Reviews (page 10 of 13)
This feels like the most generic Zeppelin album. Each of their numbered albums had its own vibe, and I liked that even if I didn't always love the specific outcome. But this album is the "Zeppelin sound" - elevated rock and roll, interesting instrumentation, killer riffs, soaring vocals. It's great stuff, I just (as always) wish it sounded bigger. All their albums sound to varying degrees like they were recorded on a dictaphone, and it just always prevents me truly enjoying them.
Wel oké
I am not a hard rock fan. Old and a little bit boring for me.
Hadn't listened to this album yet. For me a dissappointment. Expected more from Led Zeppelin.
Not as solid as Zeppelin III or IV. But still good. Probably could have cut it down a bit for better overall album
This album was... lengthy and a little rough around the edges. Other Zeppelin albums we've had have felt crisp musically, but the mess was m e s s y in this one. It was cacophonous at times, and not in an enjoyable way. There were some wonderful tracks with the standout being, of course, "Kashmir" but overall these didn't redeem the album as a whole for me.
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This album gets weaker with every side. The first is very strong, containing the band's best horny jam, an extended blues epic, and my favorite Zeppelin song, "The Rover," which is smoother and hookier than a lot of the band's work. The second side is nearly as strong. For me, the dirty funk rock "Trampled Under Foot" is the highlight. Side three ventures into prog rock territory, and while some songs like "In the Light" are interesting I feel this is where the album starts to run low on ideas. The entire fourth side could have been cut. It's not bad necessarily - outside of the lyrics on "Sick Again" - but it does nothing the band hadn't done better before. Put it all together and this feels overstuffed despite containing much of the band's best work. A trimmed down version would be a masterpiece.
ok
3,5
fun bebop
I have listened to this twice now, and very objectively the second time. It is a genre/style of rock that generally does nothing for me. Musically it is very good, but not really my thing. there were elements of "in my time of dying" that i like but It all got lost in this grandiose peacocking that I do not like about classic rock. Kashmir was ok, a bit repetitive. In the light was ok. Down by the seaside and Ten Years gone and night flight had a nice bit of variation and was more chilled and less ostentatious Overall, it was ok, but still not my favourite style of rock music. Ten Years Gone was by far the standout track. 3 stars
I’m not sure if I like this. I’m a fan of the blues rock of I and II and I also love IV. I know these songs but the never hit me like the other stuff. On “houses of the holy”. I think this song was just over played. I’m realizing I know songs but not song titles. This album is ok. The light is so long a song I think I’ve thought it was three different songs depending where it was when I turned on the radio. 😂 Ok, so far “night flight” is the first song I hadn’t heard before. I’m still surprised how many songs I’ve heard and just don’t the name of. On the Wanton Song now. I think I like all these songs but not as an album. As an album it feels like it went on forever.
It was ok, liked one song for sure but the others were just ok - background music.
A bit disappointing 3/5
Yep, that's led zeppelin alright. Hard not to enjoy it, but nothing here that I hadn't heard already in their other albums we've had. I think I perhaps enjoyed this one the least of all the ones we've had. Still good though. Kashmir is pretty iconic...I actually thought wake up by ratm was sampling this riff, but apparently not, it's just very similar.... 3.5 but 3 as it was my least favourite of theirs
How many Led Zeppelin albums are on this list...
why do they think they can get away with more than two 5+mins songs overall a pretty decent album, obv loved the instrumentals, pretty basic divorced dad rock album lowk, they shld make the ratings out of 10 and add halfs
Weird to say, but a lot of this album felt like a slog. Probably won't ever listen to this full album again, but there's definitely some standout tracks that I'd happily put on.
en écoutant l'album à matin je me suis demandé pourquoi je l'avais pas écouté plus souvent que ça, pis après j'ai SUBI les quarante longues minutes qui suivent Kashmir. j'ai dû réécouter la première moitié une coupe de fois aujourd'hui pour me rappeler que c'est actually un pas pire album parce que je m'en allais mettre un deux étoiles généreux. chanson préférée : In My Time of Dying mentions honorables : Jimmy Page qui me féconde via that pre-chorus riff in The Rover #sexuel....... ; Robert Plant qui jouit à la fin de In My Time of Dying ; le boute de Kashmir with the strings and the WOUH-OUH-YEA-EE-YEAAAH
I was really excited for this one, but it just didn't hit
"Physical Graffiti" retains Led Zeppelin's characteristic feel and edge, but creates a grander production feel with this mix of rock genres. Superb performances from the drums and guitar in particular are mixed with some energetic beats, and the album is consistent, if not slightly lacking in creativity.
I'm a big fan of Zep and I think this one is probably non-essential. Kashmir carries this record, frankly, and 8 minutes out of an 80 minute double album is kind of frustrating. I never wanted to turn it off or skip to a different song, but I can't think of anything in particular I'd want to come back to for a fourth listen.
i like led zeppelin but holy hell this drags on for so long
Justo lo que necesitaba para volver en el colectivo después de las 18 hs. Esas guitarras y esa batería no dejaron espacio para ningún tipo de pensamiento ansioso. Realmente me desacostumbré a escuchar canciones que duran casi once minutos. Un viaje entero, desde Torcuato a Bella Vista. Nunca había escuchado este disco y es, para mí, completamente diferente a los que suelo escuchar de Led Zeppelin. Tal vez me falta escucharlo más para decir algo más objetivo, pero me gusta escribir solo desde mi perspectiva y sin saber absolutamente nada de música.
Great mix of musical styles; several radio favorites
Overly long with some songs dragging on and not terribly interesting. The vibe of the album is consistent I just didn’t get hooked in. The singles the come out are always great but I don’t get the hype around the overall output of led zeppelin. It was fine, not amazing
Some killer, some filler. I love quite a few Zeppelin songs, scattered across their entire discography, but I don’t think I really enjoy listening to entire albums of theirs. This could’ve easily been a single LP and perhaps I’d be rating it higher.
kinda boring, mas ótimos instrumentais!!!!
