Led Zeppelin Mega Tournament: Immigrant Song Wins

[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.

Solid post.

[evenslow]

When we were 15 my friends and I all saved our money so we could each buy the best purchase I've ever made thanks to bagging groceries:

[chewm]

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

I would have voted for it in most matches but That's the Way is too good.

[Self]

When we were 15 my friends and I all saved our money so we could each buy the best purchase I've ever made thanks to bagging groceries:

Yes. This is the box set. I had it on cassette and wore them all the fuck out.

[Jammer XCI]

Man I’m showing my age here, but I got the LZ discography through a burned DVD full of files from my buddy 10 years ago (which also had the entire Primus and A Perfect Circle discographies on it). Which is also a hilariously dated means of piracy now.

I did buy used CDs of IV and Physical Graffitti before I got those though. Never listened to any of these Zeppelin box sets, but last year I got the remastered box for The Song Remains the Same as a gift.

[E.H. Ruddock]

lol at you "showing your age" Jammer.

I "pirated" some of these when the local radio station would have "Led Zeppelin Friday" and play a full album. I'd sit by my double cassette deck and press pause on the recording every time they broke for a commercial or the DJ would speak.

[tragabigzanda]

[Kevin Davis]

At least 3 of my Zeppelin albums were "gifts" from the Columbia House music service

[stip]

I probably signed myself up for BMG under fake names, got the intro offer and the signing bonus, cancelled the other account, and signed up again at least a dozen times

[Norah]

At least 3 of my Zeppelin albums were "gifts" from the Columbia House music service

BMG for me.

[darth_vedder]

Been revisiting the BBC Sessions album. It's a little hit and miss, but there are some good versions. There are two version of Whole Lotta Love, and both sound great. The one on disc 2 is 13 minutes and has a cool mid section medley that's a little rockabilly and a little blues before snapping back into the main riff.

[@SkitchP]

Been revisiting the BBC Sessions album. It's a little hit and miss, but there are some good versions. There are two version of Whole Lotta Love, and both sound great. The one on disc 2 is 13 minutes and has a cool mid section medley that's a little rockabilly and a little blues before snapping back into the main riff.

Im going to be so mad when How Many More Times loses early. That BBC sessions version is amazing.. and BBC sessions on Vinyl is a prize possession of mine.

[Birds in Hell]

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.

Cutting all the old songs really opened up Physical Graffiti's charms for me. Being able to get a concise sense of where the band were creatively at that point in time is way more interesting than a hodge-podge of new songs and old outtakes (enjoyable as some of them might be). The comparison to Vitalogy's weirder moments doesn't feel as though it works in this case as those pieces are as much "Pearl Jam in 1994" as much as the rest of the record, they give that sense of time and place (which is something I otherwise don't get from PG).

[Kevin Davis]

There are a lot of tracks on "Vitalogy" that predate 1994! (as songs anyway, if not as recordings)

It's cool though -- whatever makes the album work for you. I like its sense of jumble; to me that's the "Graffiti" part of it.

[Jammer XCI]

lol at you "showing your age" Jammer.

I "pirated" some of these when the local radio station would have "Led Zeppelin Friday" and play a full album. I'd sit by my double cassette deck and press pause on the recording every time they broke for a commercial or the DJ would speak.

I meant it in a "this feels old to me, but not for any of you" way. I was showing my youth compared to everyone else.

What's everyone think about Them Crooked Vultures? I just thought it sounded like Queens of the Stone Age with more clavinets and farfisa organs.

[darth_vedder]

Been revisiting the BBC Sessions album. It's a little hit and miss, but there are some good versions. There are two version of Whole Lotta Love, and both sound great. The one on disc 2 is 13 minutes and has a cool mid section medley that's a little rockabilly and a little blues before snapping back into the main riff.

Im going to be so mad when How Many More Times loses early. That BBC sessions version is amazing.. and BBC sessions on Vinyl is a prize possession of mine.

Yeah, it's a solid version for sure. I've been enjoying the BBC album, hadn't listened to it for like a decade.

[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

[PHATJ]

I don’t care for QOTSA or The Crooked Vultures.

[chewm]

I don’t care for QOTSA or The Crooked Vultures.

Same

[Jammer XCI]

I like Queens of the Stone Age more than Pearl Jam or Led Zeppelin

And I like Kyuss more than Queens.

But are they better than Soundgarden? Nah.