Physical Graffiti

Controversial this but…don’t get it. It’s all just “look at me” rock cliche. I’d rather give it a miss.

Led Zeppelin has always been one of the best. This album, however ran a little too long for my tastes. Give me Kashmir and I’m good.

I cant listen to Kashmir anymore. I’m done w that song. There’s some funkiness to this album (In My Time of Dying and Houses of the Holy), but it’s also overly long. I would have cut 30% of it out.

Long songs

I wrote a whole review on the computer, but basically, the song starts out with a bunch of really good songs, then it quickly becomes way too long and tedious.

Some recognisable songs.

Few notable songs in the album. The music was better mixed than the singing

3.5, it's objectively good but not my favorite work of theirs. It's about a 50% hit rate. Got more jammy than I remembered

Great for a car ride Too poppy for work

Much more enjoyable as a LZ sampler than LZ 3

Some of my favourites on here but it is overly long and a bit mediocre at times. Feel kinda bad putting this at 3 but there's plenty of Led Zep on the list to go around.

The only reason this album is on this list is because it says Led Zeppelin.

One of those classic albums that you can’t say no to. Probably worth a four but I think I’ve listened to enough Zeppelin in my life.

I struggled decided on giving this 3 or 4 stars. On one hand, there are some genuinely really good songs on this, but on the other hand, I found it to be overly long. If this was shortened to a single LP with the filler taken off I’d definitely give it a 4, maybe even a 5.

Not my genre of music. I think if I played an instrument I might appreciate this one more.

alright. good intro to classic rock? is that what Led Zeppelin is? I liked the instrumentals and although it’s not my usual style I know it’s good music.

I always thought of myself as an average Led Zeppelin fan, which means I love their well known part of discography and just disregard everything else. Today I had a quick date with that "everything else" part. Unfortunately, it didn't end on a positive note. Big highlight of the album is the song "Kashmir", which has one of my favourite guitar riffs of all time. What is really surprising, is that this song just sticks out both in quality and thematically from the album. All the other tracks are in different style, just like a random mashup of some (good) guitar solos and Plant's vocal, which is slowly grinding your gears on this album. I would never think that I will have such a bad time listening to Led Zeppelin record, but here we are.

I don't think I listened to it all but what I heard was fine.

I thought it was good. Some of the guitar riffs were really entertaining. Not 100% sure if I like the lead singers voice, but I did in some of the songs.

too long, still good. i like 4 better. 3.5 kashmir

Way too long

Not bad. Kinda cool to hear some songs that aren’t played over and over again on the radio.

oh god i knew one would come up eventually Listening to a zeppelin hit: awesome, groovy, I'm having so much Listening to a zeppelin album: tedious, fatiguing, by the end of it feel like I'm listening to two petulant children scream for attention to drown out one of the nicest rhythm sections in the genre ultimately I just don't get it like everyone else does, they're just good, and the response to any criticism against this band just makes me wanna double down on it cos everyone's so fucking annoying about it that being said it's still like 3 stars of course

Favourites: • In My Time of Dying • Kashmir

Its a strong, epic, guitar-forward sound. I'm starting to understand why Led Zepplin are well known. Some of the longer songs are way too self-indulgent and repetitive for my taste.

Zeppelin seem here to be pulling from their unfinished songbooks and going into the studio to jam. Still great stuff, but for Zepplin only mid tier work.

2nd listen. Led Zeppelin is fine, but I don’t have much to say about them.

I feel like this needs multiple listens, because as good as some of the songs were to me (ex. Kashmir, Houses of the Holy) and how some are stone cold classics, it felt like this album dragged way more than I was expecting. I loved listening to Page's riffs and Plant wailing with soaring vocals, while their rhythm section was as tight as can be, songs like In My Time of Dying and some others felt way too long, or felt like other songs on the album. It just felt really really bloated, so I can't rate this as high as I would expect.

Could've used some trimming of songs and song length. Houses of the Holy and Presence are better than this!

Good, but far from the previous albums

3.5 Some of my favorite under appreciated Led Zeppelin tracks are on this album including: in my time of dying, down by the seaside, and ten years gone.

its ok, too long for a casual listen tho

This is a Zeppelin album. Not my fav album, but has Kashmir which is pretty redemptive. I like Zeppelin so it's hard for me to be super objective. This was a pretty good album, but not a great one.

It's not the best Led Zep album, and it's definitely overlong I think. That said there's some good standout tracks, and the rest of the album is generally pretty solid. Contrary to a lot of people, I actually think I prefer the second half more. I like a lot of the chilled songs, and I think there's some real nice grooves going on. Across the whole album I found a decent amount of songs quite generic though. 3.5 rounded down.

Not their best album, but it does get better the more you listen. Classics like Kashmir and Houses of the Holy are always gooders, but found some other songs I didn’t know about and enjoyed. Listen again: yes, it’s the Zep after all! Purchase for my collection: probably, just to have a complete collection one day. Favourite Song: Trampled Under Foot Worst Song

couldn't get into it, i liked jack white's fanfiction better

Physical Graffiti is the sixth album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin and is a double album. This popular album comprises genres of hard rock, progressive rock, and folk rock. It released to commercial success, charting number one in the UK and number three in the US. The immediate success at release could have been due in part to the delay in the design of the album cover which pushed back the release date by 3 months, while the album tour started about a month ahead of the delayed release, allowing presales to add up. It was certified platinum in the US based off these presales alone, and is currently certified 16x platinum. Critics have said that this album is the "high-water mark" or peak for the band because of the creative energy inside and I think I agree with that. This is my favorite Led Zeppelin album I've listened to so far and I highly recommend it to any rock fans that haven't heard it already.

kasmir is dead good but that's about it for this album. fairly forgettable.

This record caused my erection to wilt like a primrose at Chernobyl, but in a good way.

Robert Plant fancies babies

Bättre än ja trodde några bra twangs nog

This is a hard album for me to rate. I know I enjoy it, but I also know that I don’t remember a large chunk of the songs. Some of Led Zeppelin’s best moments is on here (In My Time Of Dying, Kasmir), but it’s also 82 minutes long. Ultimately, the album’s structure as a whole supercedes my personal enjoyment of the music. Strong 3

Didn't like the first few songs, but it got better. + Trampled Under Foot + Kashmir + In The Light + Down By The Seaside + Ten Years Gone + The Wanton Song

Decent album with a couple of good songs

Though sometimes scarce, there’s some greatness on every Led Zeppelin album. Often in awe at some of the drumming exhibited on their tracks. Some songs were just okay, and some dragged on. Sorry to criticize the great zep. But…not a perfect band by any means. A little bit overrated in my books.

