Physical Graffiti

I'm in the minority but I find the majority of Led Zeppelin records to be a bit of a bore. Yeah they can play/sing well but they play dull riff rock by numbers and occasionally come up with a decent track like Kashmir.

Even when I was a big LeZ-head I thought this album was bloated and pretty uninspired. Boring riffs, generic solos, annoying wailing vocals. Lacks the raw power of their first albums or the cool exploratory mood of Houses of the Holy (except for the songs included here cut from that one) - it's just tired and phoned in. All the songs, even the good ones, are too long like warm versions of better ones they've already done.

Underwhelming compared to hopes

It seems almost sacrilegious to say but aside from the big hits I'm just not that big a fan of Led Zeppelin. This was a long album and rambled on and not in a good way. I'm not convinced.

Almost nothing makes me feel more alienated from humanity than the hard-on people have for this fucking band. Kashmir is fine.

I guess am just not a Led Zeppelin person?

I don’t listen to them.

Okay sounds. I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to it. If you told me it was another group — such as Guns and Roses — I would not be able to say you were off from the lack of creative distinction.

2 - a more experimental project from them, you can see the vision and talent but I just don’t think it went anywhere. Kashmir was essentially the peak with the right mix of new sound and mass appeal I expect from a band this big, but not much else notable on the rest of the project

Listening to The Rover - "Hmm, maybe I actually quite like Led Zeppelin." Listening to In My Time of Dying - "Now I remember why I've avoided any deep dive before". Listening to Trampled Under Foot - "Yes, my instincts are correct." Listening to Kashmir - "maybe I'm back on board" Listening to In The Light - "I'm done" Just not into Plant's voice and lyrics, nor that level of guitar distortion, however impressive the playing might be. There's not much about the rhythm section that sparks joy or makes me want to dance either. Quite a lot of plodding, simple, swampy bass. Maybe such a big, unwieldy album isn't entry level stuff.

90 minutes of me desperately trying to just focus on jpj and bonham, who are cooking hard as always, doing their best to carry jimmy page retracting every creative thought he's ever had and a completely voice-lost robert plant giving what has to be the worst vocal performance on any acclaimed album ever. u can prob tell i still dont like this album at all FHJFSHJFS besides coda this is clearly the worst zepp record for me. that being said, i do Get the two records that follow this one up (presence and in through the out door) and the general approach of those albums starts here...not much songwriting at all even by led zepp standards, just using a song skeleton as an excuse for the playing and the vibes. its not a bad approach, and i retroactively see the vision here, but the actual material still does nothing for me unfortunately especially in such large quantities. fair play of them to end the album by immortalizing their own pedophilia lol

I didn't expect to get bored listening to a Led Zeppelin album, but here we are.

Not for me

I’m not going to sit here and say that Led Zeppelin are a shitty bar band doing lame blues covers, because they are a lot better than that. They are talented, they are genre pioneers, and I do like some of their songs, I know I do. But my god, does Physical Graffiti really support that exact critique. I just don’t have a lot of respect for a double album in general, and I definitely am not going to give any to a double album where literally half the record is material left on the cutting room floor from their last three (!!!) albums. And almost all of those songs are bad, which is why they were originally left on the cutting room floor. To make matters worse, though, the ~original~ material of here is barely any better. Physical Graffiti sounds simultaneously lazy and overly complicated. From the weird song structures that are so obviously try-hard to show off how quote-unquote ✨talented✨ they are as musicians, to the fucking length of each song that extends a literal stairway to the 9th circle of hell, to the fact that 85% of this record is just straight-up bar blues done badly, there is very little here worth one LP, let alone two. For fuck’s sake, of the 5 songs I liked, only three were originally intended for this recording session, with one of them being “Kashmir,” aka a song that I have basically known my whole fucking life and sincerely can’t untangle from my brain enough to look at it objectively. The rest? Well, “The Rover” is a song that I like in *comparison* to everything else on here, which isn’t saying much; “The Wanton Song” is the only metal-adjacent/trad-Zeppelin track on this record really, so it’s Zeppelin IV energy helps even if it was made for this record; “Ten Years Gone” is good only because it sounds like nothing else here and is a breath of fresh air; and “Bron-Yr-Aur” is 2 minutes long and an instrumental interlude, so it shouldn’t fucking count. Everything else here is insufferable to me. Whether it’s the weird cover-esque song “Boogie with Stu,” or the meandering “Houses of the Holy,” or the purposefully weird time signature of “Custard Pie,” it all sounds so obnoxious, and also so fucking vapid. Physical Graffiti has the exact same energy as a frat boi telling you about your own horoscope chart. I want to say that if I focus on the showiness of one player, especially Bonham, it becomes more tolerable, but also, good records are more than, “Wow, that drummer can play, man!” It’s not the worst record I’ve ever heard, but goddamn does it toe the line. Ban the double album, ban books on the occult from weird men, and ban interesting time signatures from bands that want to be blues bands but think they’re above that genre so they claim to be something else entirely. Physical Graffiti was a painful listen, and also feels like it really shouldn’t qualify to be on this list– both because of its background and because it just flat out sucks.

I’m sure it was great at the time but not my cup of tea. I do like Boogie with Stu a lot though.

