Reviews (page 11 of 14)
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
Gear: Moondrop Variations Artwork: 🏢👥🏢 Production (1994 Remaster): 🙄🤔🤷 Music: ⏳📉😒 Rating: 🪟🪟🪟/5
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.
6/10
Meanders a bit, but sometimes in a good way.
Other than Kashmir not their best work
It's fine
Not their best album. Also too long
Ok ok like i dig but you know didnt set my hair on fire. They had that like one song from Godzillas armpits
Led Zeppelin were better than this, there's a decent album in amongst all this bloated overbaked filler
I listened to the first half whilst at work. Kashmir is such a good tune, but the rest was bored blues guitar. I thought it would get better on the drive home, and cracked it up, but honestly it wasn't all that. To be generous, I imagine it's a classic case of everyone copying whatever they did that was innovative until it sounds retrospectively generic.
Kashmir is such an epic track! The rest of the album gets lost in itself, probably because it's too long. Reduce the runtime and excessive bluesy riffs and it'd be a much more engaging listen.
You ever eat too much of the same thing and the thought of it makes you sick? Well, there was a year in high school where all I listened to was Led Zeppelin, and I've steered clear since. Not my favorite of their albums. Could cull a few so it's not a double album and it would be a higher score. One positive is there are some moments through the album where John Paul Jones and John Bonham really shine... When the other two give it a rest for a second.
This was ~ok~ just kind of low energy.
Kashmir and Down by the Seaside stand out for me. I’m sure they would have been great live.
In high school I thought Robert Plant had the most incredible voice in the world. Now I find it a little screechy and insufficiently soulful.
Great band but nowhere near their strongest collection of songs
Good album. A little too long - not sure if the original was this long or if they added songs when they remastered. In any case, they are some great songs ("Kashmir" and "Trampled Under Foot") and some snoozers ("In My Time of Dying". "Ten Years Gone" and "Down By the Seaside"). I liked the rest of the songs. Overall, I enjoyed the album but I'm thinking there is maybe one disc worth of really good material here.
Classic Rock. Record/Vinyl rock and roll feeling. Get drunk background music. More chill kind of rock and roll. Custard Pie - 1990 Remaster The Rover - 1993 Remaster In My Time of Dying - 1990 Remaster (Excellent beginning buildup, but very long song) Houses of the Holy - 1990 Remaster Trampled Under Foot - 1990 Remaster Kashmir - 1990 Remaster (Classic background duh duh duh, duh duh, duh duh duh) In the Light - 1990 Remaster Bron-Yr-Aur - 1993 Remaster Down by the Seaside - 1993 Remaster Ten Years Gone - 1990 Remaster Nigh Flight - 1993 Remaster The Wanton Song - 1990 Remaster Boogie with Stu - 1993 Remaster Black Country Woman - 1993 Remaster Sick Again - 1993 Remaster Overall - Kinda boring, easy to zone out and not pay attention to, but it has the classic rock sound still.
I like Led Zeppelin but not that much. This was a good album but with too many songs some I felt were fillers.
First disc was better than I'd like to admit. Albeit some songs felt like they went on too long. Got bored by disc 2. But has classic led Zeppelin sound which is hard to deny being good
"Kashmir" reminds me of the intro of the German TV Show TV Total. Rest was okay, but nothing that stood out.
Finally through all five of the Led Zeppelin albums featured on this list. Funnily enough, I drew their other four albums in like a three month span last year. Anyway, years of pumping out albums certainly allowed LZ to be a little more creative here. With any LZ record, you need to be a bit patient to take in everything first but some funk, prog rock, and orchestral rock seep in amongst the hard rock that LZ is known for. Things slow down tremendously after "Kashmir" though, which is basically the halfway point of the album. Not necessarily a slog (although one can only take so much of Plant's vocals), but the shift in tempo/quality is noticeable. Suffice to say, not quite LZ's best overall body of work but some interesting and cohesive tracks here and there.
Looked up what I said about Led Zep IV, and this is definitely better. However…they added songs to make it a double album, and I really think they could have dropped a couple of songs and made it a single album instead. Also, Rage Against The Machine really ripped off the start of Kashmir, didn’t they?
