whats the deal with led zeppelin???

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: pulse8

Originally posted by: tweakmm
Radiohead would be the only band in your list comparable to Led Zeppelin

In what alternate universe would that be? They are completely different bands.

Talent wise

 

[WalMart1564]

zeplin its a generational thing 30 years from now people will be saying whats the big deal about Britney Spears ? (sarcasm)

 

[KGB1]

Originally posted by: MacBaine

don't think they hold anything musically to the likes of smashing pumpkins, primus, metallica, or radiohead

You're joking, right?



Please tell me you're joking...

 

[ThisIsMatt]

/me throws on some Led too

Led Zeppelin - Trampled Under Foot

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: trmiv
That;s it, just for this thread I'm going to pop in a Zeppelin CD and cranking it!

Yup
I just queued up Led Zeppelin I

 

[Walleye]

Hey you, out there on your own
Sitting naked by the phone
Would you touch me?
Hey you, with you ear against the wall
Waiting for someone to call out
Would you touch me?
Hey you, would you help me to carry the stone?
Open your heart, I'm coming home.

But it was only fantasy.
The wall was too high,
As you can see.
No matter how he tried,
He could not break free.
And the worms ate into his brain.

Hey you, standing in the road
always doing what you're told,
Can you help me?
Hey you, out there beyond the wall,
Breaking bottles in the hall,
Can you help me?
Hey you, don't tell me there's no hope at all
Together we stand, divided we fall.


[Click of TV being turned on]
"Well, only got an hour of daylight left. Better get started"
"Isnt it unsafe to travel at night?"
"It'll be a lot less safe to stay here. You're father's gunna pick up our trail before long"
"Can Loca ride?"
"Yeah, I can ride... Magaret, time to go! Maigret, thank you for everything"
"Goodbye Chenga"
"Goodbye miss ..."
"I'll be back"



Is There Anybody Out There? (Waters)

Is there anybody out there?
Is there anybody out there?
Is there anybody out there?
Is there anybody out there?


Nobody Home (Waters)


"Alright, I'll take care of them part of the time, but there's somebody else that needs taking care of in Washington"
"Who's that?"
"Rose Pilchitt!"
"Rose Pilchitt? Who's that?"
[Kid screams in background. foreground: "Shut Up!"]
"36-24-36 [laughter] does that answer your question?"
[foreground: "Oi! I've got a little black book with me poems in!"]
"Who's she?"
"She was 'Miss Armoured Division' in 1961 ... "


I've got a little black book with my poems in.
Got a bag with a toothbrush and a comb in.
When I'm a good dog, they sometimes throw me a bone in.

I got elastic bands keepin my shoes on.
Got those swollen hand blues.
Got thirteen channels of sh1t on the T.V. to choose from.
I've got electric light.
And I've got second sight.
And amazing powers of observation.
And that is how I know
When I try to get through
On the telephone to you
There'll be nobody home.

I've got the obligatory Hendrix perm.
And the inevitable pinhole burns
All down the front of my favorite satin shirt.
I've got nicotine stains on my fingers.
I've got a silver spoon on a chain.
I've got a grand piano to prop up my mortal remains.

I've got wild staring eyes.
And I've got a strong urge to fly.
But I got nowhere to fly to.
Ooooh, Babe when I pick up the phone


"Surprise, surprise, surprise..." (from Gomer Pyle show)

There's still nobody home.

I've got a pair of Gohills boots
and I got fading roots.


"Where the hell are you?"
"Over 47 german planes were destroyed with the loss of only 15 of our own aircraft"
"Where the hell are you Simon?"
[Machine gun sound, followed by plane crashing]



Vera (Waters)

Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?
Remember how she said that
We would meet again
Some sunny day?
Vera! Vera!
What has become of you?
Does anybody else here
Feel the way I do?


Bring the Boys Back Home (Waters)

Bring the boys back home.
Bring the boys back home.
Don't leave the children on their own, no, no.
Bring the boys back home.


"Wrong! Do it again!"
"Time to go! [knock, knock, knock, knock]
"Are you feeling okay?"
"There's a man answering, but he keeps hanging up!"
Is there anybody out there?



Comfortably Numb (Gilmour, Waters)

Hello?
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone at home?
Come on, now,
I hear you're feeling down.
Well I can ease your pain
Get you on your feet again.
Relax.
I'll need some information first.
Just the basic facts.
Can you show me where it hurts?