Очередные динозавры

It’s too long a hour and half is too long for any album

4eme album de Led Zep généré. Même sentiment qu'avec les 3 autres : l'album contient quelques pépites vraiment intéressantes (Kashmir +++, In the Light, Ten Years Gone +) et d'autres morceaux très moyen. Malheureusement sur un double album (qu'il est long ...) les moyens sont majoritaires. =>2/5

Nothing too special, probably won't listen again. Had some solid solos on there though.

Led Zeppelin... Ik snap niet wat mensen hier nu zo geweldig aan vinden, misschien heb ik nog niet het juiste album gehoord maar dit is gewoon niet zo bijzonder voor mij. Dit klinkt gewoon als simpele hardrock, ik ben vooral geen fan van de zanger. Anderhalf uur is veel te lang voor een album trouwens, of het moet echt goed zijn en continue iets nieuws doen en dat is gewoon niet het geval bij dit album. Nummers worden compleet uitgesmeerd, al was het 11 minuten durende In My Time of Dying wel mijn favoriet, tenminste totdat de zanger besloot dat dit nummer wel wat enthousiast gekreun kon gebruiken! Kashmir, als grootste hit, voelt een beetje als 'Blauwe Ballen het nummer'. Het hele nummer voelt als een opbouw naar iets episch, maar eigenlijk komt het niet helemaal tot ontploffing? God, ik ga slecht op de zanger zeg, wat een vervelende stem... Als instrumentaal trio had ik dit denk ik best 3 of 4 sterren kunnen geven, maar deze zanger, gecombineerd met het feit dat dit album te veel tjak bevat, vooral in de 2e helft zeg.. Dat zorgt toch echt voor 2 sterren, wat een lange zit zeg.. FAVO: Trampled under foot, Bon-Yr-Aur

faz um EP com bron-yr-aur e kashmir e eu subo uma estrela

It was fine. I've never been a huge LZ fan. All of their songs felt a bit dull.

i wish this album was just kashmir on loop for 90 minutes. it unfortunately isn’t that and other songs on the album exist

Boring

Very long album but maybe because I didn't really enjoy it. I didn't know any of the tracks. Just not for me 😕.

Dad core. Isn't all graffiti physical? 2 discs? FOH with that In My Time of Dying has a couple of good minutes within 11 goddamn minutes of masturbation Kashmir is an all timer, not gonna pretend otherwise

Standard boring to bad rock

Pari ok-tason rallia, mutta ei tätä tule toiste kuunneltua.

i can’t sit through this whole album. i’m sorry but i hate led zeppelin so much. robert plant’s voice makes me feel anger. and i hate jimmy page. kashmir is an ok song though

Вроде норм, но не мой вайб

side three is pretty good. the rest sucks.

It's middle of the road Zeppelin. There's better Zepp records.

A breathtakingly diverse range of sound. But for me? One song was enough.

Not sure I gave it a fair shake, but didn't make it past the first disc and nothing jumped out at me.

hey Robert Plant can you please stop talking about 'love'. 'woman as a car' is a song category I thought was too dumb for even Led Zeppelin but it's my fault I'm surprised. I don't think Kashmir is anything close to Led Zeppelin's good songs. Whole thing sounds a lot more dated than their earlier albums. Less woaah ohhhh womann vocal solos but it sounds a bit like they're trying to do Queen songs. Led Zeppelin has 2-3 good songs per album, which you are to find and put on a shuffle playlist. In releasing an album this long (possibly with no good songs? I can't tell after this much Zeppelin) they have committed a crime against the listener. music: hated. (⌐■_■)

There were times that this got into some of the more interesting places Led Zeppelin is able to go. There were also times this got into 11 minute songs that started 9 minutes of JPJ playing a noodly synth solo. The bad times outweigh the good, and the sum total of the times is over 80 minutes, which is entirely too long to have to listen to Led Zeppelin for.

It's really painful listening to these classic albums for the first time, only to come out extremely underwhelmed by something so critically acclaimed. Like I really want to love Led Zeppelin, and this album, but I can't dig it at all.

Probably my least favorite Led Zeppelin album so far. Just wasn't a fan of most of it. There were a couple good songs like The Rover but overall the album felt too long.

The Wonton Song was actually interesting. The rest of it was very meh, and don't make me listen to Kashmir one more f'ing time!

Not my jam today. I don’t believe I would listen to this album again.

I still just don't like classic rock that much. I listened to the whole album and never once stopped to appreciate a song. Sound album, but not my thing.

This is better than the other one I had by them, but still, Plant always sounds like he’s about to go ‘ohhh mama’ which must be appropriated from somewhere, and sometimes he actually does it, and it’s just kind of embarrassing. I listened to more of each track than I thought but there’s no way I’d put it on again. Really hope there’s not loads more LZ on the list. 3 stars is GENEROUS. Actually fuck it, 2.

This is the sound of not having new ideas. Safety. Stunted. Mediocre, compared to the early stuff. I know it's natural, but it's just disheartening haha. Honestly I wonder if we can blame the era.. distribution and marketing innovation. Like old world artists never had to worry about their fame getting to their head, blowing up long after dying. If anyone is even remotely talented, they should be marooned haha.