No listened to Led Zeppelin before, and not what I expected them to sound like. Some decent, soft rocky tracks but nothing that really does it for me
Middle of the road Zeppelin
Was fine. Didn't enjoy it as much as thr other Zeppelin albums I've heard
One of the world's greatest cover bands
me and my friend were harassed in a record shop a few days ago, the owner was absolutely insistent that we buy this. i mean it's a good album but maybe not THAT good
moaning and groaning for 82 mins
It was fine, objectively good album just not my thing
Disc 1 I know very well, just straight rock bangers. One thing I love about this album is how loose it is, the guitar playing is so loose and sloppy at times but that's what makes it so human, the drums which sit so far back you'd be driving a car from the back seat! And John Paul Jones genius instrumentation and sonfwriting! He is the glue that holds it all together and the tightest of them all, without him it'd be nothing! To be honest I'm not Robert Plant's biggest fan as he's a bit waily for me at times, but still an amazing singer. Disc 2 starts off with some more experimental stuff in the light is like a heavy Beatles track. Going into bron-yr-aur some great folky guitar playing there giving Jimmy boy his time to shine. Apparently that's the name of the cottage in Wales they wrote a lot of the tunes. Down by the seaside love that tract but never heard it in context of the album, flows so nicely into ten years gone which is a great composition full of juicy chords for a rock band! Unfortunately I think Custard Pie and The Rover just drag on too much, they're great tracks but I get bored, they could've been much shorter and more interesting. Trampled under foot and houses of the holy great jams. I really don't care for the majority of the lyrics on this album though they're just downright cheesy, bad or creepy, check out Sick Again if you want to see what I mean... It was the 70s but a song about being tempted to fuck fans that turn 16 soon that followed you since they were 13.. Nope nah I'm out. At least the music makes up for the lyrical shortcomings, I enjoyed this music more when I was a bit younger but now I think this album does drag on a bit as a whole. Something you should definitely listen to but not a regular rotation, some tracks off it sure but as a whole it's a bit like eating custard pie after custard pie.. 2.5 as a whole for me but I'll round it to 3
Not the biggest Zeppelin fan but this is a decent listen
Again I have to say would have been an amazing single album.
Rock
This is Zep’s weakest album in my opinion. It’s not very cohesive, it’s too long, and many of the songs feel like throwaways. Still some great tunes on here. In My Time of Dying and Wanton Song are standouts, but there’s too much unnecessary filler.
This was good. Kashmir is just such a good song. I was kind of surprised at how much 12-bar blues I was hearing throughout this.
I expected Led Zeppelin to be awesome. On this album they don’t quite live up to that expectation. nothing jumped out to make me want to buy this on vinyl Again a 70s album Hailed as one of the greatest double albums of all time, I can’t help but wish this record was actually a single LP.
A bit repetitive for my taste
I really don’t love Zeppelin, and I feel like we get one of their albums generated to us every 2 weeks. Fav track was “Kashmir,” because I recognized it from a sample in the 90s/2000s, and I love hearing the original. Overall, he’s still wailing.
It’s got some good songs some okay songs and some long songs
Not my style but it's not that bad
Not bad, but not my favourite Zeppelin album.
I love Led Zeppelin and they never really disappoint me so here we go. I have also already heard a lot of this album. It is kind of a long one though, but they tend to have long albums so I am not very surprised. The first two tracks kind of have me a little bored, but maybe I am just tired. I have been falling behind on albums though so I am really trying to catch up. I might just listen to the first disc of this album. I feel like on this album especially, the songs are very long. Track 3 is nearly 11 minutes and I think that is what really has me bored. I think everything about this album is just too long to be considered that enjoyable.
Bueno, pero para nada mi gusto
It stays a bit too long but in the first half at least it has a bit of a funkier groove than their bluesier origins.
It's probably a curse of an artist to have this many albums in their discography, or to have such a high peak; at a certain point, there has to be enough there not to just send me back to IV or Houses of the Holy, and Phyical Graffiti feels like another run of the same kind of songs, only with a certain playful quality largely missing. There's good stuff, of course — "Houses of the Holy," "Trampled Under Foot," "Kashmir," "Black Country Woman," "Ten Years Gone." But most of it feels bland. I imagine big fans of the band or the genre may feel very differently. As a kid, I dove deep into their catalog because my library made all their albums available on CD. But all these years later, I'm probably closer to a "greatest hits compilation" fan, and whatever nuance Physical Graffiti has is lost on me.
Call me uneducated by I can't differentiate this much from the other Led Zeppelin albums I've heard, though I do think it's a step down from Led Zeppelin IV. I do like how there's this tangible feeling of loneliness in some of the tracks, but loneliness is expressed as a big and sweeping feeling rather than a forlorn one. Favorite song: Ten Years Gone.
I'm not the biggest Zeppelin fan but an okay Zep record is better than most.
Von hartem Rock über bluesige Grooves bis hin zu experimentelleren Stücken bietet die Platte eine breite Palette an Ideen. Allerdings wirkt die Länge des Albums stellenweise etwas ausufernd, und nicht jeder Track erreicht das gleiche kreative Niveau wie die Highlights. Trotz kleiner Schwächen bleibt Physical Graffiti ein wichtiges Werk der Band – ambitioniert, mutig und voller ikonischer Momente, aber nicht durchgehend fesselnd genug.
Some great stuff on the first potion but it just kept going and going. Kashmir and In My Time of Dying are all timers.
Interesting seeing Zepplin explore other genres, challenging what I knew of them
3,5/5 + It's long and it has a consistent style. It became hard for me to tell where a Song ends and a new Song begins, but it did flow + The album has a great amount of energy + The rock sound of Led Zeppelin is iconic and nostalgic to me - i was baffled how hard is for me to Name Songs that i liked from this album, except Kashmir
The music is decent, it's just way too long.