Led Zeppelin are commonly known to be a pretty good band and one of the pioneers in the rock and roll and even hard rock space. I've listened to most Led Zeppelin albums and I don't know what it is but this one doesn't hit it for me like say I or II do. Custard Pie is an alright opener - very straightforward stuff that for me doesn't really get me tappin until I hear that harmonica. Things start getting better with The Rover. In My Time of Dying is good but could be half the length. Then we get to for me the highlights of the album, Trampled Under Foot and Kashmir. The second half of the album it starts to get a little boring. Bron-Yr-Aur is a nice little ditty and Down By The Seaside is nice - but nothing here is really memorable for me except The Wanton Song. Anyways it's a solid 3. If I wanted to listen to some Led Zeppelin I'd choose another album.

It's Led Zeppelin, what more does one really have to say? Absolutely a classic album with top notch musicianship. Brought me back to my late teens/early 20s. These days I find I'm rarely turning back the Page and listening to Zep, this re-listen reminded me why. They've become a band that I get excited about when I hear a random song in the wild, but am not getting my rocks off while listen to a full (double) LP. Biggest complaint about this album is that its SO long winded. Most of the songs are longer than they have to be and there are some filler songs in the back half. In My Time of Dying is a great song but 11 minutes is a bit much. In The Light could end at 6 minutes but drags for another 2. I could go on. Favourites are The Rover and Trampled Under Foot. Overall, I'm slightly disappointed but still a solid album.

A nice listen but not to the same level as their earlier albums Kashmir not withstanding. It felt a bit disjointed and cobbled together a Frankenstein's monster if you will. Not likely to listen to this whole album again for a long time.

A non essential led zeppelin album. Lots of self indulgent guitar tangling and Kashmir

I’ve listened to a lot of Led Zeppelin in hopes of appreciating them, but it just never connects for me. I listened to this album in 2020 and my feeling then was the same as today. I don’t really care for this but I don’t mind the second half. “Kashmir” is probably the only Led Zeppelin song I can honestly say I like.

The music was fine, just not my genre.

Good sounds, but none of it particularly stood out. The vocals all sounded the same and kind of muted. Would listen to it though as background music, but I wouldn't jam out to it.

Huh turns out I don't like Led Zeppelin

Some real highlights such as The Rover, In My Time of Dying, Ten Years Gone. Not a big fan of the funk-inspired Trampled Under Foot and Kashmir is a little overrated. Side 4 is also fairly weak.

Id only listen to Kashmir, otherwise I'm pretty bored

Great riffs. Great drums. Not great songs.

Mulla on aina ollut pelko, että tykkään Led Zeppelinistä. Ja niinhän mä tykkään. Tarpeeks pre-stoner-jyystöä.

Score: 50 I was ready to give this album an 80. Then the last 3 songs played and it occurred to me. I really dislike a lot about this album. Instrumentally great, some catchy songs and riffs for sure. A major problem I have is the writing and the vocals. I don't dislike the vocals when they are sung at a normal cadence and volume, but a lot of the time it's so much louder than that. I don't need to hear high pitched wailing lyrics that are sometimes mixed so loud that I literally can not hear the instruments anymore. It doesn't help that a lot of them are generally vapid and generic and are often repeated over and over. I don't really love the country influence and the funk influence is fun but I do wonder how much of it is just stolen from other artists. It wouldn't be a classic rock album without having an entire song about how hard it is not to instantly bust a nut at the sight of a 15 year old girl, and unfortunately on this album it's the very last song. Hearing a whining douche bag for an hour and a half to have it end with him desperately grooming children lowered the score immensely for me. I don't care what anyone says this shit is dated as fuck and with so much better music out there I don't feel the need to ever ever return to this mediocre pedophile music

Overall, I liked the album a lot. I liked that the album had several different styles, which gave it some nice variety. The song I liked the most was Trampled Under Foot and Down by the Seaside, but I also thought Bron-Yr-Aur was very interesting (and Kashmir reminded me of Goldeneye)

Ik houd er niet van, maar vind het best goed 😊. Vooral ‘Kashmir’ uiteraard.

Kashmir. Nuff said.

I just don't care for the vocals.

Some great songs on here. Would have given a 4, but it went on a little long for me.

I love Zeppelin, but this album has never been my favorite. Aside from a few good tunes like Houses of the Holy and Ten Years Gone there isn't much to gain here. There are definitely better Zep albums. That being said still enjoyable.

Just the second side.

Does he actually fully hit a single note on 'The Rover'? Wasn't super happy to see a Zeppelin double record to show up, but here we are. Also disappointed that the only word you can spell out downwards on the sleeve is PIG. I guess it'll have to do.

Probably a band that’s best of is one of the best out but this is a lot of Led.

It's good. Just a little overplayed by this time. Kind of sick of a lot of these songs. 10 years gone was great

Great album. Not my bag.

Quite reasonable effort though too long.

Did not get to really listen to this album from what I heard it was okay.It’s really long at an hour and 12 mins.I’ll listen to it another time

Very long. A lot of the songs sounded similar.

