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It’s got some good songs some okay songs and some long songs
4⭐️/5 02.04.2026
pretty long but its a really smooth listen. something you put on while you're working around the house, i bet it sounds great on wax. fav track - in my time of dying
Not my style but it's not that bad
Not bad, but not my favourite Zeppelin album.
I love Led Zeppelin and they never really disappoint me so here we go. I have also already heard a lot of this album. It is kind of a long one though, but they tend to have long albums so I am not very surprised. The first two tracks kind of have me a little bored, but maybe I am just tired. I have been falling behind on albums though so I am really trying to catch up. I might just listen to the first disc of this album. I feel like on this album especially, the songs are very long. Track 3 is nearly 11 minutes and I think that is what really has me bored. I think everything about this album is just too long to be considered that enjoyable.
Rock and fucking roll mansome great songs
Go big or go home, and b'ys, Led Zeppelin did NOT go home. While their blues influence shows up here as always, they added some experimental, bombastic sounds on top of it and it really brought their whole sound to a new level. A sonic journey unlike anything they had released previously.
Bueno, pero para nada mi gusto
Shows how little of a Zeppelin fan I am that I didn't even realize that "Houses of the Holy" wasn't even on their album of the same name. I've listened to them a lot, but they've never really been one of my favorite bands. Kind of a band I listened to a lot when my tastes were forming, but then I largely moved on. There are a bunch of excellent songs on this album. "The Rover", "HOTH", "Trampled Underfoot", "Kashmir", "Bron-Yr-Aur", "Ten Years Gone"... The rest of the album is good too, but I can mostly take it or leave it. Pretty solid overall with several really great songs.
It stays a bit too long but in the first half at least it has a bit of a funkier groove than their bluesier origins.
I love Led Zeppelin, but this album is just a bit too long, some of the songs are 8+ minutes which is a bit too much for me. Musically and lyrically it is really good, my only negative about it is that it is too long.
They’re just top tier. This one is a little weird as the second half seems like a letdown compared to the high bar set on the first half. Yet I still think all the songs are pretty great. Ranking their albums seems like such a headache. Rating: 4.8
So I said in the last Zeppelin review, I listened to their whole discography not but 6 months ago and thus I have pretty clear opinions set in stone. So, what do I think of PG? This may shock you, but I think this album is... really good. I said already that Houses of the Holy is my favourite Zep album, but this was my favourite ahead of the relisten. As I have done before I will start with the partial negative, I think this album doesn't particularly justify the length, almost entirely due to the second side. The first side is straight perfection, some of the best material Zep ever made and The Rover is straight up my favourite Zep song. If they had made this album 45 minutes with the entire first half + Ten Years Gone this would be the highest rated album so far. the song Houses of the Holy is great, Trampled Under Foot is surprisingly almost funky and Kashmir needs no introduction. Now let me be clear on this, the second side is not bad. I just think the first side is insanely good. I also think there are maybe 3 or four songs the album could live without i.e Night Flight and Sick Again which are no where near as good as the rest of the album. The Wanton song sounds like the Immigrant song except I don't hate it. I actually quite liked the first part of the second side on a fresh listen, it's a lot less heavy and quite a bit more experimental but I actually quite like that. If the album were those three songs shorter and maybe ended the second half on Ten Years Gone I would call this the best Zep album but for as we stand it's number two but still an actually incredible album. Top 3 rated so far. I think I like Band on the Run more but this album just has too much to offer. Best songs: The whole first half + Ten Years Gone Worst Songs: N/A Rank compared to everything else so far: 3/69 (above Band on the Run, below Purple Rain)
Perfect album
They me in the first half, NGL. Second half ripped. Maybe a bad master at first?
Un disco atrevido y honesto. Me gusta como experimentaron en este disco con géneros, estilos y distintos instrumentos. Muestran una faceta musical más intima que hace este disco un poco más libre, menos narrativa y con poca continuidad, pero muy interesante.
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.
this was an amazing album, a little too long especially in the end, but still really good.
Even when these guys are not great, they're still great. Is it on the long side? Sure. Are there some misses? Okay, yeah. But they still rock.
It's probably a curse of an artist to have this many albums in their discography, or to have such a high peak; at a certain point, there has to be enough there not to just send me back to IV or Houses of the Holy, and Phyical Graffiti feels like another run of the same kind of songs, only with a certain playful quality largely missing. There's good stuff, of course — "Houses of the Holy," "Trampled Under Foot," "Kashmir," "Black Country Woman," "Ten Years Gone." But most of it feels bland. I imagine big fans of the band or the genre may feel very differently. As a kid, I dove deep into their catalog because my library made all their albums available on CD. But all these years later, I'm probably closer to a "greatest hits compilation" fan, and whatever nuance Physical Graffiti has is lost on me.
Realized I've not listened to this album too much, always have stuck to I and III for the most part. There's some really good tracks on here, I'll definitely be playing it again.
Don't listen
Pretty good. Call of duty song jump scare
Call me uneducated by I can't differentiate this much from the other Led Zeppelin albums I've heard, though I do think it's a step down from Led Zeppelin IV. I do like how there's this tangible feeling of loneliness in some of the tracks, but loneliness is expressed as a big and sweeping feeling rather than a forlorn one. Favorite song: Ten Years Gone.
An incredible conception of punchy bass, insanely delightful drums, groundbreaking guitarwork, and some fuckwit screaming WOAAAHH----- WOOOOO OAAAAHHHHHH OOOOOOOO!!!! over the top of it. That being said, this album is very very very good. The first disc on this thing is just unreal. Kashmir is probably one of Led Zeppelin's best songs, if not their best. Does that make this their best album as some people claim? No actually. I think this record is a bit too long for my liking, the second disc really doesn't do much for me that I haven't already heard before. This thing would be a masterpiece if they cut a lot of the fat off. I think this is my first non-five Zeppelin album. And I'm aware that this could get me lynched as this is the contrarians 'best' Zeppelin album. psst, Hot Dog is their best song.
So torn, perhaps the most front loaded album in history. But that front is such a masterpiece its hard not rounding up to a 10. Cut the second half and this would have been a 10 outright so I gotta round down for not sticking the landing. Second half isnt bad by any means. It just aint the first half y'know. 9/10
I shit talk Led Zeppelin the same way a rusted-on voter does in a two party system: even if they are bombing kids, I am just gonna vote for them anyway. I can say Robert Plant's vocalisations are obnoxious and at times verging on annoying but it is truly idiosyncratic. This didn't feel long at any point, there's variety, it's a FUN album, it's a GREAT album. Kashmir isn't even the best song on here! In The Light might be the best thing Led Zeppelin ever did as a band, and Bron-Yr-Aur will always have a special place in my heart, it is a divine track. Neither front nor backloaded, this took a lot more listens than I'm willing to admit before I migrated to the next album on this list. Killer. Highlights: In My Time of Dying, Kashmir, In The Light, Bron-Yr-Aur
the guitar work on this album is noticeable and awesome. Music to be blasted loud in a trans-am. This is a long one. A couple of hits, and not many skips.
Good
I'm not the biggest Zeppelin fan but an okay Zep record is better than most.