There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship, smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain you would not understand
This is not how I am.
I have become comfortably numb.

O.K.
Just a little pinprick.
There'll be no more aaaaaaaaah!
But you may feel a little sick.
Can you stand up?
I do believe it's working, good.
That'll keep you going through the show
Come on it's time to go.

There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship, smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.
When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown,
The dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb.

The Show Must Go On (Waters)

Ooooh, Ma, Oooh Pa
Must the show go on?
Ooooh, Pa. Take me home
Ooooh, Ma. Let me go

There must be some mistake
I didnt mean to let them
Take away my soul.
Am I too old, is it too late?

Ooooh, Ma, Ooooh Pa,
Where has the feeling gone?
Ooooh, Ma, Ooooh Pa,
Will I remember the songs?
The show must go on.

 

[pulse8]

Walleye, I hope you realize that's Pink Floyd and not Led Zeppelin.

 

[Walleye]

In The Flesh (Waters)

So ya
Thought ya
Might like to
Go to the show.
To feel that warm thrill of confusion,
That space cadet glow.
I've got some bad news for you sunshine,
Pink isn't well, he stayed back at the hotel
And they sent us along as a surrogate band
We're gonna find out where you folks really stand.

Are there any queers in the theater tonight?
Get them up against the wall!
There's one in the spotlight, he don't look right to me,
Get him up against the wall!
That one looks Jewish!
And that one's a my excellent compatriot!
Who let all of this riff-raff into the room?
There's one smoking a joint,
And another with spots!
If I had my way,
I'd have all of you shot!


Run Like Hell (Gilmour, Waters)


"Pink Floyd, Pink Floyd"

Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run,
Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run.
You better make your face up in
Your favorite disguise.
With your button down lips and your
Roller blind eyes.
With your empty smile
And your hungry heart.
Feel the bile rising from your guilty past.
With your nerves in tatters
When the conchshell shatters
And the hammers batter
Down the door.
You'd better run.

Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run,
Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run.
You better sleep all day
And run all night.
Keep your dirty feelings
Deep inside.
And if you're taking your girlfriend
Out tonight
You'd better park the car
Well out of sight.
Cause if they catch you in the back seat
Trying to pick her locks,
They're gonna send you back to mother
In a cardboard box.
You better run.


"Hey, open up! HaHaHaHaHaaaaaaaaaa!
[sound of car skidding, followed by loud scream]
"Hammer, Hammer"


Waiting for the Worms (Waters)


"Einse, svei, drei, alle!"

Ooooh, you cannot reach me now
Ooooh, no matter how you try
Goodbye, cruel world, it's over
Walk on by.

Sitting in a bunker here behind my wall
Waiting for the worms to come.
In perfect isolation here behind my wall
Waiting for the worms to come.


We're {waiting to succeed} and going to convene outside Brixton
Town Hall where we're going to be...

Waiting to cut out the deadwood.
Waiting to clean up the city.
Waiting to follow the worms.
Waiting to put on a black shirt.
Waiting to weed out the weaklings.
Waiting to smash in their windows
And kick in their doors.
Waiting for the final solution
To strengthen the strain.
Waiting to follow the worms.
Waiting to turn on the showers
And fire the ovens.
Waiting for the queers and the coons
and the reds and the jews.
Waiting to follow the worms.

Would you like to see Britannia
Rule again, my friend?
All you have to do is follow the worms.
Would you like to send our colored cousins
Home again, my friend?

All you need to do is follow the worms.


The Worms will convene outside Brixton Bus Station. We'll be moving along at about 12 o'clock down Stockwell Road {.... ......} {Abbot's Road } {.....} twelve minutes to three we'll be moving along Lambeth Road towards Vauxhall Bridge. Now when we get to the other side of Vauxhall Bridge we're in Westminster {Borough } area. It's quite possible we may encounter some {.....} by the way we go. {... ..}."


Stop (Waters)

Stop!
I wanna go home
Take off this uniform
And leave the show.
But I'm waiting in this cell
Because I have to know.
Have I been guilty all this time?


The Trial (Waters, Bob Ezrin)

Good morning, Worm your honor.
The crown will plainly show
The prisoner who now stands before you
Was caught red-handed showing feelings
Showing feelings of an almost human nature;
This will not do.
Call the schoolmaster!

