Led Zeppelin — Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
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Babe, baby, baby, I'm gonna leave you
I said, baby, you know I'm gonna leave you
I'm leave you when the summertime
Leave you when the summer comes a-rollin'
Leave you when the summer comes along
Babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, baby, mm-baby
I'll wanna leave you
I ain't jokin', woman, I've got to ramble
Oh, yeah, baby, baby, I'll be leavin', really nn-got to ramble
(I can hear it callin' me)
I can hear it callin' me the way it used to do
Oh, I can hear it callin' me back ho-wome
Baby, oh, babe, I'm gonna leave you
Oh, baby, you know I've really got to leave you
Oh, I can hear it callin' me
I said, don't you hear it callin' me the way it used to do, oh
I know, I know
I know I never, never, never, never, never gonna leave you, babe
But I gotta go away from this place, I gotta quit you, yeah
Oh, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, oh
You hear it callin'
Don't you hear it callin' me
Oh, woman, ah, a-woman, I know, I know
Feels good to have you back again, and I know that one day, baby
It's gonna really grow, yes it is
We're gonna go walkin' through the park every day
Come what may, every day, oh, my, my, my, my, my, my babe
I'm gonna leave you, go away
Oh, alright.
So good sweet baby
It was really, really good
You made me happy every single day
But now I've got to go away, oh, oh, oh
Baby, baby, baby
That's when it's callin' me
I said, that's when it's callin' me back home
I said, baby, you know I'm gonna leave you
I'm leave you when the summertime
Leave you when the summer comes a-rollin'
Leave you when the summer comes along
Babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, baby, mm-baby
I'll wanna leave you
I ain't jokin', woman, I've got to ramble
Oh, yeah, baby, baby, I'll be leavin', really nn-got to ramble
(I can hear it callin' me)
I can hear it callin' me the way it used to do
Oh, I can hear it callin' me back ho-wome
Baby, oh, babe, I'm gonna leave you
Oh, baby, you know I've really got to leave you
Oh, I can hear it callin' me
I said, don't you hear it callin' me the way it used to do, oh
I know, I know
I know I never, never, never, never, never gonna leave you, babe
But I gotta go away from this place, I gotta quit you, yeah
Oh, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, oh
You hear it callin'
Don't you hear it callin' me
Oh, woman, ah, a-woman, I know, I know
Feels good to have you back again, and I know that one day, baby
It's gonna really grow, yes it is
We're gonna go walkin' through the park every day
Come what may, every day, oh, my, my, my, my, my, my babe
I'm gonna leave you, go away
Oh, alright.
So good sweet baby
It was really, really good
You made me happy every single day
But now I've got to go away, oh, oh, oh
Baby, baby, baby
That's when it's callin' me
I said, that's when it's callin' me back home
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As good as kick ass 60’s rock gets! Zeppelin is definitely a 10!
“While my guitar gently weeps”(Beatles, 1968)
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“Babe I'm Gonna Leave You” (Led Zeppelin, 1969; Joan Baez, 1962; Anne Bredon, late 1950s)
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“25 or 6 to 4” (Chicago, 1969)
belegato wrote:
Can you hear the surface of my corneas scraping the ceiling?
Love Led Zep 1 & 2. But, not only did they rip off Muddy Waters You Need Love on Zep II's Whole Lotta Love they also stole from the 1966 Small Faces take on it You Need Loving.
Can you hear the surface of my corneas scraping the ceiling?
scrubbrush wrote:
Yes they will
This seems like pretty good band but I wonder if anyone will still listen to their music 52 years after they make it.
Yes they will
Love Led Zep 1 & 2. But, not only did they rip off Muddy Waters You Need Love on Zep II's Whole Lotta Love they also stole from the 1966 Small Faces take on it You Need Loving.
scrubbrush wrote:
55 years ✊🏻
This seems like pretty good band but I wonder if anyone will still listen to their music 52 years after they make it.
55 years ✊🏻
TurtleMan wrote:
See, we have ground here: you don't listen to your better judgement... and neither do we.
Every so often, despite my better judgement, I try to listen all the way through a Led Zep “song” to see if I’m able to find something redeeming or worthwhile. Or, at least to see if it’s less painful than I’ve always found their work to be.
Alas, still no.
See, we have ground here: you don't listen to your better judgement... and neither do we.
Outstanding transition from the final A minor guitar arpeggio in Radiohead's "Street Spirit" to the A minor guitar intro on this. The two songs have very similar tempi as well.
xcranky_yankee wrote:
The minority is speaking up today.
i never cared for this one and still don't, despite not hearing it overplayed.
The minority is speaking up today.
Every so often, despite my better judgement, I try to listen all the way through a Led Zep “song” to see if I’m able to find something redeeming or worthwhile. Or, at least to see if it’s less painful than I’ve always found their work to be.
Alas, still no.
Alas, still no.
xcranky_yankee wrote:
For me it's a 10.
i never cared for this one and still don't, despite not hearing it overplayed.
For me it's a 10.
i never cared for this one and still don't, despite not hearing it overplayed.
Tomasni wrote:
That’s generous.
My rating down from 8 to 5 - Decent
That’s generous.
outstanding after all these years
higgins_brian wrote:
In 1969?? I don't think so.
is that an electric drum I hear on this tune?
In 1969?? I don't think so.
joejennings wrote:
NO!
NO too, from me!!! If you listen carefully, you can hear the high head's squeezing!
NO!
NO too, from me!!! If you listen carefully, you can hear the high head's squeezing!
1969! I must have listened to this a thousand times between Santa Barbara and LA. I still never get tired of it. The whole album still blows me away.
higgins_brian wrote:
NO!
is that an electric drum I hear on this tune?
NO!
joejennings wrote:
And, I STILL do!
This tune was written by folk singer Anne Bredon and Joan Baez did a cover version and made it famous! I never heard Anne's version, but I love both Joan's version & the LZ version!
And, I STILL do!
Transcendant
Still a great song and still a great group!
gleongelpi wrote:
VERY WELL STATED!! I don't give a hoot as to whom they "borrowed from"! Thanks to LZ, I looked up & heard the Joan Baez version of this song (VERY EXCELLENT)! I did the same with many other LZ tunes!
You guys, get over it. There is no plagiarism in their work. Musicians, as well as painters, dancers, writers and all other sorts of artists, are always copying each other. In music, they are always copying and adapting chords, riffs, cadences, chromatic sequences, etc. A good musician knows how to give new twists to harmonies and melodies, how to give a new and different flavor to an old musical idea, to give an idea a color of its own. The Led Zeppelin musicians were geniuses at the transformation of concepts.
VERY WELL STATED!! I don't give a hoot as to whom they "borrowed from"! Thanks to LZ, I looked up & heard the Joan Baez version of this song (VERY EXCELLENT)! I did the same with many other LZ tunes!
On_The_Beach wrote:
No one gives a sh*t.
hahahahaha either do I but you said and I applaud you...first time I heard this record it blew me away
No one gives a sh*t.
hahahahaha either do I but you said and I applaud you...first time I heard this record it blew me away
This one definitely goes to 11.
is that an electric drum I hear on this tune?
This tune was written by folk singer Anne Bredon and Joan Baez did a cover version and made it famous! I never heard Anne's version, but I love both Joan's version & the LZ version!
jerund wrote:
It is VERY SAD that somebody would post a comment like this! ...And, he wonders why he is sitting alone in his mommy's basement!