A little overblown and too long in places, but varied stylistically with some very strong tracks too, such as Kashmir, Houses of the Holy and Trampled Under Foot. Worth listening to again.
Classic bluesy progy rock. I’ll always prefer II and IV but I do remember listening to this one a lot when I had a big classic rock phase in middle/high school.
Personal enjoyment: 3/5 Relevance to this list: 4/5
De certeza que este álbum é quase perfeito para quem é fã dos Led Zeppelin. Infelizmente, eu nao sou fã da banda. Ja tentei algumas vezes ouvir álbuns deles e nunca me cativaram. Pshysical Graffiti não foi diferente. Demasiado extenso (1h22), algumas músicas demasiado longas e, embora eu reconheça que seja incrível, a voz não é o meu género. No entanto, todas as músicas ouvem-se relativamente bem e há algumas que gostei mas nada do outro mundo.
pretty decent
It’s good and it all blends together, but 1hr & 23 mins is tough
Love Kashmir, do't care what people think about that. Song is a banger from start to finish. An unquestionable classic, even if Diddy and Plant did it.
Best-Kashmir & custard pie Worst-black country woman The first half was better than the second half 😜 3/5
Some of it is just the 60s/70s guitar music I’m just kinda over, but Led Zeppelin was always more than that. Down by the Seaside proves that and elevates the album to something beyond its era and genre.
"The eight songs extended beyond the length of a conventional album, almost spanning three sides of an LP, so the group decided to create a double album, adding material they'd recorded for previous albums but never issued." So they put songs that weren't strong enough for previous albums on this to fill a double album. It's too long, Kashmir is the only stand out and it's so good it stands miles above the rest. Found this a slog to get through. 3/5.
I like Zeppelin’s music (not so much the people), but this is yet another double album that didn’t need to be a double album. That alone rates this below albums like IV and Houses of the Holy
Several legendary tracks but this album has always felt uneven and perhaps a little disjointed.
Yeah its good. Always bagged this album for years. just a little bit long for me
Sounds like Zeppelin.
Innovative rock music. Felt a bit samey at times.
Overall not a bad album, but like a lot of their stuff some of it is just to long and very self indulgent.
Did not like this as much as I expected I would. Too many different experiments and not all that succesfull imo
A classic.
This is not my sort of thing, a low 3 for me
The first half of this album is wicked. Prog, blues, hard rock goodness. The latter part of the double album seems to be a lot of offal from other albums. Honestly if this was just a single album including In the Light and Bron-Yr-Aur this would have stuck better
está bien
Obviously Kashmir is one of the greatest rock songs of all time. Otherwise I just don’t really connect with Zeppelin.
Starting off strong, the first song being 11 min long, really good tho. Love the different instruments and sounds used. Rating: 7/10
Led Zeppelin's always been somewhat of a blind spot for me. I know the big hits, and I owned a copy of LZ IV like 30 years ago. It just never sticks with me. Favorite song: Kashmir
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It truly sounds like every other rock album during the 70s, it was a fun listen while at the gym but would I listen to is after this time... Probably not.
Was good
6/10 - не слушал
Favourite Songs: Down By The Seaside The Wanton Song
ne secam ga se jbg, al bio je ok rokcina
Goede muziek, maar weinig variatie op het album.
Although I was in my 20s when they came out I didn't get to appreciate their music until much later. Not their best album but I enjoyed it all the same.
not bad, some great songs, quite long
I don't think I get this album. I usually like rock, but I genuinely got bored listening to it, I just wanted it to be over by the end. Half of the songs are very generic and I can't seem to enjoy his singing. I don't the if it's just spotify, but the sound quality was not great, either. Notable favorite: The Rover This album's greatest weakest us it's length- which generally isn't an issue for me, but in this case the songs just aimlessly drag on and on. Not a bad album but nothing noteworthy.
Yeah I get it but it's not really for me. The guitar goes crazy I can't lie. But kinda noisy FOR ME!
Good rock album but probably not the best way to get into this band because the standouts sounds like 80's rock music which is where to say since was probably generational back then.
This album has some great tracks but at time it feels like listening to rehearsals or demo recordings.
Some good songs, some boring songs
not my fave
This album is as Zeppelin as it gets. Maybe I grew up and moved on from records that exceed the 45-minute mark, but I'm sure my past self would have enjoyed these songs as much as the ones on the band's first four albums. Even though it is supposed to be a landmark in rock music, I just simply don't feel it. Maybe not a great 'one-sitting' album, but it would make a fantastic road trip companion.
fine, not exactly my cup of tea
I was delighted to have led zep suggested. One of the greatest rhythm sections in rock. But I was really surprised by the lazy production values. It's no wonder Jimmy page has spent his career remixing and remastering. The guitars sound dropped in and tinny Robert plant sounds like he's singing in the shed outside. The bass sounds like a synthesiser. But omg those drums. And kashmir is brilliant
Some good tracks on the album. Don't mind the length just enjoy sitting back and taking it in.
Pretty good if a little samey. Some of the songs dragged on a bit.
Extra point for Led Zeppelin being awesome, but if I'm being honest with myself this album tends to drag.
Whenever I encounter Led Zeppelin, I’m reminded of the cliché/post on Twitter that applies to old people and goes something like: in high school you choose either Led Zeppelin or The Clash, become a super fan for a few years, then never listen to that artist again in adulthood. I chose The Clash, but it’s impossible not to have at least a working knowledge of the only other potential avenue life had to offer. It’s undeniable that there are some all-time tracks scattered amongst this album, but I found myself looking up the length of the original release so I didn’t have to listen to the bonus material.