5/10 meh

What other kind of graffiti is there

I don't know my opinion of Led Zeppelin. Do I love them? Do I hate them? Not either of those two extremes, but I cannot work out where I sit between the poles. It may very well be the case that I like exactly half their songs and dislike the other half, with most congregating around the central meh axis and vanishingly few entering the territory of either adoration (I revel in the riff to Babe I'm Gonna Leave You) or contempt (I recoil at the riff to You Shook Me). In the past, I have tried to delude myself that I thought of Led Zeppelin more worshipfully that I actually did, since they were historical totems of rock; indeed, I gave Led Zep III 4 stars in this generator, when the folky nonsense spread over side 2 made it a definitive 3 and not a crumb beyond. But, in part thanks to this quest, I have realised that I'm not required to venerate Led Zep, just as I'm not required to crucify them. But calling them average seems to miss significant points. Surely a group with such mystique, such ambition and such notoriety, by sheer dint of such a legacy, could never be considered boilerplate? I can accept that point, but only somewhat. Yes, I can grasp the outré fascination of, say, the red snapper incident, but such bacchanalia also begat more pitiful anecdotes. I feel utterly miserable writing this, but John Bonham's alcoholism had left him incontinent aged 26, requiring the roadies to carry around a supply of adult nappies. Still, there's always the music. But as I said, large portions of the music leave me, if not quite cold, then indifferent. And with Physical Graffiti, we have Led Zep being their most Led Zep. Recorded after a sabbatical to allow John Paul Jones some R&R, Physical Graffiti emerged from numerous jam sessions that solidified into concrete songs. These songs took up more space than a single album allowed, so the group padded it out to a double with the help of previously disregarded material from earlier albums (is that ominous?). So, we have Led Zep going XXL and attempting all the genres they knew. Well, all the genres they felt most comfy adopting, or rather individual aspects of genres that didn't remotely jar with their established template. It all basically revolves around the Led Zep locus of heavy blues rock, only sometimes they add a bit of folk to their heavy blues rock, or they try a proggy heavy blues rock number, or they plant in some country licks to a song that's heavy blues rock. The result is that the promoted epicness of Physical Graffiti feels restricted, as if it's just an album consisting of one track and its remixes. Couple that identikit style to such corpulently long songs, and the effect on the listener isn't inspiration or ravishment, it's burnout. Of course, Physical Graffiti has a few cracking riffs, and those already persuaded by Led Zep should find this to be exactly what they want from Led Zep (friends of mine who are Led Zep fans proclaim this a masterpiece to me). But we Led Zep agnostics will find nothing to reverse either our lack of faith or our lack of disbelief. And we're allowed to hold such positions in liberal democracy. You lot should salute us moderates. We're the ones keeping National Zeppelism at bay. Also, is there any graffiti that isn't physical? Can you get metaphysical graffiti? Can you paint a big hairy cock and balls on a synthetic a priori concept? NoRadio, signing off.

I have never listened to a Zep album post the numbered ones. So this will be new to me, with the exception of the hits, obviously Kashmir and Bron Yr Aur are known to me! This is a case of a band having too much money and too much freedom. It's still Zep, but it's a bit too bloated and excessive. Obviously there are all time bangers, but there's also a lot of overlong, overproduced stuff on here.

The best or second best Zep record.

Siendo el sexto álbum de Zep podemos decir que fue su proyecto más ambicioso hasta el momento, y posiblemente, de su carrera. Viéndose muy inmersos en su composición, tuvieron una suerte de juego en el cual iban improvisando y sumando sonidos nuevos a las canciones, nunca dejando de lado su estilo. Con temas que hacen alusión al blues, folk, progresión, y orquestación, hicieron una mezcla muy rica que hace de su escucha una amplia gama de géneros y la cual, por momentos, se hace densa de escuchar. La extensión del proyecto por momentos es algo que juega en contra. Cómo imponiendo un largo innecesario a las canciones, hacen que algunas se vayan más allá de los 8 minutos, haciéndolas algo repetitivas. Pero como podemos hablar de eso, también podemos hablar de lo bien que están usados los tiempos en composiciones como "Kashmir", que hacen de cada tramo, un momento sonoro increíble.

Great.

Pretty catchy

While sporting some of my favorite Led Zeppelin songs, "Physical Graffiti" also boasts an unfair share of boring blues.

This was a really unfortunate day to get an 85 minute album as the rush I was in yesterday will continue until Tuesday. Somehow I was able to listen to the whole thing and it did not live up to any of the self titled albums that preceded it. Kashmir is still good but otherwise it just felt like more of the same I guess. The same is still good and maybe it was just the circumstances of the day but I wasn’t a huge fan.

Pretty good.

Decent album, but not my favourite Zeppelin by far.

Sometimes could be hard to listen but it's an ellaborated album

Sonically really good, songs just dragged on too long

The album is pretty good and has several well known songs. It is long and it does not need to be this long. Some of the songs could be cut down by several minutes or even in half. The second disc is different from the first disc and isn't as good as the first.

Noen utrolig gode sanger på slutten; men første halvdel minner om et kissalbum

I don't really care for Led Zep and this album is a bit too long

More interesting than other Led Zep i've listened to but a bit too long for me.

Another one I started but didn't finish but will go back to.

Found this a tricky listen, I’m very familiar with LedZep I - IV but I’ve never listened to this before. First two songs didn’t grab me at all but ‘In my time of dying’ got me and took me back to what I love about them. It’s not their best in my opinion but it’s enjoyable and definitely has a more mature sense of songwriting

Didn’t really stand out in any way.

Showed me the genesis of some of the songs I grew up listening to in Mom's mini van, specifically, Kashmir and Ten Years Gone. I wound up actaully really liking some of the track songs as well. I added "Bron-Yr-AUr" and "Boogie with Stu" to some playlists.

From Kashmir to Ten years gone were perfect. But goes pretty wobbly towards the end. I probably have to go back and listen a few times but I didn’t sign up to this to do that. 6/10 much better than that Rush album

Strange - I'm pretty familiar with albums 1 - 4 , but for some reason have never listened to this one. It's pretty good, but not sure it contains the hits the other ones do.

I’m sorry. I just can’t find it in my heart to give Zep any of the shit they often receive from the haters. I love their albums, and I love what they did with their “borrowed” material. I guess I just let the music be my master. The band has so much raw sexual energy that as a man I just can’t resist them. The opening of “Kashmir” gets me every time, like something big is coming and I better get ready!

Why is there no low-end on this record? Even on the remastered lossless release... Regardless, the music is not Zepp's most inventive, but it rocks just as hard, if not harder, than the rest.

Wasn't in the mood

Un po' sottotono devo dire.

Not that big of a fan of the old hard rock but can see it’s influence on lots of music like white stripes

Not my favorite Led Zeppelin album but still has that amazing and classic Led Zeppelin sound

Tampled Under Foot tem levada em 2:02. Levada de baixo boa. Khshmir é muito boa e tem riff famoso. Ten Years Gone é boa.

I've tried to get into Led Zeppelin but I'm just not into the whole blues/hard rock thing they got going on. I will admit that there was some awesome tracks on here but the rest just don't sound as impressive. I'll be one of the few to admit this didn't need to be so long.

I don't know, man. I love Led Zeppelin in general, and I'm a sucker for raspy vocals and crunchy guitar but this album just didn't do much for me. I honestly found the whole thing pleasant enough to listen to but very forgettable compared to their others on this list. Fave track: Custard Pie. Even a meh Zeppelin album is guaranteed to have a few killer guitar licks and this is one of them.

One of the great all time groups. Great background rock

3.5 really. Still never as good as the first couple of tracks.