Sitting on a hot dog
sitting on a hot dog
sitting on a hot dog
sitting on a hot dog
There, now go unhear it. I never bought the idea of overproducing a poor theme into some kind of anthem. I didn't get this when it came out, I still don't. Still a whiny little B for all I hear.
It is VERY SAD that somebody would post a comment like this! ...And, he wonders why he is sitting alone in his mommy's basement!
On_The_Beach wrote:
No one gives a sh*t.
cause you have bad taste and thats a terrible excuse
No one gives a sh*t.
cause you have bad taste and thats a terrible excuse
This is one of the soundtracks to Reacher's life.
GODLIKE!!! ICONIC!!!
Sitting on a hot dog
sitting on a hot dog
sitting on a hot dog
sitting on a hot dog
There, now go unhear it. I never bought the idea of overproducing a poor theme into some kind of anthem. I didn't get this when it came out, I still don't. Still a whiny little B for all I hear.
sitting on a hot dog
sitting on a hot dog
sitting on a hot dog
There, now go unhear it. I never bought the idea of overproducing a poor theme into some kind of anthem. I didn't get this when it came out, I still don't. Still a whiny little B for all I hear.
sneezeweed wrote:
Can you hear my corneas scraping the ceiling?
Jimmy Page reworked a lot of people's material and declined the opportunity to give credit where due.
Can you hear my corneas scraping the ceiling?
Always turn this up to 11
DrLex wrote:
Yes, it's a record. Now put it on your turntable and spin it!
I like L.Z so much but here is to meny L.Z . and become boring .
Yes, it's a record. Now put it on your turntable and spin it!
I like L.Z so much but here is to meny L.Z . and become boring .
wow...its the foo fighters
ha ha ha
ha ha ha
Best I don't rate this mainly because the lyrics are such complete bollocks sung with such overstatement.
10 personified to perfection in purity and pursuit of passionate and companionate purpose, poise and presence.
GBY kip Smilin’
Don't want to be the one to tell the kids that only in your 20s is a walk through the park... all that.
gleongelpi wrote:
This Rolling Stone article does a great job of breaking down the top 10 examples of obvious broad-stroke borrowing. I'm a huge fan of the band and cite Page as one of my influences as a guitarist. That said, part of playing music is paying homage to the musicians, songwriters, and people that have inspired you in the past.
Think: The Rolling Stones introducing Howlin' Wolf to their fans on TV and literally connecting the dots between themselves and the music that came before them. Plant and Page never bothered with this degree of leg work and they paid for it over and over and over again.
You guys, get over it. There is no plagiarism in their work. Musicians, as well as painters, dancers, writers and all other sorts of artists, are always copying each other. In music, they are always copying and adapting chords, riffs, cadences, chromatic sequences, etc. A good musician knows how to give new twists to harmonies and melodies, how to give a new and different flavor to an old musical idea, to give an idea a color of its own. The Led Zeppelin musicians were geniuses at the transformation of concepts.
This Rolling Stone article does a great job of breaking down the top 10 examples of obvious broad-stroke borrowing. I'm a huge fan of the band and cite Page as one of my influences as a guitarist. That said, part of playing music is paying homage to the musicians, songwriters, and people that have inspired you in the past.
Think: The Rolling Stones introducing Howlin' Wolf to their fans on TV and literally connecting the dots between themselves and the music that came before them. Plant and Page never bothered with this degree of leg work and they paid for it over and over and over again.
This song took an incredibly roundabout journey from a Berkeley radio jamboree to Oberlin to Joan Baez to Zep - https://santafe.com/the-tangle... In the 80s Anne Bredon was unfamiliar with Led Zeppelin and had no idea they had covered her ca. 1960 song until Janet Smith heard her son listening to it and tracked down Anne.
medoras wrote:
Actually, she didn't write it but she did record it in 1962.
American folk singer - Anne Bredon - composed the song "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" while she was a student at University of California, Berkeley in the late 1950s.
As the rightful composer of the song, she received a back-payment of royalties from Page and Plant.
medoras wrote:
Actually, she didn't write it but she did record it in 1962.
American folk singer - Anne Bredon - composed the song "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" while she was a student at University of California, Berkeley in the late 1950s.
As the rightful composer of the song, she received a back-payment of royalties from Page and Plant.
You guys, get over it. There is no plagiarism in their work. Musicians, as well as painters, dancers, writers and all other sorts of artists, are always copying each other. In music, they are always copying and adapting chords, riffs, cadences, chromatic sequences, etc. A good musician knows how to give new twists to harmonies and melodies, how to give a new and different flavor to an old musical idea, to give an idea a color of its own. The Led Zeppelin musicians were geniuses at the transformation of concepts.
They released this album and Led Zeppelin 2 in same year 1969.
Seems strange to me now to contemplate the fact that when this record was released, I scoffed at white boys playing the blues!
scrubbrush wrote:
I'm listening to them right now.
Thanks RP!
This seems like pretty good band but I wonder if anyone will still listen to their music 52 years after they make it.
I'm listening to them right now.
Thanks RP!
sneezeweed wrote:
Well, many things in life have been altered and refined to be better. This band is an amazingly talented enigma of rock n roll without equal and I am so thankful of the plethura of awesome songs they made. Also their peer bands Rolling Stones, Beatles, The Who, Pink Floyd, Queen, Kiss and on. Thanks to all for the tunes that date all the stories I've accumulated over the years.
Jimmy Page reworked a lot of people's material and declined the opportunity to give credit where due.
Well, many things in life have been altered and refined to be better. This band is an amazingly talented enigma of rock n roll without equal and I am so thankful of the plethura of awesome songs they made. Also their peer bands Rolling Stones, Beatles, The Who, Pink Floyd, Queen, Kiss and on. Thanks to all for the tunes that date all the stories I've accumulated over the years.
xtree247 wrote:
"Their music is not convincing enough, ..." you should have added "for me", I guess.
Think I get why so many people might like LZ, but for me its just average, tho I like many of the bands of the era. Their music is not convincing enough, I guess...
"Their music is not convincing enough, ..." you should have added "for me", I guess.
scrubbrush wrote:
I am sure many people listen this songs.. just as they listen to Verdi, they listen to Zeppelin... for me 10/10..
This seems like pretty good band but I wonder if anyone will still listen to their music 52 years after they make it.
I am sure many people listen this songs.. just as they listen to Verdi, they listen to Zeppelin... for me 10/10..
kingart wrote:
LZ bandmates were in their 20s in 1969. And rock and roll was predicated on songs for horny, hormonal, frustrated, emotionally distressed (or very happy) adolescents and post-adolescents. Rock Around the Clock, She Loves You, You Really Got Me and X,000 other pre-1967 rock tunes were not primarily addressing sociopolitics or other serious topics. And, you may have noticed, many still do not.
All true but don't LZ and indeed RP generally aspire to something more discerning than adolescent pop rock, good as it often is? Surely the marketing departments of record companies know where the money is but it's the bands that best deal with that limiting venal motivation that are most enduringly attractive.
LZ bandmates were in their 20s in 1969. And rock and roll was predicated on songs for horny, hormonal, frustrated, emotionally distressed (or very happy) adolescents and post-adolescents. Rock Around the Clock, She Loves You, You Really Got Me and X,000 other pre-1967 rock tunes were not primarily addressing sociopolitics or other serious topics. And, you may have noticed, many still do not.
All true but don't LZ and indeed RP generally aspire to something more discerning than adolescent pop rock, good as it often is? Surely the marketing departments of record companies know where the money is but it's the bands that best deal with that limiting venal motivation that are most enduringly attractive.
This seems like pretty good band but I wonder if anyone will still listen to their music 52 years after they make it.
saved me from asking him to leave!!
thewiseking wrote:
All of that may be important, but when I was growing up it just didn't enter the equation. This was just greats music to me; I loved it and listened over and over.
This too was stolen. Not just the SONG but the ARRANGEMENT.
Breaks my heart to have realized it but Page was one of the worst plagiarists of our times. Several egregious examples stand out: Bert Jansch's Black Water Side was ripped off completely when Page did Black Mountain Side and again when his arrangement of The Waggoners Lad was stolen for Brony Aur Stomp. Davey Grahams She Moved Through The Fair was turned into White Summer and Page had the balls to confabulate a story that he "learned Eastern Music styles while backpacking through India" which was precisely how Graham went on to innovate the DADGAD sitar style tuning Page ripped off. Jake Holme's Dazed and Confused was note for note theft. Breeden's lovely arrangement of the folk ballad Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, the Willie Dixon, the Howling Wolf, all of it stolen. It is clear that Page and his lawyers took the "fuck em, let em sue us" approach to doing business. The chickens are coming home to roost. Read this piece and go to the sources. It's an eye opener. https://alanwalkerart.com/wp/?tag=bert-jansch
Breaks my heart to have realized it but Page was one of the worst plagiarists of our times. Several egregious examples stand out: Bert Jansch's Black Water Side was ripped off completely when Page did Black Mountain Side and again when his arrangement of The Waggoners Lad was stolen for Brony Aur Stomp. Davey Grahams She Moved Through The Fair was turned into White Summer and Page had the balls to confabulate a story that he "learned Eastern Music styles while backpacking through India" which was precisely how Graham went on to innovate the DADGAD sitar style tuning Page ripped off. Jake Holme's Dazed and Confused was note for note theft. Breeden's lovely arrangement of the folk ballad Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, the Willie Dixon, the Howling Wolf, all of it stolen. It is clear that Page and his lawyers took the "fuck em, let em sue us" approach to doing business. The chickens are coming home to roost. Read this piece and go to the sources. It's an eye opener. https://alanwalkerart.com/wp/?tag=bert-jansch
All of that may be important, but when I was growing up it just didn't enter the equation. This was just greats music to me; I loved it and listened over and over.
kingart wrote:
LZ bandmates were in their 20s in 1969.
To be exact, the album was recorded in September-October 1968. Robert Plant was born on August 20, 1948. So it would seem that he was about 1 month into his twenties.
So they should be forgiven for teenage angst.
LZ bandmates were in their 20s in 1969.
To be exact, the album was recorded in September-October 1968. Robert Plant was born on August 20, 1948. So it would seem that he was about 1 month into his twenties.
So they should be forgiven for teenage angst.
Think I get why so many people might like LZ, but for me its just average, tho I like many of the bands of the era. Their music is not convincing enough, I guess...
You know...these days, and at my age, I don't always listen to Led Zeppelin,... but when I do... so, too, do the neighbors...
Highlow
American Net'Zen
Highlow
American Net'Zen
This song still talks to me.
Time to get movin'...
Time to get movin'...
As a programmer I can only say : "Better well copied than poorly written by yourself" still a 10 for me
9 --> 10
Sartanas wrote:
get yourself some good equipment dude
I think you will find that the really annoying characteristic of 'good', ie accurate playback equipment is that it will draw attention to any deficiencies in the master tapes, deficiencies that you would probably not notice on a comparatively low quality system.
Personally, I think it is the plague of hi fi that the better the system, the more careful you have to be in your choice of material to play.
get yourself some good equipment dude
I think you will find that the really annoying characteristic of 'good', ie accurate playback equipment is that it will draw attention to any deficiencies in the master tapes, deficiencies that you would probably not notice on a comparatively low quality system.
Personally, I think it is the plague of hi fi that the better the system, the more careful you have to be in your choice of material to play.
I first heard this at the age of 17, back in 19 hundred and seventy two. A lifetime ago. Heard it first on a radio broadcast. I'd just finished High School in the Far East (I was, hell am, a military brat). Taipei American School. Sing out if you know it.
Being American as a HS graduate there wasn't much of a chance I'd start any sort of career over there. Not at that time. Unless I wanted to go into the military, which I didn't.
Don't get me wrong, the military ain't a bad life (if you can tolerate having "Owned and operated by the U.S. Government" stamped on your left butt-cheek). I just wanted to see what it was like to be a civilian.
My 'ol Man and I had come to an agreement. When I finished HS he considered me a man. I could do what I pleased. Mom, she was....less than thrilled by this.
Anyway, I came back. Flew into Seattle, on my own, and started what turned into approximately 4 years of hitching around the country. It was easy to do back then. Nobody thought badly about it.
I wanted to see America since I'd mostly grown up outside my home country. So by the end of that period I'd gone from Seattle to Miami to College Park, MD, all by thumb. By the end of the 4th year I started college.
This tune was my theme song for many moons during that period of my life. And it still resonates with me today, thru family, kids and a life lived from then to now. I suppose it will straight into the grave.
And as Kurt Vonnegut would say; so it goes.
Highlow
American Net'Zen
Being American as a HS graduate there wasn't much of a chance I'd start any sort of career over there. Not at that time. Unless I wanted to go into the military, which I didn't.
Don't get me wrong, the military ain't a bad life (if you can tolerate having "Owned and operated by the U.S. Government" stamped on your left butt-cheek). I just wanted to see what it was like to be a civilian.
My 'ol Man and I had come to an agreement. When I finished HS he considered me a man. I could do what I pleased. Mom, she was....less than thrilled by this.
Anyway, I came back. Flew into Seattle, on my own, and started what turned into approximately 4 years of hitching around the country. It was easy to do back then. Nobody thought badly about it.
I wanted to see America since I'd mostly grown up outside my home country. So by the end of that period I'd gone from Seattle to Miami to College Park, MD, all by thumb. By the end of the 4th year I started college.
This tune was my theme song for many moons during that period of my life. And it still resonates with me today, thru family, kids and a life lived from then to now. I suppose it will straight into the grave.
And as Kurt Vonnegut would say; so it goes.
Highlow
American Net'Zen
willjay wrote:
Nobody cares! ...keep your "list" to yourself! ...frame it!
Once again, LZ shows why they're on my list of the Five Most Overrated Bands.
Nobody cares! ...keep your "list" to yourself! ...frame it!
dmcanany wrote:
The truth hurts! ...eh?
Inexcusable. Wikipedia says that Anne Bredon write in the late 50s. Baez recorded a version after that.
The truth hurts! ...eh?
Inexcusable. Wikipedia says that Anne Bredon write in the late 50s. Baez recorded a version after that.
willjay wrote:
No one gives a sh*t.
Once again, LZ shows why they're on my list of the Five Most Overrated Bands.
No one gives a sh*t.
Bert7 wrote:
No excuse when Wikipedia is just a click away.