One of the greatest records ever and by far Zeppelin’s finest. It exemplifies everything that made them great. Hard rocking songs like the opener and “Houses Of The Holy”, grooving orchestral rock of “Kashmir”, the beauty of “Bron-Yr-Aur” and “Down By The Seaside”, the catchiness of “Night Flight”, and so much more it’s just a perfect rock album
Von hartem Rock über bluesige Grooves bis hin zu experimentelleren Stücken bietet die Platte eine breite Palette an Ideen. Allerdings wirkt die Länge des Albums stellenweise etwas ausufernd, und nicht jeder Track erreicht das gleiche kreative Niveau wie die Highlights. Trotz kleiner Schwächen bleibt Physical Graffiti ein wichtiges Werk der Band – ambitioniert, mutig und voller ikonischer Momente, aber nicht durchgehend fesselnd genug.
Led Zeppelin's last great album. I saw them perform this live and they were amazing. Kashmir and In My Time of Dying are just two of the classics on here.
As with much of Zeppelin's work, the blueprint of music in the decades to follow are readily apparent in Physical Graffiti. For me what sets this album apart is the quality of work, from start to finish...no easy feat in a double LP. Nevermind the fact that over half the songs are outtakes left off of previous records, the deep cuts on this record far exceed what most bands would count as the best work in their entire discography.
The album is good, but way too long with mediocre songs in the end. Favourits: Kashmir, In The Light, The Rover
Some great stuff on the first potion but it just kept going and going. Kashmir and In My Time of Dying are all timers.
3/4 of the album is undeniably phenonemonal and makes a strong case for the best Zeppelin album ever made. The other 1/3 - 1/4 is still made up of great songs, but not nearly as strong as the previously mentioned 2/3 - 3/4, which unfortunately drags the album rating down. Still fantastic though. 4.5/5
Interesting seeing Zepplin explore other genres, challenging what I knew of them
3,5/5 + It's long and it has a consistent style. It became hard for me to tell where a Song ends and a new Song begins, but it did flow + The album has a great amount of energy + The rock sound of Led Zeppelin is iconic and nostalgic to me - i was baffled how hard is for me to Name Songs that i liked from this album, except Kashmir
Amazing. Guitar vocals drums are all fantastic. The riffs are so good. If this album was a lady I’d make sweet sensational love to it.
Hammer of the gods
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.
The music is decent, it's just way too long.
A little overblown and too long in places, but varied stylistically with some very strong tracks too, such as Kashmir, Houses of the Holy and Trampled Under Foot. Worth listening to again.
This is a long album and does contain same just ok tracks, but any album that contains "Houses of the Holy", Trampled Under Foot", "In The Time My Dying" and even "The Wanton Song" and "Boogie With Stu", can't be a bad album. However, "Kashmir" is fantastic, it's got to be one of my favourite songs.
Classic bluesy progy rock. I’ll always prefer II and IV but I do remember listening to this one a lot when I had a big classic rock phase in middle/high school.
8/10 бля ну прикол
Bops. 4.
Personal enjoyment: 3/5 Relevance to this list: 4/5
No. 90 Downright amazing . I was wowed by every song
Not my favourite from Led Zeppelin.
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
Holy crapballs. It’s the big one. I love Led Zeppelin. And I love Physical Graffiti. It and Houses of the Holy occupy my top two favorite Led Zep albums. They switch periodically. Sometimes I think Physical Graffiti is a little bloated, but then I listen to it again, and I think, what song do you leave off? It’s got bangers on it. It starts out with two great rockers, Custard Pie and The Rover. One about…..pie and the other about how the world would be a better place if we could just join hands and love each other….and share pie. Reading on Wikipedia, where we all get our information, and we deserve what comes of that, I see the band only released one single from the album, Trampled Under Foot. That seems odd, though by this point Led Zep were probably the biggest band in the world and didn’t need to release singles to sell albums or concert tickets. In later years, rock radio would play Kashmir, the huge, 8 and a half minute masterpiece that probably single-handedly started the punk movement. In My Time of Dying is a great old blues tune by Blind Willie Johnson about a man on his deathbed asking Jesus to take him home so he can die easy on his deathbed. Robert Plant sings this like he’s literally on his deathbed. You can hear the longing to be saved in his voice. And then the song ends with a dying cough, or something. The album proves an incredible showcase to John Bonham’s drumming, but then again, every member gets their chance to shine with 15 songs. But Bonham really does great work. I love the way his drums sound. Drums don’t sound like that today. The album is great and a masterpiece, and easily one of the best 1,001 albums ever created. This came out as a double album, as several songs were over 6-8 minutes long. In 1975, that meant the album came out as LPs, or records, meaning there were two sides to each, and four sides overall. Not only that, but seven of the songs were essentially outtakes from past records. Bron-Yr-Aur was recorded during the Led Zep III sessions. Down by the Seaside, Night Flight, and Boogie With Stu were recorded during the Led Zep IV sessions. The Rover, Houses of the Holy, and Black Country Woman were recorded for Houses of the Holy. Can you imagine Led Zep IV with Down By the Seaside and Night Flight on there? I think my favorite side is side three because perhaps my favorite song on the album is 10 Years Gone. Years ago, I was listening to this as I was tending to matters of the heart. In other words, I was sad and the song felt sad and made me feel better. So if not Side three, then maybe Side two? Houses of the Holy, Trampled Under Foot, and Kashmir? It’s hard to figure out. Anyway, listen to this album if you haven’t already about 1,000 times. It’s the last really great album by Led Zep. The next two had some good stuff, but from start to finish, this was the last masterpiece. No more needs to be said other than hear this before you die!
Bombastic and lush but often a bit too ling
So rad. Had me memorized from Vegas to Barstow
Gets better with every listen and it's quickly moving up the ranks of my favorite LZ albums.
Solidt album
Album #45 Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti Somehow never got around to listening to this one in full before. I’m often intimidated by double albums since a lot of them are just needlessly long (Outkast…), and I find myself just waiting for the good songs to wash up on shore from a sea of trash. I have, however, heard and enjoyed Led Zeppelin 1-4, and I do consider myself a fan of their music, though they would hardly rank amongst my most listened to artists. When I first started seriously getting into music, it was exclusively classic rock, so naturally Zeppelin were heavy in the rotation through their classic songs; I mean, what kind of guy hears Stairway to Heaven for the first time and doesn’t seek more by that band? But even though I’ve liked every album I’ve heard by them, with Led Zeppelin 4 potentially even being a 10 for me, I just never feel compelled to listen to Zeppelin. I think that it’s a pretty mood-dependent band for me, probably due to Robert Plant’s vocal style; sometimes his moaning and whining can give me a headache, other times it brings me to completion. It’s sort of a cliche at this point that if you were to make a supergroup of the best musicians from each instrument, you would wind up just reassembling Led Zeppelin, but enough has already been said about just how talented the band is. Physical Graffiti was an album I was already familiar with, as I’ve listened to the hits quite a bit (particularly Kashmir, which, even before this ranking, was already a top 3 Zeppelin song for me), but its length deterred me from ever listening to it in full. I sort of just assumed it would be some hits mixed in with mindless noodling and overly-dramatic self-falatio from Plant, but damn was I wrong. There is not a single bad or uninteresting song on this album, and it definitely doesn’t feel like it lasts for over an hour. Every song keeps you engaged and flows into the next one quite well. I do think that disc one outshines disc two, simply because every song on it is nigh on perfect, but the fact that disc two doesn’t even feel like a noticeable drop off is a testament in itself. I think the only reason I am not giving this one the full five is due to the fact that I sort of get lost in the album, even when I try to focus and pay attention to each song as it changes, I blink, and suddenly I’m 12 songs deep. Which isn’t even a bad thing since it means that the album is captivating, but combined with Plant’s vocal delivery, it sort of becomes hard for me to decipher what he’s saying and differentiate the songs at times. That is probably just a me issue though and definitely nit-picking, but if I even feel a bit of reluctance to give out the 5 star, I tend to play it safe. Best Tracks: Kashmir, Houses of the Holy, Trampled Under Foot (What a 3-song run) Worst Track: Black Country Woman Score out of 10: 9.5
A Masterpiece. That is all.