Da e jo bra, men alt for langt

Slefaði næstum í fjóra en vantaði herslumuninn

A few bangers and a few misses. Fair to middling

Led Zeppelin are always going to be one of those bands that no matter how hard I try I just don't get into. I can appreciate why people love them but not for me

As a heathen to the Church of Zeppelin, the missionary work of this project has deepened my appreciation and understanding of this religion. I really enjoyed their original album, for example. This one was a little harder for me. The first three songs (over 20 minutes) really never grabbed me, and I was worried I wouldn't like it at all. Once we got to "side two," things got going better for me and it was my favorite of the four original LP sides. "Kashmir" was the one classic I knew and have always appreciated. I enjoyed the variety of styles once it got going. I really needed to spend more time with it to deepen my appreciation, but I just didn't have time to get there today.

This sort of reinforces my point of the double album...(a few exceptions) but usually an amazing album and in this case I think 3 sides back in the day, but oddly, for me, the first album, first side is a slog, and then it gets better and better before winding down a bit again.

Led Zeppelin is fine. Not sure I had to listen to this before I die. No denying it’s fantastic rock/blues with brilliant guitar, drums, and Plant vocals at their best. Just not my favorite music. So 3 to me, probably a 5 to those who are fans.

Seems to be a very influential record, but I think it’s a bit too long, and some of the songs are also too long.

A decent album. It's my second Led Zeppelin album, and this one was much louder and rocky. I think I preferred Led III tbh. Kasmir is a powerhouse of a song, and probably the reason this album is on the list. It went downhill from there, though I don’t know if the second half was crap or if I was just too fed up after an hour to give it a chance🙃.

There was no human reason for this to be this long. It was fine!

It's good, it's just also very long and doesn't feel like it needs to be as long as it is. Kashmir is amazing, and there are a couple of other highlights but most of it just passes by - solid background listening but not much more, which is a bit of a shame

This a solid background album that would be wonderful to have on a turntable while you go about washing dishes or baking. There are a couple of recognizable, stop-and-listen songs (Kashmir and House of the Holy) but many that fade into a general mood. Just when you’d forget the album was on because guitar solos went too long, you’d find it switches up to Boogie with Stu and Black Country Girl. The vibe changes enough to refresh but not enough to fully make you sit and figure out the actual lyrics. It was more than I expected but perhaps less than I’d usually attribute to a legendary band.

I drove for two hours and listened while driving which was good for time, but bad because hearing Led Zeppelin while driving is so ubiquitous I kept habituating to it. Spotify was showing the words and though I only glanced occasionally, it was the first time I ever knew any of the words to their songs, and they surprisingly more creative and poetic than I expected. Page's ability to riff is unmatched but I found his solos surprisingly unimpressive. I never realized how often the motion and drive of the songs comes from how John Paul Jones played bass. Bonham's drums were good and a nicer and more creative and varied change from the Beatles, but almost always seemed at the same dyanamic level and felt overplayed. Overall, totally agree with what Thomas said. Good background album with some variation. That said, I've owned it since my teens and rarely listened to the whole album all the way through. It's not quite varied enough for me.

This is by no means a bad album but it is in my opinion the weakest of Zeppelin's albums featured on this list. "In My Time of Dying" and "The Wanton Song" are very solid songs. "Kashmir" is of course an all time classic. Shining moments but very flat in others.

I'd maybe only heard this once before, it never grabbed me like their others. Some great tracks but too much filler. I don't know why you'd choose to listen to this over LZ 1 to 4

Not my kinda thing

Good but some songs overlong

Some epic songs, but a lot of them are way too long and it really begins to drag

Kinda all over the place. I enjoyed some of it, some of it was boring. The whole thing is too long.

OK. Kashmir is a jam, obvs, but I think it's the drumming that stands out most on this album. Surprised to discover a direct line between this and Jeff Buckley's Grace

Decent album. First two-thirds was quite good and then it felt like it fell off a little bit. It has a good pace and mixes up the sound of the songs which I enjoyed. 6/10

Lots of different styles and influences done well. Some great tracks but seems a lot of them drag on a bit... Songs feel long for the sake of it. Can't help but think this could have made 2 really solid albums as opposed to one very long one. Great musicianship, and a good listen, but maybe a bit self indulgent?

Easy to understand the appeal as the musicality is on point and there are a few great songs that piqued my interest (the Rover being my favourite) but it doesn't really form a full cohesive experience for me.

It was alright not my style but surprisingly ok

Not One of My LZ preferred albums

Not bad, pretty good tunes

Decent music but much too long and drawn out. Album and songs were so long

63 Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin 15 tracks. The biggest selling musical artists of all time? I just don't get it. It's ok. It's better than ok. It's good, but best selling music artists in the World ever? I've got to find out what I'm missing. More Led Zep required 3/5

I would have loved this (and probs did) in my younger years. It's still good just not really my thing anymore. Still some great tunes

Good album.

I know a lot of people really love this album, but I'm not one of them. I much prefer the first 5 Zeppelin albums. That said, this is still a enjoyable album it's just a bit bloated. I could honestly do without anything after In The Light with the exception of The Wanton Song. I think a few songs could've been trimmed a bit too like the forementioned In The Light which is really good...3 minutes in. There are some true bangers here though. Custard Pie, House's of The Holy, and Kashmir at top rate Zeppelin. If this album had some of the fat trimmed it would be as great as the first 5. So for me this one is a 6/10. You could definitely spend your time listening to worse faire.

Feels like Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street. You’re listening and it gradually gets better and pulls you in. Before you know it, it’s over and you realized you actually enjoyed it.

Other than Kashmir its just alright. Sounds like every rock n roll band you've ever heard opening for a more interesting band. Always felt after Led Zeppelin I to IV this was a bit of an after thought using discarded tunes from those records. Kashmir is a masterpiece though so that elevates it to a 3. 3/5

one of their best with a couple classics

The last of their great ones?

Not my favourite Zeppelin but still bangs.

honestly mediocre, but can see why it has classic status

Standard Led Zepplin rock. One song pretty much blended into the next.

The double album is practically a collection of extended Stairway to Heaven tracks. (6/10) Favourite Tracks: Kashmir, Boogie with Stu

Samey. Probably needs a proper listen on a record player for full effect

Led Zeppelin at their creative zenith, but this isn't an entry level album, one for the connoisseurs

Slightly expected more, in the end not bad but the album is very long and hardly any songs were memorable enough to remember them after the listening

This is pretty raw and nasty. It's taken me a couple of listens to get into it. I'm not familiar with the history of the albums, but this one feels early.

physical pain listening to this, not their best lmaoo

This is one I’d put on from time to time.

OS rokkirämpytystä, iha jees

I wouldn’t call myself a Zeppelin fan, really. But comparing this to a lot of the mediocre stuff they inspired like the T-Rex album earlier, this is refreshing. Prefer their earlier stuff to this, but this is a good album. Favourite track: “Kashmir”

Kashmir

Some of the songs are iconic but I did find them a bit repetitive.