Forgivable that Page might have assumed it was “trad”. No Wikipedia in 1968, and he was a young and very busy session musician in London when life must have been pretty dazed and confused. But no amount of confusion led him to think that Baez wrote it!
Favorite Zep tune ever, hard to beleive Joan Baez wrote this...
No excuse when Wikipedia is just a click away.
Forgivable that Page might have assumed it was “trad”. No Wikipedia in 1968, and he was a young and very busy session musician in London when life must have been pretty dazed and confused. But no amount of confusion led him to think that Baez wrote it!
Once again, LZ shows why they're on my list of the Five Most Overrated Bands.
edgar_f_stone wrote:
Sorry, but that would be Beirut.
Nice to hear what Ibrahim Maalouf did with this song, do check "Bairut"
Sorry, but that would be Beirut.
Should I stay or should I go
MrStatenIsle wrote:
Copyright infringement generally does not work that way. Theft is theft.
Well, sounds like Page built a better mouse trap with these inspirations. Perhaps Page should be thanked for rescuing these riffs/motifs from obscurity!
Copyright infringement generally does not work that way. Theft is theft.
Hearing Jimmy Page reminds me how much more I favor Jeff Beck, EC, Trower, Keef Riffhard etc
Stephen_Phillips wrote:
get yourself some good equipment dude
I love Led Zeppelin and this song. However... the sound quality is showing its age compared to more modern recordings. Still a great song but it sounds 'muddy' and possibly compressed. I would be interested in reading the opinion of a sound engineer on this...
get yourself some good equipment dude
Nice to hear what Ibrahim Maalouf did with this song, do check "Bairut"
BillG wrote:
I'd rate this as "pretty good" for the era. Definitely not up to the standard set by George Martin for early multitrack pop recordings -- and well short of the best 50s live-to-Ampex-330 recordings (like some of Buddy Holly & Elvis's stuff) -- but head & shoulders above, say, Beggar's Banquet or the Blind Faith album.
I agree. If you look at a vinyl pressing of the album, you'll notice that the grooves run in as close as possible to the label. Normally, this is a sign of a long running time requiring the use of as much space as possible, to get everything on. In the case of Led Zep 1 (about 20 minutes each side), it's apparently because Jimmy Page insisted on using all the space available, in order to optimise the sound quality (and volume, I'm guessing :))
I'd rate this as "pretty good" for the era. Definitely not up to the standard set by George Martin for early multitrack pop recordings -- and well short of the best 50s live-to-Ampex-330 recordings (like some of Buddy Holly & Elvis's stuff) -- but head & shoulders above, say, Beggar's Banquet or the Blind Faith album.
I agree. If you look at a vinyl pressing of the album, you'll notice that the grooves run in as close as possible to the label. Normally, this is a sign of a long running time requiring the use of as much space as possible, to get everything on. In the case of Led Zep 1 (about 20 minutes each side), it's apparently because Jimmy Page insisted on using all the space available, in order to optimise the sound quality (and volume, I'm guessing :))
IMHO all zep songs would be a 9 or above
Bert7 wrote:
Actually, she didn't write it but she did record it in 1962.
American folk singer - Anne Bredon - composed the song "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" while she was a student at University of California, Berkeley in the late 1950s.
As the rightful composer of the song, she received a back-payment of royalties from Page and Plant.
Favorite Zep tune ever, hard to beleive Joan Baez wrote this...
Actually, she didn't write it but she did record it in 1962.
American folk singer - Anne Bredon - composed the song "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" while she was a student at University of California, Berkeley in the late 1950s.
As the rightful composer of the song, she received a back-payment of royalties from Page and Plant.
thewiseking wrote:
Well, sounds like Page built a better mouse trap with these inspirations. Perhaps Page should be thanked for rescuing these riffs/motifs from obscurity!
This too was stolen. Not just the SONG but the ARRANGEMENT.
Breaks my heart to have realized it but Page was one of the worst plagiarists of our times. Several egregious examples stand out: Bert Jansch's Black Water Side was ripped off completely when Page did Black Mountain Side and again when his arrangement of The Waggoners Lad was stolen for Brony Aur Stomp. Davey Grahams She Moved Through The Fair was turned into White Summer and Page had the balls to confabulate a story that he "learned Eastern Music styles while backpacking through India" which was precisely how Graham went on to innovate the DADGAD sitar style tuning Page ripped off. Jake Holme's Dazed and Confused was note for note theft. Breeden's lovely arrangement of the folk ballad Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, the Willie Dixon, the Howling Wolf, all of it stolen. It is clear that Page and his lawyers took the "fuck em, let em sue us" approach to doing business. The chickens are coming home to roost. Read this piece and go to the sources. It's an eye opener. https://alanwalkerart.com/wp/?tag=bert-jansch
Breaks my heart to have realized it but Page was one of the worst plagiarists of our times. Several egregious examples stand out: Bert Jansch's Black Water Side was ripped off completely when Page did Black Mountain Side and again when his arrangement of The Waggoners Lad was stolen for Brony Aur Stomp. Davey Grahams She Moved Through The Fair was turned into White Summer and Page had the balls to confabulate a story that he "learned Eastern Music styles while backpacking through India" which was precisely how Graham went on to innovate the DADGAD sitar style tuning Page ripped off. Jake Holme's Dazed and Confused was note for note theft. Breeden's lovely arrangement of the folk ballad Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, the Willie Dixon, the Howling Wolf, all of it stolen. It is clear that Page and his lawyers took the "fuck em, let em sue us" approach to doing business. The chickens are coming home to roost. Read this piece and go to the sources. It's an eye opener. https://alanwalkerart.com/wp/?tag=bert-jansch
Well, sounds like Page built a better mouse trap with these inspirations. Perhaps Page should be thanked for rescuing these riffs/motifs from obscurity!
thewiseking wrote:
I think it might have been nice for Pagey to do what Peter Green (Greenbaum) did once he left Peter Greens - Fleetwood Mac. Which he left as they were making far too much money and he didnt feel it was right when a lot of blues artists were flat broke... so he made sure they got their dues, something I understand is ongoing due to recent interest in his music. He tries now to just play his own arrangements (when he can be convinced to go onstage), and if he does do a blues number, which is rare, he gives the writer their dues...
(I think taking him to court would send people broke.... also doesnt he live in Argentina these days, not sure what the courts from other countries can do in these instances....)
This too was stolen. Not just the SONG but the ARRANGEMENT.