I struggle with Led Zeppelin because I mildly enjoy most of their music but I never really enjoy listening to entire albums and when those albums are over an hour then they become pretty tiresome to me

Why did i listen to this whole thing

There’s a perception among my peers that Led Zeppelin fucking sucks. Theres a few reasons. For one they are thieves. For two, they don’t evolve, all their music sounds the same, it’s all white man’s blues with occasional hard rock. I tend to like their hard rock songs. I tend to like their hits. So when I got Physical Graffiti I was optimistic. I am no longer optimistic. Imagine it’s 1975, you sit down to listen to the new album from one of your favorite bands. You drop the needle on Custard Pie. My god. It’s the same shit again. It’s another fucking Led Zeppelin song. It sounds like all the others. It’s incredibly mid. Oh no. The Rover starts. More of the same. Except it just keeps going oh no. Then, fucking In My Time of Dying, it’s 11 fucking minutes of uninspired blues riffs, Robert Plant is doing what I can only call a pastiche of spiritual music and blues. It’s like the suffering of gospel music, if that suffering was dying cats. I swear he’s usually better than this. Or is he. Greta Van Fleet is a band whose whole existence is preying on boomer nostalgia for Led Zeppelin. The edgy kids who said today’s music sucks also love them. They are bad. I feel like their music and some tracks on here are, essentially, the same. This is a death knell. Trampled Under Foot. Thank God. What a good song. It’s awesome. Funk is such a refreshing change of pace. There’s energy here. It’s such a forward looking song. I bet the Chili Peppers love this song. The whole album could have been this direction and it would be so much better for it. Even the cynic in me can’t deny, Kashmir is a fucking triumph, it’s sort of baffling that they…don’t do more like this? Clearly they’re talented enough to explore prog and funk, they’re the best songs on here. Did they stick with the old formula because they didn’t want to alienate fans? They should have. This albums too long, the few stand outs don’t save it. Blegh.

I really wanted to give this album the benefit of the doubt. The first few songs were really good. Then came the first long song. Then another. Then lots of songs with throaty ooohs instead of lyrics. I listened to it all. I won’t go back.

Mid

Honestly, I don't understand the hype behind Led Zep, the songs are too long and repetitive, and while I can recognize the talent that went into the songs, I only found maybe 3 of them worth my time, and I wouldn't be upset if I never heard anything off of this album ever again, to be frank.

Ah, I really tried to like it, but it's just not MY kind of rock. Sorry Mr Zeppelin.

First two sides are close to a 4, but the bloat knocks it way down.

Rollete. Y largo.

Boring

Jos tää ei ois niin jumalattoman pitkä niin saisi yhden ekstratähden. PG > II > I > IV

STANDOUTS: Trampled Under Foot Kashmir OVERALL: 2/5; love the die-cut vinyl story though

Rollete. Y largo.

Outside of a small handful of good tracks, and the many cool riffs, this album is just plain boring. I wouldn't mind it as much if it were a single album, but this is a double. Not that I hate long albums, but there's quite a lot of filler here and that is a cardinal sin for double albums. Also Robert Plant's voice really annoys me. And Jimmy Page had a 12 year old girlfriend

The first part of this album is classic. The second… meh… when you listen to these songs, you understand why they weren’t included on their parent albums… they are just not great. I’m not a big Led Zeppelin fan but this for me easily the worst one

Not for me, really. Overindulgent. Moments of exciting bombast, especially the sequence of Trampled Under Foot (clavinet! Superstition rip off?!), Kashmir and In the Light (moody synthy intro). But too much twee shit, like Down By the Seaside, or just bad 12 bar blues, like Boogie with Stu (which does rather sound like a bass player doing his best on keys...).

vielfältig, experimentell .. und etwas aus der zeit gefallen, auch wenn von vielen geklont und referenziert. für mich eher backgroundmusik beim staubsaugen ..

Om det er AC/DC, eller Zeppelin, så er det simpelthen så skabelon rent, at jeg keder mig alt for hurtigt. Selv med 3 dage til det, syntes jeg det var en svært album at komme igennem.... Jeg er ikke fan endnu.... Et dobbelt album er også for voldsomt, med den ikoniske skærebrander vokal....

Not even an interesting album in context

I just don’t like Robert Plant’s voice. Most of the songs could be cut in half. Zeppelin is not my jam.

Look - I’m not trying to be inflammatory here, but this album was so boring. Not to say it is bad musically, but this album could’ve removed a ton of bloat and would have been better for it. A 40 minute album containing “Kashmir” “Down By the Seaside” and “Night Flight” (and others I s’pose) would have resulted in a tighter album worth revisiting. As of now, I likely won’t revisit it.

Physical Graffiti left me with mixed feelings. While I admired its beautiful artwork and could hear the undeniable skill of the musicians, I couldn't shake the sense that it dragged on, almost like a sombre dirge. Despite its revered status, I found myself questioning why it's held in such high regard. NUMBER OF BANGERS - 2 STAND OUT TRACK - Down By the Seaside

ну кашемир круто, но в целом очень исторический альбом. слушать прям тяжеловато

Me gustó más el anterior de Led Zeppelin.

One of Zepplin’s best, but that’s not saying much. Too much of their musics is like fingernails on a chalkboard.

Not impressed

4.5/10 - The avengers theme is in here that's crazy. Some of the songs are too long. One of them sounded like there was sex noises in the background and a few were too long.