Sweet
A sprawling masterpiece. While owning this album for nearly 30 years, I don't think I had ever listened to it completely straight through. This project finally sat me down to do it - once wasn't enough - I had it on fully through three times. And while there are occasional times when I start to drift away and lose attention, they manage to hit me with a hook, a riff, or some other sound that brings me back to remind me how good what I'm hearing really is. This is the kind of album that makes me realize what a 4-piece rock band can really do.
It would have been a five as a single album, but they just couldn't resist...
De certeza que este álbum é quase perfeito para quem é fã dos Led Zeppelin. Infelizmente, eu nao sou fã da banda. Ja tentei algumas vezes ouvir álbuns deles e nunca me cativaram. Pshysical Graffiti não foi diferente. Demasiado extenso (1h22), algumas músicas demasiado longas e, embora eu reconheça que seja incrível, a voz não é o meu género. No entanto, todas as músicas ouvem-se relativamente bem e há algumas que gostei mas nada do outro mundo.
Alright, starting off with Custard Pie. I really like this song and it is everything what Led Zeppelin is and does. The Rover starting has a great drum sequence by our legend, Bonzo, Plant's voice, for me, seems very soothing. It is a little tone down though, they could have gone overboard which would have been fun to listen. Nevertheless great song with a great rhythm. In My Times of Dying sounds like if Led Zeppelin had to cover an ACDC song somehow. A great, soothing start and shit's about to go down. You can sum up Led Zeppelin with that line and that is exactly why I love them so much. Ohmyjesus indeed, what a song, man. I literally had goose bumps. I love Led Zeppelin, god. Alrighty, Houses of the Holy is the next song and a good follow up. I feel like dancing. Trampled under the foot seems repetitive at times but the good kind, the one you want to keep listening to. Plant's vocals are completely raw and the rhythm is so good you can't stop listening. Kashmir starts playing and sweeps your feet away. Disc 2 is good with really great songs. The downs are really down and the ups are really up whereas Disc 1 consistently amazes you and ends on a high note. All in all, great album making you understand why Led Zeppelin is truly one of the best.
The final side is unnecessary. The first three sides are phenomenal.
Led Zeppelin quoi !
I liked this better than Soundgarden. Chunky rock in places, experimental sounds in others. Definitely my preference for older rock.
pretty decent
I had forgotten how much weaker the second half of this one is compared to the first. It goes from their best record to nearly their worst, but In Through The Out Door exists, so PG is spared that indignity. Anyway, sides 1 and 2 are perfection. Side 3 is really terrible outside of 10 Years Gone. Side 4 is just ok. I'm tempted to slap a 3 on it but Kashmir alone makes it a 4
I'm pretty sure I've heard all of this album before, but I can't recall the last time I would have listened to it start-to-finish. Here's my thing with Led Zeppelin: A lot of my formative years were spent listening to classic rock radio in the late 80s through the 90s. And Led Zeppelin was such a consistent staple of those radio stations, that I just got tired of them. So I've been mostly on a pretty strict "No-Zep" diet for quite a while. In addition, as a guitarist, I love Jimmy Page as a riff-writer, but I hate his playing. He's very sloppy. And with something like "Bron-Yr-Aur" it's painfully obvious that a better guitarist would have practiced that more to eliminate all the clipped notes in it. His playing is frequently frustrating to listen to. So, this is fun to re-visit this album. But I don't think this one is their best.
Pretty good album. Not usually the biggest fan of long blues rock jamming sort of albums, but Led Zeppelin has always been an exception. It’s quite a long album, but luckily it is packed with good songs. Highlights on the first half are In My Time Of Dying, Trapled Under Foot, and of course Kashmir. Side C has Bron-Yr-Aur and Ten Years Gone as amazing standouts. But honestly, side D could have been left out. It’s the weakest side and nothing really comes close to the highs of the rest of the record. Still, pretty good album.
It’s good and it all blends together, but 1hr & 23 mins is tough
Not too bad
The rare Led Zeppelin album that has risen in my unhumble esteem, 'Physical Graffiti' is a double album that rocks. (It's also my second fave Led Zep album behind the underrated 'Houses of the Holy'). I've enjoyed the mellower tracks on 'Physical Graffiti' as I've aged while still loving probably the two best raucous Zep tracks ever. Top tracks: "Kashmir," "Trampled Under Foot," "Ten Years Gone," "Bron-Yr-Aur," "In the Light," "Custard Pie"
Love Kashmir, do't care what people think about that. Song is a banger from start to finish. An unquestionable classic, even if Diddy and Plant did it.
--Custard Pie...phat as...well, custard pie --The Rover...a little aimless --In My Time of Dying...Blind Willie Johnson. Don't generally care for 11 minute jams but everyone is nice 'n' tight here --Houses of the Holy...why wasn't this on Houses of the Holy? maybe because it's average --Trampled Under Foot...talkin' 'bout love! this grooves. JPJ shines here --Kashmir...classic --In the Light...LedZepp gets sci-fi. too long and lacks momentum --Bron-Yr-Aur...pleasant instrumental --Down by the Seaside...when this gets going it's good. I just wish it didn't take two minutes to get there --Ten Years Gone...a little cheesy --Night Flight...starts strong and stays strong --The Wanton Song...interplay between bass/guitar/drums is real fun here --Boogie with Stu...Ian Stewart and Ritchie Valens. do I hear a mandolin? and some pian-ee? good fun --Black Country Woman...nice 'n' funky --Sick Again...fun closer
4.5 Stars Awesome album...whenever I listen to a Zepplin record I almost always envision just how powerful their live shows must have been. bands certainly wrote "better" songs than them, but I'm not sure many bands, if any, sounded like they had more fun playing & signing than LZ. Favorite song: Ten Years Gone & In The Light
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.
Best-Kashmir & custard pie Worst-black country woman The first half was better than the second half 😜 3/5
god this is so good, forgot how much i loved led zep. could genuinely be a 5 with a few more listens and more time to take it all in. re entering my led zep phase immediately
Nie, nie mogę przesłuchać tego albumu do końca.
Čovek voli svoju mamu nema šta.
This was a hard album to review because I had more pleasant memories of this album than I originally thought. So despite being nostalgic for this album I think it’s not the complete perfection that is I-IV, but it’s so close to that level of quality that it deserves recognition for that. Really it’s just the side b is lacking. Side a is super iconic and all the parts of this album that are memorable and sadly the second half falls off a bit. Seriously it’s a stellar all time great rock album, it’s just not 1-4.
When I was young, I was lucky enough to see Paige and Plant. We had terrible tickets, and it wasn’t Zeppelin in full, but I wasn’t around to attend Zeppelin concerts. It felt like being amongst gods and the one thing I remember most clearly is one of those gods, Robert Plant, saying Kashmir was the best song they ever made. That song resides on this album so while this isn’t one of the core 4, and its honestly a bit bloated, it still has highs few bands can imagine.