Breaks my heart to have realized it but Page was one of the worst plagiarists of our times. Several egregious examples stand out: Bert Jansch's Black Water Side was ripped off completely when Page did Black Mountain Side and again when his arrangement of The Waggoners Lad was stolen for Brony Aur Stomp. Davey Grahams She Moved Through The Fair was turned into White Summer and Page had the balls to confabulate a story that he "learned Eastern Music styles while backpacking through India" which was precisely how Graham went on to innovate the DADGAD sitar style tuning Page ripped off. Jake Holme's Dazed and Confused was note for note theft. Breeden's lovely arrangement of the folk ballad Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, the Willie Dixon, the Howling Wolf, all of it stolen. It is clear that Page and his lawyers took the "fuck em, let em sue us" approach to doing business. The chickens are coming home to roost. Read this piece and go to the sources. It's an eye opener. https://alanwalkerart.com/wp/?tag=bert-jansch
Breaks my heart to have realized it but Page was one of the worst plagiarists of our times. Several egregious examples stand out: Bert Jansch's Black Water Side was ripped off completely when Page did Black Mountain Side and again when his arrangement of The Waggoners Lad was stolen for Brony Aur Stomp. Davey Grahams She Moved Through The Fair was turned into White Summer and Page had the balls to confabulate a story that he "learned Eastern Music styles while backpacking through India" which was precisely how Graham went on to innovate the DADGAD sitar style tuning Page ripped off. Jake Holme's Dazed and Confused was note for note theft. Breeden's lovely arrangement of the folk ballad Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, the Willie Dixon, the Howling Wolf, all of it stolen. It is clear that Page and his lawyers took the "fuck em, let em sue us" approach to doing business. The chickens are coming home to roost. Read this piece and go to the sources. It's an eye opener. https://alanwalkerart.com/wp/?tag=bert-jansch
I think it might have been nice for Pagey to do what Peter Green (Greenbaum) did once he left Peter Greens - Fleetwood Mac. Which he left as they were making far too much money and he didnt feel it was right when a lot of blues artists were flat broke... so he made sure they got their dues, something I understand is ongoing due to recent interest in his music. He tries now to just play his own arrangements (when he can be convinced to go onstage), and if he does do a blues number, which is rare, he gives the writer their dues...
(I think taking him to court would send people broke.... also doesnt he live in Argentina these days, not sure what the courts from other countries can do in these instances....)
thewiseking wrote:
Calm down, dear.
This too was stolen. Not just the SONG but the ARRANGEMENT.
Breaks my heart to have realized it but Page was one of the worst plagiarists of our times. Several egregious examples stand out: Bert Jansch's Black Water Side was ripped off completely when Page did Black Mountain Side and again when his arrangement of The Waggoners Lad was stolen for Brony Aur Stomp. Davey Grahams She Moved Through The Fair was turned into White Summer and Page had the balls to confabulate a story that he "learned Eastern Music styles while backpacking through India" which was precisely how Graham went on to innovate the DADGAD sitar style tuning Page ripped off. Jake Holme's Dazed and Confused was note for note theft. Breeden's lovely arrangement of the folk ballad Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, the Willie Dixon, the Howling Wolf, all of it stolen. It is clear that Page and his lawyers took the "fuck em, let em sue us" approach to doing business. The chickens are coming home to roost. Read this piece and go to the sources. It's an eye opener. https://alanwalkerart.com/wp/?tag=bert-jansch
Breaks my heart to have realized it but Page was one of the worst plagiarists of our times. Several egregious examples stand out: Bert Jansch's Black Water Side was ripped off completely when Page did Black Mountain Side and again when his arrangement of The Waggoners Lad was stolen for Brony Aur Stomp. Davey Grahams She Moved Through The Fair was turned into White Summer and Page had the balls to confabulate a story that he "learned Eastern Music styles while backpacking through India" which was precisely how Graham went on to innovate the DADGAD sitar style tuning Page ripped off. Jake Holme's Dazed and Confused was note for note theft. Breeden's lovely arrangement of the folk ballad Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, the Willie Dixon, the Howling Wolf, all of it stolen. It is clear that Page and his lawyers took the "fuck em, let em sue us" approach to doing business. The chickens are coming home to roost. Read this piece and go to the sources. It's an eye opener. https://alanwalkerart.com/wp/?tag=bert-jansch
Calm down, dear.
This too was stolen. Not just the SONG but the ARRANGEMENT.
Breaks my heart to have realized it but Page was one of the worst plagiarists of our times. Several egregious examples stand out: Bert Jansch's Black Water Side was ripped off completely when Page did Black Mountain Side and again when his arrangement of The Waggoners Lad was stolen for Brony Aur Stomp. Davey Grahams She Moved Through The Fair was turned into White Summer and Page had the balls to confabulate a story that he "learned Eastern Music styles while backpacking through India" which was precisely how Graham went on to innovate the DADGAD sitar style tuning Page ripped off. Jake Holme's Dazed and Confused was note for note theft. Breeden's lovely arrangement of the folk ballad Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, the Willie Dixon, the Howling Wolf, all of it stolen. It is clear that Page and his lawyers took the "fuck em, let em sue us" approach to doing business. The chickens are coming home to roost. Read this piece and go to the sources. It's an eye opener. https://alanwalkerart.com/wp/?tag=bert-jansch
Breaks my heart to have realized it but Page was one of the worst plagiarists of our times. Several egregious examples stand out: Bert Jansch's Black Water Side was ripped off completely when Page did Black Mountain Side and again when his arrangement of The Waggoners Lad was stolen for Brony Aur Stomp. Davey Grahams She Moved Through The Fair was turned into White Summer and Page had the balls to confabulate a story that he "learned Eastern Music styles while backpacking through India" which was precisely how Graham went on to innovate the DADGAD sitar style tuning Page ripped off. Jake Holme's Dazed and Confused was note for note theft. Breeden's lovely arrangement of the folk ballad Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, the Willie Dixon, the Howling Wolf, all of it stolen. It is clear that Page and his lawyers took the "fuck em, let em sue us" approach to doing business. The chickens are coming home to roost. Read this piece and go to the sources. It's an eye opener. https://alanwalkerart.com/wp/?tag=bert-jansch
Favorite Zep tune ever, hard to beleive Joan Baez wrote this...
Listening to music like this makes me realize how quickly life happens.🤔 That was almost 50 years ago? Holy shit! I better get some shit done. Dead long time.☠
I'm sitting here thinking that there may never be another rock band this good...ever.
My rating down from 8 to 5 - Decent
Yes very nice To me 8 BUT
This is what I am waiting for:
10 - The Beatles - Hey Jude
10 - The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
10 - Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love
10 - Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
10 - Ludovico Einaudi - Divenire
10 - Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes (live in Athens 1988)
10 - Ennio Morricone - Titoli Di Testa (The Good, The Bad & The Ugly)
10 - Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
10 - Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale
10 - Shannon McNally - Down and Dirty
This is what I am waiting for:
10 - The Beatles - Hey Jude
10 - The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
10 - Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love
10 - Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
10 - Ludovico Einaudi - Divenire
10 - Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes (live in Athens 1988)
10 - Ennio Morricone - Titoli Di Testa (The Good, The Bad & The Ugly)
10 - Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
10 - Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale
10 - Shannon McNally - Down and Dirty
If I ever learn to play the guitar this is the one I learn first!
Thanks Bill
Ahh....I just PSD out of a Smashing Pumpkin "pain-angst-anger-despair" song, so this will wash away that bad taste.
I was 10, so of course I love every note. I think the song is actually good, but it and anything else in this album is too deeply imprinted in my core frame of reference to judge objectively.
How many times did you have to move before they lost track of you? 
robbiethet wrote:
robbiethet wrote:
I got Led Zeppelin I & II from the Columbia Record Club for super-cheap along with ten other new releases in 1969. I'd heard & liked some LZ songs on the radio, but I was never the same after listening to them. Thank you Columbia for the nearly-free mind-blasters!
WeAdmire wrote:
LZ bandmates were in their 20s in 1969. And rock and roll was predicated on songs for horny, hormonal, frustrated, emotionally distressed (or very happy) adolescents and post-adolescents. Rock Around the Clock, She Loves You, You Really Got Me and X,000 other pre-1967 rock tunes were not primarily addressing sociopolitics or other serious topics. And, you may have noticed, many still do not.