Tooooooooooo lloooonnnnggggggggggg
Sides 1 and 2 are surprisingly (still) good and stand up today. Sides 3 and 4 do not.
glad to listen to this as i haven't explored nearly enough zeppelin but i can't say i loved it. will definitely revisit at some point to give it another go. liked down by the seaside a lot though :)
lets admit it some of these songs didnt need to be that long
Good vibe not my fave of theirs
Halfway decent with some classic bangers
I should love Zeppelin, but they leave me rather cold.
I grew up listening to Led Zeppelin especially II III and of course IV, but I always felt that IV was the peak and marked a musical high point specially for Plant as a vocalist. However it’s amazing to listen to this album as I’m less familiar with it (apart from the obvious tunes). It sounds really great to me in 2025 and Plant clearly still had it! However I still feel these later albums don’t quite have the muscle and freshness of the earlier ones. This would have made a much better single disc rather than a double album. So happy to hear them again though!
I'm not sure I totally get it but I could enjoy it in a certain mood maybe
Genuinely one of the longest feeling back halves of an album I've heard, to the point that it actively detracts from the tunes on here that are deservedly viewed as classics. 2.5*
Ich werde kein Led Zep Fan mehr glaub ich. Album auch leider einfach zu lang, dafür, dass die Variation zwischen den Songs nicht besonders groß ist.
Great album to listen to, nothing worth relistening
My least favorite LZ album. Reused riffs and 3-4 songs too long. In the end I vote meh. 3/5
I love zeppelin, but not my favorite album. In My Time of Dying fav song
Didn't exactly like this one I'm not a rock kinda girl! Did like "The Rover", "In My Time of Dying", and "Houses of the Holy"! ( ╹▽╹ )
Well, it's Led Zeppelin. Can you give bad grades? Add this is down to personal taste, of course the answer is yes. I understand their influence and musicality, it's just I never feel like listening to them.
gotta love how they commit to 7 minute songs. first half was incredible
Best Track - "Kashmir"
I am personally not that big a fan of Led Zeppelin, so i dont love the genre that much. It was good for what it was, but i will grade it based on how much i like it. 3.2/5.
7/10
Never caught the bug as a teen, and probably won’t now. Killer drumming though.
shouldve cut the fluff and kept it 45 mins
Interesting having this right after IV. I don't think that I liked this album quite as much. You have some of the classic Zeppelin sound, but fewer mind blowing songs
Too long: it gets repetitive and boring in the end. A single album with the first 7-8 songs would have deserved 4 stars...
Not bad but should have been shorter. Not their best.
I must have been a bad bad boy who needs to wash his mouth out with soap to get an album this lenght for an artist I dont particularly like Is the issue that as a band they are "just okay"? Is the music hurt by how amazing their rep is? This is perfectly fine, but incredibly long In The Light is good About 3/4s through i was quite enjoying it, but then boogie with stu came on and I thought, this fucking sucks
I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. It had more depth than expected because I was expecting more mpf. Pleasantly surprised zeppelin. Thanks
First case of a band I have heard before but an album I haven't. Think the double album format here gives this enough scope to be interesting, but I don't think it hits everyhwere. There were songs I like and others I liked less. An interesting listen in the canon of albums we've heard so far in this project. Doesn't stand up to Led Zepplin I or IV in my view.
Something about this album made it difficult for me to stay with it. I liked quite a few of the tracks but I guess it lacks an overall coherence sufficient to keep me engaged for us runtime.
I just don't really get Led Zep. Always just feels like extended blues rock jams rather than songs.
Respect to LZ. This one's isn't a fave for me
It's obviously pretty good, but I think they are an overrated band. Also Kashmir is just a bad song, I don't know how they fooled you like this Will I listen to again: 25%
Not bad but doesn't touch me.
Compared to other rock albums on this list, this one is solid, and actually engaging.
listened to a little bit.. interesting but not my style
I can't help but picture Jack Black mouthing along. 3 Stars.
Sides two and three were the best. There is some good stuff on here but there's also a lot of filler. Torn between 3 and 4. Probably a 3 because I’m not gonna listen to it again anytime soon in order to decide.
Favorite tracks: The Rover, In The Light, Bron-Yr-Aur. Mannn, this is tough. I really liked about two-thirds of this. Didn't care for side four. It's so dang long. But it's mostly really good! If I had more time to sit with it, it'd probably be a 4. But I just had jammin' on my headphones at work, so it's a 3.5. Sorry, Zep.
They fucked with a chance at another generational album here by making it wayyyyy too long. Should’ve been cutting things out during the process of choosing the track list, not being additive to make it a double album. The dust has kinda settled on albums like these, I feel as though I don’t have much to add in the conversation surrounding this project. “In My Time Of Dying” and “Bron-Yr-Aur” are behemoths. “Ten Years Gone” may be a little slept on, maybe so for “In The Light” too. Everything else is just fine. The quality is all there, but damn this is too long. Strong 3/5 hard one to rate
some hard hitting songs, too long though as many of the songs end up being not very memorable - I couldn’t name the songs on half of the album
Most of the songs started with a great groove but then repeated that groove over and over and over again. By disc two it got a bit tedious. The rhythm section is killer the entire album though.
Lot of zep clustered close together for me. Def too long, they've hit the super big lack of curation phase here. It's a hit or miss for me.
Classic led zeppelin - upbeat rock? listed to it on a walk
I liked Bron-Yr-Aur and Kashmir. The rest was just too long to hold my attention. 2.5
Bra, men alt for langt
Another long album!!!!! Old people music but I still didn’t hate it.
I love Zeppelin. That being said, Robert Plant is my least favorite part. Good stuff. Funky, rocky.