The first half of this album had me thinking, "oh, so this is the good Led Zeppelin album!" - some absolute bangers there. But then, it just kept... Going... And I was a little disappointed by the end. Kashmir, Houses of the Holy, Trampled Under Foot - stone cold classic rock, no complaints. The rest was either fine, or a bit crap. Oh well, maybe the next Led Sep album will be the one where it all comes together. Not holding my breath though.
I didn’t like the remastering quality. They prob have better albums.
I like Kashmir but the rest not as much
I like led zeppelin less then I thought
Favourite song: Trampled Underfoot. Good song for a workout. Great melodies, impressive guitar. Not many songs I could listen to over and over again.
this was pretty medium! sorry I don't have anything interesting to say.
Kashmir is fantastic. The rest of it is fine. There's a lot here, but I don't really care about most of it. It's still pretty good.
skuffet pga. hype
This has a reputation and I dont see it exactly rhe same way. It doesn't have as many big big songs on it minus kashmir, as I was expecting. And it's solid. Very solid. Just less flash than I would have expected. I'll spin her round again to see but not that mind blowing.
Liked this one ok. Didn't really grab me, felt repetitive and uninspired. It also dragged on, especially on disc two. I know this album gets a lot of love, and maybe I just wasn't in the right space to really absorb it. I didn't hate it and there were a couple great songs but I overall just felt bored listening to it. Standouts: Kashmir, Ten Years Gone Rating: 3.25/5
I am a Led Zeppelin fan - this, however, if not my favorite Led Zeppelin album. Kashmir rules! I give this a three. Also love In My Time of Dying and Houses of the Holy. You don't have to make every song ten minutes you guys! It's ok!
I liked it but I also wish that there was a bit more structure. 3.5
Has a few good moments, but shows the limitations of album oriented music... Definitely drags in places
I don't know if it's possible for me to "listen" to this again. I mean, I can play it, but (like Murmur or Rumours) it's already so loud in my head.
Disc one was good. Disc two felt like filler. All these songs would be better if they were half as long, but I feel that way about 90% of zeppelin songs
This is a pretty solid album, I liked the second half more than the first, I’m not sure I can describe why but the first few tracks didn’t click much with me, I enjoyed the slower tracks of the second half more, I do think with was a solid album though it’s a classic for a reason. Rating: Good (Strong ☆☆☆) Favorite Tracks: Down By The Seaside, In The Light, Kashmir.
I already knew this album but it had been a few years since I last listened. It was okay. I know this is a fan favorite but I just didn't vibe with it overall. There were a few songs that were amazing though but as a whole It was just okay for me
Good to try a new style - very cool but just not for me - I can see how it is for so many others though - thanks!
Loved about half the album
Classic led zeppelin. This is probably my 6th favorite zeppelin album and I still really like it which is pretty crazy. The songs are super varied across the whole album and very quality. I think there is something lost compared to the other albums in terms of songs with a real punch. Outside of kashmir their isn't anything with that power. Some of the songs ramble a bit too long as well, contributing the the 1.5 hour runtime. That's what brings it down a bit to me, but still really cool album
It has really good songs, but for me its just too long and there are different levels of songs on this album that combined with its length takes the great ship down. (3.5/5.0)
3.5
Ya know… never been able to get into led zeppelin
Led Zeppelin is Led Zeppelin but this record didn’t really blow me away or anything. Guitar riffs were kind of repetitive in most songs. Objectively, it’s cool but yeah just not what I’d seek out. Favorites: The Rover, Down by the Seaside, Ten Years Gone
Always loved Kashmir and I could listen to most of this again but nothing really captivating
Music’s great but the bloat on this double album makes me waver on my rating. Like, I really like the song Kashmir but it’s too repetitive to run for 8+ minutes.
Trots along nicely then you hit Kashmir - classic - takes it to another level
More chill than I expected, Kashmir is obviously great but the album was quite long... felt a bit too much
Feels kinda swampy, groovy, grundgy. Why is the first song called custard pie? Seems a bits mysogynistic. Like I know nothing about music but the git long guitar solos seem unneccasary and a bit showy off-y. The lead singers voice is really jarring. The songs go on a bit too. Like I see why people like it but not for me
I'm only familiar with a handful of tracks from this album. there are quite a few really good ones on here-love the driving beats, and forward guitars, Plant's vocals are stronger than other albums. BUT it is waaaaaay too long. should have been divided into two entirely separate albums & would have been much stronger. 3.5 stars
I liked ittt. I gotta listen to more led zeppelin fr. Very cool sound
Propper hard rock.
