10 best led zeppelin songs

[rone]

#10: "What Is and What Should Never Be"  I'm not sure why i like this song so much.  I guess i just think that it's pretty.

#9: "Stairway to Heaven"  Yes, yes, it's overplayed to hell, but it's still a grand, well-constructed, and iconic song.

#8: "Achilles' Last Stand"  A thrashing song that's all muscle.

#7: "The Ocean"  Shifting time signatures and a swinging conclusion.  Plus a ringing phone at around 1:40.

#6: "Misty Mountain Hop"  Bouncy fun anchored by Bonzo's monster beat.

#5: "Tea for One"  I feel like i'm cheating here because, as i said already, it's a simple song.  Even more, it's almost the same song as "Since I've Been Loving You".  But it's sparse and haunting.

#4: "Custard Pie"  The intro to this song just kills me, a perfect ramp-up into a superbly punctuated confluence of instruments and vocals.

#3: "How Many More Times"  A little brother to my #1.

#2: "In My Time of Dying"  I don't know if i can say that a blues song can have movements as if it were a classical piece, but god damn it, this is a four-movement blues song.  It is epic, and not just because it's the longest track they ever released.

#1: "Wearing and Tearing"  I think the band must've realized that this track was so good that it would've outshone everything else on In Through the Out Door if they'd left it in.  Everyone's performing at 100% individually, as a band, technically, everything.

Comments

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I love "The Rover". I like SIBLY but, as i said, it's almost the same song as "Tea for One" and TfO is much better.

ICQYB: original or Coda version? I like the Coda version better.

[filthy-habit.livejournal.com]

Both version have their merits, but I'd say I go with the Coda version (if that's the one on the box set), which I assumed was live.

I just listened to TfO for the first time in probably 20-years. TfO has an edgy, raw feel that I like, but I think I stick with SIBLY more because of a long term emotional commitment and the fact that Bonzo is on steroids---try timing some of his stuff, like at 3:37. You can't count it. You simply have to feel it. The guy was amazing.