Zep's iconic bluesy gritty classic rock sound with 1 legendary track and some unusually complex drum syncopations if you pay attention. a bit long for a double album but you gotta respect the classics. 3.5/5
bom
Pretty good
i like the album cover. music also good
Ight
easy listen but didn't grab me
A bunch of the songs this album were discards from previous albums... and some of them should have stayed discarded. I liked it but not as much as the other Led Zeppelin album we've had and it feels far less cohesive and too long. Favourite: Houses of the Holy Least: Boogie with Stu
I've been listening to this album for 100 years
Sorry lads but there’s a lot of tracks here that shouldn’t have made the album. When it’s good it’s great
Unfortunately, for me this album suffers from coming after Jimi Hendrix in this experiment, because to me the former was the better rock n roll album. Some songs were standouts for me: Ten Years Gone and Night Flight. I love the imagery of “packing all my hopes into a matchbox.” I can see why they were legendary, but not fully for me.
I think it was fairly forgettable Zepplin nonsense for the first few tracks. The moment Kashmir comes on is when this thing starts getting good. I think they are at their best when they go for the more psychedelic/ groovy vibe incorporating phaser SFX. And even more so when they busted out the mandolin and strings for songs like Kashmir. I pretend the first few songs don’t exist so I can focus on everything after Kashmir and have a good time. The last couple of songs also don’t hit much for me either. So it’s like eating a sandwich where I don’t like the bread but the filling is good and there’s a good amount of sauce so I don’t look back to negatively on the experience. 3.8/5 out of respect, but they also steal riffs so maybe I’m being too nice.
I fear this was simply okay. I’m lowkey disappointed cause everyone glazes this album (as do the global reviews). However, there is one absolutely true thing: The Avengers theme is Kashmir at a faster bpm.
A decent rocker
meni je dosadno
dragged, felt really really really long and i dont like hard rock but it was alright
it deleted my notes but it was a led zeppelin standard
Led Zeppelin gets another 3. Great moments of fantastic guitars drug down by grating vocals and overly long songs. 45 minutes too long.
Started out strong but really lost steam in the second half
Beetje te veel rokc voor in de ochtend
Good but not great Zep
side c is great don't care too much for the rest but kashmir is alright too i guess
Too much Robert Plant. Great riffs, great grooves. Too much everything. Then too much Robert Plant again. Too many filler tracks. Kashmir is awesome, be better if he shut up even more. He's like a demanding puppy squealing because he can't bear anyone else getting any attention.
Classic blues. Sounds a little basic these days
Good album with at least one or two bangers, but we're starting to get away from what I would consider "essential" Led Zeppelin. It might be four stars if I hadn't already listened to Led Zeppelin I and Led Zeppelin IV.
Could easily have cut 30 minutes
Had so much potential, but really started to blend together for me
I'd usually review each song but something tells me this is an album that finds you when you are ready. I wasn't, but I thoroughly enjoyed a handful of songs, such as In My Time of Dying and Ten Years Gone. Then, there's the towering achievement that is Kashmir. It's up there, with Mozart and Elvis, music so primordial that it touches upon something that lies beyond the reaches of grammar alone. The 8 minute track is part fantasy, part desert mirage. I will listen to this album again in a few years, and hopefully then, all will be revealed.
Super excited that this list is getting me to listen to full albums from the likes of Led Zeppelin, etc. I've always wanted to spend more time understanding bands like this - not just the popular hits I know. Enjoyable...I get it.
7/10
more listenable than some of their others. Reminded me of Pink Floyd a bit
It's rock from the 70s. Not bad, not for me though. Very same-y.
They have a cool sound. I get why people like them. This one didn't happen to strike me today but I'm sure it would other days.
listened went to sleep.
Enough already!
This is fine. I probably prefer IV, in part because Physical Graffiti seems to go on and on and on. This has moments, but LZ just isn't my thing.
This was fine but forgettable
I'm pretty familiar with their first 4 albums, this one started similar and it was good. But it's another bloody double album. They just go on so long. I preferred the bluesier tracks on this. I guess all of it was ok, but it just didn't hold my interest for it's entirety. I'm sure I'll have another listen at some point.
Honestly I'm not too well-acquainted with the band, but Kashmir is familiar. Great riffs and lyrics throughout. Not necessarily stuff I'd sing along with, but it's good background music.
Enjoyed this more than I thought I would. Some songs (quite a few) are unnecessary long tho which made the already long album feel even longer..
Strong opening 6 songs but falls away thereafter. No bad songs just far more memorable early on. Would have preferred it wasn't a double.
This is really long but good but not really my cup of tea. So thusly it's a three.
Never listened to one of their albums before. It was fine. The drumming was great, some of the lyrics felt cliche but i don't know if that were cliche when they were written or of that are now because the band influenced so many people. Overall it felt like gospel music for people who didn't grow up with gospel music
I feel like I can hear how cool they think they are in this album. Not my favorite Led Zeppelin album and it’s longgg.
Good album, very interesting sounds. 6.1/10
Not my fav LZ album. Maybe it was just the time I was listening, but Im surprised that I'm only giving this a 3.5
There's enough great material for a single album. For a double album I'd say not everything works - but I'm not really a great fan of Led Zeppelin. But I have to admit, the second I saw the album cover that's been chosen for that they, I immediately heard the riff for Custard Pie in my head.
I jammed
I know so many love this one, but I think it's just good. I think this could have been a more solid single album. Zep has so many great albums, I may be stacking it against those unfairly. Great riffs, soulful singing, solid bass lines and drumming that we great. This is not a bad review, I do love this album and Kashmir is one of my all time favs by Zep
вроде неплохо, но как-то очень длинно и повторяющеся... а так вообще-то неплохо
Nu är jag ingen expert på Zeppelinarna, men det finns en del rätt oväntade infall här. Countryn i Down by the seaside, Jerry Lee Lewis-klinket i Boogie with Stu, funkbluesen i Trampled by the foot. För att nämna några. Utöver det riffas det också på i mer väntad stil. Ibland riktigt bra, ibland rätt stillastående. I melodiska delar är Kinks inte långt borta. Symfonirocken i Kashmir är däremot mycket överskattad.