A rambling shambles of an album that not even Kashmir can salvage! Didn’t get them back then and still don’t get them now!
Classic blues and rock, good punch to the face in a double album, filled with classics
Favourite zeppelin so far. I wasn't too huge on their other stuff (obviously it's enjoyable and amazing, but it's not blowing me away) but side C of this! Wow. Incredible.
This project has made me warm towards Led Zeppelin to some degree. I really wasn’t a fan at the start of this list, but I can see the appeal in a certain time and place now. But end of the day, I’d rather listen to Long Train Running than Trampled Under Foot or Wake Up than Kashmir.
All in on Zep I fear
Mais um disco que sofre do mal do disco duplo: acaba tendo coisa demais que poderia ser resumida em um disco só. O fato de apontarem muitas direções diferentes ao mesmo tempo que traz músicas interessantes, acaba tirando o foco do disco.
Kashmir and Bron-Yr-Aur were good, but since I left my air guitar at home the rest of the album wasn’t as fun.
I was not a super fan. It seemed okay in the background.
It’s good, just not into the sound
Zeppelin are always great on the singles, but repetitive in an album. Some outstanding tracks in kashmir and houses of the holy but overall a dull experience. I don't see myself returning to the album just the hits.
Boomer rock doesn't do it for me, mid
Never gave this a listen before, but I am very familiar with LZ1 and LZ4 so I have some perspective. A decent addition to the discography . Led Zeppelin always gets bonus points from me because their lyrics are only really about 3 topics: 1. LOTR and other mystical realms 2. Love making (Minus points for having a ton of lyrics that didnt age well.) 3. Bluesy type shit Definitely too long.
Starts off strong, rocks hard, and then runs on for about an hour too long.
Not my favorite classic rock album, but there are definitely a few good songs on it (especially Houses of the Holy).
Turns out LZ had a lil twang era. I shouldn’t be surprised by their blues & folk influence yet here I am. Also, love that rock & roll piano in “Boogie with Stu”
I won't rock but this album is so authentic
Very cool rock albu
strong rock album 3.5/5
am sitting down to listen to this while i try 2 help my friend w a poem theyre writing lets go. man i enjoy this (custard pie is so crunchy!) but we are just gettin unrelenting dad rock arent we. at least its back in "cishet man who seems to kinda like women" territory w better sex innuendos. okay the rover is [catbop] [catbop]. this is the dad music of basic technical competence i see (do NOT AT ME abt the stones i do NOT want to hear it until we hear a stones album that doesnt suck ass). i do rlly love the chords/moodiness of the rovers pre chorus. in my time of dying i love how bendy the guitar is [checks timestamp] okay but bro. MORE eleven minut e songs even if youre the thinking dads rock youre not telling me u couldntve shaved a couple seconds even off this one. okay houses of the holy is reasomably short and kinda fun. the crunchy guitar that was so charming on the first couple seconds of custard pie (which i keep wanting to call custard apple for some reason??) is kinda blending everything together at this point tho :/ i say rigjt before trampled under foot comes on ROCKING. this feels like a song that Should be abt gay sex (maybe all the refs to leather + automobile engines) but its merely abt boring heterosexual sex probably. ohhh i think ive heard kashmir b4 bc i felt dread as the climbing chord motif started n was like god this is 8m long isnt it lo and behold,. okay kashmir has 2 either be heavily sampled or played OR its reffing smth specific itself right? or is it just that its hitting the most prime stereotypical "we r western musicians grabbing some asian/north african musical motifs with both hands" motifs 2 go w the name + lyrical imagery n thats why its familiar, its the exact same little chromatic turnarounds that Everyone uses + theyre now in "unoriginal fantasy desert region" music (like in their incorporation into westerner composition 2bc their use in the original cultural music of asia/africa is most