Physical Graffiti

This another one where the first half is full of great stuff and the longer it goes on, the more I wish it had stopped. This is a ten song album in a fifteen song sack. still, pretty listenable.

Led Zeppelin is probably the group I most wanted to experience when embarking on this listening project. Not ever exploring any of their works beyond the occasional hits was a huge deficit in my musical experience. I love this album, a sprawling collection of eclectic songs that showcase incredible diversity in song construction. I was only familiar with the relentless “Kashmir” that churns like a black hole in this album’s heart. Spiraling around it is a galaxy of songs covering a wide range of styles. How consistently great it all is serves as a testament to Led Zeppelin’s incredible talent. I expected Led Zeppelin to be awesome. On this album they exceeded my expectation.

Boring white man rock.

First half of the album is as good, if not better than any other Led Zep album. Every song is a heavy hitter culminating in the colossus that is 'Kashmir'. Disc 2 doesn't quite pack the same punches but does contain 'In The Light', 'Ten Years Gone' and 'The Wanton Song' which are the picks of the second half.

'Physical Graffiti' is a Zeppelin album that I've had to warm up to over the years. The diversity of musical styles on this album is just unreal, with each track hitting you in its own unique way. At first, it didn't grab me the same way Led Zeppelin II or IV did, but as time has past, it has come to be, for me, Zeppelin's greatest accomplishment. These songs just feel like the culmination of Zeppelin's unparalleled songwriting ability and overall musicianship.

So gooood. I ended up dancing hard in my room and triggering my dislocated shoulder 😂 Its that good.

Eh…. Led Zeppelin isn’t my favorite. A lot of the music on this albums feels the same to me. Listening to it felt long and as if it dragged on. Once again, nothing jumped out to make me want to add it to a playlist. With that being said, I enjoyed the beats and instruments for many of the songs, but the singing makes every song sound really redundant to me.

It takes a while to sort out all of the music on the album, but Physical Graffiti captures the whole experience of Led Zeppelin at the top of their game better than any of their other albums.

I do not particularly like Led Zeppelin but relatively recently I have come to appreciate the bass playing of john paul jones and drumming of john bonham through some suggested listening by friends. Was going to do an episode of my one track mind with someone on a Zeppelin album but pulled the plug before I got to it. I wish I had. As is common, it might come down to a general distaste for the vocals of Robert Plant for me. This is a long and relatively indulgent album in my opinion and it began to grate on me. They never manage to surprise me. Had to crank the bass up on the EQ to give it the right umph. I feel like this is relatively weak as an album overall. With Zeppelin I feel like there are sort of diminishing returns from their first album onwards. I like much more material from any album of theirs previous to this one. Kashmir and the wanton song are alright but that's about it for me here. Honestly I had to skip some tracks. I much prefer Jack White's stripped down impression of Led Zeppelin to Led Zeppelin itself.

It’s a good Led Zeppelin album. It has some prog rock elements on songs like In the Light which is cool. For the most part it’s what I would expect from one of the best Led Zeppelin albums. There are a bunch of good guitar riffs and Robert Plant’s vocals are iconic. This is not a perfect album however. Although I appreciated some of the strange choices such as The Beach Boys-esque Down by the Seaside, other songs such as Boogie with Stu feel out of place to me. It’s not that they’re bad but they just seem like filler to bring the album to its double-album length. Still, this is one of the best albums on the list so far. Favorite Songs: The Rover, In My Time of Dying, Trampled Under Foot, Kashmir, In The Light, Down by the Seaside, The Wanton Song, Sick Again Least Favorite Songs: Boogie with Stu, Black Country Woman Light 9/10

Before: If I'm being completely honest here, I fucking hate Led Zepplin. I don't think they're as good as everyone makes them out to be. It also doesn't help that every music class I had for two years, this one boy wouldn't stop playing Stairway to Heaven on the guitar. So I'm going in extremely biased but I'll give it a go After: It's nice to know I'm right about something, though I'll admit I didn't expect to be extremely bored during this album. All of the songs sounded almost identical to each other, why is this album rated as highly as it is?

When aliens land and demand to hear our “rock and roll,” cue it up.

