Zepaholic Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 Physical Graffiti (1975) - You look up "wretched excess" in the dictionary, and there's a picture of this double album. The songs go on, and on, and on... "Kashmir" was in fact the inspiration for Philip Glass. (Okay, I made that part up... but the songs do go on, and on, and on.) Many of the tracks are outtakes from earlier albums, and some are excellent (the instrumental "Bron-Yr-Aur" is tuneful and remarkably terse; "Custard Pie" is mindless fun). There are lots of bright moments - "The Rover" has a cool riff, and "Trampled Underfoot" is a listenable ripoff of Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" - but there's too much filler in between. (DBW) - He's right: "Kashmir" is an unlistenable disaster, and eleven minute escapades with boring chord progressions like "In My Time Of Dying" can't be salvaged by any amount of guitar heroics. But a lot of the other tracks do demonstrate significant stylistic variety and substantial amusement value - solid rock songs like "Houses Of The Holy," a reject from the LP of that name; nice acoustic numbers ("Bron-Yr-Aur"; "Black Country Woman"); standard, reasonable-length Zep epics ("Ten Years Gone"); etc. If Page had just cut it to a single LP, it would have been a high point in the band's career. (JA) What, does Dave Marsh have siblings who also pretend to be journalists? Link: http://www.warr.org/zep.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheZeppyWanderer Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 most of those 'comments' give drivel a bad name Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterMcLov1n Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 I agree there were just too many songs. If some of the outtakes from other albums were taken out the album would've been better. 1. IMTOD 2. Trampled Underfoot 3. The Rover 4. Houses of the Holy 5. Kashmir 6. Ten Years Gone 7. Bron-Yr-Aur The album is still good though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reids Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 Little does the "critic" know that "Trampled Underfoot" was based on another blues song (written well before Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" and too many other areas regarding their wonderful album, Physical Graffiti. R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickZepp Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 I think JPJ did say that he got some inspiration from Stevie Wonder's Superstition for the song. So it wasn't actually that far off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dzldoc Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 I agree there were just too many songs. If some of the outtakes from other albums were taken out the album would've been better. 1. IMTOD 2. Trampled Underfoot 3. The Rover 4. Houses of the Holy 5. Kashmir 6. Ten Years Gone 7. Bron-Yr-Aur The album is still good though. What about "Boogie with stu" Had a pretty cool beat to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Styrbjorn Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 Little does the "critic" know that "Trampled Underfoot" was based on another blues song (written well before Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" and too many other areas regarding their wonderful album, Physical Graffiti. R The lyrical content for Trampled Underfoot was based on Robert Johnson's "Terraplane Blues", but the music is a virtual straight lift from Stevie Wonder's "Superstition." I assure you Terraplane Blues sounds nothing like Trampled Underfoot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stonefreelee Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 Physical Graffiti (1975) - You look up "wretched excess" in the dictionary, and there's a picture of this double album. The songs go on, and on, and on... "Kashmir" was in fact the inspiration for Philip Glass. (Okay, I made that part up... but the songs do go on, and on, and on.) Many of the tracks are outtakes from earlier albums, and some are excellent (the instrumental "Bron-Yr-Aur" is tuneful and remarkably terse; "Custard Pie" is mindless fun). There are lots of bright moments - "The Rover" has a cool riff, and "Trampled Underfoot" is a listenable ripoff of Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" - but there's too much filler in between. (DBW) - He's right: "Kashmir" is an unlistenable disaster, and eleven minute escapades with boring chord progressions like "In My Time Of Dying" can't be salvaged by any amount of guitar heroics. But a lot of the other tracks do demonstrate significant stylistic variety and substantial amusement value - solid rock songs like "Houses Of The Holy," a reject from the LP of that name; nice acoustic numbers ("Bron-Yr-Aur"; "Black Country Woman"); standard, reasonable-length Zep epics ("Ten Years Gone"); etc. If Page had just cut it to a single LP, it would have been a high point in the band's career. (JA) What, does Dave Marsh have siblings who also pretend to be journalists? Link: http://www.warr.org/zep.html I went to the link - a load of sour-grapes rubbish! For example, the 'author' thinks that Custard Pie AND Hats off... were both ripp-offs of Bukka White's "Shake em on down". Funny neither of those songs sound anything like the other! How could they both sound like Bukka's song? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pb Derigable Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Dave Marsh's business card doesn't say rock critic it says "Hater" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Styrbjorn Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 I went to the link - a load of sour-grapes rubbish! For example, the 'author' thinks that Custard Pie AND Hats off... were both ripp-offs of Bukka White's "Shake em on down". Funny neither of those songs sound anything like the other! How could they both sound like Bukka's song? Once again, lyrical content and artistic style. Ditto Nobody's Fault But Mine, Lemon Song, Whole Lotta Love etc... All *cough* influenced by other artists. You'll no doubt find more than a few posts/threads on this subject if you use the search facility. It's been done to death a hundred times over. You'll be asking about the mudshark next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stonefreelee Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Once again, lyrical content and artistic style. Ditto Nobody's Fault But Mine, Lemon Song, Whole Lotta Love etc... All *cough* influenced by other artists. You'll no doubt find more than a few posts/threads on this subject if you use the search facility. It's been done to death a hundred times over. You'll be asking about the mudshark next. Yeah, if I was the thread starter... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pop Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 ....right....if they had only put out one album in their career of just their best songs it would have been a great album too.... Zeppelin never had critical success in the album department.....they had to settle for selling more of them than everybody else and having millions of fans who adored their musical escapades....oh well..too bad for them.... I really can't understand people who are 'fans' of theirs and wish they had recorded less though.....?...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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