Har i största möjliga mån försökt att undvika LZ. Fördomen har varit att det låter tråkig progressiv hårdrock älskad av män i övre medelåldern som för länge sedan borde klippt den där grå hästsvansen som sitter på en bortsett från tre, fyra hämtehårstrån, kal hjässa. Blir faktiskt positivt överraskad. Ett i regel skönt sound. Många bra låtar. Men också för många låtar. Förstod att det var tänkte som ett enkelalbum först men att man till slut valde att ta med ett gäng tidigare ratade låtar. Det borde man nog haft ogjort. Nåväl trean lutar snarare uppåt än nedåt.
Pretty middle of the pack. I don't think this is Zeppelins best work. It felt very repetitive, minus the hit "Kashmir". A little underwhelming compared to all the hype this album seems to get.
If this were Zeppelin’s first album they never would have been “Led Zeppelin.” The drinking and heroin had definitely taken its toll on the band’s sound and songwriting by this point. Kashmir one of their best songs, but everything else falls off dramatically from there.
Good album, but I feel like all Songs sound the same, but I might need to put it into perspective considering the time it came out. You can’t really vibe with the music, I found.
I liked some songs. Others didn't stuck. All in all the album should have been shorter.
Kashmir is great, but beyond that it is an average album and not nearly as good end to end as I - IV.
i hate zeppelin but kashmir is an all timer
Really liked the middle part, especially Kashmir
Voor mij is LZ eigenlijk wel steeds een steady 3. Wel vermakelijke deuntjes, maar zou het zelf niet heel snel opzetten en krijgt van mij niet echt de omg-wow factor.
Good but not their best songs
Cool. 3.
It was fine. I’m just not a huge Led Zeppelin fan. I knew and liked Kashmir, but that was the only song I knew.
Almost every double album has at least five songs that don't need to be there.
Another Led Zeppelin! As previously- good, but definitely more commercial than previous albums. I feel like this was the point where their songs started to sound a little repetitive. Overall- solid album. 3.5/5
для меня эта группа явно остается в прошлом и стареет. не на мой вкус, голос солиста не остается в моей памяти как и мелодии
Not really my groove. But had some jams.
I like Zep but this one isn’t my favorite. Little mish-mash of genres. Uneven.
Feels like the most self-indulgent of the Zeppelin's albums. Too long, too much copying of blues artists (with what also sometimes feels copying nascent metal sounds), and too overplayed (Kashmir, Trampled Under Foot). & being too long is underscored by the real stinkers (The Rover, Boogie with Stu) mixed in with better songs I could tolerate because I didn't hear them 9 million times blasting through the speakers of my stepdad's Dodge Aspen.
As expected. Maybe blasphemous, but not my jam!
I didn’t enjoy this as much as some other Zeppelin albums. I would like the songs a lot more if they weren’t just so eternally long.
So much for the generator introducing me to Zeppelin chronologically. I haven’t returned to the debut since enjoying it last month, but I would expect some progression over six years that would lead here. What I mean by "progression," I don't know. Commenting on Led Zeppelin I, I hoped they’d marry their obvious technical firepower with a genuine artistic vision. On Kashmir, they really do. Although elsewhere, they don’t. On In the Light, the band reaches for the visionary but lands on something ungainly, more corny than cosmic. Down by the Seaside plods along, silly and half-hearted, until, suddenly, it opens into a phenomenal middle section: it could be its own song; it probably was at some point. In My Time of Dying is much the same: four minutes of waiting before the real riff arrives and the song becomes great. Did it need to stretch to eleven minutes? No. Six would have done, three and a half would have been perfect - just go out on those big tub thumps. I guess artistic vision is not the same as artistic ambition and, while one may want to string out the song or fill up the fourth side, you need to a stronger justification than just because you can. It's not climbing Everest, it is sculpting Everest. The minor curios are telling. Bron-Yr-Aur is a slight acoustic sketch, squandered by not blossoming into a full song or even a proper side closer. Boogie With Stu, a leftover from ’71, has no business sharing space with the album’s heavy hitters - it’s a throwaway, and it sounds it. The inclusion of such a track isn't for fun or variety or colour; its just because it was there. It shows how little clarity or necessity there is to most of Physical Graffiti. For all its peaks - and Kashmir is practically Everest - it also sprawls. Zeppelin could have done anything they wanted at that point, but, I think, that, if they had wanted anything in particular, it would have been more satisfying. 3 The dream of chronological Led Zepp is over. Physical Graffiti it is, in which we hear them traipsing out the far end of their greatness, dripping with musical (and moral) decadence. It’s a strange album and certainly too long. Even in the tighter 1974 tracks - Custard Pie, The Wanton Song, Sick Again - the utter venerealism of Plant’s lyrics, which would be hard not to wince at except that they are hard to make out, piles on the sense of needless indulgence. The prevailing image is perhaps of a bloated, dying emperor, sick of sin, but also sick of gout and probably syphilis. Kublai Khan maybe, given the pungent orientalism of some of the music. That this album is part outtakes compilation sharpens that image; there is a purposeless looking backwards which is not reminiscence but a sort of sporadic, feverish recollection of past feats, past sounds, past albums. Amid this ugly picture there is the contradiction that the longest stuff, In My Time of Dying and Kashmir, might also be the best. Page’s slide playing on IMTOD is brilliantly sluggish and there is an absorbing narrative shape to the track that makes light of 11 minutes. Kashmir is just the decadent soul of the album; an entirely witless show of musical brute force, entirely iconic. I feel a bit sorry that we didn’t get this on a weekend. It’s a bit much listening for a working day and I would be happy to write at (appropriately) tedious length about it. In a nutshell, Physical Graffiti is awful and wonderful, stupid and clever, somehow essential listening and a frequent waste of a listener’s time, a proper album and not a proper album. 3.5/5
If you can produce songs like Down by the Seaside, Boogie with Stu, and Bron-Yr-Aur, why would you make those other noises?
Of all the zeppelin albums, might be my least favorite. Its a hard thing to describe too because there are a ton of great singles on here. I think it just lacks some of the organic rawness of the other albums. It could just be that I need to give this one another 3 or4 deep listens but who has time?! I got a new album to listen to today now!
Pretty good, not on the same level as 2 or 4 but good overall.
it's fine. all the songs kinda wash over in the same mush
A Great blues album, more blues than rock. Kashmir is still a stand out after all these years
I see why people like it, but not my style unfortunately. Not looking to offend anyone.
“Kashmir” is a great song! I don’t like anything else on Physical Graffiti quite as much, and, tbh, there’s a fair bit of . . . bloat, too (especially on sides three and four). But the album is deservedly influential. If I could, I’d give it 3.5 stars.
I really tried to like it, but I suppose it's not my thing. Kashmir has a cool intro; that's about it. I'm told I should recognize the guitar talent, so 3* it is.
Trampled Under Foot is awesome and is followed up by Kashmir which has one of the best rock instrumentals ever The Wanton Song also deserves a shout Robert Plant also has a fantastic voice and his vocals were arguably the best part of this album I think this album wasn’t as much for me but I completely understand the hype and why this album is known to be very progressive for its time I feel like the album might’ve benefitted from being a little shorter (definitely felt a bit burnt out as I was finishing it), which is very rare for me to say Favorites: Trampled Under Foot, Kashmir
Lot of good songs but couple of meh ones that prolonged this a bit too much which is a point reduction.
-this is cool as hell. i liked some parts of it even more than Led Zeppelin IV, the previous LZ album i heard on here which actually piqued my interest in the band for the first time -it kinda dragged on for a long time but i definitely would like to listen to more -Favorites are Trampled Under Foot, Kashmir, and Night Flight
should NOT be a double album
Still can't dig LedZep, but this one is more or less okay
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Hard album for me to rate honestly. There are so many incredible tracks here. But listening with 2025 ears and an attention span that's not what it used to be, I can feel some of the double album fluff. I was incredibly excited to get through this, as I had only ever heard the greatest hit albums in my teens. "Down by the seaside" turned into a lovely surprise, and it's astonishing how many big hits are on this album. But the fluff remains. Due to personal taste, the heavily blues influenced tracks don't do as much for me. Would rate 3.5 stars if I could.
Patient zero for every jock rock cliché involving a British pervert playing blues riffs and a guy singing about hobbits in a voice like a goblin guarding a bridge. Still pretty fun to listen to, at least for the first half.
Not the best Zeppelin album, but some classics on here.
Once again with Led Zeppelin I feel like this is an album I'm supposed to like but I don't know if I did. It's definitely got some decent songs but there were a few tracks where they started blending together near the halfway point of the album. I think because I didn't grow up listening to Led Zeppelin I missed by window to fully appreciate them. I can see why people love them but for me something is just...missing.
Rocks hard, didn't even mind it was 90 mins
It’s grand and epic but long and not always interesting.
I like their early more bluesy stuff more, but still good. Ten years gone is an all timer
Pretty solid rock album
I enjoyed this. The drumming in particular (something I've appreciated more with age) is crisp, inventive, and utterly rapid half the time. It's, for me, a good album. Not really one I would revisit, but I had fun nonetheless.
An absolute beast of an album. Being a double LP, Physical Graffiti lacks the tightness, focus, and consistency of Zep’s earlier output. However, the musicianship saves the day. I’ve never been a huge Led Zeppelin fan, but I’ve always marvelled at the Individual talents of its lineup - especially Bonham and Page. You can always tell when it’s Bonham behind the drums, he’s just special like that. And the arrangements like those on Kashmir have that signature flare and drama always lurking in Page’s production on these albums. Unfortunately, the record’s a bit of a zombie after Kashmir. After serving up such a showstopper, the damn thing just keeps going for another hour! More time spent with the album may make me kinder on future listens. I’m just always eager to get back to the first half by the end of a listen.
6/10.
My fave Led album is II— this is not my favorite. Too long, and too many meandering songs. Zepp is for concentrated power. Some song are still quite good. Kashmir and Houses of the Holy are the most famous but I really liked Down By the Seaside. Why are we getting the Led out in rock music when we could be getting the lead out of our water supply? Really makes you think…
Obviously one of - if not the - greatest rock bands of all time. This isn't their best work, but that doesn't mean that it's bad by any stretch. The number of different genres that the band includes on this double album alone is impressive. And while The Wonton Song, Boogie with Stu, and Black Country Woman are favorites of mine, end of day, this is a mid Led Zepplin Album. That's great for most bands, but here they're the victims of their own greatness. 3.5
Priem
I remember my best friend from when I was 10 having this album—I don't remember anything but the cover, though. Enjoying the album, but none of the tracks really jumped out and grabbed me
Ah, yes. When I started this project I expected to get Led Zeppelin every other day - but it lasted until Album 13 until I got to them. Here's the thing: I can fully understand the appeal of the band, but I do nit like their music very much. I can listen to them without screaming and some songs are quite good. But I would never put one of their records on voluntarily. Physical Graffiti strengthens my perspective of the band. Of course it has a massive energy and great guitar work. On the other hand, how can anyone stand the voice of Jimmy Page? It is a mystery to me. Moreover my dislikes for blues-rock (Especially when it just reworks blues songs, as in In My Time Of Dying) and the rockstar pose make this album not for me. My favourite song here: Kashmir, obviously. It's powerful and really unique in it's sound. Some other songs work for me, like Down By The Seaside and Ten Years Gone. Basically everything that ommits the grandiose stadium rock gestures. Funnily, I do not mind about PG being a double album, even though generally I do not like these very much. The album keeps up it's quality until the end of side 3. After that it get's weaker ( With the exception of The Wanton Song, which has interesting guitar work) So, yes: I can understand why this is in the list, it just is not for me.
Some good songs, some boring songs. Not my favorite LZ.
I remember being intrigued by the album’s cover art when I first saw it, took me a bit to wrap my head around the title - I was wasn’t even born when it came out so I was pretty young. Unfortunately, that’s probably the highlight of the album for me… don’t get me wrong it’s not bad, but it didn’t grab my attention either. Solid songs, good background music, I wonder if my mood was better if I’d have been more interested? Today it was just fine, solid 3 stars, no more.
Good album overall, just a lil long in my opinion. A lot of it was just filler but the hits HIT mmmmm
Enjoyable listen, some hits were really nice but it felt too long for what it was. One of those albums that would have been better if they put more emphasis on fewer songs. But it’s still good as it is Led Zeppelin.
Good album.
Not a Led Zeppelin fan and listening to this didn't change that. Too long and too forgettable. Kashmir is OK but it did remind me of another as yet unidentified track (not Signifying Rapper although I think the track I'm thinking of is of the rap variety). Didn't recognize any of the tracks. Seeing the reviews here very much over-rated.
Pretty typical Led Zeppelin. But not bad
Classic Rock, very nice
More bluesy than protometal, this one.
Is it art, or vandalism? That is the question.
тяжеловесный альбом
I love rock. This was good.
Meh
My God it's so long If it weren't for trampled under foot this would be an easy 2
This didn't really excite me, but it was okay. Standout tracks: In My Time of Dying, Kashmir
drei plus kashmir
I started listening to this, got a few songs into it and realised I wasn't really into an epic Led Zep double album. I also listened to Kashmir, a masterwork. I'm sure the rest of the album is excellent but I'm just not in the mood for it.
Not my personal favourite Led Zeppelin album but there’s no denying the musicianship and classic song writing. Some of the tracks do tend to go on for a while with a couple clicking in at 8+ minutes which is a little long for my taste
This barely makes the list of Zeppelin albums you need to hear before you die.
OK like, just a bit meh and lacking the rawness and energy of their earlier stuff.
Meischtens tönts emmer relativ ähnlech. Es he'd es paar geili Songs met crazy riffs debi, wo aber halt aber gärn mol 10 Minute gönd ond ned so zuegänglech send. Trotzdem geil.
When in doubt, kill your darlings. While it contains many great songs, the album is a bit too long and fluffy on the whole.
The long songs were all good. The short songs were a bit hit and miss
Pretty solid overall. I'm no Zep stan, I thought the back half wore on a bit long and didn't have tons going for it, but that's in light of how great the first disc is. Really wished we got a 10-point scale instead of 5, I'd give this a firm 7/10. Choosing to round down, I can't say I vibed to this 80% of the time.
Thought I'd like it a lot more than I actually did
This is a double album released in 1975. And this is Led Zeppelin’s first appearance on this 1001 album list (undoubtedly there will be more). As radio transitioned from AM pop stations to album-oriented radio during the 1970s, Led Zeppelin benefitted from this transition. There are a few good tracks here but for me there are better Zeppelin albums.
Enjoyed listening through it, but somehow it feels low key annoying over time...
This felt more like a collection of songs than an album. I like Led Zeppelin generally so I’m reserving the 4s and 5s for the standout albums.
Drags a little outside of the few highlights, but the good songs are very good.
1. Custard Pie - 8/10 2. The Rover - 8/10 3. In My Time of Dying - 8.2/10 4. Houses of the Holy - 7/10 5. Trampled Under Foot - 8/10 6. Kashmir - 7/10 7. In the Light - 6.5/10 8. Bron-Yr-Aur - instru 9. Down by the Seaside - 8/10 10. Ten Years Gone - 7.5/10 11. Night Flight - 7/10 12. The Wanton Song - 6.5/10 13. Boogie with Su - 6.5/10 14. Black Country Woman - 7.5/10 15. sick Again - 7/10 7/10
Not my favourite Led Zeppelin album but its still pretty good. "In My Time of Dying", "Trampled Under Foot" and "Custarf Pie" are some of my favourite Led Zeppelin songs. Also "Kashmir" is so overrated. 7/10 Favourite: In My Time of Dying Least Favourite: Black Country Woman
I liked this, and glad to be led to listen to some Led Zeppelin again as I’ve not done so for a very long time. I didn’t find it profound and it didn’t necessarily grab me but some enjoyable guitar play and the distinctive sound of the lead vocals. Maybe on another day it would be a 4 but a 3 today.
Technically great. Doesn’t really connect with me though.
I think i'd enjoy rock more if the vocals weren't so raspy, longer songs are better even though I usually dont like long songs, nothing else to say
3.5 anything Led Zeppelin is good!
i'm not gonna lie, this isn't really my favorite LZ album. It feels like a lot of the songs tend to drag on and on and don't really add too much as far as lyricism. Obviously there are redeeming moments like the creativity of Kashmir, but overall, i'm not a huge fan.
In My Time of Dying is one of the worst blues tracks I've ever heard. It's not that the band isn't crazy talented or the production is bad. It's that there is just no soul in the whole of the 10 minutes of Plant's wailing. There really isn't another bad track on the rest of this album, but it just soured me so much. Zep is a lot of great things but authentic has never been one of them.
weird to revisit an album I used to love as a child but don’t care about as a grown adult. makes it hard to review. objectively it’s good but idgaf anymore
my dad used to have kashmir burned onto a classic rock compilation cd in the car, so it is nostalgic, but, as always my complaint is that it’s sooooo long
Lots of solid songs but also lots of meh
Nothing really stands out, but it's still pretty good! If only there was 1 standout song
Didn't know they made Kashmir, ha! I didn't even know that song had that name
I certainly appreciate how talented he is, but this just isn’t my favorite. 3.5 rounded down to 3.
A little bit too long but overall pretty good. Disc 1 is sick, disc 2 is alright.
This is a great album, but mainly the first part. It's a bit too long. However, Kashmir is a timeless classic. That song gets 5 stars, but the whole record will get 3.