Hailed as one of the greatest (if not the greatest) double albums of all time, I can’t help but wish this record was actually a single LP. …but that’s me, I don’t like most double albums. They’re almost always bloated, pat-on-the-back affairs and they usually start running out of gas about an hour in. So here’s my re-imagined, single disc version of Physical Graffiti; I like to call it the “John-Paul-Jones-Was-The-Best-Member-Of-This-Band Edition”. Sorry if you think this is sacrilege, but you’ll get over it one day: In the Light Bron-Yr-Aur Trampled Under Foot Houses of the Holy The Wanton Song Down By the Seaside Ten Years Gone Boom! A 5 star, classic mid-70’s record, clocking in at just under 40 minutes, so it’ll fit on one slab of vinyl. In fact, it would probably have a legitimate shot at best Led Zep record, or, at least, the one that hardcore fans recognize as the best, like Vol. 4 or Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. I know…you’re sitting there saying, “bu-but…what about Kashmir.” You can keep it, that’s what. Put it on your own single disc version of Physical Graffiti…the one with all the scraps I’ve left behind.

A masterpiece from the peak of one of the most talented bands ever. Also, probably the best double album ever.

«I have two sides» moment. Шестой студийный альбом группы Led Zeppelin содержит всё то, за что эту группу любят и уважают: фирменное звучание, концептуальность альбома, запоминающиеся рифы, невообразимой красоты и уникальности вокал и великие треки. Physical Graffiti состоит из двух контрастирующих частей: в первой представлены композиции в жанре хард-рок, где барабаны в совокупности с гитарой выдают знакомое всем звучание Led Zeppelin. В ней же встречаются такие шедевры, как Kashmir (та самая песня из CS), 11-минутная In My Time Of Dying и заглавная Custard Pie. Переходной становится первая песня со второй части альбома In The Light, которая бодро начинается, но спокойно заканчивается, давая тем самым начало новой, более спокойной акустической части альбома. Следующие за ней треки Bron-Ur-Aur и Down by the Seaside показывают Led Zeppelin совсем с другой стороны, давая слушателям насладиться акустической гитарой и мелодичными ритмами. Альбом можно назвать слегка затянутым, в особенности из-за длинных треков, которых на нем предостаточно. Но это не мешает насладиться его атмосферой и красотой исполнения песен. Крутецкие 5/5.

Kashmir is an all time best song, sadly nothing else on this album quite lives up too it. There are other great songs here though like Bron-Yr-Aur, Trampled Under Foot, and Houses of the Holy (which always bugged me that it was on this album). My biggest problems with this album are that I am just not crazy about In My Time Of Dying, and In The Light and they are so long they just take up such a large chunk of the album. Also the second half has a lot of filler that are throwaway songs. High 4.

I think what I learned listening to this is that I thought I liked Led Zeppelin more than I do. Apparently I more like to hear some of their epic jams every once in a while. Listening to all this as a double album I really got bored before I was even halfway through. Some exciting moments here and there.

it's not that it's too long, although that's part of it. it's not the terrible funky Clavinets on "Custard Pie" and "Trampled Under Foot", although that didn't help. it isn't that they make "In My Time of Dying" 11 minutes long and really sexual about Jesus in the last third, it isn't the stupid wedding music in the middle of "In the Light", and that boring final stretch that REALLY makes you tired of hearing Jimmy Page say "mama". it's that Physical Graffiti exists as a gluttonous object. we get to see the band's typical "more misses than hits" style now applied to the double album, and we see that nothing has changed. there is enough good music here for an OK album, but for some reason or another, they put out a tiring, exhaustive double album. it's like if you didn't cook enough food for a potluck, so you rummage through your fridge and bring a wagon full of leftovers. then the guests praise this "dish" as your best yet. i mean it's 84 minutes long... and it's got "Kashmir" and "The Rover"! what stick in the mud hates "Kashmir" and "The Rover"? this is a filedump -- and in 1975, a filedump cost $35 dollars in today's money. have you ever seen a classic inaugurated into the canon by sunk cost fallacy?

This sucks man! Today is my birthday and I had to sit here and listen to the most overrated group of thieves.

