The almost desperate pleading vocals on "Babe I'm "Black Dog"? "Whole Lotta Love"? "RockĪnd Roll"? Weak imitations. Plant's vocals carried that range? That deep full-bodied manic scream on And this album best captures them as that. They were aīlues band that occasionally strayed into what would later be called Hard Led Zeppelin was always incorrectly pigeonholed as a Otherwise ROCK record is my favorite Led Zeppelin album and I'd argue it's the best If you don'tĪlready have this one, that basically means that you suck. Themselves out, and you're not as good as Jimmy Page. Jello! Get out your air guitar for this one. This & you'd be surprised at some of the material that went (Jesse Lara) That Jimmy stole about half of them)." - I've written a few articles on ".The melodies are great, too (although rumor has it How about a big HANd for all you SOLO fans? Ha! That joyous axeman, welcoming us into his fairy world of blues, pop, metal,īalladry, psychedelia, and, er, more blues. Wild singer, pounding drummer, practiced bassy, and the axeman cometh. If not for the godawful "I Can't Quit You Babe," I'd call this one of the greatest debut Adding creativity to theīlues? Howsaboutastinky? The melodies are great, too (although rumor has it "Black Mountain Side," imitating Robert Plant in "You Shook Me," or 'wanking' his 'penis' in "How Many More Times," his playing is exciting,Įxpert, and loose enough to have its own "Jimmy Page" signature sound. Violin bow in "Dazed And Confused," plunking the Eastern acoustic majestic in Yardbirds from the getgo pretty much revolved around the quick-fingered, And that's the main appeal of this record. Tone - gruff and loud, yet bright and entirely clear, thanks to And oh, could that Jimmy Page play a mean guitar - especially for a Turning into kind of an adult rock piano band at the end there. Stagnate! They just did what they wanted - even if that happened to involve Inspired dozens of imitators, but few if any equals. Power and developed it into a complex, dynamic, multi-faceted art form that They created a simple style based on heavy bluesy guitar-wanky Hard rock/heavy metal that they helped create- well sir, I'm just gonna have That these four haughty Brits possessed, nearly incomparable in the genre of Talent - the noodles of oodles of sheer composing and playing talent And mutter what you might about their reportedĭecline into dinosaurism during the age of punk. Their ridiculously operatic screaming singer, their overblown anthems, their Zeppelin phase is a sad middle-schooler indeed. The Song Remains The Same How The West Was Won Physical Graffiti Physically Present Presence In Through The Out Door Back Through The Out Takes Studio Daze Coda The middle-schooler without a Led Paragraph! Led Zeppelin II III Led Records Untitled The Origin Of The Species DVD BBC Sessions In The Light 1969 Houses Of The Holy The Soundtrack From The Film Feel the wrath of their bombast! special introductory
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |