The High Horse, The Dark Horse and the Charlie Horse

[Soot and Stars]

The High Horse, The Dark Horse & The Charlie Horse

Here's a thread where you can take any band and any aspect of their career and rate their highest point, their middle ground or underrated work/moment and their lowest point to the point where it makes you cringe or feel pain. Specify each time what you are rating (bands whole career, the high and low points of an album, etc.) You don't have to use the same format or pictures but that's how I'll be doing my thread to stay with the theme:

The High Horse


The Dark Horse

The Charlie Horse

 

[Soot and Stars]

The High Horse

Siamese Dream

This will always have to be my career highlight. It's the first album I ever really felt. It was the first album that I ever felt an authentic, original vibe and art in music. Aerosmith who I liked before was great but they weren't life changing. This album felt big, it felt dreamy, otherwordly, melodic, distorted and harsh at times, soft and lulling at others. The lyrics were personal to the artist yet I'd never felt songs that felt so much like I felt at the time. The band was larger than life. On top of my feelings the world grabbed onto them to so it was also a highlight as far as reaching others. Definitely deserves the high horse accolade.

The Dark Horse

Adore

This album came after the bands most epic, larger than life opus of guitar heroism and angst filled anthems. It was bound to disappoint fans of the Smashing Pumpkins mainstream peak. The album went electronic scaling down the guitar anthems to one solitary spot on the album. That spot happened to be the most well placed spot as well and was a great moment IMO. The album was a lot brighter in tone although the themes weren't and songs like Ava Adore could still knock you on your ass with it's thudding beats. I loved just the gall and ballsiness of this album and musically it's a tight and accomplished record. The album cover is also one of my favorites period.

The Charlie Horse

Billy Corgan Outside the Studio

There are some artist you think are geniuses musically and you love there talent but when they ramble on you wish they'd shut up. Billy Corgan is one of those eccentric artist where sometimes even when discussing his own work says the stupidest things that even contrast what he's said before. Most recently with his whining about new bands he comes off as an attention whore jealous that he lost his spot. Sometimes you wish artist wouldn't feel the need to feed people their legacy. That's the fans job and the artist is supposed to produce the music as backup. Running your mouth is not art. It's pretentious narcissism. There are points that I respect Billy for saying specifically his commentary within their last DVD but overall he's like an older brother where there's a love/hate relationship. You love them but they can be quite a dick.

 

[Cannons Ahoy]

LED ZEPPELIN

The High Horse

Some would say that their hight point was their first two albums, but to me this represents them at their most versatile, most popular and most experimental. These albums offer everything for everybody, almost...

The Dark Horse
I don't know if these horses have to be chronologically linear but I went with this anyway.

Most people would consider those last two albums and maybe the third one to be low points, but I hold them in quite a high regard. They give something different from the more popular Zep stuff and I listen to them quite often. Led Zeppelin III focuses on the band's softer and more acoustic side and the numbers are indeed soothing to listen to. IMO Presence was the culmination of Page's riff work and guitar orchestration best showcased on Achilles Last Stand. More than on any other album the riffs stack on top of each other masterfully. And ITTOD shows the band taking more of a new wave influence but still drawing from different sources, although on this one they sounded the least like their "classic" work. And the album's atmosphere is kinda dark and foreboding and you just cannot not think that the band would be no more in a couple of years.

The Charlie Horse

Now this is what everyone agrees on that it's the shittiest album by Led Zeppelin. There are a couple of good tracks but some just plainly suck. I don't know if this one really counts because Bonzo was already dead when this was released but in my opinion this is their only REALLY bad album.

Hopefully I got this right xD

 

[Soot and Stars]

You got the idea just fine Cannon! Nice writeup and that's a cool breakdown of Zeppelins career!