This obviously is on here because of Kashmir. I mean, it is very good. The rest of the album kind of blurs together for me.

Позвольте представить... самая переоценённая роцк-группа в истории! Не, я правда хочу её полюбить, ибо сам не люблю спорить с критиками лишний раз. Но вот не выходит, когда очередной раз пытаюсь ознакомиться глубже – натыкаюсь на сгусток унылого дженерик блюз-рока с парой неплохих тем и с парой бесящих. Альбом я изначально прослушал уже давно, лет 7 назад, после того, как в документалках про митол его митолизды называли лучшим роцк-альбомом всех времён. И на самом деле после первых трёх разочаровывающих альбомов этот неплохим показался, ближе к четвёртому. Но переслушивать не захотелось. Вот ща на свежую прокаченную голову заценим. Думаю, один из главных факторов неприятия – вокальные партии Планта. Про кого я там уже писал, что будто кто-то без подготовки прослушал минусовку, просто подошёл к микрофону и начал вбрасывать фразы? Вот тут так же. Какой-то фристайл, а не внятные вокальные партии. Опять же, лишь партии, сам голос то мне нравится. На всякий случай проверю свою догадку и гляну в тексты. Вот, In My Time of Dying, например. Ну да, там порой даже рифмы нет, и постоянно подряд одни и те же фразы повторяются (что ебаный моветон). Да и трек непонятно зачем перетянут до 11 минут, базовый риф хоть и вполне мил, но слишком прост, чтобы длиннотрек строить. Houses of the Holy… так, где-то я уже слышал это название. Это ли не альбом так звался ихний? Да, так и есть. Предыдущий. Ну, третий яркий пример к Waiting for the Sun и Sheer Heart Attack. Не одобряем. Сам трек – скучный дженерик. Trampled Under Foot звучит как то, что у LZ становится хитами. Ну да, «песня стала неотъемлемой частью концертов группы». Сам трек также скучный, постоянный унылый повтор одного и того же мотива, рандомные вбросы и повторы фраз Плантом. Можно сказать дженерик Лэд Зеппелин для меня. Kashmir вроде тоже хит дохуя. По структуре мне напоминает Immigrant Song. Интригующее драматическое начало, которое стремительно перерастает… а ни во что не перерастает, зацикливается фрагментом, и под это Плант снова фристайлит (Ладно, припев похож на что-то внятное). Ещё почему-то складывается ощущение, что треки состоят из нескольких семплов, которые лупятся и сводятся в трек. Только вот исходные сэмплы сами же LZ и писали. Но блять, не строят так композиции нормальные исполнители. Эти фрагменты слишком коротки, чтобы их лупить на целый трек, а тут вовсе овер 8 минут, вы там охуели чтоль! Bron-Yr-Aur неплоха, но это не особо полноценный трек. Down by the Seaside, Ten Years Gone тоже работают в принципе. У The Wanton Song классные партии вне основной темы (она – снова надоедливый залупленный фрагмент). Основное не бесит вроде, но и интереса не представляет. Кроме одного трека. The Rover действительно охуенный трек. Балдёжная прогрессирующая гитарная партия, внятные партии Планта, мелодичный и сильный припев. Всё на месте, всё работает. Ну почему вот нельзя было хотя бы попытаться всё так сделать? Ну могут же когда захотят. Хули тогда они вместо этого лупят фрагменты и фристайлят в мик? И, главное, какого хуя этот луп и бубнёж фанаты то боготворят? The Rover даже синглом не был, и в саундтреках не встречал. В отличии от Kashmir, которая, хоть меня и бесит, но стала отличным остом к Матрице.

блять почему мне кажется что Кашмир играл в матрице, но я не могу найти ни одного упоминания

This album is less meandering than the other LZ album we've had. It's still completely unexciting to me though. It's not "bad" and there are some good parts. But not enough to hold my attention. The album was also way too long, considering the lack of variety within and between songs.

Razoável, nada demais. Música antiga 90/93

Better than kraftwerk

Great vibes

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There's some strong songs on here, but also a decent amount of filler. 80 minutes is far too long for a zeppelin album

Few bangers, more dull. Kashmir has been stuck in my head for 2 days as it is an amazing song. Definitely not the best Zeppers

I’m loathe to say I don’t really care (I’m sorry)

"And the flat world's flying, and there's a new plague on the land" (The Rover) Me da un poco de pena lo mucho que me aburre escuchar Led Zeppelin más de cinco minutos seguidos. La portada de este disco es súper bonita tho.

There was a few great tracks on but that doesn't make for a great album. The rest was pretty forgettable IMHO.

When I first came to Canada in 1973 Led Zep was all the rage with the stoner crowd at school and I never really understood the attraction and I never was too enthusiastic their sound. So almost 50 yrs later I'm forced to listen to this album and I can confirm that I still don't know what the big deal is. Kashmir is good, but apart from that it doesn't really turn my crank

Fun. But less fun than the others

pretty varied album. kashmir is great

Super strong front half, essentially a greatest hits albums... an interesting tempo transition and the backside is probably a bit more experimental and has several zeppelin cover-band sounding songs.

It’s good classic rock. Obviously Kashmir is legendary. It’s quite a long album definitely good for passing time. This is the first album I’ve reviewed of an artist I know.

Great album, mostly top tier Zeppelin songs, weird complaint but it's a bit long, could have been condensed

Discos como este me recuerdan que los 70's no se trataron sólo de rock ácido, hippies y disco; también había grupos haciendo "badass rock". Algo interesante de este disco es que tiene un aire experimiental: en alguna canción se alcanza a escuchar a los integrantes discutiendo al final de la canción, y tiene varias canciones que no parecen de Led Zeppelin, pero sí van acordes a la época. Dicho esto, el álbum me pareció un poco aburrido y fuera de "Kashmir" las canciones se me hicieron "buenas", pero nada más. Sí volvería a poner el disco como música de fondo.

Favorites: Kashmir

I am beginning to feel like I just don't like music- this had a few amazing moments, but it was mostly plodding and interminable.

First time listening to Led Zeppelin and I excpected more 6.7/10

1975: Trampled Under Foot, Kashmir

Paranoid

Alright. Just not really my thing

A bit more overblown than I remember. There’s no such thing as a perfect double album.

Trampled Under Foot is funky as hell!