For me this is the epitome of the problem I have with LZ it's pretentious and overblown in its structure and delivery and the lyric is intended for the approbation of adolescents - and them in their 30"s when they delivered it.
LZ bandmates were in their 20s in 1969. And rock and roll was predicated on songs for horny, hormonal, frustrated, emotionally distressed (or very happy) adolescents and post-adolescents. Rock Around the Clock, She Loves You, You Really Got Me and X,000 other pre-1967 rock tunes were not primarily addressing sociopolitics or other serious topics. And, you may have noticed, many still do not.
For me this is the epitome of the problem I have with LZ it's pretentious and overblown in its structure and delivery and the lyric is intended for the approbation of adolescents - and them in their 30"s when they delivered it.
Stephen_Phillips wrote:
I'd rate this as "pretty good" for the era. Definitely not up to the standard set by George Martin for early multitrack pop recordings -- and well short of the best 50s live-to-Ampex-330 recordings (like some of Buddy Holly & Elvis's stuff) -- but head & shoulders above, say, Beggar's Banquet or the Blind Faith album.
I love Led Zeppelin and this song. However... the sound quality is showing its age compared to more modern recordings. Still a great song but it sounds 'muddy' and possibly compressed. I would be interested in reading the opinion of a sound engineer on this...
I'd rate this as "pretty good" for the era. Definitely not up to the standard set by George Martin for early multitrack pop recordings -- and well short of the best 50s live-to-Ampex-330 recordings (like some of Buddy Holly & Elvis's stuff) -- but head & shoulders above, say, Beggar's Banquet or the Blind Faith album.
Back in the day when phone answering machines were cassette based, and my first child was born, if you called you heard:
"Babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe...."(beep)
"Babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe...."(beep)
nagsheadlocal wrote:
Love that mental image....
NOTHING like Zep in High School.
Setting up for a dance in the high school gym and blasting this over the PA system.
Other than on a car radio, probably still the best place to hear something like Led Zep.
Other than on a car radio, probably still the best place to hear something like Led Zep.
Love that mental image....
NOTHING like Zep in High School.
Yes very nice To me 8 BUT
This is what I am waiting for:
10 - The Beatles - Hey Jude
10 - The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
10 - Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love
10 - Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
10 - Ludovico Einaudi - Divenire
10 - Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes (live in Athens 1988)
10 - Ennio Morricone - Titoli Di Testa (The Good, The Bad & The Ugly)
10 - Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
10 - Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale
10 - Shannon McNally - Down and Dirty
9 - The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows
9 - Louis Jordan - Choo Choo Ch'Boogie
9 - Beethoven - Symphony No.5 - Allegro Con Brio
9 - Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata
9 - Elton John - Sixty Years On
9 - Dire Straits - Ride Across The River
9 - Bear McCreary - Battlestar Galactica
9 - Dire Straits - Skateaway
9 - Rimsky-Korsakov - The Flight of the Bumblebee
9 - Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland
9 - Peter Gabriel - San Jacinto
9 - Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
9 - Rodrigo y Gabriela - Stairway to Heaven
9 - The Beatles - I Am The Walrus
9 - Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall
9 - Benny Goodman - Sing, Sing, Sing
9 - The Beatles - Back In The U.S.S.R.
9 - George Harrison - What Is Life
9 - Robert Palmer - Sailing Shoes / Hey Julia / Sneakin' Sally
9 - Santana Brothers - Luz Amor Y Vida
9 - The Beatles - A Day In The Life
9 - Dire Straits - Single Handed Sailor
9 - Johann Sebastian Bach - Prelude #1 In C
9 - Peter Gabriel - Don't Give Up
9 - Sorten Muld - Bonden Og Elverpigen
9 - Santana - Black Magic Woman-Gypsy Queen
9 - Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
9 - Peter Gabriel - The Rhythm of the Heat
9 - George Harrison - Here Comes The Sun (Live)
9 - Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons: Spring - allegro
9 - Johann Sebastian Bach - Violin Concerto No.4 In E, Adagio
9 - The Beatles - Revolution
9 - The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
9 - Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
9 - Four Tops - Reach Out I'll Be There
9 - The Beatles - You Never Give Me/The End
9 - Paco De Lucia - Concierto de Aranjuez
9 - Ennio Morricone - For A Few Dollars More
9 - John Lennon - Imagine
9 - Ray Charles - What'd I Say (Parts I & II)
9 - Ludovico Einaudi - Andare
9 - Mozart - Symphony No. 40 - Molto Allegro
9 - Nils Lofgren - Keith Don't Go (acoustic live)
9 - Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around
9 - Dire Straits - Where Do You Think You're Going
9 - The Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There
9 - The Beatles - Here Comes The Sun
9 - Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing (live)
9 - Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild
9 - Edvard Grieg - Morning Mood (Allegretto pas
9 - Regina Spektor - Blue Lips
9 - Prince - Purple Rain
9 - Dire Straits - Romeo And Juliet
9 - Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
9 - Anna Ternheim - What Have I Done
9 - Peter Gabriel - Lovetown
9 - Dick Dale - Miserlou
9 - Dire Straits - Once Upon A Time In The West
9 - U2 - One
9 - Led Zeppelin - Tangerine
9 - Pink Floyd - Time
9 - Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence
9 - Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
9 - Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
9 - Derek and the Dominos - Layla
9 - Beck - Dreams
9 - Beck - Dreams
9 - Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through the Grapevine
9 - The Beatles - Dear Prudence
9 - Dire Straits - Tunnel of Love
9 - J.J. Cale - Mama Don't
9 - Dire Straits - Down To The Waterline
9 - Peter Gabriel - Biko
9 - Antonio Vivaldi - The 4 Seasons: Summer
9 - The Beatles - She's Leaving Home
9 - Brahms - Hungarian Dance No. 5
9 - Stevie Wonder - I Wish
9 - Aretha Franklin - Respect
9 - Animals - House of the Rising Sun
9 - David Bowie - Space Oddity
9 - Warren Zevon - Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner
9 - Genesis - Firth Of Fifth
9 - Mark Knopfler - What It Is
9 - Johnny Cash - Hurt
9 - Temptations - Papa Was a Rolling Stone
9 - Procol Harum - Conquistador (live)
9 - Ben E. King - Stand By Me
9 - Dire Straits - One World
9 - Peter Gabriel - Growing Up
9 - Pink Floyd - Us & Them -> Eclipse
9 - John Lennon - Watching The Wheels
9 - Peter Gabriel - Digging in the Dirt
9 - The Beatles - Don't Let Me Down
9 - Jimi Hendrix - The Wind Cries Mary
9 - Regina Spektor - On The Radio
9 - Kent - Dom Andra
9 - Ludovico Einaudi - Primavera
9 - Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Diablo Rojo
9 - Meyer, Douglas & Barenberg - From Ankara to Izmir
9 - Peter Gabriel - Steam
9 - California Guitar Trio - The Good the Bad and the Ugly
9 - Bob Dylan - Positively 4th Street
This is what I am waiting for:
10 - The Beatles - Hey Jude
10 - The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
10 - Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love
10 - Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
10 - Ludovico Einaudi - Divenire
10 - Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes (live in Athens 1988)
10 - Ennio Morricone - Titoli Di Testa (The Good, The Bad & The Ugly)
10 - Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
10 - Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale
10 - Shannon McNally - Down and Dirty
9 - The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows
9 - Louis Jordan - Choo Choo Ch'Boogie
9 - Beethoven - Symphony No.5 - Allegro Con Brio
9 - Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata
9 - Elton John - Sixty Years On
9 - Dire Straits - Ride Across The River
9 - Bear McCreary - Battlestar Galactica
9 - Dire Straits - Skateaway
9 - Rimsky-Korsakov - The Flight of the Bumblebee
9 - Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland
9 - Peter Gabriel - San Jacinto
9 - Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
9 - Rodrigo y Gabriela - Stairway to Heaven
9 - The Beatles - I Am The Walrus
9 - Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall
9 - Benny Goodman - Sing, Sing, Sing
9 - The Beatles - Back In The U.S.S.R.
