entombed in the shrine of zeroes and ones

#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.

#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.