A: Skulle jag ha hört EN låt skulle den säkert ha varit helt okej MEN ETT HELT ALBUM?!?!??! Nån enstaka cool gitarrsak men annars blää. 1.5/5 D: Dom trodde dom skulle komma undan med att spela en sång på repeat i nästan 2h. Exakt kopia av varenda ena låt i denna genre som någonsin producerats, eller tvärtom. Genren i fråga är "låtar som låter som detta album". Inte precis min favorit genre. Oasis om någon skulle ha lärt dem att spotta ut sina ord och hålla korta pauser. 2/5

not my taste particularly.

Less than a week ago I listened to Led Zeppelin's debut and now I had to put up with the same thing more than 80 minutes. What i said less than a week ago still applies to "Physical Graffiti": "I really can't stand Robert Plant's voice or lyrics. On a more positive note, John Paul Jones and John Bonham are flawless, and "Stairway to Heaven", one of the worst songs in human history, is not on this album. I guess the highs are higher than on the debut album but lows are also lower.

(2/7) music for a long and arduous run

liked only one

utterly frustrating listen. the first half is fantastic, bordering on a 5 if it stopped there. but then it just keeps on going. even on that excellent first half the mixing is just dreadful, its not "tastefully" lo-fi or invigorating abrasive, just kind of muddy and poor. i really like led zeppelin and i did not think this was going to be so hard to get through.

I recognized Kashmir 2

Three Zepplin albums in so far, and I like this one the least. It's kinda boring compared to Zepplin II and III, and nothing remarkable.

Not everyone will get this reference, but listening to this Zeppelin album after everything that has happened in rock music since then is kind of like playing dark souls one or demon souls after elden ring. You start noticing the quality of life improvements when you are faced with their absence. This album by today's standards, unfortunately, is boring. The songs have absolutely no business being 6-7-8 minutes long. I found myself checking how much was left of them around the 2.5 min mark. They consist mostly of a single (or max 2) riff repeated over and over again like a neverending jam session. When I got too bored of them, I just skipped to the next one. I thought it was a time thing. However, upon putting this 1975 record into context, I realized it is not just that. By that time, the Beatles had happened. Two great Pink Floyd records had happened. So many bands had demonstrated that it is possible to organise ideas into compact, hard-hitting songs. Led Zeppelin failed there, and made an album that overstays its welcome. 2.5.

im not even listening this one lol

😴

zeppelin is a hit or a miss for me and this whole album was a miss. it dragged and dragged and it was hard to get through

Crikey that was long…

Me deja ice frío hielo

Not my music

Stupid, long, boring, over-indulgent. Everything that is wrong with 70s rock music summed up in one album. There's a decent single album in here somewhere.

A bloated rock band gets more bloated. A bad combination. 2/5

rock album from the 70's

never make me listen to a man randomly moaning again

Pas du tout réceptive cette fois ci…

Nē nu klasika, bet nav mans.

meh.

mira que confiaba mucho por ser de led zeppelin, pero es que ninguna cancion me ha llamado. todas muy repetitivas y encima largas. no se. no me ha molado

No es muy de mi estilo

Samplebait

Nicht mein Geschmack Stimme ist viel lauter als das Instrumentale

This shit rocks

Love the message hate the rock and beats

Not really my thing but I get it for the era

I’ve smoked a lot of weed, read a lot of fantasy novels, and spent years working in record stores and I still don’t get zeppelin.

I like the opening of In the Light

Not my vibe, found it kinda boring. 5.7/10.

Kashmiri was good

I think we will have a few Led Zep albums to get through too and it may be a case of whether they score 1 or 2 for me…. This is probably a 2. Some quite good intros and outros. Kashmir ruined by reality TV

Maybe my opinion is being influenced by listening to Led Zeppelin II not too long ago, but I'm not a fan of Physical Graffiti. The forays into other genres don't work for me, and I don't think the band's skills were really attuned to them. Many of the songs are laborious and longer than they need to be, and having this be a double album just exacerbates the issue. Even the more straightforward rockers don't rock very hard. It all comes across as messy and self-indulgent. Yes, "Kashmir" is here, but I've always found it to be one of their most leaden hits. This might be a hot take, but I think Zep were at their best as hard blues rockers and weren't nearly as satisfying outside of that.

not my thing

This should have been an LP instead of a double album. Check that. This should have been an EP. Upon further reflection, I could have lived with just 'Kashmir'. Actually, just leave the iconic orchestral riff at the door and get out.

Some of this was fine. It was far too long. If they cut the second half i would have considered a higher score.

Honestly, as a big fan of Led Zeppelin, I think this album is not their best work. It's totally skippable in the grand scheme of things. Kashmir is a good song, but the rest of the album is quite forgettable.

Not my favourite from Led Zeppelin.

I've always heard Greta Van Fleet is just crappy Led Zeppelin. Listening to this album had me excited hear an improved execution of that sound. Having finished the album, this comparison seems exaggerated -- that is to say, I don't find Led Zeppelin all that much better at all.

Nie, nie mogę przesłuchać tego albumu do końca.

didn't finish it, but also it was too hard to listen for me to finish this album (heard 3 songs)

never really listened to a whole album, and didn't this time. thought I'd 'discover' LZ but no, I got bored...

Enough ok tunes for an ok album … unfortunately they added enough substandard rejects to make a long dreary double album that drags on snd on and on. Yawn.

I’ve tried and tried to get into Led Zeppelin and I just can’t do it. The songs that do have interesting hooks wear them out and then continue for several more minutes. Kashmir might actually be a good 4-minute song… at 8 1/2 it gets tedious. Really can’t stand the way Robert Plant sings. So many songs start out fine, and then he goes into screech mode and I hate it. Enjoyed some parts of “disc 2,” notably In the Light. Ten Years Gone was okay. Whenever I listen to a double album I’m mentally editing it into a single. In this case, Kashmir would be the only song from the first half I’d take… but I’d struggle to even get to a full album from the 2nd because I really can’t stand anything about the last two songs. Harmonicas should generally be confiscated.

Boring as hell same thing in each song

hmmm...! n sou mt de escutar esse genero de rock mas darei uma chance! vamos tentar ser menos ignorantes

Just not my cup of tea ig As the album goes on it just gets boring

Not my usual taste, but i'm trying. lowkey dont like it but im glad i tried Fav song: Boogie with Stu

The only song I knew was Kashmir, from marching band. All the songs were 30% too long and I don't care for the lead singer's voice. My favorite song was the 2 minute acoustic guitar instrumental.

we’ll definitely not my style of music but, “ten years gone” its a banger 2/5

Overblown. Aside from a few songs, was dull and unimaginative

Gitaarhelden

Not my favorite of theirs. Somewhat different sound that I do not like as much. Some good singles tho

Honestly, if I didn’t know it was Led Zeppelin, I would give it a two star rating. I absolutely love Led Zeppelin but this album didn’t do it for me. There were a couple I loved but I think I have to give it a two.

