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Re: The OFFICIAL Led Zeppelin Thread
I'll start with the debut which features 8 unheard tracks by myself:
Good Times, Bad Times-A track I've heard but never got into personally! It seems like it's meant to be a fun tune and it is to a point. The intro is the best part for me but the chorus is way too flat for me. I usually like a good chorus. Most people would say the guitar solo would make the song but those are the things that do nothing for me. Nothing against the playing but it didn't pull the song towards any more favorable territory for me.
Babe, I'm A Gonna Leave You-I like this track, which is new to me already. It's a nice strumming melodic guitar into a nice bluesy vocal and when it picks up I like it a lot. Builds! I love builds!
Now I know I criticized the last song for being flat and this is a mellow one but it has enough emotion during the small parts and it has great ebbs and flows. I love the guitar in this starting at 2:02! It has the rhythm worthy of a dance! I talk little about guitar but this is a song I can dig for the guitar! Oh and this is the best Zeppelin wail I've ever heard!
You Shook Me-I don't like this! I know this is supposed to be pure blues in a rock, kind of grungy way (not the grunge genre) but I actually hate Plants vocals for this. The playing is cool but this sounds like it should be sung and performed by the original Blues masters Zeppelin was inspired by. I want to hear a vocal like B.B. King with more blues than the stretch out wailing here. I don't know if it's a cover but it's not an improvement on the genre IMO!
Dazed and Confused-This one works better than me mostly because it's back to the rock side and that guitar is hypnotizing! The guitar's the highlight and the vocals are adequate on here! At about the 2 min. mark it's cool because Plant sounds transfixed himself as he starts aaaahing non-sensibly! I actually was dragged into this but I'm not sure the bluesy guitar pickup into the frenzied guitar licks works for me. This song was alright until the guitar hero climax and buries the vocals.
Your Time Is Gonna Come-Holy Organ! This actually bores me and feels like filler! I criticized some of the other tracks but none of them felt like filler. That's not a Zeppelin chorus, is it? Ugh, at 2:40 they were teasing a transition and then nothing! Jerks!
Yep, most subpar Led Zeppelin track I've heard!
Black Mountain Side-A short but fitting instrumental! Pleasant and cool noodling at about 1:30!
Communication Breakdown-Cool beginning! It gets me amped until the vocal where the wails and the music just feel generic! I like the guitar sound o.k.! It's got a good groove but it does nothing for me as repetitive as the song feels for me!
I Can't Quit You Baby-This suffers from the same criticism that You Shook Me suffers! Just doesn't work with a rock star wanting to play the blues! I prefer authentic blues artist here!
How Many More Times-Now this is jazzy! I like it! The whole song keeps me moving and even the solo works for me! I like the drums along with it and this is going like a closer should! Epic! Hear we go with the marching drums and into a more tribal feel! Awesome! I like! This is getting dark now and the songs gotten so much better from the tribal drums on! Highlight of the album I think! It starts to lose steam until the awesome drum rhythm at 5:45! Loses steam again but a great epic wail by Plant! My heads bobbing til the end as they keep that groove!
All in all this was an album of peaks and valleys! What I liked was great but what I didn't like really fell flat! A start that has me interested in what's around the corner though!
I'll start with the debut which features 8 unheard tracks by myself:
Good Times, Bad Times-A track I've heard but never got into personally! It seems like it's meant to be a fun tune and it is to a point. The intro is the best part for me but the chorus is way too flat for me. I usually like a good chorus. Most people would say the guitar solo would make the song but those are the things that do nothing for me. Nothing against the playing but it didn't pull the song towards any more favorable territory for me.
Babe, I'm A Gonna Leave You-I like this track, which is new to me already. It's a nice strumming melodic guitar into a nice bluesy vocal and when it picks up I like it a lot. Builds! I love builds!
Now I know I criticized the last song for being flat and this is a mellow one but it has enough emotion during the small parts and it has great ebbs and flows. I love the guitar in this starting at 2:02! It has the rhythm worthy of a dance! I talk little about guitar but this is a song I can dig for the guitar! Oh and this is the best Zeppelin wail I've ever heard! You Shook Me-I don't like this! I know this is supposed to be pure blues in a rock, kind of grungy way (not the grunge genre) but I actually hate Plants vocals for this. The playing is cool but this sounds like it should be sung and performed by the original Blues masters Zeppelin was inspired by. I want to hear a vocal like B.B. King with more blues than the stretch out wailing here. I don't know if it's a cover but it's not an improvement on the genre IMO!
Dazed and Confused-This one works better than me mostly because it's back to the rock side and that guitar is hypnotizing! The guitar's the highlight and the vocals are adequate on here! At about the 2 min. mark it's cool because Plant sounds transfixed himself as he starts aaaahing non-sensibly! I actually was dragged into this but I'm not sure the bluesy guitar pickup into the frenzied guitar licks works for me. This song was alright until the guitar hero climax and buries the vocals.
Your Time Is Gonna Come-Holy Organ! This actually bores me and feels like filler! I criticized some of the other tracks but none of them felt like filler. That's not a Zeppelin chorus, is it? Ugh, at 2:40 they were teasing a transition and then nothing! Jerks!
Yep, most subpar Led Zeppelin track I've heard! Black Mountain Side-A short but fitting instrumental! Pleasant and cool noodling at about 1:30!
Communication Breakdown-Cool beginning! It gets me amped until the vocal where the wails and the music just feel generic! I like the guitar sound o.k.! It's got a good groove but it does nothing for me as repetitive as the song feels for me!
I Can't Quit You Baby-This suffers from the same criticism that You Shook Me suffers! Just doesn't work with a rock star wanting to play the blues! I prefer authentic blues artist here!
How Many More Times-Now this is jazzy! I like it! The whole song keeps me moving and even the solo works for me! I like the drums along with it and this is going like a closer should! Epic! Hear we go with the marching drums and into a more tribal feel! Awesome! I like! This is getting dark now and the songs gotten so much better from the tribal drums on! Highlight of the album I think! It starts to lose steam until the awesome drum rhythm at 5:45! Loses steam again but a great epic wail by Plant! My heads bobbing til the end as they keep that groove!
All in all this was an album of peaks and valleys! What I liked was great but what I didn't like really fell flat! A start that has me interested in what's around the corner though!