Jimmy Page is such a great guitar player. His skill is fully on display on this album. I have never been a fan of their music but I know they are good. This album was a bit overlong. It could have done without the last few songs I believe. Kashmir is a huge song. But you could tell Jimmy Page wanted to play other stuff. There was a country style tune. But I know he played skiffle so it only makes sense. Page being a session player really shows his versatility when it comes to this album. I think this is a good album overall.
10 - EXCELLENT
Some of it is just the 60s/70s guitar music I’m just kinda over, but Led Zeppelin was always more than that. Down by the Seaside proves that and elevates the album to something beyond its era and genre.
completamente torn porque quisiera darle 4 estrellas pero por el simple hecho de tener in the light quisiera darle 50 estrellas
No puedo creer que me eché una rola de 10 minutos que habla sobre yisus sin decir quita esa madre, sólo una banda muy papu pro puede lograr eso Nomás no le doy 5 porque está muy largo, pero woaos
Varmaankin taas olisi voinut olla yhtenä älppärinä parempi mutta ei tää huono oo! Korkealaatuista rokkia 4/5
Erinomainen levyhän se on, vaikka ehkä loppua kohti venähtää. Olisiko ollut parempi tehdä tuplan sijasta perus-LP? No, 4/5 joka tapauksessa!
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...
Album on nüüdseks 50a vana ja ikka on siin plaadil väga uudset kõla, mida lihtsalt mujal ei leia. Tüübid olid ilmselgelt mingeid aineid tarvitanud terve oma muusikukarjääri jooksul, aga ma ei pahanda, sest tulemus on ju super. Pigem vähe selliseid hitte, mis jäävad kohe kõrva kummitama (nt Kashmir), ja rohkem huvitavat B-side laule. a ei teadnudki, et Led Zeppelin nii põneva saab olla. 4.3/5
My favourite Zeppelin album. Every song is fantastic.
"The eight songs extended beyond the length of a conventional album, almost spanning three sides of an LP, so the group decided to create a double album, adding material they'd recorded for previous albums but never issued." So they put songs that weren't strong enough for previous albums on this to fill a double album. It's too long, Kashmir is the only stand out and it's so good it stands miles above the rest. Found this a slog to get through. 3/5.
Pretty good
Man, how does a band even do this? 'Physical Graffiti' is Led Zeppelin's 6th masterpiece in a row, and it's a double album no less. So, not only did they give us twice as much material as they have on past albums, but it's literally all killer and no filler. Okay, in all fairness, about half the songs on here were leftovers from previous recording sessions. But still, what does that tell you about a band when songs that they initially considered to be throwaway tracks on previous albums got included on an album that some fans view to be the best in their catalog. 'Physical Graffiti' is similar to 'Houses of the Holy' in that every song leaves you wondering what you're going to hear next. The first disc overall seems to contain most of the harder rocking tracks. Every one of them is electrified and full of that signature Zeppelin swagger, from the grooving opener "Custard Pie" to the iconic plodding "Kashmir". This disc also contains arguably my favorite of Zeppelin's all out blues rockers "In My Time of Dying". The second disc is the more eclectic of the two, and whereas the first one had most of this album's classics, this disc features the bulk of the album's deep cuts. Admittedly, for a while I didn't really enjoy this disc as much, but just like 'Led Zeppelin III', I've found myself really appreciating it nowadays. In fact, some of my favorite songs from the album are on this disc such as the hard rocking "Wanton Song" and "Sick Again", the eerie and progressive "In the Light", and the classic "Ten Years Gone", which might be one of Zeppelin's best moody melodic rockers. I know I sound like a broken record at this point, but 'Physicall Graffiti' is yet another fantastic album from beginning to end, and is one of the all time classics of 70's hard rock.
Tuff, I liked Kashmir or whatever
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 like Zeppelin’s music (not so much the people), but this is yet another double album that didn’t need to be a double album. That alone rates this below albums like IV and Houses of the Holy
Classic
9/10 – Great
Very good first listen. Want to listen to more Led zep
Several legendary tracks but this album has always felt uneven and perhaps a little disjointed.
Pretty standard Led Zeppelin affair
Yeah its good. Always bagged this album for years. just a little bit long for me
Sounds like Zeppelin.
YESSSSSSSS
I LOVE some of these songs. Some of them are lirerally my jam
Innovative rock music. Felt a bit samey at times.
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.
Overall not a bad album, but like a lot of their stuff some of it is just to long and very self indulgent.
One of my favourite albums of all time. One of the all tie bests. And I'm never wrong.
Did not like this as much as I expected I would. Too many different experiments and not all that succesfull imo
Masterpiece!
A classic.
Very good album overall. First half was absolutely loaded. Second half didn't hit quite as hard, but was still pretty good.
Fantastic hard blues rock. Everything on here apart from The Rover was good-excellent. Standouts: Trampled Under Foot, Houses of the Holy, Kashmir, Night Flight, The Wanton Song
Stone cold classic. Zep’s greatest album and their peak. not a bad song on the album.
awesome album. so many great zeppelin songs.
Classic!!!
This is not my sort of thing, a low 3 for me
5 out of 5 1 hour and 20 minutes double Led Zeppelin album? And the one released 3 weeks after my birth on 2/24/75? I couldn't ask for more! Incredible album.
The first half of this album is wicked. Prog, blues, hard rock goodness. The latter part of the double album seems to be a lot of offal from other albums. Honestly if this was just a single album including In the Light and Bron-Yr-Aur this would have stuck better
Really seems more of a compilation than a full album. But the great songs in here keep it 5/5 for me
Boring as hell same thing in each song
not my favorite led zep but still excellent
I said it before, as I will do now, I just can't rate ANY Led Zeppelin album less than 5 stars, while actually this is more like 10/5!
está bien
Thank you RNJesus, because without Kashmir I would still be trying to find that unbelievable riff ten years from now.
Kashmir, una locura In the light, fantástica Ten years gone, un clásico El resto de este álbum doble es buenísimo. Led Zeppelin es una banda que no escucho mucho pero cada vez que lo hago repito que es genial.
I loveddds this. The Guitar amazing!!!!
This is a great example of an incredible band in the later years of their discography. Some of the best songs they’ve ever performed are on this album, with Houses of the Holy being a highlight, but there’s also some real slogs here. In My Time of Dying is the perfect example of this, at nearly 12 minutes long and providing about 3 minutes of actual content. When the guys lean into their funk influences and do some more interesting things this album shines, but when they use the rock crutch it really meanders. Lucky for them, their skill shows in every single song so even the worst songs are better than a lot of things that were coming out at the time.