Another Zeppelin classic. There's a reason they were the biggest band of the 70's. 5 star classic all the way.

I have to give one Led Zep album a great rating and I can still stomach this one as it's only overplayed rather than massively overplayed. I never owned this although it was around the house for a while - perhaps  borrowed  long term?  I'm kinda shocked that every song is familiar. Started thinking 5 but paused when I  listened to the lyrics more purposely - they're a little fluffy for a 5. Led Zep is on the map because of Jimmy. Yeah JPJ and JB can play and Plant is an adequate front man but they would be lucky to play Massey Hall if it weren't for Page's magic on the ole 6 stringer. Side 3 is where you typically encounter excess filler on double (studio) LPs. What's impressive is that Jimmy can make the filler good. eg he saves the day quite nicely on Bron-Yr-Aur and Ten Years Gone. OK for Jimmy we bring out a 5.

I was a bit sceptical going in, did I really want two LPs of Led Zeppelin back to back? Turns out I did. Some incredible drumming powers the album, there is plenty of variety and the run of epics in the middle have such great melodies and ideas that they never get boring. Super enjoyable!

Alright, who was gonna tell me that Zep’s best song was a random deep cut from Physical Graffiti called “In The Light”? Great variety of songs compared to some of the earlier Zeppelin albums.

Most people argue that IV is the best Led Zeppelin album, but they're all wrong! Physical Graffiti is the absolute best Led Zeppelin album! This is peak Led Zeppelin; their magnum opus! Also, while In My Time of Dying and Kashmir both deserve all the praise they get, I think In the Light, Down by the Seaside, and Ten Years Gone are all criminally underrated, epic tracks.

I could gush for pages (no pun intended) about this band and this album. So much love for both Led Zeppelin and this amazing work. For example, it doesn't matter that I've heard 'Ten Years Gone' hundreds of times; as soon as the very opening chords are strummed, I'm moved. It should get old, right? But it never does. My son, currently in his early teens, is a drummer, loves this band, and thinks John Henry Bonham is one of the greatest of all time. I do not disagree. I'm not even a drummer and I know I could listen to the isolated drum tracks from this album (and all his work) and be blown away. Jimmy Page is one of my all-time favorite guitarists. What a writer, player, and performer (and producer, too, while we're at it). John Paul Jones is to me one of the most underrated and overlooked artists in rock history. He's worth getting to know. I get that Robert Plant's voice isn't for everyone, but I like it. Goes well with their style. To be honest, though, other than letting the melody soak in when he's singing, he's the member of the band I pay the least attention to when I listen to Zeppelin. Just persona preference. I've even imagined an instrumental trio comprised of Bonham, Jones, and Page -- okay, whilst we are in fantasy mode, let's have two John Paul Jones so we can have one on bass and the other on keys -- and I love traveling to the play where they play together and let their talents just soar.

I went through a couple of years back in my thirties when I was deep into Zeppelin. They were practically the only thing I listened to. Back then, I think I favored the first two albums and Houses of the Holy. Coming back at it now, Physical Graffiti has so much to offer as well. If you asked me now to recommend just one Zeppelin album, I think this might actually be it because it’s such an expansive work. Yes, this album suffers maybe a little from double album syndrome. It’s all over the place stylistically. But the songs are undeniably excellent. This is the work of four artists at the top of their game, flexing their creative muscles. It's a joy to listen to. There isn't really another album like this, but the closest I can approximate is The White Album, sans the internal turmoil. Apparently John Paul Jones was tired and disillusioned with his role in the band, and things could have played out quite differently. But he was given more creative control and the benefit to the band is palpable on this album and their sound moving forward. This by the way is what should happen in a band when this sort of thing happens. The diversity of styles covered, the creative dalliances, the range of feeling, it's all here. You’ve got everything from heavy rockers like "Trampled Under Foot" and "In My Time of Dying" to the ambitious anthem "Kashmir" and the lovely acoustic instrumental "Bron-Yr-Aur." You’ve got blues, you’ve got prog, you’ve got good old-fashioned rock and roll. “Boogie with Stu” is full on just for fun. The musicianship as always is ridiculously good. I feel dumb even talking about it because... just listen. Page, Plant, Bonham, Jones, ‘nuff said. This is an album pack with songs that are soulful, sexy, beautifully crafted, and heavy as a hammer when they feel like it. Oh and also, they freaking rock. 5 easy stars… you know-oooh-ohh-oh. Fave Songs: Houses of the Holy, Trampled Under Foot, Bron-Yr-Aur, Down by the Seaside, Ten Years Gone, Kashmir, In the Light, In My Time of Dying, Custard Pie