I always said he'd come to no good
In the end your honor.
If they'd let me have my way I could
Have flayed him into shape.
But my hands were tied,
The bleeding hearts and artists
Let him get away with murder.
Let me hammer him today?

Crazy,
Toys in the attic I am crazy,
Truly gone fishing.
They must have taken my marbles away.
Crazy, toys in the attic he is crazy.

You little sh1t you're in it now,
I hope they throw away the key.
You should have talked to me more often
Than you did, but no! You had to go
Your own way, have you broken any
Homes up lately?
Just five minutes, Worm your honor,
Him and Me, alone.

Baaaaaaaaaabe!
Come to mother baby, let me hold you
In my arms.
M'lud I never wanted him to
Get in any trouble.
Why'd he ever have to leave me?
Worm, your honor, let me take him home.

Crazy,
Over the rainbow, I am crazy,
Bars in the window.
There must have been a door there in the wall
When I came in.
Crazy, over the rainbow, he is crazy.

The evidence before the court is
Incontrivertable, there's no need for
The jury to retire.
In all my years of judging
I have never heard before
Of someone more deserving
Of the full penaltie of law.
The way you made them suffer,
Your exquisite wife and mother,
Fills me with the urge to defecate!


"Hey Judge! Sh!t on him!"

But, my friend, you have revealed your
Deepest fear,
I sentence you to be exposed before
Your peers.
Tear down the wall!


Outside the Wall (Waters)

All alone, or in two's,
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.

And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad ah heck's wall.

"Isn't this where...."

 

[trmiv]

Oh yea! "What Is and What Should Never Be" playing right now. Then, just to get the lady a little misty eyed, I'm playing "Thank You"

 

[Walleye]

Originally posted by: pulse8
Walleye, I hope you realize that's Pink Floyd and not Led Zeppelin.

yes, it's just in response to what's his name's posting of Bob Dylan lyrics, and i take offense to my favorite band being mentioned in the same sentence as Bob Dylan. see, it's all relative.

i could post Led Zepplin, but that's moot now. this thread has been hijacked!

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

radiohead is an inventive band, The Bends is one of my favorite albums, but LZ was revolutionary as mentioned before. They cover a range of music, very bluesy, very hard rock, yet they integrate the dfferent styles into a cohesive sound. Definitely top 5 fav. bands.

 

[datalink7]

Wow walleye... you just went through a whole lot of trouble to prove... well... wait, what were you trying to prove again? I don't remember anyone ragging on Pink Floyd.

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: The Dancing Peacock
radiohead is an inventive band, The Bends is one of my favorite albums, but LZ was revolutionary as mentioned before. They cover a range of music, very bluesy, very hard rock, yet they integrate the dfferent styles into a cohesive sound. Definitely top 5 fav. bands.

Have you heard OK Computer, Kid A or Amnesiac? To say that that those albums do not integrate a very diverse spectrum of styles into a cohesive sound is ridiculus. Talent-wise Radiohead and Zeppelin are comparable

 

[sparkyclarky]

Hehe, I once did a paper comparing Zeppelin to Shakespeare, because they are both masters of their respective genres. In my opinion, they are the best band ever, and Kashmir is the best song ever. I've singled out one part of the lyrics as the best I've ever heard - All I see turns to brown, as the sun burns the ground. And my eyes fill with sand, as I scan this wasted land. Trying to find, trying to find where I've been. Lyrically, it doesn't get much better than that (close your eyes and visualize it).

 

[edmicman]

lol sweet.....its a wonder i made it to ATOT let alone was able to type semi-coherently talk about getting burned hmmmmmmm anyway, still strike me up with a honestly, i'm a pumpkins freak - those others were mostly what was on my mind at the time i guess. and its not like i'm some nu-age music junkie either....i can't stand 95% of the stuff thats coming out these days, and it seems like everytime i listen to the radio i just end up turning it off to a cd cuz theres nothing but crap on too. and i do understand how zep influenced things 30 years ago blah blah blah. and i've listened to more than just the hits. on a drive with my friend we went through 2 or 3 of his zeppelin albums. and i still say i don't get it. musically, they're ok, but i fail to see anything great. it seems like straight old school rock n roll. it was groundbreaking back then, but theres better stuff. its nuts when people get all crazy over it when it hits the jukebox

