Led Zeppelin Mega Tournament: Immigrant Song Wins

[Kevin Davis]

If Physical Graffiti was just the new material, not the outtakes from previous records, I'd be tempted to call it my favourite Zeppelin record:

Custard Pie
In My Time of Dying
Trampled Under Foot
Kashmir
In the Light
Ten Years Gone
The Wanton Song
Sick Again

This is how I listen to it pretty much all the time.

See Spenno gets it.

No.

It's great BECAUSE of the detours and nooks and cranny's. If you want perfection go listen to IV. Physical Graffiti is a different kind of journey and thank god for that.

Yeah, I'm in this camp. The eclectic hodgepodge element of "Physical Graffiti" has always been one of my favorite things about it, and while that component wouldn't be totally lost by limiting it to the tracklist above, taking out ephemera like "Brown Yr-Aur" and "Black Country Woman" would be a bit like taking "Bugs" and "Aye Davanita" off "Vitalogy" -- yeah, it would be a leaner, more streamlined listen, but it would come at the expense of a certain free-spiritedness that adds character to the album's story. Plus you'd lose "Down By the Seaside" which is one of my favorite songs on the album.

"Presence" is "PG"'s perfect counterpoint -- very elementally single-minded, a snapshot of the band in a very specific time and place. Those are my two go-to Zeppelin albums, with "III," "IV," and "Houses" not far behind.

[tragabigzanda]

[stip]

i discovered LZ through those comps as well. I have to keep looking to see what was on each album

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

[Kevin Davis]

Zeppelin are definitely a band that "mixes" well -- I usually have a 2-3 day LZ binge a year, and it usually consists of me just putting the catalog on shuffle and playing the whole thing through. It works in any configuration. That said, their catalog is so small that a 4-disc box set hardly seems like much of a shortcut; if those discs are packed it's probably like 3/4 of their stuff.

[LoathedVermin72]

Doesn't that 4-disc box set literally have all their stuff?

[Kevin Davis]

Looks like the 4CD box came first, then another 2CD box came out that contained everything not on the first set.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_Boxed_Set

[tragabigzanda]

[wease]

Looks like the 4CD box came first, then another 2CD box came out that contained everything not on the first set.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_Boxed_Set

Those two sets were the only way I listened to them until the remasters came out a couple years back.

[Strat]

The Stairway to Heaven from their show in 2007 surpasses the studio version and any other live version.

It is delivered with grace, elegance, and experience.

Plant sings it with this experience that doesnt bring this ridiculous theatre showmanship that really tickles my fancy.

Page and his guitar work is similarly approached where it is more subtle and experienced and less theatric.

I dont know. I love it. I hadn't heard it before.

[LetMeSleep]

On my drive to work today I played IV, III and II.

PG and HotH on the way home.

House is hot and cold for me. There are 4 amazing songs, 1 average and 3 stinkers. I haven't heard it for a while so I'm keen to see if I still think this way.

[Norah]

I am surprised at all the shared affection for specific albums. LZ were a compilation band for me since high school. The remasters (the 4-disc and 2-disc sets) covered most everything I ever wanted to hear, and then Napster made it so I could cherry pick the cuts I wanted to include in my own mixes.

Zeppelin was always an album band for me.

[LetMeSleep]

I am surprised at all the shared affection for specific albums. LZ were a compilation band for me since high school. The remasters (the 4-disc and 2-disc sets) covered most everything I ever wanted to hear, and then Napster made it so I could cherry pick the cuts I wanted to include in my own mixes.

Zeppelin was always an album band for me.

Same. When I was 14-15 with my first job, they were the band that I slowly accumulated their entire catalogue.

[stip]

Kind of surprised that rover beat the ocean

[darth_vedder]

If Physical Graffiti was just the new material, not the outtakes from previous records, I'd be tempted to call it my favourite Zeppelin record:

Custard Pie
In My Time of Dying
Trampled Under Foot
Kashmir
In the Light
Ten Years Gone
The Wanton Song
Sick Again

This is how I listen to it pretty much all the time.

See Spenno gets it.

No.

It's great BECAUSE of the detours and nooks and cranny's. If you want perfection go listen to IV. Physical Graffiti is a different kind of journey and thank god for that.

Yeah, I'm in this camp. The eclectic hodgepodge element of "Physical Graffiti" has always been one of my favorite things about it, and while that component wouldn't be totally lost by limiting it to the tracklist above, taking out ephemera like "Brown Yr-Aur" and "Black Country Woman" would be a bit like taking "Bugs" and "Aye Davanita" off "Vitalogy" -- yeah, it would be a leaner, more streamlined listen, but it would come at the expense of a certain free-spiritedness that adds character to the album's story. Plus you'd lose "Down By the Seaside" which is one of my favorite songs on the album.

"Presence" is "PG"'s perfect counterpoint -- very elementally single-minded, a snapshot of the band in a very specific time and place. Those are my two go-to Zeppelin albums, with "III," "IV," and "Houses" not far behind.

Definitely one of the best on that album. I love it and as you mentioned the eclectic hodgepodge of the album. I find myself listening to PG more than the other albums.

[tragabigzanda]

[Norah]

Can't believe you rubes eliminated Your Time is Gonna Come in the first round.

[Strat]

Can't believe you rubes eliminated Your Time is Gonna Come in the first round.

Lots of idiots 'round these parts.

[Norah]

Can't believe you rubes eliminated Your Time is Gonna Come in the first round.

Lots of idiots 'round these parts.

Lying, cheating, hurting, is all they're gonna do.

[@SkitchP]

Can't believe you rubes eliminated Your Time is Gonna Come in the first round.

Lots of idiots 'round these parts.

Lying, cheating, hurting, is all they're gonna do.

Solid post.