LED ZEPPELIN!
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there was a led zeppelin thread before but it got trimmed just like my seperate threads for zep albums. i know there is some zep fans on this board. Led Zeppelin is my favorite band for sure!!! every zep album is worth listening to even coda but their earlier albums are better. all the albums in order the higher ones up i like more. Studio albums: 1.led zeppelin II but its sort of a tie with led zeppelin IIII 2.led zeppelin IIII(untitled) 3.houses of holy 4.in through out the door 5,led zeppelin I 6.led zeppelin III 7.physical graffiti 8.presence 9.coda(a album of unreleased tracks that never made the cut to other albums which was released a couple years after the drummer died
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Led. Zeppelin. Rock. End of discussion. But seriously, good to see another thread about Zeppelin. Jimmy was just a phenomenal guitarist, J.P.J. a great blues bassist, Bonzo a drumming GOD, and Robert... well, he was Robert, wasn't he?
Love these guys. My favourite of theirs is Led Zeppelin IV - Stairway to Heaven is just about the greatest song ever in my book. Led Zeppelin II, Houses of the Holy, and Physical Graffiti kicked serious ass too. I don't think a Led Zeppelin would fly though. 
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Samwise:
Led. Zeppelin. Rock. End of discussion. But seriously, good to see another thread about Zeppelin. Jimmy was just a phenomenal guitarist, J.P.J. a great blues bassist, Bonzo a drumming GOD, and Robert... well, he was Robert, wasn't he?
Love these guys. My favourite of theirs is Led Zeppelin IV - Stairway to Heaven is just about the greatest song ever in my book. Led Zeppelin II, Houses of the Holy, and Physical Graffiti kicked serious ass too. I don't think a Led Zeppelin would fly though. yes,page,JPJ,bonham,plant are all great muscians but i think jimmy page has the most talent in led zeppelin. but you need all of them to be led zeppelin but it would be aswome to jpj,plant, and page to tour one more time.
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Zepplin rules!
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they must have been really listening to "abbey road"
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Macca Mumbo:
they must have been really listening to "abbey road"
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Another Led Zep fan here.
Jimmy Page is my favorite guitarist of all time; Physical Graffiti and IV 
' are my preferred Zep albums; and my favorite Zep track is (probably) "Ten Years Gone". MY_1zJ7iaYJ:www.ledzeppelin.ru/pa/im/JP_1969-02.jpg"/> Speaking of Graffiti, thought I'd share this article written by Jaan Uhelszki for Creem magazine in May '75: "Led Zeppelin: Rock's Best Body English Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti (Swan Song) ROCK'S BIGGEST bruisers, Led Zeppelin, have got another album. In rock chronology this is an Event, since the defending champions of the world's biggest rock 'n' roll draw have released only six albums in the past seven years. In fact, we've spent eighteen excruciating months between products, pacifying ourselves with heavy rock's second prizes ? Deep Purple, Blue Oyster Cult, and BTO. And these heavy metal hitmen couldn't begin to plug up the leaks Led Zep left when they took on an extended, self-imposed exile to some musicians' netherworld. Now, just as cold turkey has begun to lose its chill. Zep are back with a package deal: a double album and an American tour. The announcement provoked unchecked carnage in the under-eighteen age group, primarily directed at long black limousines, uniformed adults, and popcorn sellers. Throngs of potential ticket-buyers foamed with anticipation, their palms growing sweaty, their eyes glassy. Days passed without the appearance of Physical Graffiti. Then the first shipment arrived late one Thursday. The fans descended on Marty's Records downstairs from CREEM like dragonflies, clustered around the cash register, furtively clutching the album to their heaving bosoms, slobbering and drooling down the shrinkwrap. Worried parents contemplated a vaccine, but once Physical Graffiti touched the turntables the mysterious malady subsided. The stricken nodules were lulled into a state of tympanic euphoria. Physical Graffiti can stand on its own historically without the support of Zep's five other million sellers, but inevitably the cuts on this album will be scrutinized with Nancy Drew-like precision in search of a successor to ?Stairway? or an equal to ?Rock and Roll.? Graffiti is, in fact, a better album than the other five offerings, the band being more confident, more arrogant in fact, and more consistent. The choice of material is varied, giving the audience a chance to see all sides of the band. Equal time is given to the cosmic and the terrestrial, the subtle and the passionate. The exotic and musky ?Kashmir? is intriguing in its otherworldliness. Jimmy Page's grinding, staccato guitar work sounds like a cosmic travelog to spiritual regeneration, swelling around the lyrics, which are heavily laden with mystical allusions and Hessean imagery. Although ?Kashmir? is certainly the best cut on the album, it could be trimmed without losing any of its mesmeric effect, because at some point the incense grows a little murky, and the slow burning guitar degenerates into opulent cliches, causing the instrumental interludes to