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13 Led Zeppelin Deep Cuts - Please name a deep Zep track & why you like it.
1. The Rain Song - From Houses of the Holy. Love how it starts slowly then builds up like a rain storm. Beautiful lyrics and vocals by Robert Plant. Love the symphonic arrangement by John Paul Jones, particularly the strings section.
2. D’Yer Mak’er - Because if you say it fast it sounds a bit like Jamaica
3. When The Levee Breaks - As I hear the lyrics, it reminds me of how... Challenging it was growing up, but if I could just keep moving forward, it could be overcome.
4. Dancing Days - I first heard the STP version of it, and both the cover and the original have a melancholy, yearning quality to them, that feels deeper than a lot of the other more well known Led Zep songs about sex / vikings / etc.
5. The Rover - nice riff during the verses gives way to a more melodic chorus, with Plant’s repeated pleading refrain of “if we could just join hands”
6. Baby Come On Home - Originally recorded for their debut album, the song wasn't actually released until 1993 on the reissue of Coda. I like the fact that it's a keyboard heavy song with John Paul Jones playing both piano and the Hammond B3. Interestingly, Page plays through a Leslie cabinet which is normally used with the B3.
7. Fool In The Rain - It was my fathers favorite song and Zeppelin was his favorite band. My father is no longer with us but to me Zeppelin is as classic as classic rock gets. Zeppelin to me is like Old Spice and the faint smell of cigarette smoke left on my hand from going on walks or to the park with my Dad.
8. Hardly a deep cut but BLACK DOG is my fave LZ song simply because it's the sexiest dirtiest thing, ever. ( i wish Prince would have covered it)
9. In My Time Of Dying - starts off real slow and bluesy, with wailing slide guitar that just hangs there, then halfway through it suddenly changes tempo with a riff that builds, and builds, and keeps on building. Epic song craft
10. The Crunge. Great funky bass line and drums mixed in with some goofy lyrics. Where did James brown hide the bridge?
11. Friends. LZIII. Just groovy. Make me move. Makes me smile. Such an amazing band.
12. Carouselambra. Opens side two of In Through the Out Door. Page plays his double neck Gibson and it's dominated by Jones' spacey keyboards. The lyrics are complex and ripe for poetic interpretations. "Who cares to dry the cheeks of those who saddened stand? Adrift upon a sea of futile speech." That last line suggests why the vocals are nearly unintelligible in the mix. Plant sings that he couldn't stand it another day. After a long pause the electronics come rushing in like euphoria.
Touched by the timely coming
Roused from the keeper's sleep
Release the grip, throw down the key
Held now within the knowing
Rest now within the peace
Take of the fruit, but guard the seed
These musicians weren't just cranking out hits. They were digging deep, never repeating themselves.
1. The Rain Song - From Houses of the Holy. Love how it starts slowly then builds up like a rain storm. Beautiful lyrics and vocals by Robert Plant. Love the symphonic arrangement by John Paul Jones, particularly the strings section.
2. D’Yer Mak’er - Because if you say it fast it sounds a bit like Jamaica
3. When The Levee Breaks - As I hear the lyrics, it reminds me of how... Challenging it was growing up, but if I could just keep moving forward, it could be overcome.
4. Dancing Days - I first heard the STP version of it, and both the cover and the original have a melancholy, yearning quality to them, that feels deeper than a lot of the other more well known Led Zep songs about sex / vikings / etc.
5. The Rover - nice riff during the verses gives way to a more melodic chorus, with Plant’s repeated pleading refrain of “if we could just join hands”
6. Baby Come On Home - Originally recorded for their debut album, the song wasn't actually released until 1993 on the reissue of Coda. I like the fact that it's a keyboard heavy song with John Paul Jones playing both piano and the Hammond B3. Interestingly, Page plays through a Leslie cabinet which is normally used with the B3.
7. Fool In The Rain - It was my fathers favorite song and Zeppelin was his favorite band. My father is no longer with us but to me Zeppelin is as classic as classic rock gets. Zeppelin to me is like Old Spice and the faint smell of cigarette smoke left on my hand from going on walks or to the park with my Dad.
8. Hardly a deep cut but BLACK DOG is my fave LZ song simply because it's the sexiest dirtiest thing, ever. ( i wish Prince would have covered it)
9. In My Time Of Dying - starts off real slow and bluesy, with wailing slide guitar that just hangs there, then halfway through it suddenly changes tempo with a riff that builds, and builds, and keeps on building. Epic song craft
10. The Crunge. Great funky bass line and drums mixed in with some goofy lyrics. Where did James brown hide the bridge?
11. Friends. LZIII. Just groovy. Make me move. Makes me smile. Such an amazing band.
12. Carouselambra. Opens side two of In Through the Out Door. Page plays his double neck Gibson and it's dominated by Jones' spacey keyboards. The lyrics are complex and ripe for poetic interpretations. "Who cares to dry the cheeks of those who saddened stand? Adrift upon a sea of futile speech." That last line suggests why the vocals are nearly unintelligible in the mix. Plant sings that he couldn't stand it another day. After a long pause the electronics come rushing in like euphoria.
Touched by the timely coming
Roused from the keeper's sleep
Release the grip, throw down the key
Held now within the knowing
Rest now within the peace
Take of the fruit, but guard the seed
These musicians weren't just cranking out hits. They were digging deep, never repeating themselves.
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