Led Zeppelin. Truly a classic band. Of course I've heard some of their stuff before. The instrumentals are great. However.... listening to his voice for over an hour isnt for me, though I persevered. In the end, I quite enjoyed the album.

Kashmir, känt intro o sound. Mycket av det andra gav mig inte något jättestort intryck. 70-tals rock, sköna gitarrer

If it’s a double album it must be worth hearing before you die eh? If it’s just a historical document to illustrate the excess of the 70s hard rock era, surely that can be accomplished by a footnote... It is a kind of stopgap release, just over an EP’s worth of new material with b-sides/odds and ends affixed. If I’m being charitable, there’s a kind of Zep exploring the sounds of the world/previous decades, putting their goofy spin on things, which is more or less in keeping with their whole deal: finding other, older blues songs, reworking them just enough so that they would be Zep songs. In this case they cast their net a bit wider, bringing in the Beatles, ostensibly “Far East” sounds, etc. alongside their honouring/pillaging of the past. But hey, if it’s good enough for Rage Against the Machine’s Vietnow... I doubt it would benefit from the others taking the mic a la their contemporaries in The Who, but hoo boy that is a lot of Robert Plant to listen to for 80 minutes.

this is just not my kind of of music, though i like how The Rover sounds

pov: you peaked in highschool and now you're in your 50s, you're an alcoholic father of two and you think music these days sucks, in your days the kids listened to REAL MUSIC this album evokes so many different emotions, from "this is actually a sweet tune" to "this is pretty inoffensive i can easily ignore this song playing in the background" to "oh god when will it end, wait, AN HOUR AND TWENTY TWO MINUTES???" don't care, didn't finish

Trampled Under Foot and Kashmir were great, not mad keen on the rest.

Mrzim Zeppelin. Ništa ne funkcioniše ovdje. Ovaj album traje godinu dana. Glas isto kao da mi struže po mozgu. Kad povremeno ušuti ponekad ali vrlo rijetko nađem nešto malo zanimljivije, onda se zapitam je li ovo plagijarizam? Vjerovatno jest. Mrzim Zeppelin.

Felt like the songs were missing something, not for me

This album is a bit disappointing.

Nicht meins

It was okay I suppose.

I’ve never been a huge fan of Led Zeppelin. Some of their music just sounds like noise to me and it gets annoying.

One of the better albums from led zeppelin. Still one of the most overrated bands ever.

just does not capture my attention. songs blend together in a heap of kind of boring

Não gostei muito desse álbum, não faz muito o meu gênero.

a bit of a wank 4/10

Boring for the most part

Oke ik gaf even af op al die 80's-hiphop platen waar we doorheen moeten, maar eigenlijk vind ik dit nog taaiere kost. Physical Graffiti bracht me echt nergens. Niet bij een hit, niet in een flow en niet op het puntje van mijn stoel. Meerdere malen ging het volume wat omlaag totdat Robert Plant alleen nog maar ergens - ver op de achtergrond - zijn uithalen plaatste. 4,5/10

4>PG. def don’t need repeat artists if the albums explore the same sound. Led Zeppelin is fine, but I don’t need this much.

I didn’t miss out on anything by ignoring Led Zeppelin my whole life

Led Zeppelin are a band I've always hated, but every now and then I listen to them to try to understand what others see in them. This time around, I actually quite liked a few songs. It's still mostly a case of "that's not a good song, but it's a good groove, even if it goes on way too long," but that's a big change. I don't even know who I am any more.

1. pie - 1.5 2. rover - 1 3. dying - 1.5 4. Holy - 1.5 5. Foot - 2 6. Kashmir -2 7. Light - 1.5 8. Bron - 1.5 9. Down - 1 10. Gone-1.5 11. Night - 1 12. Song -1 13. Boogie -1 14. Country - 1.5 15. Sick -1.5

Didn't necessariy enjoy the album.

Losing the energy of the early releases and getting boring.

I know it's supposed to be a masterpiece but I can't get into either the music or the vocal 😕 I tried to think of it as a poor man's Slade and this made it seem a bit better.

Way too long, never liked this much.

One of the things I've most looked forward to in this project is to be, well, forced to listen to albums by bands I don't care for but maybe haven't given them a fair shake. Led Zeppelin falls into that category... I've never really liked them but I'm not sure I've ever listened to a whole lot of their music other than their most famous tracks. It's nice to have a definitive answer one where or another and in this case: can confirm. Don't like them. I had a similar confirmation with the Rolling Stones and I'm thinking maybe I just don't like that early era blues "inspired" rock.

Blues rock. Again... with country elements too? It's really boring.. not even unique or special for the era Trampled Under Foot has a funky feeling, reminds me of Franz Ferdinand indie style Kashmir has a good tense strings riff, feel like I've heard it sampled somewhere before.. Bron-Yr-Aur is a nice instrumental 1hr 22 though... way too long Best track - Trampled Under Foot, Kashmir 2 stars

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.

Unfortunately it's quite good.

My boy sounds like he's getting the best head ever while he sings Bron-Yr-Aur good vibes my personal fav 7/10 creativity 4/10 fun / interest 5/10 replay-ability Overall 5.5/10 would not listen to most songs again, more a vibe kinda album seems like

If your initial recording session yields "a little less than 3 sides," you edit... don't add. This would have been a better single lp. Also, this is the 4th Zepplin we've had and I always turn on bands/artists if they have more than 3 albums on this list. Just taking space other artists could have.

Many flunky tunes, far worse than any of the five preceding albums.

I didn't need 11 minutes of slide guitar. I can't think of a single song on this album that didn't go on for at least 2 minutes too long. It's a good metaphor for the rest of the album.

I like Kashmir, the rest is ok.

Ärligt talat - orkade inte lyssna igenom allt. Det är liksom samma jävla skit i varenda jävla låt. Jag tycker om det litegrann men absolut inte tillräckligt för att sitta igenom ett långt skitigt album.

Not a Zeppelin fan but I was at one point but I got burned out on them and feel that they're a tad overrated Graffiti is would be better if it were trimmed a bit and all of the filler were removed. All you really need is The Rover, Houses Of The Holy and Kashmir. Nothing here stands out but it's not a terrible album. Just too long and at times it's a little boring.