I can feel the duration of this double album and some songs are a bit chore to go through but it's not without some awesome Zeppelin classics. Highlights: "The Rover", "Kashmir", "In the Light" & "The Wanton Song". 4 stars.

It certainly is an album by Led Zeppelin!

Sorry, only got 3 tunes in and not my cup of tea at all!

HELL YEAH BROTHER. First time listening straight through a Led Zeppelin album. They found a new fan in 2026

Just like many people I have heard a lot of Led Zeppelin but not in album form and I have no idea what songs are on which album. Since it wasn't numbered I didn't have high expectations. I'm sure someone has made a listicle of this but Physical Graffiti must have a case for the strongest opening seven songs of any album. And we all agree that Kashmir is trhe best rock song ever written right? And Led Zeppelin have at least 3 albums rated better than this? I am going to be doling a lot of stars out to these guys. If only that awesome version of Kashmir on the Godzilla soundtrack could have been included in the original version. Oh...

I feel like Physical Graffiti often doesn't get held in as high regard as the the first 4 Zeppelin albums...which is a total shame. It is a departure from the blues driven, soulful guitar riff porn that they made on the first few albums...but in their place is this sophisticated, deep and quite frankly brilliant 4 sided masterpiece that crosses genres. In My Time of Dying, In The Light, 10 Years Gone (not to mention freaking Kashmir)! I think this is my favourite, and maybe even The Best, Zeppelin Album.

I feel compelled to give zeppelin at least one 5/5, after now having listened to all their entries on this list. How I laughed, how I cried, jammed their riffs on countless efforts to understand the guitar better. The last entry is more melancholic, more sophisticated, introducing more instruments and production than ever before. Not all the experiments stick the landing but luckily these have mostly ended up on the second disk, so for a safe listen you can just throw that on and call it a day. But don't sleep on ten years gone, wanton song or sick again.

Almost any Zeppelin album deserves to be on this list

There are very few double albums that make me smile when they come up here: this is one, and also my favourite LZ album. Funky, diverse and weird, it’s all over the place like their hair, and is similarly majestic.

Oooh, yes. A member of my exclusive *good double album* club. Really shows what a powerful creative bunch the Zep were in this period; half of it is reheated left-overs albeit from the sessions of some incredible albums. I'll eat microwaved LZIII, LZIV and Houses of the Holy dog ends all day long ("The Rover", fuck yeah). And, of course, "Kashmir", a monster riff even P. Fiddler couldn't ruin. Any more commentary feels glib, this is a massive album with some massive tunes, appropriate for the stately homes it was recorded in. '70s rock excess at its finest.

This record is so long and unwieldy that’s I’ve never been able to sink into it as much as some other zeppelin, so I’m glad I got this chance to really sit with this. It really is flawless and while it doesn’t have quite the same peaks as other zeppelin (at least to me in this moment) it’s an amazing listen. 5

Wow! What a powerhouse album! Starts kicking with \"Custard Pie\" and doesn't let up ) Kashmir, The Wonton Song, etc. Bought this album when it first came out [cool album sleeves you don't get with CDs or downloads] To me this is one of their best albums - better than Houses of the Holy (since this is a double) and Led Zeppelin. Enjoy!!!

One of my all time favorites. Five stars.

This was the last of their truly great albums.

Masterpiece. One of my Top 10-20 albums of all time. Second best Led Zeppelin album to IV. 10/10 1. Ten Years Gone 2. Kashmir 3. In My Time of Dying

I am never in any particular rush to go back to any Led Zep album; I imagine like a lot of teenagers, I devoured their catalogue of records when I first discovered them. They had a mythical aura surrounding them - like a relic, hidden in a overgrown tomb deep, within a rainforest. Well, that mythos has long since evaporated for me. However there's no denying what a far-out, stonking great rock and roll record this is. I'll hold off giving it a 5, but I can understand why you would. It Is too long though.