No me ha encantado además para ser led zepellin la verdad

I like Led Zeppelin as much as the next music fan raised by rockers, but with this record it's more like Meh Zeppelin.

love Zeppelin, but have never gotten this one

good but not my jibe just could not get into it

A little disappointed to get this first as I wore out the vinyl when I was 14. I do play a lot of music for my 7-year-old, including a bit of "classic rock", though not any Zeppelin that I recall. Trying to listen with those ears, maybe something will pop. But, I've just reached the 11 minute dirge of "In My Time of Dying", and I'm connecting on a pretty fundamental level with that. Completed, it just seems so sessiony. There is undeniable talent here and some really great moments, but they are too spread out across fifteen 5-6-8-11 minute songs. Not that the stuff in between is bad, it's just often unnecessary. On the other hand, I think I bought drugs out front of 96-98 St. Mark's Place (featured on the album cover) on a few occasions. That's a happy memory.

I never was much of a Led Zeppelin fan and this listen hasn't converted me

Bis auf Kashmir für mich nichts dabei.

I feel like I've been listening to Led Zeppelin copycats. This is already much more interesting than all the 80s hard metal bands that I've encountered so far. Not super into it though, 2*. Oh hey, I know Kashmir. Enjoyed: guitars in Bron-Yi-Aur.

I'm nearly 50 and this is too middle-aged-man rock for me. I guess I could give it an extra star for making me feel younger, relatively speaking.

This was a lot of Led Zeppelin. Maybe at some point in time, someone needed an hour and twenty minutes of this, but not me, not now.

Two stars for Kashmir and none for anything else on this album goodbye

Listened Before? No I have never listed to this one despite Kashmir being one of my favorite Zeppelin tracks... Opens on Custard Pie, which centers around a stanky little bassline and never really goes anywhere. Meh. Followed by The Rovers, which is mixed super flat. Some interesting guitar work in the later half that allows it to gain some life. Slugy progression of In My Time of Dying gives way to more energetic interlude with dips into minor keys, slide work, and punchy drums. A bit all over the plac, but I actually like the open sloppiness of it. Not really sure why Plant enjoyed practicing orgasming in the recording studio, but here we are again... Houses of the Holy is a classic. Clyclical riff is catchy and keeps you on edge with a rhythm you want to sink back into, and guitar fills that tickly ones fancy. Also with headphones on its apparent they did not skimp on the cowbell here. Trampled Under Foot is another familiar one with a weirdly funky vibe to the keys and its hop. High point of hte album so far to me. In the Light is a weird one... Definitely this a more experimental Zeppelin than I'm accustomed to. This one is almost proggy in its structure. Not among my favorites. Had to check and make sure the album didn't swap on accident when Down by the Seaside came on. Seems out of character and really don't love Plant's voice enough to hear him earnestly singing. Tempo change near the midpont feels forced and unnecessary. Ten Years Gone is a slow jam and a good one at that. Restrained until the 3 minute mark where the guitar grows some teeth and Plant apparently gargles some asphault. The riff and stacatto drums on The Wonton Song command attention. Kind of a weird one as well but its a nice song to bop along to. Despite a hopeful outset, this album ended up a bit of a slog for me. About halfway through I found myself wishing for the end and never really recovered from there. This album is kind of all over the place. Great highs, but IMO way more misses. Many songs felt as if pulled by prog influences, but they weren't fully committed to the cause. This is a 2 bordering 3 for me... Added to Library? No Songs Added to Playlists: - Houses of the Holy (Driving) - Trampled Under Foot (Driving) - The Wonton Song (Driving)

I mean, I know they’re iconic, but I just don’t like most of their music. It grates. I blame Robert Plant. And also, songs are too long, album is too long. Dislike.

p339. 1975. 2 stars. Led Zep at their flabbiest. A double album of mostly average songs, with the decent ones victim to the usual mid-70s +5 minute rock wankage of the time. A bit of judicious editing and this could have a half decent single album.

A couple of good songs, but overall (remastered) album is too long with too many overlong tracks.

Eu sou enjoada de Led Zeppelin mas fui de coração aberto. Começa bem, mas chega uma hora que me enjoa. No geral eu gostei 50/50, algumas músicas ficam muito boas de se ouvir enquanto faz algo, outras dão vontade de pular pra frente. Fave: Kashmir, Trampled under foot

Hmmm, another band that largely leaves me cold. 2 stars cos Kashmir is a banger.

No doubt this is musically very good but I cannot get past my dislike for Robert Plant's vocal delivery.

Horrendous vocals, and all songs sound the same.

How many led zeppelin albums must I endure before the list is done? I think it has been 10% zeppelin so far and they all sound the same. 2 stars, one because I'm tired of it and the second star because it is still pretty good...

Definitely my least favorite Led Zeppelin album.

Nothing about this stuck with me. Perfectly passable music in a genre I just don’t care about. Deducting a star for the singing, it’s a crime that we just let every dude in a rock band do that weird voice in the 70s and 80s.

Man, this was boring. My least favourite Led Zeppelin album so far. The length doesn't really help it, and there wasn't anything too amazing on here. I mean, Kashmir is good, even if it is a bit longer than I remember, but that's kinda it, in my opinion. I don't know man, I just don't get Led Zeppelin. It's odd, I'd figure that I should like them because of the whiny way Robert Plant sings, as I usually like listening to men whine on albums, but I guess I just don't like the music enough to care. My favourite song was Kashmir.

I just don't get the hype. This is two led zeppelin albums now and they are just meh.

L for me

Barely a dozen albums in and already another Led Zeppelin? Ugh. I do like this a bit more than the first one. I think Robert Plant’s vocals are buried a little more in the mix, which helps. If they took them out entirely it would be even better. There are a few songs I don’t mind like the one they wrote about Godzilla. I dig the mellotron. God this album is long,

Not a Zeppelin fan

Better than I thought, still not super into it 2/5

I love bands that cite LZ as an influence but they themselves never did it for me.