9 - George Harrison - What Is Life
9 - Robert Palmer - Sailing Shoes / Hey Julia / Sneakin' Sally
9 - Santana Brothers - Luz Amor Y Vida
9 - The Beatles - A Day In The Life
9 - Dire Straits - Single Handed Sailor
9 - Johann Sebastian Bach - Prelude #1 In C
9 - Peter Gabriel - Don't Give Up
9 - Sorten Muld - Bonden Og Elverpigen
9 - Santana - Black Magic Woman-Gypsy Queen
9 - Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
9 - Peter Gabriel - The Rhythm of the Heat
9 - George Harrison - Here Comes The Sun (Live)
9 - Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons: Spring - allegro
9 - Johann Sebastian Bach - Violin Concerto No.4 In E, Adagio
9 - The Beatles - Revolution
9 - The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
9 - Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
9 - Four Tops - Reach Out I'll Be There
9 - The Beatles - You Never Give Me/The End
9 - Paco De Lucia - Concierto de Aranjuez
9 - Ennio Morricone - For A Few Dollars More
9 - John Lennon - Imagine
9 - Ray Charles - What'd I Say (Parts I & II)
9 - Ludovico Einaudi - Andare
9 - Mozart - Symphony No. 40 - Molto Allegro
9 - Nils Lofgren - Keith Don't Go (acoustic live)
9 - Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around
9 - Dire Straits - Where Do You Think You're Going
9 - The Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There
9 - The Beatles - Here Comes The Sun
9 - Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing (live)
9 - Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild
9 - Edvard Grieg - Morning Mood (Allegretto pas
9 - Regina Spektor - Blue Lips
9 - Prince - Purple Rain
9 - Dire Straits - Romeo And Juliet
9 - Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
9 - Anna Ternheim - What Have I Done
9 - Peter Gabriel - Lovetown
9 - Dick Dale - Miserlou
9 - Dire Straits - Once Upon A Time In The West
9 - U2 - One
9 - Led Zeppelin - Tangerine
9 - Pink Floyd - Time
9 - Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence
9 - Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
9 - Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
9 - Derek and the Dominos - Layla
9 - Beck - Dreams
9 - Beck - Dreams
9 - Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through the Grapevine
9 - The Beatles - Dear Prudence
9 - Dire Straits - Tunnel of Love
9 - J.J. Cale - Mama Don't
9 - Dire Straits - Down To The Waterline
9 - Peter Gabriel - Biko
9 - Antonio Vivaldi - The 4 Seasons: Summer
9 - The Beatles - She's Leaving Home
9 - Brahms - Hungarian Dance No. 5
9 - Stevie Wonder - I Wish
9 - Aretha Franklin - Respect
9 - Animals - House of the Rising Sun
9 - David Bowie - Space Oddity
9 - Warren Zevon - Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner
9 - Genesis - Firth Of Fifth
9 - Mark Knopfler - What It Is
9 - Johnny Cash - Hurt
9 - Temptations - Papa Was a Rolling Stone
9 - Procol Harum - Conquistador (live)
9 - Ben E. King - Stand By Me
9 - Dire Straits - One World
9 - Peter Gabriel - Growing Up
9 - Pink Floyd - Us & Them -> Eclipse
9 - John Lennon - Watching The Wheels
9 - Peter Gabriel - Digging in the Dirt
9 - The Beatles - Don't Let Me Down
9 - Jimi Hendrix - The Wind Cries Mary
9 - Regina Spektor - On The Radio
9 - Kent - Dom Andra
9 - Ludovico Einaudi - Primavera
9 - Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Diablo Rojo
9 - Meyer, Douglas & Barenberg - From Ankara to Izmir
9 - Peter Gabriel - Steam
9 - California Guitar Trio - The Good the Bad and the Ugly
9 - Bob Dylan - Positively 4th Street
Bring back memories of college @SWTSU.
Setting up for a dance in the high school gym and blasting this over the PA system.
Other than on a car radio, probably still the best place to hear something like Led Zep.
Other than on a car radio, probably still the best place to hear something like Led Zep.
I got Led Zeppelin I & II from the Columbia Record Club for super-cheap along with ten other new releases in 1969. I'd heard & liked some LZ songs on the radio, but I was never the same after listening to them. Thank you Columbia for the nearly-free mind-blasters!
For me this is 8 - Most Excellent
Nothing short of Godlike 
For me this is 8 - Most Excellent
bronorb wrote:
Rolling Stone always trashed Zep. It didn't matter to us, the fans.
True. And what the messengers at RS seemed to get stuck in their collective craws is that Zep went on to make some of the greatest R n' R albums and songs of all time, RS critics notwithstanding.
Much as I agreed with RS's political coverage and Gonzo & Steadman, etc., who ever needed Jann Wenner, Ralph Gleason and Co. to tell them what the fuck was good musically and what wasn't anyway?
"I know how these bastards think . . ." - HST
The reality is they just hated that Peter Grant and Zep wouldn't play ball with them for interviews and cover shots. Led Zeppelin was famous for eschewing most of the press and media circus back then.
Rolling Stone always trashed Zep. It didn't matter to us, the fans.
True. And what the messengers at RS seemed to get stuck in their collective craws is that Zep went on to make some of the greatest R n' R albums and songs of all time, RS critics notwithstanding.
Much as I agreed with RS's political coverage and Gonzo & Steadman, etc., who ever needed Jann Wenner, Ralph Gleason and Co. to tell them what the fuck was good musically and what wasn't anyway?
"I know how these bastards think . . ." - HST
The reality is they just hated that Peter Grant and Zep wouldn't play ball with them for interviews and cover shots. Led Zeppelin was famous for eschewing most of the press and media circus back then.
My GAWWD this is such a great song.
Don't know what else to say ~
.
Ihatethissong wrote:
You are a moron.
No he's a Madonna fan. So fucking groovy.
You are a moron.
No he's a Madonna fan. So fucking groovy.
New headphones @ 192k, and I heard things I never knew were there. So much atmosphere in this...
Yawn.
in my space this goes to 11
Left you first!
PSD.
PSD.
Never cared for Zep's music. Not then, not now. Weekend hippie anthems.
We are only hearing the echoes of this album 48 years after its release. Just think how big the original bang must have been.
fredriley wrote:
Yeah, she probably walked out of the room at about the 1 minute mark saying, "Well, go on then."
Yeah, yeah, all right, I'm sure she gets the picture after all those agonised repetitions. Yeesh!
