10 worst led zeppelin songs

[rone]

#10: "Bonzo's Montreux"  God rest his hard-drinking soul, but this percussion solo is wanktacular.

#9: "Night Flight"  I can't put my finger on what bothers me about this song, but i do know i skip it a lot when it comes on.

#8: "Down By the Seaside"  Like they were trying to do a Donovan pastiche.  Just wrong.

#7: "All My Love"  Overplayed, and a wretched keyboard solo by Jonesy.

#6: "D'yer Mak'er"  Reggae.  So bad it was covered by Sheryl Crow.  `Nuff said.

#5: "No Quarter"  A boring and overly long dirge.  Tool's cover is about 20 times better than the original.

#4: "Tangerine"  Squishy.  This track really shows off the poor production of the album, especially where in many songs, the vocal tracks are off-key from each other.

#3: "Thank You"  Starkly bereft of any of the musicality that makes Led Zeppelin great.

#2: "Your Time Is Gonna Come"  Melodramatic and overblown.

#1: "Hey Hey What Can I Do"  Inane.  So bad it was covered by Hootie and the Blowfish.

Comments

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

"Moby Dick" is fairly self-indulgent but at least it's fun. "Rock and Roll" is a simple song but it's played with a lot of energy; yeah, overplayed to hell, i know. But "The Ocean" is a fantastic song with its ever-changing meters and the smooth finish; how can you possibly hate it? HHWCID may be an old blues standard, but so is a good amount of what they recorded.

"Celebration Day" and "Carouselambra" missed the cut but were considered, as was side two of Presence with the exception for "Tea for One", for which i have a soft spot on my heart; i know it's not a great song but i think it's really well done and the intro kicks ass. I can see Coda not counting as part of an album ranking, but all tracks recorded were considered.

I have considered both top and bottom 10 for a while. pen_shui nudged me towards posting this, so i suppose i'll have to follow through with its counterpart next year.