Lyrical graffiti and this one's a burner baby! If I never hear a Led Zeppelin song again in a million years it'll still be too soon!

Bron yr aur sevdim kashmir ? , in my time of dying, tranplet under foot sevdim gibi genel olarak beğenmedim müzikler iyi vokal yoruyor

I didn't like Led Zeppelin before and I don't now. The songs are way too long, even Kashmir, which was otherwise the only interesting one.

Dom: Boomer, smells like a cigarette Nat: Sounds like what a cigarette smells like. ASS

This was like a tray of choice cuts and blueprints for other people to take inspiration or plain steal for something later/better. Realistically, to enjoy this I’d need to cut the songs down to 4 mins max and scale way back on Robert Plant which probably makes me a philistine. I appreciate your service Led, no I do not want to make a donation.

Led Zep is rough. And a double album of almost 90 minutes of Led Zep is especially tough. Just too bluesy and too cheesy for me, but I know people love them. It was a slog.

It's Led Zeppelin, but LONGER! I can dig some Zeppelin in moderation, but it's always been hard for me to stomach an entire album, and this was at least 50% worse than any of my previous efforts. They certainly figured out their formula and marketed the hell out of it.

Whilst Led Zeppelin are one of the all time greats of the genre and have had some great albums and singles, this release didn't grab me the way I though it would. Being a double album was already on thin ice - most of the time I don't generally enjoy them. But then coupled with the album having some unreleased tracks from their previous works, it felt like an amalgamation of songs just for the sake of it. Best: Bron-Yr-Aur Worst: In My Time Of Dying

jag tror inte jag förstår led zeppelin... Robert Plant är kinda störande men trummorna och basen är oftast helt trevlig, det bara känns inte som att bandet fungerar så bra ihop? Eller så är låtarna bara inte så bra? Eller någonting, jag känner helt enkelt inte så mycket av att höra på dessa killar, det känns inte speciellt.

It's not that I just couldn't get into this album, I actively disliked most of the songs. I couldn't even listen all the way through most of them. Two stars because Puff Daddy was able to make something great from one of the riffs, so I guess there's something good in here that I'm not hearing.

Raskasta. Monessa mielessä. Ei silti pelkästään puuduttavaa.

Still burnt on Zeppelin. That was long.

The start of In The Light was dope but otherwise not much to note some "classics" like Kashmir that everyone has heard but not my style

This might be heresy, but I found it to be a pretty weak album. Only liked Kashmir and maybe one or two other tracks out of 15.

fav tracks: the rover, kashmir,

not my kinda thing

Hmmmmm, well, not really my kind of thing. I do love some Zeppelin songs, but this album is just caveman rock. When they are melodic and singing about interesting things I like them a lot.

The penultimate rock band, plus really solid production value to boot. While the first disc alone puts it on the all time greats, the second disc was more subdued rock that held up against and surely influenced some of the best indie rock of the recent years.

70's rock, a.k.a. white men play The Blues (tm). There are a few tracks that do not adhere to that (e.g. Kashmir), and in these cases the music becomes better immediately, but the basic formula holds true, making this not a very enjoyable album. 2/5

Not a good album

My god, this thing is sooooo looooong. I have a bias coming into this record about being lukewarm on Zeppelin, but man is 80min of Zeppelin *a lot* for me. Most of the songs, they find one or two grooves and latch on for sometimes 11 minutes(!!). I'm also not entirely convinced that Robert Plant is singing, mostly just moaning sexually. And hey, I don't really mind if stuff gets sexual, but Christ do I not like Plant on this record. Luckily, a few songs later in the album prevent this from being a one-star, but man, was it close. Favorite tracks: "Ten Years Gone", "The Wanton Song"

Didn't finish, life's too short to listen to music you aren't feeling. Tried a bunch of times to get in to led zep but they've never stuck with me just like this time

Well. Kashmir is great. But the rest - musically fine but boring as Eric Olthwaite's shovel collection.

Overstuffed - what could’ve been snappy, tight melodic songs are extended well beyond their welcome into 4 or even 5 minute territory. Also a bit confused as to why this needed to be a double album? There’s no major tonal or symbolic shift between discs, leaving this whole thing a structurally and melodically confusing mess.

Not a huge Zeppelin fan and if I'm going to listen to them it will generally be the earlier ones. This... sure is more Zeppelin.

First part was just like all the other rock albums. But a few songs in the middle were pretty good, I really liked them. Then the last part of the album was again, just like all the other rock albums.

Saved Prior: Kashmir Off Rip: Custard Pie, In The Light Cutting Edge: None Overall Notes: Most of the songs are too long and don't hold my attention. You will never hear me utter a bad word about Kashmir though. Strong 2.

Overblown, pompous, self-obsessed, leaden and at least 50% too long.

This album is very boring. Nothing exciting or fun imo, besides the incredibly recognizable tracks. Had huge expectations that this album completely failed to meet. 5/10 is generous.

Bon àlbum de rock, tot i que escoltar-lo sencer se m'ha fet bola.

A couple of great tracks but I dont need the other 54 hours of tracks to get there - not changed my mind on led zep

Just not my thing

This must have fallen victim to the "Seinfeld is Unfunny" phenomenon; it was something so influential in its time that everything else aimed to emulate it, and now it just sounds like the most generic Classic Rock ever. I guess we Millennials are killing Classic Rock then too. Anyway it was fine, but I'm docking a star because it wasn't fine enough to merit the double album length.