- Very good guitar riffs - Surprised I've never listened to Led Zeppelin before - at least that I know of - I think my dad would like this music - Nevermind - I've heard Kashmir many, many times, through my dad - This is probably one of the first classic rock albums I've listened to fully - I enjoyed it! Like I said, the guitar in this album was amazing
Custard Pie - 5.5 Like the descriptions kind of say, very bouncy and full of sexual innuendos. It’s a vibe though. The guitar is obviously pronounced and steals the show The Rover - 8 These songs are way easier to listen to and have on. Even if I’m not totally locked in on them, they are still a fun listen. The guitar in this one is funkyyyy I love it. I’ll probably add this one tbh. This is a good vibe. Talking about roving around to find this great lover that maybe isn’t always so good, but he can’t help it. In My Time of Dying - 7.5 11 minutes Not loving that off rip before I even listen to it. So this one is kind of a cover? Bob Dylan and Willie Johnson have recorded this before. It has a very gospel feel like it probably would have had in 1927 (Johnson). I like the way these guys play their instruments. Even if the vocal isn’t something I typically follow along with, this guitar and bassline is insane. Yea you can tell they just had fun and went crazy on this one. Is a good song, I will prob not relisten too too much. I just can’t invest for thissss long of a song. The outro is kind of going crazy though. I like all of the changes within the 11 minutes to keep it somewhat fresh. Is he “dying” at the end here, kind of feel like he is lol. I want to listen to the Dylan version now cause ik it’s going to sound sooo different. “cough” HAHAHAH. Houses of the Holy - 8.5 I like the rhythm in this one. I’ll prob add this one too. Houses of the Holy being their shows and how their music can make other people feel. Solid song with a solid vibe. I like. Trampled Under Foot - 8 Car sex innuendos niceee. It’s SO bluesy though which I like. It’s nothing too complex or hard to grasp. The verses are filled with innuendos then the refrain switches to “talking about love” explicitly telling us what he’s talking about. The keyssss on this one. Funky and bluesy and great. Kashmir - 6.5 Something is sounding super familiar with these strings in the beginning. This one is POPULAR popular though so maybe I’ve heard it. The horns sound super powerful. I see why it’s popular, its just long asf. In the Light - 7 This synth kind of sounds like a bagpipe (complimentary), what a funky sounding instrumental. I feel like they are WAY more experimental than I gave them credit for, and it all mostly works? Like they aren’t just farting around, they have a pulse on what is going to sound and portray their vibe well. Idk I feel the pull to relisten to this again, but it may be a grower for me. I like the last chord progression to that high note. Catchy. Bron-Yr-Aur - instrumental It’s so soft and gentle and acoustic?? I fuck with that contrast. Has a very emotional melody too, like there is something there By the Seaside - 7 This also has a gospel feel?? Maybe it’s just the keys. I like how different this is from the front half of the album. Like we were going crazy in the front half and now we’re relaxing. It’s full of imagery and has a chill vibe. I like. Ten Years Gone - 7.5 This one is good too. About juggling dreams and relationships and if you have to sacrifice one to have the other. It seems like he left this relationship to chase his dreams cause he’s remembering how things were, but he had to do it I guess as he says he been gone for ten years now and he might’ve seen her for the first time in awhile. Night Flight - 6 A Vietnam war song. The bridge slaps. Kind of forgettable in this lineup of songs, but is no way a bad song. The Wanton Song - 7 Fire riff and guitar hook (of course). Yea that one was good. Boogie with Stu - 8 Who is Stu? Okay blues. Like this is was I mean about them being experimental in a way I was not familiar with. Playing on an out-of-tine piano? I love the vibe. I love how different this is from what you would typically associate with LD. This one is on the lower rated side of this album, but I fuck with it and am prob going to add it to the playlist hehe. Way to go Stu Black Country Woman - 6.5 Love the backbeat and meaty rhythm here with that bluesy flare. I’m kind of confused about the title. I like how the last line of each verse comes back with this bite to it. Harmonica soloooo yes. Solid percussion in this track, more pronounced than I’ve noticed in other songs. Sick Again - 7 Ahh life of a groupie. I wonder what it was like to be a groupie in the 70s and 80s cause it had to have been a TIME. Maybe not as hard hitting or powerful as the other tracks, but this is still a great song. I don’t think I disliked a single on this album. I like how I got to know more about this band and there is an easy to follow through-line. A great introduction in LD in my opinion as this fully subverts my initial thoughts about them. They are experimental in such a smart way. They sound great and take perfect risks. This album makes me want to listen to it again as well as explore other LD, I can feel some tracks growing me for sure. There is so much character and story with intentionality with this band and I heavily fuck with it. This has easily been the best surprise of this whole thing so far. I still hate that the one song was 11 minutes long as that was insane.
hmmm...! n sou mt de escutar esse genero de rock mas darei uma chance! vamos tentar ser menos ignorantes
Classic. Forgot about it. Well written beginning to end. Strong riffs, lyrics, song structure
Tad long, not many memorable songs, but still pretty good
It's a good, even great, double album that could have been one of the greatest of all time as a single album. Everything up to Kashmir is the best opening of an album that I have ever heard. Then up to Ten Years Gone isn't quite as good compared to what comes before, but still great. Then it falls off a cliff into experiments and mediocrity. Cut the last 5 tracks and you have one of the best. As it is, it's a low 5 that hurts for being a double album.
Obviously Kashmir is one of the greatest rock songs of all time. Otherwise I just don’t really connect with Zeppelin.
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.
Good record love trampled under foot
Starting off strong, the first song being 11 min long, really good tho. Love the different instruments and sounds used. Rating: 7/10
I have been familiar with their music since I was a kid. While certain songs have been in the rotation occasionally since then, I don’t know that I had ever actually sat and listened to this album. I was totally blown away. This entire album is so good, and is going to become a regular listen now.
Just not my cup of tea ig As the album goes on it just gets boring
Enjoyed learning about the ad hoc way the songs came to be on the album - some new, some leftovers from prior albums. Adds to the eclectic feel. Some songs feel spacey or ethereal. Others feel rooted and organic. The album cover is also very cool, especially the insert that fills in the windows.
Damn, this album reminded me that Led Zep freakin rocks. What an excellent album through and through. I can put this on in literally any mood, for pretty much any crowd. It will always be good because it is simply good. The only ocd thing I have to say- I wish this album was called Houses of the Holy, and Houses of the Holy was called Physical Graffiti. Too late now, obviously. But, not only is the song Houses of the Holy on PG, but the famous cover art of PG features NYC townhouses that tourists revere as holy. St.Mark’s is considered sacred ground to a certain set, even if it’s really just trashy sushi places and knock-off bag stores in reality. Simply put, some rock fan on a pilgrimage takes a picture of the townhouses on this cover every damned day, and they have for over 40 years. If you sit outside at one of those trashy sushi spots, you’ll see the tourists flood by. You’ll also get parasites from the food. The cover of HotH has those freaky kids climbing the rocks. That kind of looks tattooish or tattoo-worthy, I guess. The title PG could work for that. Growing up, I thought the names of the albums were reversed for several years, and it’s because it’s completely illogical to me that you’d have houses on the cover of the album containing a song called Houses of the Holy, but have another album called HofH. Ok, rant over. Clearly, this has bothered me for my entire life.
Had only heard a few songs before, was surprised by how varied the styles were
Led Zeppelin's always been somewhat of a blind spot for me. I know the big hits, and I owned a copy of LZ IV like 30 years ago. It just never sticks with me. Favorite song: Kashmir
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I grew up listening to Led Zeppelin. I have listen to several of their albums, but never this one. Kashmir is a masterpiece.
My favourite album of all time. This is easily their most sonically diverse album but it's also insanely consistent. I love all four sides including side D, which seems to catch a lot of dislike with songs like Boogie With Stu and Black Country. Boogie With Stu is probably my least favourite here but it still rather enjoyable. The instrumentation is obviously outstandingvut from a songwriting this album has some of the band's best works ever like Ten Years Gone and Kashmir. The sheer amount of sounds this album covers in just the genre of rock is extremely impressive. They continously made a great album across 15 tracks and about an hour and a half, also including some of my favourite songs ever like Down By the Seaside, Ten Years Gone, and Kashmir.