echo an Exodus soundtrack. Not all of the cuts are exercises in advanced audial basketweaving, but trace a musical cycle running from Page's grandiose productions to basic drunken boogie. ?Trampled Underfoot? is seemingly effortless funk that is rescued from mediocrity by the elaborate punctuation of Page's guitar. His fingers traverse the neck of his instrument with a velocity so violent that only a machine could improve upon it. Each batch of notes he pulls from his guitar is uniquely his own, personal as a thumbprint. Just as unique are Plant's laments and his sexual heaves and sighs that turn the lyrics of a simplistic rocker like ?Wanton Song? into an introspective, personal statement. ?Custard Pie? and ?Boogie With Stu? are macho masterpieces in the tradition of the strutting, swaggering English flash blues formula pioneered on Zeppelin's early albums. ?Night Flight?, ?Sick Again? and ?Ten Years Gone? smack of pop picaresque, much in the manner of Rod Stewart's ?Every Picture Tells a Story? ? vignettes and transient insights, slices of a popstar's life. Led Zeppelin moves in strange ways. Sure they're gutsy, ballsy, and flamboyantly aggressive, always spiked with a lot of eroticism, but they're also cerebral...by way of the glands. They have this unique ability to wind you up and prime you for a full-throttled tilt. You rocked, you rolled, and oh mama those juices flowed ? but you also listened to the words. Surprisingly, in an era where disposable bands and itinerant musicians constantly play a game of musical chairs, Led Zeppelin is a unit ? the same four members for the past seven years. Their longevity is due to a kind of magnetism, magic if you will. That rare chemistry was evident even at their first rehearsal, where they fit together like jigsaw pieces, transcending their common R&B backgrounds to achieve a gut-wrenching new synthesis. Lisa Robinson describes it as a case in which "the Beatles battled the Stones in a parking lot and Led Zeppelin won." Zeppelin make more noise, has more guitar gimmickry, more sexuality, more flash, and generates more violence than any of their competitors, so that they are more than mere musicians, simple superstars. They have become the longest-lasting model for those culturally bankrupt ?trendies? to follow. Underage masses walk, talk, dress and dope like Zep. They have become a necessary trapping for the terminally hip, as well as providing the audial backdrop for any social gathering. A Led Zeppelin album is like a select invitation to a key club of rock 'n' roll, where the kohl eyed gypsy Jimmy Page is finally accessible through his smoky guitar solos. Robert Plant preens and moans, lusts and longs for lost memories...and takes you along. Like a sonic vortex, Zeppelin draws you into their private caprice, spiraling, coaxing your willing psyche into a suprasensory haven where you can taste and savor this dream stuff that superstars thrive on. This is not pop music, but a harder stuff, more heady and potent, like a round of whiskeys and coke. Zeppelin are avatars in a cultural vacuum." 
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Elizabeth64:
Another Led Zep fan here!
Jimmy Page is my favorite guitarist of all time;mine too for sure!!! i know people are going to think i'm a idiot for saying this but i think he is better then hendrix was, i'll just leave it at that.
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Hi, Andy!! I see we are of like mind re the supremacy of Page The Master (***ducks Hendrix tomatoes*** :lol
. He was/is incredibly versatile; those many years of studio session work served him well. 
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page, 1972 with his double neck guitar
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AndyC:
page, 1972 with his double neck guitar
awesome.
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not sure for a fact but it looks like he's doing stairway in this. http://www.born-today.com/Today/pix/page_j2.jpg
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Led Zeppelin is my 3rd favourite band after The Beatles and Pink Floyd, and Jimmy Page is probably my favourite guitarrist. All their studio albums from my favourite to my least favourite: 1. Led Zeppelin IV (untitled) 2. Led Zeppelin II 3. Led Zeppelin III 4. Led Zeppelin I 5. Physical Graffitti 6. Houses Of The Holy 7. Presence 8. In Through The Out Door 9. Coda
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Led Zeppelin II is my favorite LZ album.
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Old Brown Shoe:
Led Zeppelin II is my favorite LZ album.
i can play it over and over again without getting tired with it
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AndyC:
Old Brown Shoe:
Led Zeppelin II is my favorite LZ album.
i can play it over and over again without getting tired with it
Me too even 4 or 5 times in a row
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Haven't bought How The West Was Won Yet
But I have all their albums on cd! -
Old Brown Shoe:
Haven't bought How The West Was Won Yet
But I have all their albums on cd!its great i'm sure you can find most of the songs on lime wire
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AndyC:
Old Brown Shoe:
Haven't bought How The West Was Won Yet
But I have all their albums on cd!its great i'm sure you can find most of the songs on lime wire
I've heard alot of it on the radio.I esp like What is And What Should Never Be.