definitely original lmao)? oh good in the time it took me to write that it ended. NOW theres a WHOLE OTHER SECOND ALBUM OF THIS SHIT. oh my god in the light just picks up the same place as kashmir left off fuck me. im not hating this comparatively but im not gonna be loving it in another forty fucking minutes. okay i love the ominous upscale n creepy stretched out harmonized vocals. dude im just asking if u can maybe pick 1-2 songs to b in the 8-11m range not like...fuck bro what is this the 4th by now? at least? i get it bro im an overdrafter! im 25k words into a game script thats like maybe 1/3 written + im gonna have to edit it down by at LEAST half the wordcount when im done. but also jfc ykno sometimes editing for brevity improves the artistic power of ur ideas right! i think 1 or more of these tracks could really grab me by the throat but theyre like stuck supervillain monologing allowing me 2 sneak away OH SHIT ITS A 2M 6S SONG LED ZEPPLIN TURNED AROUND AND CAUGHT ME HALFWAY OUT THE DOOR oh its an instrumental im fine. ill take it tho this is lovely. okay another 5m track as led zeppelin recollect their days down by the seaside ive cut the ropes hiding me to this chair n tiptoed out to hide behind a large potted plant while the guards go rushing out. CMON U WERE ROCKING FOR A SECOND DOWN BY THE SEASIDE. have been informed that this is the one led zeppelin album they DIDNT edit for brevity oh goodie me...like i like this stuff on a second to second basis okay but i might need a tolerance break from dad rock. maybe its better as bg music? is rhat heresy? oh i love the intro to ten years gone...okay but again. maybe i need to listen to this as bg music but as what? like i guess if i were in a movie its gr8 movie montage music but i live in real life unfortunately. like aimlessly making out? maybe that would be too pretentious / not fun / gay / weird enough 4 my preferred brand of canoodling (<-- has never put on bg music during any romantic activity so has no idea). maybe writing but not if it was a high emotional intensity scene. cooking? NOT cleaning n prolly only coding or art if i didnt need to lock in. its like perfectly good in the bg im sure but trying to listen to it and have thoughts makes me focus on the ways in which it doesnt work as focus music. okay night music here we go this is like road trippy bopping bug fixing code energy level! see i dojt have time for as long of a complaint tangent in the middle CMON CMON NOW MEET ME IN THE MORNIN WONTCHA MEET ME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGH NIGH NANANANIGHT. i rlly do still love the crunchy electric guitar thruout im like vaguely cultured enough to kno thats like an LZ specialty. oh ive heard boogie w stu at some point maybe? yeah im just out of steam can i get an editors cut of this one. i want the vers of these songs that are just [GESTURES PUTTING HANDS ROUGHLY SHOULDER WIDTH SPACING APART AND THEN SCOOCHING BOTH ENDS CLOSER TO THE MIDDLE LIKE IM PUTTING THIS ALBUM IN A TRASH COMPACTOR OR HYDRAULIC PRESS] scoooch it in, yknow,. im reminded that maybe in my data entry job days i couldve grown 2 like this thru captive audience stockholm syndrome (phone has to stay face down on desk) but i just generally have too much agency in my life now im no longer the man who listened to every single sufjan stevens song on spotify (as of 2019) in chronological order. (DONT do this. HE HAS TEN (10) XMAS ALBUMS OF 10 SONGS EACH.) YAAAAYY im done. uh i have to rate it. 3/5 (like its higher than the cure in that more of the music is actively enjoyable but only slightly bc its also even fucking longer). would i buy a physical copy of this? if the vinyl looked cool sure but mainly so i looked smarter than i actually am, maybe that wouldve worked on my exgf. standout songs: the rover, trampled underfoot, night flight, abt 30s of most songs. critical weakness: girl its just too fucking long. i cant even call it padded more like its a block of raw unpolished marble you didnt finish taking the elephant out of. [kneeling to say bedtime prayers like 1950s boyscout] can i get a shorter and different genre album tomorrow god or santa claus or whoever?