This is my favorite band and listened to this album many times. This album was released the year I was born. Many great songs on the album, including “Ten Years Gone,” “In the Light,” and “Kashmir.”
It truly sounds like every other rock album during the 70s, it was a fun listen while at the gym but would I listen to is after this time... Probably not.
Was good
6/10 - не слушал
Favourite Songs: Down By The Seaside The Wanton Song
Beautiful classic album. Ten Years Gone is one of my favorite songs. Wish it was a little tighter on the second half but I won't complain for getting more Zeppelin.
Bangers on this album, loved fleetwood mac before but glad to know that some of my fav songs were in this album :) Solid 8/10 - beautiful
ne secam ga se jbg, al bio je ok rokcina
3,5/5
One of the best albums ever
Goede muziek, maar weinig variatie op het album.
excelente!
This, for me, is Led Zeppelin at the height of their powers, opening with a fairly traditional blues tune ("Custard Pie") and evolving into some of their most exotic and experimental work ("Kashmir", "In the Light", "Ten Years Gone"). Some of it is classic '70s excess, to be sure; "In My Time of Dying" is a fascinating journey from slide blues to an electrifying series of rhythm section variations, but it definitely didn't need to be 11 minutes long. And, as with almost any double album, there's some filler material; the tracks on side four are fine, but don't stand out among the great music that precedes them. But for the most part, this album shows that Zeppelin were worthy of their previous success and were continuing to evolve. My personal favorite part is "Ten Years Gone", particularly the opening moments when John Paul Jones' bass drops in to provide a fantastic deep counterpoint to Jimmy Page's shimmering chords.
Nicht ihr bestes
Classic
Absoluter Klassiker aber für 5 reicht es nicht ganz 4,4
Long
I’m kind of ashamed to say that I never gave this album a full deep dive listen until now. What I found is a record that is far better than I thought/assumed it was. I still stand by my original impressions from 20+ years ago that some of the outtake tracks are less than impressive, but as a whole, it’s a great album. The first LP is straight fire, front to back. Not a bad track. The second LP is where things start to unravel a bit, if you want to call it that. There are still some really good tracks, namely the ones that were recorded specifically for this album…but there’s some weird stuff as well. So it’s not a masterpiece, but it’s still I great double album. Which isn’t easy to do.
Although I was in my 20s when they came out I didn't get to appreciate their music until much later. Not their best album but I enjoyed it all the same.
Amazibg albulm - still sounds fresh in 2025. 10 incredible tracks that showcase the 70's Led Zep sound. A well deserved classic!
not bad, some great songs, quite long
Not my usual taste, but i'm trying. lowkey dont like it but im glad i tried Fav song: Boogie with Stu
I don't think I get this album. I usually like rock, but I genuinely got bored listening to it, I just wanted it to be over by the end. Half of the songs are very generic and I can't seem to enjoy his singing. I don't the if it's just spotify, but the sound quality was not great, either. Notable favorite: The Rover This album's greatest weakest us it's length- which generally isn't an issue for me, but in this case the songs just aimlessly drag on and on. Not a bad album but nothing noteworthy.
Yeah I get it but it's not really for me. The guitar goes crazy I can't lie. But kinda noisy FOR ME!
So I'm 23 years old, cruising down the highway heading to a trade show with my boss, his wife, and our marketing consultant. They know I'm very much into music, so they ask me to put something on. I shuffle through my CD carrying case looking for something The Olds won't mind listening to and the pickings are slim. But as luck would have it I had brought the first disc of Physical Graffiti, and that seems like a safe bet - the car is full of people who were alive when Zeppelin was ruling the airwaves (unlike myself), but then - it turns out they had never listened to them before. SHEESH. They wanted me to explain what made them so good, and I struggled to convey how monumental these dudes were. "John Bonham is great! The greatest rock drummer!" But during that first track - he doesn't do a whole lot but carry the groove. Unlike probably 55 other Zeppelin songs. So - that doesn't convince anybody. It's also during "Custard Pie" that the super annoying consultant guy wants me to explain what the song is about. IT'S ABOUT CHEWING A GIRL'S CUSTARD PIE, MAN, WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO SAY. Of course - the first CD's worth of music also includes a blasting rocker called "The Rover" and an 11 minute blues jam (neither of those are going to work on these people), but also one of Zeppelin's most-well known songs: "Kashmir." Surely they've heard that one before! Nope. And - they hated it. Man. If "The Rover," or "Kashmir," or "In My Time of Dying," can’t convince you that Zeppelin is one of the greatest bands of all time, I don't know what to tell you. Anyways. We went to that trade show and took it over; the boss's wife was doing strip teases on the show floor; the consultant was turning tricks in the bathroom between sessions; and me. Well. I never came home. And everyone clapped. FIVE STARS
Really enjoying the vibe, but no really memorable moments other than Kashmir, solid album, maybe longer than it needed to be.
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.
surprisingly sexy
The star of the show, of course, is John Bonham - driving and swinging and occasionally leaving a beautiful gap where you expect to hear a bomb drop. Great riffs, and stellar work from John Paul Jones in helping make everything swing and adding splendid counterpoints
Good rock album but probably not the best way to get into this band because the standouts sounds like 80's rock music which is where to say since was probably generational back then.
Not my favorite Led Zeppelin album, but it still has the occasional song that touches me: Tramples Under the Foot, Kashmir, In the Light, etc.
Funkier Led Zeppelin. I love it
This album has some great tracks but at time it feels like listening to rehearsals or demo recordings.
Some good songs, some boring songs
This was always one of my favorite Zep LP's. Disc 2 is a six star effort for me. Ten Years Gone ("Do you ever remember me baby" has to be one of my favorite hooks of all time), Down by the Sea, In the Light et al were so different from what we'd gotten used to from them and were also so fucking good.
I've owned this album for decades and I hadn't listened to it for decades. It is much better than I remember, maybe I've grown into it. Also I think I remember reading that it's the Led Zeppelin album with the fewest 'babe/baby's' of all their albums so maybe thats why I like it so much.
not my fave
This album is as Zeppelin as it gets. Maybe I grew up and moved on from records that exceed the 45-minute mark, but I'm sure my past self would have enjoyed these songs as much as the ones on the band's first four albums. Even though it is supposed to be a landmark in rock music, I just simply don't feel it. Maybe not a great 'one-sitting' album, but it would make a fantastic road trip companion.
¿Qué puedo decir? Este disco a mi parecer es muy bueno. Tal vez no es su mejor álbum pero aún así logra hacerme rememorar momentos de mi infancia cuando apenas me estaba introduciendo al Rock y dónde los gemidos de Plant en The Rover y Kashimir me fascinaban, solo por eso le doy 4 estrellas.
fine, not exactly my cup of tea
we’ll definitely not my style of music but, “ten years gone” its a banger 2/5
I was delighted to have led zep suggested. One of the greatest rhythm sections in rock. But I was really surprised by the lazy production values. It's no wonder Jimmy page has spent his career remixing and remastering. The guitars sound dropped in and tinny Robert plant sounds like he's singing in the shed outside. The bass sounds like a synthesiser. But omg those drums. And kashmir is brilliant
Some good tracks on the album. Don't mind the length just enjoy sitting back and taking it in.