I so expected to like this.. I just didn't... Meh.

Help the length is killing me

Songs are too long.

Meh

I.dont.think.led.zepplin.is.that.good. this.album.furthered.that.belief.

Ok album but not my fave Led Zeppelin album.

One of those albums that people say you “have to own!” It’s possibly the worst Zeppelin stuff you could start on. Kashmir is a banger but there’s fuck all else here. A band that had given up by this point.

My generation but not one of my favourites. Best single Stairway to heaven not on it

I’m not a fan of double albums and this doesn’t justify it at all. Self indulgent, half of it could have been cut. The bits that are good are good, but it ended on a whimper

Olen sveitsi tässä

Pse pse album... pse pse band...

No es mucho mi rollo

Zep isn't really for me...

2.5

Oh my fucking god please stop recommending me led zeppelin. Absolutely no amount of gaslighting and condescension from music fans will convince me that they sound good. Fuck off and never play through my speakers again.

Custard pie-5/10 The rover-4/10 In my time of dying-3/10 Houses of the holy-5/10 Trampled under foot-3/10 Kashmir-4/10 In the light-3/10 Bron-Yr-Aur-5/10 Down by the seaside-3/10 Ten years gone-4/10 Night flight-3/10 The wanton song-4/10 Boogie with stu-2/10 Black Country woman-2/10 Sick again-2/10

The only reason that I can't fall asleep through this entire album is half the songs are so grating to listen to. You want to take a nap for one song, then the other stirs you awake. Fuck people who steal music from underprivileged artists BTW.

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Was definitely good, just not my thing. Add 0/15 songs to my liked songs.

Då var det barbröstat 70tal igen. Var det Falklandskriget den här plattan var ansvarig för eller vad kom vi överens om? Utbrett över ett dubbelalbum dessutom. En frunktansvärd sångare, en gitarrglad gitarrhjälte och alldeles för mycket bluesrock som grundfundament. Jonas brukar påpeka sin avsmak för 80tals produktioner, 70talets rockproduktioner är min motsvarighet i så fall, det här är värsta tänkbara produktion i mina öronen. Då lyssnar jag ändå på en remastrad version, fast det kanske gör det värre (?). Det låter både illa och hopplöst daterat, fy fan! Det här är inte för mig, det finns ingenting med det här jag gillar eller ens har överseende med. Jag vill inte lyssna på det här. En svagare etta än The Who's 70talsrock

1975? Det måste ha låtit mossigt redan då. Första intrycket: boogie-woggie-blues-rock som pågår alldeles för länge. Ljudbild som om det vore inspelat med endast en mick i replokalen. Dessutom en dubbel. Med andra ord dubbelt så uselt. Ettan har aldrig känts mer självklar. Men andra skivan är något mer varierad. Night Flight hade kunnat varit en Rod Stewart-låt. Med darr på ribban klarar de en tvåa. Men så läser jag på om skivan . Tydligen spelade in material för 3 lp-sidor. Istället för att rensa ut de sämsta materialet så väljer de att fylla ut till en dubbel med tidigare överblivet material. Sådana beslut förtjänar en etta

The birth of the swaggering sports arena drek.

bof

Boring and too long

Over-rated and overblown. The artists Zep have 'borrowed' from here do most of this stuff much better. As for lyrics such as those of Sick Again...This has not aged well. I suspect Jack White has listened to this a lot, though.

Christ, this plodded. An album so heavy in sound and thought, it led me to have the urge to live a life of abstinence.

Nothing special about it, Kashmir is the only hit in it

Guitar was ok. Music was pure shite

It wasn't good enough, there was too much of it, and Jimmy Page kidnapped a child and slept with her for two years, dumping her when she turned 16.