 

[Analog]

Originally posted by: edmicman
so i'm back from the bar, and yet again i got into a discussion about zeppelin as they were playing on the jukebox. i just don't get what the big deal is. why are people so crazy over zeppelin? frankly i don't think they're anythign special. yeah, they're good, but thats all. average even. i don't think they hold anything musically to the likes of smashing pumpkins, primus, metallica, or radiohead. they just don't seem to do anything for me, where the other guys do. whats the big deal? anyways i'm goin to bed. laterz

Let me guess, you're under 25 and you probably think the Beatles and the Stones and the Doors and Pink Floyd are in the same boat. Why do you feel this way? Because you have no appreciation for revolution and change in music. You are just looking at it with 20/20 hindsight and not understanding that before these greats, this type of music did not exist.

Its easy to do that, gee, I could have come up with E=MC^2 too you know!

 

[glen]

RocknRoll Hall of Fame calls them, "the most significant rock group of the post-Beatles era."

From:
Amazon.com
Original Release Date: November 8, 1971
Amazon.com Sales Rank: 289

Thirty years later and they are still selling Albums on Amazon in the TOP 300!

Their Untitled album, Zepplin 4, is the number 4 best selling Album of ALL TIME.

Physical Graffiti is number 22 of ALL TIME.

Led Zepplin II is 39th of ALL TIME.

Houses of the Holy is 52nd of ALL TIME.

Led Zepplin I is 81st of ALL TIME.

They have more top 100 albums of ALL TIME than ANYONE in the world.

 

[Nemesis77]

They held a weekend-long top500 song-contest in radio few years back in Finland. Basically you could vote for your favourite song of all time. Who won?

Led Zeppelin: Stairway to Heaven

'nuff said.

 

[edmicman]

[Let me guess, you're under 25 and you probably think the Beatles and the Stones and the Doors and Pink Floyd are in the same boat.

haha couldn't have said it better - my sentiments exactly. cursed baby boomers keeping the man down and not letting musical progression take place lol i'm not saying they're bad, just that they're not the end all that they seem to be made up to be. average at best. none of those "classics" would have done anything if they came out in the last 15 years.

 

[glen]

Originally posted by: edmicman

[Let me guess, you're under 25 and you probably think the Beatles and the Stones and the Doors and Pink Floyd are in the same boat.

haha couldn't have said it better - my sentiments exactly. cursed baby boomers keeping the man down and not letting musical progression take place lol i'm not saying they're bad, just that they're not the end all that they seem to be made up to be. average at best. none of those "classics" would have done anything if they came out in the last 15 years.

Wrong.
They have more albums in the top one hundred than anyone in the last 15 years and they have not produced an album in 20.
In fact, they have more top 100 albums than anyone in the world.

 

I think they are great musicians with some of the most classic rocks songs ever in their catalogue. The only problem is that Robert Plant's girly voice didn't age well.

 

[smp]

Originally posted by: Jmman
Evebody has different tastes. To my generation they wil always be one of the best bands of all time.....

i was born in 78 .. I listen to a lot of hardcore now and some punk .. yet, I feel the same way.

 

[slickcat]

Metallica? They need to retire already. They're coming out with nothing but crap lately. They should have just called it quits after the black album.

Led Zepplin on the other hand was good up until the end.

 

[Johnnie]

Zeppelin rules
I saw the Page/Plant tour in Atlanta..both shows...sweet
Saw Mr. Plant at the Fox...what a show...

 

[Triumph]

Originally posted by: edmicman
so i'm back from the bar, and yet again i got into a discussion about zeppelin as they were playing on the jukebox. i just don't get what the big deal is. why are people so crazy over zeppelin? frankly i don't think they're anythign special. yeah, they're good, but thats all. average even. i don't think they hold anything musically to the likes of smashing pumpkins, primus, metallica, or radiohead. they just don't seem to do anything for me, where the other guys do. whats the big deal? anyways i'm goin to bed. laterz

bwahahahahal;ksdf;sdfa.... You're comparing LED ZEPPELIN to THESE bands? I don't even know where to begin. First of all, music isn't a competition. Second of all, why would you compare a band from 30 years ago to bands of today (or more specifically, bands from 10 years ago.) Third, these bands wouldn't even exist without Zeppelin!