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  1. Remasters is fantastic. I'll give my vote to Physical Grafitti. The solid stone building evokes the solid mass of rock music within. No silly rock music cliche's on it either. ITTOD would have made a great cover for a sort of Led Zip Blues compilation. Presence felt more Pink Floyd. Houses of the Holy number two. Love Song Remains The Same as well. The blackness, the graphics. I like CODA as well. Led Zep 1V has a great front cover that really evokes the mystique of Led Zep to me but the dreary back looks like a punk or Supertramp cover. Worst album covers HTWWW and The BBC Sessions.
  2. No particular Order and only at this moment. Changes ever five minutes. Achilles Last Stand Song Remains The Same Stairway to Heaven Kashmir When the Levee Breaks. Battle of Evermore Whole Lotta Love In The Light No Quarter Over the Hills and Far Away
  3. Physical Graffiti could be the best 'Rock' Album of all time. But it's not perfect. A couple of wayward tunes on it. Led Zep 4 is however the Greatest Album of all time and utterly perfect. It is everything. It is the moment it lighting was captured in a bottle.
  4. 1. Led Zep 4 2. Physical Graffiti 3. Houses of the Holy 4. Presence 5. Led Zeppelin 3 6. Coda 7. Led Zeppelin 1 8. Led Zeppelin 2 9. In Through the Out Door
  5. Always loved the ending tom When the Levee Breaks. The fact that it's the last closing moment of their most perfect album - by the time to get to it you're exhausted with wonder and that thank you and goodnight slide and nonchalant un and down strum. God drops mike and walks off....
  6. 1 -. How Many More Times 2. - Bring It On Home 3. - Celebration Day 4. - When the Levee Breaks HOTH - Song Remains The Same SRTS - No Quarter PG - Kashmir P - Achilles Last Stand ITTOD - I'm Gonna Crawl C - We're Gonna Groove
  7. 1. JIMMY PAGE (by a country mile, nobody close, that book is closed, no one has ever come near in terms of sheer breath, diversity and creativity - did it all - did it without wall to wall effects - every solo a unique stand alone reimagined piece - patented the Guitar God Role/Pose/Benchmark - stunning virtuosity when he felt like it between cigarette puffs, deep reservoirs of soul, emotion and intensity when he felt like that). Some way down: 2. Robert Johnson (They still can figure out how he played some of those two part tunes - Defo most improved guitar player!!!) 3. Jimmy HENDRIX - (Godlike sounds, presence, class, cool.) And much further down. 4. Paul Gilbert (Does everything EVH does with consummate ease but with actual creative note patterns, constructions and melodies that are related to the song) 5. Eddie Van Halen (One trick pony but really invented that trick and did that one trick absolutely brilliantly).
  8. I've only just encountered Window and Whiskey for the first time and I think they're brilliant. Really interesting guitar, cool drumming/bass and vocals on Window. And Whiskey is just such a dark sinister blues guitar - love it. Always great to come across new stuff but this is excellent. If Radiohead played Window at Glastonbury it would have been lauded as genius.
  9. As much as PG is the epic monster of an album that it is, it still doesn't touch IV for me. There's something mystical and magical about IV. It would be interesting to imagine a stripped down PG, shrunk to a single album size and ponder which of the tracks (other than Kashmir) would have been included. Challenging! It's sheer amount of songs does give it an advantage over all the other albums. There's something perfect about IV. The grind of BD. The dreamy mythical guitar/mandolin/vocal melodies or BOE. The 60's/70's hippy stomp with big riff MMH. The eerie gothic rumbling threatening FS, a magical unique tune from the depths of some forest that I could imagine Kate Bush singing. The earth shaking eruption and wailing shrieking angst ridden banshee in the night that is WTLB. A pleasant GTC. RAR - A solid boisterous celebration of the love of rock and roll. And then STH. We've all heard it so many many times and the time it takes to get to the gutter solo seems to get longer each time. Other than the very first time I heard it, it always seems to have one verse too many. But it was the pinnacle at one point. There was nothing like it. And the solo is still the best of all time. And Plant's voice is just exquisite throughout the whole album. And for me the production is really clear and pumping except the guitar solo in RAR which is a bit random and very indistinct at the beginning.
  10. I think the show was fantastic for what it was and in fact only serves to remind people of just how great Zep were. A lot of comparisons are made with other bands who have kept touring over the years (The Stones) or reformed (Eagles) etc. But Zeppelin were never that type of band. They played to a much higher level of difficulty, intensity, dexterity, improvisation, exploration, stretching, pushing, searching all the time. To be frank, most of the music of the Stones and the Eagles is very easy to play, no matter how old you are. At the 02 you had men in their 60's replicating what they did in their 20's. It was never going to be the same experience. But it was wonderful in other ways. They looked cool. They reminded us of the power of live human music. They demonstrated what an art form it was to create that power and composition. And many of the songs are fantastic on the 02 DVD. There were times when each of them reminded the world that they were otherworldly. A freakish alignment of the stars brought them together. I was nervous about how they would perform especially based on their post 80 performances. But on the point about further shows. I also feel it is a tremendous pity that they didn't get to do one last journey together. For a number of reasons. 1. They would have probably have gotten even better with more shows, loosed up, lost the nerves, felt the freedom to be who they once were. 2. They would have probably added one or two or several other songs to the set as they went adding to the library of live interpretations. We all have favourites that they didn't get to play. 3. They might even have completed one or two of the epic tracks that emerged over the years from vaults that sound like they could have been amazing if they had finished them. Or bring to life one or two of the tracks that didn't quite work on the later albums but just needed a couple of live run outs to get there. They may even have been inspired to do another album. Of course they owe us nothing. But an opportunity was lost. They're standing has been restored. Many of the critical media over the years, with the benefit of hindsight and time have finally got what Led Zeppelin were. And how it's never been replaced or surpassed in it's genre. The whole punk virus dinosaur thing now looks like what it was, a complete load of nonsense. Nobody ever criticised Miles Davis for his thirty minute improvisations. The world finally understood that they were at the core, musicians stretching the boundaries of music, not politics or social issues. Just music. Creativity. And a final tour would have just amplified that and nailed it on the head once and for all, Page is without question the greatest rock guitarist of all time. Plant an extraordinary musical vocalist. JPJ as is often said, totally underestimated as a bass player - the guy is sensational and Jason did a great job replicating his fathers ingenuity but neither he nor anyone would claim he's the same thing. Doesn't mean he's not brilliant at what he does. And we've lived through decades of some huge pyrotechnic audio visual extravaganzas at concerts that all came after Zeppelin. It would have been amazing to see them in that modern setting with all the technical capability to bring their vision to life as it never had been before. Pity. But still epic.
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