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

all i hear when i hear robert plant is like mamapleaseeaaauufudhehhrueuuuuhhhhhhhhhhwhwhhhhwhwhwhhhhhhwwwwwhhhhhahshshreeeeaaaa

4.0 / 5.0 The best album ever made that includes my old apartment on the cover.

First few songs are pretty good, in my time of dying was enjoyable but very Very drawn out. Wish the bass was knocked up a notch Love some slide guitar The drummer is very good, zeppelin are very much a drummers band I feel Like. houses.of the holy is good Whys he chatting about custard pies Kashmir is a great song for the first 3-4 mins and then it becomes too drawn out Great singer I feel Like alot of the songs are too long and get a little repetitive towards the end, this does make the songs quiet catchy though Trampled under foot is an ace It's got alot of good songs but andecent amount to dislike aswell so it's quiet hard to give it a very high score but it's done just enough to get a 4 in my book

All timer

There are some really classic Led Zeppelin radio staples on Physical Graffiti. And there are plenty of great album cuts. But on the whole, Physical Graffiti suffers from double-LP bloat. As a set of recordings, it doesn't feel as unified in sound or theme as the Zeppelin LPs that came before it. And there are enough lesser tracks present to make me wish that they'd trimmed about 20-minutes off of this 80+ minute double album. It would have been a stronger album. The core songs here are excellent.

Didn't blow me away.

Not my favourite Zepplin album

Listening to the first few songs here I was wondering why I hadn't listened to this album in so long. The first disc is solid gold, especially the incredible "Kashmir". But then I got to the second disc, and that's a completely different story. Apart from the excellent "Ten Years Gone", the second disc is mostly forgettable. No wonder I couldn't remember it! Bit of a mixed bag overall really, and way too long. A 3 seems harsh, but this doesn't really hold up to III, IV, or Houses of the Holy to me.

This was a little on the disappointing side for me. I absolutely love Kashmir, what a classic song. But everything else missed the mark and this album was a bit too long. Some of the songs were long for no reason.

I raise my glass to you One Album A Day, never have I listened to two Led Zeppelin records in a span of a week. I hope you’re happy.

thought i'd like this but it was a pain to get through and way too long, i think robert plant's voice just isn't for me

Sounded ass

Couldn't finish - this entire album is dragged down by the insanely flat production. Never in my life have I heard a guitar sound like that! They eq'd everything to make a straight line I stg. I wanted to stop on the first song but I DIDN'T I listened to all but the last 4 songs but what matters is I was brave....

Bog standard blues rock for the most part. Plant’s voice is shot by this point. Page is bereft of ideas and just solos instead. Kashmir is great though.

Just couldn't get it. I want to like Led Zep but I struggle with them

MEU DEUS QUE ALBUM LONGO, sério tem música nesse álbum que não precisavam durar 8 min muito menos 11 FUCKING MINUTOS pois são muito repetitivas

sukcy

meh. mest skräll mindre musik

I really like LZ, but this was a struggle to listen to, through and through.

Nah. Their worst album.

Not a fan of this

Boring , repetitive grey noise .

The guitar blues tunes are fun, but overall this is a reminder, esp. "Over the Hills," of why I hate hate hate Led Zeppelin in this period. Ponderous, pretentious, and Plant's horrible, horrible screeching.

If you don't like this kind of music (which I don't) it's a particularly bad version of it. Relentless and awful.

Not for me, only a couple of songs that I thought were ok - but too heavy for my 👅 taste

I thought Led Zeppelin were gonna be good.

Known artist! Not for me! 1,5/5

Not crazy about it

Grim

Shit

not finishing listening to this; i hate led zeppelin and this album proves it further; i just don't vibe with their music?? idk why

What an epic album to end the week with! Obviously one of the greatest rock masterpieces, one of the greatest double LPs ever as well, no doubt in that. Big part of my youth and absolutely 5 stars.