Yeah, she probably walked out of the room at about the 1 minute mark saying, "Well, go on then."
thewiseking wrote:
Horse.
Dead.
Beating.
This too was stolen. Not just the SONG but the ARRANGEMENT.
Breaks my heart to have realized it but Page was one of the worst plagiarists of our times. Several egregious examples stand out: Bert Jansch's Black Water Side was ripped off completely when Page did Black Mountain Side and again when his arrangement of The Waggoners Lad was stolen for Brony Aur Stomp. Davey Grahams She Moved Through The Fair was turned into White Summer and Page had the balls to confabulate a story that he "learned Eastern Music styles while backpacking through India" which was precisely how Graham went on to innovate the DADGAD sitar style tuning Page ripped off. Jake Holme's Dazed and Confused was note for note theft. Breeden's lovely arrangement of the folk ballad Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, the Willie Dixon, the Howling Wolf, all of it stolen. It is clear that Page and his lawyers took the "fuck em, let em sue us" approach to doing business. The chickens are coming home to roost. Read this piece and go to the sources. It's an eye opener. https://alanwalkerart.com/wp/?tag=bert-jansch
Breaks my heart to have realized it but Page was one of the worst plagiarists of our times. Several egregious examples stand out: Bert Jansch's Black Water Side was ripped off completely when Page did Black Mountain Side and again when his arrangement of The Waggoners Lad was stolen for Brony Aur Stomp. Davey Grahams She Moved Through The Fair was turned into White Summer and Page had the balls to confabulate a story that he "learned Eastern Music styles while backpacking through India" which was precisely how Graham went on to innovate the DADGAD sitar style tuning Page ripped off. Jake Holme's Dazed and Confused was note for note theft. Breeden's lovely arrangement of the folk ballad Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, the Willie Dixon, the Howling Wolf, all of it stolen. It is clear that Page and his lawyers took the "fuck em, let em sue us" approach to doing business. The chickens are coming home to roost. Read this piece and go to the sources. It's an eye opener. https://alanwalkerart.com/wp/?tag=bert-jansch
Horse.
Dead.
Beating.
Gato Barbieri's "Europa" at my funeral
Yeah, yeah, all right, I'm sure she gets the picture after all those agonised repetitions. Yeesh!
This too was stolen. Not just the SONG but the ARRANGEMENT.
Breaks my heart to have realized it but Page was one of the worst plagiarists of our times. Several egregious examples stand out: Bert Jansch's Black Water Side was ripped off completely when Page did Black Mountain Side and again when his arrangement of The Waggoners Lad was stolen for Brony Aur Stomp. Davey Grahams She Moved Through The Fair was turned into White Summer and Page had the balls to confabulate a story that he "learned Eastern Music styles while backpacking through India" which was precisely how Graham went on to innovate the DADGAD sitar style tuning Page ripped off. Jake Holme's Dazed and Confused was note for note theft. Breeden's lovely arrangement of the folk ballad Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, the Willie Dixon, the Howling Wolf, all of it stolen. It is clear that Page and his lawyers took the "fuck em, let em sue us" approach to doing business. The chickens are coming home to roost.
Breaks my heart to have realized it but Page was one of the worst plagiarists of our times. Several egregious examples stand out: Bert Jansch's Black Water Side was ripped off completely when Page did Black Mountain Side and again when his arrangement of The Waggoners Lad was stolen for Brony Aur Stomp. Davey Grahams She Moved Through The Fair was turned into White Summer and Page had the balls to confabulate a story that he "learned Eastern Music styles while backpacking through India" which was precisely how Graham went on to innovate the DADGAD sitar style tuning Page ripped off. Jake Holme's Dazed and Confused was note for note theft. Breeden's lovely arrangement of the folk ballad Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, the Willie Dixon, the Howling Wolf, all of it stolen. It is clear that Page and his lawyers took the "fuck em, let em sue us" approach to doing business. The chickens are coming home to roost.
gazcon73 wrote:
Yes, it's a record. Now put it on your turntable and spin it!
43% for a 10 . Must be record ?
Yes, it's a record. Now put it on your turntable and spin it!
bronorb wrote:
Rolling Stone always trashed Zep. It didn't matter to us, the fans.
In hindsight, that review is more unintentionally humorous than anything.
Rolling Stone always trashed Zep. It didn't matter to us, the fans.
In hindsight, that review is more unintentionally humorous than anything.
Skydog wrote:
Rolling Stone always trashed Zep. It didn't matter to us, the fans.
i got this album in 1969 and i do remember thinking that it's a good effort but they seem to be a little late to the game
there were a lot of recordings released prior to this that were better and more original
not putting Zep down
back then it's just the way it was
.
(later edit)
i was thinking about this today and i looked up the Rolling Stone review
exactely 47 years ago today here is the last paragraph of the review
.
In their willingness to waste their considerable talent on unworthy material the Zeppelin has produced an album which is sadly reminiscent of Truth. Like the Beck group they are also perfectly willing to make themselves a two- (or, more accurately, one-a-half) man show. It would seem that, if they're to help fill the void created by the demise of Cream, they will have to find a producer (and editor) and some material worthy of their collective attention.
my favorite Zep is their 3rd album and they gave that a bad review too
there were a lot of recordings released prior to this that were better and more original
not putting Zep down
back then it's just the way it was
.
(later edit)
i was thinking about this today and i looked up the Rolling Stone review
exactely 47 years ago today here is the last paragraph of the review
.
In their willingness to waste their considerable talent on unworthy material the Zeppelin has produced an album which is sadly reminiscent of Truth. Like the Beck group they are also perfectly willing to make themselves a two- (or, more accurately, one-a-half) man show. It would seem that, if they're to help fill the void created by the demise of Cream, they will have to find a producer (and editor) and some material worthy of their collective attention.
my favorite Zep is their 3rd album and they gave that a bad review too
Rolling Stone always trashed Zep. It didn't matter to us, the fans.
43% for a 10 . Must be record ?
i got this album in 1969 and i do remember thinking that it's a good effort but they seem to be a little late to the game
there were a lot of recordings released prior to this that were better and more original
not putting Zep down
back then it's just the way it was
.
(later edit)
i was thinking about this today and i looked up the Rolling Stone review
exactely 47 years ago today here is the last paragraph of the review
.
In their willingness to waste their considerable talent on unworthy material the Zeppelin has produced an album which is sadly reminiscent of Truth. Like the Beck group they are also perfectly willing to make themselves a two- (or, more accurately, one-a-half) man show. It would seem that, if they're to help fill the void created by the demise of Cream, they will have to find a producer (and editor) and some material worthy of their collective attention.
my favorite Zep is their 3rd album and they gave that a bad review too
there were a lot of recordings released prior to this that were better and more original
not putting Zep down
back then it's just the way it was
.
(later edit)
i was thinking about this today and i looked up the Rolling Stone review
exactely 47 years ago today here is the last paragraph of the review
.
In their willingness to waste their considerable talent on unworthy material the Zeppelin has produced an album which is sadly reminiscent of Truth. Like the Beck group they are also perfectly willing to make themselves a two- (or, more accurately, one-a-half) man show. It would seem that, if they're to help fill the void created by the demise of Cream, they will have to find a producer (and editor) and some material worthy of their collective attention.
my favorite Zep is their 3rd album and they gave that a bad review too