Suffers from double album syndrome a bit, it is a new album + offcuts after all, but if this is the quality of a band's offcuts, what a band. Disc 1 is kind of unstoppable - ending with Trampled Underfoot and Kashmir was always going to be difficult to beat on Disc 2. So it sags a bit, but has highlights too and really picks up for Ten Years Gone, Night Flight and The Wanton Song. Not II or IV levels of perfection overall, but you could construct something pretty close out of the 15 songs here.
Pretty good if a little samey. Some of the songs dragged on a bit.
Extra point for Led Zeppelin being awesome, but if I'm being honest with myself this album tends to drag.
Deserved for the drum sound alone
*Lots of great songs and a great classic rock album.
I’ve known a couple true-blue Zepheads in my life. LZ is one of those bands with fans who are so sincere and worshipful, their advocacy can be contagious. I have a few fond memories of these passionate folks walking me through some very cool stuff late at night in their rustic living rooms, empties and roaches littered all around us, them handpicking tracks and loving them so much I started loving them. While I’m no Zeppelin super-fan like them, I did love those nights. I bought a pretty sweet little box set of all the Zep albums on CD back in 95 and got pretty familiar with all of them. So Physical Graffiti. A pretty all-time-famous double album. Doubles tend to be describes as “sprawling”, and that certainly applies in this case. The key questions are: Are the songs good? And: Does the sprawl hang together as a unit? I will say there are some supreme favourite tracks on here, alongside a lot of forgettable music that tends to fade back to background. I think too inconsistent to hang together as a unit. But when the kick drum lands in Black Country Woman, it’s one of the best single moments the band ever had it the studio.
Whenever I encounter Led Zeppelin, I’m reminded of the cliché/post on Twitter that applies to old people and goes something like: in high school you choose either Led Zeppelin or The Clash, become a super fan for a few years, then never listen to that artist again in adulthood. I chose The Clash, but it’s impossible not to have at least a working knowledge of the only other potential avenue life had to offer. It’s undeniable that there are some all-time tracks scattered amongst this album, but I found myself looking up the length of the original release so I didn’t have to listen to the bonus material.
Overblown. Aside from a few songs, was dull and unimaginative
Tooooooooooo lloooonnnnggggggggggg
Almost every song on this album is a 5-8 minute long epic, but it doesn’t really feel like it. Like, yeah it’s probably too long at 90 minutes, but it’s Zeppelin, man. I don’t see any Led Zeppelin album dipping below a 4/5 for me, and this is no different. I love good rock and roll, what can i say?
Good rock classic, sort of flew over me as a whole experience rather than something to pick and choose particular gems from
Huge MONSTER album. Bonzo and the other guys at their peak. Long album. 8-string bass shines. Many jams, many iconic riffs and the fattest grooves.
Gitaarhelden
Solid rock album. Not my favorite by LZ, but very well made and incredibly catchy songs. Kashmir is an all-timer.
This albums elite. No skips. Peak writing, production and sound design. 4 of the best musicians of all time all in flow state together.
👍
Sides 1 and 2 are surprisingly (still) good and stand up today. Sides 3 and 4 do not.
Not my favorite of theirs. Somewhat different sound that I do not like as much. Some good singles tho
glad to listen to this as i haven't explored nearly enough zeppelin but i can't say i loved it. will definitely revisit at some point to give it another go. liked down by the seaside a lot though :)
Excellent guitar work throughout ("The Rover", "In My Time of Dying"), so many recognizable songs, and despite, its length, excellent pacing and variance in structure to keep you engaged. Amongst my favorites here are the atmospheric opening to "In the Light," the Stevie Wonder-inspired "Trampled Under Foot," the pretty folk instrumental "Bron-Yr-Aur," the mysterious "Ten Years Gone," and the Cajun gumbofied "Black Country Woman."
No words needed
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.
phenomenal opening talented musicians don’t love the vocals on the rover but love the yeahs the build… in the 3rd song yeah okay pretty okay middle love the yeahs some of the songs didn't need to be that long down by the seaside's opening needs to be longer we really didn't need the blaccent
lets admit it some of these songs didnt need to be that long
very fun and enjoyable. Some good tunes. Ik it’s the firsts ing but loved custard pie
Good vibe not my fave of theirs
Was a really enjoyable album, to me the guitars felt like they had a lot of similarities to zamrock- Ngozi family especially. There’s just something about those scream like guitar riffs. Um but all in all it was a great album and it inspired me to listen to more Led Zepplin
Halfway decent with some classic bangers
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.
IN MY TIME OF DYING
not my fav led zep but cmon
great album
Now that's something. This is quintessential classic rock at it's best. It starts to hook you from the very beginning - but keeps you on your toes throughout, with some good variation and never ends up boring or repetitive - on the contrary, the variety is pretty good. I feel like there's glimpses of prog ( - or at least some more experimental tracks) shining through. The riffwork on the guitars is excellent. Kashmir is probably the overall strongest, but the whole album works really well as one thing. Great listening experience.
I should love Zeppelin, but they leave me rather cold.
Damn I'm finding it harder to find the time to get through this album list, and this was a long one! There was plenty here that I liked though, Kashmir being an obvious standout. While definitely self indulgent, there is of course massive musical talent here and although Zep aren't one of my absolute favourite rock bands, I always enjoy their stuff
Kashmir, känt intro o sound. Mycket av det andra gav mig inte något jättestort intryck. 70-tals rock, sköna gitarrer
I grew up listening to Led Zeppelin especially II III and of course IV, but I always felt that IV was the peak and marked a musical high point specially for Plant as a vocalist. However it’s amazing to listen to this album as I’m less familiar with it (apart from the obvious tunes). It sounds really great to me in 2025 and Plant clearly still had it! However I still feel these later albums don’t quite have the muscle and freshness of the earlier ones. This would have made a much better single disc rather than a double album. So happy to hear them again though!
I'm not sure I totally get it but I could enjoy it in a certain mood maybe
An all time classic that still suffers from what many double albums of its era and beyond suffer from - some filler. Prune it down to 12-14 tracks and it'd be even better.
pretty good. listened to while reorganizing my room and was good background music. the guitar/base stood out the most and i really enjoyed it.
Liked it! Very beatles esque
One of the all time great rock albums - 8 tracks recorded in 74/5 that were too long for a single album and so we also have 7 extras from earlier albums. Just outstanding - a real journey into their world
My first time listening to an entire Led Zeppelin album. I enjoyed most of it and it would definitely grow on me with a few more play throughs. Kashmir is a cracking song.
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.
Genuinely one of the longest feeling back halves of an album I've heard, to the point that it actively detracts from the tunes on here that are deservedly viewed as classics. 2.5*
Only the greatest bands can make an 'odds and ends' double record sound this fresh. Zeppelin delivers a masterpiece that flawlessly blends their signature blues-rock with psych-rock and funky R&B grooves. They hit hard right out of the gate with 'Custard Pie' and never let up. Even as someone who usually skips instrumentals, 'Bron-Yr-Aur' is simply too good to ignore. From finally finding a home for the track 'Houses of the Holy' to fully realizing their Middle Eastern influences on the epic 'Kashmir,' it’s another absolute classic from the ultimate classic rock band.
Solides Album
Ich werde kein Led Zep Fan mehr glaub ich. Album auch leider einfach zu lang, dafür, dass die Variation zwischen den Songs nicht besonders groß ist.