i'll never forget dragging my family to go look at these buildings on an NYC trip when i was 13. Zeppelin were the first band i properly found on my own when i stopped getting my taste from video games or whatever was being played around me, and this album in particular had a real hold on me for a while. i spent a lot of time in middle school talking this up as my all-time favorite, and while that doesn't ring true anymore i still find myself drawn to the same things about it this record draws from both the rugged sound of their first two eponymous albums & the mystic introspection of the latter two, and would be my pick for the album most representative of the band overall. it makes sense considering that a number of these songs were taken from sessions for previous albums, and the sequencing here does a great job to keep that balance intact & not lean too much into one particular sound. the exception to that is the final side, where they cram all the shitty blues rock songs into the last 15 minutes (on that note, Sick Again has somehow the grossest lyrics of any song so far) JPJ remains the unsung hero of this band, and the varied sound of this record is largely due to his contributions. Bonham rarely sounded better than he did here; the presence of the drums on tracks like In My Time of Dying/Trampled Under Foot/Night Flight is just so effective. the kick squeaks so much! this is a double album that doesn't feel its length to me, which is especially impressive given the 11-minute song. the stretch of tracks from the beginning til about 10-11 songs in has some of their best moments in their catalog music, and a level of consistency that i don't think quite exists on any of their other records. it holds up quite well for me & i'd probably put it 1st or 2nd among their albums; i guess we'll see for sure when other ones pop up on this list god chase utley was so cool
I've heard this album before. Some great songs on here, and Jimmy Page's guitar talents are on display throughout. But overall the songwriting isn't consistent enough to support a double album. Though, ironically, the very fun Boogie with Stu, recorded previously, was only included because it was a double album...Page said he'd never put it on a "single album". The same is likely true of Black Country Woman. With apologies to Mark Ratner, I'm only going to give this one 3 stars.
A bit too hit-and-miss for a 4, so it's a 3 for me. Some things that I like and some that I can't even remember listening to immediately after they end.
Although Physical Graffiti is supposed to be Led Zeppelin's peak album, I don't like it nearly as much as their earlier numbered albums. Other than a few standout songs, the rest of the long album kinda falls into background music mode. It doesn't have the catchiness or strong rhythms of their earlier works - they branched into a lot of different styles here that don't connect as well for me. Kashmir is a cool song though, especially at the 3:24 and 6:40 minute marks.
Aside from relentless punishment with endless Cohen and Costello, one of the good things about this list is that it caused me to listen more directly to Led Zeppelin. I was initially not a fan, largely due to relentless overplay on the radio during my youth, but working through the albums here and listening more, I have come to appreciate them much better, so when I saw this album come up, I had high expectations. Too high, apparently. It's OK, and has some really good songs like Kashmir, but overall it just didn't live up to my expectations. I find I enjoy the blues-ey songs (Kashmir, Ten Years Gone) to the hard rock songs (Custard Pie, The Rover). If I was putting together this list, THIS is the Led Zeppelin album that I would say has to be on the list: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kAC5Yod-akX6an6LvT_805xSSf2iis3U0 (for just a sample, start with song 6).
Not my favourite rock. Kashmir is a good tune with voice balanced against instruments so that screaming isn’t required. 4/5. Other tunes not memorable. 3/5 overall
I know it's heresy to say this, but I got bored with this album a little over halfway through.
I enjoyed this. Some really good songs and a couple that I've added to playlists in the past. Ten Years Gone is so good.
Not my type of music but I can dig it.
Fairly exemplary hard rock album. It's overall a solid release for the genre with apparent ambition put behind it, seeing as this is a double-album. However, that side of this is a complaint for me here, as it does start to meander more and dip in quality towards the end of the overall project. The biggest highlight here is easily Kashmir, thanks to its Bond-esque symphonic instrumentation. I'm not sure if I would revisit this, but I definitely understand the hype behind it.
Not the best Zep. Overlong, plodding, with lots of eight minute songs that don’t particularly sound different from each other.
I understand that this was pioneering and it is undeniably great music. The barrier for me was always Robert Plant’s voice - very difficult to get past.
I have never got into much of Led Zeppelin, it was never my cup of tea. This album felt very long but I did enjoy the instrumental parts throughout the album. Many people say they like the first half better but I prefer the second half. My favorite song is Down By The Seaside. My mom loves Led Zeppelin, she said it sounds better when you’re stoned.
This one is for getting the Led out occasions only. Should you listen to this in a garage with a beer in hand, you might ascend to nirvana. Otherwise, its just kind of a slog.
This is a fine album, I just didn't feel that every track landed, and it's quite long. "Kashmir" is rightly revered, but the rest doesn't do all that much for me.
