses of the holy CD in the car. the song is an unequivocal 180 along with over the hills and far away
Date: August 20th, 2020 7:39 PM Author: stirring goal in life
I have a great preteen memory of the first time I heard Houses of the Holy @ a campout, it just blew me away and I bought it on cassette as soon as I could
Date: August 21st, 2020 5:18 PM Author: bat-shit-crazy french chef
both of those songs are actual jokes - zeppelin making fun of james brown and the entire reggae industry, respectively, and showing that they can even play that better than the originators. the crunge in particular has a rhythmic deviance that few other bands could touch.
Date: August 20th, 2020 7:45 PM Author: stirring goal in life
I like II also but it's a GOAT album for me for sure even if I am biased because of that 180 experience of hearing it for the first time on a ghetto blaster in the woods
That's a great performance and speaks to their musicianship that they can do a song like the rain song, at that level, live but I'm partial to the 2014 remastered albums for pure sonic quality. Page did a great job with those.
Date: August 21st, 2020 3:32 PM Author: 180 piazza
I listened to the fuck out of them when I was in middle school, then kind of got sick of them and got into more 90s alt rock stuff at the time. But putting on Zeppelin now gives me a renewed appreciation. They really were one of the best rock bands ever, and my personal #1. Just on another level in almost every way, the band members are mystical creatures to me (which was sort of destroyed after hearing a story by a client of mine who met Robert Plant at a steak house bar, apparently he was goofy as fuck IRL).
Their radio stuff is played out and hard to even imagine hearing those songs for the first time. Thing is, that's far from their best stuff. Dig into III or Physical Graffiti and you find nuanced, sophisticated compositions and some incredible musicianship. They were creating new genres and transcending them at the same time.