Great album to listen to, nothing worth relistening
My least favorite LZ album. Reused riffs and 3-4 songs too long. In the end I vote meh. 3/5
I enjoyed Led Zeppelin II a lot more than I thought I would. This was more what I was expecting (a bit too long, basically), but the good bits are so good it pushes it up to four stars. However, before I accuse Led Zep of being predictable, I should say if you'd played me Down by the Seaside and asked me to guess who it was, I would have said Neil Young
80
I've already listened to his album (40). Led Zep at their most versatile. Some real hidden gems in there.
O que faltava pro Zeppelin até então? Um disco duplo consagrado. As bandas da época buscavam isso. Com o Physical Graffiti eles chegaram lá. Grande parte das músicas são de material rejeitado dos discos anteriores. Um disco de "sobras" pode transmitir uma percepção inicial de material ruim. Com o Led Zeppelin é diferente!
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One of my favorite bands, but this album is 6 songs too long. How’s this for a better track listing: 1. In the Light 2. Custard Pie 3. In My Time of Dying 4. Houses of the Holy 5. Trampled Under Foot 6. Down by the Seaside 7. Bron-Yr-Aur 8. Kashmir 9. The Wanton Song 10. Ten Years Gone
peak
Hell yeah
I love zeppelin, but not my favorite album. In My Time of Dying fav song
Not my favorite LZ album, but pretty great nonetheless :)
Leans maybe a little hard on the classic zep formula - loping bonham beat, an elevated blues riff, Robert Plant making up some cool sounding nonsense and singing the hell out of it, and JPJ doing that wizardry he does. Some real standouts, and innovation too, Kashmir perhaps the standoutest.
A little bit weaker than Led Zeppelin (the only one I've listened before this one, thanks to the list) but great as well
The first half of this album is coherent, and largely in keeping with what I think of as Led Zeppelin's sound. The second half is loose, in a really fun way. Some songs almost have a mid-90s dance/indie riff, there are more gentle arrangements. Kind of feels like their White Album in their willingness to play with expectation at that point in their career.
Was definitely good, just not my thing. Add 0/15 songs to my liked songs.
Oh boy, my first Led Zeppelin album the day after my first David Bowie album? Here goes nothing, I guess. No pressure... At first, my experience with Physical Graffiti was pretty similar to that of Sign o’ the Times and Station to Station – the songs definitely weren’t bad, but the weight of my expectations was working against the LP and I spent most of my listen thinking “Really? This is what people are all hyped up about?” When “Kashmir” came on though, something crazy happened – I immediately recognized that riff and locked in. After that point, it felt like Led Zeppelin had no interest in slowing down and I was stuck on the ride whether I wanted to be or not. Fortunately, I continued to enjoy the songs on Physical Graffiti’s second disc almost as much as “Kashmir,” with almost every track being a highlight for me (despite the disc’s constantly shifting sound/style). Even the weaker cuts weren’t bad – they just didn’t quite reach the same heights as the others. I’ll also admit that I ended up enjoying the first disc more after hearing the second (though my highlights remained the same). I almost feel like the discs should have been swapped, as “In the Light” would have made for a great introduction and “Kashmir” would have been an amazing closer to the album. Overall, Physical Graffiti is among the best “classic rock” Book Albums I’ve heard so far – it might be the only one that truly rivals Lynyrd Skynyrd’s sole entry and it easily surpasses anything I’ve listened to from Def Leppard or Van Halen. I’m quite excited to dig into the rest of Led Zeppelin’s material (particularly LZ4), considering this one has their LOWEST average rating! Highlights: Custard Pie, In My Time of Dying, Trampled Under Foot, Kashmir, In the Light, Down by the Seaside, Ten Years Gone, Night Flight, The Wanton Song, Boogie with Stu, Sick Again
“Kashmir” is a great song. Haven’t listened to this album yet, but Led Zeppelin IV is a great album, which I have on vinyl.
Jimmy Page, riffmeister general.
Five if it were shorter
Zeppelin is an instant 5.
Didn't exactly like this one I'm not a rock kinda girl! Did like "The Rover", "In My Time of Dying", and "Houses of the Holy"! ( ╹▽╹ )
I believe that Led Zeppelin has at least 3 albums that are contenders for being perfect or near perfect. This is one of those records. Even the weakest moments on this record contain something noteworthy. For a double record at album an hour and a half, it never becomes stagnant. Led Zeppelin mastered making mosaics of rock and this is the album where that is on full display.
I'm a ZepHead I love this album
Cool cool
Well, it's Led Zeppelin. Can you give bad grades? Add this is down to personal taste, of course the answer is yes. I understand their influence and musicality, it's just I never feel like listening to them.
5/5
gotta love how they commit to 7 minute songs. first half was incredible
I liked this album, could have loved it. Sometimes more isn’t more. There’s a few songs on here that needed to be trimmed down.
This was good but could’ve been shorter
Best Track - "Kashmir"
i don’t think there’s any skips on here
I am personally not that big a fan of Led Zeppelin, so i dont love the genre that much. It was good for what it was, but i will grade it based on how much i like it. 3.2/5.
Classic by a classic!
7/10
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
I liked it LOL
Never caught the bug as a teen, and probably won’t now. Killer drumming though.
This album is actually one of my favourite albums of all time. The more I listen to it, the more I love each and every song even more.
3.5 RYM
Trampled Under Foot and Kashmir were great, not mad keen on the rest.
Crazy spanning of the genres and musical styles on this album. All done to an epic standard for the most part. Massive. Atmospheric. Sprawling. Not sure if this is considered blasphemous, but i do think there are one or two filler tracks on there that do slightly mess with the pacing of the album. But thats nit-picking. The album is a beautiful, raw, powerful experience. I love the eastern influences. The quieter moments. Then the heavy, crunching guitars. Crashing cymbals. Head banging moments. Nobody mixes it up better than Zeppelin. Another masterpiece. Favourite track - Kashmir 9/10
++: The Rover, In My Time of Dying, Houses of the Holy, Trampled Under Foot, Kashmir, In the Light, Born-Yr-Aur, Down by the Seaside, Ten Years Gone, Night Flight, The Wanton Song, Boogie with Stu, Black Country Woman, Sick Again +: Custard Pie 9,6/10
shouldve cut the fluff and kept it 45 mins
Interesting having this right after IV. I don't think that I liked this album quite as much. You have some of the classic Zeppelin sound, but fewer mind blowing songs
Side 1 of this album is on par with anything else Zeppelin ever did - In My Time of Dying is just a slide masterclass, and to have it culminate in the epically orchestrated Kashmir is awesome. I don't think this is a 5 as the rest of the album is a little less even, although it does still have great moments.
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.
Too long: it gets repetitive and boring in the end. A single album with the first 7-8 songs would have deserved 4 stars...
it's Led Zep
Of Zeppelin's "heavy hitters" (everything up to this album), honestly this is one of my "least" favorite of theirs, although that's not saying a ton since its still great. My only real complaint is the length of it. While nothing on it is bad or even just fine, its all great, sometimes you can have too much of a good thing, and it drags. Second half does change things up a bit with an extended string if chiller songs, so thats welcome, but still not enough to stop it from wearing me out by the end. As a side note, its kinda funny that while after this album is where Zeppelin kinda took a step back, they still managed to have my two favorite songs from them on those later albums (Fool in the Rain and Achilles Last Stand. Two killer Bonham tracks).
Not bad but should have been shorter. Not their best.