6/10 I used to love led zeppelin. I still love Kashmir. 12-16-2024
Isn’t all graffiti inherently physical? It’s created on tangible surfaces, after all! Ironically, Physical Graffiti features none on its (admittedly iconic) album cover. The 1970s were the heyday of the double album—a creative canvas and a commercial flex. Advances in recording technology and the album-oriented rock ethos allowed artists to explore sprawling works, while vinyl's physical limitations necessitated multi-disc releases. Seemingly everyone tried it: The Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, George Harrison, The Who, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Chicago, Miles Davis, Marvin Gaye, and Isaac Hayes all delivered double-album opuses, with varying degrees of success. Double albums tend toward self-indulgence, and Physical Graffiti is no exception. Packed with incredible highlights, it showcases each member of Led Zeppelin doing what they do best. Kashmir stands head and shoulders above—arguably the pinnacle of this album and the band’s entire discography. Tracks like Custard Pie, Trampled Under Foot, and Ten Years Gone see Zeppelin exploring fresh sonic territory without abandoning their essence. Meanwhile, Houses of the Holy, Sick Again and The Wanton Song showcase their rock 'n' roll swagger at its most potent. But here’s the rub: while the album shines when Zeppelin plays to their strengths or experiments, some tracks overstay their welcome (In My Time of Dying) or rely on repetitive riffs with little variation (The Rover, In the Light). These aren’t bad songs—still impressive in isolation—but they don’t stand out in the band’s wider discography. Many of these tracks were outtakes from earlier sessions, which might explain the uneven nature. While Physical Graffiti delivers brilliance in places, it’s not Zeppelin’s most consistent effort. Enjoyable, but not my favourite. Did/Do I own this release? No Does this release belong on the list? There are better Led Zeppelin albums, in my view. Would this release make my personal list? No Will I be listening to it again? Some tracks are truly epic.
Led Zeppelin continues to be an act I "get", but am unenthused by. It's a good record and I understand why they're looked upon with such reverence as a pillar of classic hard rock. The playing is good, the production is good, the composition is fine, and it's only too damn long by a small amount. In the context of greater musical culture and how I, personallt, interface with it, Led Zeppelin continues to be "Hard Rock Beatles" - a band I "get" but don't care for. This album won't be the album that convinces me to rave over Zepp as an all-time great. That album doesn't exist. But it is good.
Definitely some good material here, but does it really have to go on for so long? You can feel Zeppelin starting to sag under their own weight by the end of it. Best song: Houses of the Holy
I thought I loved Led Zeppelin but I guess I’ve never ACTUALLY closely listened to them? I don’t know what to do with this. Once again this list leaves me feeling confused about life.
More Zeppelin songs that I've never heard of. Pretty interesting how some of them are like 2-3 songs in one. I liked it better than Led Zeppelin III though!
I'm actually a bit surprised how limited this album is. At their core, I really like the sound of Led Zeppelin, but a lot of this album feels like the same classic Zeppelin shredding that we're used to hearing, and it's wild how quickly that can turn into more like background noise.
Well. Not my favourite. But I might be bias as I'm not a Led Zep fan. Technically a good album. I always enjoy Kashmir
mid - kashmir - mid
Its got its high points to be sure, come on it is Led Zeppelin, but quite frankly it’s not as good as their earlier albums and being a double album makes it feel like a little too much of not as good a thing. I’d rather quality over quantity.
I feel like once you've listened to one Led Zeppelin album - you've listened to them all Started off well but it was so long and repetitive that I got bored. I only knew Kashmir before listening so that probably didn't help with the rating I was surprised to see a song with a Welsh name - Bron-Yr-Aur! I never knew the history behind that track, so that was a nice find. Nice guitar song too Overall this album was ok. Wasn't their best of what I've heard so far 3 ⭐️
Well it definitely sounds like a Led Zeppelin album. Unfortunately it feels kind of like a slight, lightweight Zeppelin album -- fortunately that's a pretty nice curve to be grading on
A few songs I really liked and a couple I found less interesting
Many solid tunes
Not bad but you definitely have to be in a Led Zeppelin mood to have a good time
If I'm being honest, this is somewhere between 2 and 3 for me.
I’ve never been much of a Led Zeppelin fan but overall this album made decent background music as I worked.
A couple great songs mixed with... Well, mix.