Possibly my least favourite Led Zep album. A bit same old, same old at this point and Kashmir is just turgid.

not really my genre

Never really liked this album , but love the others . 5 stars for Kashmir, 2 for the rest.

Strippers have to dance to something.

Fine, but this could've been cut down. It became a drag towards the end.

Some good songs in there, but overall the songs feel a bit too repetitive in my opinion. Also wasn't a huge fan of the second part of the album.

👍🏻

Second album in the Zepperled chronicles. This time I'm hopping in at the end of their included albums. Or, at least, I assume so. It's awfully convenient of this band to number their early releases. Led Zeppelin III was my previous album. I recall liking Immigrant Song, but felt ambivalent about the acoustic remainder of the album. This album appears to lean more into a hard rock sound, which is a genre of music that I have an even weaker track record with. In any case, I'm going in with an open mind. Holy fuuuck if this album ain't long. I've listened to a few hour-longers in the process of getting to this point, though none which have come out to an hour twenny too. Through the process of listening to double albums and other miscellaneous long-winders I have bitched endlessly about album length. I even went into the lab to scientifically deduce the perfect album length as dictated by my favourite albums. The result: 48 minutes and 57 seconds. To put a long story short, I greatly value brevity in music because of how unlikely it is for an album to have a single good song. There's only a handful of albums I like that skirt around the hour mark and only one that breaches the hour ten mark. The grooves in the grooves of this album have to be truly, unspeakably perfect to warrant the length. In any case, let's see. It's alright. Custard Pie is a solid opener. I like the jumpy guitars and swinging vocals. There appears to be a bit of a funk influence in the backing instruments, which is certainly an interesting choice. In My Time of Dying is a pretty good cut, but holy shit if it isn't way longer than it ever needed to be. The old country, rockabilly feel of the music is very solid. I like how the guitars soar and swing over the course of the track. The percussion gives the song some much-needed life and the reverb does a lot to capture the feeling of being out in the country. Repeat this a couple of times and that's the song. I can't complain as it's a pleasing sound, though I'd be lying if it didn't lose me somewhere along the way. The SpongeBob ass guitar riff at the very end of the song saved the track tenfold and it's actually a masterpiece by the way if that matters. Bron-Yr-Aur is nice. I appreciate having the opportunity to wind down after being bent over by the preceding 8-minuters. Down by the Seaside is a good follow-up - likely the best on the album. I enjoy the rippling sound of the guitars. It makes for a pretty interesting sound when paired with the old-country feel. The guitar riff in the middle of the song is pretty kickass, too. Scratch what I said about the previous song - Ten Years Gone is the best song on the album. The lead guitar performance rules and the way those growling guitars kick in during the second half is oh-so gratifying. It's the only song on the album which really justifies it's runtime. I must have checked out during the second half of this album on my first listen as the next song - Night Flight - is also pretty good. It easily has the best vocal performance on the album. I found myself really getting into the flow and grooving with Rob Plant's vocals. The songwriting itself is a little banal (as can be said about all of these songs, really), though that's far from the strength of the band. I've been positive thus far, though the much-moaned-about length is extremely mentally exhausting and there are a great deal of tracks that didn't work for me. Kashmir is an interesting tune and I like the thundering instrumental, though the song is extremely repetitious and loses me early on. The remainder of the songs have more merit to them than the latter track, though they also ultimately fail at holding my attention. It feels wrong to say that this album blends together as there's an impressive level of variety, though there's very little of this album that sticks out in my memory. It's Led Zeppelin. I won't for a second think of knocking this inclusion, though I'm curious to know why it's on here. I'm checking the book. Influential to heavy metal. A lot of experimentation. In My Time of Dying was created out of improvisation while the band were recording the album. Sentimental. Last great album from the band. I can see the merit in this one. Physical Graffiti is dramatically different from what I remember of III. A lot more anthemic, that's for sure.

Nope not for me sorry

not really my vibe and kinda too long. worst led album I've lsistened to

like Kashmir like Led Zeppelin, but this album didn't hit for me

Led Zeppelin is an amazing greatest hits, but the albums has way too many fillers.

Versuche, die Band zu verstehen und wieso sie so beliebt ist. Habe mir das jetzt angehört und bin genauso schlau wie vorher. Fand es eher langweilig, selbst Kashmir hat zwar ein schönes Riff, kann mich aber nicht packen. Mal sehen, ob die anderen Alben der Band mich umstimmen.

A double Led Zeppelin album was probably doomed to fail (in my rating) regardless, but I have a headache, so I *extra* don't like it. It's not that they're bad or offensive, but this singing style plus the looong guitar parts are two things I have never been into, and this long album with its very long songs is not changing my stance. For a while I mixed up Robert Plant (this LZ guy) with Robert Smith (from The Cure), because I thought Robert Plant was a cooler name, so surely that would belong to the band with the music I liked. But it did not. Highlights: The song name "In my Time of Dying" (but not the song), 'Kashmir' (because the USC marching band plays it)

Too Rock for me.

Not a big fan

Something I appreciate about 70's white man rock is seeing how different concepts of masculinity were compared to today. It's good, but not for me. Like Vienna sausage and apple-cinnamon oatmeal.

Only a couple songs I liked

Kashmir and maybe one other track saves this from being 1 star. I just find Led Zeppelin quite boring.

Well, if nothing else, I preferred this to Led Zeppelin IV. Look, I can't really fault Jimmy Page - maybe he wasn't the first, but he was establishing himself as a widdly-widdly guitar hero before so many of his peers. He's not just good on his instrument, he's innovative and - more here than on Led Zep IV - he creates some truly unique sounds which, in turn, create some unique sounding songs. Then Robert Plant opens his mouth. Sorry, cannot stand his vocals one jot - while the instruments are covering new ground in the rock landscape, he is just following the same blues-rock scales, and in a limited capacity at that (I'm sure there is a song on here where he pretty much sings just one note). Now, maybe that is what grounded them back in the day - maybe Plant's vocals where the familiar "in" that helped people buy the whole proto-metal sound back in the day - but in my opinion, this hasn't aged well. He has to have the last word too, has to cram one more "Oooooh" in after the last chord has been struck - is it an ego thing? Although it's not really my kind of music, but I am happy to give this two stars for the innovation within the field from the band and the tight production, but without melodic vocal lines which match that level of innovation it all falls a bit flat and just becomes a real chore to listen to for me.

Yet more Zeppelin, to me no real progress, more clunky riff laden rock, songs not as strong as Led Zep IV. The sound of a band treading water.

Lyssnade inte klart :(

This album was much weaker than I expected or remembered. A few standout songs, but a lot of filler.