Love it

The first half of PG is what I want out of LZ: a lithe juggernaut with an orchestral finesse and nuclear sub firepower. The second act is more a surprise: hazy and dreamy. The beat on "Boogie with Stu" should be a default on drum machines. I was glad to have a reason to revisit this dinosaur in full.

There’s an effortless feeling to Physical Graffiti, a feeling that at this point, Led Zeppelin simply couldn’t miss. It’s filled with bangers — especially “The Rover,” “In the Light” and “Kashmir,” which might be the best hard rock song of the 70s. It gets a little long in the tooth on side 4 but it’s hard to care when the rest is so good. This might be the Zeppelin album to stuff in a capsule and send into space for alien races to discover.

Houses of the holy y trampled under foot me encantaron

I'd listened to the first for albums but not this one. I'm not the biggest fan but this has some great songs and some interesting tracks. Really good album but III is still my favorite

I was so worried when I saw this album was 82 minutes, but man Led Zeppelin does it again. 5/5

I stand by my usual stance that double albums are inherently bad, self-indulgent, bloated, etc And on principle I don't want to just give every Led Zeppelin album a 5 because that's probably not correct, even as much as I love the band, but I'm having a hard time talking myself out of it for this one. This would be a confident, unqualified 5 for me if they had trimmed back the track list to the best 10-12 songs. In My Time of Dying + Houses of the Holy + Trampled Under Foot + Kashmir + In the Light + Ten Years Gone + The Wanton Song + take your pick of a couple more to fill things out - that would be a fantastic album. I know they were limited by the length you could fit on a vinyl record and it would have been a shame to cut anything from the first half so I kinda get it but it really feels like they just packed in whatever they had left for the end rather than developing a fully realized double album. Whatever, I'm just rambling at this point. I'll stop trying to talk myself out of it.

I think this is probably really a four star album, and its spot on the list probably maybe should have gone to Houses of the Holy (though I'd be sad not to hear Houses of the Holy, which is on this album instead), but for personal reasons I will be rating it five stars. The highs are really high but you could easily cut five songs off here and have a much better album. There are some nice things I would like to say about growing up with led zeppelin and the connection it has with my dad but I think I am going to save that for Zeppelin II or Zeppelin IV

The only thing bad I can say about this album is that at an hour and twenty five minutes, it's too long. Otherwise, it's really a phenomenal album. It has its share of hits, most notably "Kashmir", but many of the lesser known tracks are great too. And there's a mix of your expected Zeppelin music, and then they'll throw in the acoustic "Bron-Yr-Aur" or ragtime "Boogie with Stu" in for good measure. It's straddling the border of 4 and 5, but I'll bump it up to 5/5 for never making me want to skip a track.

Cinematic, atmospheric, driving, groovy, masterful.

It's either this or IV for best Zeppelin album. This has some incredible moments. The start of side 2 might be my favourite start to any side of any album ever. The first half of the album is pure all-time bangers. I used to think that the last 2 or 3 songs weren't as good as the rest, but I don't think that's the case anymore. Monumental album.

Id never heard this before and I was pretty much completely bowled over

My favorite album of all time. Perfect in almost every way. The only thing I would change would be to put "In my time of dying" later on the album.

Fantastic record. Just loses a little steam at the very end for me.

Just magnificent. One of the greatest albums in music history.

Excellent. I hadn’t listened to the whole album in a long time

Gas

So awesome. Classic

I was a little skeptical about this album because (1) I’m not big on double albums and (2) I’ve heard this album can be inconsistent at times. But I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed the full project. Disc 1 is a classic Led Zeppelin album, no notes. We get a little more outside of the typical Zeppelin sound on Disc 2, and honestly, I’m so here for it…it’s more mellow, more funky, and more experimental, and more importantly, it somehow works. Maybe drop the last song because it’s creepy, but other than that, great listen. Likes: All of Disc 1; In the Light; Down by the Seaside; Ten Years Gone; Night Flight; The Wanton Song

5/5

Such variation on this album. Great creativity.

🥞

5

The sound I associate the most with Led Zeppelin is Physical Graffiti.

OK man, this rocks as much as the hype claims it does