Note : 1/5. Voilà. C'est dit. Le sacrilège est commis, la sentence est tombée. Je sens déjà les hordes de fans aux cheveux longs et aux jeans brodés de dragons affûter leurs médiators pour venir me faire la peau. Mais que voulez-vous, le projet "1001 Albums" est une quête de vérité, et ma vérité, la voici : je n'ai jamais, au grand jamais, pigé le délire Led Zeppelin. C'est une sorte d'allergie pathologique, un angle mort dans ma culture musicale pourtant, je crois, assez vaste. J'ai 55 balais au compteur, j'ai usé mes fonds de culotte dans les bacs à vinyles d'un disquaire indépendant, j'ai crié dans des micros de radios libres, j'ai vu des scènes s'effondrer sous le poids de l'ego de certains musiciens, mais Led Zep... ça m'est toujours passé dix kilomètres au-dessus du casque. C'est de la musique pour des gens qui lisent des livres avec des cartes dessinées au début. C'est de la musique pour des mecs qui trouvent qu'un solo de batterie de douze minutes, c'est une excellente idée. Pourtant, le livre me l'ordonne, et votre serviteur, discipliné (parfois), s'exécute. Me voilà donc, en 2025, à me farcir l'intégralité de Physical Graffiti. Un double album, tant qu'à faire. Pourquoi faire simple quand on peut faire long, n'est-ce pas ? Soyons honnêtes et rendons à César ce qui lui appartient. Objectivement, ce disque est un monstre. Sorti en 1975, au sommet de leur gloire himalayenne, c'est l'oeuvre d'un groupe qui a conscience d'être le plus grand du monde et qui le fait savoir. Tout est surdimensionné : la durée, l'ambition, les riffs, la pochette... C'est le Boeing 747 du rock. On y trouve de tout : du hard rock qui tâche, du blues (très, très largement "inspiré" des anciens, comme d'habitude avec eux), des ballades folk à faire pleurer une mandoline, des escapades country, des délires quasi-progressifs... C'est une encyclopédie du rock des seventies. Le groupe est une machine de guerre, une force de la nature. Jimmy Page est un architecte du riff, un sorcier de la six-cordes, et John Bonham... Bon, d'accord, John Bonham frappe sur ses fûts comme si sa vie en dépendait et, oui, c'est absolument monstrueux de puissance et de groove. Le son de ce disque, pour l'époque, est colossal. Voilà, j'ai dit du bien. On peut passer aux choses sérieuses ? Parce que, bon sang de bonsoir, qu'est-ce que je me suis fait chier. Le premier obstacle, et il est de taille, c'est la voix de Robert Plant. Ce cri strident, cette plainte d'elfe sous hélium, ce hurlement de damné qui semble constamment chercher une note que seuls les chiens et les chauves-souris peuvent entendre... C'est au-dessus de mes forces. Sur "Kashmir", ce morceau que tout le monde cite comme le chef-d'oeuvre absolu, j'ai l'impression d'entendre un guide touristique pour créatures mythologiques me hurler dans les oreilles pendant huit minutes. C'est grandiose, c'est épique, c'est tout ce que vous voulez, mais ça me laisse de marbre. C'est de la musique de stade, conçue pour être écoutée par 80 000 personnes en plein air, pas dans mon salon avec un café. Ensuite, il y a la boursouflure. Un double album ! Pour quoi faire ? Pour nous infliger des morceaux qui n'auraient jamais dû quitter le plancher de la salle de répétition. C'est le syndrome du "on est les rois du pétrole, donc tout ce qu'on fait est génial". Eh bien non. Il y a du remplissage, des longueurs, des moments où l'on sent qu'ils se regardent jouer en se trouvant formidables. C'est de l'onanisme musical, de l'auto-congratulation en bande organisée. Quand on a été élevé au punk et au post-punk, à l'urgence, à l'idée qu'une chanson doit aller droit au but en moins de trois minutes, écouter un morceau comme "In My Time of Dying" (onze minutes, onze !) c'est une épreuve. Et puis, il y a ce mysticisme de pacotille, cette fascination pour l'occulte, le médiéval, le "does my bustle still bustle in your hedgerow?". Ça manque de béton, de crasse, de réalité. C'est une musique qui flotte dans l'éther, qui parle de montagnes brumeuses et de reines sans nom. Pendant ce temps-là, à New York, les Ramones branchaient leurs guitares pour nous parler de sniffage de colle et de passages à tabac. Disons que je me sens plus proche du second sujet. Alors, bien sûr, je respecte. Je respecte le travail, le succès colossal, l'influence indéniable. J'ai vendu des palettes de ce disque à des clients qui avaient les larmes aux yeux en me le tendant. Pour des millions de gens, "Physical Graffiti" est une pierre angulaire de leur existence. Qui suis-je pour juger ? Juste un vieux con qui, après une heure et demie d'écoute, a juste envie de se mettre un bon vieux morceau des Buzzcocks pour se nettoyer les oreilles. Le livre dit que je dois l'entendre avant de mourir. C'est fait. Je peux maintenant mourir tranquille, en sachant que je n'aurai plus jamais à l'écouter. C'est un poids en moins. La prochaine fois, j'espère un truc un peu moins... zeppelinien. Allez, sans rancune.

This is the eleventh album I’m rating. I am familiar with Zeppelin 1-4. However, I have yet to listen to a full Led Zeppelin album. I’m also not familiar with this album aside from Kashmir but I hope this is as good as Zeppelin’s other stuff. Custard Pie - Adding to my Playlist. This is definitely a Led Zeppelin song. The Rover - Not Adding to my Playlist. I don’t like the singing. In My Time of Dying - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is way too long. Houses of the Holy - Adding to my Playlist. I didn’t know this was on Physical Graffiti. I always assumed this was from Houses of the Holy. Trampled Under Foot - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is pretty boring. Kashmir - Adding to my Playlist. I’m surprised I didn’t already add this. In the Light - Not Adding to my Playlist. The singing sounds bad but I like the synth on this song. Also, way too long. Bron-Yr-Aur - Not Adding to my Playlist. This sounds different and I don’t like it. Down by the Seaside - Adding to my Playlist. A nice and peaceful song that just sounds good. Ten Years Gone - Adding to my Playlist. A little long but pretty good. Night Flight - Not Adding to my Playlist. I’m not a fan of the singing. The Wanton Song - Not Adding to my Playlist. Side four is pretty disappointing. Boogie with Stu - Adding with my Playlist. I don’t know who Stu is but this sounds pretty good. Black Country Woman - Not Adding to my Playlist. The singing was nice at first but it started getting annoying. Sick Again - Not Adding to my Playlist. Usually I like Plant’s singing but something just feels wrong. All in all I liked 6/15 of the songs. This was a pretty disappointing album, I expected better from Led Zeppelin, I mean it isn’t bad, just not that great.

Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin god damn i'm sorry this is so boring to me. trampled under foot is the first track that stands out to me. i like the bouncy feeling of it. i recognise kashmir, it's pretty alright. the guy singing has the worlds most annoying voice though. i will never call myself a bad singer again the rest of the songs so far on disk 1 have blended into a blob in my mind. the start of in the light is pretty currently at down by the seaside, the main word coming to my mind is 'slog' beat switch was cool tho releaseeee meeeee that riff in ten years gone was slightly irritating as i was listening, i googled and found an article on led zeppelin. i noticed kurt cobain said they sing about their dicks too much. I haven't been listening to the lyrics because the music doesn't make me interested in them, but if most of the songs are about sex that's actually boring as fuck lol. kurt cobain seems to have a lot of similar criticisms to me, rip dude wanton song was an absolute snooze oh jesus and they are plagiarists?? i feel awful for the people they stole from, damn. imagine these guys stealing your song and turning it into the blandest shit i've heard in a while. why do people rave about these jerks? i mean i know the answer but i won't bring it up in a music review or it'll turn into a rant black country woman- uhh i hate this sick again- hey what the fuck are these lyrics? "From the window of your rented limousine I saw your pretty blue eyes One day you're gonna reach SIXTEEN? Painted lady in the city of lies" i fucking hate this shit i hate it i hate it stay away from teenagers you fucking freaks oh thank fuck its the last song 1/5 this was ass

what if every bad rock cliche was stretched out into an 8 minute song. fuck this

So impressed by Led Zeppelin's ability to take from the blues and somehow make it sound like some of the most boring, soulless and absolutely gaudy style of music ever made. I don't like this cock rock stuff and everything it inspired whether it be prog or hair metal, or even Queen, just fuck all of it, also I can't stand their lyrics which are always either a twelve year old's idea of sex or these mid-wit fake profound "big topics", I HATE Led Zeppelin, I wish to god this awful corny band never existed

If it’s not Kashmir, what are we even talking about dude?

Not for me.

Too long, sometimes repeating parts to the point of tedium. Robert Plant's vocals reaching the highest notes is like nails on a chalkboard. The only good points in this albums where the most subdued songs like Ten Years Gone or Down by the Sea Side because it didn't spend time in the same hard rock excersises the other songs did. Just not the thing I want from rock, even older rock

Not for me

This sounded exactly as I expected. 1 / 10

Har så förjordat svårt för Led Zeppelin.

Not my.thing

Sigh. Really don’t like this shit.

Shit blues-ripoffs with horrible caterwauling and moments of boogie rock. Hate it.

didn't like them then, don't like them now

Don’t tell me this is rock again Custard Pie- I hate how the instrumental is louder than the singer, so much so that I still hear screaming but I don’t know what he’s saying In My Time of Dying- IT’S SO LONG

Didn't enjoy, with Kashmir being the only standout. 1/5

Rubbish. Never understood the hype about Led Zeppelin and this cements my view. Only one song that's half decent.

Led Zeppelin has never been one of my favorites, and I didn't particularly like this album. Obviously the parts are excellent: the vocals are great, the musicians are fantastic, and the production is high quality. But for me, it's a "the sum is less than the individual parts."

Does not come close to their seminal 1969 releases, the only ones I maintain an interest in listening to.

all the songs mesh into one long, loud and boring noise. 1/5

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Suprisingly unenjoyable to me, as i previously loved a handful of Led Zeppelin tracks, first 4 track run reminds me of AC-DC-ish highway rock which is insufferable to me, 7/15 tracks listened tracks i enjoyed: Trampled Under Foot: great riff and some odd reggae vibes, but gets too repetetive for its 5 minnutes Kashmir: some melodic breaks between lines that are really cool, but still core gets repetetive in an unenjoyable way

Seichter hard Rock.

His voice gets on my nerves. :( The only song I really like so far is Kashmir and it's strictly for the music. A lot of this would be better without vocals.

Nope

Never liked them, never will.

Must say. I really don't like this album. This feels like the most generic album some old dude would listen to. Nothing about it screams anything of worth. The tracks are too long for no real reason, since they feel like loops anyways. Lyrics are generic sounding and so are the instruments.

Was never big on rock music, but I can respect the zep. Favorite song of theirs not on this album is D’yer Mak’er. But anyway, not really feeling this one. I lean more towards punk/hardcore. Top track for me is In the Light.

Just not a fan. Star rating has on bearing on anybody's reality but mine

i don’t really listen to rock

misleading title; doesn't go well with toks overall, a solid album, 1/5

Still not a Led Zep fan after all these years.

Technically proficient session men jamming in search of an idea. For a brief run of three tracks over an hour into this bloated fucker, they actually hit upon the idea of writing songs, which made this easier to get through than expected. They aren't particularly good songs, but it's something they ought to have built on.

Jimmy Paige is a talented thief. Great at arrangements of songs. Even better at passing them off as originals. Fuck this group.

Not a fan of Robert Plant on a good day. Today was not one of those

3.8/5 Es un gran trabajo que me no me cerró del todo sino se hubiesen ganado el 4. Mi album favorito de ellos es Houses of the holy y siento que esto no está a la altura, o siquiera de Led Zeppelin IV. A pesar de esto se destaca el excelente trabajo en guitarra y las líneas contrastadas de bajo.

Noticing that LZ's main draw are the guitars.

8/10 - Not a big fan of Led Zeppelin but I do appreciate their place in history and this album is a fine example of their influence in rock.